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This war isn’t about Israel-it’s about America
INN ^ | March 24, 2026 | Shmuley Boteach

Posted on 03/25/2026 8:29:27 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan

One of the most persistent and dangerous lies circulating in today’s political discourse is the claim that any American confrontation with Iran-especially under President Donald Trump-is somehow a war “for Israel." It is a falsehood repeated so often that it has begun to calcify into conventional wisdom, echoed by media figures and political commentators who should know better, and some who simply don’t care whether it is true. Let’s say it plainly: this is not Israel’s war. It never was. It is America’s war-forced upon it by nearly half a century of Iranian aggression, bloodshed, hostage-taking, and ideological hatred directed first and foremost at the United States. The Islamic Republic of Iran did not begin its hostility toward America because of Israel. It began in 1979, the very moment the Ayatollahs seized power, long before any modern American president could be accused of acting at Israel’s behest. From day one, the regime defined itself through hatred of the United States, branding it “the Great Satan" and making confrontation with America a central pillar of its revolutionary identity. The first act of this new regime was not against Israel. It was against America. In November 1979, Iranian revolutionaries stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took 52 American diplomats and citizens hostage for 444 days. This was not a minor incident. It was a declaration of war in all but name. American citizens were paraded blindfolded before cameras, humiliated, threatened, and used as bargaining chips by a regime that had barely come into existence. That single act should have permanently dispelled any illusion about Iran’s intentions. But it was only the beginning. Throughout the 1980s, Iran orchestrated and supported attacks that directly targeted American lives. The 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, carried out by Iranian-backed Hezbollah, killed

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TOPICS: Editorial; Iran; News/Current Events; War
KEYWORDS: aipacfury; bibicallsthetune; dondoesthedance; epicfury; iran; israel; moremisdirection; moretdstrolling; oyveygoyim; usa
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A comprehensive response to the Axis Sally and Lord HawHaw posters.
1 posted on 03/25/2026 8:29:27 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan
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To: MeanWestTexan

Let’s face it. American and Israeli foreign policy is joined at the hip. Does Bibi do Trump’s bidding or does Trump do Bibi’s bidding? As Hillary once blurbed, “What does it matter?”.

I think a lot of the debate is just meant to spin Trump in a negative light. If we’ve set back the Iranians a decade, I’m fine with that. I don’t need to know who’s pulling the strings or why. If the casualties on our side are no more than a handful, I’m fine with it, not because it’s Trump but because it advances U.S. interests in the region.


2 posted on 03/25/2026 8:42:41 AM PDT by OrangeHoof ("Our property is protected by two pitbulls. They love visitors, especially with marinara or garlic.")
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To: MeanWestTexan
And this was written by a guy who would convert to Islam before he would even dream of putting on a U.S. military uniform.

I wrote this clown off years ago.

3 posted on 03/25/2026 8:43:38 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (If I leave here, it’s because I’m tired of arguing with geriatric parrots wearing MAGA hats.)
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To: MeanWestTexan
With only reading the opening sentence, I am in complete agreement, except that it's actually for the entire world,because having a nation that that is beligerent with the majority of the nations over the fact that they are not Islamic nations creates instability, and instability isgood for no one in the bigger picture

Israel did not convince Trump to strike Ira

Trump is a puppet of no one, he is a man that makes his own informed decisions.

Now the one exception, was perhaps the "plandemic", because I doubt that Trump has become all that familiar with the knowledge possed by doctors, and he allowed himself to be influenced as a result, even though his gut was disagreeing with the "experts" of medicine. This reflects the concern he has for people, thus, he believed it was prudent to follow the advice he was being told to do. At some point in time though, he realized that the "vure" was worse than the virus.

4 posted on 03/25/2026 8:45:42 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: OrangeHoof

“Does Bibi do Trump’s bidding or does Trump do Bibi’s bidding?”

In Israel, the Israeli version of the Trump-is-Bibi’s-bitch refer to Trump as “Prime Mininster of Israel” and say Bibi is Trump’s bitch.

Like I think it’s the same trolls reading from the same script in reverse.

Seriously, go read the comments in the other country newspapers.


5 posted on 03/25/2026 8:48:41 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: Alberta's Child

No one care’s what you think, Lord HawHaw.


6 posted on 03/25/2026 8:49:21 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: Robert DeLong

“Trump is a puppet of no one, he is a man that makes his own informed decisions.”

Yep.

They want us to believe that the guy who stood up and shook his fist at the assassin who clipped his ear is a pussy.

That has had more abuse thrown at him by the MSM and the Uniparty — from fake elections, to fake “collusion”, to fake criminal prosecutions — is a weak guy.

Trump is the Hulk. The more people bully him, the stronger and madder he gets.

The idea that he crumbles to the will of Bibi is a joke.


7 posted on 03/25/2026 8:52:41 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: MeanWestTexan

It’s about civilization v. barbarians who are anti-truth, anti individual, anti-freedom.anti-life.


8 posted on 03/25/2026 8:54:15 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Alberta's Child
While what you say may be spot on, it doesn't change the fact that he is correct that this war is not about Israel. While Israel does benefit, the entire world will benefit if we can free the Iranian people to become useful productive people who create a nation that joinss the world of nations that want to import & export something that is not based upon terrorism.

Thus, just comment on what he is saying on this issue, not what you know about him. No one has all of the correct amswers. But he is correct with this statement. In fact, I thonk it is so important, that I would even support boots on the ground to defeat this growing, on going threat that Iran presents to the entire world.

Iran can not be allowed to obtain nuclear weapoons.

9 posted on 03/25/2026 9:02:33 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: MeanWestTexan

Well said. 😁🤙


10 posted on 03/25/2026 9:05:42 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: MeanWestTexan

This war started on October 3rd, 2023 when the Mullahs gave approval for October 7th. This was the day they chose to bring doom upon their own heads. It has now arrived.

That attack turned into the most savage demonic evil in Israel not seen since the Romans burned the Temple in 70 AD. This kind of blood thirst cannot be allowed to continue or even to exist. Then add to that who knows how many of their own they were killing daily.


11 posted on 03/25/2026 9:12:21 AM PDT by captmar-vell
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To: MeanWestTexan

Bookmark.


12 posted on 03/25/2026 9:22:33 AM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: MeanWestTexan

Haven’t seen much from HawHaw and Sally in the last few days. They wiil be back eventually. One of them kept repeating we were in Afghanistan for 20 years.


13 posted on 03/25/2026 9:35:32 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: MeanWestTexan
For decades, Israel and its lobby demand this war.

When they get their war ... "This war has NOTHING to do with Israel!"

14 posted on 03/25/2026 9:41:18 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Angelino97

Hey, Lord HawHaw, Jr!

Yeah, the Iranians were chanting “Death to America” and calling us the Great Satan and promising our destruciton and killing our Marines because they loved us.

The Iranians finally got the war they’ve been demanding since 1979.


15 posted on 03/25/2026 9:49:56 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: MeanWestTexan
The 1979 hostage crisis was in response to the CIA engineered coup of 1953, which installed the Shah.

We could have said, okay, we're even now. Then walked away. In time, we might have become, if not friends, then at least mutually neutral.

Instead, we supplied Iraq during their war with Iran in the 1980s.

So we kept stirring the pot. And they stirred back.

A neutral, non-interventionist policy in the Middle East would have yielded a better result.

16 posted on 03/25/2026 9:57:13 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: All

Article and content provided by:

INN-—Israeli National News
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
Mar 24, 2026, 7:33 PM

Subject: Iranian Nuclear Program
United States-Israel Strategic Partnership Act


17 posted on 03/25/2026 9:58:35 AM PDT by Liz (Jonathan Swift: Government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slaveryen .)
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To: MeanWestTexan

This is Iran’s war and neither that of the US or Israel.
The US has always been the GREAT SATAN to the mullahs.
Israel has always been the LITTLE SATAN to the mullahs.


18 posted on 03/25/2026 10:14:00 AM PDT by spintreebob
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To: Angelino97

Yes, America is bad, so says Lord HawHaw, Jr!

LOL.


19 posted on 03/25/2026 10:19:28 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: Liz

Axis Sally! You’re back!


20 posted on 03/25/2026 10:20:10 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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