Last week I was banned from posting in the Jerusalem
Post. All my posts from the week before were removed.
If now I try to post, I get
Is sent the following email to the editor Steve Linde and
another to the webmaster and as of yet received no reply.
Dear Mr.
Linde,
I have been banned from
posting in the Jerusalem Post. Not only that, but all my posts from 4 days ago,
see bitmap below, have been removed. Could I please get an explanation
why this was done. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Mladen Andrijasevic
Be'er Sheva
I find it absurd that the Jerusalem Post has banned me
from posting without giving any explanation whatsoever. It may be a coincidence, but the posts that were
removed were quotes from my article Facing Iran, Alone I had written in 2008 predicting
that Israel would be the one to face
Iran.
Facing Iran, Alone
In May 1940 Britain stood
alone facing Nazi Germany. The USSR had signed the Ribbentrop-Molotov
nonaggression pact; the US had not entered the war yet.
On May 7, Leo Amery
spoke in the Commons, attacking Neville Chamberlain's government, quoting
Oliver Cromwell: "You have sat too long here for any good you have been
doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God,
go!"
On May 10, 1940,
Winston Churchill became Prime Minister.
Ever since the US government's
National Intelligence Estimate report it has become increasingly probable that Israel will
be the one to tackle Iran. With the election of Barack Obama this
is now almost certain. We are back in May 1940.
There are many who
believe that, for all their talk, the Iranians would never launch a nuclear
attack. The 12th Imam is for the masses, the way Marx was, the argument goes,
and not to be believed in verbatim. How many Arab or Muslim leaders have become
suicide bombers to get the virgins? None.
But comparing Communists
with the followers of the Islamic prophet is misleading. For one, the
Communists never produced suicide bombers and we already have had 148 explode
here in Israel. Muhammad Atta was not the top leader, but he was
among the educated, for whom education was just a tool to be used in
accomplishing his jihadi goals. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is
an ardent believer in theMahdi, the Hidden Twelfth Imam, the four-year
old who went into hiding in a well 1,140 years ago. The idea that Iran itself
may become a nuclear suicide bomber is real.
Those who question
Iranian motives are projecting Western values, almost patronizingly so. The
privileged party members in the USSR, the so-called priviligentsia,
would not dream of sacrificing themselves. They had their closed shops,
hospitals and pharmacies, access to foreign media and, most coveted of all,
access abroad. They enjoyed their privileges. The Iranian mullahs are no
Bolsheviks.
The world watched
Hitler rearm, reoccupy the Rhineland in 1936, annex the Sudetenland in October
1938 and the rest of Czechoslovakia in March 1939, and rape Austria in
1938. As Churchill put it, they kept feeding the crocodile hoping they would be
eaten last.
Anyone who reads about
the policies and the press of the 1933-1940 period cannot but be struck by the
similarities. We know what happened then, yet we are following almost the same
path. Scary.
Might Israel strike
at Iran before Obama takes over? As reported in the Jerusalem
Post, Benny Morris says yes. Most other analysts disagree. I believe that
it is in the US interest for Israel to destroy the Iranian nuclear sites, since
the destruction and the rise in oil prices resulting from a non-nuclear Iranian
retaliation would still be much less than the consequences of a nuclear war
following an Iranian nuclear strike on Israel and an Israeli nuclear
retaliation.
There is only one
remaining scenario left.
On February 10 Israel goes
to the polls. The leaders we elect will be our last line of defense. Help will
not come from the Europeans, the United Nations and not even from the US.
The decisions that will determine the survival of this country will come from
Benjamin Netanyahu, Moshe Yaalon, Benny Begin or Tzipi Livni.
Make your pick.
