So, it looks like Bibi isn’t dead: but it was a fun diversion for some while it lasted.
In fairness, the online speculations over Netanyahu’s aliveness weren’t entirely without justification. But we’ll get to that.
Three weeks in to Trump’s and Netanyahu’s war of choice, it’s fair to say things have not been going well.
Much has been made of Trump’s former counterterrorism chief, former CIA paramilitary officer and MAGA enthusiast Joe Kent, resigning in protest over the Iran War – and pointing out that Israel had essentially manipulated the US into the conflict.
Kent’s claim is nothing revelatory: Netanyahu and Israel being the orchestrators of this conflict is obvious to most people. And Kent himself has previously been on record calling for US military attacks on Iran, so his breaking ranks appears to be more a case of seeing which way public opinion was going and following the wind.
Much more interesting were the British diplomatic revelations, which surprisingly didn’t try to sugarcoat the fact that Trump was coaxed into this war by his Israeli handlers: even citing a ‘diplomat with knowledge of the negotiations’ saying “We regarded Witkoff and Kushner as Israeli assets that dragged a president into a war…”
The citing of Jared Kushner as ‘an Israeli asset’ is some progress – a rare bit of honesty: though Trump himself is clearly also an asset, so I’m not sure the distinction is necessary.
Kushner was always particularly close to Netanyahu: but most of the Trump administration is populated by ‘Israeli assets’ or deluded Christian Zionists and End Times enthusiasts like Mike Johnson, Mike Huckabee, or the unhinged Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
It was also reported that the vampiric war-hawk Lindsey Graham was ‘coaching’ the Israelis on how to get Trump to join a war in Iran.
Therefore Trump was surrounded by people who would not only push the Zionist agenda, but who know how to manipulate his ego and play to his Messianic tendencies: Messianic tendencies that have very much been encouraged in him by the Israelis in the first place.
That’s what the embarrassing circle jerk in Israel last year was all about. It’s also what the anointing ritual in Butler, Pennsylvania was about.
But getting back to the aforementioned article, it also cites UK National Security Advisor Jonathan Powell, who attended the final US–Iran talks in Geneva last month ‘and concluded that a deal was in reach‘.
This or course fits with the Omani mediator Badr Albusaidi’s account from February 27th (the day before the US and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury) that the talks between Iranian and US negotiators had been going well.
As I quoted from an earlier post here, he said that a “peace deal is within our reach”. And that ‘Tehran was willing to grant inspectors from the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) “full access” to its nuclear sites to verify the terms of the deal…’
He has also now written a stark opinion piece in The Economist, explaining that the US has been drawn by Israel into an “unlawful war” and urging US allies to “tell the truth” and admit that Washington “has lost control”.
Albusaidi plainly asserted that “there are two parties to this war who have nothing to gain from it”: referring to Iran and the United States.
Again, quoting from the aforementioned Guardian report: ‘The UK saw no compelling evidence of an imminent threat of an Iranian missile attack on Europe, or of Iran securing a nuclear weapon…’
And regarding the US/Israeli attack: ‘The UK regarded the attack as unlawful and premature since Powell believed the path remained open to a negotiated solution…’
This also further explains British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s reluctance to overtly support Trump’s operation: he and the British national security apparatus were fully aware of the falseness of the Israeli and American pretexts for war.
Which shows, at the very least, that Kier Starmer has more integrity than Tony Blair did in 2003. And that, unlike David Cameron and co in the 2011 Libyan conspiracy, the current British leadership is able to recognise a catastrophic misadventure when it appears.
What’s absolutely clear is that Netanyahu and co pulled the US into this war: and has now left Trump and the White House to take all the scrutiny and blowback from the decision, as they struggle to figure out how to resolve the unnecessary mess they’ve created.
Netanyahu has been uncharacteristically quiet in the last two weeks, as Trump and co have been floundering in the glare of the spotlight, trying to explain themselves.
That’s what happens when your actions are dictated by a foreign power: the foreign power gets what it wants, while you’re left having to answer all the questions and look like a crazy person.
In fact, Bibi’s absence prompted conspiracy theories that he’s dead – possibly killed in an Iranian attack. Which probably isn’t the case: but it does appear that supposed appearances by Netanyahu were in fact AI fakes.
Three consecutive videos, all shared on Netanyahu’s own X account, were promptly exposed by attentive users as being either AI manipulated or entirely AI generated.
Which definitely raises questions. Why put out fake videos pretending to show public appearances? This video above, for example, contains several flaws (including the incongruous behavior of the coffee in the cup): moreover, the footage has been flagged as being from a 2024 video.
And why has he been so quiet? During the Gaza slaughter, the man wouldn’t shut up. During the fall of the Assad government in Syria, he was out there, boasting and taking credit.
Has this war on Iran gone so badly that he finally decided to shut the fuck up for once?
It’s also worth noting that former Secretary of State Anthony Blinken came out and said that Netanyahu had tried to pull the same maneuver on both Obama and Biden but had failed to get results.
I guess Trump was dumb enough to take the bait. But it’s easy to get swept along when you’ve surrounded yourself with war-hungry psychopaths frothing at the mouth for Holy War. There’s no General Mattis there this time, or H.R McCMaster: there’s Pete Hegseth and co instead.
Not that Blinken – who was fully in support of Israel and Netanyahu’s war on Gaza and fully participated in the lies about October 7th – should be considered a completely reliable source. But if it’s true that Netanyahu tried this same Iran trick on Obama, then he not only failed but failed spectacularly – as Obama went on to sponsor the JCPOA Iran Deal.
No wonder there was so much bad feeling between Netanyahu and the Obama administration: and no wonder they were so keen to get Donald Trump into office.
But maybe all of this is giving Trump too little credit. Sure, he may have been easily manipulated into the war. But willingly manipulated would probably be more accurate. And he’s fully responsible for his own lies.
At any rate, at least general Americans have finally woken up to the reality of Washington being foreign-controlled and US Middle East policy being in service to Tel-Aviv.
The Zionist project’s hold on the United States’ political realm has been fully exposed, no longer something dismissible as ‘conspiracy theory’ or ‘antisemitic’ trope: and there’s no going back.
The whole saga of post-9/11 wars has been at the behest of Israel in general and Netanyahu in particular.
As we’ve examined several times before, Israel orchestrated 9/11. Bin Laden had nothing to do with it. Netanyahu’s own books were the blueprint for the US-led War on Terror. And, as the retired General Wesley Clark famously revealed, the list of seven target countries was already established the day after 9/11 – with Iraq being first and Iran being last.
This is all a programme.
Afshin Rattansi’s recent interview with Dennis Fritz further highlights that ‘During the Bush Administration in the run-up to the Iraq War, each cabinet official had an individual who they would talk to in Israel to keep them posted on what we were doing… The point person that Doug Feith was keeping in touch with at the time was Benjamin Netanyahu.’
Douglas Feith was Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from July 2001 until August 2005, and is described even in his Wikipedia entry as ‘an architect of the Iraq War’.
So yes, nothing new here. It’s just much more exposed.
The two big differences this time are, firstly, that Netanyahu and co never previously had such a compromised clown in the White House that they could manipulate to this extent.
And secondly that Iran seemed much better prepared than the other countries did. Maybe it helps that they were last on the list – and got to take notes from the destruction of the other regimes.
Some even argue that Iran is winning this conflict. Certainly in propaganda terms, that argument can be made. And the fact, for example, that Iranian strikes even got through to Dimona – the location of Israel’s ‘secret’ nuclear site – suggests Israel is being somewhat humbled.
Ultimately, however, Israel cannot lose: because it has the Samson Option (which we talked about here). In short, if Israel was ever really in trouble, they’d just nuke whoever they needed to.
Iran knows this. So, in some ways, a lot of this is pantomime. There are things the US and Israel could do if they wanted to properly finish the Iranian regime – it’s just that the Americans are presently reluctant.
But the Israelis will eventually get what they want in Iran, even if it briefly looks like the Iranians are surviving. Just as they eventually got what they wanted in Syria – even years after the Assad regime had already looked like it had survived the bloody years of regime change operations by foreign states.
All this is also assuming that this has all been a misjudgment or miscalculation on the part of the US and Israel. It’s still also possible that all of this – including the Iranian strikes on the Gulf States, including the Strait of Hormuz and the economic fallout – is actually a desired part of some broader agenda.
There’s already talk of market manipulation and possible profiteering.
Some were already also trying to frame this Iran War as part of the US’s longer term conflict with China.
More clearly, however, there are also the religious frameworks, as previously discussed. If they’re really following an apocalyptic vision, then the risk of global instability or even World War 3 would probably be acceptable.
At any rate, what’s clear to everyone is that Netanyahu and co have manipulated the US like a puppet: and Trump has been exposed as the incoherent idiot he always was.
