U.S./Israel-Iran War
The Issue Is
Palestine. The Issue Is Zionism.
Jim Kavanagh
https://x.com/KashifMD/status/1934065000815231259
On the one hand, I feel the need to say something about the US/Israel-Iran
war; On the other hand, I saw it coming and said it right after October 7th,
2023, in “Israel’s
Solution to Gaza: War on Iran.” And I'm really tired and depressed to see
it happening as was inevitable.
The most important thing here is for everyone to understand
what this conflict is, and is not, about.
In a short clip I urge
everyone to watch, Seyed Mohammad Marandi says it quite
well: “The real issue is not Iran's nuclear program. The real issue for the
United States is Iran's support for the Palestinian people. That is it…The
issue for the United States is Palestine.”
The issue is not nuclear weapons, and we have to stop giving
credence to any attempt to fix the public focus on that. The issue is Palestine—or,
in other words, Zionism.
It is about Zionism. It is about forcing Iran—the remaining
powerful nation-state in the region that has not—to once and for all accept the
Zionist colonizing project of expelling and exterminating the Palestinian
people, which is underway in Gaza and the West Bank.
Per Marandi:
[The United States] wants Iran to
end its support for Palestine. It wants Iran to be something like Turkey …or
the Emirates, or Egypt, or Jordan, or Morocco, or it doesn't matter, [to], say,
criticize the Israeli regime, but at the end of the day do nothing in reality
to oppose its hegemony and domination.
It is indeed a regime-change operation against Iran, and its
entire point—the only thing about the regime that has to change—Is for
Iran to accept the Zionist project, which means, abandoning support for
Palestinian liberation, accepting Israel
as the unchallenged regional hegemon, and ridding itself of any military
capacity that would allow effective resistance to any aggression, including
against the Palestinians, that Israel might wish to undertake.
Understand: the only thing. If Ayatollah Khamenei
announces tomorrow that Iran is capitulating to acceptance of the Zionist
project and changes nothing else, sanctions will be lifted and relations with
Iran will be normalized. The United States will not care if Iran is Islamist or
secular, theocratic or democratic, if women have to wear hijabs or burqas or
miniskirts. All the blather about democracy, women’s rights, and secular
liberalism will disappear. Even civilian nuclear power would be permitted.
Understand also: If Iran were to capitulate on the nuclear
issue and announce that it will forgo all nuclear enrichment, it will still be
attacked. If and only if Iran capitulates on accepting the Zionist
project and abandoning the Palestinians to whatever fate Israel wants to
inflict on them (extermination and expulsion, as we all see), will the attack
on Iran stop.
https://x.com/AliAbunimah/status/1935330933063733290?t=QDnR2wcD12Rvp6iGUJ4N7g&s=19
It’s convenient for the U. S. and Israel to present the nuclear issue to the public as the main problem, but it is only relevant to them as a lesser included aspect of the principal issue of capitulation to the Zionist project—“lesser” because, as they know, as the DNI has declared (“I don’t care what she says”), Iran has no nuclear weapons, but has other weapons and assets that presently do threaten the Zionist project.
