By Iqbal Jassat
Israel has taken a huge beating – possibly even more than Donald Trump – as American voters have used their thumbs to register their outrage at the Zionist-engineered US-Israeli military aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The Zionist-apartheid regime has to accept the bitter fact that, following Tuesday's US midterm elections, the Trump administration is severely weakened, and all Iran has to do is simply outlast it.
However, the alternative is to once again bully and blackmail Trump into unleashing US military power and, in conjunction with it, attacking Iran once again, with the goal of achieving the so-called "regime change" before the end of the year.
The deadline is real because, come January, the Democrats will be in complete control of both the Senate and the House of Representatives. That, however, will have its own consequences for the US-Israeli war machine, as Iran has warned of a decisive and crushing response without geographical limitations.
With fresh pro-Palestinian members able to pressure Trump through investigations and scrutinize key appointments, as well as freeze military budgets, Trump will be forced to rethink his love affair with Netanyahu's satanic war objectives.
In its latest analysis, the Israeli daily Jerusalem Post argued that it is a battle Trump can postpone but cannot really win.
"That is because it is clear that both Democrats and Republicans – see the results in Texas, South Carolina, and other states the Democrats almost never win – are heavily soured on the war or, to be more precise, its impact on their gas prices."
The warning it offers the Zionist regime is that it must realize that, whether or not there is a third round of war with Iran, Washington and Tel Aviv are "about to diverge on the Islamic Republic."
The cracks have begun to show, and they are massive.
CBS News reports that Trump is weighing whether to retain the disgraced War Secretary Pete Hegseth following the midterm losses, citing multiple sources.
The fallout is devastating for Israel, and Zionist strategists are licking their wounds as they confront the fact that both Trump himself and Vice President JD Vance cited the war against Iran as one of the primary reasons for the Republicans' losses.
According to Fox News, Vance's remarks mark a shift in his public assessment of the war's political consequences. He had previously defended aspects of the administration's military aggression while expressing concerns about prolonged US involvement overseas.
Trump said on Wednesday that he agreed with Vance's post that Republicans had lost because of the war against Iran, saying it was "largely true."
No matter how the Zionists try to spin the narrative, the genocidal regime cannot conceal the sting of Vance's most damning charge: "change our relationship to Israel."
"The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night. If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next six years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest. But everyone knows why we lost," Vance said.
"And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there."
As for South Africa, while Israeli-aligned opposition groups have blamed International Relations Minister Ronald Lamola and President Cyril Ramaphosa for allowing ties with the US to deteriorate, it is encouraging to note that the country will never surrender its domestic sovereignty on issues such as land reform or compromise its foreign policy positions.
Indeed, Lamola stated that the shift in congressional power would allow US lawmakers to hold Trump accountable for "irrational foreign policy decisions" that have bypassed due process.
He specifically highlighted that a Democrat-controlled Congress could push back against the White House's false allegations of an "Afrikaner genocide" in South Africa.
Regarding Iran, the country's chief negotiator in talks with the US said that Americans had voted "NO TO WAR" following the stunning defeat suffered by Trump's Republican Party.
"We endorse this message," Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf wrote on X.
"If the US [government] betrays the will of its people to serve international paymasters and blackmailers, it will learn that our NO comes with a Nightmare," he warned.
At the same time, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei has warned that he does not expect US policy to change, echoing what his martyred predecessor had said following the previous US presidential elections.
Ayatollah Khamenei released a statement saying that anyone who expected any change in American "hostility towards the Iranian nation" was "gravely mistaken."
Whatever may be plotted between Trump and Netanyahu, a scathing commentary in The Guardian captures the dramatic changes in almost poetic fashion:
"Indeed, come January, the US House will include an army doctor who went on a medical mission in Gaza, a lawyer who was fired by her firm over a blogpost criticizing Israel’s war, a Jewish lawmaker who was recently detained by Israeli forces while helping Palestinians harvest olives in the occupied West Bank, and a community organizer who participated in a pro-Palestine student encampment and scored one of the primary season’s most stunning upsets under the banner 'babies, not bombs'."
That says everything about what led to Trump's unhinged and irrational war against Iran.
Iqbal Jassat is an executive member of the Media Review Network, Johannesburg, South Africa.
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