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Letters
to the Editor, Jerusalem Post, Dec 2, 2020
In “Trying to avoid war” (November 29) Yonah Jeremy Bob writes,
”Paradoxically, the assassination of Iran nuclear program “father” Mohsen
Fakhrizadeh was probably undertaken to avoid war with Iran.”
Since according to Bernard Lewis, “For people with
this mindset, MAD is not a constraint; it is an inducement,” I fail to
understand how anything can deter Iran from its ultimate goal – all the more so
when just three months ago Eric Mandel wrote in The Jerusalem Post: “There is
only so much that clandestine espionage and advanced computer attacks can do,
even with Israel’s impressive intelligence capabilities. Sooner or later Israel
will have to make a monumental choice regarding preemptive strikes on targets
in Iran if it concludes that Iran is getting too close to possessing nuclear
weapons.”
Isn’t the present “three-to-four months breakout
time" close enough? It is unfortunate that US President Donald Trump lost his
presidency due to being tone deaf to the seriousness of COVID-19, only to be
replaced by Joe Biden who is tone deaf to the magnitude of the nuclear threat
from Iran – not only to Israel, to the US as well.
What is most incredible is that the whole
discussion on Iran is proceeding without any mention of what Bernard Lewis had
said about Iran and MAD, and Bernard Lewis was the one who first warned about
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in the 1970s after having read his “Islamic
Government” both in Persian and Arabic.
MLADEN ANDRIJASEVIC
Beersheba
