By Israel Shamir
Unwillingly, the world rolls down to a next bout of war, as Israel and the US are pushing for sanctions on Iran. Of the great powers, the UK seems to follow orders of Washington, Germany is unable to say “no” to Jews, while France is about to elect the most pro-American and pro-Israel president, Nicolas Sarkozy, in its history. China is unwilling to get involved, and is rumoured to go along as long as sanctions do not refer to oil and gas. Russia appears to be a lonely voice for peace in the Middle East, for reasons of its own.
A few days ago President Putin called Prime Minister Olmert, and enquired whether Israel intentionally goes the way of the Crusader Kingdom to perish and oblivion by refusing to settle with its neighbours? Olmert was shocked: nobody dared to speak to him like that. European and American leaders usually stood up smartly and declared their support of Israel’s right to defend itself. Russians were equally considerate towards Israel - since 1991, when its ambassador in Tel Aviv, a late Mr Bovin, was frequently mistaken for an Israeli ambassador in Russia.
When Russia began to assert itself after the catastroyka, and Russian leaders made their first modest proposals regarding the Middle East, Israel took it as an insult. This defeated country should never give us advises, fumed Shimon Peres in live broadcast. But Russia continued to gather strength, and Russians again became active participants in the process. The recent visit of Russian Foreign Minister Mr Lavrov to Damascus and Tel Aviv gave another expression to it. Lavrov tried to convince Israeli leaders to give up on Iran sanctions. Sanctioned Iran will feel isolated, threatened and will leave the NPT. Sanctions will lead to war, explained Lavrov, but Israeli officials did not mind the war, they insisted on sanctions. Then, the Russians pulled out their proposal of a new international conference for Middle East, Madrid-2. This idea has support of Arab states, but Israel rejected it, as well. It seems that Israel marches to war and considers it inevitable.
This feeling of inevitability has much to do with the US policy. Unravelling of 9/11 mystery in the US may push Bush administration to speed up its war plans. For the first time since 2001, the mainstream US media gave coverage to “conspiracy theories”, and revealed that more than a third of American population believes in Administration involvement. Major European newspapers followed the path. Though there are many faulty small and large details in the official version, the main reason for public doubt lays elsewhere: if some bad and hard Muslim terrorists could perpetrate the 9/11 attack, why they failed to do anything similar afterwards? Ridiculous attempts to present ‘liquid explosives plot’ as a new 9/11 further undermined popular trust. Bush may feel that the war with Iran is the only way to escape trial.
There are hard-nosed Russian experts who do not mind the forthcoming war. In their view, America’s involvement in Iran will mirror Russia’s own unfortunate experience in Afghanistan. If you call Vietnam ‘bogging down’, and Iraq ‘quagmire’, you’ll have to invent a new word for Iran. The oil price will go up to $200, - enough to gold-plate every loo in oil-producing Russia, as Marx prophesied. Attack on Iran will destroy America – why bother? Why should we try and stop it, say the experts.
But Putin has strong internal reason for trying to defuse the war, as the Zionist plot of inflaming inter-religious conflict may undermine Russia. The roots of the plot are to be found in the transition period from the USSR to post-Soviet Russia, when a young and fresh Israeli Lobby in Moscow was formed. Its members were supporters of Market Democracy, Neo-liberalism and Privatisation. Support for Israel was a shibboleth for deference to the West’s wishes. While ordinary Russians regretted the demise of the Soviet Union, Russian Jews – together with upwardly mobile Russians - actively supported the market reforms and cheered suppression of democratically elected Parliament in 1991 and 1993.[1] These pro-Market forces seized media; like in the West, Jews own large share of media owners and editors, as well as large banks and capitalist enterprises. Though not obsessively Zionist, they still harbour a warm feeling for Israel. For them Israel is not a place to escape mythic antisemitism, but a place to escape criminal police, as so many Jewish crooks from the US, France, England and Russia did.
Pro-Israeli forces in Russia successfully promoted a conflict between the Christians and the Muslims; proposing to integrate Russians into anti-Muslim “white” front. The Jewish-owned and edited media imported anti-Muslim discourse wholesale. Though it was quite foreign to Russians who are used to live together with Muslim Tatars since the dawn of their history, media succeeded to poison minds. Chechnya was the key to this development: generously supported by the Jewish tycoon Berezovsky, Chechen fighters by their acts of terror enforced anti-Muslim feelings. “Gaza is our Chechnya”, used to say Israeli emissaries, though Chechens (as opposed to Gazans) had all civil and political rights of Russian citizens.
In the same time, hundreds of thousands of Chechens and other Muslim ethnic groups migrated into northern Russian cities, where – as opposed to Western Europe – they were economically very successful and caused much envy among the native population. Recent riots in Kandapoga were a result of this success. Immigration is a tricky issue, and on the whole it is good for Zionists, whether in Europe or in Russia. The Russian nationalists of Le Pen style (and worse) became friends of Israel and of Zionism. They support Israel’s fight against the Muslims, and they hope the Jews will go away to Israel (needless to say, this pipedream is not likely to occur with thousands of Russian Jews moving back to prospering Russia each month). Heads of the Russian Jewish Congress were reported to transfer large sums of money to the more obnoxious racist groups in order to point them against the Muslim immigrants.
Thus Putin’s administration is gripped in a vice between pro-Western liberals with their sympathy to Israel on the ‘left’, and on the ‘right’ by Russian ‘white’ nationalists who object to influx of Muslim immigrants and support rabidly anti-Muslim Tel Aviv. This vice endangers cohesiveness of the country, as not only North Caucasus, but Tatarstan may break away. As opposed to Europe, Russia has not only Muslim immigrants, but a prominent native Muslim minority. Preservation of Russia depends on defeating this anti-Muslim trend, for otherwise, the country will be devastated and broken into warring fiefs. Thus Putin’s Russia opposes the Conflict of Civilisations’ paradigm.
But will it suffice? The Jews, that is organised Jewry and the Jewish state, are definitely keen on promoting war between Christians and Muslims. Their powerful media gave us recently the Satanic Pictures and cared to deliver them to each Muslim. Now they gave great publicity to the Pope speech, while pro-Zionist Pakistan delivered the Muslim opinion. This is not the first direct involvement of Pakistan’s ruler in promotion of the Zionist plans: a few weeks ago Pakistani Secret services provided support for the “liquid explosives plot”, totally discredited since then. (No less an authority than Lieutenant-Colonel (ret.) Nigel Wylde, a former senior British Army Intelligence Officer, who was awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal for his command of the Belfast Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit, has suggested that the police and government story about the "terror plot" was part of a “pattern of lies and deceit.”)
Nor are they satisfied with media coverage: Amira Haas, the courageous Haaretz reporter in the West Bank, indirectly accused (in Haaretz September 20, 2006) Israeli Secret Services of an attack and arson of churches in Nablus, Tubas and other Palestinian cities. Our American correspondent Tom Mysiewicz wrote: “This is obviously just another effort to create a war of mutual extermination between the Christian and Islamic worlds.” While our French friend Xavier Lavaud explained: “The goal of Zionists was to obscure the recent condemnation of Christian Zionists by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem. They chose a sentence of the Pope out of context.” While regretting the Pope’s comment, we should spend more effort in trying to defuse this situation than in blaming the head of the Catholic Church beset as he is by the enemies of the Church and of Christ. The war can be stopped, but it calls for our strong and concerted effort.
[1] Over 50 % of the Jews (as opposed to 13 % of the Russians) supported the pro-Western coup of President Yeltsin. In 1995, 81% of the Jews voted for pro-Western parties, and only 3% for the Communists (as opposed to 46% of Russians), according to the publication by the Jewish sociologist Dr. Ryvkina in her book, Jews in Post-Soviet Russia (1996). The divergence was even greater in the following election campaigns.
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Thursday, July 10, 2008
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Lobster for Iran
By Israel Shamir
“Iran’s biggest threat since Nazis,” said Israeli defence minister Shaul Mofaz, according to the Guardian; “The world must not wait! Since Hitler we Jews have not faced such a threat” as presented by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who “further stirred international outrage by calling on Israeli Jews to be resettled in Europe” (...thus the Guardian).
These guys are hard to please! In the 1930s, Hitler called for the Jews to be resettled outside of Europe, and they declared war on him. Now Ahmadinejad calls for the resettlement of Jews in Europe, and the Jews still respond with a war cry. That is, unless the Guardian missed the point in its report, and the outrage actually came from the Europeans who preferred the Palestinians to serve as unwilling host to these difficult guests.
Anyway I beg to differ: President Ahmadinejad is the biggest threat since Gerard de Nerval, a flamboyant French poet, promenaded a lobster on a blue ribbon lead, just as one exercises a dog, along the Palais Royal gardens in order to épater le bourgeois. A truly poetic soul, an enfant terrible if ever there was one, Ahmadinejad aimed to wake us up from our over-long after-dinner nap. What can the Iranian do if ‘Jews’ is the only magic word that awakens us from this slumber? Sexual innuendos would not bestir even a child fresh from his AIDS-awareness lesson. An attack of Christianity would be warmly applauded by the undeniable masters of European minds, Messrs Sauerkraut and Finkelrot. In this post-modernist age, when the Vagina Monologues have entered the matinee repertoire, it is not that easy to épater the increasingly blasé bourgeoisie. If Ahmadinejad would call for the resettlement of six million European Muslims outside of Europe, nobody would raise an eyebrow with the possible exception of Oriana Fallaci and M. Le Pen, who might object to his plagiarism. If he were to call for the erasure of France from the world map, the French would not sit up and pay attention: they think there is already a Brussels directive to this effect!
I admire Ahmadinejad. Not as a politician: let the Iranians judge him on this merit. Not as a divine: I leave this to the Muslims. But as a true poet who unveiled our hypocrisy and slaughtered our last sacred cow. This is the only possible explanation of his deeds and words: Iranians have really no reason to care about the Jewish holocaust, one way or other. Nobody accuses them, not even Mr Yehuda Bauer of Jerusalem’s Holocaust memorial institute, who is prone to accuse the World and its niece for failing to save the Jews. The Persians from Cyrus to Hosroes to Mohammad Resa Shah were always good to Jews, and even in these mad days there is a large and flourishing Jewish community in Iran. Ahmadinejad spoke about the Holocaust like Hillary conquered Everest – because it presented a challenge!
The innocent revisionist historians were so excited when he toyed with an idea of “finally discovering the truth”. They prepared their well-thumbed books and diagrams of gas consumption and body heat. But Ahmadinejad is interested in the hard facts of World War II about as much as Nerval was interested in exercising his lobster. Acceptance of Holocaust dogma is a sign of submission to the Tel Aviv–New York Axis, a sign of the new colonialism. Ahmadinejad refused it just as St Paul refused to accept the Noahide laws: not because St Paul wanted to partake of pagan sacrifices, but because he did not want to take his orders from the Jews.
The European leaders, the docile supporters of patent war criminals, of George W. Bush, the murderer of umpteen Iraqis, Afghanis and sundry Arabs, of Shaul Mofaz, the murderer of an eight-year-old girl (among hundreds of others) he killed last week in besieged Gaza, all sat up and expressed their outrage. They did not object when Israel strafed and bombed defenceless Gazans. When Israeli politicians threatened to turn Iran into “radioactive desert”, they did not describe it as “a call to genocide”. By his challenge, president Ahmadinejad saved the honour of human race, as only a poet can do.
I admire Iran, for the fiery crimson of their rose gardens and for the azure of its old mosques, for the ravishing beauty of its women, whose black eyelashes enhance the whiteness of their skin shining through their black chadors. I admire Iran for its marvellous painting that overcame the iconoclastic ravages. I admire Iran for the spiritual subtlety of its poets, who united their love to women with their adoration of God in one undivided chant just as the Song of Songs did. Their Rumi and Jami, Sa’adi and Ferdousi, Hafiz and Khayyam were of the most daring and sincere poets who ever graced our earth. Ahmadinejad is heir to their tradition, a daring mocker of our hypocrisy, a boy who saw through the emperor’s new clothes. Even if the ham-fisted Yank should flatten this daredevil, and burn the rose gardens of Shiraz just as he once incinerated the blossoms of Nagasaki, we may be proud of Ahmadinejad, our contemporary who dared to tread on the tiger’s tail.
II
The European and American reaction to Iran’s nuclear program was that of Uncle Tom’s slaveowner, Simon Legree, on learning of an escaped slave. How does this dusky dare to touch the white masters’ toys? Their empty talk of an “Iranian threat” is designed for the ignorant: Iran has never, ever attacked a European nation since the wars for Anatolia in the 5th century BC; whereas European imperialists have repeatedly occupied and controlled Iran, most recently in 1942, or by proxy in 1953, when they deposed democratically-elected Mosaddeq and returned to dominate this ancient nation.
Yes, the old colonialism is dead. England can’t rule over Iraq, nor France over Algeria, but the new collective colonialism, that of the imperialist Core of highly industrialised Western nations over the rest of the world, is hardly any better. The old masters have decided to pool their resources and powers to rule their erstwhile slaves together. They switched from the Athenian model where a citizen had his slave, to the Spartan model, where slaves belong to all Spartans. In this new collective imperialist universe, the US is the arm, the enforcer of this new colonialism, while the mind, the ideology is supplied by a vast syndicate that unites and coordinates the majority of newspapers and networks of both left and right from Madrid to Moscow and from Texas to Timbuktu, despite their pretensions of competition and rivalry.
This syndicate is the real powerbase of what two American professors, John Mearsheimer of Chicago, and Stephen Walt of Harvard, (M&W for short) politely called ‘Israel Lobby in the US’, though this syndicate has other fish to fry beside that of the State of Israel’s. While fully approving of M&W’s endeavour, we should say: they minimised rather than exaggerated the problem, for it is a global, rather than a local (the US) phenomenon. The fearsome AIPAC is just the visible tip of iceberg below which are miles and miles of solid ice: media lords, chief editors, their pundits, Masters of Discourse, in short. As if by a magic wand, the Iranian crisis made it visible to the naked eye: they have all cried out in one mighty voice like the legion of demons in the Capernaum synagogue in response to Christ’s words.
In his thought-provoking speech Ahmadinejad said: “The vast Zionist network has been at the service of the imperialists for decades.” This is open to an argument whether the Zionist network serves the imperialists, or the imperialists serve this network. It’s an example of Managerial Revolution: Jews were managers for the imperialists, until they took over the show, some would say. Oh no, they remained docile to their imperialist overlords, argue others. Whatever position we take, the Zionists and the Imperialists are surely integrated and intermeshed, and if one accepts the idea of the Iranian threat to Israel, one subscribes to this demonic network.
The nations that refuse the Masters of Discourse are subjugated by force. A nuclear weapon serves as a great equaliser, as did the Colt gun in the Wild West, when they used to say: “The Declaration of Independence claimed that all men were created equal, but Colonel Colt made it so.” In order to prevent too much equalisation, the American pioneers kept guns out of native hands. The same policy now drives the West in its attempts to keep nuclear power out of reach of Iranians.
A few days ago I was invited to a live discussion on Russian TV Channel One, where the Moscow BBC bureau chief rhetorically asked why a peaceful Iran would need ballistic missiles, and he listed the Iranian missile arsenal. He could not answer the question of why a peaceful Britain would need ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons! Actually, why would anybody need one? But if England, with its long and bloody history of subjugating the Third World from Ireland to Japan, may have these toys, then it is likewise the duty of any important country willing to protect its populace from the Western masters’ whims.
Yes, Iran is still working on a peaceful program of atomic energy, but if and when that country decides to build the bomb, we may support this decision, as it would enhance peace. Actually, few people did more for the cause of world peace than Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and their associates Harry Gold and Klaus Fuchs. These wonderful men passed the secrets of American-built nuclear weapons to Russia, and thus saved Moscow and St Petersburg from the fate of Hiroshima. Without their heroic deed, the colonial masters would have turned Russia into a radioactive desert. Joseph Stalin passed the know-how to emerging China, and this was a very good deed -- otherwise the Americans wouldn’t have hesitated to nuke Vietnam as they did Japan.
The Russian nuclear shield is the only thing Gorbachev and Yeltsin did not break down in their destruction of the Soviet Union, probably because they did not expect the patriotic forces to ever return to power in Moscow. This shield allows the Russians to disregard the nagging of Frau Merkel, and gives them their freedom of choice: to sell their oil and gas to Europe or to turn the stream towards China. It allows the Belarus people to have the president they elected by huge majority: without it, Lukashenka would share the fate of Noriega and Milosevic for his steadfast refusal to sell the assets of Belarus to George Soros. Let Iranians, too, have this freedom of choice, and restore balance in the region.
The sad story of Iraq is the best proof that disarmament and compliance is not an option. Saddam Hussein allowed the vultures of IAE to turn his pockets out, and he ended in prison, his country ruined for decades. Ahmadinejad did it better: he responded to the American-Israeli demand to disarm just like the captain of the French guard on the field of Waterloo. “Disarm, the brave soldiers”, - said the English general. And Cambronne replied: “Merde!”
And to sincere well-wishers of our Israeli well-being I’ll say: Iran is no danger. Nobody wants to kill us. The truth is, the Jews could live extremely well in Palestine. By making peace with the native inhabitants in 1948, we would have kept our common home, Palestine, as the hub of the Middle East with Iraqi oil coming to Haifa refineries and trains from Baghdad to Cairo flying by Lydda and Jaffa, with Muslim pilgrims coming to al Quds on their way to Mecca, with Christians walking in the footsteps of Christ from Bethlehem to Nazareth and with Jews doing their aliya (this word meant an annual pilgrimage to Jerusalem like the Hajj, rather than a permanent immigration to Palestine as Zionists wont). We would prosper beyond our wildest dreams, as the prophets promised, if we were to kick the nasty old habit of separateness and dominance.
It is not too late even now, sixty years and many deaths later. For this purpose, we may take the advice of Ahmadinejad: let the exclusive Jewish state be eliminated from the map of the region to be replaced by one state of all citizens of the land, Jews or not. “The right to govern belongs to all people of Palestine, be they Muslims, Christians, or Jews”, said Ahmadinejad, and by golly, only a Jewish supremacist may object to his words.
When I said this at the TV discussion in Moscow, I was attacked by the Chairman of a Russian Jewish Congress and Director of a Zionist Middle East Institute, a greasy and spotty bully of a man with hanging belly, a living cartoon from Der Sturmer, with the fitting name Satanovsky. “Watch out, - told me Satanovsky after the show, - apparently you have never been beaten hard enough. Here in Moscow we know of no restraints of democracy, my Jewish lads will tear your balls off like they did to many men like you. Israel should remain a Jewish state forever”. Such Jewish Mafiosi are the real leaders of the Jewish Lobby and chief supporters of the Jewish state abroad. These sort of people lead the Jewish organisations in Russia, in America and elsewhere. They need a Jewish state to escape their lands in the hour of wrath, but we, the ordinary citizens of Israel, do not need it.
However, the Mafia can’t rule forever. I take heart in the words of Ahmadinejad: “The young tree of resistance in Palestine is blooming and blooms of faith and desire for freedom are flowering. The Zionist regime is a decaying and crumbling tree that will fall with a storm. (Remember the parable of the barren tree? - ISH) Palestine is the meeting point of right and wrong. The destiny of the region will be decided in the land of Al-Qods and it will be a great honour to share in the victory of Palestine.” The victory of Palestine is our victory and we shall be happy to share in it.
“Now, will there be a war?,” one is often asked. I have no full confidence of George Bush, he does not share his plans with me. But while the gatekeepers of the Left say that Oil is the reason for the war, in my view Oil can be the reason for peace. As the price of oil has now crossed the $70 threshold, President Bush must decide whether he will survive its hike above $120 -- whether his voters in the red states will happily accept the advice of an American Jewish Congress pundit and director of their Israel/Middle East Office Eran Lerman (previously of Israeli intelligence) to stop driving cars every other day. Bush has the power to steer the US away from its perilous course, and tell to the Jewish Congress pundits to shove it.
And to my Israeli countrymen: I’ll remind you of our age-long tradition of friendship with Iran. Two thousand years ago, a picture of the Iranian capital city Susa was presented on the Eastern gate of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem. Mishna (Berakoth 9) called for being especially careful towards it: “never show disrespect to the Eastern gate!” According to Rambam, this was done so that they would have the fear of the king of Persia upon them. This tradition is worth remembering and carefully preserving.
“Iran’s biggest threat since Nazis,” said Israeli defence minister Shaul Mofaz, according to the Guardian; “The world must not wait! Since Hitler we Jews have not faced such a threat” as presented by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who “further stirred international outrage by calling on Israeli Jews to be resettled in Europe” (...thus the Guardian).
These guys are hard to please! In the 1930s, Hitler called for the Jews to be resettled outside of Europe, and they declared war on him. Now Ahmadinejad calls for the resettlement of Jews in Europe, and the Jews still respond with a war cry. That is, unless the Guardian missed the point in its report, and the outrage actually came from the Europeans who preferred the Palestinians to serve as unwilling host to these difficult guests.
Anyway I beg to differ: President Ahmadinejad is the biggest threat since Gerard de Nerval, a flamboyant French poet, promenaded a lobster on a blue ribbon lead, just as one exercises a dog, along the Palais Royal gardens in order to épater le bourgeois. A truly poetic soul, an enfant terrible if ever there was one, Ahmadinejad aimed to wake us up from our over-long after-dinner nap. What can the Iranian do if ‘Jews’ is the only magic word that awakens us from this slumber? Sexual innuendos would not bestir even a child fresh from his AIDS-awareness lesson. An attack of Christianity would be warmly applauded by the undeniable masters of European minds, Messrs Sauerkraut and Finkelrot. In this post-modernist age, when the Vagina Monologues have entered the matinee repertoire, it is not that easy to épater the increasingly blasé bourgeoisie. If Ahmadinejad would call for the resettlement of six million European Muslims outside of Europe, nobody would raise an eyebrow with the possible exception of Oriana Fallaci and M. Le Pen, who might object to his plagiarism. If he were to call for the erasure of France from the world map, the French would not sit up and pay attention: they think there is already a Brussels directive to this effect!
I admire Ahmadinejad. Not as a politician: let the Iranians judge him on this merit. Not as a divine: I leave this to the Muslims. But as a true poet who unveiled our hypocrisy and slaughtered our last sacred cow. This is the only possible explanation of his deeds and words: Iranians have really no reason to care about the Jewish holocaust, one way or other. Nobody accuses them, not even Mr Yehuda Bauer of Jerusalem’s Holocaust memorial institute, who is prone to accuse the World and its niece for failing to save the Jews. The Persians from Cyrus to Hosroes to Mohammad Resa Shah were always good to Jews, and even in these mad days there is a large and flourishing Jewish community in Iran. Ahmadinejad spoke about the Holocaust like Hillary conquered Everest – because it presented a challenge!
The innocent revisionist historians were so excited when he toyed with an idea of “finally discovering the truth”. They prepared their well-thumbed books and diagrams of gas consumption and body heat. But Ahmadinejad is interested in the hard facts of World War II about as much as Nerval was interested in exercising his lobster. Acceptance of Holocaust dogma is a sign of submission to the Tel Aviv–New York Axis, a sign of the new colonialism. Ahmadinejad refused it just as St Paul refused to accept the Noahide laws: not because St Paul wanted to partake of pagan sacrifices, but because he did not want to take his orders from the Jews.
The European leaders, the docile supporters of patent war criminals, of George W. Bush, the murderer of umpteen Iraqis, Afghanis and sundry Arabs, of Shaul Mofaz, the murderer of an eight-year-old girl (among hundreds of others) he killed last week in besieged Gaza, all sat up and expressed their outrage. They did not object when Israel strafed and bombed defenceless Gazans. When Israeli politicians threatened to turn Iran into “radioactive desert”, they did not describe it as “a call to genocide”. By his challenge, president Ahmadinejad saved the honour of human race, as only a poet can do.
I admire Iran, for the fiery crimson of their rose gardens and for the azure of its old mosques, for the ravishing beauty of its women, whose black eyelashes enhance the whiteness of their skin shining through their black chadors. I admire Iran for its marvellous painting that overcame the iconoclastic ravages. I admire Iran for the spiritual subtlety of its poets, who united their love to women with their adoration of God in one undivided chant just as the Song of Songs did. Their Rumi and Jami, Sa’adi and Ferdousi, Hafiz and Khayyam were of the most daring and sincere poets who ever graced our earth. Ahmadinejad is heir to their tradition, a daring mocker of our hypocrisy, a boy who saw through the emperor’s new clothes. Even if the ham-fisted Yank should flatten this daredevil, and burn the rose gardens of Shiraz just as he once incinerated the blossoms of Nagasaki, we may be proud of Ahmadinejad, our contemporary who dared to tread on the tiger’s tail.
II
The European and American reaction to Iran’s nuclear program was that of Uncle Tom’s slaveowner, Simon Legree, on learning of an escaped slave. How does this dusky dare to touch the white masters’ toys? Their empty talk of an “Iranian threat” is designed for the ignorant: Iran has never, ever attacked a European nation since the wars for Anatolia in the 5th century BC; whereas European imperialists have repeatedly occupied and controlled Iran, most recently in 1942, or by proxy in 1953, when they deposed democratically-elected Mosaddeq and returned to dominate this ancient nation.
Yes, the old colonialism is dead. England can’t rule over Iraq, nor France over Algeria, but the new collective colonialism, that of the imperialist Core of highly industrialised Western nations over the rest of the world, is hardly any better. The old masters have decided to pool their resources and powers to rule their erstwhile slaves together. They switched from the Athenian model where a citizen had his slave, to the Spartan model, where slaves belong to all Spartans. In this new collective imperialist universe, the US is the arm, the enforcer of this new colonialism, while the mind, the ideology is supplied by a vast syndicate that unites and coordinates the majority of newspapers and networks of both left and right from Madrid to Moscow and from Texas to Timbuktu, despite their pretensions of competition and rivalry.
This syndicate is the real powerbase of what two American professors, John Mearsheimer of Chicago, and Stephen Walt of Harvard, (M&W for short) politely called ‘Israel Lobby in the US’, though this syndicate has other fish to fry beside that of the State of Israel’s. While fully approving of M&W’s endeavour, we should say: they minimised rather than exaggerated the problem, for it is a global, rather than a local (the US) phenomenon. The fearsome AIPAC is just the visible tip of iceberg below which are miles and miles of solid ice: media lords, chief editors, their pundits, Masters of Discourse, in short. As if by a magic wand, the Iranian crisis made it visible to the naked eye: they have all cried out in one mighty voice like the legion of demons in the Capernaum synagogue in response to Christ’s words.
In his thought-provoking speech Ahmadinejad said: “The vast Zionist network has been at the service of the imperialists for decades.” This is open to an argument whether the Zionist network serves the imperialists, or the imperialists serve this network. It’s an example of Managerial Revolution: Jews were managers for the imperialists, until they took over the show, some would say. Oh no, they remained docile to their imperialist overlords, argue others. Whatever position we take, the Zionists and the Imperialists are surely integrated and intermeshed, and if one accepts the idea of the Iranian threat to Israel, one subscribes to this demonic network.
The nations that refuse the Masters of Discourse are subjugated by force. A nuclear weapon serves as a great equaliser, as did the Colt gun in the Wild West, when they used to say: “The Declaration of Independence claimed that all men were created equal, but Colonel Colt made it so.” In order to prevent too much equalisation, the American pioneers kept guns out of native hands. The same policy now drives the West in its attempts to keep nuclear power out of reach of Iranians.
A few days ago I was invited to a live discussion on Russian TV Channel One, where the Moscow BBC bureau chief rhetorically asked why a peaceful Iran would need ballistic missiles, and he listed the Iranian missile arsenal. He could not answer the question of why a peaceful Britain would need ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons! Actually, why would anybody need one? But if England, with its long and bloody history of subjugating the Third World from Ireland to Japan, may have these toys, then it is likewise the duty of any important country willing to protect its populace from the Western masters’ whims.
Yes, Iran is still working on a peaceful program of atomic energy, but if and when that country decides to build the bomb, we may support this decision, as it would enhance peace. Actually, few people did more for the cause of world peace than Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and their associates Harry Gold and Klaus Fuchs. These wonderful men passed the secrets of American-built nuclear weapons to Russia, and thus saved Moscow and St Petersburg from the fate of Hiroshima. Without their heroic deed, the colonial masters would have turned Russia into a radioactive desert. Joseph Stalin passed the know-how to emerging China, and this was a very good deed -- otherwise the Americans wouldn’t have hesitated to nuke Vietnam as they did Japan.
The Russian nuclear shield is the only thing Gorbachev and Yeltsin did not break down in their destruction of the Soviet Union, probably because they did not expect the patriotic forces to ever return to power in Moscow. This shield allows the Russians to disregard the nagging of Frau Merkel, and gives them their freedom of choice: to sell their oil and gas to Europe or to turn the stream towards China. It allows the Belarus people to have the president they elected by huge majority: without it, Lukashenka would share the fate of Noriega and Milosevic for his steadfast refusal to sell the assets of Belarus to George Soros. Let Iranians, too, have this freedom of choice, and restore balance in the region.
The sad story of Iraq is the best proof that disarmament and compliance is not an option. Saddam Hussein allowed the vultures of IAE to turn his pockets out, and he ended in prison, his country ruined for decades. Ahmadinejad did it better: he responded to the American-Israeli demand to disarm just like the captain of the French guard on the field of Waterloo. “Disarm, the brave soldiers”, - said the English general. And Cambronne replied: “Merde!”
And to sincere well-wishers of our Israeli well-being I’ll say: Iran is no danger. Nobody wants to kill us. The truth is, the Jews could live extremely well in Palestine. By making peace with the native inhabitants in 1948, we would have kept our common home, Palestine, as the hub of the Middle East with Iraqi oil coming to Haifa refineries and trains from Baghdad to Cairo flying by Lydda and Jaffa, with Muslim pilgrims coming to al Quds on their way to Mecca, with Christians walking in the footsteps of Christ from Bethlehem to Nazareth and with Jews doing their aliya (this word meant an annual pilgrimage to Jerusalem like the Hajj, rather than a permanent immigration to Palestine as Zionists wont). We would prosper beyond our wildest dreams, as the prophets promised, if we were to kick the nasty old habit of separateness and dominance.
It is not too late even now, sixty years and many deaths later. For this purpose, we may take the advice of Ahmadinejad: let the exclusive Jewish state be eliminated from the map of the region to be replaced by one state of all citizens of the land, Jews or not. “The right to govern belongs to all people of Palestine, be they Muslims, Christians, or Jews”, said Ahmadinejad, and by golly, only a Jewish supremacist may object to his words.
When I said this at the TV discussion in Moscow, I was attacked by the Chairman of a Russian Jewish Congress and Director of a Zionist Middle East Institute, a greasy and spotty bully of a man with hanging belly, a living cartoon from Der Sturmer, with the fitting name Satanovsky. “Watch out, - told me Satanovsky after the show, - apparently you have never been beaten hard enough. Here in Moscow we know of no restraints of democracy, my Jewish lads will tear your balls off like they did to many men like you. Israel should remain a Jewish state forever”. Such Jewish Mafiosi are the real leaders of the Jewish Lobby and chief supporters of the Jewish state abroad. These sort of people lead the Jewish organisations in Russia, in America and elsewhere. They need a Jewish state to escape their lands in the hour of wrath, but we, the ordinary citizens of Israel, do not need it.
However, the Mafia can’t rule forever. I take heart in the words of Ahmadinejad: “The young tree of resistance in Palestine is blooming and blooms of faith and desire for freedom are flowering. The Zionist regime is a decaying and crumbling tree that will fall with a storm. (Remember the parable of the barren tree? - ISH) Palestine is the meeting point of right and wrong. The destiny of the region will be decided in the land of Al-Qods and it will be a great honour to share in the victory of Palestine.” The victory of Palestine is our victory and we shall be happy to share in it.
“Now, will there be a war?,” one is often asked. I have no full confidence of George Bush, he does not share his plans with me. But while the gatekeepers of the Left say that Oil is the reason for the war, in my view Oil can be the reason for peace. As the price of oil has now crossed the $70 threshold, President Bush must decide whether he will survive its hike above $120 -- whether his voters in the red states will happily accept the advice of an American Jewish Congress pundit and director of their Israel/Middle East Office Eran Lerman (previously of Israeli intelligence) to stop driving cars every other day. Bush has the power to steer the US away from its perilous course, and tell to the Jewish Congress pundits to shove it.
And to my Israeli countrymen: I’ll remind you of our age-long tradition of friendship with Iran. Two thousand years ago, a picture of the Iranian capital city Susa was presented on the Eastern gate of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem. Mishna (Berakoth 9) called for being especially careful towards it: “never show disrespect to the Eastern gate!” According to Rambam, this was done so that they would have the fear of the king of Persia upon them. This tradition is worth remembering and carefully preserving.
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