Israel’s Iranian Mythology

May 25th, 2009 by admin

President Obama (Mr. Yes We Can) did tell Prime Minister Netanyahu (Mr. No We Won’t) that he wanted an end to further illegal Israeli settlement activity. Back in Israel Netanyahu’s response to that was, effectively, “Go to hell, Mr. President”. Of course Netanyahu didn’t put it like that. He said that while Israel would not create “new” settlements, it would continue by means of “natural growth” to develop, for which read expand, existing ones. It was the tried and tested Zionist approach, perfected by Ben-Gurion, saying one thing and doing another – the opposite.

Though it’s not much discussed in polite company and the mainstream media, Zionism knows that there probably will come a time when President Obama (perhaps not until his second term if he gets one) will do some demanding, backed by real pressure, to cause Israel to be serious about peace on terms almost all Palestinians and most other Arabs and Muslims everywhere could accept. In Zionist thinking (never given public expression) the best way to delay that time is by focusing on Iran. “Mr. President, we understand your wish to end our conflict with the Palestinians, but we also think you must understand that our own first and absolute priority is preventing Iran becoming a threat to our existence.”

Though he can’t say so in public or even behind closed doors, I think it’s more than reasonable to assume that President Obama is fully aware of what Zionism’s real game plan is – under the cover of the false claim that Iran represents an existential threat, to go on consolidating its hold on most of the occupied West Bank.

It seems to me that if President Obama is to have any chance of calling and holding Zionism to account, he could do with some serious assistance from Iran. How about, after the election there next month, an unequivocal statement from its entire leadership to the effect that while Iran will tolerate no interference by any party with its right to go nuclear for peaceful purposes, it does not desire, is not developing and will never develop nuclear weapons?

In summary, objective review of the documented facts and truth of history as it relates to the making and sustaining of conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel invites, no demands, this conclusion.

To best protect itself against the possibility of being called and held to account for its crimes (only beginning with phase one of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948), Zionism not only needs enemies, it must be able to assert, while exploiting the obscenity of the Nazi holocaust to the full, that there is an existential threat to the Jews of Israel. For the best part of six decades Zionism’s spin doctors succeeded in persuading the Western world that the Arabs were that threat. In reality and despite some stupid Arab rhetoric to the contrary, they never were. Today, when the Western world is beginning (only beginning) to see through this Zionist propaganda, Zionism needs another party allegedly representing an existential threat – Iran. An unequivocal statement by Iran’s leadership could take that card out of Zionism’s hands and make it less difficult for President Obama to do what is right and in the best interests of America and all others concerned, the whole world.

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