Bloomberg has just released a news article blaming Israel for Iran’s massive ballistic missile attack yesterday that sent 10 million Israelis running for bomb shelters.
Yes, I said ‘news article’. It was not an op-ed.
Middle East Crisis: Iran Pushed Into Reluctant Response by Israel Attacks – Bloomberg
— Mike Walker (@New_Narrative) October 2, 2024
The anti-Israel article entitled “Middle East Crisis: Iran Pushed Into Reluctant Response by Israel Attacks” was written by American-Lebanese journalist Sam Dagher and British-Iranian journalist Golnar Motevalli.
Here’s what they write:
Iran’s generals and clerics have repeatedly shown a reluctance to go to war in recent months, yet the scale of Israel’s damage to the country’s regional prowess left them with little option but to retaliate.
The assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah last week dealt a crushing blow to Iran’s decades-in-the-making network of armed allies, the most powerful of which is the Lebanon-based group. His death in an Israeli airstrike came either side of days of intense bombing, followed by a ground incursion early Monday.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s initial response to Nasrallah’s death was that Hezbollah would lead retaliatory efforts, alongside Lebanon. That left many Shiite Muslims in the Middle East and in Iran frustrated at the lack of action.
“There was a lot of public opinion and pressure on Iran to do something,” said Foad Izadi, professor of world studies at the University of Tehran.
Iran then fired about 200 ballistic missiles at Israel on Tuesday night, an assault similar in nature to the salvo that followed the bombing of its consulate in Damascus in April. That attack was broadly seen as deliberately measured and was thwarted by Israel, the US and other allies. This week’s barrage was also mostly intercepted, though Iran gave less warning and more missiles breached Israeli airspace.
Iran’s restraint followed a lack of significant response to the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran in July, a killing widely suspected to have been carried out by Israel, though it didn’t claim responsibility. That underscored Tehran’s insistence that it wants to avoid a wider conflict and help secure a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, which has been raging for almost a year.
Yet a truce in the Palestinian territory hasn’t materialized and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instead switched focus to Lebanon, launching a major bombardment of the south of the country last month.
Tuesday night’s strike is unlikely to be enough to restore Khamenei’s reputation. It caused little significant damage and has received a mixed response from the Middle East’s minority Shiite Muslim population that he aspires to lead.
This article is absolutely despicable. For starters, these anti-semitic writers never once mention all of the daily missiles and drones that Hezbollah has been firing at Israel’s north since October 8th, 2023, forcing all of these Israeli citizens to evacuate their homes and livelihoods to avoid being killed. Which is why Israel has “switched focus to Lebanon” in order to restore the peace, so that these people can return to their lives and homes.
Secondly, they never once mention that Hezbollah’s missiles and drones in these daily attacks are built and funded by the Iranians, who have been arming Hezbollah for years in order to attack Israel. They don’t mention that these Iranian missiles and drones killed 12 Israeli-Druze children who were playing soccer on a weekend afternoon.
Thirdly, they never once mention that all of Hezbollah’s daily missile attacks have come at a time when Israel is defending itself after a horrible and barbaric terrorist attack on its civilians, which happened the day before on October 7th, 2023.
These antisemitic writers use words like “Iran’s restraint” to suggest that Iran is the victim in all of this. To read this article, you would think that Israel has been the aggressor and that’s not even remotely the truth.
Bloomberg needs to delete this article and fire these so-called journalists, while apologizing to everyone for allowing this outrageous Iranian propaganda piece to be published in the first place.
Fire the leftist sycophants!