Look at this headline: “Iran-Saudi fury is the bitter fruit
of Obama's inept diplomacy.” It is the title of Benny Avni's latest column,
published on January 4, 2016 in the New York Post. Whether the author chose
that title or his editor did, makes no difference.
So then, what do you sense when you read a title like that?
You sense that the author is confident of the facts he is citing and certain
that what he says is the correct interpretation of them because his connection
of the dots is ingenious and his conclusions are impeccable. But as you read
the article, going deeper and deeper into it, you realize that the author is
mixed up, and that he is ignorant of the facts. The result is that you see him
preach a confused message.
In fact, nowhere in the article do you see an attempt to lay
out Obama's diplomacy, let alone see a discussion of it being inept. Instead,
you see two references to President Obama; the first of which comes at the
start of the article where Avni says this: “Our romance with Iran was supposed to bring peace … In President
Obama's seven years in office, hostilities between Iran
and Saudi Arabia
grew by leaps and bounds.” But not a single idea is offered to show the
connection between Obama's ineptitude and the current Iran-Saudi fury.
The second reference to President Obama comes at the end of
the article where the author says this: “Riyadh
is keeping oil production up, assuring that energy costs remain low. With that,
Obama can boast an economic recovery,” as if to say that romancing Iran – Saudi
Arabia's enemy – has led the latter to reward Obama with a gift he can add to
his legacy before leaving office. This is flabbergasting.
So you want to know how someone can come up with a conclusion
as absurd as this. Well, you get your answer reading what's between the start
of the article and the end of it. That's where Benny Avni recounts the events
that led to the latest spat between Saudi Arabia
and Iran .
He says that the State department denounced the Saudi execution of a Shiite
cleric; also denounced the Iranian sacking of the Saudi embassy in Tehran .
He goes on to explain that America called for calm, and that
Secretary of State John Kerry spoke to officials on both sides trying to defuse
the situation. Well, that's exactly what you would expect a superpower to do.
But that's not what satisfies Benny Avni and all those like him. Perhaps they
wanted to see the carpet bombing of someone (anyone at all) if only to signal
to the world that Uncle Sam is an Alpha male that has been aroused.
And this could well be the reason why the French Ambassador
to America
rushed to remind everyone that “burning an embassy is spectacular but not war.”
But instead of getting this message, Avni reacted in the typically Jewish
fashion of seeing that the subsequent deletion of the message – having served
its purpose – was a French admission that the Ambassador was wrong and that he
was apologizing. Self-delusion, thy name is Jewish fantasy.
Avni now asks this question: “Are the Saudis really the bad
guys here?” He answers by blasting both the Saudis and the Iranians, then
concludes this much: “There are no angels here.” Still, he says that “the
Saudis, our allies for a century, are at a crossroads.” He discusses the Saudi
Royal family, the proxy wars in the Middle East, even the feelings of the Arabs
as they see that “America constantly sides with Iran,” a reality that causes
“the Saudis [to] look on with dismay,” he asserts.
To buttress that argument, he does what Jews always do,
which is to pave the way for an ending of the article that serves the
Judeo-Israeli agenda. In this case, he says that the problem causing the Saudi
and Arab dismay is that the White House announced and then postponed the
imposition of sanctions on Iran
for testing a long-range missile.
To understand what this is about, we recall that when the
Israelis and the Jews lost credibility in Washington , they started hiding behind the
Arabs, making Jewish demands in their name. Thus, every time they want
something – which is their never-ending habit – they say that the Arabs have
asked for it.