ed note–as always, lots of ‘must knows’ that every war-weary Gentile with a vested interest in his/her own future survival needs to understand about all of this.
Firsto, ladies and Gentile-men, please do yourselves and the pursuit of truth the honor of asking the horde of ‘experts’ out there in the blabbosphere, with their podcasts, blogs, vlogs, etc, how all of this, i.e. the ending of the war with Iran which Israel is demanding, squares with the tidal wave of chirping and chattering that has taken place as of late that Trump is a mere slave to Netanyahu and to his tentacled tribe members including Miriam Adelson…
It can’t be both, folks. POTUS Trump is either their slave, or he isn’t, and the notion that the only reason he worked out this war-ending deal with Iran was because Netanyahu and the Jews ordered him to do it?
Forget about it…
As we say often, the complex and convoluted nature of today’s gangster politics, where the Jews are involved up to their visible-from-a-mile-away noses is a lot more complicated than a few memorized slogans like the infamous ‘4 legs good…2 legs bad’ that appeared in George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’.
Now, as far as the piece below is concerned, nota bene the following–
Make no mistake about the fact that the following snarling screed on the part of this ‘disaffected’ rabbi is a veiled threat to POTUS Trump in typical Judaic gangsterese. The Jews are boiling-blood furious over being ‘robbed’ of their 3,000 year old plans for world domination that hinged (and continues to hinge) on the destruction of Persia, the same Persia whose destruction the Jews have been celebrating (pre-emptively) every year at ‘Purim’.
Exactly HOW the Jews are going to try and ‘flip the script’ on POTUS’ ‘Deal of the Century’ with Iran and the rest of the Middle East is of course at this point a question mark.
But the notion that they are going to just walk away from this and do nothing and that the comments contained in this snarling screed about Europe having ‘placed itself on a trajectory towards its own extinction’ was not a veiled threat about what the Jews are planning?
At the risk of appearing overly-repetitive, ‘forget about it’.
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky for Israel National News
It is prudent to be skeptical of anything Donald Trump says, whether it pertains to his ‘landslide’ electoral victories or his various ‘peace’ deals across the globe.
This skepticism is triply warranted regarding the highly touted ‘peace deal’ with Iran whose details are still largely unknown, speculative, fanciful, and exceedingly fluid.
Trump will of course boast that due to his remarkable negotiating skills, he has successfully pressured Iran into reopening the Straits of Hormuz, which of course were open to navigation before the current hostilities began on February 28.
In other words, Trump’s conduct of the war induced Iran to close the Straits, plunging the world’s markets into turmoil and driving up the price of oil precipitously. His management of the war, including the underperformance of the US military that failed to reopen the Straits, has succeeded only in restoring the status quo ante with one major exception: Iran now realizes that it controls the Straits and can open, close, and regulate them with impunity, and with full immunity from any consequences.
And, oh yes, one more thing. Although details are still hazy, it is safe to say that Iran certainly expects that in exchange for its agreement to reopen the Straits (whose closure was a blatant violation of international law) it will receive multibillions of dollars of financial relief that will revive its battered economy and facilitate its support of terror across the region.
Trump’s surrender, no matter how he spins it, is truly Obama-worthy, and Iran’s mockery of Trump and its characterization of the American ‘defeat’ will irritate him no end, if not derail the agreement entirely.
Peace is not coming. Iran is not yet defeated, but it is greatly weakened and its vulnerabilities are still exposed. The current war was necessary and worthwhile, even if Trump, for his own reasons, is aborting it, eschewing victory and reverting to the West’s embrace since World War II of stalemate instead of success, of kicking the can down the road in place of resolve and resolution and of appeasing evil because it has abandoned any understanding of objective morality, of good and evil.
Europe’s amorality, coupled with its failed pursuit of material prosperity, has placed itself on a trajectory towards its own extinction. Obama’s statecraft was not much different, and now Trump’s partakes of the same.
If the whole point of life is to make money and as much as possible, then war with Iran or any other evil entity is bad for business. Indeed, even acknowledging the power of ideology is counterproductive and so it is best to deny that any nation, including Iran, has any exterminationist motivation, and so that doesn’t exist even if it does. In Trump world, unwelcome facts are simply ignored, and harping on them is considered rude.
The materialist will never comprehend the power of religious ideology and certainly not the depth of religion-based hatred. The fact of its existence is dismissed as ‘fake news’, and Trump has been one of its leading disseminators.
American and Israeli interests were bound to diverge at a certain point, and that point has arrived. Iran’s threat to Israel and the United States is existential but the US has the luxury of ignoring Iran for a longer period than Israel can. The fact that the Iranian regime has spent the better part of forty-seven years humiliating the United States is of little moment. Iran has been governed during the last (almost) half century by essentially one regime with a depraved but consistent ideology, while the US has had eight presidents of different ideologies, backgrounds, objectives, and approaches.
It is no wonder that Trump wishes to tuck tail and run. Iran is weakened, for sure, but while it threatens Israel today, its threat to the US will be the problem of some other President. Obama’s policy was literally kicking the Iran problem down the road. For all his bluster and protestations, that is Trump’s policy today, maybe not tomorrow, but probably again the day after.
Any sentient observer realizes that Trump, wearing his Obama mask, has succumbed to Iran’s hoary tactics of endless negotiation, conceding and then retracting, agreeing to a final deal and then insisting on one last concession from its interlocutors that undoes much of what was agreed to, and then not abiding by any agreement it does sign. If Trump really believes that Iran will ever willingly divest itself of its nuclear program or materials, then he is now, officially, the most dangerous man in the free world, not its leader. Iran, much like Trump did repeatedly in his years as a real estate developer, will sign something, and then weasel, haggle, threaten, litigate, and not pay up. He might even know this, not that it matters.
As the American novelist Upton Sinclair once wrote, ‘It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it.’ In Trump’s case, it is not his salary but his world view, his ambition, and his hubris that requires him to look away from Iran’s aggressions and its war against America.
Ultimately, it doesn’t matter if Trump allows himself to be deceived because the war is unpopular in the United States, or because he fears a Republican defeat in the midterms, or because the American military has failed to achieve its war objectives despite the hype and spin. What does matter is that the US under Donald Hussein Obama allowed Iran to gain the upper hand in the Straits of Hormuz, could not reopen it despite the disparity between the American military might and Iran’s decimated forces, and could not even defend its own bases in the Gulf Arab states and the Gulf Arab states themselves.
That does not bode well for them, or, for that matter, for Taiwan, or other US allies.
As for us in Israel, we should be grateful for past, present, and future assistance from the United States, and certainly for their actions in the last two years that facilitated many of our successes, and particularly the debilitation of all our enemies and the projection of Israeli power on every front and into enemy territory.
Sometimes, as with the biblical (and perhaps current) Amalek, the task of our generation is to weaken them when they can’t yet be defeated.
But we should not delude ourselves into thinking that our interests with the US are identical. We certainly should not constrain our actions against enemies who wish to destroy our State and murder Jews because of an agreement made between the US and Iran to which we were not a party and in which our interests were not primary or even secondary considerations.
No nation waives its right of self-defense and no self-respecting nation allows its right of self-defense to be merely theoretical. This might require publicly calling out Mr. Trump and asking him ‘which American border towns would he allow to be rocketed, and how many US citizens would he allow to be murdered without any response because of ‘geopolitical considerations?’
That question neatly frames our dilemma, our options, and the untenability of demanding our restraint. We need not like Trump wearing an Obama mask and we need not acquiesce to its broader ramifications. Trump does not like war, and in truth, no sane person seeks war, but as George Santayana wrote, ‘only the dead have seen the end of war.’
That is neither our fate nor that of the world, until the coming of Moshiach.
Until then, we fight evil, even if we must do it alone and even when the tough talkers slink away cowardly when the going gets tough.