“First of all, if you’re interested in foreign interference in our elections, whatever the Russians may have done barely counts or weighs in the balance as compared with what another state (Israel) does, openly, brazenly, and with enormous support.”
-- Noam Chomsky, in an interview with Democracy Now, 2018
When you hear the United States of Israel praising itself for defending democracy around the world (while attacking its own institutions), including Israel’s version of it, or supporting intervention that would establish “democratic” governments anywhere on the planet, know that this is propaganda in its purest form. In 1953, the US and British governments covertly overthrew a democratic government in Iran and installed a totalitarian monarchy, led by the last Shah of Iran.
The reason: oil. The Iranians had threatened to nationalize its oil industry, putting the boot to British Petroleum and US oil barons. That was not in wealthy Americans’ best interest.
Tired of the Shah’s extravagant lifestyle, oppression, and the foreign powers that controlled their oil industry, the Iranians’ threadbare tolerance finally snapped. Something had to give, and it did in 1979 with the Islamic Revolution. Iranian students famously took Americans hostage, the Shah’s government was overthrown and a version of the current hardline religious regime took power.
In 2013, the US released documents that confirmed its role in the 1953 overthrow. Ultimately and ironically, the current Iranian state, the one George W. Bush labelled as part of the “axis of evil,” and one that Israel desperately wants the US to bomb, is a lost democracy due to cheap oil that ran US plants and workers’ cars.
Iran is also the last country on Israel’s checklist for destruction and destabilization. Syria, enemy of Israel, was destabilized, and remains in shambles after a decade-plus-long civil war. Syria no longer poses a threat to Israel. If a Syrian fighter strays into or near Israeli airspace, it is eliminated. That is the only public face of the Jewish state’s war on Syria.
Iraq, enemy of Israel, was destabilized by the United States of Israel. The US lied to its own citizens, invaded Iraq, spent trillions of dollars and sacrificed thousands of soldiers, while Israel reaped all of the benefits: Enemy gone, nation in disarray, Arabs killed by the hundreds of thousands, and the survivors had no stable future in sight. What more could Israel ask for …
Iran, enemy of Israel, home to the Persian Empire and probably the richest and deepest historical culture on the planet, not yet destabilized. The hardcore Islamic Republic has been made the villain by Israel, in the latter’s desperate attempts to have it attacked, preferably by the Americans. Of course, Israel says it would act alone if necessary, but why get your hands dirty and piss off your other neighbors when you can have your pawn, the United States, do it for you.
Ideologically, of course, Iran is very different than the US, but it’s not really that different than Israel. The hardline religious fanatics in both countries have a similar track record in terms of their misogyny (abusive treatment of women), minorities, and liberal non-religious thinkers. Americans only hear about the Iranian version of these policies (see chapter 9).
Let’s see … if you’re an Iranian citizen, shouldn’t you be a little distrustful or hateful of the United States of Israel? You’ve watched the Americans blow up most of one Arab country, all the while footing the bill for Israel to blow apart one or two more.
The prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, has urged the United States to use any means necessary to prevent Iran from manufacturing a nuclear bomb. On one notable occasion in March 2015, he was given airtime on the major TV networks in the US of I and also invited to address a joint session of Congress to spell out his concerns about Iran’s villainy. Netanyahu wasn’t happy about President Obama taking a diplomatic approach to the issue. When Donald Trump became President, one of his first acts was to withdraw the US from a pact with Iran that the Obama administration and its European allies had negotiated, called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
It had been an effective negotiation that resulted in curbing Iran’s nuclear program ambitions along with the easing of economic sanctions in that country. Iran doesn’t have nuclear weapons nor will it any time soon because of this diplomacy. While still an authoritarian nation, Iran’s economy and standard of living started to climb out of the basement.
Some have suggested a narcissistic Trump dumped the plan simply because he’s a jealous racist who resented his Black predecessor in the White House. They point to the fact Trump also dumped or tried to dump other Obama accomplishments surrounding education, health care, and the environment.
Others have argued his reasoning was much simpler, that he was following the guidance of billionaire Zionist Sheldon Adelson, his largest campaign contributor. Even though Trump doesn’t seem exactly respectful or appreciative of Jews in general, he simply followed the orders attached to the money.
Of course, neither of the aforementioned motives should be thought of as anything approaching a legitimate basis for foreign policy.
A May 8, 2018 article in the Intercept points to some of the people who disagreed with the President’s decision to pull out of the deal:
Because guess who won’t be celebrating? The entire US military establishment: Defense Secretary James Mattis says he has read the text of the nuclear agreement three times and considers it to be “pretty robust”; Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford, who says, “Iran is adhering to its JCPOA obligations” and a US decision to quit the deal “would have an impact on others’ willingness to sign agreements”; the head of the US Strategic Command, Gen. John Hyten, who says, “Iran is in compliance with JCPOA” and argues “it’s our job to live up to the terms of that agreement”; and the head of US Central Command, Gen. Joseph Votel, who says the nuclear deal is “in our interest” because it “addresses one of the principal threats that we deal with from Iran.” Those are just the generals still in uniform. In March, a statement signed by 100 US national security veterans from across the political spectrum said the nuclear agreement “enhances US and regional security” and “ditching it would serve no national security purpose.” Fifty of the 100 signatories were retired US military officers, including leading Republicans such as retired Gen. Brent Scowcroft, who served as national security adviser to George H.W. Bush, and retired Gen. Michael Hayden, who served as director of both the NSA and the CIA under George W. Bush.
It is extremely unlikely that Trump ever read the agreement, but he dashed it on the rocks of the Israel Lobby, or in other words the $25-million campaign contribution from Sheldon Adelson.
Mattis resigned (Trump said he essentially fired him) and Dunford retired in 2019, as did Votel. Adelson died in January 2021.
“The Iran nuclear deal is the most comprehensive and restrictive agreement in history, verifiably preventing Iran now and in the future from ever getting a nuclear bomb,” stated the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI). The group’s slogan is “building a safer world,” and its global nuclear policy is “reducing reliance on nuclear weapons, preventing their use and their spread, and ultimately ending them as a threat to the world.” Not only did the JCPOA work, it provided economic and humanitarian relief to the citizens of Iran.
One country in the Middle East has nuclear bombs but doesn’t have to admit it, nor does it have to comply with relevant international nuclear treaties—Israel. That revelation would allegedly be considered dangerous to the country’s security, so none of the rules apply. David Stout wrote about the history of this reality in a New York Times article on November 29, 2007 entitled “Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal Vexed Nixon”:
In July 1969, as the world was spellbound by the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, President Richard M. Nixon and his close advisers were quietly fretting about a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. Their main worry was not a potential enemy of the United States, but one of America’s closest friends. “The Israelis, who are one of the few peoples whose survival is genuinely threatened, are probably more likely than almost any other country to actually use their nuclear weapons,” Henry A. Kissinger [who happens to be Jewish], the national security adviser, warned Mr. Nixon in a memorandum dated July 19, 1969—part of a newly released trove of documents. Israel’s nuclear arms program, which Israel has never officially conceded exists, was believed to have begun at least several years before, but it was causing special problems for the young Nixon administration.
Stout goes on to point out that the Nixon documents provide insights “into America’s close, but by no means problem-free, relationship with Israel”:
“There is circumstantial evidence that some fissionable material available for Israel’s weapons development was illegally obtained from the United States about 1965,” Mr. Kissinger noted in his long memorandum. He also said that one problem with trying to persuade Israel to freeze its nuclear program was that inspections would be useless, conceding that “we could never cover all conceivable Israeli hiding places. … This is one program on which the Israelis have persistently deceived us,” Mr. Kissinger said, “and may even have stolen from us.”
Remarkably, five decades later, American taxpayers kick in three to four billion dollars to the Israeli cause annually.
As Kissinger alluded, Israel would use its nuclear weapons on Iran to obliterate Muslims. If Iran were to use nuclear weapons on Israel, it would also mean killing millions of fellow Shiites, the Palestinians. Or as Roger Cohen, who writes on diplomacy and international affairs for the New York Times, put it in his column on April 20, 2009 entitled “Israel, Iran, and Fear”:
Israel has the most dynamic and creative society in the region, one that does not convict American journalists in shameful secret trials, as Iran has just done with Roxana Saberi; it has never fought a war with Iran; and it knows—despite all the noise—that Persia, at more than 3,000 years and counting, is not in the business of hastening its own suicide through militaristic folly.
So, why are the politics of fear ongoing? Roger Cohen helps us understand this:
How frightened should an Israeli teenager really be, how inhabited by the old existential terror, the perennial victimhood, the Holocaust fear and vulnerability from which Israel was supposed to provide deliverance?
Fear mongering, on any and all topics, has always been Israel and the US of I’s number-one sales technique.
Iraqi “weapons of mass destruction”? Nope. Drop the bombs anyway. Iranian “nuclear weapons”? Nope. But it never hurts to keep trying to convince a gullible West of their existence. In December of 2008, Israel’s defense minister, Ehud Barak, spoke at a conference at Tel Aviv University and stated that Iran could develop a weapon and attack the United States.
In an article in Haaretz on December 18, 2008, Barak was quoted as saying, “If it built even a primitive nuclear weapon like the type that destroyed Hiroshima [Japan in WWII], Iran would not hesitate to load it on a ship, arm it with a detonator operated by GPS and sail it into a vital port on the east coast of North America.”
Again, this is one small example of the ongoing lobbying effort to get the United States to do Israel’s dirty work for it, in the form of a military strike against Iran.
“We are not taking any option off the table, and we recommend to the world not to take any option off the table, and we mean what we say,” Barak added. Twelve years later, no nuclear weapons surfacing in Iran and no pre-emptive military strike from Israel or the US of I. At least, not yet.
In 2015, while breaking protocol and taking the unprecedented non-diplomatic action of not including then-POTUS (Obama) in the process, Speaker of the US House of Representatives John Boehner, a Republican, invited Prime Minister Netanyahu to speak before a joint session of Congress. Kind of like the State of the Union address the President gives annually, except this was from the leader of Israel instead. Netanyahu has spoken to a joint gathering of the House and Senate three times—in 1996, 2012 and again three years later.
Speaking of the annual State of the Union Address, President Obama gave his on January 20, 2015. In a one-hour speech, his words garnered seven unanimous (both Democrats and Republicans) standing ovations. The standing ovations marked the beginning of the speech, the conclusion of the speech, and five acknowledgements of a freed prisoner, an astronaut, and three references to the military.
However, when it came to Iran “Our diplomacy is at work with respect to Iran, where for the first time in a decade we’ve halted the progress of its nuclear program and reduced its stockpile of nuclear material.
[No applause.]
“Between now and this spring, we have a chance to negotiate a comprehensive agreement that prevents a nuclear-armed Iran, secures America and our allies including Israel, while avoiding yet another Middle East conflict.
[No applause.]
“There are no guarantees that negotiations will succeed, and I keep all options on the table to prevent a nuclear Iran. But new sanctions passed by this Congress at this moment in time will all but guarantee that this diplomacy fails—alienating America from its allies, making it harder to maintain sanctions, and ensuring Iran starts up its nuclear program again. It doesn’t make sense, and that’s why I will veto any new sanctions bill that threatens to undo this progress.
[Mild applause.]
“The American people only expect us to go to war as a last resort, and I intend to stay true to that wisdom.
[No applause.]
“I want future generations to know that we are a people who see our differences as a great gift, that we’re a people who value the dignity and worth of every citizen, man and woman, young and old, black and white, Latino, Asian, immigrant, native American, gay, straight, Americans with mental illness, physical disability, everybody matters. I want them to grow up in a country that shows the world what we still know to be true, that we are still more than a collection of red states and blue states, that we are the United States of America.”
[Polite applause from people in their seats.]
Meanwhile, six weeks later, Netanyahu’s address was designed to scare the US of I into taking action against Iran. The American people heard a message that most of the Congress had to acknowledge in public, despite private reservations.
No concern for US troops, no concern for the fallout internationally for US foreign policy, no concern for the economic impact in the United States—just do it for Israel. Netanyahu’s really not too concerned what it might mean to anyone else, not to mention the tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of dead, innocent Iranians.
Netanyahu’s speech garnered eighteen full-fledged standing ovations with cheers and hollering. The American politicians who attended followed along accordingly. Sixty Democrats boycotted the speech by not attending.
“I deeply regret that some perceive my being here as political. That was never my intention,” Netanyahu announced to start off the festivities. “I want to thank you, Democrats and Republicans, for your common support for Israel, year after year, decade after decade.”
[Lengthy standing ovation from all in attendance.]
His very next sentence: “I know that no matter on which side of the aisle you sit, you stand with Israel.”
[Even longer standing ovation with cheers and whoops. Are we clear, anyone who’s actually watching, are we clear?]
“Last summer [2014], millions of Israelis were protected from thousands of Hamas rockets because this capital dome helped build our Iron Dome [the name of Israel’s missile defense system that the US of I pays for]. Thank you, America!”
[Third energetic standing ovation.]
Netanyahu then turned his attention to Iran, a country he seems to blame for every act of terror that’s taken place around the world for the past thirty-five years.
“We must all stand together to stop Iran’s march of conquest, subjugation and terror.
[Standing ovation.]
“Now, two years ago, we were told to give [Iranian] President Rouhani and Foreign Minister Zarif a chance to bring change and moderation to Iran. Some change, some moderation [sarcastic tone]. Rouhani’s government hangs gays, persecutes Christians, jails journalists, and executes even more prisoners than before.
“Don’t be fooled. The battle between Iran and ISIS doesn’t turn Iran into a friend of America. Iran and ISIS are competing for the crown of militant Islam. One calls itself the Islamic Republic, one calls itself the Islamic State. Both want to impose a militant Islamic empire first on the region and then on the entire world.” This statement, for some, could be considered both outlandish and hypocritical at the same time. (See chapter 9.)
“The enemy of your enemy is your enemy,” in reference again to ISIS vs. Iran.
[Standing ovation.]
“I’ll say it one more time: the greatest danger facing our world is the marriage of militant Islam with nuclear weapons. To defeat ISIS and let Iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle, but lose the war. We can’t let that happen.”
[Full-house standing ovation with cheers.]
Netanyahu goes on to trash Obama’s diplomatic process and the nuclear deal the administration was in the process of completing, insisting that Iran would end up getting nuclear weapons anyway—lots of them. Not true, but he picked up another standing ovation anyway. He even lied about the time it would take for Iran to make a bomb, and falsely attributed the information to US and Israeli intelligence. Less than a year in both cases. (Eight years later following the diplomatic solution; still no bombs.)
Netanyahu then compared Iran to North Korea, after stating that by defying international nuclear inspectors, North Korea could have an arsenal of one hundred nuclear bombs within five years. Not true, not possible, didn’t happen, but sounds really scary. But here’s where the hypocrisy really kicks in.
“The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog agency, the IAEA, said yesterday that Iran still refuses to come clean about its military nuclear program. Iran was also caught—caught twice, not once, twice—operating secret nuclear facilities in Natanz and Qom, facilities that inspectors didn’t even know existed. Right now, Iran could be hiding nuclear facilities that we don’t know about, the US and Israel.” Netanyahu said it: “we”.
“Iran has proven time and again that it cannot be trusted.”
Netanyahu then explains that even if the deal works, in a decade it will run out, and that Iran could build a full nuclear arsenal within weeks. If you have ever sought an illustration to describe hyperbole, it is pronounced “high-PER-bowl-lee” and means exaggeration to the nth degree.
Netanyahu rambles on: “Think about that. The foremost sponsor of global terrorism could be weeks away from having enough enriched uranium for an entire arsenal of nuclear weapons and this with full international legitimacy.” He neglected to mention again to those now shaking in their boots that the scenario he was painting would be hypothetically ten years away. Hypothetical, because none of it would actually happen.
“So you see, my friends, this deal has two major concessions: one, leaving Iran with a vast nuclear program [not true], and two, lifting the restrictions on that program in about a decade [not true]. That’s why this deal is so bad.”
So, get this straight, the Obama administration was in the middle of negotiating a comprehensive nuclear watchdog program with Iran, with the involvement and support of all European allies, with Iran giving up vast concessions and taking the peaceful route to denuclearization, when the Republican Speaker of the House invited the Prime Minister of Israel to give a nationally televised speech to the Congress of the United States of Israel to try to scare the piss out of them with lies and exaggerations so the deal would be killed.
It was completely and utterly a grotesque political act. Scholar, political and social activist Noam Chomsky put it this way: “Israeli intervention in US elections vastly overwhelms anything the Russians may have done—I mean, even to the point where the prime minister of Israel, Netanyahu, goes directly to Congress, without even informing the president, and speaks to Congress, with overwhelming applause, to try to undermine the president’s policies. [That’s] what happened with Obama and Netanyahu in 2015.”
Netanyahu continued to insult Obama’s policy for peace with Iran: “It doesn’t block Iran’s path to the bomb; it paves Iran’s path to the bomb. This regime has been in power for 36 years, and its voracious appetite for aggression grows with each passing year.” This is clear hypocrisy with a capital H. The main reason hardline Israelis don’t like Iran is because Iran strongly and publicly disapproves of Israel’s habit of stealing Palestinian land, murdering innocents, and gradually erasing Palestine from the map.
Scared yet? Netanyahu continued. “If anyone thinks this deal kicks the can down the road, think again. When we get down that road, we’ll face a much more dangerous Iran, a Middle East littered with nuclear bombs and a countdown to a potential nuclear nightmare.”
His conclusion: throw out the deal, blow up Iran. Again, this would serve Israel, not so much the United States. In a New York Times piece from February 5, 2009, Roger Cohen pointed out just a few of the drawbacks of the oft-mentioned “military option” thrown around by US Presidents:
The United States’ role in the 1953 coup here that deposed the Middle East’s first democratically elected government lives in memory. Any US attack would propel 56-year-old Iranian demons into overdrive and lock in an America-hating Islamic Republic for the next half-century. From Basra through Kabul to the Paris suburbs, Muslim rage would erupt. The Iranian Army is not the Israeli Army, but its stubborn effectiveness is in no doubt. Rockets from Hezbollah and Hamas, and newly tested Iranian long-range missiles, would hit Israel. Chaos would threaten Persian Gulf states, oil markets and the grinding US campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. The US war front, in the first decade of the 21st century, at a time of national economic disaster [this article was written just months after the Bush 2008 “too big to fail” financial crisis] would stretch thousands of miles across the Muslim world, from western Iraq to eastern Afghanistan.
Hey, but it would ultimately be good for Israel. Or so say the empire-building wolves like Netanyahu.
He continued his speech. “If Iran wants to be treated like a normal country, act like a normal country. … It’s a very bad deal. We’re better off without it.”
[Standing ovation with cheers and whoops.]
Ironically, one of the biggest ovations was given near the end of the speech when Netanyahu introduced holocaust survivor, author and Nobel Prize winner Elie Weisel sitting in the gallery. “Elie,” Netanyahu said, “your life and work give meaning to the words ‘never again.’”
[Standing ovation.]
Irony must be lost on Netanyahu, because Weisel was a peace and human rights advocate; Netanyahu is anything but. Weisel was also an outspoken critic of the apartheid state in South Africa, while Netanyahu has driven to create one in Israel. (See chapter 8.)
Netanyahu finished his speech with a crescendo of provocative propaganda.
“I can guarantee you this—the days when the Jewish people remained passive in the face of genocidal enemies. Those days are over!”
[Huge standing ovation with cheers.]
“We are no longer scattered among the nations, powerless to defend ourselves. We restored our sovereignty in our ancient home. And the soldiers who defend our home have boundless courage. For the first time in one hundred generations, we, the Jewish people, can defend ourselves.”
[Standing ovation.]
“I know that American stands with Israel! I know that YOU stand with Israel.”
[Huge ovation.]
The speech culminated with a standing ovation for a full two minutes, subsiding only when Netanyahu walked away from the dais. He seemed almost bewildered as he walked up the aisle shaking hands. The applause continued until he left the room.
Netanyahu was more richly acknowledged for propaganda and war-mongering than Obama for a hopeful message of peace. A few months later, Obama successfully reached a diplomatic solution.
The New York Times editorial “Republican Hypocrisy on Iran” from August 2, 2015 said this:
The exaggerations and half-truths that some Republicans are using to derail President Obama’s important and necessary nuclear deal with Iran are beyond ugly. Invoking the Holocaust, Mike Huckabee, a contender for the Republican presidential nomination, has accused Mr. Obama of marching Israeli’s “to the door of the oven.” … The unseemly spectacle of lawmakers siding with a foreign leader against their own commander-in- chief has widened an already dangerous breach between two old allies. … Negotiating with adversaries to advance a more stable world has long been a necessity, and Republican presidents have been among its most eager practitioners. … America is stronger when important national security decisions have bipartisan consensus. None of that seems to matter to the accord’s opponents, many of whom never intended to vote for the deal and made clear during congressional hearings last week that facts will not change their minds.
The day before the editorial, a full-page ad in the same newspaper, featuring a holocaust survivor and purchased by the World Values Network, a group committed to “advancing a vision of Judaism” to America, stated that “a second holocaust was Iran’s stated goal.” The ad was the textbook definition of fear-mongering propaganda.
Three years earlier during the presidential campaign of 2012, we saw other classic examples of blatant bowing to the Israel lobby in regards to Iran. In a March 6 editorial in the New York Times, Maureen Dowd had acolyte Mitt Romney squarely in her sights:
Speaking by satellite to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference here, [GOP candidate Mitt] Romney outpandered himself. “I will station multiple aircraft carriers and warships at Iran’s door,” he said as if he were playing Risk. Not afraid to employ “military might,” Romney wrote a blank check to Bibi Netanyahu, who governs a nation roiling with reactionary strains, ultra-Orthodox attacks on women and girls and attempts at gender segregation, and increasing global intolerance of the 45-year Palestinian occupation.
As for kicking Iranian demons and worldwide hate for America into overdrive, the US of I found a new way to do it with the coronavirus pandemic of 2020. An obedient Donald Trump refused to lift sanctions on Iran, to provide relief, to allow emergency assistance for the hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Persians threatened by the virus. This insidious (gradual and often sinister) stance apparently brought a thumbs-up from the hardcore wolves and Zionists in his administration and in Jerusalem.
As for freedom of speech on the topic, Israel’s Foreign Ministry asked Israeli embassies in Russia, Canada, and Bulgaria to cancel lectures by a top Israeli expert on Iran because he disagreed with the government. In an article on February 26, 2020, the Times of Israel credited Israel’s TV Channel-13 for breaking the story, with the headline “TV: Israeli Embassies Told to Disinvite Top Iran Expert who Opposes Government Policy”:
Dr. Raz Zimmt, who previously served in senior positions in the IDF [Israel Defense Force] intelligence branch, was scheduled to visit Ottawa, Moscow and Sofia for lectures at the invitation of the embassies. But in a message to the Israeli missions Tuesday, Haim Assaraf of the ministry’s Strategic Affairs Division wrote: “Dr. Zimmt has expressed serious criticism of government policy on Iran and particularly the policy of maximum pressure we promote. In his statements Dr. Zimmt does not promote our diplomatic goals but rather serves as a learned and vocal opponent of them. .. If possible, I ask that you prevent his appearance,” Assaraf wrote, according to the report.
That Strategic Affairs Division, along with The Israel Project (TIP), are often responsible for the public relations efforts meant to guide and/or often deceive the world media, particularly American media, regarding facts on the ground in the Middle East (see chapter 10). Censorship is common in Israel; censorship by Israel in the United States is even more so.
Ultimately, Israel couldn’t convince the US to bomb Iran, but it wasn’t for a lack of trying. It was a major conversation during the first two decades of the new millennium. The Iraq lie/debacle from a decade earlier probably didn’t help its cause, nor did having a US president in Obama who wasn’t buying the rhetoric—rhetoric we’d all heard before in scribblings like that of Roger Cohen in the New York Times on April 9, 2009:
“Iran is the center of terrorism, fundamentalism and subversion and is in my view more dangerous than Nazism, because Hitler did not possess a nuclear bomb, whereas the Iranians are trying to perfect a nuclear option.” Benjamin Netanyahu, 2009? Try again. These words were in fact uttered by another Israeli prime minister (and now Israeli president) Shimon Peres in 1996. Four years earlier, in 1992, he’d predicted that Iran would have a nuclear bomb by 1999. You can’t accuse the Israelis of not crying wolf. Ehud Barak, now defense minister, said in 1996 that Iran would be producing nuclear weapons by 2004.
Even though it’s beyond annoying and dangerous, one could at least appreciate their relentless determination.
In the meantime, Israel took matters into its own hands on a micro-scale. They murdered Iranians inside the sovereign country of Iran. As the New York Times Magazine summarized in its January 29, 2012 issue, it’s believed Israel’s Mossad spy service assassinated five Iranian nuclear scientists in separate incidents between January 2007 and January 2012. They also blew up a brigadier general and a dozen troops in another incident in November 2011.
That’s a neurotic, aggressive country acting illegally. That’s not a normal country acting normally.
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