The Age<\/em>. Essentially, it is a cover-up for the failure of the Israeli plan to ignite an internet uprising in Iran by launching the war that is now in train.<\/p>\nApparently, the cockamamie scheme to bring about an uprising was floated by the head of Mossad, David Barnea. If this is true, then it would give a whole new meaning to the term “intelligence”. The NYT tells the reader that Benjamin Netanyahu, the wanted war criminal who is prime minister of Israel, accepted the plan.<\/p>\n
“Despite doubts about its viability among senior US officials and some officials in other Israeli intelligence agencies, he (Netanyahu) and President Donald Trump seemed to embrace an optimistic outlook. Killing Iran\u2019s leaders at the outset of the conflict, followed by a series of intelligence operations intended to encourage regime change, they thought, could lead to a mass uprising that might bring about a swift end to the war,” the NYT says.<\/p>\n
But one has to provide some cover for officials from both countries. So, the NYT tells the gullible reader, “Many senior US officials, as well as intelligence analysts at Israel\u2019s military intelligence agency, AMAN, viewed the Israeli plan for a mass uprising during the conflict with scepticism. US military leaders told Trump that Iranians would not come out to protest while the US and Israel were dropping bombs.”<\/p>\n
There is also reference to the well-known Kurdish option \u2013 getting the Kurds to rise up against Iran’s leaders. This has been a CIA wet dream for a long, long time. Indeed, after the second Gulf war \u2014 waged to expel Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein from Kuwait \u2014 the Kurds foolishly listened to the late George H.W. Bush and rose up against Hussein, only for the Americans to lift the ban on using helicopters imposed on Hussein as one of the conditions for the ceasefire in this war. The Kurds were slaughtered.<\/p>\n
Kurdish minorities in Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey all learned the bitter lesson that the US is an unreliable ally. Bush Senior had lifted the copter ban after he was advised that weakening Hussein would make Iran the primary power-broker in the region. So it is highly unlikely that the Kurds would ever be fooled again by offers from the Yanks.<\/p>\n
It looks like the Israelis were, again, more sold on this option than the Americans. The NYT<\/em> says: \u201cDuring the first days of the war, Israeli jets and bombers pounded Iranian military and police targets in north-west Iran, in part to help pave the way for the Kurdish forces.\u201d<\/p>\nAnd then, to exonerate the Americans, the publication that claims to be the newspaper of record in the US, says, \u201cBut US officials are no longer enthusiastic about their idea from well before the war of using the Kurds as a proxy force, a shift that has created tension with their Israeli counterparts.<\/p>\n
\u201cA week into the war, on March 7, Trump said he had explicitly told Kurdish leaders not to send militias into the country. \u2018I don\u2019t want the Kurds going in,\u2019 he told reporters. \u2018I don\u2019t want to see the Kurds get hurt, get killed\u2019.\u201d Of course, Trump is known to be a politician who cares deeply for minorities like the Kurds!<\/p>\n
But the NYT<\/em> leaves open the possibility that the Zionists\u2019 dream may still come true. \u201cIn recent months, according to officials, Barnea came to believe that Mossad could potentially begin igniting riots around Iran after several days of intense Israeli and US airstrikes and the assassination of senior Iranian leaders,\u201d the article says.<\/p>\n\u201cAfter the strikes and assassinations of the war\u2019s earliest days, the uprising did not come. But Israeli officials say they have yet to give up hope.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2019I think that we need boots on the ground, but they\u2019ve got to be Iranian boots,\u2019 Yechiel Leiter, Israel\u2019s ambassador to the United States, said on CNN last Sunday (March 15), when asked how the war will end. \u201cAnd I think they\u2019re coming\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
For Mazzetti and his mafia, it is mission accomplished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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