After Israeli escalations, does the Mideast face a wider war? | The Bottom Line



Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be considered the “chief arsonist in the Middle East”, American journalist Jeremy Scahill says.

Scahill tells host Steve Clemons that Netanyahu “smells blood right now because [United States President] Joe Biden is a lame duck president”. This allows Israel to make bigger moves against the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip and also to drag the US into confrontation with Iran, Scahill argues.

He spoke after Israel claimed responsibility this past week for the killings of Fuad Shukr, Hezbollah’s military chief, in Beirut and Mohammed Deif, the commander of Hamas’s military wing, in Gaza. Hamas’s political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, the chief negotiator in the talks to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza, was also assassinated in Tehran. Israel is suspected in his killing but hasn’t claimed responsibility for it.

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41 thoughts on “After Israeli escalations, does the Mideast face a wider war? | The Bottom Line”

  1. 'Israeli escalations' ….just ignore that Hezballah chose to attack israel under no duress, firing hundreds of rockets randomly at the Israeli public – yet Israel is the one escalating the situation with targeted military strikes ? Not surprising from Hamass' mouth piece

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  2. ISLAM IS ONE UMMAH, NO DIFFERENT SUNNY OF SIYAH…DON'T MAKE YOUR PROPAGANDA TO BE PART OF ISLAM,ALL MUSLIM AS SAME HAVE FAITH ONE ALMIGHTY GOD/ALLAH AND PROPHETH MUHAMMAD LAST MESSENGER.
    ❤✌️From:INDONESIA

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  3. The world stands on the brink of a disaster that will change the world forever. Be under no illusions there is a bigger plan at work. Israeli Lebanon iran gaza US war is just part of a much wider conflict. The brics rise is so under reported

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  4. I think russia and brics should come in as this war in the middle east is a war about who is the economic world leader. That is why USA support to israel is ironclad.

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  5. The British Telegraph writes that Ayatollah Khamenei ordered not to launch a “retaliation attack” until all the “traitors” involved in the liquidation of Haniyeh are identified. To put it simply, the supreme ruler wants to make sure that nothing gets into his bedroom in the event of an attack on Israel. The Ayatollah wants to sleep peacefully, but in Israel “sleeping peacefully” is understood differently than in Tehran.

    Judging by publications in the media, so far the Iranian intelligence services adhere to the version that the Mossad managed to “interest” someone from the  Ansar Al-Mahdi unit, part of the IRGC, and they carried explosives to the rooms in Haniyeh’s Tehran residence.  

    “Ayatollah Khamenei has summoned the heads of the IRGC several times over the past two days,” a source told The Telegraph. “For him, revenge on his traitors is much more important at the moment than revenge on Israel.”

    According to the NYT , it's much worse. The Ayatollah is not sure he can trust his guards in the event of an attack on Israel. After all, a missile aimed at Tel Aviv could fly to his residence…😂

    (Dana Levy on X)

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  6. Btw, who is escalating the war in the ME? Bl**dy hellmas, hellbollah & poothis are firing missiles into Israel & why can't Israel retaliate? Bl**dy SoBs!

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  7. Let me echo my appreciation for all the journalist, especially those of AlJazeera who have paid a high price to bring all these News and facts to us regarding this genocide.

    Is there any doubt left that there are only two different factions of Zio NOT-Z:

    Those who are denying the existence of Palestinian and those who are insisting to make Palestinians nonexistence.

    Rest in Power Aaron Bushnell I will never forget you and your last words of " Free Palestine "

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  8. Escalation is probably not the right word to express what is happening. Let's be clear about one thing, Israel would not be able to do any of the things they are doing without the complete financial and political backing of the Untied States of America. The war that Israel is waging on Gaza, is a proxy war that the US is fighting through Israel. They supply all the financing, the weapons, and the political protection to Israel, which makes all these crimes against humanity possible. The US cannot hide behind Israel much longer.

    Thanks to Israel's reckless actions, mass murders of innocent women and children, as well as over 160 reporters, there will eventually be a response from the world. The US is being careless in sponsoring these killings and human rights violations, there is always a price to pay. In this case it may very well be WWIII. This is the current reality we all live-in.

    I would like to add one thing: when Hezbollah released the drone footage to the media about showing the secret Israeli military installations, that was a very serious mistake. I say this because if they had kept this information a secret, they may have had the opportunity to return with drones armed with bombs, but now that they revealed the air space breach, it is very likely that Israel will close that security loophole. The opportunity was wasted on a childish show and tell. They wasted a perfectly good opportunity, not a smart move on the part of Hezbollah.

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  9. Beating around the bush , the fact remaining that Israel think of their right to occupy all area of grater Israel. Peace process are pre arranged to give Israel time to rest between wars.
    That is the way they understand the bible wither it's rightly understood or wrong. My understanding is what they think of is come to pass long time ago. Revenge leads for a revenge and what happened on the 7th of October was a TRAP and gave Israel and alliance chance to work on the remaining of their dream. Condemnation of the world and protests didn't harm Israel but managed to bring their ideology forward in the open as they declare openly there is no such thing as Palatine!!.
    God the creator is God of all nations;
    "Did I not bring Israel up from Egypt, the Philistines from Caphtor and the Arameans from Kir?

    Amos 9-7

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  10. Trump: 4 YEARS OF PEACE IN GAZA/ISRAEL/ME.

    Harris/Biden: WAR IN GAZA/ISRAEL/ME. DEATH, DESTRUCTION, ESCALATION, NO END IN SIGHT.

    Who other than Democrat sheep believes Harris can restore THE PEACE HER AND BIDEN INHERITED AND LOST?

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