POSTED RESPONSES TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
Fact 1: Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program
according to every expert and credible intelligence agency.
Fact 2: Iran belongs to the Non-proliferation treaty and it
permits regular inspections.
Fact 3: Iran has demonstrated no aggressive intentions in
its modern history.
Fact 4: The President of Iran likes to make tail-twisting
statements and likes to poke fun at pretensions, but he has never threatened
Israel. He is often misquoted by Israel in that regard, but what he actually
said is nothing more than what the CIA itself has said in internal studies of
Israel: it does not have a long-term future in its present state, and that fact
has nothing to do with war.
By the way, with all the propaganda we have dumped upon us
regularly, not many people know that Iran's President is an extremely
intelligent man, possessing a PhD in Civil Engineering. He is not a wild-eyed
fanatic, a description which much better fits the current Prime Minister of
Israel.
Fact 4: Israel does not belong to the Non-proliferation
Treaty, and it allows no inspections of any kind, ever.
Fact 5: There's a good reason for not belonging to the
treaty because Israel in fact has a nuclear arsenal of about 150 warheads. It
broke every law there is in achieving this status.
Fact 6: Israel is one of the only countries known to have
worked towards the proliferation of nuclear weapons. It worked with and
assisted apartheid South Africa in becoming a small nuclear power. The current
President of Israel's signature is on documents from decades ago offering to
sell nuclear weapons to South Africa.
Fact 7: Israel has very much demonstrated aggressive
intention - indeed, it has done so for the last 60 years, attacking every
neighbor that it has, many more than once. It started several major wars and it
has committed outright atrocities against the people of Gaza and Lebanon.
Fact 8: Israel is led by screaming madman, a man who daily
issues threats against those who have not attacked his country and works
tirelessly to get the United States engaged in yet another war. Both the
Presidents of France and the United States are on record as saying that he is
liar who cannot be trusted.
Grovel, grovel, grovel. Mr. Baird, it's okay to get up off
your knees now. It truly is distasteful to see a Foreign Minister of Canada
behaving in this irrational fashion.
Is there any stupid behavior this government is incapable of
as it chases campaign donations from special interests?
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"Nothing quite
like a story about Iran to bring out the Jew haters."
This kind of carelessly stupid rhetoric is repeated every
time anyone criticizes Israel.
The only merit in this boringly-repetitive and hateful man's
words - and those of several regular chums here in the cause of defending what
cannot be defended - is that this charge is becoming hopelessly threadbare.
The words already have become close to meaningless from
constant repetition.
But the words are well on their way to becoming laughable,
in a black comedic sort of way.
Remember the fairy tale of the boy who constantly yelled
"Wolf!" He enjoyed himself with his stupid antics, but when a real
wolf appeared, there was no one who would listen and help him.
It is the people with hard ethics and concerns for human
rights who always are the only real friends of people undergoing terrible
treatment.
The likes of Harper and Baird - right-wing opportunists -
were the very people in every country of Europe who never spoke up in the late
1930s. They were busy joining Bunds and Fascist organizations of every
description in Britain, Germany, Italy, and the United States.
Not a single liberal of conscience joined such filthy
outfits.
And it is liberals of conscience today who criticize
Israel's outlandish and savage behavior.
The leader of North Korea - a state often described as
"rogue' - is comparatively quiet and peaceful compared to the madman
running Israel today.
There is no other way to see the facts, unless you are blind
ideologue who cares nothing for truth, which of course is exactly what your use
of language says of you.
