Diplomats around the world are telling these parties to keep a lid on it. And the groups themselves say they do not want a wider regional war. Israel’s defense minister repeated the message on Wednesday. Iran has said the same thing, and so has Hezbollah. (Hamas has said it wants a wider war, but it is depleted from nearly 10 months of conflict in Gaza.)Yet the violence persists, as each party claims its attacks are reactions to previous ones. That’s why, in the span of a few months, Israeli bombs have hit Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Yemen. It’s why Hezbollah and Houthi fighters have repeatedly targeted Israel (and also ships passing through the Red Sea, disrupting global trade). It’s why American airstrikes have pummeled Yemen for nearly seven months.
The entire article is the same gibberish, where Israel defending itself from unprovoked attacks from Gaza, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria and Iran are all characterized as Israeli aggression.
She's confused. Why so many attacks in so many directions?
It is interesting that the multi-front war that Israel has been in for nine months has suddenly been recognized by the media, which was only interested in Gaza for most of that time. But, the media being what it is, they must spin it to be anti-Israel, so the basic truths are obfuscated.
Here are those truths that the mainstream media refuses to admit out loud:
Iran wants Israel to be destroyed.
Israel does not want to be destroyed.
The first point is made by Iran every day of every year since 1979. Here's a random news story from 1982:
Ms. Nereim seems oblivious to the fact that every one of the groups attacking Israel is part of the Iranian "axis of resistance."
How difficult is it to understand that this is an orchestrated assault on Israel's existence by Iran and its proxies?
Unfortunately, according to these media professionals, we have point 2: Israel refuses to act like frightened Jews in the shtetls or ghettos, willing to accept being slaughtered every once in a while as one price of living in an antisemitic neighborhood.
Why does Israel have to be so intransigent on that position? Don't they want "peace"?
The reason the media doesn't simplify its coverage to be based o these two, obvious, irrefutable facts, it that it would force them to cover the conflict differently. They want to pretend they are evenhanded; they want to cast Israel as Goliath against lots of Davids.
Whatever the reason, it doesn't matter. No one can seriously argue that these two facts are untrue.
And no one can argue that the media refuses to make this part of their basic coverage.
That's why things are so confusing.
