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Sometimes I have the impression that I waste my time on DV. There seems to be a misunderstanding here. As response to my “drivel” of Ahmadinejad you have pasted the links above. I know about that. The full text of his speech at the Durban Review Conference in Geneva on April 20th, 2009 lies somewhere on my table. Ahmadinejad is undoubtedly vigilant, sees through the mechanisms and ideology of Zionism and has so far courageously resisted Imperial conditions disguised as negotiations.

I mentioned drivel in relation to his bluffing about Iranian military power. His military equipment is in comparison to that of Israel indeed rubbish. As the U.S. administration dragged Saddam Hussein into a war against Iran in 1981 which lasted 8 years the Iranian army did not show any significant strategic capabilities. Iran is still a developing country. The bluffing of Ahmadinejad about Iranian military power makes him and his country more vulnerable to western medial deception.

To rattle the cage
“I don’t want to get overconfident, but there were glimmerings of sanity on the subject of Iran from not one, but two leading Israeli politicians this week.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak: “We are not the Jews of Europe. The State of Israel is the strong one here. I don’t see anyone annihilating it.”

Opposition leader Tzipi Livni: “(T)he connection to the Holocaust… is wrong, both with regards to the Holocaust itself, and also with regards to the correct ethos of our nation, from the perspective of its strength.”

What should we make of this? It might be that Barak and Livni were just getting in a dig at their rival, Prime Minister Binyamin (”It’s 1938 and Iran is Germany”) Netanyahu, but maybe they meant what they were saying. Maybe they really think the balance of power between Iran and Israel is more than a little different from what it was between Nazi Germany and European Jewry. They may even think Iran’s leaders actually aren’t looking forward to dooming their ancient civilization to nuclear extinction at the hands of Zionists.
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Taking Barak and Livni at their word, those are some pretty daring statements to be making in 21st-century Israel. To suggest that we are living through anything but a reprise of the European ’30s is considered either fatally naïve or subversive. It’s considered our patriotic duty to be scared to death of Iran, and it’s our leaders’ responsibility to keep themselves and us at the end of our wits. And we’re all doing a great job. We’ve come up with all sorts of doomsday scenarios that don’t even require the Iranians to use nuclear weapons against us; they can destroy Israel just by having them, we’re convinced.

“THE FIRST-STAGE Iranian goal, in the understanding of Netanyahu and his advisers, is to frighten Israel’s most talented citizens into leaving the country,” wrote The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg after an interview with the prime minister. Michael Oren, just before being named ambassador to the US, wrote in Commentary that if Iran goes nuclear, “Israel will swiftly find itself in a profoundly unstable nuclear neighborhood prone to violent revolutions and miscalculations leading to war. As former Labor Party minister Efraim Sneh says, under such circumstances, all Israelis who can leave the country will.”

What? Where do they get this idea? There are tens of thousands of enemy missiles pointed at Israel at this moment; the Iranians, the Syrians and who knows which other Muslim countries have chemical weapons and maybe biological weapons as well – and is any Israeli running away?

Did any Americans flee the US during the Red Scare? Did any Reds flee Russia? Has India become depopulated in the decade since Pakistan got The Bomb? Are the Pakistanis emigrating en masse in fear of nuclear-armed India?

What is this craziness? Israelis are going to leave the country if Iran builds nuclear weapons? Actually, they might, if people keep telling them that Hitler’s back and this time he’s got nukes and he’s going to turn the country into one big Auschwitz. With that sort of message dripping into our brains day after day, maybe this place really would empty out if Iran got nukes.

MORE LIKELY, of course, this brainwashing by popular demand will cause us to attack Iran – unless Barack Obama stops us, which I think he will. But then who knows? If you take Netanyahu at his word – a dicey proposition, I know – he’s going to do whatever’s necessary to keep The Bomb out of Iran’s hands, no matter what price he or Israel has to pay. What is Obama, what is America, what is anything when you’re convinced your country is on the brink of destruction?

And again, destruction wouldn’t have to come from falling Iranian nukes – according to leading-edge opinion around here, Iran’s mere possession of nuclear weapons would cause not only mass emigration but a flight of foreign capital, too. The economy would dry up!

What’s more, Hamas, Hizbullah and the other Islamic fanatics would come under the protection of an Iranian “nuclear umbrella.” They’d feel free to attack us and we’d be afraid to hit back because if we did, Iran would nuke us. Israel would be overrun by jihadists!

In short, the thinking here is that even though we have a nuclear, biological and chemical arsenal that Iran couldn’t match in a million years, the emergence of an Iranian nuke, even if it’s never fired, will turn Israel into something like Darfur.

These are the stories we tell ourselves.

Naturally, I’d feel safer if Iran didn’t get The Bomb. But what scares me more than the ravings of Ahmadinejad is the bad nerves and Holocaust fixation of this country, starting with Netanyahu. I think that what Israel might do out of fear is a greater threat to all concerned than what a nuclear Iran might do out of religious fanaticism or anti-Semitism.

Yes. That’s how far I think our paranoia has gone. Our number one strategic goal, as far as I’m concerned, is not to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, but to calm the hell down. It’s the Iranians who should be scared – and they are. It’s we who don’t have to even use our nuclear weapons – it’s enough just that we have them. “

The very same criminal Zionists who collaborated with the white-supremacist regime of Apartheid in South Africa, the dictatorship in Argentina, the US-puppet Somoza, … deserve no fate other than that doled out to their brethren in South Africa – the trash-bin of history.

Because there are a lot of Zionists parading as “progressives” and “leftists”.

An Iranian expert said Wednesday that the launch of Sijil-2 missile by the Islamic Republic of Iran was a clear message to the Zionist regime and a response to any possible foolish act by the regime to attack IRI’s strategic sites.

In an interview with al-Alam TV network on Wednesday, Amir Mousavi referred to high capabilities of the new Iranian-made ballistic missile including its high destruction power and accurate aiming and said the launch of the missile was a clear message to the Zionist regime.

Rejecting the regime’s claims that the missile is a threat for the European countries, Mousavi said the missile’s range is not too long to hit the European countries, “but it could inflict severe damages on the Zionists.”

http://english.iribnews.ir/NewsBody.aspx?ID=2848

Drivel?
http://www.wideasleepinamerica.com/2009/04/on-ahmadinejad-and-progressive-myopia.html

Here is president Ahmadinejads speech:
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2009/04/21/full-text-of-president-ahmadinejads-remarks-at-un-conference-on-racism/

‘It is a state of permanent war that is finishing off the liberal traditions in Israel and the United States. The moral and intellectual trolls—the Dick Cheneys, the Avigdor Liebermans, the Mahmoud Ahmadinejads—personify the moral nihilism of perpetual war’
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090518_the_disease_of_permanent_war/

Excuse me chris,but Ahmadinejad??? How can he possibly be used as apersonification of war???

Id like to alert people to this blog, which is more on the money:
http://www.wideasleepinamerica.com/2009/04/on-ahmadinejad-and-progressive-myopia.html

Deception devices of media are of course more sophisticated than Powell’s inane appearance at the UN. Through lingual manipulation of content the media can misuse a current mindset, in this case Israeli and U.S. fear of Iran which could change the map of hegemony in the Middle East, offer far-fetched interpretations and present them as conclusions of respective material (said or written words). In other words, they selectively (deceptively) read between lips.

Certainly Iran is not that strong as Ahmadinejad tries to tell the world with his drivel. I wish tha this guy could slow down and soften his rhetoric which is equivalent to the boring and empty Arab Heroism in the last decades.

1. Did we build this missile?

2. Did we sell this missile to them?

The answer, clearly, is NO. Since that is the answer to both questions, of course the media is going to question the uses to which these missiles may be put. I mean, obviously, the missiles did not profit the US (us in lower case in case you hadn’t noticed.) This is NOT acceptable.

Now, if Iran, or anyone else wants missiles, they can have them … but they must be missiles we built, and they must be missiles aimed at those ‘evil others’ who might not already be beholden to the empire of US (again think lower case) because if you don’t do as US says, then you must be THEM.

THEM is bad.

US is good.

Simple.

Grammar be damned. Just like THEM.

RG the LG