“We only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down!”

Adolf Hitler, On the eve of his attack on the Soviet Union in 1941

Most wars are the product of ambitions and delusions. However, usually belligerents are armed with both. For example, Hitler invaded the Soviet Union under the delusion that it was an empty shell and would easily be crushed under German boots. Success in that war would have achieved Hitler’s ambition of gaining Lebensraum (living space) and creating a “Greater Germany” that would have stretched from Alsace to the Urals. In contrast, Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu’s war on Iran is a peculiar war. Only one belligerent (the USA) seems to carry the delusions, whereas all the ambition (the creation of a “Greater Israel”) is carried by Israel. Trump, directed by an invisible hand (dare I mention Epstein?), has apparently plunged the USA into a war where it will pay all the costs, while Israel is set to reap all the benefits in the case of success. In order to understand how this bizarre symbiosis was formed, we need to dig deeper into the Zionist ambitions and the American Delusions fueling this war.

It is a testament to the efficacy of their lobbying that American Jews met with nearly complete success in placing the power of the United States behind the Zionist enterprise in 1947. This was no mean victory. The Zionists had won this support in the face of a near-consensus in the highest policy-making circles that President Truman’s support for Zionism would inflict enduring damage on the strategic interests of the United States in the Middle East. [Shahid Alam]

It is a testament to the efficacy of their lobbying that American Jews met with nearly complete success in placing the power of the United States behind the Zionist enterprise in 1947. This was no mean victory. The Zionists had won this support in the face of a near-consensus in the highest policy-making circles that President Truman’s support for Zionism would inflict enduring damage on the strategic interests of the United States in the Middle East. [Shahid Alam]

The history of US-Israel relations is quite unconventional. Seldom in the history of mankind has this been seen that a smaller power consistently bends the larger power to sacrifice its own interests at the altar of the former’s ambitions. Since 1948, Israel has been the largest recipient of direct and indirect US military and civilian aid. It is the only country in history to attack the US military with impunity and not suffer even a mild rebuke from the global hegemon. It has bled the........

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