- Yet it is not hard to see how each side has talked itself
into a state of paranoia from which it cannot back down. Khamenei and Ahmadinejad
will not let in international inspectors to see their full nuclear programme,
much less control it, because, they say, the CIA used information gathered
by inspectors in Iraq to know where to bomb. Netanyahu, in turn, has convinced
himself Ahmadinejad is an incarnation of the genocidal anti-Semitism that
stalked Europe down the centuries. His rhetoric becomes as crazed as Ahmadinejad's.
When asked how he sees Iran, he replied: "Remember Amalek."
-
- The Amalekites are the primordial enemies of the Jews
in the Torah. In I Samuel xiv, 3, God says: "Go and smite Amalek,
and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both
man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass."
-
- Irrational fear and tribal-religious manias are now driving
both sides...
-
- For full article, go Here
-
- http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-will-the-
- looming-war-between-iran-and-israel-now-be-averted-1706858.html
-
|