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Caroline Glick: how the West enabled Hezbollah — 1 Comment

1. Tony Badran, Tablet Mag, August 1, 2024, “The Ottoman American Empire (The Obama-Biden blueprint after Gaza)”: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/ottoman-american-empire

   So what does that blueprint consist of? It starts with U.S. investment and government grants to both countries that dwarf anything that the United States put into Gaza before the war. For Tehran, such investment is a subsidy; for the United States, it is a way of “containing the fallout” from any pesky rocket attacks, since Israel will be naturally constrained from bombing anything built with U.S. money or housing U.S. personnel. Then, there is active U.S. training and equipment for Lebanese and Palestinian armed forces, which in turn serve as shields and auxiliaries for much larger and more powerful terrorist armies that dominate both societies. Funding these (fictional) entities is like creating a large, heavily armed version of UNRWA, the supposed U.N. “relief agency” that funded Hamas and its tunnels before Oct. 7. Except the human shields these entities deploy will now be American military trainers.

   As usual, read the whole thing.

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