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Tim S

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2. Trump is being used by Netanyahu to enact the final part of "A Clean Break" involving Iran
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 02:19 PM
Saturday

A commentator on Al Jazeera English mentioned this today, so I had to look it up.

Here’s background on a plan Netanyahu commissioned in 1996 to break with the Oslo Accords and change politics in the Middle East:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clean_Break%3A_A_New_Strategy_for_Securing_the_Realm

This Substack story from January entirely predicted this:
https://the307.substack.com/p/how-regime-change-in-iran-is-the

From the above:
As the U.S. General Wesley Clark revealed the clean break went from a plan to take out Saddam Hussein in Iraq to a plan to “take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and, finishing off, Iran”.

Edit to add: “A Clean Break” preceded the Neocons’ “Project for the New American Century” by 1 year and they dovetail together a little TOO well. Here’s a Wikipedia link to refresh our memory:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century

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