The surreal echo chamber of lies
by Melanie Phillips, jns:
As Israel braces for yet more horrors, the world has turned against it.
Deeply traumatised by the October 7 massacre, the unthinkable plight of the hostages and the relentless uptick of dead and wounded soldiers in this seemingly endless war, Israelis are bracing themselves for even worse.
There are warnings from Israeli and American sources that Iran, whose proxies are already fighting Israel on six fronts, is about to attack Israel directly with ballistic missiles, drones and cruise missiles.
This would be Iran’s revenge for the Israeli missile strike in Damascus last week that killed the key Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps commander Brig. Gen. Mohammad Reza Zahedi, along with other senior Iranian military figures.
No one knows whether Iran will directly strike Israel or use deniable proxies to attack targets such as Israeli embassies or synagogues abroad.
But Israelis are apprehensively hunkering down for an attack that would take the war to a vastly more devastating level.
US President Joe Biden has suggested that, in the event of an Iranian attack, America would come to Israel’s aid. “America’s commitment to Israel’s security against these threats from Iran and its proxies is ironclad,” he said. “We’re going to do all we can to protect Israel’s security.”
Many Israelis are wondering bleakly whether that will really be so. For the Biden administration has been giving every impression that it is working to ensure Israel loses the war in Gaza to Iran’s proxy Hamas.
The White House has repeatedly ordered Israel not to attack Hamas’s last battalions in its Rafah stronghold, which Israel has to defeat if it is to destroy Hamas’s military capability.
It has forced Israel to allow more and more aid into Gaza, even though most of it has been stolen by Hamas to bolster its own military survival.
In a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Biden reportedly demanded that Israel agree to an immediate and unconditional ceasefire — which would spell victory for Hamas and the abandonment of the hostages. Biden also reportedly threatened Israel with cutting arms supplies unless it admitted yet more aid into Gaza.
With Israel fighting a desperate war of survival against forces bent upon its destruction and the genocide of the Jews, the feeling of betrayal by America is acute. But it’s not just America.
Britain’s Foreign Secretary, Lord Cameron, also threatened to cut off arms sales —although he subsequently backtracked — and has malevolently and unjustly blamed Israel for Gaza’s humanitarian catastrophe.
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