Except for the one that bragged he could shoot to kill someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it, no mad leader has ever displayed a joyful state of mind, describing the real or hypothetical possibility of engaging in a violent act — especially one involving the termination of a human life — and getting away with it.
What
those who start a war against an enemy usually do, is accuse the enemy of committing
aggressions that require a military response. To prepare their own people for
what is about to take place, they would give a speech replete with terms that
conjure up incendiary images of the hell they are about to inflict on the enemy
as well as their own people who will be subjected to retaliatory strikes.
Whereas
this is the pattern of behavior you’d see among the leaders that have the power
to decide on matters of war and peace for their country, something vaguely
similar to that, is adopted by those who wish they had the authority to start
the wars they continually fantasize about, but can do no more than talk about
them, thus do no more than describe the state of their own desires.
What
these people do in effect, is purvey false narratives about nearby and farther
away neighbors, accusing them of using covert methods by which they engage in
incendiary activities that harm the beloved country. And so, they who have no
authority to start a war, engage in speculation to the effect that the country
will respond militarily to an aggression they assert will take place sooner or
later.
At
other times, these people would skip the speculation and go as far as recommend
that the country must respond to an aggression that never took place. They’ll
do all this with a straight face while promising the public that regardless of
the hardships that lay ahead, the country will in the end, triumph over the
enemy, and go on to celebrate a sweet victory.
You
can see one such example when you go over a recent article that came under the
title, “More Iranian Missiles to Syria: A Problem that a ‘Working Group’ Cannot
Solve,” and the subtitle: “Russia protects the shipment of precision guided
missiles to Iranian proxies.” It was written by Elliott Abrams and published on
April 28, 2021 on the website of the Council on Foreign Relations.
The
first thing that Elliott Abrams did was to express annoyance at the officials
in America and Israel who engaged in a kind of “anodyne” conversation, talking
about a situation that, in his view, requires a fire and brimstone kind of
language. He then went on to talk about an agreement they concluded between
them, according to which they’ll establish a working group which, in his
opinion, will be as useless as a dog that will bark but not bite.
Elliott
Abrams makes it clear that he felt better reading the website of a defense
publication reporting on news that should warn America about things getting serious
in Israel’s neighborhood. This is the part of the world where Israel engages in
aggression and expects no response from those on the other side. He admits that
when the latter respond to Israeli aggression, they do it to protect themselves,
but this is enough to make his blood boil. It is so because he apparently
believes that when someone blocks a Jewish punch that’s coming to his face, that
someone commits the lamentable act of anti-Semitism. The right thing to do, according
to Abrams and those like him, is to absorb the punch, and thank the Jew for
being so considerate as to have noticed him.
So
now, you want to know what Abrams saw in that defense publication that
heightened his curiosity. Well then, here is what he saw. He saw an article
entitled “Russian Fleet Protects Iranian Ships Smuggling Arms, Israelis say.”
But was anything discovered independently by the staff of the publication
concerning those allegations, and revealed in the article? Not a thing … as you
might have expected.
It
is clear that the entire narrative turned out to be a fabrication of the
Israeli propaganda machine in which Elliott Abrams is a significant component. They
planted a false story in a respected defense publication to give it credibility.
When this was done, Elliott Abrams took it from there, and built on the lie to
achieve a subtle goal you’ll be able to detect in the following paragraph:
“The
shift is occurring, Israeli sources told the defense publication, because of
the success of the massive Israeli campaign against the shipments of weapon
systems from Iran to the Hezbollah in Lebanon. Israel performed hundreds of
attacks on convoys on their way to Lebanon, as well on locations where the
Iranian made systems are stored before being transferred to Lebanon”.
Do you see what Abrams is trying to accomplish? He is preparing the Jewish rank-and-file and the Fifth Columnists in both the Congress and the regular media for what is to come. He is doing this while promising a glorious victory if they would all support Israel now and after the conflagration, which he asserts will come sooner or later.