Netanyahu Caught Off-Guard?
It’s getting thick in here, this idea that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been duped by the Americans and the UN, who are feverishly rushing to Geneva to engage in “talks” with Iran, ostensibly to get the Islamic terror state to trim its nuclear ambitions.
There are dupes in this story, all right, but Netanyahu is not one of them.
For reasons I’ll outline below, I believe that the worry/idea that Netanyahu has been caught off-guard by the international political and diplomatic corps is patently absurd. David Horovitz wrote about all of this in The Times of Israel:
“He vowed in that speech that Israel would ‘not allow’ Tehran to get the bomb. But now the entire international community is publicly lined up in search of an accord with the ostensibly newly moderate Iran. If a deal — however “bad” and ‘dangerous’ — is being done by diplomats led by the United States, can Israel seriously contemplate defying the world and taking on Iran militarily? To paraphrase those comments he made at his father’s funeral, the prime minister will be asking himself whether he proved incapable of identifying the danger and drawing the necessary conclusions in time.”
Dear reader, keep your focus only on one thing: in the face of an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities—which I thoroughly believe Israel will target—there is a great deal of disinformation flying around. An attack requiring this level of sophistication (D-Day, I think, is not too much a stretch by way of comparison) would necessarily require those with the spine steely enough (Israel) to feign surprise, dismay, etc., at every duplicitous turn by “allies” such as Barack Obama.
In any event, there are three reasons I believe Netanyahu is going to hit Iran, and do it successfully (and Obama will find out about it when you do):
In any event, there are three reasons I believe Netanyahu is going to hit Iran, and do it successfully (and Obama will find out about it when you do):
1) The Israeli premier was raised on Zionism, and has actually put his life on the line many times for his people. Remember, much of the Israeli political leadership came from this environment. When Netanyahu makes a momentous decision to strike an existential threat like Iran, he is aided by, among others, former Prime Minister Ehud Barak. Both served in the same elite counter-terrorism unit (Barak having led the Unit during the “Spring of Youth” operation to find and kill the Black September terrorists who slaughtered 11 Israeli athletes at Munich), and Netanyahu was wounded in a 1972 rescue of hijacked airline passengers; he also served in the Yom Kippur War. Now at 64, he has faced his own mortality more than once, and this type of hard reality will be the key in pulling the trigger on Iran, so to speak.
2) At the infamous Wye negotiations in 1998 (where Bill Clinton brought Netanyahu together with Yasser Arafat to hammer-out a major deal), the American president proved duplicitous, promising the Israelis that if they signed, they would take imprisoned spy Jonathan Pollard home with them. As bags were being packed, Netanyahu was informed that Clinton was reneging. Those of us in the American south, who knew Clinton was a swamp rat, were not surprised, but I believe at the time, Netanyahu was genuinely caught off-guard. He won’t be again. Been there, done that.
3) When Netanyahu’s famous history scholar father, Benzion, died last year at 102, he left a legacy of Zionism that, in my opinion, cannot be broken. Yes, the son has made decisions that angered people (the release of terrorist prisoners, agreeing in public to a two-state solution), but in the family dining room in Benzion’s Jerusalem home, there is a bronze bust of oldest son Jonathan, who fell leading the Entebbe raid. It was there that many, many conversations about the history of their people over took place. I do not believe the second son of Benzion and Cela Netanyahu will endanger his people by standing-down on Iran.
In my opinion (and I have no inside information, of course), when the time comes, Netanyahu will act. Further, I believe the Israelis have known for some time the date they will act, and how they will act. It will be daring, innovative, and a complete surprise.
And the international community will be caught off-guard.
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