The Weekly Flail — September 28, 2024

Special Edition: The Middle East at War

Mike Meyer
8 min readSep 29, 2024

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OVERVIEW — MIDDLE EAST AT WAR

Most of this issue will be perspectives on Israel’s push for full-scale war in the Middle East. The fear for months has been that Israel’s out-of-control, genocidal destruction of the population of Gaza would become a regional war designed to drag the US into a war against Hezbollah, Lebanon, Iran, and Yemen.

It is no surprise that Israel has now extended the war to the West Bank under its governmental leadership to crush Hamas and now Lebanon to crush Hezbollah. The goal is genocide and ethnic cleansing of the nearly three million Palestinian people, equal in number to the Israeli population.

This program, with US weapons and military expertise, is fully supported and funded. With the massive attacks on heavily populated Beirut and Tyre, the Israelis have killed hundreds of civilians and finally succeeded in killing Hassan Nasrallah.

People inspect the damaged following an Israeli air strike in Choueifat, southeast of Beirut, on Saturday [Hussein Malla/AP Photo]

The likelihood that Netanyahu will get his wish for a full-scale regional war is now very likely. The Zionists in charge of Israel have worked very hard to achieve…

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Mike Meyer
Mike Meyer

Written by Mike Meyer

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