Do Not Support Waging War with Iran

They'll make up some lie to convince you it's justified. Don't fall for it.

Everyone needs to wake up about what’s happening immediately. Western involvement in the Middle East has not been benevolent for decades. Now they’re probably going to drag everyone into a war with Iran. They’ll make up some reason—they always do—but don’t fall for it, because that is exactly what Netanyahu wants.

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Our Western leaders wanted us to feel like Putin was the one malevolently expanding his empire. But there’s more to the Russo-Ukrainian war than that— if NATO had not expanded, and there had been no Western coup, there would not have been an annexation of the Crimea or invasion.

But Israel is different, because Israel is literally in the process of expanding their territory right now. This is not theoretical. This is currently happening.

You only have to look at Syria to see, and notice how it parallels what happened to Libya after 2011. Israel and America enabled Syria’s destruction. They saw an opportunity in Syria’s civil war, and took advantage of it, just like they did with Libya. So Israel and America, along with the support of Turkey and Qatar, bear massive responsibility for all of the atrocities and death that is happening there.

Remember the terrorists that seized power after Assad was ousted? The ones Western media depicted as “diversity-friendly jihadists” whose leader had an “ideology that evolved” since the time he fought for al-Qaeda?

Well, now there is a clash between government fighters and former Assad supporters, and over a thousand people are dead. Many civilians, both Alawite and Christian minorities, are being persecuted and killed. Is this “diversity friendly?”

Turkey, Israel, and America exacerbated the conflict in Syria not to “help” or “save” civilians from Assad. They did so for their own selfish imperial reasons.

These countries facilitated the handover of Syria from Assad to terrorists because it was to their mutual benefit. Turkey gets to expand their influence and focus on the Kurds. They also, along with America and Qatar, now get a chance to benefit from a pipeline Assad opposed, which could challenge Russia’s energy dominance in Europe. This was previously dismissed as conspiracy, but now that Assad is gone, talks about the pipeline can conveniently resume. By taking advantage of the civil war in Syria, the US was also able to occupy oil and wheat-rich regions in Syria, and impose sanctions on the country.

The chaos in Syria also benefits the Western Empire because a weakened Syria is exactly what Israel wants. Israel is still bombing and occupying their land. Like America, they also funded terrorist groups to sow chaos before their occupation. They’re also bombing Lebanon and killing civilians under the pretense of “fighting Hezbollah,” and their violence is glorified by the West as “fighting antisemitism.”

Western media then diverts our attention away. “Can you believe how rude Trump was to Zelensky the other day?” they’ll say, while hundreds of Palestinian children are slaughtered and starved.

Trump’s foreign policy regarding the Middle East is no different from Biden’s, and Biden always gave Israel “ironclad” support. Trump is just more obvious about his violence and cruelty. He threatened Palestine with ethnic cleansing, donated billions in weapons aid to Israel during their genocide, and pulled grants from Columbia University because they weren’t cracking down on pro-Palestine protests hard enough.

Do people seriously still believe he’s America First? Okay, how about now?

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Or how about now? Palantir and Carbyne funder Peter Thiel has significant financial influence on Trump, and Thiel admits his “bias is to defer to Israel.” Trump also receives millions from Zionist Miriam Adelson, and literally acknowledged “giving” Israel Jerusalem and the Golan Heights because of this.

Western media should be focusing on this, but they won’t. That’s because our media is owned by billionaires, and our understanding of truth is for sale to the highest bidder.

Now, Trump is hinting that he is trying to get America to go to war with Iran.

These are not just America’s wars. They are Netanyahu’s—a wanted criminal who we’ve watched murder and maim for years. Trump previously shared, without comment, this clip on Truth Social of Jeffrey Sachs: Sachs calls Netanyahu a “deep, dark son of a bitch”, who has “gotten the US into endless wars.”

Netanyahu is aching for the US to go to war with Iran. He’d love it. The US, after all, always goes to war with countries Netanyahu happens to criticize. This is what Libyan PM Gaddafi claimed before he was killed in 2011: Israel’s plan is to “remove Lebanon and Syria so that the borders of so-called Israel are with Turkey rather than with Arab countries. You will see this achieved, if not in our era, then in our children's era... Syria will become 5 small states.”

In the West, we are often told that foreign policy is not within our control. We are told it is more realistic to focus our activism on domestic policy, because it’s too hard to influence what our leaders do abroad.

But not only does foreign policy affect domestic policy—if our money is being spent on wars, it can’t be spent on other needs at home—but this is a crisis of morality, a risk to the spiritual survival of our species. Genocide is literally evil. That means our leaders pay for and facilitate evil. That means they are also literally being evil.

It’s not actually more complicated than that. Our leaders performatively talk about the Holocaust and democracy and freedom all the time, and yet they not only refuse to take action against one unfolding before our eyes, but they actually funded and facilitated it. Thousands of children have been murdered, nearly 50,000 Palestinians dead, and this is surely an undercount.

If you’re paying tax dollars, and you in fact live in a democracy, then the people are owed a vote on foreign policy too.

And every person actually can influence foreign policy. Not by yourself, of course. But we are a generation of social media. I am a Millennial; I watched the internet grow and flourish. We worked desperately for followers and likes; we crafted content with the exact intention of growing our audience. Because of the Silent Revolution that unfolded online against Zionism, Israel went from a country whose soft power seemed untouchable in the US, to one that is supported by less than half of the population.

It’s not over yet, but this massive change in perception indicates that anyone actually can play a small part in influencing foreign policy. You are a part of a larger consciousness, and the internet is truly a web that connects. Though powerful people may support Israel’s genocide, at the end of the day, there are more of us than there are of them.

You don’t even need to convince everyone of the truth. Critical Mass Theory refers to the minimal number of people needed to support an idea or cause before the “opinion of the majority [can] be tipped to that of the minority.” So you don’t need to overwhelm yourself in thinking you need to convince the entire population. You only need 25-30%.

Like with Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine, and Libya, when the empire wants war, they will always find a “benevolent” reason to cover why they need one. Iran is the last one on Netanyahu’s list, his major prize. If he wants it badly enough, he might get it. He’s always gotten what he’s wanted, after all, and Trump seems ready and willing.

But you don’t have to support it. The era of Israel always getting what they want without question is over. Netanyahu is a genocidal psycho wanted for crimes against humanity. Don’t give him what he wants. He’s a monster who belongs in the Hague.

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