Reuel Marc Gerecht’s screed
justifying an Israeli bombing attack on Iran coincides with the opening
the new Israel lobby campaign marked by the introduction of House resolution 1553 expressing full support for such an Israeli attack.
What
is important to understand about this campaign is that the aim of
Gerecht and of the right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu is to
support an attack by Israel so that the United States can be drawn into direct, full-scale war with Iran.
That
has long been the Israeli strategy for Iran, because Israel cannot
fight a war with Iran without full U.S. involvement. Israel needs to
know that the United States will finish the war that Israel wants to
start.
Gerecht
openly expresses the hope that any Iranian response to the Israeli
attack would trigger full-scale U.S. war against Iran. “If Khamenei has a
death-wish, he’ll let the Revolutionary Guards mine the strait, the
entrance to the Persian… >>>
