Iran Deal or no Iran Deal. Do we understand what is at stake?

 

Bernard Lewis

Donald Trump

Why does Israel always end up getting stuck with American presidents who believe that Iran is an existential  threat only to Israel and not to the US as well?  Somehow Bernard Lewis’s message that Iran may use the bomb regardless of the consequences for Iran is not getting through.  The Trump administration should clarify what they think of Bernard Lewis’s “ For people with this mindset, M.A.D. is not a constraint; it is an inducement…”

Bernard Lewis could have been wrong. And yet no one ever objected to what he said in 2009.  On the contrary, there are scholars of Islam who agree with him, like Raphael Israeli and  Harold Rhode .  There has never been a conference of experts to discuss the validity of Lewis’s warning. 

The US and Israel made horrible errors of judgement and failed to anticipate 9/11 and 10/7.  That must not happen again. And yet we all are just sitting and waiting to hear what kind of deal president Trump will come up with Iran. 

If an airliner had a defect which would increase the probability of it crashing to 3 percent - the airliner would be grounded, people would refuse to fly on it and the media would not stop reporting on it.  We are approaching a decision which may impact the future of our civilization while most of the people on this planet are not even aware of the problem! We are an insane civilization!   

Douglas Murray: A conflict like no other in human history

 

7:32  Show me one other war in human history where the side that has been attacked, Israel, is expected not to just pump energy into the place that has attacked it, but to keep allowing as much food as the citizens need to sustain them. Would that happen in any other conflict? I can't think of one historically. I’ve asked many historians if they could think of one.  And this is the first conflict in human history where the side that has been attacked and tried to be annihilated  by a terrorist  group is expected to make sure  that among other things as well as not harming anyone on enemy territory, they make sure that the enemy in question are fully nourished.