Usually when someone is seen to be abnormally agitated,
those around him wonder what he had for breakfast. Sometimes they even ask each
other if they know, or if they would guess what he may have had for breakfast.
Well, something like that must have happened to William
Kristol who is the editor of the Weekly Standard. The difference – it seems –
is that his agitation could have been triggered, not by something he ate in the
morning, but something he read in the morning. In fact, he says this much
himself.
He wrote a special editorial on the morning of April 4, 2015
under the title: “Kill the Deal,” published in the Weekly Standard before noon.
Abridged, the first sentence reads as follows: “Commentators have exposed the Iran deal in
various ways; the point, however, is to kill it.” And he says he has two main
reasons why he wants to see that thing dead. One reason has to do with the
whole deal, he says; the other has to do with its parts.
But who is William (Bill) Kristol? He is a half Jew whose
Jewish father is credited for the creation of the notorious Neocon movement.
Besides being the editor of the Weekly Standard, Bill is chairman of the board
at some outfit calling itself Emergency Committee for Israel . Its aim
is to scour the world for people who could be persuaded to support Israel , but so far has been able to attract and
buttonhole only the wretched, the miserable, the woeful, the despicable and the
deplorable … those who are already shaped in the image of Israel .
The parts of the deal Kristol does not like are (1) the
sanctions relief will be granted too fast; (2) the number of centrifuges Iran is allowed
to retain is too high and (3) the inspections regime is not robust enough. But
even if these objections were taken care of, he says, there is still the matter
of (4) Iran keeping its nuclear infrastructure; (5) the sanctions coming off at
some point in the future and (6) Iran's ability to kick out the inspectors has
not been restrained or prohibited.
With regards to what he dislikes about the deal as a whole;
it is that “Iran , a
state-sponsor of terror, an enemy of the US ,
a jihadist power, a regime dedicated to the destruction of Israel , will become a threshold
nuclear weapons state.” He goes on to say that the deal is a set of concessions
to a regime with a history of cheating. And he laments that the US and its
partners are ignoring that regime's past and present actions. And this, my
friend, prompts the question: If America and its partners – who stand to suffer
from the actions of that regime – are not disturbed by its actions, why is he –
Bill Kristol, Chairman of the Emergency Committee for Israel –
disturbed by them? And why is he so agitated about the whole thing?
The answer is obvious. It is that he worries about Israel . He does
not believe that Iran will
bomb Israel
out of existence because if he did, someone would have declared him insane by
now, and would have worked hard to lock him up. So then, what is he worried
about? He worries that the rise of Iran will accelerate the exposition of
Israel as a trivial Third World entity that will never rise above being a
parasite; one that will forever need assistance to remain afloat and look like
a viable something.
To save Israel
from having to meet that fate, and save the Jewish Establishment in America from
losing its influence if that happened, Kristol suggests that the Congress adopt
the Corker-Menendez bill. He also advocates advancing legislation or amendments
that will be designed to kill the particulars of the deal. Doing this – as the
saying goes – will kill the deal by a thousand cuts.
To show how transparent he and those like him can be when it
comes to advocating the ruin of America
and the shedding of American blood, Kristol admits: “We believe sanctions,
sabotage, and the threat of military force can better constrain the Iranian
regime's nuclear weapons program. We also say openly that airstrikes to set
back the program are preferable to this deal.”
Thus, he calls on members of the Congress to do their duty.
In the eyes of the world, this means working for Israel
doing the things that will ruin America
and kill its young. He does not see it that way, however, because he has
convinced himself that the world believes him when he says he only wants the
Congress to check the powers of the president as stipulated in the
Constitution.