US-Israel ‘forever’ wars

After 30 months of intensified genocide in Gaza — and 77 years of its slower-motion predecessor — many concluded that nothing could stop an increasingly exterminatory Israeli state from escalating its crimes. Now Israel and the United States appear to be facing the consequences of a gigantic miscalculation. Less than two weeks after launching their surprise attack on Iran, they face the prospect of strategic failure.

The cost to the Iranian people will be immense: schoolchildren killed, civilian infrastructure devastated, and the mass suffering that inevitably follows. But Israel is also experiencing something new. Salvos of Iranian missiles and drones are striking the country in a way Israelis have never experienced before — a small glimpse of what Gaza has endured. For the first time, Israel’s assumed military domination of the region is being openly challenged.

For decades Israel has relied on overwhelming force and Western backing to terrorise the region. That strategy works only so long as Israeli ambition does not exceed its real capacity to impose it. If this war ends in a US–Israeli defeat, the consequences will be historic. Washington has financed Israel’s military supremacy to dominate the region on its behalf. If Iran shatters that image, the question arises: why keep paying?

But the danger is grave. A state capable of genocide may resort to nuclear weapons to preserve its power. A genocidal, paranoid, nuclear-armed Israel is a danger not only to the people of West Asia but to all of us.

Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign
11 March 2026