ISRAEL'S TRUE OBJECTIVES: WAR

ISRAEL OPPOSES A PROSPEROUS, PEACEFUL IRAN

The neocons Likudniks, and their unwitting GOP supporters here in the U.S.A are lobbying hard to kill the President's nuclear deal with Iran. The nation has been bombarded by news reports, adverts and TV spots, supported by those Americans who too often put the interests of some small foreign ME nation before the best interests of their own homeland. (I am thinking here of shameful Senator Schumer of New York...who made it all too obvious that his first allegiance was not to his constituents or his nation but elsewhere on this critical agreement.) The weak U.S. media and right wing radio hosts have not effectively informed the citizenry on this issue. Too often they let zealots of the right. hog the limelight, spout total fabrications and make no effort to correct the lies their guests are spreading to the public.

Mr. Netanyahu and his minions here in the USA have made it crystal clear now....they are trying to upend the Iran Nuclear Agreement and in the process are generating circumstances which can only end in WAR. They claim the agreement is "not good enough". Though even the Israeli defense establishment agrees the accord effectively ends Iran's ability to pursue bomb grade enriched uranium. The objections to the nuclear deal are purported to be based on its weaknesses. "Kerry and Obama did not press the Iranians hard enough". "The U.S. could get a better deal." "The inspections regime is not rigorous enough."

However these arguments are only a red herring, designed to obfuscate and continue to befuddle the uninformed and those poorly served by our timid and controlled mass media. The truth is that the Iran Nuclear Agreement (INA) effectively and efficiently CLOSES THE DOOR to a NUCLEAR ARMED IRAN for the foreseeable future. But sadly that excellent and desirable outcome does not satisfy the Israeli leadership and the neocons and knee-jerk Israeli supporters here in the U.S. However, the INA was not designed for and does NOT prevent Iran from achieving a non nuclear future of economic growth and potential prosperity.

THE POSSIBILITY OF A PEACEFUL AND PROSPEROUS IRAN IS WHAT ISRAEL OBJECTS TO. It is not the nuclear part of the deal, which irks the Israelis. It is the potential for PEACE and regional prosperity that does not fit well with the Likud leadership's plan for regional domination. After all, Israel has an enormous nuclear arsenal, why would it concern itself with a nation which may have rudimentary nuclear knowledge, but has no nuclear stock pile, and no nuclear weapons and will be closed out of further nuclear enrichment for at least fifteen years? Iran's nuclear "knowledge" is no threat to the world or to massively nuclear and conventionally armed Israel.

Unlike the other Arab states in the region, Iran has a well-educated, vibrant, innovative and ambitions population, which, if released from onerous sanctions, could potentially grow economically. In a better-led world such a nation may even partner effectively with the intellectual and economic dynamo in the region...Israel. But it is this---a peaceful and economically vibrant Persian nation in its midst which Israel's reactionary Likud leaders fear. They fear Iran as a state released from sanctions which may garner significant economic power. Israel's reactionary leadership sees that kind of Iran as a threat to its own dominance in the region. With such neighbors Israel might even have to stop stonewalling and honestly seek a peaceful solution with the Palestinians whose people it oppresses and whose territory it continues to occupy. For these reasons Netanyahu, and his Likud right-wingers want to maintain their absolute military hegemony AS WELL AS COMPLETE ECONOMIC DOMINANCE in the region. They prefer war to peace. Even a peaceful, disarmed Iran is seen as a threat to them. Their goal is to see Iran, another failed state, bombed back to the Stone Age...like Iraq and Syria. The USA as a true friend and ally to Israel, and in the position of peace-seeking world leader can not be led into war to satisfy Israeli desires for regional economic dominance.

We can not continue to support an Israel which thumbs its nose at our President, brazenly abandons protocol to sneak behind the President and take sides in our internal political deliberations, refuses to abide by UN resolutions, refuses to sign the nuclear non proliferation agreement, stockpiles hundreds of nuclear weapons, thumbs its nose at the entreaties for peace from the rest of the world, brutally subjugates a native population, and now when our President is seeking an agreement to advance peace and nuclear security, it seeks to lobby our government's internal deliberations with a massive effort to undermine those objectives and generate conditions which may lead to another costly and bloody war in the Middle East.



Do not let the forces of ignorance, misperception, evil, and chaos win out over peace, prosperity and security for all peoples of the Middle East--Persians, Jews and Moslems. The Iran Nuclear Deal is the first step toward a better, safer, more prosperous world.