by Eric Peters
Curiously – perhaps not – the war has resumed but only two parties appear involved, Iran and the United States. Israel is quiet, which is curious since the war began because Israel started it (Trump has publicly acknowledged this). Now it appears the war does not involve Israel at all.
Fascinating, as Mr. Spock says.
The truth, of course, is that this war between Iran and the United States is an example of let’s you and him fight – on behalf of Israel. To serve the interests of Israel is perhaps a more accurate way to put it. Does anyone ask why we are at war with Iran? This far-away country that didn’t attack us before we (along with Israel) attacked it? What’s that all about? America – more finely, Americans (as opposed to the interests that control America) – derive no benefit from being at war with Iran. But Israel does. It serves Israel’s interests to hammer the Iranians. Well, why is America hammering Iran for the sake of Israel? We are not supposed to ask such questions. It is “anti-Semitic” to ask such questions.
Oy vey, as they say.
Israel is quiet all of a sudden because Americans had been getting loud – about this strange and evil business of our country going to war on behalf of Israel. About Trump acting as if he were the president of Israel – an office he seems to aspire to – rather than the president of the United States. About paying $4 or more for gas because of Israel. Until about two weeks ago – just before Trump surrendered to the Iranians via the Memorandum of Agreement – public sentiment toward Israel and its culpability for starting this war and goading Trump into involving us in it had been souring like cottage cheese left in the sun too long. Something had to be done. The Israelis (and their agents in this country) are not stupid people.
A redirection was required. The war – now back on – is no longer a three-way war. It is – so it can be presented – a two-way war. As if it had always been a war between two parties. People forget because the interests want them to forget.
What happened was a pretend cessation of hostilities based on a pretended acceptance of Iran’s terms of surrender, most particularly the understanding that Iran is now the master of the Strait of Hormuz. It is right there in the Memorandum of Surrender Trump pretended to agree to without agreeing to it. He pretended to the American people that he had not agreed to it while pretending to the Iranians that he had. The American people were led to believe the Strait would be re-opened to all traffic, at the behest of the Orange MacArthur. The Iranians were led to believe the Orange MacArthur had agreed to their terms, so when those terms were violated, the Iranians did what you’d expect and responded with force. This became the excuse Trump needed to restart the war and – so he hoped – rouse the belligerence of the American volk in support of the war, which has been reframed as a war between Iran and the United States and – look! – the Iranians started it.
No doubt “Bibi” is getting a good laugh out of this.
But who will get the last laugh? Has anything changed, beyond the perception that this is a war between Iran and the United States? Put another way, does the United States – that is, Trump – think he can win the war that he’s lost so far? How, exactly? More bombing runs? It hasn’t much fazed the Iranians so far. Why would it faze them now? An estimated 10 million of them poured into the streets a few days ago to express their respect for the ayatollah murdered by Trump. It does not matter whether you respect the ayatollah. What matters is that 10 million Iranians do. Trump seems not to grasps this – and neither does “Bibi.”
There is also a time element at work – and time is running short. Trump doesn’t have a couple of months to bomb the Iranians back to the “peace” table. The word is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is close to empty and if it’s not refilled soon, it is not unlikely that gas will soon cost a lot more than $4 per gallon, if gas is available at all. Trump could use domestic supply to provide for America’s needs but then the shock absorber for the rest of the world would be gone and then the impact of the war (and the closing of the Strait, again) will be felt worldwide, in the manner of a 1929-style crash. Or worse.
All for the sake of the contumacious little country that has gone silent, for the moment.
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https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2026/07/16/israel-is-silent/