Is Israel Pushing the US Into a Global War?

Whenever the Syrian conflict spirals to the point at which it becomes reasonable to start worrying about WWIII, my mind wanders to Sidney “The Snake” Blumenthal, unofficial adviser and confidant of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. President Obama loathed him and, as a condition of Clinton’s appointment, forbade her from employing him in any capacity. Nevertheless she continued to rely heavily on Blumenthal’s advice throughout her tenure at State. Expounding in an email to Clinton on the necessity of ousting Syrian president Bashar al Assad and imposing regime change, Blumenthal commented that this would be the best possible outcome for Israel, since it would remove the risk of a Syrian-Iranian alliance. Such an alliance, according to Blumenthal, poses a direct threat to Israel’s current dominance as the Mideast’s sole nuclear power.

Sent on December 31, 2012 — two and a half years before Obama cut a deal with Iran to stop building nuclear weapons. This email is a good example of how eager many DC power brokers have long been with giving Israel whatever it wants, seemingly without regard for for morality, legality, or the minor matter of world peace. They have consistently treated Israel much like an indulgent parent spoils a child. Spoiled children are typically irresponsible, disrespectful, defiant, demanding and bad at relationships. At their worst they can be emotional vampires, all take no give. These are attributes which describe successive governments of Israel quite well.

Wikileaks’ publication of many of Sid The Snake’s emails to Clinton has shed considerable light on the unlikely alliance of Israel and Saudi Arabia, two former sworn enemies which have now become as thick as thieves, bound together by their shared hatred of Iran. It seems that Israeli and Saudi leaders are having renewed wet dreams about removing Assad from power. Syria is just so deliciously located for power mongering and money making, it’s just absolutely irresistible. And now we find out that Israel just launched a missile attack from Lebanese air space, raining down cruise missiles on a Syrian air base. Not coincidentally, this occurred within 24 hours of Syria being accused of using barbaric, internationally outlawed chemical weapons to kill unarmed civilians.

But ask yourself this: what possible tactical advantage could the Syrian leader have gained by authorizing this slaughter of innocents? All it accomplished was to give those countries that have been spoiling for a fight…

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