Som tidigare sagt, det är värt några minuter att läsa vad David Horovitz skriver.
When the bombs stop, he promised Iranians, your government ‘will be yours to take.’ But it won’t be. And as for his talk of potential ‘guaranteed peace for Israel’ – well, would that it were so
It took Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu more than seven hours to formulate a response on Monday to US President Donald Trump’s bombshell announcement that his emissaries were negotiating indirectly with the “top man” in Iran on a deal to end the war, and that the sides had reached agreement on some 15 key points.
And no wonder the prime minister struggled to find the words. He needed to somewhat dissociate himself and Israel from the US president’s gambit, without sounding like he was doing so...
...But if he indeed strikes a deal with the regime — and especially if it turns out that the “top man” with whom he is interacting is, in fact, Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Ghalibaf — a “Death to America”-shouting former commander in the terror-exporting Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and murderous suppressor of anti-regime protests at home — Trump risks subverting the very goals of the war he and Netanyahu launched against the Islamic Republic less than four weeks ago.
Denouncing the regime on February 28 as “a vicious group of very hard, terrible people,” Trump accurately accused it of menacing the US and its allies worldwide for 47 years, promised to “raze their missile industry,” vowed to ensure Iran would never attain a nuclear weapon, and told Iranians that “the hour of your freedom is at hand.” When the bombs stop, he urged, “Take over your government. It will be yours to take.”
Instead, he is negotiating with that vicious, cynical and completely untrustworthy regime, whether or not he claims its latest representatives are somehow distinct from their recently eliminated predecessors. And thus, by definition, he is legitimizing its retention of power and narrowing the promised path for the Iranian public to oust it...
...Trump’s assertion that the US has obtained broad agreement from its Iranian interlocutors to a 15-point plan for ending the war carries shades of the way he put forward his 20-point peace plan for Gaza last September.
Ignoring the fact that Gaza’s terrorist rulers had submitted a caveat-filled semi-rejection of his proposal, he declared that Hamas was ready for peace, and brokered a deal that, near-miraculously, enabled the release of the last 20 living hostages from more than two years of horrific captivity in Gaza.
But six months later, Hamas is still governing most Gazans, has not disarmed, is currently regrouping and rearming, and remains determined to destroy Israel.
Gaza is a nightmarish military and diplomatic challenge, because so many of its people loathe Israel more than they loathe the terrorist rulers who place them in the line of fire, and because there is no dependable alternative Palestinian leadership.
Iran could have been — and still could be — very different. Most of its people revile the regime that has been oppressing them for almost half a century. They have been crying out for international assistance in ridding themselves of the ayatollahs, have repeatedly resorted to mass protests, and been gunned down by the tens of thousands.
Trump’s reported 15 conditions for ending the war — including permanently stripping the Islamic Republic of its nuclear weapons program, constraining its missile capabilities, and severing it from Hamas, Hezbollah and its other terrorist proxies — would indeed deprive it of the capacity to menace Israel, the region, and the rest of the world, and could indeed spell its merciful demise… if those conditions are implemented.
But for precisely that reason, there is no way on earth that the regime will agree to them...
...In a TV report on Monday night, an Israeli security source was quoted saying, “We do not know if there will be a deal in the near future or if this is a characteristic ‘Trump maneuver.’ But if there is a deal, and it does not involve the removal from Iran of its [450-kilograms of 60%] enriched uranium, any big words about ‘devastation’ and ‘degraded capability’ will not be true. The truth will be that it is an epic failure.”
That’s for sure.
And again, Trump told Iranians on February 28, “When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take.”
Well, it won’t be, will it, if he cuts a deal with people who are merely different faces of the same regime?
And finally, as for Trump’s vision of this agreement, if it happens, bringing “peace for Israel, long-term peace, guaranteed peace” — that carries historical echoes that I’d prefer not even to express and dearly hope will never have to.
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