COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN RUSSIA TODAY
Of course the Israeli Defense Minister prefers ISIS to Iran.
Big surprise.
Israel has been a major secret collaborator in creating and
supporting ISIS.
It is a tiresome game that has been going on.
Saudi Arabia and Turkey - both low-key allies of Israel now
for some years - are not doing work of which Israel disapproves.
Ever notice how ISIS never attacks Israel or Israeli
interests, just makes the odd vague threat to maintain its credibility as a radical
outfit? Of course, it is the same for Saudi Arabia and its interests, the
Saudis being a paymaster who is never threatened.
Israel has become a kind of genuine nightmare in the Middle
East, contributing to instability and destruction and death in every direction.
It is opposed to Iran only because Iran is potentially the
Middle East's big player, the role it covets for itself.
All Israel’s rubbish about Iran’s existential threat is just
that, rubbish.
Iran has never threatened Israel, but Israel has busied
itself with threatening Iran regularly and even assassinating Iranians.
Indeed, modern Iran has never started a war with anyone,
while Israel has attacked every neighbor that it has, some many times.
Israel is able to play this ugly game only from behind
American protection, a rather cowardly position like the proverbial calling
someone names from behind your mother’s skirts.
By the way, Obama has for the most part catered to Israel's
unending and tiresome demands on many fronts, as has been the case for so many
senior American politicians, Israel’s well-financed and coordinated lobby
holding their public declarations of loyalty to ransom.
