According to Newsmax, "Israel’s minister of strategic affairs said he
has received approval from the US and Europe for an Israeli attack on
Iran’s nuclear facilities."
Avigdor Lieberman is reported as having said, following a meeting with
NATO and European Union officials, "If we start military operations
against Iran alone, then Europe and the US will support us.”
In other words, America and Europe are going to supply the money and
weaponry for Israel to destroy Iran's nuclear power facilities. That
gets all of the attack freaks off the hook: Israel convinces the West of
its lies about Iran's nuclear ambitions; and America and the Europeans
only support the lies and provide the armaments and funding.
Is anyone paying attention to what's going on in the Middle East? Israel
has more than 200 nuclear bombs; and for that revelation Mordechai
Vanunu languished in prison for 18 years. Who are the Israeli leaders
trying to kid? Or do they have so much control over the US and Europe
that they don't need to kid anyone any longer?
Iran, on the other hand, has wanted to develop nuclear power. Does
anyone not know the difference between nuclear power plants and nuclear
bombs? Israel and its supporters seem to hope we're confused.
It's an extension of the same power wielding and dissembling they've
been doing for years with the Palestinians. They tell the world that
they're under threat from the Arabs; and they’re using tanks and
helicopter gunships to massacre kids throwing stones.
The Israelis scream about the deaths of Israelis and the danger to
Israel of the suicide bombers when Israel has imprisoned, tortured,
maimed, assassinated or gunned down hundreds of times as many
Palestinians.
In their unbridled arrogance, the Israelis continue to build illegal
settlements, they destroy a legitimately elected Palestinian government,
they build walls that deprive Palestinians of their land, they steal
property, and force Palestinians out of their homes and into refugee
camps.
America and the European Union are just as arrogant in their support of
Israel. Just as the US and the UK proved by invading and continuing to
occupy Iraq, the West is again exercising imperialist control over a
people they consider a lesser breed.
That arrogant attitude of a chosen people moved the appetites of the
British Empire, the occupation of Algeria by France, the conquests of
Spain and Portugal. Imperial control is nothing new to the Europeans.
The sickening control freaks of America and Israel differ only slightly
from the holier-than-thou Europeans in their conquests. Iraq wasn’t
enough. They're all back in the same boat now ready to decimate Iran
because its president dared to question the legitimacy of Israel.
Oh, yes, Iran also wants to develop nuclear power and preserve its oil
reserves. The country has signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
And had its nuclear facilities inspected. Israel has not. Iran has no
nuclear weapons. Israel does. America and England and the rest of Europe
have enough to destroy the world.
They will continue to dissemble with lies that distort what Iran's
president has said, what the Iranians are doing and speculating about
what Iran intends to do. All of which makes Iran an easy target for the
arrogant controllers of the world.
Paul Balles is a retired American
university professor and freelance writer who has lived in the Middle
East for 38 years. For more information, see
http://www.pballes.com.