Hotet från Iran har inte försvunnit någonstans

David Horovitz ger igen  en klar analys av läget. Den gamla regimen sitter kvar vid makten och Iran har fortfarande tillgång till anrikat uran som kan användas till kärnvapen. Om man säger att hotet förvunnit lurar man sig själv.

Netanyahu claims to have prevented an Iranian-wrought second Holocaust. If only we could be so sure

In his Holocaust Day address, the PM asserted that his pledge to ensure the regime in Tehran does not develop nuclear weapons had been fulfilled. He of all people should be more circumspect

...Now, two and a half years later, Netanyahu the politician is assuring the nation that Iran, too, no longer poses a dire threat, that he and Trump have dealt with the danger. And there is a risk to the State of Israel and its people, today as in 2023, that Netanyahu the politician will be swept up by his own bluster and will start to believe his own rhetoric.

“Had we not acted, the names Natanz, Fordo, Isfahan and Parchin might have been remembered eternally in infamy, just like Auschwitz, Treblinka, Majdanek and Sobibor,” he solemnly claimed at Yad Vashem.

But that danger has not, in fact, been alleviated.

And Netanyahu, not the divisive party chief seeking reelection but the Israeli prime minister — who knows full well that there has been no regime change in Iran, and knows exactly what the regime is capable of — has a national obligation to recognize, explain and confront that reality, however politically uncomfortable it may be.

Kapitulerade USA?

 Inga mål som sattes upp för kriget har uppnåtts men Trump tröttnade. Nu har han enligt sina egna uttalande skapat världsfred för åtminstone andra gången under sin mandatperiod.

David Horovitz TOI: US and Israel set out ambitious, vital war goals; as of the ceasefire, none have been achieved

'Everyone' wanted a ceasefire, Trump says. Well, he certainly did

...Fighting halts with the US president hailing what is only a tactical victory, and impossibly expecting a deal in two weeks to impose terms on the weakened but emboldened Iranian regime

...Trump’s semantic games about old and new regimes symbolize the biggest danger of this current, fateful moment. The fighting is at a fragile halt, with the Islamic Republic still oppressing its people and still seeking to destroy Israel, emboldened to have survived an assault led by the world’s mightiest military power, and with no binding agreements in place to ensure that it cannot reconstitute what it has lost.

And yet the US president is telling the world, and himself, that he is dealing with “reasonable” people — indeed that he has received “a 10-point proposal” from them, believes it to be “a workable basis on which to negotiate,” and expects that a two-week ceasefire period “will allow the agreement to be finalized and consummated.”

In another post late on Tuesday night, Trump declared that the ceasefire marks “A big day for World Peace! Iran wants it to happen, they’ve had enough! Likewise, so has everyone else!”

It’s the “everyone” in that post that’s most troubling, and most revealing.