Ilan Berman wants something from America that will help Israel continue realizing its expansionist agenda in the Middle East. Berman could have said so after listing what he wanted, and after showing how this would help Israel. But he didn’t.
Berman did not tell the truth
in the article he wrote under the title: “Why Iran's Syria Strategy Is
Shifting,” published on November 27, 2020 in The National Interest. What he did
instead was list what he wanted, having lied as to why he wanted it, and lied
as to what it was that prompted him to write the article.
Because lying is a form of
prayer for the Jews, every paradigm they construct relates to the truth in the
way that a Picasso painting relates to the real world. Also, in the way that a
monk lives by his rosary, the more that the Jew lies, the holier he feels, and
the closer he gets to being elevated to the rank of rabbi.
Rather than admit to the
reality that the American public is changing, which caused a change in the
government, therefore urge the Jewish lobby to shift its strategy when
addressing the new government to plead Israel's case, Ilan Berman started the
discussion by saying it was Iran that shifted, thus urged America to change in a
way that will respond to Israel’s needs.
Caught in the intractable
paradigm that the Jews have been advancing for nearly a decade, Ilan Berman saw
no alternative to hanging on to it while describing a new situation that
requires a new approach. What was said then to describe the paradigm came out
both sides of the mouth. And what Berman is saying now comes out both sides of
the mouth. These are two discourses that run parallel to each other while being
contradictory to one another.
Here is one discourse, “Israel
has carried out hundreds of airstrikes on Iranian targets in Syria in recent
years to send a clear message: Iranian entrenchment on Israel's northern border
will not be tolerated.” Whether or not that message was clear to the Iranians
remains to be proven. But what is clear to the reader of the article is that
Israel claims to have turned Iranian installations into rubble as fast as they
were built.
Then comes the second
discourse which reads as follows, “Iran has erected scores of military installations
throughout the country in an attempt to institutionalize its presence there.
All of this has been done based upon the longstanding Iranian view that Syria's
security is its own security.” This reveals that the claims of Israeli
airstrikes were lies or duds that were called successes.
Successful airstrikes or duds,
Ilan Berman acknowledges that Assad has won the war with the help of the
Iranians who are now consolidating their gains in the country by, “rebuilding
schools and restoring health facilities in the war-torn nation. Tehran has also
spent millions of dollars to open universities throughout the country. These
institutions are designed to influence a new generation of Syrian citizenry
through an educational invasion”.
This is what Berman fears, and
he sees no way to push back against Iran without America's intervention. There
was hope that this could happen while Donald Trump was president, but that hope
has dissipated when Trump lost the election. And so, while holding on to the
old paradigm that's made of lies about Israel winning, Berman wants the
incoming administration to take into account that, “by every social, communal
and economic metric, Iran's presence throughout Syria has grown. The result is
pronounced: Iran is in Syria for the long term,” airstrikes or no airstrikes.
The problem in Berman's view
is that the incoming President, Joe Biden is saying the wrong things. Instead
of taking as tough a line as that of Donald Trump or even a tougher one, which
is what's required, he says, Biden has done the opposite. Berman went on to
lament that, “Joe Biden has already made clear that he plans to take a more
accommodating, less confrontational approach to Iran than the maximum pressure
strategy employed by Trump”.
Berman goes on to cry out that
neither Biden nor his appointed advisers to the posts of Secretary of State and
National Security, “have explained how, precisely, they plan to roll back the
Iranian regime's [ever growing] influence throughout the Middle East.” And so,
Berman sent the usual blackmailing note to Biden. It is a veiled message that
boils down to this:
“Iran's deepening footprint in
Syria represents a significant flashpoint in the Levant. Israel's activism says
that officials are worried about Iranian entrenchment, and are committed to
preventing such an eventuality by any means. It's a warning [a threat actually]
that Washington would do well to take seriously. It would do even better to
formulate a serious plan for diminishing Iran's ability to shape Syria's future”.
So, this is how it
all ends when you become a friend of the Jews, and you try to help them. They
either threaten to stab you in the back or threaten to commit suicide by
attacking someone stronger and smarter than they.
This is what it came down to with Israel and with the self-appointed leaders of America’s Jews who pretend not to have double-loyalty and worse, lie about not having singular loyalty to Israel. Ilan Berman just lit his pants on fire.