U.S. Will Defend Israel's Right to Assassinate Individuals Inside Consulates
U.S. Will Defend Israel's Right to Assassinate Individuals Inside Consulates
Try to find a Western media outlet calling attention to Israel’s illegal strike on the Iranian consulate
Only Israel is allowed to bomb foreign consulates and humanitarian aid workers and get away with it!
The U.S. said Wednesday that its support for Israel is “iron-clad” and said it will stand alongside Israel against any threats by Iran.
One U.S. official told Al Jazeera: “If Israel comes under attack by missiles or drones, we will not rule out the possibility of helping the Israelis intercept them.”
Embassies and diplomatic buildings have international protection since they are recognized as sovereign territory. The attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria resulted in the death of 12 people, including two Iranian generals.
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Israel is known to carry out clandestine attacks on Iranian infrastructure it claims can help Tehran obtain a nuclear weapon. Tensions between Israel and Iran have only increased after the Hamas attack last October and subsequent genocide in Gaza. Israel, with the U.S. backing, has only gotten bolder in these strikes.
Matthew Miller, the pro-Israel U.S. State Department spokesman, said Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and said his boss “reiterated the United States’ support for Israel’s security and made clear that the U.S. will stand with Israel against any threats by Iran and its proxies.”
TRENDPOST: Try to find a Western media outlet calling attention to Israel’s illegal strike on the Iranian consulate. It doesn’t exist.
The reports instead focus on the U.S. warning Tehran not to retaliate. Gerald Celente has long said that only the U.S. and Israel are allowed to assassinate people in other countries—and any person or group that bites back is quickly labeled a terrorist.
Imagine for a moment that within one week, Russia bombed a humanitarian convoy with British and American workers and then conducted an airstrike on a foreign consulate.
Oh, the outrage in the Western media!
But Israel plays by its own rules and continues to benefit from 100 percent unconditional support from the U.S. — its protector and partner in the Gaza genocide.
Like a cheap magician in front of school children, U.S. President Joe Biden has been tricking Americans into believing that he’s gotten tougher on Israel and that even Washington has limits to how many Palestinians should be blown up and starved to death by Washington’s “most important ally.”
But it is all smoke and mirrors.
Biden has not changed one position to help prevent the slaughter in Gaza and has only pushed for more weapons of death for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition of genocidal misfits.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who rushed to Israel shortly after the 7 October Hamas attack to reassure Israel that he was visiting, not as a diplomat, but “as a Jew,” said today that he finds it “astounding” that the world is “silent when it comes to Hamas.”
Silent?
Since the start of the war, anyone who called for Israel to protect innocent Palestinian civilians was labeled an anti-Semite. And, how many times have we heard that Israel has the right to defend itself? But of course, Israel can bomb Lebanon, Syria and Iran and kill who they want, but none of those nations have the right to "defend themselves."
Professor John Mearsheimer said in an interview published Wednesday that Israel is “basically out of control” and its escalatory strike on the Iranian consulate in Syria is likely an effort to force Iran’s hand to respond and drag the U.S. into war with Tehran.
“I think when you marry this (the strike in Syria), with what happened in regard to what happened with the humanitarian food aid convoy in Gaza, you see there is really no limits to what the Israelis will do. They think they’re pretty much free to do whatever they want,” he told Glenn Greenwald’s “System Update.”
He continued, “The Iranians do not want to war with the United States. They've been trying to avoid a war with the United States. They've gone to great lengths to communicate to us that they don't want a war. Of course, we don't want to war with them either. When we first put those two aircraft carriers and those other naval ships in the Mediterranean Sea, it was not so much protect Israel… I mean there was some of that at play — but it was mainly to make sure that the war didn’t escalate, and we didn't get dragged in. We don't want to get dragged into any wars in the Middle East.”
Hossein Amirabdollahian, Iran’s foreign minister, said Monday that the U.S. gave Israel the “green light” before the deadly attack on Tehran’s consulate in Damascus and said Washington should also be held responsible.
Amirabdollahian was in Damascus to inaugurate Iran’s new consulate in Syria, which is near the location of the previous building that was destroyed by Israel.
Syria’s Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad was also on hand and said during a press conference that Damascus stands with the “resistance” factions in the region, Reuters reported.