THE BIG BUSINESS OF HATE
by Egon Friedler
La Republica. Uruguay
Forward: http://www.porisrael.org/
Once again the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reap a success of scandal, causing a wave of indignation in the West.
His infamous speech of incitement to the elimination of Israel from the face of the Earth, ironically delivered to the Human Rights Commission called the United Nations in Geneva, led to a massive outflow of the Board of the European representatives and convictions throughout the civilized world. But it is not the audience he addressed the arch-conservative Iranian leader. His audience is in Islamic countries where anti-Semitism breast milk and taught the interpretation of "hard" of the Koran according to which Jews are enemies of Allah and therefore are mortal enemies of Muslims, so state that no dialogue with them.
Many people in the world must wonder. Why just Iran has become the great enemy of Israel? Why the Iranian president is the most militant spokesman extreme position that is not even so systematically expressed by Arab Islamists directly involved in the struggle with the Jewish state?
The answer is simple. Hate is a big political deal. Serves to attach and detach to hide failures and silence enemies, to deflect all blame themselves an evil foreign enemies to justify and conceal unscrupulous rulers aggressive plans. And it is the recipe for securing the support of more primitive sectors of society.
Iran is not party to the Arab-Israeli or Palestinian-Israeli conflict. It has no territorial conflict or otherwise with the Jewish state. There is no objective reason why Iran is a sworn enemy of Israel. On the contrary, throughout history, the similarities between Jews and Persians, had very positive connotations. So why the Iranian Islamist regime chose Israel as an enemy? For the same reason that Hitler chose the Jews as the main pretext for launching its war against the world: to be the classic scapegoat, the ideal enemy, against which there is already a long and deeply rooted prejudices load, a militant hostility deep theological and historical roots.
In fact, Iran seized or kidnapped on their behalf the long and bitter Arab-Israeli conflict. His "solidarity" with the Palestinian cause allowed him to become the all-powerful arbiter in Lebanon where it acts through its armed militia composed of Lebanon, but funded and led by Tehran.
The guerrillas of the "Hezbollah" is presented as the "resistance", a resistance which of course does not have to resist, since Israel withdrew its troops from Lebanon in 2000. But the myth of the "resistance" serves as an alleged justification for the existence of an armed militia that makes a mockery of Lebanese sovereignty. Where did this old European powers, used to be called imperialism. Now it's worse, because Iran will not only removes any autonomy to the government of Beirut, Lebanon but involves a confrontation with a neighboring country, totally unnecessary and contrary to national interests. Today, almost three years of war against Israel foolishly provoked by Hezbollah, the balance for Lebanon is clearly negative. The Israeli army lost perhaps some prestige, but Lebanon had great losses in human lives and infrastructure that were not offset by the millions of dollars that Iran gave the country to avoid a strong anti-Iranian reaction.
Another "help", no less cynical is provided to Hamas. The aim of Iran is clear: to thwart any real progress towards creating a Palestinian state willing to make peace with Israel. For if the division of the Palestinians into two hostile camps, Fatah and Hamas, not enough, Tehran, by supporting the radical Islamist movement in Gaza, intensifies and perpetuates the conflict between the two groups and thwarts progress towards any negotiated settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict. To this should be adding their territorial aspirations in Bahrain, the recent discovery of an Iranian-Lebanese subversive network in Egypt, supporting Shia insurgent groups in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, and the breaking of diplomatic relations between Morocco and Iran in protest against Shiite clerics preaching subversive payments by the government in Tehran.
How adventurous policy that serves the national interests of Iran? If you are serious about a subject merely banal to the Islamist fanatic groups such as the welfare of the people, there is no doubt that that policy is useless. It is silver roll, it could definitely be much better spent on creating jobs and improving living standards.
According to some analysts, the Iranian theocratic regime is entering a phase of outright agony. It is not clear that this is so. But if it was, until its demise can still cause much damage
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