Fallout

Fallout

Monday, December 4, 2006

Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stood with Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Friday and declared that the State of Israel would soon “disappear” from the face of the Earth. Ahmadinejad wants a second and final Holocaust of the Jewish people and he even claims that western politicians are beginning to agree that Israel must be destroyed if there is to be “world peace”.

As President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was brazenly laying out Iranian foreign policy objectives which include the liquidation of the Israeli nation-state and the wholesale slaughter of Jews, the Iranian terrorist proxy army in Lebanon was marching through the streets demanding the resignation of the democratically elected government there. In what can only be described as a “Revolution of the Martyrs” to counter freedom’s “Cedar Revolution” for the Lebanese people, Hezbollah has gathered hundreds of thousands of loyalists into the streets of Beirut to demand that the government of Lebanon surrender to their will. Hezbollah’s intentions for Lebanon are the purging and conversion of the country into a Shiite-controlled client state, a genocidal war against the Jews and the imposing of radical Islam throughout the Middle East.

President Ahmadinejad’s announcement that the State of Israel would soon be destroyed was met with little fanfare in the leftist international media. Israeli newspapers picked up the story however, because Jewish readers of those newspapers living in Israel would naturally be interested in reading about what one of the key architects of the second and final Jewish Holocaust is up to.

Western media silence over Ahmadinejad’s latest warnings for the future of the Middle East is as remarkable as media’s recent silence in its reporting on the Bush Administration. Since the midterm American elections turned out just as media wanted them to turn out, media silence is understandable. Media got what it wanted so there is no longer any reason to run an aggressive psyop against President Bush and his administration, as long as Bush doesn’t deviate from the unelected recommendations of the James Baker Commission which are due to be publicized soon. Should Bush deviate from the anti-war media plan for America, it can be expected that hostile media psyops against President Bush will emerge again until the next presidential election in 2008.

When a nation-state engages its enemies on foreign battlefields, it does so from the authority of the elected politician. Now that the elected politicians are seeking to get recommendations from an unelected group of “advisors” about what to do in Iraq and Afghanistan, the American people should recognize that the politician is seeking to bail out of those war efforts against fundamentalist Islam, and the final decision made is not coming from the politician, but from non-elected bureaucrats and others. The American people have not voted for James Baker or other members of his commission to perform such functions, but by bringing Baker in this will allow the politician to shield themselves from certain types of criticism before the nation-state retreats from the battlefield. The decision also has the appearance of being bipartisan since any partisan decision made by the modern western politician will never be allowed to have credible consensus, even if the decision is what needs to be done for the best interests of the state and national security.

The Chamberlain-esque political intrigue involved in the American retreat from the War on Terrorism is really remarkable. Chamberlain gave the British people what they wanted—claims of peace. All civilized human beings want peace. That doesn’t mean we will get peace. For civilized human beings to know peace, those hostile to civilization must become willing subjects or civilized human beings have to construct systems of national defense that make those hostile to civilization reluctant to bring war. Western civilization has received no such assurances and capitulation from fundamentalist Islam.

In European political circles there is the notion that since this is America’s war and the United States is the aggressor in Iraq and Afghanistan, decisions must be made to make peace with Islam. The most important warmongering motive at the moment for fundamentalist Islamic aggression internationally is the status of the Jewish nation-state. Since President Ahmadinejad has said many times in recent months that Israel will be “erased” from the Middle Eastern landscape and replaced with an Islamic Caliphate state system, outsiders must wonder if western politicians have been in discussions with Iranian and other Arab and non-Arab nation-states about what types of concessions the west will make over the State of Israel.

Feeding Israel to the wolves will not provide the west security from terrorism that western countries seek to achieve, as Chamberlain’s assurances from Adolf Hitler that there would be peace between Britain and Germany did not bring peace to Europe. The secular left’s world-view that military force can never be used to resolve conflict as a valid political instrument is fallacious. Military force has always been recognized in history as that which can quickly achieve conflict resolution, absent diplomatic solutions that at present have been unable to resolve conflict between fundamentalist Islam and the west.

Since military options are becoming less palatable, a new diplomatic angle will emerge and will include the ideas contained in the Partnership for Peace agreement once the United States begins making adjustments in Iraq. The Partnership for Peace plan derives its logic from the assumption that if the State of Israel returns land that Israel seized in response to attacks upon the Jewish state from hostile neighbors, that the region will return to a peaceful coexistence and there will be no more valid reasons for the Jews and Arab and non-Arab populations to remain in conflict. If Israel simply gives back land in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem, all will be forgotten. Taking it a step further, if the west will just walk away from Jerusalem and Israel itself, the west will make peace with Islam. The Partnership for Peace folks really believe this logic and endgame for the Middle East, and increasingly are making public statements to that effect. This means that in order to secure peace with Islam the west simply has to hand over one democracy—the State of Israel—to the enemies of the Jewish state.

The fact that discussions about the fate of Israel are even debated in Europe and the international media apparatus is astounding to the intellectual. To think that Europe would be so eager to hand over another democratic nation-state in order to sue for peace with a mortal enemy is shameful. The United States also has its share of folks who would like to see Israel go the way of the Dodo under the mass delusion that to do so would secure US national security from the onslaught of fundamentalist Islam as it spreads across the globe.

Yet President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad believes that this flexibility exists in the west. Ahmadinejad is watching as media tells western politicians to “negotiate” with Syria and Iran over Iraq and media is even using popular personalities to communicate that message. It is an effort to make the message more fashionable and more acceptable—an attempt to justify it as Chamberlain justified his announcement that Hitler wanted peace. Using history as our guide, the German people did not want peace. They chose their prince willingly and he brought them death and concessions didn’t matter. The outcome then was the realization that appeasement did not work and peace was found only through the dismantling of Hitler’s war machine.

As Hezbollah marches through Beirut, Lebanon, and as Iran publicly announces its intentions to destroy the State of Israel as the United States seeks an exit from Iraq, how tempting it must be for the western politician to contemplate handing over the State of Israel to fundamentalist Islam. The instant that the United States exits Iraq, that is precisely where fundamentalist Islam is going next. The western politician is smart enough to know what fundamentalist Islam is up to, and the litmus test for the longevity of the Israeli democracy has been unleashed by the western media.

Christopher Farmer

MS, National Security

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