THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume VIII, Issue # 148, August 7, 2006
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
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IRAN DECLARES ITS NUCLEAR BAD INTENTIONS
By Alan Caruba
PUBLIC STATEMENTS, NUCLEAR WEAPONS, IRANIAN WAR PLANS, & WHAT THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES SHOULD DO ABOUT
IT? THE ISLAMIST POLITICAL REGIME IN IRAN PUBLICLY ANNOUNCES ITS PLANS TO ACQUIRE FULLY OPERATIONAL
NUCLEAR WEAPONS & USE THEM AGAINST ISRAEL, BRITAIN, & AMERICA -- MUST WE WAIT FOR MAHMOUD
AHMADINEJAD TO DO WHAT HE SAYS HE INTENDS TO DO? MUST WE WAIT AROUND FOR IRAN TO DEVELOP A
NUCLEAR MILITARY CAPABILITY & LAUNCH NUCLEAR ATTACKS AGAINST US?
FULL STORY:
At what point do Americans and the rest of the world begin to take Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, seriously? He
is making no secret of his plans to acquire and use nuclear weapons against Israel, Britain, and America.
As any student in Psychology 101 learns, there is a psychological defense mechanism called “projection,” a mechanism by
which an individual -- especially a neurotic or psychotic individual -- “projects” onto another person his or her own intentions,
motivations, and justifications. If Person A says Person B is planning to harm Person A, there’s a strong chance the truth
is that Person A is planning to harm Person B.
On August 1, 2006, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was addressing a rally that was carried on the Iranian News Channel
(IRINN), and his speech was translated by the Middle East Media Research Center and posted on its Internet website. It is
there for anyone to read: http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD122906
Ahmadinejad was denouncing Israel’s efforts to defend itself against the rain of Iranian-supplied rockets and missiles, and,
of course, it was the Israelis' own fault they were under attack. The crowd was chanting “Death to Israel.” The Iranian
President proceeded to give his own history lesson to the crowd, but, since he adheres to the the notion that the Holocaust
never happened, along with some other extraordinarily paranoid notions, his version of history is a bit skewed.
“They are a bunch of Zionists. Where have they come from?
As you know, the rule of hegemony and the web of colonialism
strived to establish a base in the heart of the Middle East.”
“A hundred years ago, they began to devise conspiracies on
the basis of a diabolical plan. Bit by bit they (Jews) arrived
(in what was then the British protectorate of Palestine) and,
backed by the devious, deceiving England, they sneaked
people in, and placed them in control over the people of
Palestine.”
The real history could fill a book, but, suffice it to say, a very small group of European Jews, despairing of ever being
accepted in their home countries, rife with anti-Semitism, concluded that Jews should immigrate to Palestine, with a view to
reestablishing the nation of Israel. The idea began with the publication, in 1896, of Theodor Hertzl’s The Jewish State.
The first Zionist Congress was held, in 1897, in Basle, Switzerland. It was never a popular idea, which accounts for why,
years later, the Nazis were able to round up and kill six million European Jews. Those who had immigrated to Palestine
bought land from Arabs who largely considered it worthless. What they bought was a desert.
After the Holocaust, the fall of Nazi Germany and the close of the Second World II, those Jews who survived the Nazi
Holocaust concluded that living in Europe was no longer viable and, encouraged by Zionist organizations, they immigrated
to Palestine. Did Zionists want to recreate Israel? Yes, of course. It was to be a Jewish nation where Jews would be safe from
those who wanted to kill them. They had, however, merely traded one set of murderers for another. When independence was
declared in 1948, Israel was immediately attacked by five Arab nations.
According to Ahmadinejad, “They claimed that these are people whose forefathers had lived in this land 2,500 years ago,
and that they should therefore be the rulers of this land.” The word “claimed” gives away his view that Jews had no claim on
the area. On the other hand, during the Crusades, both Christians and Muslims had fought over the same land while making
their own claims to it.
Ahmadinejad’s interpretation, however, is that “They (the Jews) established a regime, aimed at threatening, trespassing,
murdering, and pillaging.” To put it another way, Israel’s 2% of the Middle East population, living on 1% of its landmass,
exists to do terrible things to the 98% of Arabs and Persians living on 99% of it. You have to be really nuts to believe stuff
like this.
By this time, the crowd was chanting “Death to America.”
“Everyone knows that this regime [Israel] can do nothing
without the orders and backing of America and its intimate
friend, England. That’s why we have declared these two
regimes [the U.S.A. and Britain} are responsible for all the
crimes of the insubordinate Zionist regime.”
We are now in the Twilight Zone of Muslim madness.
“Today, Hezbollah in Lebanon is the standard-bearer of
the resistance of all the monotheistic peoples, of the
seekers of justice, and of the free people.”
Pardon me, but didn’t Judaism introduce the concept of monotheism while folks in the Middle East were worshipping moon
gods and a host of other dieties? And isn’t Hezbollah the wholly owned subsidiary of Iran?
Kenneth R. Timmerman is President of Middle East Data Project, Inc., and author of Countdown to Crisis: The Coming
Nuclear Showdown with Iran. On August 2, 2006, writing in The Washington Times, Timmerman compared the
actions of Hezbollah in Lebanon to the 1936 Spanish Civil War. “Just as Adolf Hitler used Francisco Franco as his proxy in
Spain to test new military techniques and equipment on the battlefield, so Iran is using Hezbollah as its proxy to do the
same.” This is a particularly apt and ominous analogy.
Now here is where “projection” is most evident, as Ahmadinejad told the crowd:
“I declare … that, in light of America and England’s
behavior, it has become clear that they don’t have what
it takes to participate in international forums. They
don’t have what it takes to sit in the [UN] Security
Council, and to have a right of veto. They themselves
are guilty and criminal, and they must be placed on trial.
“When I see the behavior of America, England, and
their other accomplices in recent days, I get the
impression that they are preparing even greater crimes.
I warn them: Know that the fire of the wrath of the
peoples is about to erupt and overflow.
“Today, the Iranian people is the owner of nuclear
technology. Those who want to talk with our people
should know what people they are talking to. If some
believe they can keep talking to the Iranian people in
the language of threats and aggressiveness, they
should know that they are making a bitter mistake.
“If they have not realized this by now, they soon will,
but then it will be too late.”
This is the language of a man preparing to use nuclear weapons against Israel, England, and America. Waiting for him to do
it is not an option.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Military Weaponry & International Security:
Weapons of Mass Destruction & Arms Control
The Middle East & the Problem of Iran
The Israeli-Arab Conflict
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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War & Peace in the Real World
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
U.S. National Security Strategy
Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a
clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly commentary, "Warning Signs," posted
on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center, which is located at
www.anxietycenter.com.
© Alan Caruba 2006
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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