Israel’s hawkish leadership suffered a major blow this weekend with the announcement of Hassan Rohani’s victory in Iran’s presidential elections, setting the stage for a diplomacy-minded reformer to replace Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and throwing a wrench into all those war plans they had.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quick to lash Rohani’s victory, and issued a public warning to the international community not to be “tempted” into participating in new diplomacy with the incoming government, but to stick to the policy of ever-increasing sanctions and threats of war that kept Israel placated for the past few years.
Israel may (and undoubtedly will) rail against Rohani as some sort of trick designed to ruin their perfectly good plans for a full-scale war against the entire region’s Shi’ites, but the truth is that sucking the world into a disastrous war just got a whole lot harder, and selling the Western public on the need to attack a diplomacy-minded Iran will be an uphill battle.
The US seems eager to keep the status quo in place too, issuing a statement saying Rohani had a chance to improve relations, but only if he gave in to myriad demands, including publicly admitting to a nuclear weapons program that by America’s own intelligence estimates doesn’t even exist.
Rohani wants a peaceful dialogue with the West. Now what will Israel and war mongers in the US do?…what they have always done…ignore the facts, demonize, lie, and create false threats and emergencies, false flags and the like. These actions, we can only hope, will prove to be seen for what they are and ignored, ridiculed and dismissed by the world at large. The constant agitation by the belligerent Israeli zionists and their American supporters will become more hysterical and over the top.
We may, God willing, be entering a new positive phase in the Middle East as the world sees these paranoid, criminal war mongers for what they are.
We can only hope.
I thought Ahmadinejad was another Hitler, wasn't he? Is this new guy another another Hitler?
Jason Ditz's "Israel Issues Warning…" was very well put, and I so agree with its tone and tenor.
Israel will rail and wail and its lackeys and down-right agents in Congress and out, will pick up the boilerplate and bang it like a war drum.
It will never be satisfied, even as it usurps land, demands ever more government's and donator's money, sells ever more of it war material refined by subjugating and imprisoning what's remaining of the hapless Palestinians and their land.
Its only legitimacy lies in its MOU's and treaties and agreements it has shackled onto countries under the sway of Zionism.
Is there another country in the larger world more despised than Israel, unless, by now, its 'mother colonial country', the United States carries that equally, and to the question, "Why do they hate us?" there will always be rebuke and denial.
So for Israel a reformist or a hard liner is no different, as long is Iran the Israeli government have a country to start war with.., that is racism, that is fascism, that is a apartheid system having everything against other nationals.
Look: Iranian people are there to stay.., so as the Syrian people, so as the Arab nationals and other nationals in this world.., which means that this world is belong to the people of this world not bunch of liberal fascists or others a like.
The sick, deranged leaders of the rogue state of Israel should be locked up threats to humanity, including their own people.
Well, good luck Israel! We aren't buying it!
As reported in that other article from Al-Jazeera on antiwar.com, This election and the last one in Iran were a lot more democratic than any of our own recent elections:
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/06/…
In fact, Iran has never been a threat to us – or even Israel, for that matter. The only thing that Iran has threatened is Israel's hegemony (with our complicity) on the Middle East. Iran has always proved a useful distraction that Israel could use to divert the world's attention from its atrocities on, and land theft from the Palestinians.
As world attention has focused on Iran over the past few years, mainly because of our sanctions and sabre-rattling, what has been revealed to people, both here and in Europe, is that Iranian people are just like us, with the same dreams of raising their family and living in peace, and it is in fact the Israelis who are the monsters in our midst.
Time to impose sanctions on Israel and remove them from Iran. In fact, how about we just stop meddling in the Middle East and rebuild our country. I bet you that if we stopped supporting Israel and using our veto in the UNSC, the problems in the Middle East would resolve themselves in a week, as that spoilt brat of a ****t*y little country quickly made peace with its neighbors.
And, could we please not reelect our Israel-firster politicians? It is high time that we cleaned house. How long will we continue to tolerate treason?
Persia has been on the world stage since 332bc and farther than that so who is america and her surrogate to threatensuch simple fools to think nuclear warheads could push Iran.
Didn't take them long.
Gee… the whole planet has to be rearranged for Israel’s benefit..
Israel is run by religious nuts who buy the Old Testament whole cloth – they just want revenge for Egypt, Babylon, and Persia whipping their butts 2,500 odd years ago.
Will somebody pleeeease whack this dog hard on the head. The world is sick and tired of the continuous barking, he is rabid.
It shouldn't be forgotten that the Israeli's have been saying that Iran is just short of building a bomb since the early 90's and it has been Netenyahu that has been leading the charge since then! It doesn't matter who is leading Iran they will continue their rhetoric, just as they have been stringing the Palestinians on with hints of settling the old argument about a Palestinian state!
Sure, Jason – just like Justin was convinced the appointment of Hagel as SecDef was going to be a "defeat for the War Party".
The election of Rohani means absolutely nothing to the outcome Israel desires.
Obama is now moving ahead with the Syrian war which is intended to allow Israel to attack Hizballah in Lebanon. Once that's done, the final push for an Iran war will begin.
Every time something happens which is the slightest difference from whatever has been happening, all the pundits – to quote The Joker – "lose their minds"…
Read my lips: NOTHING HAS CHANGED.
Amazing how many of these comments are so anti-Israel – like the 140-2 votes in the General Assembly.
Wonder how come? Such unpopularity must be deserved (with apologies to the old Pillsbury slogan)
The only question is how long it will take for Netanyahu to identify a replacement for Ahmadinejad. Israel and its allies in the US employ a great many highly skilled propagandists who are no doubt focus-grouping new angles of attack even as we speak. I'm sure they'll come up with something.
I wish it were so, it ought to be so, but it is not so clear that, "selling the Western public on the need to attack a diplomacy-minded Iran will be an uphill battle."
may (and undoubtedly will) rail against Rohani as some sort of trick
There she blows! http://www.timesofisrael.com/rowhani-sophisticated-not-m... : Rowhani ‘sophisticated,’ not moderate, Liberman says Well, now that he's really shifty-eyed and scheming… I'm agonna predict that the spin for perhaps a few years is to tell people to pay-close-attention so sayanim in the press can spin small nuaces into a shrunken head outlet upstairs from the lampashade shop-both really fronts for soap production…. One motive for such a strategy: GWoT and Likud really have tended to attract laughable knee-jerk morons, they need a play on their fence-sitting betters.
Well said Jason. Nothing need be added. I have a feeling that Assad will now be the sole villain until Iran lends him a helping hand. Then all hell will break loose unless Russia, the only power that can, stops the madness.