Netanyahu’s Cartoon Bomb, Much Ado about Nothing
By Mohyeddin Sajedi
Press TV, 3-10-2012
"Israeli" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to portray himself as a staunch supporter of the interests of the Tel Aviv regime. But up until now, no one in the world had taken his audience at the UN General Assembly to be pre-school children to use caricatures to make them understand a so-called grave danger, which he claims threatens global peace and security.
There is no doubt that the "Israeli" premier's method has some supporters since he said that the way he had delivered his speech at the UN about the alleged Iranian nuclear threat had caused wide reactions across the world. Of course, there was no such reaction at the UN General Assembly. Outside the UN too, comments received in social networks as well as articles published in "Israeli" and the world's credited newspapers, in reaction to his weird measure, mocked him so severely that he had to defend his work on several occasions.
When you want to enter elections, you had better or let's say you have to make use of methods understandable to the public to gain their attention. This is a general guideline for every politician. Netanyahu's cartoon, which showed a hypothetical bomb with a burning wick, was not meant to convince a small group of delegations present at the UN. The cartoon rather was meant to convince the audience in "Israel" that there is no one more suitable than Netanyahu to defend "Israel" and therefore "Israelis" should vote to his party so that he would be reinstated as the prime minister to be able to avert potential dangers threatening "Israel".
The assumption is that members of the delegations that attend the UN General Assembly are to some extent aware of the world's sensitive information. They know that (according to the Iranian defense minister) "Israel" has long crossed the red line that Netanyahu drew for Iran on the paper.
In the Middle East, it is only the "Israeli" regime that possesses nuclear bombs and spends a large portion of the annual US aid and "Israeli" donations on maintaining its bombs.
After all, it does not seem that Netanyahu's cartoonish bomb, which he linked to Iran, could be more real than the satellite image that Collin Powel, the then US Secretary of State, presented to the Security Council to convince the members that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and thus the UN Security council needed to allow Iraq war. The US government invaded Iraq although no UN Security Council permit was issued. It did not take long before it was revealed that the satellite images were fabricated and Collin Powel had to shamefully admit that he was fooled.
It seems unlikely that Netanyahu's jugglery at the UN General Assembly would convince people that he is more honest than Collin Powel or George W. Bush's government.
A couple of months back, people close to Netanyahu said he planned to lead Likud towards the dissolution of the Knesset so he can hold early elections in September. The decision was shelved only 24 hours after its announcement. Chairman of the Kadima Party, Shaul Mofaz hastily went to Netanyahu and it was agreed that Mofaz' party join the ruling coalition to prevent elections. However, the prime minister's not living up to his promises brought Mofaz to realize he could not be influential in such government and he refused to join the coalition only a couple of weeks later. The issue of a potential attack on Iran was a hot one back then too and Mofaz' joining and his subsequent separation from the coalition was construed as either his opposition to the attack or Netanyahu's seeking to rally all the important "Israeli" parties around such act of aggression.
September passed. There were neither elections nor an attack against Iran; at least not a military one since "Israel" has been waging cyber and espionage incursions and carrying out assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists since long ago. Cyberwarfare may not cause human casualties, but the Islamic Republic has so far lost several of its elite scientists to targeted killings. The United States is a partner to "Israel" in this war. A couple of months back, it was revealed that the US president had signed off the cyberwarfare and that the Iranian nuclear facilities have repeatedly been targeted by malware, produced in the US and "Israel".
Tel Aviv is inclined towards holding early elections. Apart from economic difficulties and disagreement over budget allocation and distribution pressing the need for the polls, there is no doubt that there needs to be a new regime in Tel Aviv as the US administration is also to be trusted in new reins. Especially that Obama, who called Netanyahu's angry remarks just "noise," he tried to ignore, and did not even brought himself to meet the "Israeli" premier, is more likely to win.
It is the first time that an "Israeli" prime minister travels to the US for the United Nations General Assembly and the US president is not willing to receive the premier. From this very moment, Netanyahu should prepare for Obama's potential second term by hiding his support for the GOP candidate.
Had "Israel" been capable of attacking Iran on its own, it would have carried out such act of aggression long ago. Without outside support, Tel Aviv is incapable of trying its hand at any serious matter, such act of aggression being no exception. To suppress Wahhabi saboteurs, the Egyptian Army entered more forces into Sinai Desert that had been agreed on in Camp David Accords. It was only with the US support that Tel Aviv was able to pressure Cairo to withdraw its military forces.
Has there ever been an instance where Tel Aviv has decided and implemented on its own? War against Lebanon, settlement construction in the Occupied Territories, or attack on Gaza none could be realized without Washington's military or political assistance.
