Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed in his 2002 testimony to the US Congress that an invasion of Iraq was necessary to end the “war on terror” and stop Iraq and terrorist organizations from acquiring weapons of mass destruction. He added that the conflict would be brief, and that it would elicit a new era of Western-friendly democracy, not just in Iraq but throughout the region, including Iran. The proclamation was not accurate.
Prior to the invasion of 2003, many experts and officials already knew that Saddam Hussein’s regime lacked al-Qaeda and had no weapons of mass destruction. Unavoidable suffering, insecurities, insecurity, chaos, and the breakdown of government were all inevitable outcomes of the war. And that is what transpired. Today, Iraq is at best a fragile nation with significant political and economic challenges.
Many analysts eluded commenting on how the two allies allegedly failed to learn from the Iraq war and are now making the same mistakes in Iran after Israel and then the US attacked it earlier this month. If the 2003 invasion had had the objectives of halting the proliferation of WMDs and establishing democracy in mind, these analyses would have been accurate. They weren’t, though.
The US and Israel’s goal in the war was an Iraq that wouldn’t impede the Israeli-occupied Palestinians’ claim to sovereignty and its role as a representative of US imperial power in the area. In Iran today, this is also the desired outcome.
The assertions that Iran was “on the verge of” developing nuclear weapons have no justification, just as the claims about Iraq’s weapons-of- mass destruction have been proven to be completely false. No concrete proof has been presented that Tehran was actually developing nuclear weapons. Instead, lies and hypocrisy have been displayed in a way that is unmatched.
Two nuclear powers are engaged in illegal “pre-emptive” aggression under the guise of stopping nuclear proliferation, one of which stands out as the only state in history to have used a nuclear weapon not once but twice. The other, who refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and has a mass-murder-suicide-style nuclear doctrine, is at this situation.
Israel and the US are obviously not interested in Iran’s nuclear program. They want Iran to become a regional power, which is why regime change has already been discussed in the media.
US Senators Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz have called for the sacking of Iran’s government in addition to numerous statements from Netanyahu, Israeli defense minister Israel Katz, and other Israeli officials. US President Donald Trump posted a message on social media on Sunday to join the calls for a change in Iran’s regime.
Iranians are now being urged to “stand up” and fight for their “freedom.” However, Israel and the US don’t want Iran to have freedom and democracy. Why? Because of the fact that a free and democratic Iran would reject the brutalities of a colonial-state project in its vicinity.
They would prefer any other political force to do their bidding, such as the Pahlavi dynasty, which was a violent, tyrannical monarchy that was once the Pahlavi dynasty, which overcame its demise in a popular revolution in 1979.
Israel and the US would prefer a destabilized, fragmented, weak, chaotic, and divided Iran, which would be ruined by a civil war. That would serve their purposes, just as a war-torn Iraq did.
The political elites in Israel and the US have jointly supported a well-established policy objective since the 1990s, which is to weaken regional powers in the Middle East and cause instability through subversion and aggression.
This strategy of attacking Middle Eastern states was described in a policy document called Clean Break, which was written by former US Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle and other neoconservatives in 1996.
Perle and al simply capitalized on the well-known imperial strategy of creating division and chaos to facilitate imperial dominance.
However, there are risks in this approach. A weakened or dispersed Iranian state can result in the same dynamics as the demise of the Iraqi state opened the door to violent non-state actors and helped Iran strengthen its position as a regional power challenging US-Israeli interests.
The US and Israel’s actions are encouraging more nations to pursue nuclear weapons on a more global scale. Nuclear weapons are a necessity to acquire just to prevent such attacks, which states are learning from the US-Israeli aggression against Iran. In other words, this war is likely going to cause more proliferation, not less.
As long as the chaos and destruction it causes in the area allows it to accomplish its strategic objective of ending all resistance to its settler colonization project, the Israeli state doesn’t seem concerned about proliferation. In a nutshell, Israel will do anything to bring the entire region to its knees in order to do so. Because it is essentially free to bear the cost of regional instability.
In contrast, chaos in the Middle East directly affects US interests. In the short run, a dysfunctional Iraq or weakened Iran may be beneficial to the US, but instability could impair its grander plans to control global energy markets  and halt China.
The unjustified aggression will have a ripple effect on the rest of the world, just as it did following Iraq’s invasion in 2003.
Some European nations have appeared to support the attack despite the numerous negative economic effects they may experience as a result of that war, which has had a brutal, decades-long impact on the global response to the US-Israeli aggression against Iran.
This complacency with imperial violence must end if governments truly want to make the world a safer place. They have come to the sobering conclusion that the US and Israel, thanks to their racist colonial designs, cause chaos and destruction.
US imperialism is an unjustifiable effort to rob people of their resources, dignity, and sovereignty, while the Israeli settler colonial project is an unjustifiable one of displacement, expulsion, and genocide.
The world needs to press Israel to abandon its settler colonial project and establish a decolonial relationship with the Palestinians in a decolonized Palestine, as well as to compel the US to let its citizens live in freedom and sovereignty.
Only this will prevent unending chaos, instability, suffering, and pain.
Source: Aljazeera
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