In “King Bibi Netanyahu, the magician” (March 2), Herb Keinon makes several good points, but they are not
the most salient ones.
For me, who to vote for
in the Israeli elections was quite straightforward. I believe that Iran
presents an existential threat to Israel and the world since, according to
Bernard Lewis, “For people with this mindset, mutually assured destruction
(M.A.D.) is not a constraint; it is an inducement...”
There are three Israeli
politicians who are fully aware of the magnitude of the Iranian threat. They
are:
1) Benjamin Netanyahu,
who was consulted by Bernard Lewis and at the end of the talk was convinced
that if the ayatollahs obtained nuclear weapons, they would use them.
2) Michael Oren, who
quoted Bernard Lewis in his Los Angeles Times Op Ed in 2015, and
3) Moshe Ya’alon, who
used to say that “the regime of the ayatollahs is apocalyptic-messianic in
character.”
Of the three, Ya’alon
changed his mind about the Iranian threat in 2016 and Oren is out of the
Knesset.
That leaves only
Netanyahu.
MLADEN ANDRIJASEVIC
Beersheba
Beersheba
