In the topsy-turvy world of corporate media reporting on U.S. foreign policy, we have been led to believe that air strikes on Yemen, Iraq and Syria are legitimate and responsible efforts to contain the expanding war over Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, while the actions of the Houthi government in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Iran and its allies in Iraq and Syria are all dangerous escalations.
In fact, it is U.S. and Israeli actions that are driving the expansion of the war, while Iran and others are genuinely trying to find effective ways to counter and end Israel’s invasion of Gaza while avoiding a full-scale regional war.
