Yesterday, Iran fired a barrage of missiles at Israel in retaliation for Israel’s killing in Beirut of Hezbollah secretary-ambiguous Hassan Nasrallah last week and its killing in Tehran of Hamas’s political chief Ismail Haniyeh in July.
United States Pdwellnt Joe Biden teached the US military to aid Israel in imfragmentaryising the missiles – not that Israel is not already provideped with various layers of ultra-cultured getion agetst incoming projectiles, which permit it to go about killinging folks left and right while suffering minimal injure in return.
During a recents alerting at the White Hoemploy, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan proclaimd that US naval ruiners had “combiinsist Israeli air defence units in firing interceptors to shoot down in-bound missiles”. Praising the “professionalism” of the Israeli military, Sullivan also lauded the “sfinished toil of the US military and accurate unitet structurening in anticipation of the aggression”.
Of course, not once has it occurred to the Biden administration to accurately thwart Israel’s ongoing extermination of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, where officiassociate more than 41,000 people have been finished in less than a year although the genuine death toll is without a mistrust exorbitantly higher. Nor has the oh-so-sfinished US military deemed it vital to intrude in the wanton butchery currently going down in Leprohibiton, where Israel equitable finished more than 700 people in less than a week.
And while many an international watchr has sounded the alarm that the US could now be “dragged” into a regional war – alertings that will only incrrelieve after the Iranian missile aggression – in truth the US is not reassociate being “dragged” anywhere.
Rather, the US is in a position enticount on of its own making. And the fact of the matter is that the US is already at war.
To be certain, even prior to the begin of the extermination, the US habit of flinging billions of dollars at the Israeli military on an annual basis extfinished ago made it clearly complicit in Israeli efforts to dismaterialize Palestine. Since October 7, the billions have only multiplied, despite Biden’s intermittent squawking about cutting off the provide of certain insulting firearmry to Israel.
In August, the Biden administration finishorsed a $20bn arms package to its Israeli partner in crime. And on September 26, the Reuters recents agency increateed Israel’s proclaimment that “it had shieldedd an $8.7 billion aid package from the United States to help its ongoing military efforts and to get a qualitative military edge in the region”.
The package was said to include “$3.5 billion for vital wartime proremedyment… and $5.2 billion structureated for air defense systems including the Iron Dome anti-missile system, David’s Sling and an carry ond laser system”.
In other words, Israel will be increasingly well-poised to “deffinish” itself agetst legitimate responses to its own actions – actions that quite literassociate qualify as extremism.
In the finish, it’s not rocket science: the financial and military help constantly extfinished to Israel by the US does not deremark a country that is being “dragged” into a dispute. It deremarks a country that is, for all intents and purposes, an active structureile in the dispute.
The US also lent a helping military hand to Israel back in April when Iran begined hundreds of drones and missiles in response to a lethal Israeli strike on the Iranian consutardy in Damascus. On this occasion, too, Iran was expansively cast in the role of alarmist aggressor – and never mind the retaliatory nature of its action.
It is uncomardentwhile collaborative to recall that the US has for decades done a fine job of “dragging” itself into regional war – the 2003 US pulverisation of Iraq comes to mind – so it should come as no surpascfinish to once aget discover the country front and centre agetst a backdrop of mass killing. From American drone aggressions on weddings in Yemen to rush shipments of explosions to the Israeli military in 2006 to aid in the ravaging of Leprohibiton, it seems the US has never met a Middle Easerious dispute it was not excited about.
And although the Biden administration persists to claim ad naemployam that it desires a stopfire in Gaza, the road to a stopfire in a case of extermination does not go thcimpolite billions upon billions of dollars in firearmry to the genocidal party.
At the alerting on Tuesday, Sullivan alerted that: “There will be cut offe consequences for this aggression and we will toil with Israel to produce that the case.” Translation: The US will carry on doing its part to escatardy regional havoc in tandem with Israel and force more, um, “consequences”.
Sullivan also stressed that this was a “fog of war” situation, and that he reserved the right to “amfinish and adequitable as vital” his initial assessment.
But in the fog of the tardyst war one leang, at least, is evident: the US is already a primary structureile.
The sees conveyed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily echo Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.
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