Israel's Intelligence and the Beirut Bombing

Did Israel have intelligence that could have saved 241 American Marines,

but chose to let them die

so that the United States would have a

reason to go to war with Israel's enemies?

The answer, of course, is yes.

By now, you remember how those who supported

the war with Iran originally said we weren't at war at all.

But as time went on, they quickly pivoted to,

we've been at war with Iran for 47 years.

But how exactly did it start?

241 American Marines died in Beirut on October 23,

1983, when a suicide bomber drove a truck loaded with explosives into their barracks.

The United States had been preparing to withdraw its forces from Lebanon,

but Israel wanted American troops to stay and fight its enemies,

Syria and Iranian-backed militias.

According to a former Mossad officer, Viktor Avstrapsky,

in his book titled By Way of Deception,

Israeli intelligence knew the attack was coming but did not warn the Americans.

He wrote that Israeli operatives said they were not there to save American lives,

deciding instead not to warn Americans,

and allowed the bombing to take place.

But Israel has a pattern of withholding critical intelligence from the United States

when doing so serves their interests, especially when withholding that intelligence would cost American lives.

As the Beirut bombing pulled America deeper into conflict with Iran and its proxies,

and still serves as an excuse for conflict today,

47 years of tension started with 241 dead Americans.

and one decision from Israel not to pick up the phone.