By Phyllis Chesler, JNS
How many times can one try to explain that Israel is acting for its own sake and the sake of all humanity?
Since the start of Israel’s campaign against Iran on June 13, the Jewish state has been targeting only its nuclear sites and facilities, military and terrorist commanders, and those responsible for the development of nuclear weapons. It also advises Iranian civilians to flee an area before bombs drop.
By contrast, Iran fires missiles directly at residential areas in Israel without any advance warning. It is now even targeting hospitals.
Only Israel gets condemned.
Iran purposely aimed its missiles this morning at the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheva, in Israel’s south. Iran now appears to be firing two-stage ballistic missiles that carry mini projectiles and cause greater damage over a larger impact range.
Thus far, other than condemning Israel, the world’s powers, especially European governments, remain cowards, opportunists, and, at best, unrepentant bystanders. With some exceptions, they keep repeating their World War II behaviors.
How many times can one try to explain that Israel is acting for its own sake and the sake of all humanity?
How many times can one say that, yes, the Israelis are saving themselves, but in so doing, they are also saving America, which Iran calls the “Great Satan” (as opposed to Israel, the “Little Satan”).
Now is the time for America to take a more active role and join Israel in bringing down the Iranian theocracy.
Pundits are warning that if America joins the war in any visible way, American soldiers will be attacked. Have they been asleep for the last half century?
Iran has been at war with America since 1979, when the first leader of the Islamic Republic, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, took Americans hostage in the U.S. embassy in Tehran 46 years ago. It funds terrorist proxies and helps them strategize their attacks in the Middle East. Iran has directly and indirectly blown up and murdered countless American soldiers stationed in the Middle East at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut and the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia. Iran has also funded and supplied weapons and know-how for Taliban attacks against American and coalition soldiers in Afghanistan.
Nevertheless, Neville Chamberlain’s ideological descendants in the American Congress endorse so-called “peace,” isolationism and non-involvement.
Here’s an idea: The wokest of the woke in the United States want America to rewrite history, erasing those bits they feel are bad or wrong. At the same time, they want the United States to commit to restorative justice and reparations for all previous violations of human rights.
If so, then they should support America’s efforts to overthrow the current ayatollah, Ali Khamenei, to make up for the American and British overthrow of Iran’s democratically elected leader, Mohammed Mossadegh, in 1953, and the installation of the shah in his place.
All for the sake of oil.
For a change, let’s allow the long-suffering Iranian people to decide what kind of government they want.
