Benjamin Netanyahu has been one of the few politicians who really understood the magnitude of the Iranian nuclear threat. Primarily because he had met with Bernard Lewis who explained to him the danger. As Ari Shavit wrote in his article in Haaretz from 2012:
A few years ago Netanyahu held an in-depth discussion with Middle East expert Bernard Lewis. At the end of the talk he was convinced that if the ayatollahs obtained nuclear weapons, they would use them. Since that day, Netanyahu seems convinced that we are living out a rerun of the 1930s
Colonel Richard Kemp in 2015:
There are striking similarities between the objectives of Churchill's speech nearly 75 years ago and Netanyahu's today; both with no less purpose than to avert global conflagration. And, like Churchill's in the 1930s, Netanyahu's is the lone voice among world leaders today.
Netanyahu at the 2018 United Nations General Assembly:
Now imagine the danger of hundreds of nuclear weapons in the hands of a vast Iranian Islamist empire, with the missiles to deliver them anywhere on earth.
The Iranian nuclear threat is real. It is not a figment of Bibi’s imagination. Michael Oren , Dore Gold , Benny Gantz and Efraim Inbar have all been predicting in the last few years that Israel was about to attack the Iranian nuclear sites.
On February 24 , 2023 Iran acknowledged that it had enriched uranium to 84 percent purity. Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Congress on Thursday, March 23, 2023:
“From the time of an Iranian decision…Iran could produce fissile material for a nuclear weapon in less than two weeks, and would only take several more months to produce an actual nuclear weapon,”
And yet in last night’s speech to the nation Bibi did not mention Iran even once!
What the demonstrators should be saying is:
We want the government to slow down/postpone the judicial reforms and pay attention to the Iranian nuclear threat! The main purpose of a government is to protect its citizens from outside attack. To paraphrase Churchill, unless the government takes care of the Iranian threat it will have committed an act of abdication of duty without parallel and worse, doom us all.
