- Hasbara author (1) David Aaronovitch is pretty much unstoppable.
The man who together with the Jewish Chronicle writer Nick Cohen encouraged
the war in Iraq, is now warning us about the evolving Iranian bomb. "Wake
up", he urges us in The Times, "this threat is too big to ignore".
As if more than one million Iraqis killed in a war he advocated were not
enough, the enthusiastic Hasbara author has a new conflict to propel.
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- Aaronovitch, who back in 2003 was mobilized by an imaginary
threat that was crudely forged by Blair & Co, seems to be shaken again.
This time it is the Iranian nuclear threat. "Most experts seem to
agree, training the steed is mostly a matter of time." There is something
Aaronovitch is failing to mention. The state that lists him as its 'Hasbara
author', the state that was recently found complicit in some colossal crimes
against humanity, evidently possesses hundreds of nuclear bombs that has
kept the entire region in constant red alert for more than four decades.
The Jewish state has not signed the non-proliferation treaty and does not
let any IAEA inspectors into its nuclear facilities.
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- Watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbjgDERSuiI
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- Aaronovitch is worried because "there are suggestions
from different sources that Iran is indeed researching a weapons capability."
I would ask Aaronovitch, or any other Hasbara operator, to come with an
answer to this rather pertinent question: why shouldn't they?
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- Iran is threatened by Israel, America and the West on
a daily basis. Unlike Israel, a nation spiritually guided by suicidal biblical
and historical narratives such as Samson and Masada (2), Iran's military
nuclear project can only be realised as a defensive one. Iran needs its
bombs to deter Israel, America and Britain. Iran is not going to launch
a nuclear attack against Israel risking the life of millions of Muslims
in the region. It has no reason to do so and it won't. For Iran and every
other state in the region, except Israel, nuclear weapons can only be understood
as a means of defence and deterrence.
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- I would even take it further and suggest that if Iraq
had the arsenal of WMD Blair and Bush claimed it possessed, British and
American high commanders would have thought twice before sending their
soldiers into the Iraqi desert.
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- Aaronovitch may have learned something though. As yet,
he is reluctant to encourage our generals to open a new front. He has a
'peaceful' solution to offer. He wants to unite the nations to take care
of his interests. "There is still one possibility that could rule
out both military action and the spectre of the Guard Bomb", says
the dubious Hasbara man. "That one possibility is united in international
action to impose targeted sanctions on the Revolutionary Guard and their
political backers, and on the nuclear programme. It would mean agreement
by the Russians, the Chinese, the Germans, the French, the Americans and
us to occupy a single position." I once read about a well known Muslim
leaderwho blamed the Jews for "ruling the world by proxy". He
was denounced as an anti Semite and as a conspiracist. As if to prove the
Muslim leader right, Aaronovitch clearly expects, once again that the leading
powers will restrain the 'enemy of Israel'.
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- "Otherwise", says Aaronovitch, "we could
find ourselves facing some great terrible future Chilcot inquiry (3) in
which we seek to answer how it was that we failed to stop the last, worst
Middle East war." It is almost amusing to read Aaronovitch attempting
to reinvent himself as an 'anti war' peace campaigner. But actually, I
think that the Chilcot inquiry's authority should be extended so it can
investigate how come an Israeli Hasbara author is allowed to promote foreign
interests in our midst.
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- Whether Iran is aiming towards a nuclear military capability
is obviously beyond me. However, after reading Aaronovitch, it should.
Iran must produce a bomb as soon as possible. Deterring the Jewish state
and its allies is the only key to peace in the Middle East. Sadly it is
the only language that is understood.
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- (1) Hasbara-propaganda (Hebrew). David Aaronovitch is
listed on an official Israeli Propaganda site namely the Israeli Hasbara
Committee. The site is there to "disseminate the truth about Israel
and the Jewish people".
- (2) Masada is the name for a site of ancient palaces
and fortifications in the South District of Israel on top of an isolated
rock plateau, on the eastern edge of the Judean Desert overlooking the
Dead Sea. After the First Jewish-Roman War a siege of the fortress by troops
of the Roman Empire led to the mass suicide of the Sicarii rebels, who
preferred death to surrender. Israel made Masada into a symbol of Jewish
national revival.
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- (3) The British enquiry currently underway on the Iraq
war.
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