US–Israel manoeuvring over Gaza is already widening the conflict. As Sudan burns and propaganda intensifies, Iran may be the next target — with Australia again at risk of being drawn in.

The ‘Board of Peace’ in Gaza that the US and Israel got the UN Security Council to agree on will be anything but that. And the Palestinian Authority went along with it. Now watch the Zionists’ war elevator as it moves up another level: Iran.

Before that, however, we have Sudan. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) surprised President Trump by asking for US intervention on behalf of Saudi Arabia’s neighbour. Trump, calling MBS “your Majesty”, quickly promised to help the Saudis, Egyptians and others. They oppose the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), paramilitary fighters who control the western half Sudan. In the conflict that began long before Israel’s current war, even more civilians have been killed and displaced than in Gaza. The RSF are reported since April 2023 to be responsible for mass atrocities, using weapons supplied by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), whose close military ties to the US and Australia are little reported.

The confusion over Sudan challenges Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize aspirations. Ending the war there would be a greater contribution to peace than what the US president has already achieved, MBS flatteringly told his host, without providing a single example of Trump’s successes. He didn’t mention Trump’s accurately renamed Department of War, nor did he recall that since the mid-1990s – as Wesley Clark details in Winning Modern Wars – Sudan has been on the Pentagon’s list of seven middle eastern countries to be destabilised.

Of those, the last nation standing is Iran – the only neighbour of Israel that is a potential nuclear rival. The US and Israel waged a 12-day war in June that killed some 1000 civilians and destroyed much of Iran’s uranium........

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