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It’s no coincidence this potential war on Iran is coinciding with Israel’s actions to annex the West Bank.
Discussions about a US-Israeli war with Iran, without including the Palestine dimension, are incomplete and miss one of the prime objectives of such a war.
¹ Why a US war with Iran is necessary for Israel’s annexation of the West Bank³
I made this comment last week, a day before Tucker Carlson’s interview with US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee went viral for, among other things, Huckabee’s comments on Israel’s right of conquest in the Middle East to create a Greater Israel.
BREAKING: US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee tells Tucker Carlson that Israel has the Biblical right to take over all of the Middle East.
“It would be fine if they took it all.”⁴
⁴https://x.com/i/status/2024911932092813478
It’s no coincidence this potential war on Iran is coinciding with Israel’s actions to annex the West Bank.
Discussions about a US-Israeli war with Iran, without including the Palestine dimension, are incomplete and miss one of the prime objectives of such a war.
For Israel, the West Bank has always been the primary goal. Operations, campaigns and wars throughout the region need to be understood as supporting or shaping efforts by the Israelis for West Bank annexation. Even the genocide in Gaza can be understood that way. War with Iran, whether to achieve regime change or induce a civil war (a la Syria) is necessary to remove support from the Palestinians, as well as distract from the annexation itself and tie the Americans (indirectly) into the campaign. Regime change or incapacitating the Iranian government with domestic fracture and unrest serves to weaken support to other Palestinian allies like Hezbollah (already greatly weakened by Israel) and Ansar Allah by disconnecting those allies from one another.
The Israelis and Americans have destroyed, degraded and quieted much of the Axis of Resistance these last 2 1/2 years, Ansar Allah being the notable exception. To annex the West Bank, it needs to be isolated from any support, including political and moral support; Iran is the last major element of that.
There certainly are other reasons for a US war with Iran that are based in US narratives, interests, ideologies and desires but the role the US military will be playing in a war on Iran as acting as a supporting effort to isolate the West Bank, and distract attention from Israeli annexation, needs to be articulated clearly and loudly.
Ed Demarche of Trends Journal interviewed me last Thursday about the looming war with Iran and its connection to Israel’s annexation of the West Bank, the defeat of the Axis of Resistance, the shifting geopolitical landscape of the Middle East, and why Maduro’s kidnapping scares me so much
Matthew Hoh, a senior fellow from the Eisenhower Media Network, talks to The Trends Journal about the risk of a major war breaking out between the U.S./Israel and Iran. Hoh also discusses some of the factors playing a role in why war seems imminent⁵.
02:24 – The role of Greater Israel in Trump’s push for war
06:23 – Israel’s campaign to annex the West Bank
19:55 – Could Iran have done more to protect the Palestinians?
34:00 – Trump with hubris after Venezuela?
²https://x.com/i/status/2026337206399352863
³https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2026/02/24/annexing-the-west-bank-through-tehran/
