Netanyahu’s goal appears to be to draw Iran and Hezbollah into an escalated conflict, by goading them into action through a series of increasingly provocative attacks, including assassinations, destruction of diplomatic facilities, pager explosions that caused many indiscriminate injuries and deaths, and now a series of attacks on southern Lebanon that have left hundreds dead and over a thousand wounded in one day. (The assault was swiftly denounced by Brazil.)
Will Iran or Hezbollah respond as Israel hopes they will? Hezbollah has said that the terrorist act of causing thousands of personal electronic devices to explode will not cause it to cease supporting the people of Gaza. Its own attacks on sites in Israel continue, piercing the idea of Israeli invulnerability. But it is not through violence that peace will be reached.
The way forward is through the changing world environment: The declining power, influence, and moral standing of the foundering countries of Anglo-American NATO are counterposed to the sovereignty of Russia, the economic success of China, and the optimism of the BRICS. Israel’s barbaric actions are destroying its international standing and its economy. (Many buyers will now think twice before purchasing Israeli high-tech products and services.)
And what is going on in the U.S.? The sitting (or sleeping) U.S. President was present at the first meeting of his Cabinet in a year, but had his wife preside over it from the head of the table. Over the weekend, when he was simply supposed to be introducing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, he lost his composure and barked questions angrily at his staff.
The collective Biden has now flown Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the U.S. on a military plane and brought him to the swing state of Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, new details emerge about the would-be Trump assassin, including years of seemingly ignored warnings.
In Europe, the recent days revealed contrasts:
In Brandenburg state elections in Germany, the atrocious Green party lost all of its seats. Why? Not only is the “energy transition” policy driving up the cost of power and destroying industry, but the Green party in Germany is also rabidly pro-war. The relatively anti-war Alternative for Germany (AfD) party came in a very close second behind the SPD, and the anti-war BSW grouping founded by Sahra Wagenknecht came in third.
Over in Denmark, however, the prime minister insists that Russia’s red lines should be entirely ignored. “It has been a mistake during this war to have a public discussion about red lines,” she says. Doing so is “simply giving the Russians too good a card in their hands.”
The current military trajectory pushed by the Anglo-American insistence on being the world’s hegemon leads, unavoidably, to civilization-ending nuclear war. Acknowledging this basic fact is not giving the Russians a trump card; it is recognizing that there is a reality beyond the “narratives” and wishful thinking that have come to dominate the legacy media and “think tanks” of Anglo-American NATO.
We must acknowledge, too, that human economy is subject to universal principles akin to those discovered by scientists. It is by adopting a mission for the scientific, economic, and cultural development of the people of each nation and the world as a whole, that the great abundance that could be ours can be realized.
It is only under the influence of such a paradigm that the flames threatening to fully engulf Southwest Asia can be extinguished, and a new future created, as called for in the LaRouche Oasis Plan.
