In modern times, this used to be known as an ultimatum. In the post-everything era, it passes for “international diplomacy”.
So welcome to the “roll over and die” school of diplomacy – as perfected by the Obama administration, with vital input from the Israel lobby in Washington. It’s our way of the highway. And the highway is to hell – to the sound of “Bomb Bomb Iran”.
Another war for the 1%
No wonder the proverbial “Israeli officials” are delighted that Iran – via its Foreign Ministry – has rejected all these demands as “irrational”; for Tel Aviv, the Iranian response is “good”.
This is absolutely nonsense. Tel Aviv invented this “sphere of immunity” smokescreen after civilian nuclear activity was already taking place in Fordow, under IAEA supervision.
Yet the tail once again wags the dog. Washington once again is remote-controlled by Tel Aviv.
Polls have shown that a majority of Israelis – in a fabulous display of … altruism? – only want a war on Iran if the American Big Brother leads (and faces the direst consequences). And it doesn’t matter that the nebula of Israeli intel is itself divided.
Context is key. The wealthiest 500 Israelis are worth roughly $75 billion. That in a country with a gross domestic product of only $205 billion.
The wealthiest 20 Israeli families control almost half of the stock market. Their collective wealth is 25% bigger than Israel’s budget for 2011. And guess who these people are? The top supporters of the Likud-Ysrael Beitenu coalition in power, with Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu at the helm (Ysrael Beitenu is led by former Moldova bouncer turned Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman).
So it’s the cream of the 1% in Israel that want war on Iran – as much as quite a few scoops of the cream of the 1% in the US.
The point in this whole nuclear “negotiation” shadow play is to sell to American – and world – public opinion the notion that Iran once again is stalling; has a lot to hide; and simply cannot be trusted to be engaged in any “serious” negotiations.
US corporate media has already pre-empted the negotiations with the usual rhetorical missiles – to the delight of armchair warmongers in the US Congress and vast sectors of the industrial-military complex. The “Bomb Iran” crowd will do everything in its power to merge Obama’s “last chance” into the deafening drums of war.
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