Israel Drills Defenses: Prepares for Blowback from US Attacks on Iran?
The story ( Al-Monitor ) paints Israel as merely reacting to an 'American strike on Iran.' It conveniently forgets to mention the decades of Israeli lobbying, often spearheaded by groups like AIPAC, pushing successive US administrations closer to precisely such a confrontation. For instance, OpenSecrets.org indicates AIPAC spent over $3.7 million on lobbying in 2023 alone, continually advocating
for a hawkish stance against Iran, echoing Netanyahu's repeated calls for military action since at least 2002. So, 'prepares for retaliation,' or 'prepares for the consequences of its own foreign policy'? One might wonder. This framing shifts the inevitable blowback from Israeli hawkishness to a faceless 'American strike,' as if Washington acts without external pressures. It's a classic media
maneuver: presenting a nation as a passive recipient of geopolitical tension, rather than an active, often aggressive, participant in creating it. How many times will an 'existential threat' be manufactured before the US public asks who benefits from this perpetual state of alarm?