Clarity On Iran and Israel
PS To My Letter To Matt Walsh And A Note To Seth Keshel
So far, I’ve received no answer to my telepathically conveyed letter to Matt Walsh. That’s good, because I have a postscript. It was galvanized to write it because of all the talk now about Americans being “dragged into a war for Israel.”
A Final Word: This Isn’t About Israel
Matt, I realized I left out something crucial: this isn’t about Israel. If Israel didn’t exist, the stakes in the Persian Gulf would be exactly the same. The Gulf remains the chokepoint for a fifth of the world’s oil, and Iran’s ambitions to control or disrupt it threaten global stability, including ours.
Israel’s involvement is a direct response to Iran’s regional aggression—no more, no less. The mullahs drag Israel into this as a giant smokescreen for the real issue: their obsession with dominating the Persian Gulf (which the Arabs call the Arabian Gulf—tells you something).
Their only card is attacking the Strait of Hormuz. (I personally think this is more of a joker than an ace, but it is a card.) That would trigger an American response—one isolationists like you and the left will cynically label a “war for Israel.” Don’t fall for a cheap trick like that.
This isn’t about partisan loyalties or cultural allegiances. It’s about geography, economics, and power. The Strait of Hormuz is a lifeline. Iran’s effort to strangle it threatens every consumer, worker, and family, no matter where they live or which flag they fly.
If Israel didn’t exist, how would you feel about American warships navigating those waters under the watchful eye of a nuclear-armed Iran?
Sincerely,
Diana
The above is something that’s been bothering me for a while, and it all came out when I read a poll by one of the ‘Stackers I subscribe to: Seth Keshel, who is must reading on US elections.
He ran a poll.
And I realized that the entire issue is being framed as a war between Iran and Israel, into which the US might be dragged unwillingly. We had an exchange about the poll. I ended with this comment:
This is something that only came to me as a kind of “aha” moment. Prior to this, of course I was looking at the situation as an “Israel-Iran” war. But that’s false.
Israel has absolutely no issue with Iran or who runs it. Iran has a problem with Israel. That’s proposition #1.
Proposition 2 is that however sincere the mullahs are in wanting to wipe Israel off the map for their crazy theological reasons, their use of this religious reasoning is entirely cynical. While the world obsesses about Israel, their real interests lie in dominating the Gulf.
There’s another thing dangling around that’s bothering me. I saw this in some of the responses to the NY Times article about why the Israelis are refraining from attacking the fuel sites: that Bibi expects the US to finish what he started.
No comment. I honestly am out of words when it comes to people like this.
Yet it helped me to realize that the entire situation has been flipped upside down, and that for innocent reasons, even pro-Israel people are complicit in this framing.
The situation with Iran has nothing to do with Israel — it’s entirely Iranian. It would exist without Israel.
Again here’s THE question to all American patriots:
How would you feel about American warships navigating the waters of the Persian Gulf and the Straits of Hormuz under the watchful eye of a nuclear-armed Iran?
