Saturday, March 6, 2010
'Islamic nations will back Iran strike'
An Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities would be quietly supported by a wide coalition of Islamic nations, including a number of extremist states, Deputy Minister of the Negev and Galilee Ayoub Kara said Saturday.
Kara, speaking at a Beersheba event, said that though none of them would admit to it publicly, Islamic nations had conveyed messages to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that they would back military action against Iran by Israel and the US.
Kara said that Israel would strike "if there is no option."...
Pffffffft. "The lurkers support me in email." Support in private is totally and absofuckinglutely useless. Shove it. The Arab states have always privately supported one Israeli move or another. They're happy to have the Israelis (or the Americans) do their dirty work, encourage them in private and then denounce them in public while they pander to their ignorant slavering streets. Anyone who's using this backdoor approval in their calculations for whether Israel should go ahead on an Iran strike is making a big mistake. The Arabs would be perfectly happy to arrange it so both Iran and Israel are removed from the picture.
Precisely, absofuckinglutely summarizes it all too well. Further, this has been true since WWI, and was even more pronounced during WWII. E.g., "Lawrence of Arabia" is a fairly accurate historical depiction of what actually occurred (though it provides too little context in terms of the broader picture and in that larger sense makes for poor history) and the episodic and entirely mercenary character of Hussein's and ibn Saud's and Arab support in general, for Britain, is what is depicted. Same during WWII, during which war Palestinian Jews supported British (and their own) interests during the Egyptian (Rommel) campaign and more directly in the Syrian and wider area.
So, there's an abundance of historical precedence reflected in this current scenario.
Israel would have to be insane to buy into this. At the first sign of trouble they'd all declare war on Israel. Israel needs to take care of Israel and if Iran intentionally or accidentally wipes out an Arab capital city or two, that's their problem. Let them all sizzle and fry in hell together.
Indeed Solomon.
The 8 year Iraq/Islamofascist Regime of iran war proves that Arabs and Persians have a murderous dislike for each other.