>>2354680No.
>>2354761>>2354787that mf may as well call Tudeh "Judeobolsheviks subverting Aryan Iran from within"
>>2354871same party
that poster is just a shit stirring wrecker
Good article by Rob Urie
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/06/rob-urie-why-did-the-us-attack-iran.html[…]
>To the Western dispute over who is controlling this situation, the argument remains open as to whether the US is acting of its own volition, or at the behest of Israel? Question: who is funding the current venture in Iran? The US is. Who is providing the military resources for Israel’s actions? The US is. Who is providing Israel with political cover across West Asia? The US is. In fact, the US has the power to withdraw this support. Ergo, the US is controlling the situation.
>For those who missed it, Miriam Adelson, the Zionist who gave Donald Trump $100 million in campaign contributions in 2024, is what is called an ‘oligarch.’ Readers may recall that oligarchs are a regular feature of discussions of economic class in the West. Some people, including yours truly, have argued for the last decade-and-one-half that oligarchs control the economies, and with them, the politics, of the West.
>So, the argument has two elements, Zionism and economic class. What is revealed through the power of AIPAC is that the controlling economic interests of the West are Zionists. If they were poor Zionists, this point would be easier to communicate because few would ever have heard of Zionism. America has been controlled by oligarchs for most of its history. The types of wealth generated in recent decades have benefitted some groups and not others.
>Supporting this contention is that Israel was viewed as a minor US asset in West Asia until the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Readers will recall that the US and the Brits overthrew the government of Iran in 1953 and replaced it with Reza Pahlavi, the fake Shah that the West inflicted until the Iranians booted him out in 1979. Since then, the US has declared non-stop war against Iran. Death and its best friend, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld— who sold Iran its first nuclear reactor under Eisenhower’s ‘atoms for peace’ initiative, set the US military establishment after Iran, and have been punishing it for its impudence ever since.
>So, the question arises of when Zionism took control of US foreign policy, and more importantly, why? I personally observed during the time that Israel was making its long right-wing turn that the move was coincident with the US MIC (military-industrial-complex) integrating with the Israeli military. I’ve met and had long conversations with very senior Israeli military contractors who worked for the Pentagon. They had higher security clearances than made any sense as representatives of a foreign government.
>It was the US that chose to integrate Israel into US plans for West Asia. As best I could determine over the years, Israel didn’t control the relationship. And the longer the association with the US lasted, the harder-right-wing Israel turned. Younger readers may never have heard of the Israeli Socialists of the 1970s. Israel was sold as a progressive outpost with Socialist tendencies. This is the same Israel today that has spent its recent years committing an ethno-nationalist genocide that would have made the Nazis squirm.
>As I’ve argued multiple times since John Mearsheimer’s book was written, my problem with the ‘Israel Lobby’ thesis is the conflation of cause with effect. Mearsheimer is a hero for his public antiwar stances in my eyes. And the differences here go to economic premises, not an interest in winning an internet squabble. The dominant feature of Western political economy since the 1970s has been the concentration of incomes and wealth at the very top.
>I didn’t realize that this was either unknown or still controversial amongst the economists on the other side of this debate. As I’ve demonstrated with graphs and evidence since 2011, this concentration of wealth didn’t come from God bestowing money on some people, but not others. The industries that have done well in recent decades all did so with significant and ongoing public funding.
>Academics Gilens and Page, as well as Thomas Ferguson, have written books and papers making the point that money, meaning the rich, controls American politics. The pharmaceutical industry was a large contributor to Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, and the US now has private insurance system that doesn’t pay claims. But industry profits are way up. This kind of self-dealing by corporations and the rich is the way that America works in 2025.
>The last I looked, neither Russia nor China has bought American politicians because they are precluded from doing so. Recall the reaction to the fantasy that Russia was interfering in Western elections around 2016. Were they allowed to simply purchase politicians, as the Israel lobby is alleged to do, the Russians could have saved billions, possibly trillions, by purchasing Joe Biden rather than going to war in Ukraine. However, the war in Ukraine was already underway when Biden entered office.
>So, who decides which nations get to purchase US foreign policy and which don’t? Question: why don’t the Russians and the Chinese simply outbid Israel to control of US foreign policy? Doing so would certainly be less costly than going to war. The answer: because it isn’t for sale. The monopoly that Israel holds on US foreign policy comes before the Israel Lobby, not after it.
>To the question of why Donald Trump is answering to Benjamin Netanyahu, I’ll go way out on a limb here and suggest that possibly the $100 million that Miriam Adelson paid him for doing so has something to do with it. This is in no way to discount Ray McGovern’s thesis that Donald Trump ultimately wants peace. But he took $100 million from Miriam Adelson to do the opposite.
>Last: the US / Israeli genocide in Gaza has entered its mass extermination phase. This is amongst the more grotesque episodes in human history. Americans are paying for it, supplying the weapons, planes and providing political support for Israel while it carries out the genocide. For those who haven’t studied the Holocaust, this is it. This is a Holocaust being carried out by Israel with full US backing.https://elucid.media/democratie/emmanuel-todd-le-nihilisme-peut-expliquer-le-comportement-d-israel-a-gazaEmmanuel Todd : Le nihilisme peut expliquer le comportement d’Israël à Gaza
<Why?
>Because the State of Israel has moved to an extreme level in the exercise of violence. And, above all, violence that no longer seems to have any other purpose than itself. This is why I started thinking about the behavior of the State of Israel in terms of nihilism.
<That is to say?
>Nihilism is a creation of the void. In the case of the United States, I examine it especially at the level of the ruling classes, where I see a vacuum of value, resulting in an exclusive interest in money, power and war. In the case of the State of Israel, even though I have not worked on religious beliefs in Israel, I assume that a problem of religious vacuum also arises, despite the presence of ultra-Orthodox groups whose real socio-metaphysical nature deserves to be examined. American evangelists pose a different but parallel problem. As for the enlightened Americans who support Israel because they believe that enlarging Israel will bring back Christ…
>Despite their metaphysical claims, a foulness of recent conceptions must be interpreted as components of a zero state of religion, the term religion being taken here in its classical monotheistic sense – Catholic, Protestant, or Jewish. I now speak, in my analyses of the historical present, not only of zero Catholicism, of zero Protestantism, but also of zero Judaism. Soon probably Islam zero. It is almost easier for me to formalize the lack of real religious values in Israel because I have in my hands the book of my ancestor Simon Lévy, Grand Rabbi of Bordeaux, “Moses, Jesus and Muhammad and the three great Semitic religions” (1887) which gives me family access and direct printing to what the Jewish religion is in terms of values. Now, the West has reached a zero stage of religion that explains American or European nihilism. The same historical logic for Israel. What the behavior of the State of Israel evokes for me, as a hypothesis, is a nation that, deprived of its socio-religious values (Judaism zero), fails in its existential project and finds violence against the Arab or Iranian populations around it its raison d’être. >>2355049unironically killing him would be the worst thing that could happen for israel becausew then iran would be forced to go back to war and not accept any ceasefire
>>2355094>>2355118he really isn't responsible for most of this shit the islamic republic isn't an absolutist monarchy where a single man directs what the goverment achieves or fails at there are many actors at play and they don't even agree with each other half the time
>>2353362It'd be shitty. Besides, plenty of other names you can call her- prime example: "cunt"
t.rans woman.
>>2355239fuck that guy, shit is is disingenuous. He felt compelled to side with the Israeli state out of solidarity? Because he's half Jewish? im supposed to take this seriously? the Israeli state was founded on horrible mass murders and acts of terrorism, including false flag attacks perpetrated on Jews to push them into immigrating to Israel.
it just reads like using the genocide and war to support his fart huffing philosophical endeavours
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