COMMENT ON A PIECE BY DANIEL HALPER IN THE WEEKLY STANDARD
John Chuckman
It really does not get more uninformed and deliberately
provocative than "U.S. Threatens Sanctions Against Israel, Makes Excuses
for Iran."
This stuff reads like an official news release from the old
Politburo.
There is no need for excuses for Iran. It has done absolutely
nothing requiring excuses.
It hasn't attacked anyone in its modern history, is a member
of the international treaty on nuclear weapons permitting inspections, and
every intelligence service, including Israel’s, knows it has not been trying to
build a bomb.
The genuine madman running Israel, on the other hand, has
yelled for years that Iran is building a bomb, going against his own
intelligence service. The madman just won re-election by promising no state for
the Palestinians, so presumably five million people will be kept without any
rights or votes forever? Or perhaps expelled in a future massive ethnic
cleansing?
Without outside pressure on Israel, clearly nothing will
happen to correct this shameful, longstanding, and potentially deadly
situation.
Israel, in contrast to Iran, has attacked every neighbor
that it has, some more than once. The madman himself killed 2,200 people only
recently in a senselessly brutal assault. The madman’s yelling about Iran is
about nothing other than wanting complete dominance of the region and as a
distraction against the very bad economic conditions in Israel for ordinary
people and against the tremendous tensions he has created in Jerusalem with his
regular theft of property and mistreatment of ancient residents.
Israel, again in contrast to Iran, does not belong to the international
nuclear arms treaty and does not allow inspections of nuclear facilities, and
it does have a stockpile of thermonuclear bombs. Moreover, it participated in a
deadly serious secret proliferation of nuclear arms with the former apartheid
South Africa, then a good friend and trading partner.
Does it feel good to go to bed each night knowing you're making
every effort as a writer to promote war with a peaceful country, Iran, and
continued mass slavery in Israel?
