IT APPEARSS Israel’s Defense Minister, Israel Katz, has a rather peculiar understanding of being a “good neighbor.” Instead of a Saturday morning gift basket, Israel opted to deliver a barrage of precision missiles into the heart of Tehran this Saturday (Feb 28). The thunderous explosions rocking University Street and the Jomhouri district served as the most harrowing dawn chorus for Iranians, while the thick plumes of black smoke rising over the capital provided stark evidence of what Israel calls a “pre-emptive strike.” In plain English: “We hit you first so you wouldn’t have the chance to think about hitting us.”
Katz proudly characterized this blatant aggression as a necessary step to “remove threats.” It is a brand of logic that borders on the miraculous—akin to torching a neighbor’s house out of a sudden fear they might one day install a fence that’s a bit too high. The “precision” of the strikes was particularly pointed; the Associated Press reports that one missile landed uncomfortably close to the office of the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Israel seems to be playing a high-stakes video game in the real world, apparently forgetting that there is no “restart” button if a full-scale regional conflagration erupts.
With regional airspace shuttered and a state of emergency declared, the world holds its breath for the inevitable “return package” of drones and missiles from Tehran. Israel is effectively dancing on the edge of a geopolitical abyss, shielded by its air defense umbrella while allowing civilians on both sides to become the collateral for a political ego that knows no satiety. If this is what passes for “peace-building,” we may well need a new dictionary to define “insanity.”
“Labeling a missile strike on a densely populated capital as ‘preventative’ is like punching someone in the face because you had a premonition they might look at you cross-eyed five minutes from now.”— AMBARA GLOBAL SATIRE INDEX
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