I find it fascinating that the BBC insists on referring at every opportunity to the fight against the brutal, murderous, terror-sponsoring, repressive, undemocratic, homophobic, misogynistic Islamic Republic of Iran, as “Israel and America’s War”.

Could it be because such terminology implies that the brutal murderous, terror-sponsoring, repressive, undemocratic, homophobic, misogynistic Islamic Republic of Iran (that has a nuclear  program entirely unrelated to giving the residents of Tehran or Isfahan cheaper electricity) is only a problem for Israel, and that America has merely gone along, poodle-like because Israel asked nicely or because as the trope goes, “Jews control the US” and, of course, the world, LOL.

For the Israel-haters and left-liberal commentariat, there is an additional benefit to repeatedly calling it “Israel and America’s War”: it amplifies the erroneous idea of Israel as a hostile aggressor against those sweet, benevolent mullahs who wouldn’t dream of murdering up to 40,000 of  their own citizens to put down a popular uprising, blockading the Straits of Hormuz or launching ICBMs at their Gulf neighbors and “allies”.

Oh, wait, they have done all three which adds to my fury at hearing the BBC, apologists and vile antisemites frame this war as Israel’s “revenge” – a framing, by the way, that is conspicuously similar to the way fascists, Nazis and appeasers tried to frame the Second World War when the Nazis’ brutal repression encompassed among others, Black, Gay, handicapped and Roma people, Communists and trade unionists. And neither is this war merely a fresh round in the ongoing Middle East conflict, which Bowen, Doucet, et al like to suggest when not portraying it as “a Jewish vendetta.”

Although it is true that Israel and America are leading the........

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