Again today, “spectacular” headlines abound about an Iranian threat. Israel’s Netanyahu said today, and of course it was reported verbatim by the mainstream press, that Iran is targeting Israeli diplomats. He offered absolutely no evidence whatsoever, but his statements were reported as if they were fact.
The obnoxious warmonger Charles Krauthammer made the idiotic statement that Israel will strike Iran to prevent a second holocaust. He is probably right about Israel aggressively attacking Iran, but the only holocaust will be at the expense of the Iranian people. “Unless something intervenes,” Krauthammer replied. “I cannot imagine the Israelis are going to allow Iran to go nuclear and to hold the Damocles sword over 6 million Jews all over again. Israel was established to prevent a second Holocaust, not to invite one.”
Of course, the U.S. Navy had to get its two cents in, and claimed that Iran is preparing suicide bomb boats in the Gulf. Again, none of these claims can be substantiated at all, but they are nonetheless reported as fact.
Those who would report these statements, knowing full well that none of them are provable, serve a major role in propagandizing sensational claims that stir up hatred of Iran by the ignorant general population. These same ignorant masses have to go along, by implied consent, before the politicians will risk war with Iran. The media is just an arm of the government’s war machine, and its corporate sponsors, and certainly will be complicit in any and all atrocities committed in the name of protecting the nuclear armed Israel from Iran.
Oh what a tangled web is being woven by all those who lust for more war and human slaughter in the government and in the media!