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  The Second Round of Retaliation Between Israel and Iran Has Just Begun Joe Biden is caught in a trap caused by his own weakness PHILIP GIRALDI   Given the lying and fact twisting that have routinely been part and parcel of accounts of what is occurring in the Middle East, the past several weeks have nevertheless been shocking in terms of how an abysmally low standard of truth can be reduced even farther. Looking at developments objectively, one comes up with a series of facts. First of all, Israel was not at war with either Syria or Iran during the first weeks in April. Iran had never attacked Israel prior to that point and Syria last fought Israel in 1973, over fifty years ago. Israel, however, has regularly been assassinating Iranian officials and scientists and it has been frequently been bombing Syria since 2017, increasing the pace to weekly and sometimes even daily attacks over the past six months paralleling the Gaza fighting. A particularly devastating attack took place on Ma

  Israel Tries to Change the Subject from Genocide to Iran The Netanyahu Government Looks for a Means of Drawing Attention Away from Its Abundant Failures ANTHONY JAMES HALL Just as the genocide of the Palestinians was going on long before the events of Oct. 7, so the Iranian attack on Israel of April 13-14 has much history behind it. Iran’s projectile barrage on Israel came in response to many provocations, but especially to the Israeli bombing of the Iranian Embassy in Damascus on April 1. The attack killed 13 people including three Iranian Generals. The Israeli attack of April 1st was calculated to set a trap that would lead to a wider regional war that Netanyahu has long been seeking. All signs point to the probability that the West’s most spoiled and coddled Chosenites, the people and government of Israel, are going to be allowed to get away with yet another travesty. The Netanyahu government is in the process of entrapping the Islamic Republic of Iran into a round of Russian roul