Nothing warms the heart on a chilly Autumn morning than some October surprise scuttlebutt. Today’s tidbit comes from longtime White House stenographer Mike McCormick. He wrote The Case to Impeach Joe Biden before the blob realized bumblin’ Joe couldn’t get them across another finish line. Mike served at least three presidents, so he knows things and people, and he says Israel is playing hardball with the Biden administration.
He was the proverbial fly-on-the-wall for years and years. He has seen and heard a lot and still hears a lot from people who know a lot. He says the Obama-Biden-Harris faction of the Deep State blob is anti-Israel and that Israel understands what this means. He says that Benjamin Netanyahu has told “Joe Biden” (or, let’s say, told errand-boys Tony Blinken and Jake Sullivan) that if the blob engineers a phony victory for Kamala Harris, he will blow up the oil fields in Iran and the anti-Israel Democrats will have to pick up the pieces.
Here’s Mike on his Substack saying it in his own words.
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There it is, raw power politics, like so much meat on the table. “Joe Biden” cannot control Bibi. “Joe Biden” is too far gone and two weak, and Israel does not aim to let itself get wiped off the map, as Iran’s leadership never tires of saying. The blob, McCormick says, has to ask itself: does it help rig the election for Harris or stand down on all its ballot harvesting and other trickery and actually allow a real election to roll out? Surprise!
The result of Israel taking out Iran’s oil fields poses at least a few problems, not the least of which is war. Another war. One they appear to want since they are the new neocons. What do we call them? Proglocons? I’m not sure. As the new keepers of the military-industrial complex to campaign donation laundromat, a war papers over other problems they can blame on international armed conflict.
I’m sure Israel’s war dogs are itching to blow up some stuff in the Islamic Republic, and there are plenty of Arab nations who would appear too busy with other things to complain about a regional rival for control of the region getting a spanking. A larger war would, of course, suck a few of them in. Iraq is in the way, and Lebanon is already under fire. Egypt and Saudi Arabia might help Israel or see the conflict as a means to erase it from the map and the Palestinian problem with it (that is also their problem).
I’m spit-balling. I don’t follow the Middle East closely enough to have much of a clue about the current dynamics, but Iran’s nuclear threat, real or imagined, is on everyone’s mind, and taking that threat away—or at least setting it back—is certainly a priority for everyone in the theater. Israel doing it just makes it easier on everyone else (despite claims Israel isn’t targeting that infrastructure).
What we do know is that Biden is weak, Israel knows it, and Trump is a far better friend when it comes to Iran and Middle Eastern peace than anyone in the Obama-Biden-Harris political pipeline.
