Even though the subject matter is serious, the way that the
editors of the New York Daily News discuss it, hints at an element of comedy,
though their approach as a whole is sickeningly tedious and tiresome. You get
these conflicting emotions when you read: “Buckling to the mullahs,” an
editorial that also came under the subtitle: “Counting the many dangers in
Obama's approach to the Iran
nuclear deal.” It was published on June 28, 2015 in the Daily News.
Speaking of Barack Obama – twice elected President of the United States of America – the editors begin by
saying this: “His judgment will determine how easily Iran can acquire a nuclear weapon.”
Having decided that his judgment is faulty, they set out to counter it with
their own judgment … which they must believe is sound. How do they do that?
There is only one way: it is to show that both the President and the Iranian
leaders are insane.
And so, they accuse the President of paying a “recklessly
dangerous price” by failing to press Iran “to abandon the covert and
illegal program by which the mullahs plan to dominate the region.” But how do
they know that the mullahs have a covert program, or that they wish to dominate
the region? Aha! Good question, say the editors, because they have the answer
that even Obama does not know about.
You see, Barack may only fancy “that he can police with
certainty the internal machinations of the [Iranian] regime,” but they know for
certain that he cannot. That's because they know for certain something he
doesn't know. It is that the regime of the ayatollahs is “the world's most
duplicitous regime.” Duplicitous, eh! Okay, you say, but how do they know that?
Aha again! They exclaim for, this is another good question. And boy, oh boy, do
they have an answer for it; a voluminous answer at that.
Before they get to it, however, you need to know something
about two historical facts. The first is that in their effort to destroy the
late Yasser Arafat, the Israelis created a secret Palestinian organization and
trained its members to sabotage his efforts at unifying the various Palestinian
factions. But after the training, and after receiving material support from the
Jews, the members of that organization trashed the instructions they were given
by which they were to harm their own kind, and turned instead against the Jews.
Now calling themselves Hamas, these Palestinians made use of the Israeli
training to fight the Jewish occupation of Palestine .
The second historical fact you need to know is that up until
the Oslo talks,
the Palestinian resistance movement, headed by Arafat, lived in exile – in one
Arab country or another, at one time or another. Its leaders happened to live
in Lebanon
when the Israelis decided to invade that country and destroy the movement. The
Israelis failed in their objective when the Palestinian leaders moved to Tunisia . But
what the Israelis managed to accomplish was the destruction of Lebanon . As it
happens all the time – because the government could not protect the population
– the people of Lebanon organized themselves and formed militias that took up
arms to defend themselves and their families. This is how a new force was born
in Lebanon ,
calling itself Hezbollah.
Now, in case you wondered why the editors of the New York
Daily News used the word 'duplicitous' to describe the Iranian regime, the
above history may provide the answer. It is that Israel directly created Hamas, and
was responsible for the creation of Hezbollah. When it could not control them, Iran took them
under its wing. Because the word duplicitous means double-dealing, the editors
saw the switch from Israel
to Iran
as being duplicitous. This is the only way that the language of the editors can
be explained.
In any case, based on the realities which exist on the
ground, the editors of the New York
publication want the world to believe that they are sane, that the Israelis are
sane and that the Jews of the world are all sane. They also want the world to
believe that no one who is not their friend is sane. More importantly they want
the world to believe that “Obama acts as though the [Iranians] are led by
rational men,” when in fact, he is only dreaming, and is about to enter a
nightmare.
And what would the nightmare be? It would be that the frozen
assets of the Iranians are about to be released. This means that “Khamenei gets
$140 billion in blood money and property,” say the editors to whom getting your
money back means getting blood money. Go figure it yourself, my friend, and
don't ask me to explain.
These characters go further and say that “all evidence
indicates that a Strangelovian mania has caused Obama to lose touch with the
safety of the world far beyond the Middle East .”
By that, they mean the Obama administration is composed of
the insane that need to be guided by those who created Hamas, and were
responsible for the creation of Hezbollah.
Which – to the rest of humanity – sounds not like Dr.
Strangelove but more like one flew over the cuckoo's nest.