Lobster for Iran by Israel Shamir
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Mon May 1 11:06:46 EDT 2006
[INGRID'S COMMENT: Many of my readers will be unhappy with me that I
am sending out this essay; however, I am not in the business of
censoring people who, on the whole, write beautifully and concisely -
but with whose stance on this or that I might disagree. I disagree
with Shamir on his take on the Julius Rosenberg couple as well as on
his ideas on the merits of the Stalinist era; but then, he disagrees
with me on many things as well. That does not mean we cannot read
and learn from each other. This essay made me laugh! ]
Lobster for Iran
By Israel Shamir
"Iran's biggest threat since Nazis," said Israeli defence minister
Shaul Mofaz, according to the Guardian; "The world must not wait!
Since Hitler we Jews have not faced such a threat" as presented by
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who "further stirred international outrage by
calling on Israeli Jews to be resettled in Europe" (...thus the
Guardian).
These guys are hard to please! In the 1930s, Hitler called for the
Jews to be resettled outside of Europe, and they declared war on him.
Now Ahmadinejad calls for the resettlement of Jews in Europe, and the
Jews still respond with a war cry. That is, unless the Guardian
missed the point in its report, and the outrage actually came from
the Europeans who preferred the Palestinians to serve as unwilling
host to these difficult guests.
Anyway I beg to differ: President Ahmadinejad is the biggest threat
since Gerard de Nerval, a flamboyant French poet, promenaded a
lobster on a blue ribbon lead, just as one exercises a dog, along the
Palais Royal gardens in order to épater le bourgeois. A truly poetic
soul, an enfant terrible if ever there was one, Ahmadinejad aimed to
wake us up from our over-long after-dinner nap. What can the Iranian
do if Jews is the only magic word that awakens us from this slumber?
Sexual innuendos would not bestir even a child fresh from his
AIDS-awareness lesson. An attack of Christianity would be warmly
applauded by the undeniable masters of European minds, Messrs
Sauerkraut and Finkelrot. In this post-modernist age, when the Vagina
Monologues have entered the matinee repertoire, it is not that easy
to épater the increasingly blasé bourgeoisie. If Ahmadinejad would
call for the resettlement of six million European Muslims outside of
Europe, nobody would raise an eyebrow with the possible exception of
Oriana Fallaci and M. Le Pen, who might object to his plagiarism. If
he were to call for the erasure of France from the world map, the
French would not sit up and pay attention: they think there is
already a Brussels directive to this effect!
I admire Ahmadinejad. Not as a politician: let the Iranians judge him
on this merit. Not as a divine: I leave this to the Muslims. But as a
true poet who unveiled our hypocrisy and slaughtered our last sacred
cow. This is the only possible explanation of his deeds and words:
Iranians have really no reason to care about the Jewish holocaust,
one way or other. Nobody accuses them, not even Mr Yehuda Bauer of
Jerusalem's Holocaust memorial institute, who is prone to accuse the
World and its niece for failing to save the Jews. The Persians from
Cyrus to Hosroes to Mohammad Resa Shah were always good to Jews, and
even in these mad days there is a large and flourishing Jewish
community in Iran. Ahmadinejad spoke about the Holocaust like Hillary
conquered Everest - because it presented a challenge!
The innocent revisionist historians were so excited when he toyed
with an idea of finally discovering the truth. They prepared their
well-thumbed books and diagrams of gas consumption and body heat. But
Ahmadinejad is interested in the hard facts of World War II about as
much as Nerval was interested in exercising his lobster. Acceptance
of Holocaust dogma is a sign of submission to the Tel Aviv-New York
Axis, a sign of the new colonialism. Ahmadinejad refused it just as
St Paul refused to accept the Noahide laws: not because St Paul
wanted to partake of pagan sacrifices, but because he did not want to
take his orders from the Jews.
The European leaders, the docile supporters of patent war criminals,
of George W. Bush, the murderer of umpteen Iraqis, Afghanis and
sundry Arabs, of Shaul Mofaz, the murderer of an eight-year-old girl
(among hundreds of others) he killed last week in besieged Gaza, all
sat up and expressed their outrage. They did not object when Israel
strafed and bombed defenceless Gazans. When Israeli politicians
threatened to turn Iran into "radioactive desert", they did not
describe it as "a call to genocide". By his challenge, president
Ahmadinejad saved the honour of human race, as only a poet can do.
I admire Iran, for the fiery crimson of their rose gardens and for
the azure of its old mosques, for the ravishing beauty of its women,
whose black eyelashes enhance the whiteness of their skin shining
through their black chadors. I admire Iran for its marvellous
painting that overcame the iconoclastic ravages. I admire Iran for
the spiritual subtlety of its poets, who united their love to women
with their adoration of God in one undivided chant just as the Song
of Songs did. Their Rumi and Jami, Saadi and Ferdousi, Hafiz and
Khayyam were of the most daring and sincere poets who ever graced our
earth. Ahmadinejad is heir to their tradition, a daring mocker of our
hypocrisy, a boy who saw through the emperor's new clothes. Even if
the ham-fisted Yank should flatten this daredevil, and burn the rose
gardens of Shiraz just as he once incinerated the blossoms of
Nagasaki, we may be proud of Ahmadinejad, our contemporary who dared
to tread on the tiger's tail.
II
The European and American reaction to Iran's nuclear program was that
of Uncle Tom's slaveowner, Simon Legree, on learning of an escaped
slave. How does this dusky dare to touch the white masters' toys?
Their empty talk of an "Iranian threat" is designed for the ignorant:
Iran has never, ever attacked a European nation since the wars for
Anatolia in the 5th century BC; whereas European imperialists have
repeatedly occupied and controlled Iran, most recently in 1942, or by
proxy in 1953, when they deposed democratically-elected Mosaddeq and
returned to dominate this ancient nation.
Yes, the old colonialism is dead. England can't rule over Iraq, nor
France over Algeria, but the new collective colonialism, that of the
imperialist Core of highly industrialised Western nations over the
rest of the world, is hardly any better. The old masters have decided
to pool their resources and powers to rule their erstwhile slaves
together. They switched from the Athenian model where a citizen had
his slave, to the Spartan model, where slaves belong to all Spartans.
In this new collective imperialist universe, the US is the arm, the
enforcer of this new colonialism, while the mind, the ideology is
supplied by a vast syndicate that unites and coordinates the majority
of newspapers and networks of both left and right from Madrid to
Moscow and from Texas to Timbuktu, despite their pretensions of
competition and rivalry.
This syndicate is the real powerbase of what two American professors,
John Mearsheimer of Chicago, and Stephen Walt of Harvard, (M&W for
short) politely called "Israel Lobby in the US" though this syndicate
has other fish to fry beside that of the State of Israel's. While
fully approving of M&Ws endeavour, we should say: they minimised
rather than exaggerated the problem, for it is a global, rather than
a local (the US) phenomenon. The fearsome AIPAC is just the visible
tip of iceberg below which are miles and miles of solid ice: media
lords, chief editors, their pundits, Masters of Discourse, in short.
As if by a magic wand, the Iranian crisis made it visible to the
naked eye: they have all cried out in one mighty voice like the
legion of demons in the Capernaum synagogue in response to Christ's
words.
In his thought-provoking speech Ahmadinejad said: "The vast Zionist
network has been at the service of the imperialists for decades."
This is open to an argument whether the Zionist network serves the
imperialists, or the imperialists serve this network. It's an example
of Managerial Revolution: Jews were managers for the imperialists,
until they took over the show, some would say. Oh no, they remained
docile to their imperialist overlords, argue others. Whatever
position we take, the Zionists and the Imperialists are surely
integrated and intermeshed, and if one accepts the idea of the
Iranian threat to Israel, one subscribes to this demonic network.
The nations that refuse the Masters of Discourse are subjugated by
force. A nuclear weapon serves as a great equaliser, as did the Smith
& Wesson gun in the Wild West. In order to prevent too much
equalisation, the American pioneers kept guns out of native hands.
The same policy now drives the West in its attempts to keep nuclear
power out of reach of Iranians.
A few days ago I was invited to a live discussion on Russian TV
Channel One, where the Moscow BBC bureau chief rhetorically asked why
a peaceful Iran would need ballistic missiles, and he listed the
Iranian missile arsenal. He could not answer the question of why a
peaceful Britain would need ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons!
Actually, why would anybody need one? But if England, with its long
and bloody history of subjugating the Third World from Ireland to
Japan, may have these toys, then it is likewise the duty of any
important country willing to protect its populace from the Western
masters' whims.
Yes, Iran is still working on a peaceful program of atomic energy,
but if and when that country decides to build the bomb, we may
support this decision, as it would enhance peace. Actually, few
people did more for the cause of world peace than Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg and their associates Harry Gold and Klaus Fuchs. These
wonderful men passed the secrets of American-built nuclear weapons to
Russia, and thus saved Moscow and St Petersburg from the fate of
Hiroshima. Without their heroic deed, the colonial masters would have
turned Russia into a radioactive desert. Joseph Stalin passed the
know-how to emerging China, and this was a very good deed --
otherwise the Americans wouldn't have hesitated to nuke Vietnam as
they did Japan.
The Russian nuclear shield is the only thing Gorbachev and Yeltsin
did not break down in their destruction of the Soviet Union, probably
because they did not expect the patriotic forces to ever return to
power in Moscow. This shield allows the Russians to disregard the
nagging of Frau Merkel, and gives them their freedom of choice: to
sell their oil and gas to Europe or to turn the stream towards China.
It allows the Belarus people to have the president they elected by
huge majority: without it, Lukashenka would share the fate of Noriega
and Milosevic for his steadfast refusal to sell the assets of Belarus
to George Soros. Let Iranians, too, have this freedom of choice, and
restore balance in the region.
And to sincere well-wishers of our Israeli well-being I'll say: Iran
is no danger. The truth is, the Jews could live extremely well in
Palestine. By making peace with the native inhabitants in 1948, we
would have kept our common home, Palestine, as the hub of the Middle
East with Iraqi oil coming to Haifa refineries and trains from
Baghdad to Cairo flying by Lydda and Jaffa, with Muslim pilgrims
coming to al Quds on their way to Mecca, with Christians walking in
the footsteps of Christ from Bethlehem to Nazareth and with Jews
doing their aliya (this word meant an annual pilgrimage to Jerusalem
like the Hajj, rather than a permanent immigration to Palestine as
Zionists wont). We would prosper beyond our wildest dreams, as the
prophets promised, if we were to kick the nasty old habit of
separateness and dominance.
It is not too late even now, sixty years and many deaths later. For
this purpose, we may take the advice of Ahmadinejad: let the
exclusive Jewish state be eliminated from the map of the region to be
replaced by one state of all citizens of the land, Jews or not. "The
right to govern belongs to all people of Palestine, be they Muslims,
Christians, or Jews", said Ahmadinejad, and by golly, only a Jewish
supremacist may object to his words.
When I said this at the TV discussion in Moscow, I was attacked by
the Chairman of a Russian Jewish Congress and Director of a Zionist
Middle East Institute, a greasy and spotty bully of a man with
hanging belly, a living cartoon from Der Sturmer, with the fitting
name Satanovsky. "Watch out, - told me Satanovsky after the show, -
apparently you have never been beaten hard enough. Here in Moscow we
know of no restraints of democracy, my Jewish lads will tear your
balls off like they did to many men like you. Israel should remain a
Jewish state forever". Such Jewish Mafiosi are the real leaders of
the Jewish Lobby and chief supporters of the Jewish state abroad.
These sort of people lead the Jewish organisations in Russia, in
America and elsewhere. They need a Jewish state to escape their lands
in the hour of wrath, but we, the ordinary citizens of Israel, do not
need it.
However, the Mafia can't rule forever. I take heart in the words of
Ahmadinejad: "The young tree of resistance in Palestine is blooming
and blooms of faith and desire for freedom are flowering. The Zionist
regime is a decaying and crumbling tree that will fall with a storm.
(Remember the parable of the barren tree? - ISH) Palestine is the
meeting point of right and wrong. The destiny of the region will be
decided in the land of Al-Qods and it will be a great honour to share
in the victory of Palestine." The victory of Palestine is our victory
and we shall be happy to share in it.
"Now, will there be a war?," one is often asked. I have no full
confidence of George Bush, he does not share his plans with me. But
while the gatekeepers of the Left say that Oil is the reason for the
war, in my view Oil can be the reason for peace. As the price of oil
has now crossed the $70 threshold, President Bush must decide whether
he will survive its hike above $120 -- whether his voters in the red
states will happily accept the advice of an American Jewish Congress
pundit and director of their Israel/Middle East Office Eran Lerman
(previously of Israeli intelligence) to stop driving cars every other
day. Bush has the power to steer the US away from its perilous
course, and tell to the Jewish Congress pundits to shove it.
And to my Israeli countrymen: I'll remind you of our age-long
tradition of friendship with Iran. Two thousand years ago, a picture
of the Iranian capital city Susa was presented on the Eastern gate of
the Jewish temple in Jerusalem. Mishna (Berakoth 9) called for being
especially careful towards it: "never show disrespect to the Eastern
gate!" According to Rambam, this was done so that they would have the
fear of the king of Persia upon them. This tradition is worth
remembering and carefully preserving.
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