"Major media aren’t paying enough attention to how Israel’s Bibi Netanyahu manipulated Trump into the war. Early on, WaPo had a strong story about Netanyahu’s prodding, and the NYT has addressed the risks of the U.S.-Israel war alliance. But more must be written."

~ Mark Jacob

#Trump #Hegseth #Netanyahu #Bibi #Iran #war #stupidity #media
/25

stopthepresses.news/p/trump-ca…

Trump can’t handle the truth about the war

So far, major media’s coverage is a departure from past failures

^{Mark Jacob (Stop the Presses)}

"The very organizations which were created to protect Jewish people and to combat antisemitism—the ADL, the AJC—are instead doubling and tripling down on essentializing Jewish identity and linking it to a violent ethnonationalist regime and its list of horrors."

#Jews #zionism #Netanyahu #Bibi #Gaza #Iran #antisemitism #ADL #AJC
/4

(continued from /2)

"and they are told that this is done in the name of Jewish identity, because any objection to Israel policy is supposedly antisemitic.

Now Jewish orgs are insisting, through bogus polls, that Jewish identity legitimizes the war—blind or indifferent to the ways in which this will, instead, delegitimize Jewish identity itself."

#Jews #zionism #Netanyahu #Bibi #Gaza #Iran #antisemitism
/3

"Israel and Zionist orgs in the US have effectively been releasing huge amounts of antisemitic propaganda, linking Jews to the action of a violent nation state and its policies of sweeping censorship, apartheid, genocide, and war. When people protest a genocide, they are beaten, arrested, and threatened with deportation—" (continued in /3)

#Jews #zionism #Netanyahu #Bibi #Gaza #Iran #antisemitism
/2

"Netanyahu’s cynical deployment of diaspora Jews as a human shield for Israel’s bad actions is neither new nor surprising. Zionists have for decades claimed that Israel is the core of Jewish identity, and that, therefore, criticism or resistance to Israel national policy is equivalent to antisemitism."

~ Noah Berlatsky

#Jews #zionism #Netanyahu #Bibi #Gaza #Iran #antisemitism
/1

everythingishorrible.net/p/zio…

Zionist Institutions Spread Antisemitic Propaganda

Linking Jewish identity to war and atrocity harms Jewish people

^{Noah Berlatsky (Everything Is Horrible)}

"Some of the winners are obvious: Russia and oil producers everywhere except in the Persian Gulf. The losers may come as a surprise: American consumers are being hit hard even though the US produces more oil and natural gas than it consumes, while China, despite its dependence on imported hydrocarbons, is relatively insulated from this shock."

~ Paul Krugman

#Trump #Netanyahu #Bibi #Putin #Iran #Israel #Russia #war
/8

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/cos…

Costs and Benefits from the New Energy Crisis

There are many losers, but also some winners

^{Paul Krugman}

"I was talking to a few friends yesterday. We were talking about how every president, you know, for 46 years, ever since the Islamic Revolution, Democrats and Republicans have not really liked the Velayat-e faqih, the Islamic leaders, but none of them were dumb enough to actually be dog walked by Netanyahu and white Christian nationalists and attack Iran."

~ Wajahat Ali

#Trump #Netanyahu #Bibi #Iran #war
/7

thelefthook.substack.com/p/how…

How The United States Loses the Iran War and Our National Security...with Trita Parsi

Donald Trump and the warmonger class have no exit strategy from this disastrous war and severely underestimated Iran's resolve. The longer this chaos lasts, the more America loses.

^{THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)}

"A wider conflict with Lebanon, in this reading, is not an unfortunate byproduct of security policy; it is a feature of a political strategy that makes war the backdrop for his own continued rule."

#Trump #Netanyahu #Bibi #Iran #Lebanon #war
/6

"By 2024 and 2025, he was already under immense domestic pressure over his corruption trial, his extremist coalition partners, and his handling of the Gaza war. Commentators and analysts have increasingly argued that he has incentives to keep the region in perpetual crisis, framing himself as the indispensable wartime leader and delaying the electoral reckoning that would likely end his career."

#Trump #Netanyahu #Bibi #Iran #Lebanon #war
/5

"Netanyahu for years now has sold Israelis the same rubbish. Every crisis can be solved by bombing and strafing. Now that immoral 'strategy' is being manifested again, in Lebanon. ...

What makes this even more indefensible is how entwined this northern brinkmanship is with Netanyahu’s personal political survival."

~ Mark Mansour

#Trump #Netanyahu #Bibi #Iran #Lebanon #war
/4

mmansour.substack.com/p/benjam…

Benjamin Netanyahu Is Marching Lebanon And The Entire Middle East Toward The Abyss

all for his own self-preservation

^{Mark Mansour (America’s Fractured Politics)}

"Putin, meanwhile, is watching the Hormuz chokehold deliver the oil price shock that relieves the central strain on his war machine, while American support for Ukraine quietly dries up, and Putin will soon be cashing oil checks from the US again.

Both men got what they needed by feeding one man’s need for a headline that gave him the love his parents never could."

#Trump #Netanyahu #Bibi #Putin #Iran #war
/3

"The reporting from journalist Neri Zilber on March 9 is instructive: they’re now on phase three, systematically working down a target list — air defenses, missile systems, the Iranian Navy, and now essentially all regime infrastructure. Whether there’s a fourth phase, and whether anyone has actually thought through what regime change looks like on the other side — that’s an open question. Netanyahu’s silence on that question is all the answer we need."

#Trump #Netanyahu #Bibi #Iran #war
/2

"Trump’s narcissism is a Trojan Horse. The men inside it have clearer agendas, fewer domestic constraints, and thirty years more patience. Netanyahu handed Trump a war Israel has wanted since at least 2007, one Netanyahu needed personally to stay out of court and in power — and Netanyahu is a tactical 'genius' who never underestimates what a fourth phase could be worth."

~ Jason Sattler

#Trump #Netanyahu #Bibi #Iran #war
/1

thecause.substack.com/p/man-wh…

Man Who Spat on Allies For a Year Demands the World Clean Up His Catastrophe

From Liberation Day to the Escalation Trap to Interdependence Day: How narcissistic delusion became the biggest unforced error of the decade (so far).

^{L O L G O P (The Cause)}