Israel Intensifies Lebanon Attacks: Is This How 'Self-Defense' Works?
Al Jazeera notes Israel's intensified attacks on Lebanon and questions if another war is brewing. The mainstream narrative often presents this as an isolated incident, a response to recent provocations. What they often omit is the historical pattern: this isn't Netanyahu's first rodeo. He’s been threatening, and enacting, regional expansions since at least 2002, when he openly advocated for regime
change in Iraq, a key strategic goal that dovetailed with neoconservative ambitions in Washington. While Al Jazeera responsibly flags the possibility of full-scale war, it barely scratches the surface of the underlying incentives. Consider the financial pipeline that greases such maneuvers: between 2002 and 2006, AIPAC's political contributions increased by over 40%, coinciding directly with an
aggressive push for military interventions across the Middle East. Meanwhile, in the US, politicians who consistently vote for massive aid packages to Israel—like Senator Lindsey Graham, who received over $20,000 from pro-Israel PACs in 2023 alone—continue to parrot 'existential threat' talking points, ensuring the defense industry's coffers remain full. It's almost as if some people profit
handsomely from perpetual conflict.