The US-Israel war on Iran is doomed to fail. Will it take down America's crumbling empire?

Somewhere along the way, we have seen the rationale for the existence of the state of Israel transition from reliance on western guilt and being a safe haven for Jews after the attempted destruction of Jewish communities in Europe, to the violent biblical rhetoric now deployed across the spectrum.

From marauding settlers, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and even the leader of the purported "opposition", Yair Lapid, to US Ambassador Mike Huckabee and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, replete with his "kafir" and "deus vult" tattoos, we hear about Amalek, the Third Temple, and God's promises to the "chosen people".

The recently televised split-screen on al-Quds Day in Iran showed Hegseth on the left, fulminating about Iranian leadership: "Desperate and hiding, they have gone underground, cowering. That is what rats do."

On the right, we could observe President Masoud Pezeshkian and Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani, along with other leading officials, mingling with crowds in Tehran, greeting people and having selfies taken along the way, with smoke from explosions ascending in the background.

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