Saturday, November 12, 2016

A pathological Obsession with shiny Objects

The Jews everywhere in the world must be feeling neglected these days because much has been happening in the Middle East – most of it in Egypt – and there is little mention of Israel in the news, including what's printed and what's shown in the North American media.

And so, the Israeli press reacted in the way that it always does. Its editors followed the Egyptian press – especially that equivalent to the supermarket tabloids – and lifted from it outlandish pieces to which the Israeli editors added their own absurdities, and fed the mixture to their readers. The net result was that more was said about Egypt in Israeli newspapers than in all the Arab publications (outside Egypt) combined.

In turn, that Israeli trend inspired the American print publications as well as the websites associated with the television networks – to do likewise. Given that the Egyptian tabloids provided them with enough material to keep them going, neither the Israeli nor the American publications needed any kind of shiny object to maintain their obsession with Egypt.

But that was not the case with Iran. What happened with that country is that the Jewish editors and contributors of most major publications were mesmerized with a shiny object called the Iran Nuclear Deal. They wrote about it incessantly during the time that the negotiations were ongoing between Iran and the group of nations that were led by the United States of America.

Even after the deal was signed, sealed and delivered, the Jews continued to attack it in an effort to create an uprising in the Congress, and have the agreement shredded. But this did not happen despite the attacks that were organized to come at it from every direction. In the end, that failure was sufficient to plant in the hearts of the Jews the kind of panic that usually leads to hysteria.

In fact, hysteria has hit at least one publication, the Weekly Standard. It printed two articles on the same subject on the same day, November 10, 2016 by the same writer, Jenna Lifhits … saying more or less the same thing in both articles. One article is 375 words long, and came under the title: “Obama Administration Loosens Nuclear Deal After Iran Violates It and the subtitle: “Penalties are 'something that has to be calibrated...'” The other article is 520 words long, and came under the title: “Iran Breaks Nuclear Deal, But the Obama Administration Won't Say It's a 'Formal Violation'”.

Looking at these alarming titles, you wonder if the Jews have not done the right thing raising their voices loudly for the world, the White House and the Congress to hear. Yes, my friend, you would be correct, but only if the headlines matched the reality of the situation. Besides, it is not that the reality escaped these people. In fact, Jenna Lifhits reports on it accurately in both articles.

Here is what she says in one article: “the wording actually says that Iran's needs … are estimated to be 130 metric tons … The country was roughly one-tenth of a metric ton above the deal's 130 metric ton limit.” And here is what she says in the other article: “the country was roughly one-tenth of a metric ton over the 130 metric ton limit”.

When the estimate is 130, and you exceed that value by one tenth of one unit at some point in the process of producing and selling heavy water, you are off by one part in 1,300. This is like someone on a diet that's told to stay at roughly 130 pounds, but found one day to register 1.6 ounces higher than that.

This tells you that the people who scream about something as trivial as this can only be hysterical. And when you find (from reading the articles) it was the Iranians who discovered the discrepancy, who promptly notified the IAEA and took a corrective action, you wonder why the so-called editors and journalists are not locked up in a mental institution. 

That should be their fate, and there are good reasons for it. Look what Lifhits is reporting: “Congressman Mike Pompeo introduced legislation that prohibits federal funds being used to purchase Iranian heavy water in the future.” Of course, it is not the fault of the Jews that the Congress is populated by brain dead zombies, but if they are locked up where they belong, and the zombies are locked up where they belong, the world will be a much safer place.