COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY MARY DEJEVSKY IN THE
INDEPENDENT
Iran is extending its
regional power in Syria – this is Israel’s worst nightmare
The prospect of Iran
having a direct corridor to its borders, and even military facilities inside
Syria, not to mention the possibility of being able to link up directly with
Hezbollah, is Israel’s current nightmare – and it has started issuing explicit
warnings to this effect
It's only a nightmare because Israel deliberately chooses to
make it one.
Iran is a very large country - more people than any European
country except Germany - and it is potentially a very wealthy one.
It is completely normal and natural for them to have
contacts and arrangements and alliances throughout the region.
Why would any thinking person think of them as being somehow
less worthy of relationships and influence among their neighbors than, say,
France?
And what, in fact, Iran has done in Syria is to fight
genuine terror, doing so at the invitation of the Syrian government. This of
course contrasts rather sharply with American and Saudi and Israeli sponsorship
of the very same terror, using it as a way to topple a government they do not
like and to effectively partition the country.
Israel arbitrarily decided long ago that Iran was its enemy.
Why would that be?
Not because Iran has ever threatened Israel because it has
not, although the lunatic now running Israel has very much threatened Iran.
And look at the historical record. Iran has attacked no one
in its modern history. No one.
Israel, by contrast, has literally attacked every neighbor
that it has, some of them two or more times. Israel has also been the
whispering voice behind America's terrible Neocon Wars which have killed a
couple of million people and destroyed several countries.
Israel's behavior is based on the idea that it should be the
region's hegemon, despite its tiny population the size of London.
That automatically means that a very large and potentially
powerful country like Iran is branded an enemy.
With this arbitrary view of Israel’s, there is a kind of
anti-physics which comes into play in which a very small state feels that it
should have a far larger state orbiting it. It is not unlike the idea of the
Middle Ages’ scholastics that the sun and other large celestial bodies orbit the
earth.
It is ridiculous, of course, but it is very dangerous and it
only gains any traction because Israel's subsidizing "mother country"
pretty well does what is demanded of it in the region, as with the terribly
destructive Neocon Wars.
It is about time for the international community to pressure
Israel into living as a normal state, to stop threatening and attacking all its
neighbors. That is the only real solution to the problems Israel generates in
the region.
Iran is not going to attack Israel, but what we should all
fear from concern for peace and decency is Israel's attacking Iran or
manipulating the United States into doing so.
Trump's recent rhetoric about this absolutely law-abiding
state is frightening. Everyone knows they have scrupulously kept their word on
the nuclear agreement.
Just as everyone knows Israel has broken every international
law and agreement on the books with its nuclear weapons and threats, as well as
its nuclear proliferation work with the old Nationalist South African
government, which briefly and secretly became a minor nuclear power thanks to
Israel.
This kind of discussion of Israel's fears is really not
helpful at all.
We need to be less concerned with Israel's endless and
consuming fears (which are unwarranted and indeed used as a constant excuse to
hurt others) and become more concerned with its behaving like a normal state
honoring the rule of law.
Isn't it time, too, to stop making the innocent people of
the Middle east pay for what a European people (the Germans) did to another
European people (the Askenazi Jews) three-quarters of a century ago? None of the
Holocaust had anything to do with the Middle East.
There are many examples in history which closely resemble
Israel’s threatening behavior towards Iran, examples which are extremely
destructive and should provide us with a warning.
The Nazis claimed, from the beginning, that Russia (then the
USSR) was a threat to Europe and the West. Using this fear/excuse, they
launched the most destructive event in all of human history when they invaded
Russia, eventually killing 27 million Soviets and millions of their own.
I think the parallels with Israel's attitudes, statements,
and threats towards Iran are clear.
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Response to a comment
“The tyrannical Ayatollah regime has been creating havoc across the region”:
Thanks, Tel Aviv, but every informed reader recognizes the
truth.
It is Israel that has generated endless war and turmoil for
decades, invading everyone it does not like.
And please show us the millions who live under illegal
occupation by Iran the way we clearly see millions living under Israel’s illegal
occupation?
When was the last time a bunch of Iranians ran onto someone
else's farm or home and just stole it? It does not happen, but in Israel it is
regular criminal event.
And, of course, show us anything Iran does that possibly
compares to the hideous concentration camp for a million-and-a-half that Israel
has made of Gaza?
