Those who remember the theatrics that were staged by Israel , by its
Jewish mouthpieces and its non-Jewish echo repeaters in the Anglophile world,
will see an attempt to re-stage these theatrics – albeit with some modifications
– in the article that Norman Podhoretz has published in the Wall Street Journal
on July 29, 2015.
The clowning at the time rested on the theme that Israel may
or may not have an arsenal of nuclear weapons; that it may or may not have
submarines capable of launching these weapons; that it may or may not have a
tacit agreement with Saudi Arabia to use its territory to bomb Iran; that it
had the ability to send planes westward as far as they would need to fly
eastward to hit Iran; that plans were prepared to start a war with Iran so as
to get Israel into a perilous situation and force the United States to come to
the rescue.
Norman Podhoretz, who is one of the horses' mouths
representing American Jewry, has written a sequel to that spoof; one that is
different from the original show by only a little. He put it under a title that
reads: “Israel 's Choice:
Conventional War Now, or Nuclear War Later” and a subtitle that reads: “There
was no 'better deal' with Iran
to be had. Now this calamitous one offers Tehran
two paths to the bomb.”
He first proclaims that he considers “Mr. Obama's deal a
calamity.” That's because the deal offers Iran the choice of cheating or
simply waiting for the sunset clause to kick in while preparing for the
“glorious day” when it will have acquired the bomb. Having tried as hard as he
can to prove Obama wrong, he finds himself “unable to escape the conclusion
that Mr. Obama is right” in dismissing the better deal that his critics
propose. And since the other parties to the negotiations are eager to do
business with Iran , “the
upshot is that to prevent Iran
from getting the bomb, the only way to do so is to bomb Iran .”
Speaking as if deputized by humanity to speak on its behalf,
he expresses the sorrow that “once upon a time … every other country on earth
believed” it was necessary and possible to prevent Iran from acquiring the bomb
through negotiations. But as it happened, those “not blinded by wishful
delusions [discovered that] diplomacy would never work” with Iran .
Alas, these people were prevented from speaking up, he says,
while others declared that “force remained on the table” when in fact, they had
decided never to resort to force. Not only that, but “Mr. Obama was hellbent on
stopping Israel
from taking military action on its own.” The result was that “they all set
about persuading themselves … we could live with a nuclear Iran as we had lived with Russia and China during the Cold War.” That's
how the self-induced delusion infested the world except those, like Bernard
Lewis, who knew better.
The situation at this time being that the negotiating
partners wish to do business with Iran ,
and that Obama has fulfilled his dream of establishing detente with Iran , the only thing left to do to prevent Iran from
getting the bomb is to consider “war as the only alternative.” Thus, what Obama
has wrought will not avert war, as he claims, but “sets the stage for a nuclear
war between Iran and Israel ,” he
asserts with confidence.
Having spoken for all of humanity, Podhoretz now speaks for
all Israelis. He says: “with hardly an exception, all of Israel believes
that the Iranians are deadly serious when they proclaim they [will] wipe the
Jewish state off the map.” This leads him to see the parallel with the Cold War
theory named Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) according to which either side
is deterred from attacking the other lest the other be forced to respond.
However, there is a wrinkle here that is unsettling
Podhoretz. It is that the Iranians believe “the use of even one nuclear bomb
inside Israel
will destroy everything [but] will only harm the Islamic world.” Given this
reality, he asks: “How can deterrence work?” And he answers: “The brutal truth
is that the actual alternatives … are conventional war now or nuclear war later.”
Well, well, well. This forces us to look again into the
Iranian saying about a single bomb inside Israel . Podhoretz tells us it was
the former President Hashemi Rafsanjani who said it. When was that? In 2001.
This was a time when the Israeli stud wanted the world to believe he was
endowed with an arsenal of nuclear tools potent enough to heap destruction on
the Muslim world. That's when Rafsanjani responded: You do that, baby, and one
throw from us and you're blown away.