August 6, 2016, Tikun Olam-תיקון עולם http://www.richardsilverstein.com (USA)
Lieberman: “This is what we’ll do
to Khamenei if we get
our hands
on him!” (Jonathan Sindel/Flash90)
Over the past few days, a tempest has been
brewing after Pres. Obama defended his Iran nuclear agreement by correctly
noting that the entire Israeli defense and intelligence leadership acknowledges
that it has improved Israeli and world security. This apparently angered
defense minister Avigdor Lieberman, who couldn’t
leave well enough alone.
As a result he felt compelled to rub Obama’s nose in it with this
response:
“The Israeli defense establishment believes
that agreements have value only if they are based on reality. They have no
value if the facts on the ground are opposite to the ones the agreement is
based on. The Munich Agreements didn’t prevent World War II and the
Holocaust because their fundamental assumption – that Nazi Germany can be
partner to any agreement – was false, and because world leaders at the time
ignored clear statements made by Hitler and other Nazi leaders.
This is also true of Iran, which clearly
and publicly declares that its goal is to destroy the State of Israel…This is
why the defense establishment, along with the entire people of Israel and
others around the world, understands that agreements like the one signed
between the world powers and Iran don’t help, but only undermine the unwavering
battle that has to be waged against terror states like Iran.”
So there you have it: a defense minister who
compares Iran to Nazi Germany; and Barack Obama to Neville Chamberlain; who
deliberately lies about the views of his own military and intelligence command
in the service of his own blind ideological obsession; and who lies in claiming
Iran wants to eradicate Israel.
The circus atmosphere became more pronounced
when Bibi Netanyahu, who agrees completely with Lieberman’s views (and has made
precisely the same false historical analogy), released a statement which
refused to renounce his defense minister’s attack. Haaretz’s report
falsely says that Bibi “distanced” himself from Lieberman, but his statement
did no such thing:
“The Israeli position on the Iran deal remains
the same, but the prime minister staunchly believes that Israel has no ally
more important than the U.S.”
Apparently, the only thing Bibi objected to was
the Munich reference, one that the prime minister has often made in the past.
Apparently, the comparison of the Iran deal to the Munich pact was one
step too far. What’s curious about this dog and pony show is that Bibi
and Lieberman play good cop-bad copy when they’re both crooked cops. It’s
just that one talks a good game and the other would just as soon put a bullet
in you as look at you.
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