Israel’s threats against Iran part of Zionists’ ‘saber-rattling:’ Analyst

Israeli army’s chief of staff’s recent hostile remarks saying the regime is “ready” to attack Iran even without US support are merely an act of “saber rattling,” says a political analyst.

Zaakir Ahmed Mayet, also an attorney and activist based in Johannesburg, told Press TV on Monday that Israel is known to make stupid actions and blunders.

“I have no other words other than to describe this as utter stupidity, Israel is known to make stupid actions and miscalculate. However, I concur that this is saber rattling,” he said.

Mayet said Iran, as a nuclear power, cannot be pushed around by Israel like many other Arab states. “Iran’s nuclear power acts as a deterrent for Israel.”

Israeli military’s Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi was quoted on Wednesday as saying that Israel is “ready” to attack Iran and can do so even without support from the United States.

“We are ready to act against Iran. The Israeli army has the ability to strike both in distant countries and near home,” Halevi told the Israeli military’s army radio.

“We know how to act alone. We are a sovereign nation that reserves the right to make its own decisions. It would be good to have the United States on our side, but it is not an obligation,” he added.

These comments, according to Mayet, had been “perhaps serious a few years ago but now they can be taken with a pinch of salt. Israel does not have the military capability even to defend its own borders.”

He also said Israel’s recent “lackluster” responses to the Hamas and Hezbollah’s air raids over the past few days conducted in retaliation for the regime’s attacks against the Palestinian worshipers at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, were “minuscule compared to what we would have expected from Israel.”

Therefore, he said, “I don’t believe there’s anything other than stupidity circulating in the empty brains of those that are planning these statements for the political administration.”

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Mayet suggested that given the recent political upheavals within Israeli society, making war threats against Iran is an opportunity to try to unite the people around a common enemy.

The weeks-long rallies across the occupied territories to rail at a package of controversial and highly unpopular legal reforms proposed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shows a deep divide in Israeli society between supporters of the incumbent right-wing administration, who says the judicial changes are necessary, and the growing number of settlers opposed to Netanyahu’s plan, who argue that the moves will weaken the independence of the regime’s judiciary.

“We saw over 100,000 Israelis taking to the streets protesting the leadership of Netanyahu and his coalition. So the only way to try and defuse this was to create some sort of unity and say that we are under attack. We have to attack some other party and this is what keeps Israel alive,” he said.

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He said Israel’s army is established on the principles of terrorism, and when there is a fracture within its army, the only way to heal this is to create an attack from the outside, as they had attempted through numerous actions of transgression on Syria and the Axis of Resistance.

The hostile remarks made by the Israeli military’s chief of staff is an attempt to unify the population of Israel, he added. “However, I don’t believe this is going to take place.”

Mayet said if Israel tries to attack a country like Iran it will be wiped off the map.

“I think we are witnessing the death of Israel before our eyes and this is a great time for people who have fought for truth and justice around the world, particularly for the Palestinians. We are seeing the demise of the regime,” he concluded.

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