By Haider Abbas
January 20, ‘inauguration day’ when Republican President Donald Trump is to be sworn into power, is just round the corner. His most popular plan is to stop the ongoing-wars and not to start a new war. His personal dislike for Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu is world-known, though Netanyahu was the first to have called for congratulations. Israel President Issac Herzog on his visit to DC, however was full of praises for the outgoing Democratic President Joseph Biden and dubbed him as his “dear friend,” for his “steadfast support from the very beginning of the war.” But, time it is to be a different Trump. There are already signals from the US for no more aid to Israel, in its wars against Hamas in Palestine, Yemen, Syria, Iraq or Iran. Ukraine, embroiled in a war with Russia, is also on the slide as a ‘stop’ on the flow of billions of US Dollars, to it and to Israel, is very likely to happen.
The Jewish lobby in the US and worldwide could never have fathomed it. Why would Trump give these unbridled solicitations to Israel, when 79% of Jewish Americans had voted against Trump. Going by the statistics, almost all of the Jews had voted for Kamala Harris. Now the biggest question is how and from where Trump is to pick up the pieces? Particularly, when Israel has issued a fresh warning, as per IRNA, from Israel newspaper Hayom, that it will kill Syrian President Basshar Al Asad, on the same lines as it had killed Hezbollah Chief Hasan Nasrullah in Lebanon. What matters here is that Asad is the biggest ally of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in the region. Putin has helped him survive the last decade. Will Israel do it? Which by any standard is indirectly addressed to Russia.
Moreover, there is already on the cards a US policy for withdrawal of its troops from Syria, claimed Foreign Policy, as US had been staying ‘unwarranted for long’ inside Syria, of course, only to resuscitate the Israeli interests. US once vacating its army will make Russia bolster its presence inside Syria, and the long ‘permutated’ war between Israel and Russia, for supremacy, is most likely to take place all the more earlier. Once/if the Ukraine war stops, Russia will primarily focus on Israel. Will even now Israel hazard a chance to attack Asad in his Presidential Palace?
The Syrian regime has been well supported by Iran, and the last couple of months have seen Israel and Iran in direct attacks on each other. But, however, Iran in the meantime, has also conducted an underground nuclear test too (October 6), and thus, has become an ‘undeclared’ nuclear state. It will also never announce it. This single move, stopped Israel in its ranks, to attack indiscriminately on Iran nuclear or oil refinery sites, as Iran was also to retaliate in the same measure. Though the attack did come on October 26, which Iran ably could thwart, due to the presence of Russian S-400 air defense system, in place to safeguard Iran. Now, as an act of balance, Biden’s administration has also provided THAAD advanced anti-missile defense systems to Israel to meet any eventual attack from Iran. Iran and Russia also have a perfect bonhomie as Iran is considered to have provided its cost-effective drones to Russia all across the war against Ukraine. The world today is quite engrossed to analyze the prowess of S-400 and THAAD? Who will survive whom is what is awaited.
Therefore, will Israel spill it out before January 20? Despite the fact that Netanyahu no longer sits in his PM Office and operates from a bunker as Hezbollah had directly hit his home. Either an Israeli mole or Russian technology gave his location input to Hezbollah? He has also sacked his defence minister, which shows how deep the ‘disagreement’ is inside the Israel establishment. Ian, the main protagonist in the whole Middle-East against Israel, while all the Arab states have been only mute spectators, in furtherance to its newly acclaimed nuclear status, has once again stunned the world! Iran has successfully tested an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), according to DefenseSecurityAsia which is capable of hitting its target up to 5500 kms. This is primarily designed to carry a nuclear warhead. Iran going ahead with an ICBM test is by itself a proof that Iran has gone nuclear or else why would Iran do it?
Netanyahu has also boasted to have given a green-signal to the pager attack inside Lebanon, which preceded the Israel full-blown war on Lebanon, but the real shocker came from Iran, as Iran has sabotaged the classified details of Israeli military facilities, personnel and nuclear scientists, tells Haaretz. The alleged hackers group ‘Hanzala’ has released many indecent pictures of Ex. Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz. The personal data and some 30 pictures of the Israeli Soreq Nuclear Research Center were released. A screenshot of a list of Israeli nuclear scientists working on the facility’s “particle accelerator” project was also released. Many more leaks are to follow. Iran has given a reply to the paper attack. There is no official word from Israel as yet.
Netanyahu, to an extent, has attained a knack for personal notoriety, as the Ex. British PM Boris Johnson has accused Netanyahu to have put a bugging device in his bathroom! These are all the possibilities which Trump is to comb-off before he is to takes to office. There is widespread anger and frustration inside Israel, as long as the war keeps expanding, the more detrimental it will be for Israel. Israel media Ynet has reported that there is an upsurge of 42% of Israelis opting to leave the country. How are the things to get contained? Maybe Trump may forge the threads of a ‘deal of a century’ again, smarten-up his personal relationship with Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Crown Prince MbS and help contain the situation so as not to spill into a third world war. Trump is in for an extremely tumultuous tenure ahead.
As for the personal dread of Netanyahu, towards any potential drone attack from Hezbollah, his son Avner Netanyahu’s wedding, planned for November 26 stands postponed, informs Times of Israel.
Views expressed in the article are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent the editorial stance of Kashmir Observer
- The writer is a former UP State Information Commissioner and writes on international issues
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