Have you ever heard the expression: You couldn't make this
stuff up? It is used when someone wants to convey the idea that something which
happened in real life was so unreal, a fiction writer could not have imagined
it.
This being the case, we could not possibly imagine something
like the inadvertent confession Benny Avni made in his latest column. And so,
we imagine a short vignette that may not fully express what he actually did,
but will attempt to approach it.
Think of the neighborhood meat store where you've been
shopping for decades. The owner has always been friendly to you, and the
employees helpful and courteous. The products you bought were always fresh and
were priced competitively. In short, you never had a complaint to level against
the store during the decades that you've been shopping there. You were truly a
happy customer.
And then one day, as you entered the store intending to do
your regular shopping, the owner pulled you to the side saying he had something
important to tell you. Puzzled, you gave him a blank look and said not a word
because you didn't know what to think. He proceeded to tell you that the meat
you've been buying all these years was neither beef nor lamb. It was horse meat
and dog meat. But now that you've enjoyed these delicacies during all these
years, there is no reason why you shouldn't continue to shop at the store.
By now, you must be asking: Did Benny Avni really do
something analogous to that? Yes, my friend, Benny Avni did something analogous
to that. As it turns out; what he did is even more incredulous in terms of the
contempt he proved to have for his readers; and in terms of negative
consequences his conduct has heaped on the free exchange of ideas in the
so-called American democracy.
The column in question came under the title: “Trump can end
the Iran deal and still make
one with North Korea ,”
published on April 24, 2018 in the New York Post. As indicated in the title,
Avni is advising Trump not to worry about reneging on a deal America concluded with Iran because such move will not affect another
deal America is trying to
conclude with North Korea .
As unreliable as this shows the Jews to be when it comes to making deals with
them, it pales compared to what else Benny Avni did. What follows is what he
did in his own words:
“Iran
touts international commerce as a way to keep the clerics in power. What's good
for the ayatollah isn't good for North Korea . Iran 's threat
to race to get nuclear weapons if we even tweak the nuclear deal is a bluff. Iran will do
anything to lure European companies. Publicly seeking nukes would set that
quest back. In fact, the deal is so advantageous to Iran
it'll beg Europe to stay in even if the US bolts”.
Benny Avni just sank the arguments that he and his mob of
Jewish pundits have been pouring into the public square for years, attacking
the Iran
nuclear deal as they did. They were saying that the deal was giving Iran a path to
the bomb, and that the ayatollahs will take such path because they are so
irrational, they would hurt themselves to experience the pleasure of hurting
others.
But now, Avni is saying that the deal is a good thing
because the ayatollahs are so rational, they know it is advantageous to them,
and will want to keep it. But does that mean Avni is now advising America not to
bolt out of the deal? No, he is not saying that. In tact, Avni has found
another reason why America
should bolt out of the good deal. Here are his words in this regard: “Nixing
the Iran
deal on the eve of the Kim summit can actually help. It'll show Pyongyang that America [is prepared] to walk away
from the table”.
So you have this guy –– Benny Avni who just told the
American people that for decades, he has been selling them not a bill of goods
but horse meat and dog meat –– telling them now to keep buying what more he
wants to sell to them. And what he is selling now is twice as consequential as
before.
Whereas in the past, Avni used to advise the dumping of the
Iran deal knowing it was a good thing, he now wants America to dump both the
Iran deal and a North Korea deal in the making … presumably because he knows
that both deals will be good for America and for the world.