by B. R. GOWANI
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu PHOTO/Olivier Fitoussi/Haaretz
Foolishness is not any one community’s sole property. Every, religious, national, ethnic, racial, and ideological group is equally endowed with it. The nature, in that respect, has been kind to all of us without any discrimination. But then there are human beings with competitive characteristics who, even in this field, would want to be number one. As if they’re trying to prove: “There are many fools, but we’re more fools than others.” (Sorry George Orwell.) Additionally, if any of those fools is also one of the most dangerous men, then stay prepared for a devastating war.
From 2001-2009, the title, “World’s most dangerous fool” was the sole prerogative of George W. Bush. This year Benjamin Netanyahu is wearing that crown.
First the dangerous part
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is itching for a war with Iran for quite sometime. His lame excuse to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities is that Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons which may pose “danger” to Israel. He, however, fails to mention that Israel is a nuclear power.
So on September 11, 2012, he said this to the reporters:
“The world tells Israel ‘wait, there’s still time’. And I say, ‘Wait for what? Wait until when?’ Those in the international community who refuse to put red lines before Iran don’t have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.”
“Now if Iran knows that there is no red line. If Iran knows that there is no deadline, what will it do? Exactly what it’s doing. It’s continuing, without any interference, towards obtaining nuclear weapons capability and from there, nuclear bombs.”
He chose an appropriate day, September 11, to tell the “international community”, that is, the United States, when patriotism of many people in the US was running high. Also the election campaign is in full swing. It is clear that President Barack Obama is in no mood for a war with Iran. On the other hand, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney not only talks about war with Iran but is also very friendly with Netanyahu. Then there are extreme right wingers in the Republican Party who would want the US to wage a war against Iran. There is a 99.99% certainty that if Romney gets elected, one of his first works as a president would be to declare a war against Iran–which the US can’t afford and can’t fight but would fight, of course, on borrowed money and others’ blood.
To channel 2 Netanyahu said:
“So the American clock regarding preventing nuclearization of Iran is not the Israeli one. The Israeli clock works, obviously, according to a different schedule.”
Israel receives about $3 billion in aid every year from the US. The only thing one can say about Israel is, this is the world’s first beggar who not only refuses to set up its clock according to the US schedule but is also threatening its patron.
Obama called Netanyahu on Tuesday night and talked with him about Iran. Neither the US CIA nor the Israeli Mossad had foreseen the changes to come in the Arab world, which started with Tunisia. Egypt’s Mohamed Morsi had been slow in responding about the Egyptians’ demonstrations in Cairo against the US embassy. In Benghazi, Libya, the US Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other foreign service workers were killed by the protesters.
Now the foolish part
How fool a person can be when countries in his region are burning with protests over a rubbish poor quality anti-Islam film Innocence of Muslims, while he wants the US to join Israel in attacking Iran?
And this idiot must be under the delusion that Israel would escape the horrible inferno which will cover the entire Middle East if Iran is attacked.
B. R. Gowani can be reached at brgowani@hotmail.com