Could it be that https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israel’s 30-year narrative about https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/iran" target="_blank">Iran - one that persuaded https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/us" target="_blank">US President Donald Trump to wage a criminal and disastrous war of aggression - was always a fiction, an invention cooked up in Tel Aviv?
Far from Tehran posing an existential danger to Israel, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed for decades, might Israel’s real fear be that a stronger Iran would undermine its unique leverage over Washington, threatening its status as the region’s sole - and unmonitored - nuclear power?
Might large parts of the globe be facing economic meltdown simply so that Israel can remain the Middle East’s top dog - an unaccountable apartheid state https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/israel-genocide-gaza" target="_blank">committing genocide against the https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinian people and ethnically cleansing southern https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/lebanon" target="_blank">Lebanon?
We got a definitive answer last week, care of the New York Times.
It is an uncompromising yes to all of these questions.
The newspaper reported that Netanyahu not only mis-sold Trump on the idea of quick regime change in Iran following a short “shock and awe” bombing campaign.
He also identified to the White House who was going https://archive.ph/vExMS" target="_blank">to replace Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme religious leader.
Read more: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israeli-claims-about-iran-threat-were-always-lie-now-we-have-proof">Israeli claims about an Iran 'threat' were always a lie.
Now we have proof
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