- "Iran's biggest threat since Nazis,"
said Israeli defence minister Shaul Mofaz, according to the Guardian; "The
world must not wait! Since Hitler we Jews have not faced such a threat"
as presented by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who "further stirred international
outrage by calling on Israeli Jews to be resettled in Europe" (...thus
the Guardian).
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- These guys are hard to please! In the
1930s, Hitler called for the Jews to be resettled outside of Europe, and
they declared war on him. Now Ahmadinejad calls for the resettlement of
Jews in Europe, and the Jews still respond with a war cry. That is, unless
the Guardian missed the point in its report, and the outrage actually came
from the Europeans who preferred the Palestinians to serve as unwilling
host to these difficult guests.
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- Anyway I beg to differ: President Ahmadinejad
is the biggest threat since Gerard de Nerval, a flamboyant French poet,
promenaded a lobster on a blue ribbon lead, just as one exercises a dog,
along the Palais Royal gardens in order to épater le bourgeois.
A truly poetic soul, an enfant terrible if ever there was one, Ahmadinejad
aimed to wake us up from our over-long after-dinner nap. What can the Iranian
do if Jews is the only magic word that awakens us from this slumber? Sexual
innuendos would not bestir even a child fresh from his AIDS-awareness lesson.
An attack of Christianity would be warmly applauded by the undeniable masters
of European minds, Messrs Sauerkraut and Finkelrot. In this post-modernist
age, when the Vagina Monologues have entered the matinee repertoire, it
is not that easy to épater the increasingly blasé bourgeoisie.
If Ahmadinejad would call for the resettlement of six million European
Muslims outside of Europe, nobody would raise an eyebrow with the possible
exception of Oriana Fallaci and M. Le Pen, who might object to his plagiarism.
If he were to call for the erasure of France from the world map, the French
would not sit up and pay attention: they think there is already a Brussels
directive to this effect!
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- I admire Ahmadinejad. Not as a politician:
let the Iranians judge him on this merit. Not as a divine: I leave this
to the Muslims. But as a true poet who unveiled our hypocrisy and slaughtered
our last sacred cow. This is the only possible explanation of his deeds
and words: Iranians have really no reason to care about the Jewish holocaust,
one way or other. Nobody accuses them, not even Mr Yehuda Bauer of Jerusalem's
Holocaust memorial institute, who is prone to accuse the World and its
niece for failing to save the Jews. The Persians from Cyrus to Hosroes
to Mohammad Resa Shah were always good to Jews, and even in these mad days
there is a large and flourishing Jewish community in Iran. Ahmadinejad
spoke about the Holocaust like Hillary conquered Everest - because it presented
a challenge!
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- The innocent revisionist historians
were so excited when he toyed with an idea of finally discovering the truth.
They prepared their well-thumbed books and diagrams of gas consumption
and body heat. But Ahmadinejad is interested in the hard facts of World
War II about as much as Nerval was interested in exercising his lobster.
Acceptance of Holocaust dogma is a sign of submission to the Tel Aviv-New
York Axis, a sign of the new colonialism. Ahmadinejad refused it just as
St Paul refused to accept the Noahide laws: not because St Paul wanted
to partake of pagan sacrifices, but because he did not want to take his
orders from the Jews.
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- The European leaders, the docile supporters
of patent war criminals, of George W. Bush, the murderer of umpteen Iraqis,
Afghanis and sundry Arabs, of Shaul Mofaz, the murderer of an eight-year-old
girl (among hundreds of others) he killed last week in besieged Gaza, all
sat up and expressed their outrage. They did not object when Israel strafed
and bombed defenceless Gazans. When Israeli politicians threatened to turn
Iran into "radioactive desert", they did not describe it as "a
call to genocide". By his challenge, president Ahmadinejad saved the
honour of human race, as only a poet can do.
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- I admire Iran, for the fiery crimson
of their rose gardens and for the azure of its old mosques, for the ravishing
beauty of its women, whose black eyelashes enhance the whiteness of their
skin shining through their black chadors. I admire Iran for its marvellous
painting that overcame the iconoclastic ravages. I admire Iran for the
spiritual subtlety of its poets, who united their love to women with their
adoration of God in one undivided chant just as the Song of Songs did.
Their Rumi and Jami, Sa'adi and Ferdousi, Hafiz and Khayyam were of the
most daring and sincere poets who ever graced our earth. Ahmadinejad is
heir to their tradition, a daring mocker of our hypocrisy, a boy who saw
through the emperor's new clothes. Even if the ham-fisted Yank should flatten
this daredevil, and burn the rose gardens of Shiraz just as he once incinerated
the blossoms of Nagasaki, we may be proud of Ahmadinejad, our contemporary
who dared to tread on the tiger's tail.
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- The European and American reaction to
Iran's nuclear program was that of Uncle Tom's slaveowner, Simon Legree,
on learning of an escaped slave. How does this dusky dare to touch the
white masters' toys? Their empty talk of an "Iranian threat"
is designed for the ignorant: Iran has never, ever attacked a European
nation since the wars for Anatolia in the 5th century BC; whereas European
imperialists have repeatedly occupied and controlled Iran, most recently
in 1942, or by proxy in 1953, when they deposed democratically-elected
Mosaddeq and returned to dominate this ancient nation.
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- Yes, the old colonialism is dead. England
can't rule over Iraq, nor France over Algeria, but the new collective colonialism,
that of the imperialist Core of highly industrialised Western nations over
the rest of the world, is hardly any better. The old masters have decided
to pool their resources and powers to rule their erstwhile slaves together.
They switched from the Athenian model where a citizen had his slave, to
the Spartan model, where slaves belong to all Spartans. In this new collective
imperialist universe, the US is the arm, the enforcer of this new colonialism,
while the mind, the ideology is supplied by a vast syndicate that unites
and coordinates the majority of newspapers and networks of both left and
right from Madrid to Moscow and from Texas to Timbuktu, despite their pretensions
of competition and rivalry.
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- This syndicate is the real powerbase
of what two American professors, John Mearsheimer of Chicago, and Stephen
Walt of Harvard, (M&W for short) politely called "Israel Lobby
in the US" though this syndicate has other fish to fry beside that
of the State of Israel's. While fully approving of M&W's endeavour,
we should say: they minimised rather than exaggerated the problem, for
it is a global, rather than a local (the US) phenomenon. The fearsome AIPAC
is just the visible tip of iceberg below which are miles and miles of solid
ice: media lords, chief editors, their pundits, Masters of Discourse, in
short. As if by a magic wand, the Iranian crisis made it visible to the
naked eye: they have all cried out in one mighty voice like the legion
of demons in the Capernaum synagogue in response to Christ's words.
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- In his thought-provoking speech Ahmadinejad
said: "The vast Zionist network has been at the service of the imperialists
for decades." This is open to an argument whether the Zionist network
serves the imperialists, or the imperialists serve this network. It's an
example of Managerial Revolution: Jews were managers for the imperialists,
until they took over the show, some would say. Oh no, they remained docile
to their imperialist overlords, argue others. Whatever position we take,
the Zionists and the Imperialists are surely integrated and intermeshed,
and if one accepts the idea of the Iranian threat to Israel, one subscribes
to this demonic network.
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- The nations that refuse the Masters
of Discourse are subjugated by force. A nuclear weapon serves as a great
equaliser, as did the Smith & Wesson gun in the Wild West. In order
to prevent too much equalisation, the American pioneers kept guns out of
native hands. The same policy now drives the West in its attempts to keep
nuclear power out of reach of Iranians.
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- A few days ago I was invited to a live
discussion on Russian TV Channel One, where the Moscow BBC bureau chief
rhetorically asked why a peaceful Iran would need ballistic missiles, and
he listed the Iranian missile arsenal. He could not answer the question
of why a peaceful Britain would need ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons!
Actually, why would anybody need one? But if England, with its long and
bloody history of subjugating the Third World from Ireland to Japan, may
have these toys, then it is likewise the duty of any important country
willing to protect its populace from the Western masters' whims.
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- Yes, Iran is still working on a peaceful
program of atomic energy, but if and when that country decides to build
the bomb, we may support this decision, as it would enhance peace. Actually,
few people did more for the cause of world peace than Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg and their associates Harry Gold and Klaus Fuchs. These wonderful
men passed the secrets of American-built nuclear weapons to Russia, and
thus saved Moscow and St Petersburg from the fate of Hiroshima. Without
their heroic deed, the colonial masters would have turned Russia into a
radioactive desert. Joseph Stalin passed the know-how to emerging China,
and this was a very good deed -- otherwise the Americans wouldn't have
hesitated to nuke Vietnam as they did Japan.
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- The Russian nuclear shield is the only
thing Gorbachev and Yeltsin did not break down in their destruction of
the Soviet Union, probably because they did not expect the patriotic forces
to ever return to power in Moscow. This shield allows the Russians to disregard
the nagging of Frau Merkel, and gives them their freedom of choice: to
sell their oil and gas to Europe or to turn the stream towards China. It
allows the Belarus people to have the president they elected by huge majority:
without it, Lukashenka would share the fate of Noriega and Milosevic for
his steadfast refusal to sell the assets of Belarus to George Soros. Let
Iranians, too, have this freedom of choice, and restore balance in the
region.
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- And to sincere well-wishers of our Israeli
well-being I'll say: Iran is no danger. The truth is, the Jews could live
extremely well in Palestine. By making peace with the native inhabitants
in 1948, we would have kept our common home, Palestine, as the hub of the
Middle East with Iraqi oil coming to Haifa refineries and trains from Baghdad
to Cairo flying by Lydda and Jaffa, with Muslim pilgrims coming to al Quds
on their way to Mecca, with Christians walking in the footsteps of Christ
from Bethlehem to Nazareth and with Jews doing their aliya (this word meant
an annual pilgrimage to Jerusalem like the Hajj, rather than a permanent
immigration to Palestine as Zionists wont). We would prosper beyond our
wildest dreams, as the prophets promised, if we were to kick the nasty
old habit of separateness and dominance.
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- It is not too late even now, sixty years
and many deaths later. For this purpose, we may take the advice of Ahmadinejad:
let the exclusive Jewish state be eliminated from the map of the region
to be replaced by one state of all citizens of the land, Jews or not. "The
right to govern belongs to all people of Palestine, be they Muslims, Christians,
or Jews", said Ahmadinejad, and by golly, only a Jewish supremacist
may object to his words.
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- When I said this at the TV discussion
in Moscow, I was attacked by the Chairman of a Russian Jewish Congress
and Director of a Zionist Middle East Institute, a greasy and spotty bully
of a man with hanging belly, a living cartoon from Der Sturmer, with the
fitting name Satanovsky. "Watch out, - told me Satanovsky after the
show, - apparently you have never been beaten hard enough. Here in Moscow
we know of no restraints of democracy, my Jewish lads will tear your balls
off like they did to many men like you. Israel should remain a Jewish state
forever". Such Jewish Mafiosi are the real leaders of the Jewish Lobby
and chief supporters of the Jewish state abroad. These sort of people lead
the Jewish organisations in Russia, in America and elsewhere. They need
a Jewish state to escape their lands in the hour of wrath, but we, the
ordinary citizens of Israel, do not need it.
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- However, the Mafia can't rule forever.
I take heart in the words of Ahmadinejad: "The young tree of resistance
in Palestine is blooming and blooms of faith and desire for freedom are
flowering. The Zionist regime is a decaying and crumbling tree that will
fall with a storm. (Remember the parable of the barren tree? - ISH) Palestine
is the meeting point of right and wrong. The destiny of the region will
be decided in the land of Al-Qods and it will be a great honour to share
in the victory of Palestine." The victory of Palestine is our victory
and we shall be happy to share in it.
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- "Now, will there be a war?,"
one is often asked. I have no full confidence of George Bush, he does not
share his plans with me. But while the gatekeepers of the Left say that
Oil is the reason for the war, in my view Oil can be the reason for peace.
As the price of oil has now crossed the $70 threshold, President Bush must
decide whether he will survive its hike above $120 -- whether his voters
in the red states will happily accept the advice of an American Jewish
Congress pundit and director of their Israel/Middle East Office Eran Lerman
(previously of Israeli intelligence) to stop driving cars every other day.
Bush has the power to steer the US away from its perilous course, and tell
to the Jewish Congress pundits to shove it.
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- And to my Israeli countrymen: I'll remind
you of our age-long tradition of friendship with Iran. Two thousand years
ago, a picture of the Iranian capital city Susa was presented on the Eastern
gate of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem. Mishna (Berakoth 9) called for
being especially careful towards it: "never show disrespect to the
Eastern gate!" According to Rambam, this was done so that they would
have the fear of the king of Persia upon them. This tradition is worth
remembering and carefully preserving.
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