TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader on Tuesday called on Muslims from around the world to help arm Gaza Palestinians in their fight against Israel.
The call by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was his latest such message during the ongoing war between Gaza’s Hamas rulers and Israel.
Khamenei claims that while Israel and America seek to disarm Hamas, Iran says “the opposite … the Muslim World has a duty to arm the Palestinian nation by all means.”
Iran, a staunch Hamas ally, does not recognize Israel and supports militant anti-Israeli groups such as the Palestinian Hamas and Lebanon’s Shiite Hezbollah group.
Iran does not recognize Israel and has considered the Jewish state its archenemy since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the Western-backed monarchy and brought clerics to power
Khamenei spoke at a prayer ceremony in Tehran as Shiite Iranians marked the beginning of Eid al-Fitr holiday that follows the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
Oh, goody. This is just the excuse Netanyahu needs to bomb, bomb, bomb Iran and let the US clean up after him when he’s done. Then he can whip up the population to a frenzy of fear that will help him consolidate more power. Lots of profit to be made by oil speculators, too, when oil goes to $200/barrel, so there’s an economic incentive.
Something tells me Netanyahu’s plan was to provoke a wider regional response by killing so many innocent civilians. He knew what the reaction would be in the Arab states to a prolonged conflict/ slaughter. The fly in Netanyahu’s ointment will be if Egypt boils over again and becomes unstable. Then, Netanyahu may finally realize Israel could be in deeper shit than he bargained for.
Yes, of course, Bibi wants to kill more civilians, because if he kills more civilians, then pressure will mount on him to stop his operations, and when eventually pressure from the US mounts on him to stop operations, then he’ll…wait, how exactly will that benefit him?
My brain tells me how wrong this is, but my emotions tell me to arm the Palestinians to make it a fair fight. Gaza needs its own “iron dome” to help defend against the slaughter.
Netanyahu may want a escalation. I’m just saying if Egypt becomes unstable, his wet dream of escalation may turn into a nightmare. I really don’t think Netanyahu gives a flying fu*k what the US thinks or says.
Edit: Netanyahu may very well agree with his hero Sharon when he said this: