Amidst all the accolades concerning the life of Ariel Sharon in the “Sharon edition” of The Jerusalem Post, we find in that same paper the most ominous threats – probably buried away to most Israelis who are occupied more with the just-passing away of their 11th prime minister, who by the more leftist Israeli politicians and journalists is praised for the disastrous evacuation he executed of some of his best and most courageous Israelis from Gush Katif. Therefore I believe it necessary to single out these dangers the very same newspaper has buried away.
- For Palestinians in Gaza, Sharon’s passing is reason to celebrate Dozens of Palestinians took to the streets in the Gaza Strip on Saturday to celebrate the death of former prime minister Ariel Sharon. Participants said they consider the death of Sharon as the beginning of the demise of the Israeli entity.
- Abbas: No recognition of ‘Jewish’ state’, no peace without Jerusalem Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday reaffirmed his refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. He also stressed that the Palestinians would not accept any solution that did not include east Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state. “We won’t accept the Jewishness of Israel.”
- Iranian atom chief: Nuclear bill would have consequences Iran will have no choice but to step up its uranium enrichment if a bill now moving through parliament is approved. The bill has received expressions of support from at least 218 of parliament’s 290 members and, if passed, could threaten progress toward a resolution of Iran’s long-running row with the international community over its nuclear program. The bill would call for enrichment to 60 percent, sufficient for use in the reactors that power nuclear submarines.
- Tehran, Moscow negotiate huge oil-for-goods trade dealIran and Russia are negotiating an oil-for-goods swap worth $1.5 billion a month that would let Iran lift oil exports substantially, in defiance of Western sanctions that helped force Tehran to agree a preliminary deal to end its nuclear program. US Rep. Eliot Engel of New York, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said he was deeply troubled by the report of the Iran-Russia talks. “This reckless and irresponsible move raises serious questions about Russia’s commitment to ending Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons,” Engel said. Russia is one of the countries involved in the nuclear talks but, unlike the United States and the European Union, has not imposed sanctions on Iran. Russian purchases of 500,000 bpd of Iranian crude would lift Iran’s oil exports by 50 percent and provide a major boost to its struggling economy. At current oil prices near $100 a barrel Iran would earn about an additional $1.5 billion a month.
5. Ministry summons Dutch envoy over pension fund divestment For the second time in the last month and a half, the Foreign Ministry on Friday summoned the Dutch ambassador to protest against a large Dutch company’s decision to sever ties with Israel. PGGM is among the Netherlands’ largest pension fund managers, with assets in excess of €153 billion ($210b.). Its dealing with Israeli banks amounts to tens of millions of euros, according to Haaretz. It is the latest in a string of large Dutch companies that have cut off ties with Israeli entities.
Concerning the first report in the Post describing the joy and celebration of the Palestinians in Gaza at the death of Ariel Sharon, “Participants said they consider the death of Sharon as the beginning of the demise of the Israeli entity.” Strange that this is their reaction to the man who in the end years of his political live gave them back all of Gush Katif, forcefully uprooting 10,000 Israelis from this same Gaza Strip – using the Israeli police and Israeli army for the first time in Israel’s history to cruelly expel Israeli families from their peaceful homes and flourishing communities.
And in relation to the second threat: While Israel is mourning a former hero who defended Israel at great personal cost throughout the wars Israel had to fight, Abu Mazen’s contribution after all Israeli concessions including Sharon’s, was no recognition of a ‘Jewish’ state. This is how the Post stated this: “Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday(the day Sharon died) reaffirmed his refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. He also stressed that the Palestinians would not accept any solution that did not include east Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state.”
This unbelievable statement spells the death blow to the entire and current present ‘peace’ negotiations conducted by Secretary of State John Kerry! Unbelievable, because it proves that after all the hours of negotiations, Abu Mazen has still not accepted that ‘east’ Jerusalem was the capital of Israel – from the time of King David until the time of Jesus – longer than any city has been an Arab capital, and that today there is a vibrant, rebuilt Jewish quarter in ‘east’ Jerusalem with rebuilt synagogues and yeshivas that will never, never be uprooted by any Israeli government.
Concerning the third threat – possibly the most alarming of all items published in Sunday’s The Jerusalem Post – that Iran’s parliament will by a large majority vote down what its own President Rouhani reluctantly agreed upon with the P5+1 in Geneva, thus accelerating the prospects of Iran obtaining her much desired nuclear capability; it reminds one of the equal stupidity of the Western powers who trusted Adolf Hitler when he promised British Prime Minister Chamberlain in München that he would not attack Czechoslovakia – a promise he never intended to keep. In the same way today’s foolish western nations (America and Europe) – at the very brink of Iran’s being able to carry out a nuclear attack on Israel (AND Iran, like Hitler, has never made a secret of her desire to eliminate the Jewish state from the map of the Middle East,) – have been deceived in Geneva into making a deal with a Hitler-like regime which is unable, according to the vote of its own parliament, to even honor this deal!
Looking at the fourth threat, we can say it is already too late. And the one who foresaw this was the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, who called what was agreed upon by the powers of the world ‘a very bad deal.’ Now his words shine forth as among the few reasonable and alert voices among world leaders – just as Winston Churchill’s voice rang alone and aloud about his prime minister’s misstep with Hitler.
Even if the United State Senate and Congress soon will vote for an acceleration of sanctions against Iran, it is already too late to turn back the clock. Iran has – by giving up nothing – successfully circumvented the sanctions as is seen from the Postreport.
And other nations have also already used the American-directed easing of sanctions to begin to trade with the Hitler-like regime in Iran, thus inadvertently perhaps speeding up this new Hitler’s intention to finish off those of God’s Chosen People who were left alive.
To threat number five: Let us not forget that, before Hitler could round the Jewish people up in cattle cars to send them to Auschwitz and other death camps, he began to strangle them with an economic boycott: “Kauft nicht bei der Juden” (Buy nothing from Jewish shops.) Today we hear even from the West voices calling for the boycotting of Israel or Israeli goods, something that should NEVER have come over the lips of any Western or European leader who knows his history. Anti-Semitic Germany began its battle against the Jewish people with economic boycotts and it ended in the death of millions of them, as indeed the cowardice and hypocrisy of today’s nations in relation to the threat of the extermination by a Hitler-like Iran MAY RESULT in the obliteration of the Jewish state – a Jewish state which even the so called Palestinian moderate leader Abu Mazen refuses to recognize.
So there the same sick and coward like world goes again, as the French proverb says: “L’histoire se répète” History repeats itself.
Munich, and the handshake there between Chamberlain and Hitler, resulted in the massacre of round 50 million people, and two thirds of European Jewry. Will the deception and the handshake in Geneva with today’s Nazi like Iranian leaders cause a catastrophe infinitely more serious?
Jan Willem van der Hoeven, Director
International Christian Zionist Center
