Friday's Jerusalem Post featured articles by leading Jerusalem Post columnists, both of whom severely criticized Netanyahu for releasing the 104 Palestinian prisoners. Caroline Glick writes that Netanyahu "behaved like a coward" while Martin Sherman asks for his resignation. My interpretation on why Netanyahu did what he did is here.
Caroline Glick and Martin Sherman would be right in any other
circumstance except now when we have the threat of annihilation from Iran and
at the same time when we have a US president who supports the Muslim
Brotherhood and appeases Iran. Survival is paramount. Netanyahu’s choices are
limited and he probably has no other choice. One day we will read how this
decision to release these murderers was reached. Either that or we will not be
there any more if Netanyahu and Bogie fail.
Netanyahu is faced with the consequences of the global media
silence regarding the nature and magnitude of the Iranian threat. The media, including
Caroline Glick and Martin Sherman, have been avoiding the debate regarding the
problem that the doctrine of mutually assured destruction (MAD) would not work
with Iran, but the problem has not gone away just because the media are not
tackling it, and the Israeli government still has to plan its actions fully
taking into account the possibility that Iran CANNOT BE DETERRED and would
be capable of sacrificing
its own population and 2/3 of humankind in
order to set the conditions for the Mahdi to emerge from occultation.
It may well be
that Bernard Lewis is wrong. But surely the opinion on MAD by one the most
respected scholars on an issue of such crucial consequences for the world and
Israel should have been discussed in the media, all the more that his views are
shared by Raphael Israeli, James Woolsey , Reza
Kahlili and Matthias Kuntzel
The media have
chosen to ignore the issue and therefore have no right to criticize the
government which must deal with it while the population remains in the dark precisely
because of the media.
