“Iran’s incitement to genocide
“Over
the years, Americans have come to discount statements on Israel and Zionism by
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Repetition has rendered them
unremarkable.
“Israel
must be “wiped off the map.” Zionism is a “germ of corruption” that “will be wiped
off the face of the earth.” It is a “cancer cell” that must be “removed from
the body.” The Zionist regime is “heading toward annihilation.” “They should know that they are nearing the last days of
their lives.” “Israel is destined for destruction and will soon
disappear.”
Cassi
Creek: There are many people who will
try to convince others that the
continual anti-Israel and anti-Semitic rhetoric voiced by the leaders of Iran
is simply political posturing.
If all the threats were originating
from a single source, it might be possible.
However, the threats emanate from multiple sources within the Iranian
religious/political machine. When the
supreme religious ruler of a theocratic state promises calls for Israel’s
elimination, it is best to take those threats seriously.
Iran may choose not to engage in open
attacks upon Israel. But they are currently
pouring weapons into Hamas in Gaza, HezBollah in Lebanon, and adding weaponry
and cannon fodder to Syria’s ongoing self-immolation.
Iran is pushing it nuclear weapons
program to develop and deploy nuclear weapons as rapidly as possible. They continue to claim that they have no
interest in or intent to possession of nuclear devices.
Israel takes the Iranian threats at
face value. They’ve endured 65 years of
statehood surrounded by countries that want the Jewish State pushed into the
sea or in some other manner eliminated. As Israel’s ally, we should take the
Iranian threat equally as seriously. The current stalemate is not likely to resolve
in the near future.
Iran has been the central focus of
anti-proliferation activities. The
failure to allow inspections combined with a complete lack of willingness to
forge any sort of peace with Israel and the U.S.; tells us that Iran does not
want anyone knowing how close they are to building a working warhead.
We haven’t heard quite as much about
Iran in the past few weeks. Our national
attention is focused upon a comic-opera dictator in North Korea. Kim Jung Un , hand-selected successor from
the ruling family Kim is striving to
quickly outdo his late father in the public display of dementia. North Korea may be able to mate a warhead to an intermediate range missile,
and send it down range. It is likely
that we can destroy such hardware if and when Kim decides to demonstrate to the
world just how power mad and divorced from political and other realities he
is.
There’s a question in my mind. Are Iran and North Korea working in league to
deflect the attention of anti-proliferation agencies, Israel, and western
nations from their ongoing races to become nuclear-armed nations? Does Iran saber rattle while North Korea
tries to overcome some problem or smuggle in materials that are supposedly
being denied them. Does North Korea huff
and puff to distract attention from Iran?
It is possible that such a conspiracy
to acquire nuclear weapons exists between Iran and North Korea. It is possible that Pakistan has become
involved with both nations. It is
believed that the Pakistan nuclear program was the source of technical
knowledge necessary to construct nuclear weapons that was leaked to Iran and possibly
other states. It is possible that both nations will develop and build nuclear
warheads in their “research facilities” dug beneath hundreds of meters of hard
rock in sites difficult to eliminate by air attack. Both Iran and North Korea are quite willing
to sacrifice the lives of their citizens to block any and all attacks on those subterranean
facilities.
It will be difficult to block any
efforts by Iran or North Korea to complete their plans to become nuclear-armed
countries. The time to make that stand
has, unfortunately slipped away from us.
Now, it will take far more powerful weapons to eliminate the nuclear
threat wielded by a fundamentalist theocracy and a delusional megalomaniac
without using nuclear weaponry against them.
Are the stakes high enough to justify
such an attack?
Shabbat
Shalom
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