Where does the piss-ant, malevolent, thuggish and personal-grooming-challenged President of Iran get off threatening Europe like that?
Forget about his obsession with denying the Holocaust, which as I have explained before is not lunacy but serves him a sinister political purpose (to confirm that Israel has no right to exist). Forget about his insistence on the destruction of Israel. Just focus on the threats to Europe, (because America is too far away for him to mess with). It is inexcusable for the leader of a country to try to instill fear in an entire continent in such a way, even if it's an empty threat. I wonder if in olden times when people spoke like that about other countries the tendency was to bring out the catapults and the flaming arrows. How can the world deal with this bastard, I'm still trying to figure out. How can there be room for diplomacy with the use of such language? He is obviously aiming to provoke sanctions at the very least. Without resorting to violence, I think the rest of the world should squeeze his balls as hard as is humanly possible. That the innocent citizens of Iran are going to have to pay the price is horrible, but just when is enough enough?
I think I have written here before that in my lifetime I never felt fear for the destruction of Israel. Well, now I do. And it is a serious anxiety. I have no doubt that Israel can defend itself against Iran, but we don't want it to be put in that position to begin with.
A political long-term and best solution is for Israel, Europe, the US and the inexcusable Arab gazillionaire oil-dictatorships who are supposed to be friends with Bush to push for a Palestinian nation ASAP. It will not solve everything, but it will take away the one excuse everybody has for their ongoing hatred. As I can almost bet you, even if Israel were to show 100% political will and retire from the West Bank and make big concessions, still it is not in the interest of the Arab world to solve the Palestinian problem. The Palestinian issue is their escape valve, their scapegoat, their distraction against their own godawful failings to their own nations. But it is one of the only avenues that can be taken as soon as possible without resorting to violence. I'm not a naive peace loving hippie, but war and invasions should always be the last resort; although the first impulse is to hope someone takes out this bastard with a clean shot to the head.
Here, to make things slightly more complicated, an interesting article about the Jews of Iran.
Sunday, October 22, 2006
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