Netanyahu Intends to Assassinate Assad; Will
U.S. Allow It?
By Eric
Zuesse
August 31,
2017 "Information
Clearing House"
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On
the basis of reports in Jerusalem Post, Wall
Street Journal, and other sources, the Zero
Hedge news site not only documents and headlines
on August 29th, “Israel
Threatens To Bomb Assad’s Presidential Palace” but
makes clear that Israel’s
Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu personally informed
Russian
President Vladimir Putin of this
intention during his meeting with Putin in Sochi
on August 23rd, and that Netanyahu said there
that Israel will do this unless Putin stops Iran
and Shiites generally from defeating Al Qaeda,
ISIS, and other Sunni fundamentalist
organizations who are trying to take over
Syria.
Israel’s Arutz
Sheva International News also banners on August
29th, “Putin
to Netanyahu: We won’t rein in Iran …
he will not act against Tehran,” and reports
that:
“Iran continues to threaten Israel’s
existence, and it funds terror organizations
and missile plans,” Netanyahu told Putin.
“Wherever ISIS disappeared, Iran has taken
over. Iran is already on its way to taking
control of Iraq, Yemen, and in many ways has
already taken over Lebanon.”
Whereas
Netanyahu can accept the Sunni groups ISIS or Al
Qaeda taking over Syria, he cannot accept
continuance of Shiite Iran’s alliance with Syria
and defeating ISIS and Al Qaeda in Syria.
The Arutz
Sheva report closes:
According to the Prime Minister’s Office,
Netanyahu’s meeting with Putin is just part
“of a wider international effort led by
Prime Minister Netanyahu and intended to
impress upon the world how dangerous Iran’s
foothold in Syria is.”
The Zero
Hedge report suggests that U.S.
President
Donald Trump has already told Netanyahu
that the U.S. isn’t going to do what Netanyahu
is demanding be done — overthrow and replace
Syria’s government:
The US has essentially
signaled to Israel: you are on your own when
it comes to Syria policy. Trump
shut down the CIA program to topple Assad —
a program which had the assistance of
Israeli intelligence. Other world leaders
like France’s Macron have further stated
that Assad
is here to stay for
the near future.
The only
way then to prevent Israel from invading Syria
even more than it has been doing by the support
that it has provided to Al Qaeda and ISIS there,
and actually bombing the Presidential Palace,
would be to overthrow and replace U.S. President
Trump by his
Vice President Mike Pence, who is a
fundamentalist Christian whose entire career in
public office has been unwaveringly pro-Israel.
Perhaps Netanyahu is waiting for clear signs of
whether Trump will soon be replaced, before
launching his planned invasion of Syria.
Investigative historian
Eric Zuesse
is the author, most recently, of They’re
Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican
Economic Records, 1910-2010, and
of CHRIST’S
VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created
Christianity.
In case you missed it:
Time to
assassinate Syrian President Assad & get to his
allies in Iran – Israeli
minister
