An Open Letter To Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, etc.

Netanyahu’s Impossible “Peace” And My Free Advice on How to Make Peace Reality

By Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo, Philosopher


“We want to live with you in peace as good neighbors”, said Israel’s current Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

And by “good neighbors” it turns out he meant a Palestinian entity, something not quite a fully sovereign national state, that would not have the means to discourage and defend itself against an otherwise possible, unjustified invasion and occupation.

Apparently Bibi Netanyahu wants the rest of us Jews to believe that the Palestinian side, and for that matter the predominantly Muslim Arab side, would ever accept such a precondition! Who does he think he is kidding? You know Bibi; it’s bad enough if you think it is wise to try and fool the Arab World, but to do that to the Jewish World is deeply offensive. Sure, most of Israel, left and right, seems to want to believe in fairytales (or maybe not really), or at least believe in tactics meant to postpone the inevitable, because, let’s face it (sarcastically speaking): there is scant evidence that there are enough people on the Palestinian side who will be able to deliver on a full peace, based on full parity of national sovereignty. After all, Gaza was proof enough of just how unreliable and weak the Palestinian moderates are. Or was it??

Enough of the fancy word-play and rhetoric Mr. Netanyahu! The Gaza Strip is not The West Bank, and Mahmoud Abbas’s Fateh is not Hamas, nor is the Arab World today the same Arab World it was during the Bush years. Things have changed, and not just because there is a Democrat in The White House whose middle name is Hussein (the late King Hussein al-Hashemi was a good friend to Israel…and many Jews include the word ‘hussein’ in their daily prayers), but because The World, like it or not, has been made a far more dangerous place by the dangerously foolish policies of the previous U.S. administration, especially for us Jews!

I will now proceed to advise you, point by point, in the slightest hope that you or someone with influence over you will heed my advice:

1. Israel, without the slightest doubt, must be recognized, by the legitimate and recognized Palestinian leader(s), as a state, first and foremost, established for the sake and purpose of protecting the Jewish people from any serious risk of annihilation; thus Israel must be recognized as a Jewish-ruled state, but one in which all other Israeli citizens, be they Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Atheist or whatever (except for anti-Semites and Fascists), be they Arab or not, Semitic or not, are provided the same kind of human rights and dignity that one would expect of any nation-state that is at least semi-democratic! Ben Gurion's dream was just that kind of Israel. That is to say this; Israel should not expect to be accepted and recognized as a strictly Jewish State, but it should have a Constitution that provides a special set of protections to persons who are definitely Jewish (generally as determined by Orthodox Jewish Law) including specific protections that insure that Israel’s Jews forever have the ability and right to destroy any nation that would dare to attempt to commit genocide against the Jewish people! After all, this is really what we Jews want to be sure of! Even if there were only one real Jew remaining within the borders of the State of Israel, she or he should be guaranteed the ability and right to launch nuclear missiles at any nation who would dare to attempt to commit genocide on his or her fellow Jews! Seriously! And perhaps the day will come when there will be a sovereign Gypsy nation with the same ability, and they too will seek the ability and right to do the same. Seriously! Because, let’s face it, what happened to millions of Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals and many others, including millions of decent Christians too, during World War Two, must NEVER, ever, happen AGAIN! On all other issues all other Israelis would have the same legal, human and democratic rights, such that any Palestinian Arab currently in exile, who would still want ‘their (supposed) right to return’, would have to fulfill certain reasonable things and meet certain sensible qualifications to be able to apply and receive full Israeli citizenship. Because, and in this sense the estimated majority of Israelis today who support Netanyahu’s concerns have a valid point, there is no way that Israel can afford to let most, let alone all, Palestinians who once lived in areas now inside the modern borders of Israel, and their descendants, simply return. There can be no doubt about it; Israel would seize to exist, seize to serve its most important purpose, if it were foolish enough to agree to a full right of return to all those Palestinians. It would be a compromise solution, whereby some Palestinians (we’re not talking about millions, but only about thousands), especially the elderly who were actually born in areas that now make up the modern borders of Israel, would get assistance in applying for citizenship. And, over time, when peace proves sustainable, Israel will make it easier for Palestinian relatives to visit their fellow Israeli Palestinian relatives for reasonably limited periods of time. Bibi; it’s that simple and that easy!
2. As part of the same fundamental purpose for the existence of the State of Israel, any Two State solution that allows for the formation of a modern sovereign Palestinian State must not be able to present a serious military or existential threat to Israel. But, as the wise old saying goes; “good fences make for good neighbors”! Thus Israel must somehow accept that a Palestinian State alongside its borders must have its own reasonable means of self-defense in order to feel safe and secure from the risk of any future Israeli government coming to power that might simply decide to end any previous agreement, perhaps using the excuse of a freak incident in which, say, some fringe minority terrorist group were able to launch a few missiles into Israel from Palestinian territory, that is to say as a casus belli , an excuse to invade and occupy territory. But the exact nature and type of such means of self-defense can be determined and agreed upon, such that the actual result does not effectively mean a fully ‘demilitarized’ Palestinian State, because, face it Bibi, the Palestinian leadership will never agree to sign a deal with Israel on the basis of having its right to self-defense denied. I seriously doubt that our side, we Jews and Israelis, would agree to such a ridiculous idea, were the shoe on the other foot! Good fences do tend to help make for good neighbors, and no sensible Palestinian leader would ever sign a peace agreement based on having to fully trust in the good will of its former enemy! We wouldn’t and they won’t. Mind you, we’re not talking about a Palestinian State that would be allowed to have the kind of weaponry (massive amounts of tanks, cannons, heavy artillery, missiles and planes, etc.) that any of the co-signers (USA, Russia, EU, etc.) would have to concede could easily present a serious offensive threat to Israel. That would be out of the question, just as would be any agreement that would deny Israel’s special right to keep its ability to maintain full defensive parity with the entire Arab World. The self-defense needs of Israel cannot be compared with those of any future Palestinian State, and Israel cannot forsake its nuclear deterrent and its ability to thwart any massive conventional military threat on the part of its future former enemies becoming enemies again. The History of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict shows that Israel would need generations of peace in order to finally feel safe enough to consider full multilateral disarmament. In fact, chances are much greater that by that time the whole World might abandon nationalism and all forms of tribalism and inhumanity (ethnocentrism, racism, unjustified intolerance, ignorant behavior, violence, war, crime and corruption), and then, in all probability, the last nation on Earth to become a full part of a future One Diversely United World would be Israel! Not because we Jews are less willing to be part of such a One Diversely United World, but because we would probably be the most skeptical of all! But then again; are we not Jews because we truly trust in the Peaceful Coming of The Peace-Loving Messiah, who will bring peace to all The World and to All Humanity (not just to us Jews)?!? Reasonable compromise, Bibi, reasonable compromise; it’s Real Peace’s middle name!
3. As for Jerusalem; oh Yerushalayim, may I turn into a pillar of salt before I ever forget you! The idea of keeping Jerusalem fully united as the sole Capital of The State of Israel, is nice, but it is not at all realistic in so far as achieving a viable, lasting peace with the Palestinians. Let’s face it Bibi; only when The Messiah is truly declared (when a Jew becomes Anointed King of The Kingdom of Judah) will we Jews be able to reclaim all of Jerusalem (and much more) as ours. Every decent Muslim knows this and will have to contend with this when such a time should actually arise. But, until such a time, the Jewish people need peace more than anything else, and preventing such peace on account of one’s inability to wait, ever-so-patiently, for The Messiah, is nothing less than endangering the lives of all Jews, and if you are truly Jewish Bibi, then you should know this! The life of any and every single Jew is sacred (just as sacred as are the lives of all those who do not threaten the lives of Jews), and to endanger our lives because you would play the unrealistic politics of delaying tactics that would prevent a viable, lasting peace is just as wrong as it would be for the rest of us Jews to agree to join you in such folly, thereby also endangering the lives, the safety and security, of all the other nations of The World! For it is already a certainty, beyond all reasonable doubt, that any Palestinian leader who would sign such an unrealistic, ‘flawed peace agreement’ would not be able to remain in power long enough to deliver the very results needed! Furthermore, we must keep in mind that practicing Jews are forbidden to go up to Mount Moriah where both destroyed Holy Temples stood, that Islam’s Third Holiest site (where, as they understand, their Prophet Muhammad ascended to Heaven) is up there, and that every leader acceptable to the Palestinian people has promised that Jerusalem will, at least in part, be part of any future Palestinian State. Given all these facts, and much more, there can be no doubt that you (should) know that any Two State solution, any truly viable peace settlement, based on any realistic understanding of what is at stake and what is minimally required, must include some kind of an odd-ball compromise solution whereby Jerusalem remains united in terms of access (for Jews, Muslims and Christians) but, with the exception of the Christian, Armenian and Jewish Quarters (as well as West Jerusalem and a few parts of East Jerusalem) the rest of Jerusalem, including Mount Horiah (for us The Temple Mount), the Muslim Quarter and much of the rest of East Jerusalem would have to be part of their Palestinian State, in such a way that there is an international entity able to insure peace and security. Such would probably be made up of United Nations, US, Jordanian and EU officers (it could be known as The Jerusalem International Security Force) in all parts of Old Jerusalem, helping insure that Jerusalem somehow becomes the first City in The World to be semi-united semi-divided, being both the Capital of Israel and the Capital of Palestine! All of Greater Jerusalem would have to be demilitarized and a joint Israeli-Palestinian Security Force, supervised by the Commander of The Jerusalem International Security Force (and his Deputies), would also have to be established to help prevent incidents such as people throwing stones and other missiles down towards Jews praying at The Kotel (The Western Wall) and people going up to The Temple Mount area seeking to incite the anger of Muslim worshippers. Only by such an intricate, sophisticated and yet realistic solution to the Grand Question of Jerusalem can the final piece to ‘the puzzle of peace’ be put into place!
4. Only when there is also a viable (potentially everlasting) peace agreement and settlement between Israel and the Palestinians, that brings about a Two State Solution, will it also be possible, and to some extent necessary, for Israel to finally be able to make peace with Syria and Lebanon, which will almost surely result in a broader peace between Israel and The Entire Arab World, which will eventually translate into peace between Israel and the rest of The Islamic World, which would most likely include peace with a new Iran! Only when there is such a Pan-Arab-Israeli peace will there be fantastic business trade opportunities for all of The Middle East and The Mediterranean, and only then will the rest of The World witness the overall beauty and benefits of viable realistic peace based on reasonable compromise and justified tolerance! For without peace Israel will continue to become more and more isolated and forced into a senseless, eternal and self-destructive Massada-style Fortress Complex! Israel, and for that matter its allies in the European Union and The United States, cannot afford to risk delaying the inevitable peace any longer! If anything the recent violent events in Gaza show that things can really get way out of hand throughout all of the Middle East with mortally dire consequences for the rest of The World too! The last thing we Jews want is to be misperceived as the very people who, having helped bring about The Ten Commandments and The Law of Love of G-D (i.e. “Do unto others as they really want to be done unto and do nothing unto anyone that they don’t want done!”), end up being the cause of the final, most horrific destruction of The World! So, Bibi, listen up, because even if I, a Jew, am not The Messiah, I have a very good idea what Our Future King, before becoming Anointed, would advise you to do, right now and not later; make peace while the going is still good! Make peace before the world begins to doubt that we are true Jews! Make peace for the sake of the children of both our peoples! Make peace for the sake of all good Jews, Muslims and Christians, and all other good peoples on Earth! Make peace, because that is exactly what being Jewish is all about! Do it!

So, there! There you have it Bibi: do the right thing and reap the rewards or end up being just another Israeli leader who failed to make History and who inadvertently put us all one step closer to another Shoah! G-D forbid! NEVER AGAIN! NEVER!

Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo, whose Hebrew name is David, has been involved, in one way or another, to some extent, in The Peace Process for the past 33 years. He is a Philosopher, a Writer, an Artist, and has given serious advice to some of the most important and influential people in The World, including U.S. Vice-President Biden, President Shimon Peres and George Soros, to name just a few. He helped get President Obama elected and indirectly advises him. He resides between Washington, D.C. and London, England. He is the author of “The Most Important Thought” (Silver Aleph Books), and was made famous in the late 80s as The Original New York City Free Advice Man (see The New Yorker, August 17, 1987 issue).

If We Moderates Fail To Speak Out Against Extremists Everyone Is Doomed.

If We Moderates Fail To Speak Out Against Extremists Everyone Is Doomed.

By Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo, Philosopher.

If there is any one thing the brutal Winter War in Gaza, which was between a minority of extremists holding hostage most of Gaza’s Palestinian citizens and an Israel that cannot afford to let extremists develop a situation that would forever manage to ruin every realistic chance for peace, has taught us it is this: extremists should not and cannot be tolerated by moderates on either side, anywhere in the world! Extremism and extremists are a threat to world socio-economic stability, security and overall peace, but the longer the world’s moderates fail to realize the urgency of the need to unite and speak with one unitary and strong voice against extremists, regardless of which specific conflict it may be, the closer we get to a situation that could very well push the world into a truly hopeless abyss of extreme violence spiraling totally out of control, which would eventually, probably within years, set the whole world ablaze! You do not have to be some neurotic doomsday nut to understand why the status quo of a massive failure of moderates to truly unite, and to speak out as one, risks letting extremists decide the course of history. And if extremists are left to decide the course of human history humanity will soon be history.
One would think that the Winter War in Gaza (2008-2009) would have been enough to send a shockwave of alarm bells going off in the capitals of those relatively moderate Middle Eastern and North African, predominantly Arab and Islamic, states. The Good Lord knows that if Egypt’s moderate government were ever to fall and end up in the hand of extremists then that, in of itself, would be enough to end all chances of a relatively peaceful settlement and agreement between relatively moderate Palestinians and Israelis, and that would herald a time when almost every relatively moderate Arab government would fall and the likes of Hamas and Hezbollah would begin to take over and start both a fight amongst themselves and a seemingly endless series of extremely dangerous attacks on Israel, which would not just mean that decades of very hard diplomatic work and strategic alliance building (on the part of The United States and Europe) would vanish into oblivion, but it would mean that extremists on both sides (Israelis and Arabs) would claim to have been proven right all along: that peace cannot exist between these two peoples! And an Arab world taken over by extremists and united by perpetual and senseless extreme hatred of Jews and Israelis would also be a world that would pose a threat to Western Civilization and Liberal Democratic values, including Human Rights and the rights of Individuals, mostly by means of energy resource blackmail. The world, which already suffers from the previous eight years of Neo-Con incompetence and dangerously destabilizing policies in The Middle East and elsewhere, would surely fail to restore itself, economically and otherwise, and that would certainly lead to exceedingly violent rioting throughout Europe and North America, which would then be exploited by brutish megalomaniacs who would manage to take over control and cause further havoc and mayhem everywhere! Hundreds of years of hard work and real progress would go down the drain in a matter of a few years, if not faster, and World War Three would be one horrific mega-shock after another, including chemical, biological and nuclear warfare, to the point of total annihilation of all significant life on Earth!
And when one studies up on the whole complexity of the region’s conflict, and takes into consideration the current Iranian regime’s obvious efforts to attain nuclear weapons, with full launch capacity, capable of striking all of The Middle East and most of Europe, and when one understands what Iran would do, once it would attain such a capacity, then the urgency for real unity and progress among moderates should be absolutely obvious. For Iran would not use its nuclear weapons to strike Israel directly, but instead would be able to force the hands of Europe and The United States, after sinking several large Oil Tankers at the narrowest point of The Persian Gulf, thereby choking off a significant supply of the world’s desperately needed Oil! Iran would then be able to avoid being directly attacked by conventional military means as the USA would not want a Europe obliterated by Iranian nuclear weapons…something the extremist Iranian regime would not hesitate to do if attacked for having gained full control of the flow of Gulf Oil to the world! And then Israel, which would most likely face economic and social collapse, should the Western world stop supporting it, would then have no option but to play its only remaining cards, and that would definitely lead to World War Three, which would not last more than a few months at best!
Just this past Monday representatives of non-moderate Sunnite Islamic groups, who obviously do not represent all Sunnite Arab Muslims, met in Turkey and began to voice their desire to ignite a fully violent Jihad (as opposed to any relatively peaceful type of Jihad) in Gaza and the West Bank! Should they succeed the situation would soon become even worse than it was just this past Winter, and that would mean a final blow to any and all chances for an otherwise urgently needed, lasting, viable peace!
Time is really running out for President Barack Obama and his magnificent team of professional peace-makers to unite the relatively moderate Arab nation’s governments and to support the lukewarm beginnings of true peace between Israel and the relatively moderate PA Palestinians of the West Bank (and eventually to include Gaza…once the Hamas extremists have been properly dealt with by the PA). And one reads too many editorialists and commentators talking about how the War in Gaza means that peace between Israelis and Palestinians will now be further delayed for another two to four ears, at least! Well, we just don’t have the luxury of waiting any longer. I have good reason to think, based on various ominous reports and logical insight, that if a relatively peaceful Two-State solution is not reached by June, then too many things will ensue (happen) that will make it impossible to ever have peace at all! Both Israel and the relatively moderate Arabs must be made to understand why this is so, and how important it is for them to begin to dare to speak out against extremists on all sides. And for that to happen, for Arab and Israeli moderates to be able to come out and speak with one, loud, unequivocally strong and united voice, the rest of the world’s moderates must join the chorus and let the extremists, not just those in Iran and throughout The Middle East, but everywhere in the world, know that we moderates are not willing to remain silent and divided any longer. If we moderates fail to speak out against extremists everyone on Earth is doomed. This is just as true about The Middle East as it is about ultra-nationalists in Europe exploiting the current economic and social crises, and extremists elsewhere in the world who seem to be born of generations of people whose mindset and way of thinking is based on the artificial idealism and the surreal extremism that is caused by almost constantly playing fortuitously violent computer video games, as well as communicating over the Internet instead of in real life and even pretending to live inside virtual reality worlds! Most of these people of the Computer and Internet Age are addicted to “Virtual Reality Think” and have very weak social skills and are desensitized to extreme violence. They are generally intolerant, lack compassion and have trouble understanding why it is that in the real world one cannot just wipe out every ‘enemy’ and every person who causes the slightest annoyance or discomfort! They are unable to understand why real solutions to real problems in the real world are going to be imperfect, and as such require both willingness and even the desire to compromise and to tolerate differences in a relatively peaceful manner.
Yes, it’s that scary! The world is more and more in the hands of generations of people who grew up surrounded by computers, video games and the Internet, and who can easily become exceedingly dangerous once they mix extremist agendas with such modern technological means of communications and networking, through which it has become all too easy to sell preposterous myths and dangerously unrealistic expectations and ideals.
So, no matter how you look at the situation today; the need for peace in the Middle East is so urgent and so important that any failure to convey this awareness is, in of itself, going to give more power to the extremists who wish to convince young minds that peace is impossible and that the enemy can and will eventually be obliterated! Nothing could be further from the truth! Violent conflict between peoples will bring nothing but further senseless horrors and will push the whole world into that final abyss of total destruction and death.
What I wonder is this: Is anyone intelligent and influential enough really listening to this? And will they not see for themselves how right I am when I say that we just don’t have any time left to wait another year or more?!?

AN OPEN LETTER TO MY PRESIDENT, BARACK OBAMA!

What President Barack Obama Needs To Tell The Palestinians And Israelis

By Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo, Philosopher & Middle East Peace Analyst


It is absolutely imperative that we, The United States of America, and all the other moderate states of the world, that our leaders, make it clear to both the Israeli and Palestinian sides that there is absolutely no other option but to reach a final, truly viable and relatively just peace settlement within months and not years! If anything, the complex, disturbing and very sad and tragic events of the Gaza War demonstrate just how urgent and how dangerous this historic conflict is! Given the many obvious and not-so-obvious security concerns, regarding not only the dire realities and urgency, but which involve the overall regional situation throughout the greater Middle East and its direct and indirect impact on the security and stability of the entire world, peace can no longer be postponed indefinitely. Peace must not be held hostage to senseless nuances and antiquated notions on the part of either side nor should the need for peace be perpetually ignored and avoided on account of a systemic failure of the international community to make the urgency clear to everybody, or the failure of the Israeli and Palestinian authorities and leaders to properly inform their constituents about what is really at stake here! Any relatively intelligent and knowledgeable person, especially anyone with a serious background in security issues, understands all too well that the time is already long overdue for a peace of the brave and wise, within months, if not sooner!

1967: A Non-Starter

President Obama needs to make it clear to The Palestinians and to the relatively moderate Arab nations most concerned, that the idea of Israel withdrawing to the pre-1967 borders has already, long ago, been shown to be a total and absolute non-starter for any realistic chance of a peace agreement! The Oslo Agreements and all subsequent agreements that were reached before the Camp David negotiations between Prime Minister Ehud Barack and Chairman Yasser Arafat, under the auspices of President Clinton, in 2000, make it perfectly clear that Israel, for very specific and understandable reasons, both logical and hypothetical, cannot agree to withdrawing to borders that existed prior to 1968. Obviously no Israeli political leader would survive long enough to deliver any such 1967-type agreement, such as the one proposed by Saudi Arabia lately, for that would mean an Israel that would actually have no strategic parity with its neighbors should they ever default on any so-called peace treaty, peace settlement agreement!
In fact, it would cause a more dangerous situation to arise, which would easily turn into the very kind of Global Security Meltdown and Final World War conflagration we currently risk facing. True deterrence, in effect prevention of total disaster, is contingent on The Palestinians accepting a situation that does not involve Israel withdrawing exactly to the pre-1968 borders and lines of demarcation. That said, what Oslo and Madrid and all subsequent understandings have basically suggested and offered is a viable, lasting, and relatively just peace involving almost everything that the Saudi Plan would entail, with some very clear exceptions, that, I must stress once more, are totally non-negotiable by any realistic Israeli leader! Most of the issue revolves around the special status of Jerusalem, which in a certain sense and manner will have to remain almost entirely united and part of Israel, with obvious exception to The Old Muslim Quarter, which would itself gain a special, unique, and rather seemingly complex status under a joint Palestinian-Jordanian authority, and which would still be part of a very complex Intra-National and International agreement and arrangement. And there are other relatively minor territories and issues that collectively are major factors in establishing the kind of viable and logically sensible peace arrangement and agreement, whose details I shall not be able to specify in this relatively brief essay.

Further Postponement of Peace: Too Great a Peril To Israel, The Palestinians and World Peace and Stability Itself

President Barack Obama needs to use his superb communication skills to make it perfectly clear to the Israeli side that, provided the Palestinians also understand that any 1967-type border situation is a total non-starter, further avoidance of the urgent and dire need for a truly viable, relatively just and lasting peace, even if it involves a special set of sub-agreements and subsequent creation of special diplomatic enclaves on both sides for both sides, is tantamount to seriously risking a complex chain of destructive events that would easily lead to a Final Most Horrific Global Security Meltdown and a World War which would not be worth surviving and whose survivors would be very few, if any and who would end up dying shortly thereafter, in the most horrific circumstances! President Obama must make it clear that the further mere perception of Israeli intransigence and significant risk of further extremely violent conflict, regardless of any strategic justification, is rapidly bringing us closer to the brink of total destruction and doom. Israel needs, more than ever, a relatively responsible Palestinian government authority, in charge of a viable Palestinian State, along The Two State Oslo-type solution already agreed to in theory by both sides in previous years, as soon as humanly possible. Not only are we all, the whole world, being held hostage to this failure of the sides to make it clear to their own constituent populations (and to the leaders themselves) that the actual situation risks much more than their direct peace, but the ever-increasing sense of desperation, frustration and subsequent extremist tendencies are beginning to create a situation whereby reaching such an urgently needed peace settlement will become impossible and thus disaster, not just regionally but globally, will become no longer just a possibility but an absolute certainty! Anyone fairly educated and properly informed about this otherwise senseless and tragic conflict, can easily appreciate and understand how much of a disaster it would be if Egypt alone would give up on its tentative peace with Israel and turn into another front for the type of mindset that is prevalent at the top of the current Iranian extreme leadership in Tehran! It should be perfectly clear to those directly involved in making the kind of hard decisions needed that the Gaza War was rapidly turning into a very dangerous spark that would have eventually ignited the entire region, especially posing a threat to the stability of key strategic allies of America and of relative peace, such as Egypt and Jordan, to mention the most important two! Israel has no right to hold the rest of the world hostage to its own internal squabbles and it needs to get its own population majority solidly behind any realistic agreement that would deliver the kind of viable solution towards real peace.

President Barack Obama Can Make It Happen; He’s Probably The Last Chance Hope!

To avoid the kind of tainted situation that has plagued all previous American Presidents involved in trying to bring a lasting peace to The Middle East, between Israel and her neighbors, President Barack Obama must not risk the slightest impression and misperception that we can still wait, if need be, another year or two for the relatively moderate Palestinian Authority and The Israeli government to reach a peaceful settlement agreement! Logic dictates that if there really is any realistic solution to this most urgent and dangerous of conflicts then it can be arrived at within weeks, provided that all parties involved face up to the logical facts as they presently stand! There is absolutely no way President Obama would remain credible enough if he were to get entangled in the kind of on-again, off-again kabuki theatre antics that plagued President Bush! President Barack Obama must use every reasonable tool at his disposal, even if it means risking seeming to be a bit of an alarmist, to get American and world public opinion to fully support the need for the successful and relatively immediate brokering of The Two State Solution envisioned at Oslo and in most tentative agreements arrived at since! Timing is crucial here and any failure to act on time, any failure to exploit the freshness of the moment, will likely risk making the same kind of mass perception and reaction that could easily undo everything! This is not the time to act on the basis of being overly cautious or too impatient! As far I can sense and the way I really see it, based on what I consider to be a very realistic understanding of what is really involved, a meaningful and lasting peace can be arrived at within two to three months, max! NOW is the time to launch a Final Marathon Effort in pursuit of a peace whose benefits would far outweigh any so-called sacrifices that both sides would have to make! NOW is the time to explain, not just to The Palestinians and Arabs and The Israelis, but to the whole world, just what needs to be done, should be done and just what kind of real disaster would easily happen if we do not DO IT ASAP!
The “Yes We Can” mantra of The Obama Presidential Election's Campaign must be turned into the “YES WE MUST” mantra of The Obama Middle East Peace Mission! Another Gaza War, or another Lebanon War over this otherwise senseless and absolutely tragic conflict would kill the chances for peace indefinitely! And INDEFINITELY is TIME we never really had. President Obama, if you’re listening: I know you have what it takes to make this work; TIME TO DO IT NOW!

Roseanne Barr Is Totally Nuts! Calling Israel a Nazi State is Insane!

Israel may not be a perfect nation, and in many ways it has not been allowed to exist in normal circumstances, by any means, but for Roseanne Barr to call it a Nazi State shows just how little she knows about or understands the dire circumstances that face Israel every single moment! She compared Hamas to two rival and historic L.A. gangs, which is not only offensive to those particular gangs, but is totally absurd! The two gangs in question never teach children to strap on explosives and commit murderous suicidal terrorist attacks, they do not launch missiles into Beverly Hills or into Hollywood, and they certainly do not call for the destruction of Hollywood/Beverly Hills and the annihilation of famous movie stars and celebrities! Hamas hides behind relatively innocent men, women and children, which includes most Gaza Palestinian Arabs, and then launches indiscriminate missile attacks into Israel, even though Israel no longer occupies Gaza! Hamas teaches poor and relatively uneducated people, even young children and young adults, to do the most inhuman thing: to commit suicide attacks! And Hamas, which is serving the interests of fanatic pseudo-Islamic extremists and not the interests of relatively peaceful Palestinian Sunnite-majority Muslims, has attempted to create a situation that, had Israel not acted on time, would certainly have caused even greater numbers of innocent casualties! When Roseanne Barr, who uses her Jewish ancestry to try to give legitimacy to her ill-advised and misinformed opinions, calls Israel a Nazi State, she not only seriously harms efforts at creating a long-term, viable peace in the region, but she endangers the security and safety of millions of people all over the world, Jewish and otherwise, who understand that there is no room for legitimizing terrorism. My reason for writing this is because Wikipedia's entry on this issue is too brief and relatively sterile, compared to the seriousness of the controversy at hand. Celebrities, especially Jewish celebrities, have all the right to criticize excessive actions taken by Israel, but to use their status to help re-enforce public misconceptions should not be met with silence on the part of responsible intellectuals, whether they be Palestinians, Israelis, Jews or Muslims. Wikipedia has a responsibility to report facts and that includes reactions from alternate and opposing sources.

Why All This Anti-Israel Crap Should Be Stopped Or Ignored By Everyone Intelligent.

Given the current barrage of lies against Israel I have decided to provide everyone with simple, logical, easy to understand facts that clearly prove that Israel-bashing is totally wrong and totally unjustified, not to mention totally unethical and contrary to serious efforts at bringing about a relatively just, fair, viable peace settlement between Israelis and Palestinians, and Arab Muslims and Israeli Jews in general.



1. Israel does not directly or even indirectly control or overwhelmingly influence US of A. foreign or domestic policy, not even US of A. policy towards Israel or towards the Arab League nations as Israel relates to them and US. Those who say that Israel has such incredible power are either seriously misinformed or intentionally trying to misinform the American public. Proof: Simple! If Israel had such overwhelming influence or direct control it would force the US of A. to tell the Arab League nations to: a. Force the hands of the Palestinians to accept a viable peace settlement which would be of benefit to all parties concerned, all currently threatened by this catastrophic tragedy that has nothing to do with the true will of most of the people on either side, Palestinian or Israeli. The ongoing conflict is a huge and harmful burden on Israelis and Jews elsewhere in the world.



2. Israel and the majority of American Jews who support the historical and geno-political right of Israel to exist and to continue existing more or less in its current geographic parameters, have significant, albeit not dominant, influence on US of A. policy in The Middle East. However, this limited influence is balanced against the very significant influence of The Arab League nations, OPEC and other entities which tend to champion the overall stance (one could argue; against their own real interests) of those who continue to attempt to undermine Israel, Israeli-American relations, and inadvertently the overall peace process intended to bring about a relatively just, fair, viable, i.e. meaningful, peace settlement between Israelis and Palestinians in specific, and Arab Muslims and Israeli Jews in general. That said, there are many examples of incidents or efforts made on the part of many of the pro-Israel entities, including lobbies, which have proven counter-intuitive and/or counterproductive and sometimes blatantly harmful to true Israeli interests, the interests of a sensible Israel-America relations, and to the overall movement intended to bring about a meaningful and viable peace.



3. Jews in general and Israelis in specific do not run the world, nor do they run or control the majority of its most important and significant (i.e. key) financial and mass media institutions, corporations and other entities. Obviously if such an incredible thing were true (and the logical evidence conclusively shows that it is not true, i.e. not the case) then not one single Israeli or Jew who is supportive of Israel (not all Jews support Israel) would ever have to fear another single violent attack, not one single serious anti-Jewish anti-Semitic terrorist attack or conventional military attack! Because if they had such incredible power and influence they would already have been able, had they ever really wanted to, to wipe out any and all enemies, practically everywhere on Earth! Or at least they would be able to create a truly impenetrable Fortress Israel and other Totally Secure Jewish Enclaves the world-over. But the actual reality clearly shows how truly vulnerable Israelis and Jews are, throughout the entire world! At best Israel serves as a significant, albeit imperfect, deterrent against any attempt to commit total genocide against Jews (which would then be followed by a total genocide against another ethno-religious or ethnic group, until even the last standing group on Earth would turn against itself). Anyone who cannot fathom these logical observations of fact, based on truly sound reasoning, is unqualified to make any seriously respectable pronouncements concerning efforts at establishing a peaceful Palestinian State, side-by-side with Israel.



4. Israel would be at a huge and very dangerous disadvantage were it not for its technological military superiority, which is not entirely due to US of A. financial and military assistance. In terms of population, Israel has a less than 1 to 30 disadvantage when compared to the total Arab Muslim population! In terms of military manpower, Israel has roughly a 1 to 100 disadvantage (against a united Arab force)! In terms of territory, Israel's entire land mass is less than 1% of the entire landmass of all the Arab Muslim nations! As for its total economic viability in comparison to the Arab nations, Israel is truly dwarfed! The combined global economic weight and influence of Saudi Arabia, The United Arab Emirates and Kuwait alone is 200 times greater than that of Israel and all Jewish economic interests worldwide! When you add North and South Yemen, Syria, Sudan, Egypt, and all the North African Arab Muslim states, then the total Arab economic leverage and influence is around 300 times greater! So, one may reasonably ask this: if the nations of the Arab League are truly so keen on pressuring the Europeans, Americans and others to abandon Israel, why don't they use that leverage and influence?? The answer is simple: a. Such an action would risk causing a global economic meltdown and that would obviously lead to a final total chaos and ultimate world conflagration and b. The very existence of Israel is actually quite useful (beneficial) to the Arab Muslim nations, in so far as it serves several significant purposes, including that of being a means to distract citizens from the injustices of their own governments and for the purpose of being able to bribe the US of A. and the EU and others who do not want to see an all-out conflict in The Middle East or anything that might easily lead to a final showdown!



5. Israel is not perceived by the majority of Arab leaders as a real threat to their overall interests and their OPEC interests are more threatened by efforts, previously easily sabotaged (by OPEC-originated patent buy-ups and company buy-outs), on the part of the US of A. and the EU to develop alternative transportation and energy technologies! Which is to say that even if it were possible (which for obvious reasons it actually is not possible) to have Israel removed (abandoned and drowned-out of existence) by the EU and the US of A., nothing would seriously change for the better in terms of regional and global security. It is more than likely that the contrary would be true: that an Israel-free Middle East would erupt into chaos and pseudo-Islamic fascist terrorists would use their immense ability to wreck economic havoc, by means of their ability to cut the flow of oil, given that there would no longer be the presence of a nuclear armed state (as Israel is capable of being at a moments notice!) that would obviously feel threatened to the point of having to use its nuclear arsenal! In fact, that is why the EU and the US of A., and even to some extent China and India (perhaps Russia too) will not allow Iran to attain a true nuclear deterrent ability! The very obvious role of Israel is to serve as a forced-by-geopolitical-circumstance state that knows that its own existence is very much dependent on the economic welfare of the West, of the US of A. and the EU!!! Just imagine the likely scenario of an Iran with full nuclear missile attack ability! Imagine how they could sink a few oil tankers and cut the free shipment of oil through the Straight of Hormuz! And then be able to prevent Israel from being able to launch its own truly deterrent last-resort nuclear arsenal! That's exactly why the US of A. and the EU need Israel much more than Israel needs the financial backing of either! But superficial persons will fail to see the total logic of this point I am proving! There it is! Voilas! The actual reason why many in the world are naive and even foolish to think that Israel is some kind of senseless burden that serves no purpose other than to seemingly harass and humiliate the Arab Muslim nations! Israel has never had and never will have the slightest intention of truly harassing and humiliating anyone, let alone its Arab Muslim adversaries! His late Majesty King Hussein, a man I knew in person, knew this fact all too well, which is why he sought peace with Israel! Think about a lot and it will dawn on you that I am 100% right! Israel is not a problem, but is part of a greater solution!

Aside from Israel's penultimate usefulness to the economic stability of the world, here are some other facts about Israel:

1. Israel has always wanted a full and viable peace with all the Arab Muslim nations, including the Palestinians. Otherwise it would not curtail itself, hold back, restrain itself at all, and would already have launched a geno-suicidal world campaign to eradicate the Palestinians. And that is something Israel will never ever do! Israel needs peace more than ever, just as Palestinians need peace more than ever, and it is not really Israel, against all superficial appearances of behavior, that is preventing peace from taking hold! There are a minority of nasty interests, on both sides, including war-profiteering, conflict-leeching weapons-dealers, fanatic pseudo-religious zealots, and fascists on both sides, whose actual total numbers are less than 20% of the total population of each side, who are preventing the majority from reaching a viable, meaningful peace settlement! Just ask Peace Now or One Voice Movement and they will, in their own words, express the same basic truth!

2. Although many (perhaps 60%) Israelis have more non-Semitic ethno-geneticity than most Arabs (both originally Semitic peoples), no thanks to the fascist Roman Empire and what it did to force Jews out of their two Holy Land Kingdoms (Judah and Israel, of which I belong to the former), most Israelis, even the Khazars who intermmaried with Semitic Jews and converted to Judaism, have significant Semitic ethno-genetic origins! So, it is a falsehood when many on the Arab and pro-Arab side claim that Israel's Jews are mostly Europeans and have no right to live in The Middle East! Fact is, most Palestinians are not entirely Semitic and few are truly Philistinians! Most Palestinians are a mix of Arab, European, Greek, Phoenician and Egyptian ethno-genecies! Thus, neither side has more of a right to live in what are the lands of Canaan, Philistia, Israel and Judeah than the other side! So, it is illogical to continue the bloody myth and outright sick lie that Israel is a racist European Imperial State!

3. Yes, while it is true that many (albeit not all, and definitely not the majority) Israelis have unhealthy prejudices against Arabs and many (perhaps 30%) predominantly Europeanized Jews have prejudices and racist attitudes against Semi-Arab Jews, such as Yemenites, Palestinian Jews, Egyptian Jews, Jordanian Jews, Syrian Jews, Iraqi Jews, Sephardic and towards North African Jews, Ethiopian Jews and Turkic Jews most Israelis are absolutely against all forms of racism! Israel is far from the truly homogenuous country that most people in the world assume it to be! In fact, a few Semi-Arab Jews are even more hostile towards Arab Muslims than most Ashkenazi (North European/Germanic) Jews, in the false hope that by being so anti-Arab Muslim their loyalty to Israel will not be called into question and they will be able to overcome many disadvantages that a few Europeanized Jews have imposed upon them!

4. Most Jews, an estimated 60%, throughout Israel and the world are living in lower income socio-economic reality and are either lower middle-class, poor or near poverty level! But the world sees the disproportionate number of Jews who are very wealthy, who make up roughly 5% of all Jews as compared to the only 2% of Christians who are that wealthy and the only 1% of Muslims who are that wealthy , and so most non-Jews tend to fall for the anti-Jewish anti-Semitic propaganda (i.e. defamatory lies and fabrications) that claims that almost all Jews are wealthy and that they live off the backs of poor Christians and Muslims, as well as other people! In other words, more socio-economic exploitation, by far, is perpetrated by so-called Christians and Muslims on their fellow Christians and Muslims than by anyone who is a so-called Jew. In its elementary form Judaism prohibits socio-economic exploitation! But the world always pays more negative attention to the minority who is the easy target! The fact is that of the very few Jews in the world who are very wealthy many are actually great philanthropists and humanists like George Soros, working to prevent world conflict and bring about greater peace and prosperity for all humanity! All in all, Jews have brought more good and wonders to the world than the total of harm done by a few bad apples in our midst!

5. The Holocaust is not the only reason Israel came into existence, and unbeknownst to most non-Jews today is the fact that prior to the establishment of the State of Israel, which was immediatly attacked, both European and Palestinian Semi-Arab Jews had been buying up land from Palestinians and other Arabs for serious money over a period of hundreds of years! Much of that land was actually originally in Jewish ownership at the time when the Roman Empire brutally robbed Jews of their land rights! True, history shows that the early Jews invaded Canaan and Philistia and made their kingdoms out of the lands they had invaded, but that all happened at a time when the Arab peoples had not yet moved into the region alongside the Meditteranean which is today Israel and Palestine. In other words, the Canaanites (many decided to join and even marry the Babylonian and Mesopotamian Jews) and the Philistini were not Arabs! But Arab expansion, which came as a result of Roman Empirical population displacements and increased later on during the heyday of The Prophet Muhammad's conquers, gives many non-Semites the impression that the Jews are a foreign people in Arab lands. A lot of today's conflict in the region is made worse by this misimpression many non-Jewish Europeans and Americans have!

So to all Israel-bashing Jew-hating liars I say: cut the crap, please!

Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions Crisis Intelligence Analysis

Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions Crisis Intelligence Analysis

By Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo, Philosopher

a.k.a. The Original New York City Free Advice Man

Foreword

Whatever the United States policy on Iran shall be, it must not inadvertently cause World War Three or any situation that would definitely lead to World War Three. While the nuclear ambitions of the minority of fanatic pseudo-Islamic fascists who currently lead Iran is obvious and should not be taken lightly, those ambitions can be discouraged and Iran’s fanatic leaders can be persuaded to pursue policies which are definitely in the better interests of the peoples of Iran and the rest of the world. A preemptive military attack on Iran is both unwise and absolutely unnecessary, especially under the current circumstances. Here’s why.

Iran Is Not Iraq

As bad as the Iraq Fiasco is, and it is definitely a disaster by any measure, much due to an administration that is run by a group of people who seem unable to appreciate the need for caution, sophistication and real-politic thinking, attacking Iran in any significant and obvious manner would push Iran to the brink of risking all-out global conflict. Before we examine the analysis behind the aforementioned conclusion, let us take into account the most basic, known, proven differences between the late Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq and that of the Ayatollahs and fanatic fascists in Iran.

First of all, Iran has almost three times the population of Iraq, and its territorial size is almost four times that of Iraq, making Iran both the 18th largest country in the world in terms of population and geographic size, making Iran slightly larger than Alaska and roughly one-sixth the size of The United States of America! Plus Iran’s territorial features are far more diverse than that of Iraq, which is mostly sandy arid desert and rolling hills, whereas Iran’s is made up of everything from sandy deserts to rocky flat and barren lands, to high and rocky mountain ranges, from rich sub-tropical forests to pine forests. In terms of its military strength and technological reality, Iran has a military that is much larger and better equipped than Iraq was at the time America invaded Iraq! Also, the Iraqi population is much more united, less diverse and much more willing to form countless cells of resistance fighters who would stop at nothing to make lie as miserable, dangerous and deadly for anyone who would dare invade her! Also keep in mind that Iran is not only at a vital geo-strategic intersection between Asia, Africa and Europe, but unlike Iraq, which is almost split into three ethno-sectarian communities, 89% of its population is of the same sect of Islam, the Shiite, and at least half the population is also made up of loyal ethnic Persians. Taking all these factors into account and you begin to get the right picture: if invading, occupying and trying to control Iraq has turned out to be next-to-impossible for the U.S.; Iran will be three to five times as difficult and more deadly and dangerous to attack and invade than Iraq was! And Iranian business and family relational connections throughout the world, including some 700,000 living in the US, makes attacking Iran even more dangerous than attacking Iraq was, with only around 50,000 Iraqis living in the US! Attacking Iraq has caused significant and almost irreversible damage to the image of America and Americans throughout over 90% of the world, and has ruined decades of hard diplomacy and cautious international relationship building, and so it would be that massively attacking and invading Iran would most likely convince the vast majority of people in the world that the United States, which once stood for democracy, freedom of expression and the land of great financial opportunity, was for all intents and purposes as good as dead, a relic of some bygone era, never to be trusted again!

Iran’s Threat Is Serious

Iran’s nuclear ambition is a serious and urgent matter, and poses a very serious threat to the relative balance of power in The Middle East! Regardless of what top Iranian leaders try in vain to do in their efforts to convince the world and the IAEA that its nuclear interests are strictly for peaceful power generation, there should be no doubt about the fact that Iran already has some crude dirty bomb nuclear devices and knows that were it to acquire full nuclear weapons capacity it could easily get away with efforts to seriously undermine Israel’s regional and domestic security interests, until the day Israel would feel pushed too far into a corner from which it must escape, no matter what!

Here’s the very hypothetical scenario Israel, The United States of America, and even the European Union, can imagine:

1. Iran has managed to play games until one day in 2008 it announces that it has at least three nuclear warheads ready to be missile launched at strategic targets in Israel away from Jerusalem.
2. Iran builds a secret massive pipeline system for future oil supply to the Black Sea!
3. Iran then manages to secretly stock up on its own vast oil reserves and makes huge food and technology purchases, from Russia and other countries nearby.
4. Iran then manages to supply even deadlier and more accurate missiles to Hezbollah and Hamas, including some tipped with non-lethal but economically disruptive viral and bacterial agents!
5. Iran then fabricates a fake attack on its own territory and claims that it was an attack by agents of Israel and/or The United States.
6. Iran sinks several large oil tankers in such a way as to block the all-vital sea-lane in the middle of the Straight of Hormuz and this begins the week-long process of causing massive economic problems and the near-collapse of world markets.
7. The United States threatens to attack Iran if it in any way prevents U.S. efforts to remove the sunken tankers.
8. Iran in turn threatens to launch its nuclear missiles at Israel if the U.S. dares to attack, but makes an offer which, given Iran’s surprise Ace up its sleeves, The United States would be foolish to refuse! Iran offers to cooperate with the U.S. if it forces Israel to unconditionally hand over all territories it took in 1967!
9. The United States hesitantly agrees, especially given mounting pressure from other nations negatively affected by the massive oil shortage!
10. Israel is forced to return lands without any guarantees of future security!
11. The Arab nations experience massive street demonstrations in praise of Iran’s victory over Israel and The United States.
12. For the next 24 months things begin to calm down in The Middle East, although the aftermath of this entire affair has caused serious economic harm to much of the world and because of massive sudden unemployment many nations, with exception to Russia and China, which are willing to use draconian measures to keep their workers quiet, enter a Greater World Depression, which wrecks all vestiges of democracy and the rule of law!
13. As a result The United States no longer has the means to provide Israel and relatively moderate Arab nations the financial assistance they need and have come to expect!
14. Massive popular uprisings topple the governments of Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and others, and pseudo-Islamic extremists, i.e. anti-Israeli, anti-peace fascists establish Islamic Republics in those former allies of The United States.
15. Israel becomes totally isolated and life in Israel becomes so unbearable for most Israelis that a majority of Israelis leave Israel as economic migrants to nations in the E.U., Australia, Canada, America, South Africa and elsewhere!
16. After a two year interim period the Iranians give the orders to Hezbollah and Hamas to launch their missiles at Israel, and these cause the Israeli economy to collapse entirely!
17. Israel is forced into a corner, and is desperately trying to decide what it should do! It has only two options! One is to seize to exist, something that would have been unthinkable before Iran’s nuclear threat, and the other is to launch its missiles and risk World War Three!!!
18. All bets are off!
19. But, let us suppose that Israel simply moves itself to a large swath of land offered by South Africa, an old friend. Let us suppose that the Arabs and Persians temporarily create a huge pan-Islamic Dual-Caliphate. How long that would last before their ancient historic differences and animosity does not begin to set the Sunnites against the Shiites?? How long till there is such instability once more in The Middle East that threatens to cause World War Three?? And without a nuclear Israel, how will Jews ever feel safe from the threat of annihilation by a world that is once more heading into a direction where Jews are once more the target of preference for anti-Semitic leaders??
20. Again, all bets are off!

Obviously, if The United States had found some truly effective way to put an end to Iran’s nuclear ambitions then the above scenario could never happen!

Enough Reason For A Preemptive Strike?

While some so-called experts are arguing in favor of a preemptive military strike against Iran (immediately!), in the hope of causing a situation that would lead to a popular uprising against the Ayatollahs, most experts, me included, think comparing Iran to Nazi Germany and suggesting that we should attack Iran preemptively as we should have done to Nazi Germany, in the hope of preventing World War Three, is absolutely wrong, and would actually be the very thing that would trigger World War Three! Clearly what is really needed is a truly wise, sophisticated, multi-faceted and intelligent approach that would involve a combination of efforts, including the creation of a strong pan-Sunnite Alliance of relatively moderate Arab nations against Iran’s meddlesome influence in the region, a final, truly viable, peace settlement between Israelis and Palestinians, which would first require that Syria distance itself from Iran and make a deal with Israel, which would only be possible if The United States removed most of its military from Iraq and admit that invasions are generally wrong,

Just so that you get the point here’s a hypothetical scenario that shows what would happen if we did launch a preemptive military strike:

1. Intelligence reports convince President Clinton (2009) (or President Gore, Biden, etc.) that Iran is within three months of acquiring the means to tip and launch nuclear-tipped missiles, and she decides to give the green light to the Pentagon to launch a massive air attack on Iran, along with a massive Naval action in the Persian Gulf, with instructions to hold Iran’s oil hostage!
2. The preemptive attack is launched!
3. Iran cleverly holds back on any defensive efforts and begins melting away on purpose a large number of its elite forces, who have already, long ago, received instructions that they are to use massive funds, some in secret Swiss and other European and offshore accounts, to organize and finance dozens of major terrorist attacks on American and American-friendly European targets throughout the world.
4. While the preemptive U.S. military attacks will have destroyed the major facilities of Iran’s nuclear efforts, a few dirty bombs were previously stored in secret locations elsewhere.
5. Iran plays the peaceful victim card, with great success on the Arab streets! And soon enough relatively moderate Arab governments are toppled!
6. Now Iran has enough support at OPEC from Arab oil producers and from Venezuela cut the flow of oil so severely that within days A Final Greatest Depression is triggered.
7. A combination of devastated Western economies, massive street protests, and what not causes the world to turn against their governments and against the easy, false scapegoat, Israel!
8. The United States government is forced to declare a national emergency and America begins to collapse under the weight of its own injustices and paranoia!
9. Utter chaos, destruction and eventually total social meltdown in the U.S. forces America’s elite rich few to allow martial law and a dictatorship of plutocracy to happen.
10. Life in Israel also becomes unbearably difficult for most Israelis, and most begin an Exodus to Europe, America and Africa.


Or, in an even worse case:

1. Iran is about to develop full nuclear weapons capacity, the U.S. strikes Iran preemptively, destroying Iran’s nuclear facilities.
2. Iran launches chemical and biological warheads into Israel. A large percentage of Israelis and Palestinians are killed!
3. Israel retaliates with both nuclear and chemical weapons. Many uneducated Palestinians celebrate, even as they bury their own dead “martyrs”!
4. Iran and Syria are decimated!
5. Governments are toppled by angry Arabs throughout the region, and a massive missile attack is launched by all Arab nations.
6. The flow of oil from The Middle East stops!
7. Within weeks the most negatively affected nation is the U.S., with massive internal strife, panic, chaos and violence never before experienced!
8. With the end of democracy in the U.S. and the collapse of the world financial system the world is in chaos, with food riots and violence everywhere.
9. With basic amenities shutting down contagious diseases pop up and spread all over the world!
10. The instability in what is left of Syria and Iran threatens their neighbors, who end up going to war!
11. China is desperate for energy and launches a massive invasion of the region!
12. Total economic and social collapse spreads throughout the whole world!
13. The End of The World!

But neither of those things is likely to happen because of the threat by Israel’s top secret agencies and spies no longer providing vital intelligence to the U.S., and also a possible threat to release information harmful to US politicians! Which would be fair, because what kind of signal would that send the rest of the world about America? It would mean that since the U.S. was able to back-stab its most important ally in the world that America’s word means nothing at all!!! That is why this will never happen! Contrary to the common misperception that most Americans have; the U.S. needs Israel more than Israel needs the U.S.! No other nation on Earth has the kind of intelligence abilities that Israel has! And sufficient intelligence and infiltration of the intelligence services of other nations is key to national survival in today’s most dangerously intelligence/information-dependent world! Israel is a nation that unlike any other nation in the world knows that its very survival depends on having the best of everything a nation needs to have, and that were it not for its military, technological and intelligence superiority it would be vulnerable to relatively easy forms of blackmail and would face the so-called “Massada Question”, which is: should it risk World War Three in order to overcome any serious threat(s) or should it dissolve itself and risk another Holocaust, i.e. another time when Jews would be the scapegoat for the world’s problems and the target of monstrous lies, of virulent anti-Semitism, , of persecution and eventually a final Holocaust?! Obviously Israel would be right to risk World War Three! Because anti-Jewish anti-Semitism is not as many would like to think only because of the existence of The State of Israel, but is once more a common threat because of the fact that actual remnant Nazis have cleverly, by means of all their stolen loot-based investments and subsequent profits, been re-seeding the world with their sick anti-Jewish anti-Semitic lies and attitudes! And it is another big lie that Israel has been more wrong than right, less justified and more offensive and oppressive than not! The actual facts clearly show that Israel has been bending backwards over and over again in its desire and willingness to establish a meaningful, viable peaceful resolution, based on fair compromise and necessary cooperation, of the Israeli-Palestinian and Arab-Israeli conflict(s)! The facts, which I will discuss later in this article, show that Israel, in spite of many mistakes, miscalculations, and even some incorrect behavior, has been much more the victim and has been forced by circumstances, including Arab intransigence and unfairness, to do things it really would have preferred not to have had to do in order to survive! And the historic reality is that Israel not only has as much, if not more, legitimacy to exist, as does a Palestinian State (peacefully coexisting as a relatively friendly neighbor to Israel), but that most of Israel’s land (within the 1967 boundaries) was legally purchased from those Arabs who had inhabited those lands since the Romans forced most Jews to leave their lands! More on Israel later, since resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is very much a major requirement, key, to handling the Iranian Nuclear Ambitions Crisis!


What, Then, Can and Should be Done?

The idea that Iran is just a bigger, slightly harder version of Iraq is totally wrong and even if The United States had a military twice as big and powerful, the fact of the matter is this; Iran should not be attacked by massive conventional military force. The relatively wise real-politik solution would be the following:

1. The United States must do everything possible, by diplomatic and economic means/incentives, to convince Syria to come back into the predominantly Sunnite, relatively moderate Arab mainstream, in order to be able to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian and thus Arab-Israeli conflicts! But for Syria to feel secure enough, politically, economically and strategically, The United States needs to do several things: a. remove move of its forces from the region (i.e. Iraq), reposition/relocate a significant number of troops (around 10% of the current numbers there) away from Iraqi population centers, to the border region with Turkey and Iran; b. The United States needs to in some subtle way admit that the previous U.S. foreign policy of invading nations without proper international support was totally wrong and that The United States will no longer use massive conventional military force in the region without either a U.N. mandate or the full support/request of the Arab nations; c. The United States needs to provide Syria with many important economic, financial, and other incentives to make it possible for Syria to severe ties with Iran without suffering economic collapse, and to stop supporting all terrorist groups and organizations without being able to show benefits and advantages for its own people, such as a serious commitment on the part of the U.S. to broker and help implement a fair compromise deal over The Golan Heights, that would be equally acceptable to both Syria and Israel!
2. With Syria back and finally at peace with Israel, which can be accomplished within a few months, both Lebanon and the Palestinians will get the message and come round and agree to a final compromise peace settlement with Israel! Hezbollah will have been reduced to insignificance and possibly wiped out were it to make any more trouble as their massive stockpile of missiles will definitely have been confiscated by the Lebanese Army, with actual help from Syria! And Syria will also agree to a compromise deal vis-à-vis Lebanon, helping insure and strengthen Lebanese sovereignty without harming legitimate Syrian security and economic interests! A byproduct will be the end of most terrorist attacks within Lebanon!
3. Once there is a meaningful, viable peace settlement between the Israelis and the Palestinians of the West Bank, Hamas will be toppled and Gaza will also enjoy the benefits of peace with Israel! This will diffuse most of the anti-Israeli sentiment and reduce the currently rising anti-Jewish anti-Semitism throughout the world, especially throughout the Arab World and the greater Islamic World!
4. Within days of an Israeli-Palestinian Peace Settlement The Arab League will fully recognize Israel and establish full normal relations with Israel, thereby allowing the formation of a strong, powerful, impressive joint-Arab-Israeli political, economic and even military front to isolate and pressure Iran to stop meddling in the region and to be realistic about its ambitions. Iran will either get the message and change course or economic hardships and other international pressure will make the current Iranian leadership very unpopular and eventually they will be removed by the Iranian people through democratic means or even another Iranian Revolution!
5. A new Iran will go out of its way to work with the international community and provide the means to insure that Iran does not develop the nuclear weapons threat that Israel, the U.S. and the E.U. do not want Iran to have! Problem solved without a single serious military conflict between the U.S. and Iran! World saved!

But what if at point number 4. Iran does not change its course? What then? Simple; The United States will have no problem getting sufficient International and pan-Arab support for the first phase of a potential military eventuality against Iran! And the first phase would involve the following steps: 1. The pan-Arab-U.S.-Israeli forces secure the Straight of Hormuz and the steady flow of oil, i.e. the lifeblood of world economic stability!; 2. Though it is most likely that Turkey would decide to remain neutral, Iraq’s border with Iran would be the scene of a massive build-up of pan-Arab-Israeli-U.S. forces ready to pounce within weeks (most of the actual troops would be Arab, with special technological support from Israel and the U.S.).; 3. Iran would be given an ultimatum: give up its nuclear ambitions or face a massive military attack on its border, which would easily cripple the Iranian economy!; 4. Iran would most likely finally give in.

But in the worst case scenario Iran would go to war and within weeks it would lose without major disruption to the flow of oil! World saved, Iran decimated!

Israel Has Never Been The Problem

Somehow the Big Lies Machine of the remnant Nazis has managed to distort the truth about Israel, about its legitimate ancient historical basis, about Roman Imperial anti-Semitism followed by classical European pseudo-Christian anti-Semitism (against both Arab Muslims and Jews), about the pre-1948 reality of Jews legitimately acquiring lands that actually would be their historical right to have returned free of charge, about Arab leaders launching attacks on vulnerable Jewish communities before the establishment of The State of Israel in 1948, about Israeli Jewish retaliations that sometimes went way too far and violated the very principles of Judaism!, about how the actual Nazis and then, after the defeat of Nazi Germany, i.e. The Third Reich, actual remnant Nazis easily managed to turn the Arab leaders against the idea of peaceful partition of Palestine into two states, about how Israel was forced to be even harsher in its military responses to Arab invasion attempts and how both the Israelis and The Palestinians became the ultimate victims of a conflict fueled by the conflicting interests of the two Superpowers, of the Arab nations and others! Somehow much of the world fails to admit that it has a very double-standard vis-à-vis Israel as compared to other similar situation elsewhere! Somehow much of the world is totally illogical about who is the real underdog and overall victim at risk between the two sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict! Somehow much of the world feels incredible sympathy for The Palestinians, who identify themselves as Arabs first when it is convenient and Palestinians first when it is not convenient for them to be perceived as part of the Arab fold! Somehow much of the world fails to recognize that even current Israel exists in less than 22,000 square kilometers of land versus the total Arab lands, which make up roughly 13,000,000 square kilometers!
This means that a very small drop of a country is being argued and fought for by an Arab World that is hundreds of times larger than the only Jewish nation on Earth! Now, do not get me wrong, while I think Israel has every right and even need to exist, so do the Palestinians have a right to a viable Palestinian State in the West Bank and Gaza, and some parts of Jerusalem, and Jordan is not a Palestinian State (as some Israeli extremists wish to suggest), but Israel has never been the real obstacle to the formation! The main obstacle to peace between Israelis and Palestinians is the perpetuation by most Arabs and Palestinians of the myth, the illogical idea, which is that violence can ever lead to the creation of a greater Palestinian State and the destruction of Israel! As well as the dangerous tendency of Palestinians to teach their children these myths and to teach lies about and hatred towards Jews and Israelis! This is the first and most important obstacle to peace between these two peoples and nations! Again, there is good reason to think that remnant Nazis are actually behind the deepest source of these hateful and harmful dangerous myths and lies! Just as remnant Nazis are probably behind the minority of Israeli extremists and their hateful lies and myths about Arabs and Palestinians!!! And the second major obstacle are the Mafiosi-like arms dealers and merchants of death and destruction who profit from the status quo, the continuation and perpetuation of the Arab-Israeli and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts! And the third most significant obstacle is the failure of both the Israeli and Palestinian peace-seeking, peace-desiring, compromise- and cooperation-willing leaders, and their supporters, to realize and recognize the first two reasons, i.e. obstacles, I have just mentioned! The fourth major obstacle to peace comes from the ability of the pseudo-Islamic fascist terrorists (under the influence of ages of Big Lies planted in their minds by actual remnant Nazis!), to set back any peace efforts by suicide bombings which are actually anathema to True Islam! The fact of the matter is this; the only ones really benefiting from the suffering and killing are actual remnant Nazis, Mafiosi-like arms dealers, pseudo-Islamic fascist terrorists, pseudo-Jewish fascist terrorists, and anti-Arab, anti-Jewish anti-Semites throughout the world, such as pseudo-Christian Evangelical fanatics and traditional pseudo-Catholic anti-Semites!!!

It is perfectly reasonable to conclude, as most Israelis have, that were it not for the existence of the modern-day State of Israel, the real danger and threat of another, this time final, Holocaust would come into existence and there would be no one able to pressure the leaders of the non-Jewish world to bring their peoples to their senses and prevent any and all major anti-Jewish anti-Semitic attacks and attempts at genocide! Furthermore, it is fair to say that Israel, were the Arabs and Palestinians in particular to finally live fully at peace with Israel, would be a great economic and even social blessing to all Arabs and eventually to all Muslims! On the one hand the enormous positive economic trade benefits would, in of themselves, bring great prosperity to all Palestinians and most Arabs, and on the other hand Islam would be able to show clear, unequivocal evidence of how truly tolerant and reformed Islam can and should be, and Islam would finally evolve into the “Way of G-D” that The Prophet Muhammad would really have wanted! This would bring about a world where the three Monotheisms are no longer in competition and conflict, and the rest of the non-Monotheistic World, such as the Hindu, Buddhist and atheist worlds would also no longer live under the constant threat and fear of a Final Clash of Civilizations. Ultimately only a few would be strict adherents of traditional religion and a new World Spiritual Order would emerge, that would be tolerant of all persons, regardless of their personal beliefs or absence thereof! Would not that world be a threat to the interests of the leaders of the major religions? Well, if peace and prosperity, if justice and freedom, if spiritual love and scientific awareness are threats to these leaders, then maybe they have no longer G-D’s true interests in mind! The idea that a peaceful world will see a decline in religious fervor is incorrect. True, traditional religious conduct will dwindle, but in its place will rise a Great Spiritual Enlightenment that is not in conflict with science and which does not threaten the core values of the great monotheistic religions!

Does Ahmadinejad Represent Iran And Should We Be Seriously Concerned??

When the leader of any significant nation on Earth actually threatens to wipe out and recommends the destruction of any other significant nation on Earth that leader can no longer legitimately be considered a voice of reason and peace! When Iran’s fanatic pseudo-peace-loving, pseudo-spiritual President, Ahmadinejad, openly suggested that Israel is the only real obstacle to peace everywhere and that Israel is an illegitimate nation that must be wiped off the map, he totally discredited any other statements that were intended to suggest that an Iran under the leadership of his type of Iranian can be trusted when it states that it does not seek to make or acquire nuclear weapons! But what is the real situation at the top of Iran’s political leadership, which is not represented by Ahmadinejad? Are the Ayatollahs who rule Iran really intent on seeking to destroy Israel? The answer is yes and no! Yes, they would if they thought they really could, but no when they know that they cannot! So, then why do they tolerate Ahmadinejad? They do so because they need his kind of populist rhetoric that feeds into the ignorance of the majority of Iranians, with definite exception to the educated middle class of Iran who vehemently oppose Ahmadinejad and actually would like to reduce the power and influence of The Ayatollahs! Ahmadinejad’s virulent rhetoric serves, for now (although there are clear signs that that is beginning to change), to steer Iranian public attention away from internal problems and injustices towards an easy scapegoat enemy: Israel! Many Arab leaders have done the same in the past, but never as cleverly and effectively as Ahmadinejad has. Ahmadinejad represents the very views he and his ilk have created in the minds of many Iranians, but there is a sizeable number of Iranians, perhaps as much as 30%, who actually favor the real-politik world line on Israel: that peace between Israel and The Palestinians is possible and desirable! Insofar as Israel is concerned it has a very strange behind-the-scenes relationship with Iran and its leaders! That relationship is far more complicated and controversial than I am able or willing to address herein. Suffice it to say that Iran’s leaders are probably not willing to let the likes of Ahmadinejad to actually attack Israel! At least, not as long as their power is not seriously threatened! Israel has managed over the years to make odd deals with Iran in the past and may yet be able to get Ahmadinejad removed from his high-profile podium. So, all in all, while the sick hate-mongering nonsense spewed by Ahmadinejad does harm the overall interests of all peace-makers, not just those concerned for the real welfare of both Palestinians and Israelis, but elsewhere where tolerance of minorities is at risk or non-existent, he is not a Hitler able to launch World War Three. On the other hand if the relatively moderate Palestinians and Arabs really want peace, which I think and hope they do, then they should be much more vocal in condemning any and all statements that in any way threaten Israel and Jews. In fact, the Arab mass news media would serve the interests of peace were they to stop using inflammatory and malicious expressions like “Zionists” and “Jewish Extremists” in referring to what they should call them “those reactionary Zionists who are not progressive and peace loving unlike those progressive Zionists who are for peace” and “pseudo-Jewish fascists who do not represent most Jews”. And the same principle applies to the mass news media here in America and Europe; they must stop using incorrect, imprecise, inflammatory, offensive, dangerous words, terms, expressions like “Islamo-Fascists”, Islamists”, Islamic Terrorists” when they supposedly are referring to “pseudo-Islamic fascist terrorists”. Any truly intelligent person can clearly see how words and expressions matter everything, that using the right terms, matters very much, and that using the wrong terminology and words has already been the cause of wars, including World War One!

Words matter everything and on that level Ahmadinejad is a serious troublemaker. He needs to be made totally irrelevant, unless if by some miracle he were to have an epiphany and admit that he was being misled by the mechanism of Evil when he said those horrible things!


Conclusion

The United States of America needs to heed the wise and sound advice of Senator Joe Biden and General Wesley Clark when it comes to The Iraq Fiasco and The Iran Nuclear Ambitions Crisis. All-out war with Iran is not yet necessary and should be averted by all legitimate means possible. The world needs truly intelligent, informed and sophisticated policy makers and not the kind of idiotic pseudo-cowboys like Bush and the naïve and dangerous Neo-Cons who put him in power and could still push America and the world into the abyss of a Final & Short Dark Age!


About The Author. Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo is a Philosopher whose works are based in part on the ideas of Spinoza, The Concord Group, as well as Einstein’s and Gandhi’s humanistic and spiritual ideas. He gained some limited fame in the late 1980s as New York City’s Original New York City Free Advice Man, and has two books to his name, as well as dozens of articles about social, political and general philosophical ideas. He is an autodidact and currently holds no formal higher education credentials. He is fluent in six languages and has traveled extensively and lived in many nations. He is the Founder & Director of The Infinity Society, a small, independent NGO that serves as a think-tank and networking organization for progressive intellectuals, academics and artists. He lives with his wife in the Washington, D.C. area.