How to Ensure a Middle East War in Five Easy Steps

American Greatness ^ | May 16th, 2021 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Saint Athanasius]

The new American Middle East policy is an extension of the new American domestic policy.

By Victor Davis Hanson

More than 2,500 rockets have landed in Israel over the past week. Some Arab Israeli citizens are terrorizing Jewish Israelis. Apparently, as the rockets fall, these citizens are to be Arab Islamic nationalists first, and Israelis last—even if they wisely prefer to live on the Israeli rather than the Palestinian side of Israel’s hated wall.

The usual Hamas sympathizers are promising death to the Jews on social media (so much for the idea that Twitter and Facebook are “shocked, shocked” by impolite expressions of the Trumpian sort).

Iran is always Iran—hubristic and chest-thumping that an obsequious United States will ease sanctions, allowing billions of dollars into the country, and thus empowering Iran to revive former levels of funding to Hezbollah and Hamas, to restructure the terrorist weaponry pipeline to Yemen, and to sanctify the Iran-deal trajectory to an Iranian bomb. Tehran just issued a third-rate video of the Republican Guard destroying the U.S. Capitol, apparently to show the world how it plans to humiliate an appeasing Biden State Department.

But why all this violence now? Of course, experts say the pretexts are cancellations of elections in the West Bank. And there is the need for the corrupt Palestinian Authority to find an enemy to scapegoat other than corrupt rival Hamas. Of course, they say, the Jews are—for the 1,000th time—“desecrating” the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and that the Israeli government is in a mess of disunity, without a unified majority voice. Of course, they say, there is the pretext of a court case over former pre-1947 property in Jerusalem—a bitter, but nevertheless still mostly private matter handled by the courts for years without an intifada.

[Saint Athanasius]

I never understood why the left supported Iran until VDH explained it in this column.

[ClearCase_guy]

But why all this violence now?

Taiwan
Ukraine
Middle East

All the trouble spots know that they have a window of opportunity. Now is the time.

[PIF]

the five steps:
1) Revive Iran.
2) Discourage Arab moderates
3) Reboot corrupt Palestinian dictatorships.
4) Adopt globalist moral equivalence.
5) Do the exact opposite of the Trump Administration.

[BobL]

“Tehran just issued a third-rate video of the Republican Guard destroying the U.S. Capitol, apparently to show the world how it plans to humiliate an appeasing Biden State Department.”

I hope they weren’t trying to scare us with that.

[JudgemAll]

That was a wink regarding the bull sht that the capitol rioters are a threat, when it is China, Iran and Russia...

[Carl Vehse]

And as TraitorBiden and his Demonicrat kakistocracy have demonstrated:

6. Give aid and comfort to the Islamist enemies of the United States.

[Saint Athanasius]

ping

[rhinohunter]

I never understood why the left supported Iran until VDH explained it in this column.

Really? The left supports any nation who hates Israel and hates the U.S. I thought you understood that years ago.

[Saint Athanasius]

I knew that, but I didn’t understand why we would give billions to Iran to play Balance of Power nonsense.

[TBP]

That’s what the Biden regime wants.

[MAAG]

Jews are—for the 1,000th time—“desecrating” the Al-Aqsa Mosque

Where the mosque sits and the wailing wall is actually the Roman fort Antonina.

There is a good explanation here Beginning And End

Solomon's(1st) and Herod's(2nd) temple where in the city of David at the Gihon spring, that temple site is a Sabbath day's walk south of fort Antonina.

Ezekiel 48 when plotted on the map shows that the last Temple will be in Shilo, where the Tabernacle stood for hundreds of years.

Then again the Jews want to build a temple just north of the mosque,(3rd) believing it will be destroyed at the second coming, then Ezekiel's will be built.(4th)

Also, the Bible doesn’t mention any other temples than three, Solomon’s, Herod’s and Ezekiel’s.