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Friday, October 11, 2013

As we wait for Israel to strike the Iranian nuclear sites…


Map of the nine civilizations from Huntington's Clash of Civilizations




This is it.  From now on we just sit and wait.  PM Netanyahu has told the UN that Iran must totally dismantle its nuclear program or else…   Even Ha’aretz  has admitted the PM was right on Iran.  Most Israelis do not trust Obama on Iran

Several puzzling questions remain.

How is it that that the rest of the world does not see what Israel sees?  How come they do not see that they too will be the target of a nuclear-armed Iran?  How come the Europeans, especially the Brits, seem to have forgotten their own history of appeasement and where it brought them to in the 1930s? Why don’t Americans care that their president is a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood?    Why don’t American Jews care that their president supports the Muslim Brotherhood?  Why are so many people indifferent to the absurd appeasement  policies of their governments, policies which will impact their lives… and worse, get them killed?

The answer, of course, is in what Churchill called the confirmed unteachability of mankind.   “Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong 

Israel is different. Israel has been the front line on the bloody borders of Islam, both Sunni and Shi'a, in the clash of civilizations, for some time now. Most Israelis have not read Samuel Huntington, Bernard Lewis, nor Winston Churchill. Their insight is purely empirical. But it makes them see where others are blind.


That is why Israel’s message to the world is - we are not going to get killed because of your stupidity and indifference. We will act. We have no other choice except the choice to defend ourselves or be incinerated.