Robert
Louis Stevenson once had a story to tell, so he wrote a novel that recounts the
tale of a Doctor Jekyll that did good work in his practice during working
hours, but turned into a monster at night when no one was watching, committing
horrible acts under the assumed name of Mr. Hyde.
Stevenson
must have known about Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice in which Shylock the Jew
wanted someone's pound of flesh perhaps to stew, to grill or to do God knows
what with it. But if Stevenson intended to write a metaphor, he should have
waited a few more decades to be born, because he would have been inspired by
real stories of cannibalistic Hydes masquerading as Jekylls.
And
the Hydes are not even hiding their true nature these days. On the contrary,
they are shouting it from the rooftops of punditry. Here, look at the following
title and be convinced: “Don't lift Iran sanctions, not even for the
coronavirus.” It's an article that was written by Michael Rubin, and published
on March 24, 2020 in the Washington Examiner.
So
I ask you this, my friend: Who might it be that wants something like this, who
doesn't want pounds of Iranian flesh to do with it God knows what. If you want
to read the complete Michael Rubin article and get ideas, you'll find it
published in The Washington Examiner on March 24, 2020.
But
if you think that this Rubin article might have been just a fluke, let me
assure you it wasn't. And here is the proof: Eight days later, on April 1,
2020, the same Michael Rubin did what Jews do routinely. He scrounged around
looking for morsels of flesh that may not be Iranian, but taste close enough to
be a Farsi dish. And he found something. What he found inspired him to write:
“Human Rights Watch reports are no longer credible,” an article he published in
the same old Washington Examiner.
Look
what it is that prompted Michael Rubin to write the March 24 article:
“Two
dozen activist groups demanded the United States lift sanctions on Iran to help
it fight the coronavirus, saying that hospitals overrun and Iranian doctors
struggling to procure necessary equipment, the US must be part of the solution
rather than part of the problem”.
As
you can imagine, Michael Rubin turned furious at the sound of someone pleading
the cause of the Iranian people, so he did the very Jewish thing of making his
case––not by analyzing the subject that's being discussed or by articulating
his views on it but––by attacking the activist groups and the Iranian people
whose cause they were pleading.
Nothing
short of grotesque was the look of freshly ingested human blood frothing at the
mouth of Michael Rubin, the proverbial cannibal that disgusted his readers all
the way down to the end of his article. That's where he concluded his
presentation with the following blurt:
“The
sad reality is that the financial benefit for Khamenei and the ruling clerics
of Iran's suffering is simply too great to risk. The coronavirus, and
Khamenei's desire for cash rather than substantive help, reveals his true
self”.
One
of the activist groups that Rubin has attacked was Human Rights Watch. He made
it the subject of his April 1, 2020 article. Here too, instead of engaging in a
civilized discussion about what he sees as the merits of letting the people of
Iran die by the ongoing pandemic––thus punish their leaders no end––Michael
Rubin has once again frothed the cannibalistic method of attacking the
messenger that is the Human Rights Watch. Here in condensed form is what he
said in this regard:
“Human
Rights Watch has strayed from the objective to the subjective and from the
neutral to the corrupt. Too many of its reports today are short on methodology
and long on ideology. This brings us to its October 2019 report 'Maximum
Pressure: US Economic Sanctions Harm Iranians' Right to Health,' which has been
increasingly cited to show that the US should lift its sanctions to help Iran
fight the coronavirus crisis. The group interviewed six Iranian medical
professionals. It also spoke with four other experts on US government
policymaking on Iran. Still, until Human Rights Watch has new leadership, it
should have no weight in the US and human rights policy debates”.
In
science, when you want to derive a hidden law of nature, you disturb the equilibrium
that's keeping things quiet. The disturbance will cause a change you can
measure and correlate with the amount of disturbance you used to cause the
change. And that relationship––between the cause and the effect––is what yields
the law of nature that was hidden behind the apparent equilibrium.
The
same method works out in human affairs. It is that when things are running
normally, you cannot tell what Mr. Hyde may be lurking in the skin of every Dr.
Jekyll you know. It is only during disturbed times, such as the spread of a
pandemic, that the true nature of the Michael Rubins of this world is revealed.
It is what happened this time, thank the stars.