Alan Hart – What is it, really, that most endangers Israel's future?
By Guest Post • Oct 20th, 2009 at 16:57 • Category: Analysis, Israel, Middle East Issues, Newswire, War, ZionismBy Alan Hart *
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A nuclear armed Iran? No.
For the sake of discussion, let's assume that some in Iran's current leadership do want their country to possess nuclear weapons and that they do succeed in developing them. What then?
Is it conceivable that Iran would launch a first strike on Israel?
The answer has to be no. Absolutely not! An Iranian first strike would bring retaliation that would not end until Iran had been annihilated, wiped from the face of the earth. One needs only a sound mind to understand that no Iranian leadership will ever be stupid enough to provoke such an outcome.
Why then are Israel's military and political hawks (and their neo-con associates in America) so determined, apparently, to do whatever is necessary to stop Iran developing nuclear weapons? Is it because they are deluded, perhaps to the point of clinical madness? No. The real problem for Israel's leaders is that Iran's possession of a nuclear bomb or two or several would greatly restrict their freedom to impose Zionism's will on the region by brute force of all kinds.
In passing it's worth noting the latest comments of Mohammed El Baradie, the outgoing chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency. In an interview with the Austrian Die Presse published on 18 October, he said, "The threat of Iran's nuclear program is exaggerated." He added: "Bombing Iran is not the solution. An Israeli attack would turn the entire region into a fireball." (It might also bring about, I add, the complete collapse of the global economy).
Yehoshafat Harkabi
There are none. And that's not simply because the Zionist state is the military superpower of the region. There is not now, and there never has been, an Arab military threat to Israel's existence. As I document in detail in Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews, the Arab regimes never had any intention of fighting Israel to liberate Palestine. And when Eygpt was taken out of the military equation – a process started by Henry Kissinger and completed by President Carter – the Arabs could not fight even if they wanted to.
So what is it, really, that most endangers Israel's future?
The answer was put into words by Yehoshafat Harkabi, the longest serving Israeli Director of Military Intelligence. In his seminal book, Israel's Fateful Hour, published in 1986, he wrote about the "pressing need for (Israeli) self-criticism". He went on (my emphasis added):
"Certainly Israel is not guilty of everything that has gone wrong in the occupied lands. But self-criticism is imperative in order to counter-balance the tendencies to self-righteousness and self-pity that stem from basic Jewish attitudes, from the historical experience of persecution, and from the ethos fostered by Menachem Begin. No factor endangers Israel's future more than self-righteousness, which blinds us to reality, prevents a complex understanding of the situation, and legitimizes extreme behavior."
If Harkabi was alive today, I imagine the self-righteousness on display in Israel's rubbishing and rejection of the Goldstone Report with its accusation of Israeli (and Hamas) war crimes would make him vomit.
Does anybody know of a cure for self-righteousness?
* Alan Hart is a former ITN and BBC Panorama foreign correspondent who covered wars and conflicts wherever they were taking place in the world and specialized in the Middle East. Author of Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews: The False Messiah (Zionism, the Real Enemy of the Jews). He blogs on www.alanhart.net and tweets on www.twitter.com/alanauthor
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[...] Alen Hart: What is it, really, that most endangers Israel's future? 2009 October 21 by kanan48 Via: Palestine Think Tank. [...]
i think what dangers israel really is the way this place and people see themselves thats because every one sees himself the only power above ll will find that small things will defet it may be not now but this will happen in the future . this happened in the past and i think israeli gov must lean from their recent past with hizballah and hamas they didn't destroy israel but at least shake its statue around the world
Does anybody know of a cure for self-righteousness?
asks Alan Hart
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Finding a cure for such perplexing self-righteousness one needs to search for the causesof such putrid mind-set.
To help us reach a diagnosis that explains such deep rooted racism, arrogance, supremacy, and self-righteousness that surpasses anything mankind has ever known; it might be helpful and insightful to examine the ideology that produces such rotten fruits:
Quotes:
“There are two different and distinct entities: the human being, and the Jew who is part of G-d”
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“We are a G-dly people, we have G-dly souls. Our place is in Heaven, in fact higher than Heaven because Heaven is also a created place, and we are a part of G-d”
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“The world wants leadership and who are they going to look to for moral leadership if not the Jews?”
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“We are to treat other Jews as Divine beings, because that’s what they are”
(quotes by Rabbi Manis Friedman author and lecturer, dean of Bais Chanah Women's Institute of Jewish Studies):
Excerpts from:
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2902/jewish/What-Is-the-Cause-of-Antisemitism.htm
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The epithets affirming that the people of Israel are really special:
"Am Segula" (the chosen people),
"Goy Kadosh UMamlechet Kohanim" (a holy people and a nation of priests),
"MeAl HaTeva" (above nature),
"Ba'alei Nevuah" (masters of prophecy),
"Ba'alei Hashpa'a Nissit" (exercisers of miraculous influence)
"Kol Yisrael Tzaddikim" (all Israel are righteous),
Excerpts from:
http://www.projectmind.org/exoteric/kabbalah.html
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“We are Jews because G-d chose us to be His "cherished treasure from all the nations… a kingdom of priests and a holy people" (Exodus 19:5-6).
"We are Jews because G-d chose us to play the central role in the implementation of His purpose in creation"
Excerpts from
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/45132/jewish/What-Makes-a-Jew-Jewish.htm
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"It is this soul that gives the Jew the power to be G-dly in a human world, and supernatural in a natural universe."
Excerpts from:
http://www.askmoses.com/en/article/192,2172582/Can-you-describe-the-Jewish-soul.html#article_email_loc
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"We have proved ourselves to be the leaders of enlightenment, progress and revolution wherever we have traveled.."
"If it were not for Jews, there would be no concept of human dignity, of meaning and purpose, of the right of every person to education and knowledge, of social justice and of the value of world peace. These (along with psychology, relativity, quantum physics, anthropology, Hollywood and superheroes) are among our many vital contributions to the world."
Excerpts from:
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/743998/jewish/How-do-you-get-a-Jewish-soul.htm
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"This soul, the irrevocable inheritance of every single Jew, is pure and unsullied, holy and powerful."
Excerpts from:
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/743998/jewish/How-do-you-get-a-Jewish-soul.htm
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Eventually all of the people on this planet wld abhor 'jewish' numerous cults. Even most khaz'ns both cultish and non cultish wld hate other 'jewish' cults.
Ab 10mn of the khazo-slavo-germanics with multiple cults shun israel. And as long as israel lasts, it wld be an accursed land. So, there is a cure for the abomination! tnx
Okay, the quotes all sound like delusional ramblings of the insane and/or insults to the Creator. Maybe they're referring to some other god, but there is only ONE, so they must be liars. What endangers Israel's future most is Israeli leadership or lack of it. The cure is a good dose of reality and humility, foreign words and concepts to be sure. With ownership of so many drug companies you'd think they would have come up with something already. I guess humility and truth can't be faked. I guess few will get the cure.
There's the demographic problem too. Those damned subhuman goyim, breeding like rabbits, multiplying out of control, slowly but surely undoing the good work accomplished by the great pogroms of 1948 and 1967. Israel is not and has never been a Jewish state and is becoming less of one daily. Oy veh!