Iranian threat: You have the wrong picture!
The comments on my first post An Iranian in Tel Aviv were a pleasant surprise. I'll resume that storyline in my next entry. However, in light of the upcoming Iranian elections and the media preoccupation - especially Israel's - with Iran, I want to clarify some points. One cannot read an Israeli newspaper these days without coming across an article on the "Iranian threat." The comparisons between Iran and Nazi Germany are plentiful. It seems as if the whole nation of Israel is bracing for the second Shoah, which is supposedly going to be perpetrated by Teheran. In the Israeli and world press, the subject of the most intense scrutinizing and vilifying is none other than Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; the man whose picture is associated with the Iranian threat, and whose hands are allegedly on the "Destroy Israel" button. He is, however, the wrong guy to focus on. There is one person in Iran who is in charge. The entire armed forces and the three branches of the government operate under his guidance. He has complete control over foreign policy in the Islamic Republic, especially national security matters. He is above the law; in fact, he defines what is law. His words are God's words and his commands are considered sacred. This all powerful man is the Supreme Leader of Iran, the Leader of all Shias in the world, His Eminence, Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The neo-con's devotion and disarray
To understand the neo-con, his perception about the world around him, the school of philosophies that shaped his ideology, the doctrines which he holds to be infallible and the blind fortitude which borders on lunacy, it is first imperative to come to terms with the self-image of such a person and how he views himself in relation to the rest of mankind. The neo-con is of the persuasion that he is not only considerably enlightened, as of a divine gift, but truly ahead of his time - a harbinger of illumination to a world void of reason. The neo-con has adopted the sincere belief that he is the archetype of all that is noble, the forbearer of humanity's hopes and aspirations. He dons the image of the guardian of righteousness, the vanguard against corruption and malevolence- modern-day's Jeremiah in a besieged proverbial Jerusalem exhorting his countrymen on the dangers of the neo-Babylonians that surround them. The unreserved allegiance to this unshakable conviction drives the neo-con to not only espouse a foreign policy that has habitually failed in disparate cultures, times, and places, but to deny the very same reality that has spawned from the implementation of such imprudent hypotheses. As Iraq lies in ruins and its capital is currently being ethnically cleansed from all and anything associated with the Sunni persuasion of Islam, and as regional nationalist forces are ripping the war-torn nation into autonomous subdivisions, displacing millions of innocents and introducing a new reality that will have nothing but enduring ominous, consequences for the region at large, the neo-con inanely interprets this as being a "sign" of progress. |
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