The Left and their anti-bomb campaign

By Steven Plaut

The entire Israeli Left has by now morphed into a “Solidarity with Iran” movement. It seems to be united over little else besides its desire to see Iran get nuclear weapons. Almost every single Op-Ed in Haaretz and half of its news stories these days are devoted to lobbying AGAINST any possible Israeli strike against Iranian nuclear facilities. A petition by 300 of Israel’s “intellectuals” just called upon Israeli pilots to refuse to participate in any Israeli strike against Iran. Among those signers was the ex-Dean of the Law School at Tel Aviv University, a chronic contender for a Supreme Court judgeship, Prof. Menachem Mautner. No doubt this will earn him a seat on the Court as the next Likud appointee, Perhaps he thinks his law school building will be invulnerable to nuclear weapons. The new Dean of Law at the Hebrew University, Prof. Yuval Shany, who is active in Far Leftist groups like Betselem, has just expressed the opinion that it would be “illegal” for Israel to strike Iranian nuclear facilities. I would like to see him call the police if Israel does!

Meanwhile, one sheep after another, Israeli “intellectuals” and “academics” churn out the same “argument” for sitting back and letting Iran get its nuclear weapons. If I had a dime for every leftist claiming that it would actually be in Israel’s own interests to have an Iran with nuclear weapons, I could retire. Their argument is always the same: since the US and Russia never actually used their nuclear weapons against one another during the Cold War, this PROVES that the theory of “mutually assured destruction” holds. And since this theory must be true, then the pair of Iran and Israel both having nuclear weapons MUST mean that neither will use them, and so peace and tranquility will prevail. Never mind the use of weapons of mass destruction throughout the 20th century by pairs of countries who both possessed them (think of mustard gas!). In other words, the Left is so convinced that its “theory” is correct that it is willing to wager a second Holocaust of Jews to test it out. Of course if they are wrong and Iran DOES use its nukes to incinerate the Jews, those leftists will not be around to have to apologize.

I had a very strange dream last night. I thought I would relay it to you. In the dream, Yossi Beilin comes out with a new peace idea. “Suppose all the Israeli Jews simply convert to Islam,” he proposes in my dream. “In that case Iran would have no reason at all to USE its nuclear weapons against the Israelis!”

“What a remarkable idea,” chimed in Zehava Galon, chief of Meretz, “Now why didn’t I think of that myself.” Within days the idea was endorsed not only by the central committee of Meretz, but also the entire leadership of “Peace Now” backed the idea. That was enough to get Haaretz to run the peace program on its front page, and on every one of its other pages, including the sports pages.

Hundreds of university professors held mass street conversions to
Islam, while nearly all the poets and novelists in the country joined
them. “Let us go through the motions of converting if it will prevent a nuclear war,” insisted A.B. Yehoshua. A few dozen leftist activists who had never been circumcised offered to have the procedure done to them if this would allow a nuclear war to be averted, and Yuli Tamir suggested that circumcisions could be done on women who are new converts to Islam as well.

Leftist court judges ordered the government to adopt the plan. A crescent replaced the menorah on the lawn in front of the Knesset. Radio and television broadcasts were ordered to be brought into line with the new national identity and agenda, although it turned out that very little actually had to be changed in them. Israel joined the Arab League and the Labor Party renamed itself the Levantine Moslem Brotherhood. Newly elected Prime Minister Shimon Peres gave as his opening speech an appeal to Iran for friendship for the newest Moslem country. “We share the religion of peace,” cried Hajj al- himon.

And it was one year after the entire Israeli population had converted to Islam when the country was blanketed by Iranian-launched nuclear missiles. When the reports of the attacks were brought to President Obama, who was running for his third term as president, he demanded to know how it was possible that Iran attacked Israel after all the Israelis had converted to Islam. Simple, explained his national security advisor Rashid Khalidi. It did not work because those idiot Israelis converted to Sunni Islam!

It was at that point that I awoke and said Mode Ani.

August 19, 2012 | 5 Comments »

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  1. I like the idea of a “public mass circumcision ceremony” for those leftist, self hating Jews candidates for Islamisation.. I have never done it before but I would for sure volunteer for the job..and never mind if some have been circumcised before!

  2. So, I understand that the Leftist arm-chair generals are fully prepared to fight the last war, not the next.

  3. I find it rather odd that people who know nothing about Shia Islam, the Israeli Left among them, think the Iranian mullahs would never sacrifice their population and themselves to bring about the return of the Mahdi, but people who do know a lot about Shia eschatology think they are quite capable of doing it.

    Bernard Lewis:
    Particular importance should be attached to the policies, and perhaps still more the attitudes, of the present rulers of Iran, who seem to be preparing for a final apocalyptic battle between the forces of God [themselves] and of the Devil [ the Great Satan–the United States]. They see this as the final struggle of the End of Time and are therefore undeterred by any level of slaughter and destruction even among their own people . “Allah will know his own” is the phase commonly used, meaning that among the multiple victims God will recognize the Muslims and give them a quick pass to heaven.
    In this context, the deterrent that worked so well during the Cold War, namely M.A.D. (Mutual Assured Destruction) , would have no meaning. At the End of Time, there will be general destruction anyway. What will matter is the final destination of the dead– hell for the infidels, and the delights of heaven for the believers. For people with this mindset, M.A.D. is not a constraint; it is an inducement…
    http://www.madisdead.blogspot.co.il/2012/05/why-are-bernard-lewiss-views-on-mad.html
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703712504576234601480205330.html

    Raphael Israeli:
    This brings us back to our original discussion of nuclear weaponry and the resulting MAD formula that prevented nuclear annihilation during the Cold War: So long as the possibility to hasten the return of the Imam exists, someone as clinically mad as Ahmadinejad may very well decide to use his nuclear program to this end – regardless of the costs or the global consequences. After all, in the post-apocalyptic world, only the omnipotent Imam will have the power to redress the errors made by human leaders.
    http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Opinion/Article.aspx?id=242994

    Reza Kahlili:
    “Once they get the nuclear bomb, and they have the nuclear capability, and anybody can determine this because they are running multiple convert operations, parallel projects of nuclear bomb and missile delivery systems. It is a parallel project for one purpose, and I can argue both sides of the coin, but my belief is that .this is a messianic regime, there should be no doubts, they will commit the most horrendous suicide bombing in human history. They will attack Israel, European capitals and Persian Gulf region at the same time, then they will hide in a bunker waiting for Mahdi to get out of that well, ride the white horse, draw that sword and kill the rest of the nonbelievers.”
    http://atimetobetray.com/blog/in-support-of-democracy-in-iran/

  4. You should read Jeff Barak’s piece in the Jerusalem Post today.

    Basically, the Israeli Left thinks Israel should live with Iranian nukes because Shimon Peres is the wisest man who ever lived.

    Its a circular argument and a nonsense one at that but it does tell you quite a few Jews in Israel are afraid of rocking the boat because of “what will the goyim say” and there is cognitive dissonance operating among Jews just like it operated in a similar fashion among Jews during the Holocaust.

    They make no serious case against bombing Iran and the costs of stopping Iran now will be far cheaper than the costs of living with a nuclear Iran.

    You will never hear the Israeli Left bring up the latter case until its too late.

  5. Great article! How realistic! Lets just hope that this amount and scale of treachery will ignite more determined patriotism, before its too late.