Neighbors:

As of Saturday evening, our government has attacked Iran, a state that has not attacked another state with a first strike in more than 300 years. We are doing this to support Israel, a state that made first strikes against five other nations in the last year alone.

One wouldn’t know this from watching pundits (CNN was retroactively manufacturing our consent on Saturday evening), but the vast majority of Americans did not want us to get involved militarily with Iran. As of this month, only between 16% of us (The Economist poll) and 25% (Washington Post poll) thought we *should* attack Iran. This is yet another point of evidence that—and I don’t state this lightly—we live under minority rule. We effectively live under a dictatorship by a class that doesn’t share our interests. Yes, even though we vote.

In case you don’t remember, Kamala Harris ran on a platform of “Iran is our greatest enemy” and “Trump is too lenient on protecting our borders.” It stands to reason that we would not have had a markedly different experience concerning Israel, Iran, or immigration under a Harris presidency—assuming we trust Harris’ campaign promises/messaging.

While I’m proud to help make decisions locally on the Hartford selectboard, that we’ve attacked Iran makes me ashamed to be part of the governing structure generally. (Speaking for myself, not the board or town.)

Don’t let pundits or columnists convince you of the same lie that got us into Iraq 22 years ago. Iran has been letting in the proper international inspectors to watch over its refineries for nuclear power. Given this, it’s highly unlikely the country has made nuclear weapons. Israel, on the other hand, has refused inspectors and the “open secret” is that Israel has up to 60 nuclear warheads. Perhaps the reason Israel hasn’t said this publicly is because, in U.S. law, it’s illegal for us to send a country “military aid” (weapons) to a rogue nuclear state. See:

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/israel-nuclear-weapons/tnamp/

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/israel-nukes-halt-military-aid

I hope you remember that everything is political. That war is never good for working class people. That apartheid is not complicated, and Israel is an apartheid state. That the working class in the U.S. has no political representation.

Remember that the situation we’re in now with Iran would not have been possible without the Biden administration emboldening the Israeli government beyond even their own wildest expectations, according to published interviews with Israeli officials.

And remember that the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. Our overlords will not go quietly.