Monday, March 23, 2020

A Justification as ugly as the Crime itself

Iran is not occupying someone country, it is not suppressing another people, and it is not bombing them just because it suspects they are up to no good. Israel does all these things, and does something else too. It constantly incites America to bomb this population or that one, and incites America to impose sanctions on this country or that one, including Iran, just because the Jews do not like this one, that one and Iran too.

Despite America's ill-advised pressure on the world, including its own allies, the world is sympathetic to Iran's plight, and doing all it can to alleviate the savage punishment it is suffering at the hands of the Americans. Despite America's ill-advised pressure on the world, including its own people, humanity rose up in unison to communicate to Israel that it must change its behavior or continue to suffer boycott, divestment and sanction.

This being the situation in the Middle East and around the world, what do you think is happening in America? What's happening is that a percentage of the Jews in that country pretend to be American but live with their hearts in Israel. They function as an Israeli Fifth Column in America while enjoying the privileges of citizenship. They rely on those privileges to snatch from America all that they can, and send it to Israel whether or not it is put to good use over there.

In fact, money and weapons being most of what is siphoned out of America and sent to Israel, you'll find that both contribute to the erosion of Israel's legitimacy in the eyes of the world. That's because the savagery that Israel commits against the people of Palestine, is committed with American weapons. And when the Jews are done killing Palestinians and ethnic cleansing a new swath of Palestine, they use America's money to build the settlements that make the occupation a permanent Jewish stay in someone else's home.

Unable or unwilling to see that their wounds today, like their wounds throughout history, have been self-inflicted, the Jews of America continue to incite that country to keep inflicting maximum pain on the people of Iran. Their excuse for adopting this stance is that they want to see Iran change its behavior. But what the Jews fail to realize is that the more they advocate that cause, the more they shed light on the fact that if Iran needs to change by a foot, the Jews––and not just Israel––need to change by a mile.

The trouble however, is that the Jewish voices advocating the wrong things while inciting America to bring those things to fruition, are much louder than the voices yearning to become normal human beings. The latter wish to integrate into the family of the human race, and want to see Israel transform from the pariah entity that it is to being a normal nation. This quest for normalcy and the opposition to it can be detected in the article that came under the title: “The Coronavirus Is No Reason to Let the Iranian Regime Off the Hook,” written by Jonathan S. Tobin and published on March 22, 2020 in the Jewish publication Algemeiner.

The Jewish argument for the last three years had been that (1) money is fungible, therefore any money that goes to Iran can and will be used to achieve the nefarious ends of the ayatollahs. (2) That the elites in Iran own a big chunk of the economy, thus are wildly wealthy and will not suffer the effects of the sanction. (3) For these reasons, America must apply maximum pressure so as to hurt the people of Iran and force them to rise and topple their leaders. Look now what Jonathan Tobin is saying:

“The problem in Iran is twofold. The toll of victims there is high for the same reason that the virus killed many people in China. As soon as cases of coronavirus began there, the despotic Iranian government sought to cover it up rather than spread the alarm about the peril. There's also the fact that the country's leaders control much of Iran's economy, and are sitting on vast fortunes that could alleviate much of their nation's suffering. While Americans are sympathetic to the suffering of Iranians, the answer to their problems is in efforts to force the regime to change its behavior. The only way to do that is to continue Trump's pressure campaign”.

As can be seen, Jonathan Tobin calls despotic the countries where the toll of victims is high. This makes Italy a despotic regime, followed by Spain, followed by a number of other European countries where the toll continues to rise. On the other hand, many countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America where the toll is low, remain liberal democratic in Tobin's eyes until such time that the toll there too will have risen to a given threshold. And this makes it so that China, which is now free of the virus, has become liberal democratic in Tobin’s eyes, while America where the toll is rising, is gradually becoming despotic.

Tobin is also making the point that Iran's leaders are sitting on vast fortunes that could be used to alleviate the people's suffering. He offers no evidence that there is this much money in Iran, but offers the opinion that money could solve the coronavirus problem. He thus defeats his earlier assertion that starving Iran of money while applying maximum pressure did not aggravate the virus problem in Iran. A typical Jewish shooting the self in the foot trying to have it both ways.