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Veckans analys av David Horovitz

 Som tidigare sagt, det är värt några minuter att läsa vad David Horovitz skriver.

Seeking a deal with different faces of the same regime, Trump risks subverting his own vital war goals

When the bombs stop, he promised Iranians, your government ‘will be yours to take.’ But it won’t be. And as for his talk of potential ‘guaranteed peace for Israel’ – well, would that it were so

It took Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu more than seven hours to formulate a response on Monday to US President Donald Trump’s bombshell announcement that his emissaries were negotiating indirectly with the “top man” in Iran on a deal to end the war, and that the sides had reached agreement on some 15 key points.

And no wonder the prime minister struggled to find the words. He needed to somewhat dissociate himself and Israel from the US president’s gambit, without sounding like he was doing so...

...But if he indeed strikes a deal with the regime — and especially if it turns out that the “top man” with whom he is interacting is, in fact, Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Ghalibaf — a “Death to America”-shouting former commander in the terror-exporting Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and murderous suppressor of anti-regime protests at home — Trump risks subverting the very goals of the war he and Netanyahu launched against the Islamic Republic less than four weeks ago.

Denouncing the regime on February 28 as “a vicious group of very hard, terrible people,” Trump accurately accused it of menacing the US and its allies worldwide for 47 years, promised to “raze their missile industry,” vowed to ensure Iran would never attain a nuclear weapon, and told Iranians that “the hour of your freedom is at hand.” When the bombs stop, he urged, “Take over your government. It will be yours to take.”

Instead, he is negotiating with that vicious, cynical and completely untrustworthy regime, whether or not he claims its latest representatives are somehow distinct from their recently eliminated predecessors. And thus, by definition, he is legitimizing its retention of power and narrowing the promised path for the Iranian public to oust it...

...Trump’s assertion that the US has obtained broad agreement from its Iranian interlocutors to a 15-point plan for ending the war carries shades of the way he put forward his 20-point peace plan for Gaza last September.

Ignoring the fact that Gaza’s terrorist rulers had submitted a caveat-filled semi-rejection of his proposal, he declared that Hamas was ready for peace, and brokered a deal that, near-miraculously, enabled the release of the last 20 living hostages from more than two years of horrific captivity in Gaza.

But six months later, Hamas is still governing most Gazans, has not disarmed, is currently regrouping and rearming, and remains determined to destroy Israel.

Gaza is a nightmarish military and diplomatic challenge, because so many of its people loathe Israel more than they loathe the terrorist rulers who place them in the line of fire, and because there is no dependable alternative Palestinian leadership.

Iran could have been — and still could be — very different. Most of its people revile the regime that has been oppressing them for almost half a century. They have been crying out for international assistance in ridding themselves of the ayatollahs, have repeatedly resorted to mass protests, and been gunned down by the tens of thousands.

Trump’s reported 15 conditions for ending the war — including permanently stripping the Islamic Republic of its nuclear weapons program, constraining its missile capabilities, and severing it from Hamas, Hezbollah and its other terrorist proxies — would indeed deprive it of the capacity to menace Israel, the region, and the rest of the world, and could indeed spell its merciful demise… if those conditions are implemented.

But for precisely that reason, there is no way on earth that the regime will agree to them...

...In a TV report on Monday night, an Israeli security source was quoted saying, “We do not know if there will be a deal in the near future or if this is a characteristic ‘Trump maneuver.’ But if there is a deal, and it does not involve the removal from Iran of its [450-kilograms of 60%] enriched uranium, any big words about ‘devastation’ and ‘degraded capability’ will not be true. The truth will be that it is an epic failure.”

That’s for sure.

And again, Trump told Iranians on February 28, “When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take.”

Well, it won’t be, will it, if he cuts a deal with people who are merely different faces of the same regime?

And finally, as for Trump’s vision of this agreement, if it happens, bringing “peace for Israel, long-term peace, guaranteed peace” — that carries historical echoes that I’d prefer not even to express and dearly hope will never have to.

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Analys av David Horovitz

 David Horovitz ledare i Times of Israel.

Regimes are ousted from within, but the US and Israel must not let up until that happens in Iran

Trump and Netanyahu now allow that their confidence in the Iranian people rising up when the bombings stop may be misplaced. But they cannot end this war without the removal of Iran’s uranium stockpile, and a commitment to keep returning until the regime is gone

Verkligheten i Israel idag

 Det David Horovitz, Times of Israel skrivet, är ofta värd att läsas.

Seeking clarity, and safety, in a war marked by incoherent leadership and a momentous goal

Work and worry under missile attack * Searching for truth in a sea of misinformation * Intellectual problems for Israel-haters * Is Trump all-in?

Kriget mot Iran är lagligt

 Här en analys jag långt kan hålla med om.

Det finns de som säger att kriget mot Iran gör världen till en osäkrare plats och att kriget är olagligt. Lagligheten behandlas i följande analys som publicerats i Times of Israel. 

När det gäller påverkan av världsläget kan man med säkerhet inte veta vad som i längden  är farligast. Men något farligare än Iran med kärnvapen och ännu bättre rustad än idag är svårt att föreställa sig. En regim som utan att tveka dödar sina egna medborgare är säkert beredd att använda alla medel mot dem som de betraktar som sina fiender. Om de allierade slagit till mot Hitlers regim 1938 hade antagligen miljoner mänskoliv räddats. Kriget mot regimen i Iran kan på samma sätt rädda ett okänt antal liv i framtiden. Ingen vet med säkerhet men det skulle antagligen vara oförsvarligt att inget göra.

Yes, Israel's war with Iran is legal

After decades of proxy war and direct missile attacks, this response is not a violation of international law — it is what the right of self-defense was meant to allow

Vladimir Putin, of all people, along with several European leaders, has declared that “the US- Israel war against Iran is illegal under international law.” So does Israel’s military action in Iran, with all its ramifications, meet the test of international law? After the past two and a half years, and the relentless mistreatment of Israel by international bodies, many may find the question beside the point. But it still matters.

The short answer is yes. Throughout this difficult period, Israel has acted in accordance with international law, and it is doing so now. The fundamental rule of customary international law – also reflected in Article 2(4) of the UN Charter – prohibits the use of force. The exception to this rule, and the basis for any state’s legitimate use of force, is the right of self-defense (Article 51 of the UN Charter). That right arises when a state is subjected to an “armed attack.”

As we all know, Iran has been acting against Israel for many years. It deploys Hezbollah and the Houthis against us, and Hamas has effectively been armed and enabled by Iran. Since these forces are subordinate to Iran and operate under its direction, that in itself amounts to an Iranian armed attack on Israel.

But Iran has also attacked Israel directly, without Israel attacking Iran first. In April 2024, Iran fired hundreds of missiles and drones at Israel, and it attacked Israel again in October 2024. These direct attacks establish, in the clearest possible way, Israel’s right to self-defense...

Kriget mot Iran

 Kriget mot Iran var oundvikligt. Det är man långt överens om bland politiker i Israel. Irans uttalade mål att utplåna Israel gör att man inte kan låta landet rusta upp så att det kan förverkliga målet.

Dessutom anser USA , enligt Trump, att Iran som är en av världens största sponsorer av terrorism utgör ett hot mot USA och hela den fria världen.

Den iranska regimen är ju bevisligen också ett hot mot den egna befolkningen.

För att följa med krigshändelserna kan man läsa t.ex. Jerusalem Post eller Times of Israel.

Israelhatare från höger och vänster

 Tucker Carlson’s anti-Zionism shows horseshoe theory nearing a circle (TOI)

Conservative US commentator borrows talking points from the left, highlighting how anti-Zionist discourse is finding a home on both sides of the spectrum

In December, the right-wing US media personality Tucker Carlson hosted the far-left UN special rapporteur for the Palestinians, Francesca Albanese, on his show.

The two outspoken personalities, from opposite corners of the political spectrum, found themselves in agreement, with Carlson deferring to Albanese’s explanations of the conflict.

“A lot of us have spent a lot of time doing our best to ignore what’s happening in Gaza,” Carlson said during a preamble to the interview. “The idea that they’ve killed tens of thousands of women and children, non-combatants, accidentally, is a lie. No, they murdered them.”...

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Värt att läsa är också: Facing Trump, Hamas bet on survival and is being vindicated; Iran’s regime has the same game plan

In his State of the Union, Trump had good reason to claim success against both Gaza’s terror rulers and the Islamic Republic. But neither is finished. In fact, both intend to long outlast his presidency

…In Gaza, as my colleague Lazar Berman detailed in a deeply troubling report earlier this week, Hamas retains control of the half of the enclave where most of the population lives. And it is furtively ensuring that it will continue to hold sway even if and when the Palestinian Authority-affiliated National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, ultimately overseen by Trump, begins ostensibly taking administrative control of parts of the Strip...