Stephen Lendman: US-Israel partnership biggest threat to peace
Press TV has conducted an interview with Stephen Lendman, an author and radio host in Chicago, about a recent report claiming that Israeli leaders had planned to attack military targets in Iran in recent years.
What follows is a rough transcript of the interview.
Press TV: Talk to us about these recent revelations by Israeli media.
Lendman: Indeed I am not at all surprised about this. I am certain that Israel and America have had long-standing plans to go to war with Iran on one hand, and the plans are updated over time, on the other hand, Israel would not dare attack any other country in the region or any other country anywhere without an OK from Washington. If Washington does not want a war with Iran - at least now it does not want a war or earlier it did not want a war - then Israel again would not dare attack Iran.
So the idea that there was internal dissension in Israel - and that is the reason a war never happened - that is balarky; it is rubbish. Israel is totally dependent on Washington for military help and support in so many different ways.
What is going on now concerns me greatly: Israel bombing southern Syria, the Syrian side of the Golan Heights, and blaming Iran for orchestrating rocket attacks landing on Israeli territory. Again this is absolute propaganda, rubbish. What Israel is trying to do is undermine the Iran nuclear deal. It wants Congressional support to block it, to make it veto-proof, to block the deal, and also to continue isolating Iran, to continue this long-standing campaign, to eliminate Iran as Israel’s key regional rival so that it can be the sole hegemon of the Middle East. These are the things that are going on.
Press TV: You earlier told Press TV that it is the Israelis that are the real threat to global security. Your thought.
Lendman: There is no question. I would go one step further and say about Israel. The partnership between Israel and America is the single greatest threat to world peace. We can end up in a nuclear war because of this partnership. It could literally threaten life on earth. People need to understand what is happening, and not enough people do. Americans are asleep. They have no idea what is happening or if they do, they do not do anything about it. But if a way is not found to stop this hideous partnership, we could literally end ourselves up in a nuclear war that would be devastating; mass annihilation, something we may never come back from.
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