And all this time you thought Israel was fighting something called "Hamas"! Poor dears, what else could you think, what with all the U.S. news outlets and "experts" and talking heads telling you the same thing?

But they lied.

They told you that Israel was fighting a "war." They lied. What Israel is doing in Gaza isn't a "war." It's a genocide.

They told you the carnage was only intended to affect the Middle East. They lied. They didn't tell you that you could be among the casualties. That's right: while Israel is piling dead bodies all over Gaza (not to mention Lebanon, Yemen, Syria and Iran), its leaders are planning to make American corpses, too, after they've hoodwinked Uncle Sam into waging their next Mideast genocide for them.

They told you not to worry: that it's all under control. Again, they lied. They didn't tell you that they have no idea how this will end – if it will ever end.

And now, as Washington, obeying the ever-present Israel lobby, has begun adding its own brand of "shock and awe" to yet another criminal assault in the Mideast whose direction it cannot control, they're lying to you yet again.

So if you don't want Iran to be the graveyard of human civilization, it's time to face some uncomfortable facts about Israel's war against all of us. It's time to understand, without any evasions or equivocations, the sort of nightmare Israel is planning for the world.

Here are a few of the most crucial points.

1. This Is about Israeli Hegemony – with American Support

Israel is not "under attack." Israel never faces a military threat unless it deliberately creates one – as it is doing now, in the hope of stoking a regional conflagration.

Don't take my word for that, by the way. One of Israel's most prominent military historians, Ze'ev Maoz, demonstrated in a magisterial study some years ago that all of Israel's wars – with the possible exception of its "war of independence" in 1948 – were "wars of choice," not of necessity. Israel attacked its neighbors because it wanted to, not because they endangered it.

And those, at least, were attacks on states. Today Israel only wages massacres (as in Gaza). So it shouldn't surprise anyone that its terror campaign against Iran has demonstrated the usual priorities: apart from early strikes intended to block the prey from fighting back, Israel has largely targeted residential buildings – where it has killed children along with hundreds of adult civilians – and Iran's much-needed civilian infrastructure.