Iranian Nukes

Written September 26, 2009

At the recent meeting of world leaders at the UN General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a forceful, stirring and clarifying speech. First, he denounced Ahmadinejad's denial of the Holocaust and produced recently released documents from Germany showing all of the plans for the death camps and how to kill the Jews.

Then, for those who stayed and listened to Ahmadinejad's speech he said: "Have you no shame? No decency? What a disgrace, what a mockery of the charter of the UN." Wow - I wish our President spoke with that same truthfulness!

Netanyahu went on: "Perhaps some of you think that this man and his odious regime threaten only the Jews. But if you think that, you are wrong...History has shown us time and time again that what starts with attacks on the Jews, eventually ends up engulfing many, many others."

And then he explained that the struggle against the religious fanaticism exemplified by the likes of Iran, is a struggle that pits "civilization against barbarism, the 21st century against the 9th century, those who sanctify life against those who glorify death." Again, spoken with the type of moral clarity that I wish our own President was able to articulate. (Quotes from the 9/24/09 Jerusalem Post online.)

Then, yesterday, our President, with Brown and Sarkozi at his side, announced that Iran had a secret, previously undisclosed nuclear facility built deep into a mountainside. The type of site that made it clear to our intelligence people that it could ONLY be used to make weapons, and not for peaceful purposes. So what will this mean. Well, Iran was supposed to have until September to accept Obama's offer for a meeting. Now it is set for October 1. Iran will do nothing; and having come as far as they are to getting nukes, they are not going to stop now. Besides, the Europeans (England, France and Germany, with US support) started these negotiations SIX YEARS AGO! The entire time Iran has vacillated between talking like they were interested in some deal, and then not talking and refusing to deal. In other words, they were playing the West for fools while building up their nuclear facilities the whole time!

So now, there will be a meeting on Oct.1. Nothing will happen. Maybe Russia and China will even go along with tougher sanctions, using the undisclosed nuke facility as their pretext (although maybe Obama got their agreement in exchange for dropping the missile defense in Europe). Regardless, Iran will not back down even with sanctions. So does the West accept a nuclear armed Iran with the Ayatollahs and Ahmadinejad in charge? Or will they finally launch a joint military operation to eliminate this worldwide threat (something they should have done three years ago)? Or will they once again leave it up to the tiny country of Israel to do the dirty work?

If they leave it up to Israel, this brings up another issue. Zbigniew Brezinski, Carter's National Security Advisor, and current advisor to President Obama, has said that if Israel flies over Iraqi airspace to get to Iran then the US should send up our fighters to confront (attack) the Israelis. EVERYBODY GET THIS? He would go to war against our ally Israel in order to protect Iran's nuclear facilities! Iran - a sworn enemy of the US! (From 9/24/09 J-Post online article by Caroline Glick.) This anti-Israel mentality is consistent with that of a current member of the National Security Council, Samantha Powers. She previously expressed the opinion that the US should send troops into "Palestine" to fight against the Israelis on behalf of the "palestinians." And, sadly, this anti-Israel attitude is consistent with that of our Commander in Chief, who has been putting relentless pressure on Israel regarding the "settlements."

In fact, Obama described all Israeli settlements beyond the 1949 armistice line as "illegitimate." To remind everyone, Israel declared their independence in 1948 after the UN voted partition of the British Mandate into 2 states. The Arabs rejected the idea and Israel had to fight it's own war of independence. When the war ended in 1949, there were no final treaties or agreements. The armistice line simply reflected the territory held by each side when the hostilities ended. And there was no "palestinian" territory. Gaza was held by Egypt and the West Bank was held by Jordan. That was the status until 1967 when, in yet another war, Israel captured those territories as well as the Golan Heights and the Sinai peninsula. The Sinai was returned to Egypt after a deal was made following the Yom KIppur war in 1973.

So there is no basis for declaring Israel's settlements as being "illegitimate." The "palestinians" have never accepted and to this day say they will never accept the State of Israel. They believe that ALL the land belongs to them. So, absent any agreement EVER on borders, how can it be said that settlements in the West Bank are "illegitimate?" So, sadly, our President lacks the moral clarity that was so eloquently expressed by Netanyahu.

So Obama wants to go to the UN for sanctions and drag this on for how much longer? Until Iran has some nukes and then it's too late to do anything about it? We in the West are fools! After SIX years we still believe in more talking, more negotiating - even though those six years accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! Was it Einstein who said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again - and yet expecting a different result.

An Iran with nukes - G-d bless us all!