Israel Matzav

A very disturbing scenario

But what if Israel acted alone against Iran? Israel could not do as much damage as a U.S. strike, but might still set Iran’s nuclear program back by perhaps ten years. Israel would be doing America’s dirty work while exclusively bearing the cost in blood, expense and retaliation. Meanwhile America could play the role of ‘honest’ broker between both sides and call for a U.N. resolution for a cease fire. If necessary America would be the one country that could pressure Israel for restraint if things were getting out of hand. This would allow the U.S. to cultivate good relations with Arab and Muslim countries. In the past the U.S. has stepped in at least three times (1948, 1973 and 1982) to save Arab armies from total defeat by Israel.

If things went well for Israel, the U.S. would have little to do beyond diplomacy while collecting cost-free benefits. But if things went badly for Israel the U.S. could claim to be even-handed by joining with Israel’s enemies in denouncing ‘unprovoked aggression’ by Israel. If Israel was going down to bloody defeat, the U.S. could remind the American people that we had no mutual defense treaty obligating us to act to save Israel, especially when Israel attacked first. We could then generously offer humanitarian aid to any Jewish survivors and perhaps even help transport them elsewhere, provided other countries would agree to take them in.

Perhaps the U.S. plan is to delay action until Israel is unable to wait any longer and feels forced to preempt or risk annihilation. As of now Israel already knows that it may have to act on its own and the U.S. has declined to announce a firm deadline for possible military action. The U.S. can just go through the diplomatic motions, keeping alive the slim hope that it may act before Israel finally becomes desperate.

If Iran gets lucky and lands nukes on Tel Aviv, it is all over for Israel. The U.S. State Department’s Arabists would have achieved their secret long term goal of a Middle East free of Israel. (The consistent refusal of every U.S. administration since 1948 to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem could be interpreted as a signal to the Arabs that America regards Israel’s existence as temporary.) The Arabs would be delirious with joy, and to show their gratitude might then tolerate the U.S. smashing the Iranian nuclear facilities, in retaliation, since Persian nukes also posed a threat to them.

This cynical and sinister scenario by the U.S. administration is all too conceivable. Consider WWII as just one example among others. By the 1930’s the U.S. was already in support of England and France’s efforts to prevent a Jewish state from being reborn in the ancient Jewish homeland after nearly 2,000 years of exile. The League of Nations after WW I had established a Mandate for a Jewish National Home in Palestine to be administered by England. From the start England sabotaged the very Mandate it was charged with implementing.

During WWII President Roosevelt and the British government conspired to prevent a Jewish State from coming into existence. European Jewry was the potential source to populate that future Jewish State. Two books, the first, The Abandonment of the Jews – America and the Holocaust 1941-1945 by David S. Wyman and the second, While Six Million Died – A Chronicle of American Apathy by Arthur D. Morse, tell the story. Actually it was much more than “apathy”. There was deliberate allied obstruction of attempts to save the Jewish people from destruction.

The Roosevelt Administration played down reports of genocide against Jews lest the American public demand action to save Jews. Hundreds of thousands of immigration slots were deliberately left unfulfilled so that coming to America was not a viable option for European Jews. England also cut off Jewish escape routes to Palestine which also pleased Arab leaders.

While voicing sympathy in public for Jews, both governments conspired to allow Hitler full reign to exterminate European Jews. Evidently having a democratic Jewish State in the Middle East might give the poor Arab masses the ‘wrong ideas’ about wanting self-government and freedom from foreign exploitation. Much easier to dominate the region through compliant Arab chieftains such as King ibn Saud of Arabia.

To many Americans such a conspiracy is too unthinkable and too awful to believe. In 1948 Harry Truman promptly recognized the reborn State of Israel. But the Truman administration promptly imposed a regional arms embargo which only affected Israel because the invading Arab armies were all well armed. It would have been a death sentence on the newborn state. Israel survived at great human cost but totally without help from America. The 1994 book, The Secret War Against the Jews – How Western Espionage Betrayed the Jewish People, by John Loftus and Mark Aarons documents this ongoing secret betrayal that extended over half a century and which still continues quietly. In all of this the American people, and even most of Congress, were kept largely in the dark while being misled to believe that U.S. administrations are being fair and supportive to our Israeli ally.

Perhaps some American officials might be secretly dreaming of a scenario in which Israel disappears and the U.S. government leaves no fingerprints. But if Israel really has 200 or more nukes, something might not go as planned by her ‘friends’.

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:06 PM