David Noriega
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Yeah, Ali, you're right in saying that Donald Trump seems to be following Netanyahu's lead here or perhaps learning the wrong lessons from Netanyahu.
Since I've been here, the military and political officials that I've spoken to have been similarly, let's say, ambiguous in describing the military goals of this campaign.
They were unclear in saying whether or not it involved actually toppling the government of the Islamic Republic, which of course has not been
achieved, similarly in Lebanon, describing the goal as defeating Hezbollah, which also has not been achieved.
And then a perspective that I've heard repeatedly from mostly from Palestinians here in occupied East Jerusalem, but also from some Israelis that are critical of the Israeli government, is that we have seen this not just, as you pointed out, in the June war against Iran last year, which is the most obvious, most recent precedent, but throughout Israel's history.
I spoke a couple of days ago to a bookshop owner here in East Jerusalem who, from memory, rattled off all of the wars that Israel has
fought beginning in 1948, then 56, then 67, 73, the wars in Lebanon beginning in 82, then into the 2000s, the endless on and off war in Gaza against Hamas beginning in the 2000s, which culminated, of course, after October 7th in what much of the international community describes as a genocide there.
In all of those cases, this man pointed out, Israel resulted in a situation that was no safer than before.
And we're seeing it again, Ali.
the achievements here have been overstated in Israel by Netanyahu and by other officials of his government and elected officials in the Knesset of his party and other parties in his ruling coalition.
And there is, again, among a small minority of Israelis and definitely among most Palestinians, a growing sense that in a few months or in, if they're lucky, a year or two, the people of Israel and the
Palestinians living in the occupied territories are once again going to find themselves in a situation where Israel is going to war for an objective that it claims to have achieved before.
And what we're seeing now with these downed jets in Iran, downed American jets, is a very vivid illustration of the same thing.
As you've repeatedly pointed out, we were told over and over that the U.S.
had total control over Iranian airspace, and that very plainly has turned out not to be the case, Ali.
Well, no, and the Iranians have repeatedly said that they don't consider the United States and Israel good faith interlocutors in any kind of negotiations, the reason for which is obvious.
There were two consecutive times in which Iran was bombarded by the United States and Israel while in the middle of negotiations with those parties over the very issues that those parties claim were the cause for the war, the nuclear program and the ballistic missile program.
And Ali, I mean, the Venezuela parallel is incredibly instructive because Donald Trump has said repeatedly that he wanted this operation to be like Venezuela in the sense that it came at virtually no cost to the U.S.
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