The U.S. sent more missile defense systems to the Middle East
U.S. Embedding in the Middle East: The Defense of the Eisenhower Plan for the Cross-Section Between Israel and Israel
The United States is sending two of its most powerful weapons to the region, the Secretary of Defense said in a statement on Saturday. He did not specify where or how many battalions would be deployed, nor did he say how many troops would be told to “prepare to deploy.” The U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier will now be “redirected” to the Central Command’s area of responsibility, the statement said, a region that encompasses much of the Middle East, including Israel and Lebanon.
There is concern that Israel may go to a more direct confrontation with Iran. U.S. military stationed in the region have also faced threats from Iran-backed groups in recent days. In the aftermath of a hospital bombing in Palestine, the leader of Iran accused the US of being involved in the chaos that is threatening to envelop the region, using the social media site X. The U.S. is to blame for recent crimes.
Many longtime Middle East watchers believe that the driving force behind Hamas’s attack was an overarching imperative — from both Hamas leadership and Tehran — to disrupt the momentum of the normalization agreement between Israel and Iran’s other longtime nemesis in the region, Saudi Arabia. And it may have worked. The images of death and destruction coming out of Gaza and the mounting death toll of Palestinian civilians could ultimately prove to be too much for Saudi Arabia to ignore. For the time being, any normalization talks between Saudi Arabia and Israel have been shelved.
The proxy war tactics have been a success. Hamas and Hezbollah inflicted serious damage in Israel without sending a message to Iran that it can wage a campaign of asymmetric warfare that uses conventional and unconventional military capabilities.
Iran uses proxy forces to advance its national security objectives: pushing adversaries like the United States, which has more than 30,000 troops stationed across various facilities in the Middle East, out of the region and expanding its own sphere of influence without generating a direct military response from rivals. Tehran can meddle in ongoing conflicts in the background, while maintaining a thin veneer of deniability and avoiding being pulled into a direct military confrontation with the US and Israel. It also gives Tehran leverage as its proxy groups develop political wings, helping Iran play kingmaker in local and national politics in Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen and elsewhere.
Bringing Up the Truth about the September 11, 2001 Hospital Strike: Letters to the Editor of the New York Times (New York Times.com)
The indictment that the hospital strike was an Islamic Jihad rocket was provided by the Biden administration, however, a lot of people still think that the strike was something else. Protesters tried to storm the embassy in Amman, Jordan, while protesters also tried to attack the Israeli consulate in Istanbul.
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