Warnings from the Land of Dreams and “The Land of Wishes”
America is getting a new Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates who has signaled the intentions of our diplomatic establishment toward Iran’s war of terror (threats of annihilation) which is directed most openly against Israel, for now.
Mr. Gates has shown that he can be as obtuse as the Senators snoring through pro forma confirmation questions. He agrees with Senators that Iran is pursuing atomic weapons capabilities and that its leaders are lying about this development, — no kidding. More importantly, he stated that no one, certainly not he who only is the new civilian head of the Armed Forces of America can provide assurance that Israel will not be nuked by Iran. That’s called an open invitation. He also claimed that its atomic program is “a deterrent against nuclear powers surrounding it, Pakistan in the east, Russia in the north, Israel to the West and us [America] in the Persian Gulf.” 
Perhaps this fellow should be working for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Perhaps he is, or will be on their payroll, as the firm of Baker, Bott is of Saudi Arabia.
Mr. Gates added that America would “respond” to an Iranian nuclear attack “only if our critical interests are endangered, and then only as a last resort.” The Senators were too servile to ask if a strong Israel was “a critical interest” of the United States. Perhaps the answer is too ugly: it’s critical that Israel be beaten into submission, — or destroyed – to please the religion of peace and its well-paid friends. And it is increasingly clear that our diplomats our building Iran into the regional superpower, another star in the multi-power world order: it looks to be a very violent one…
Gates is a close associate of George H. W. Bush and James Baker, head of the “Iraqi Study Group” (the Baker Group or ISG) that calls for more “negotiations” with Syria and Iran in order to resolve their problems with us. Joel Himmelfarb, in a piece published by the American Spectator and the Wall Street Journal details the decades of attempts by America to dialog with Iran and Syria, a self-destructive process in which peace and honesty recede. For example, the Baker Group, to which Gates is a complement, calls on Israel to ‘restore’ the Golan Heights to Syria. That is a recipe for war and the truncation of Israel.
So, with his testimony to a complacent Senate, Mr. Gates sent several important signals: 1) that the American government will not protect Israel against an Iranian nuclear attack; and, 2) that Israel is a nuclear power that threatens Iran and merits being compared to Russia or Pakistan.
Anyone who follows the news knows that Israel’s nuclear capability is an official secret. Mr. Gates helped shred what remains of that strategic deniability. Other statements were more damaging: he equated Israel (and America) and their nuclear capabilities with those of Pakistan and Russia. Given the radically different nature of these two pairs of nations this is an extremely dishonest and damaging implied equation of a kind you might expect from a communist, a jihadist official or the head of a “non-aligned” nation. From an American Secretary of Defense it is alarming. Meanwhile, Iran’s media report their top officers as well as various jihadist groups affirming that they are ready to attack American bases and interests (memri.org #1378). Perhaps this is what Baker and company, after having their photos taken for GQ, want to dialog with them about.
It also is dishonest because it is Iran that blatantly and consistently threatens Israel with annihilation; so do other terror groups like Hamas, Iran’s Hizballah, Syria, assorted Islamic media and clergy, and the EU in its quaint Eurabian way. Israel threatens no one but itself via its perennial Labor-internationalist regime. Seemingly, Baker and Gates are eager to take down America’s only ally in the region, the breakwater against global jihad.
Mr. Gates is a friend neither of the American nor the Israeli people nor of their embattled sovereign nations. In fact, his testimony in conjunction with the Baker Group’s report emphasizes that the “critical interests” of the diplomatic-intelligence-financial groups that dominate America are the destruction of Israel, of American sovereignty, and the enabling of global jihad as part of a perpetual state of global terror and “security.” This is the “fledgling global security system” of which Mr. Anan spoke in his farewell address.
The silk hats have their dreams, and the turbaned folk have theirs which we will describe in a moment.
Before considering an intriguing Iranian media-item, we note that by refusing to provide assurance that America would defend anyone, specifically Israel, from Iranian nuclear attack Mr. Gates performed a version of Ambassador April Glaspie’s indirect invitation to Saddam Hussein to invade Kuwait; that message, in a spring 2000 meeting came on the instructions of James Baker who told Glaspie “to emphasize that American policy is to have no opinion on Arab-Arab border disputes.” In 1956, the State Department passed a similar message regarding Hungary to Russia via Yugoslavia: the re-occupation of Hungary followed and with it, thirty more years of Cold War. So, if Iran attacks Israel, America will watch and then respond, maybe, so long as the state of attrition and ‘security’ continues to grow.
The Saudis must be delighted; Saddam was their main bogey: Americans were sucked into ridding them of him. Now Iran is their main bogey: the US regime is setting them up for a counter punch after they eliminate the source of the Saudis, — and all Muslims irrational rage: the Jews.
April Glaspie was an Ambassador during the incumbency of President G. H. W. Bush whose Secretary of State was James Baker. So much from the land of dreams…
A fascinating episode in the Iranian Science Fiction television series, “The Land of Wishes” offered perspective on these developments in an episode called, “The Medal” [a Star of David] which may be viewed at www.memri.org #1329.
The plot is as simple as black and white and the message is clever, clear and genocidal in its slander and strategic intentions. The heroine is Fahimeh, a lovely Persian maiden of about fourteen years, clothed in a gray burka and accompanied by an elusive animated spirit, Kashki: baggy pants, boots, sword, cool hat and cute, encouraging messages.
Fahimeh has been summoned by an Evil Jewish Queen who rules from the Black House (a massive Temple with a gigantic stone courtyard). You can tell the queen is Jewish because she wears an enormous Star of David on her breast. Another Magen David surmounts the Temple’s front door.
The Evil Queen isn’t quite human: she’s powered by nuclear-generated electricity that enters her head via gadgets manned by two technicians and drawn down from a Star Ship like the Enterprise. After getting juiced, the Queen has herself teleported from the lab to the Temple doorway, welcomes Fahimeh to “the Free City” and invites her friendship, pointing to her other ‘friends,’ zombie-like gray-cowled figures standing in ranks and files in the courtyard. “Together we can build a new world” the Queen says. But the Persian maid knows it’s a Zionist plot.
This is brilliant propaganda, brilliant in its role-reversals regarding target and aggressor and in regard to causes of behavior. It is Iran that threatens Israel with atomic annihilation. And if Muslims behave like robots (“you have taken away their ability to think,” Fahimeh tells the Queen, rebuffing her offer of friendship) it is hardly Israel’s unilateral surrenders in the “peace process” that squelches intellection, except maybe in the Israeli and western left. And it doesn’t take much thinking to see what’s good and bad in “the land of wishes”; the process of feeling and thought is too well controlled for that. Iran like many Islamic states has texts and media that deprive people of the ability to think, to act like anything other than robots. But this is science fiction with a moral…
The Queen uses her techno-juice to materialize a virtual warrior (who resembles Benjamin Netanyahu) to compel Fahimeh’s ‘friendship.’ But Kashki (and the appearance of her lost parents) hearten the maiden to imagine her own warrior. Just when the evil white one seems winning, Kashki exclaims, “They can’t control the fuel reactor of time! They don’t have the code word!” The code is S-U-N, get it? The Jews are creatures of darkness.
And who can “control the fuel reactor of time,” of the Apocalypse? The Mahdi, maybe…
So the sad and victimized maiden draws on her own internal inspiration and steadily the techno-powers of the evil Queen are exhausted, driving her to tears and literally to crack-up. The Jew-created warrior is crushed into a pool of blood that burns with a glaring gold fire and the defeated Queen returns to her lab throne and disintegrates. The technicians get fried trying to save “the Medal,” the Star of David which disappears into a pool of blood, fire and then a flash and smoke as from a small nuclear bomb. Get it? The Star Ship blows up. Goodbye to the Great Satan…
And the heroine accomplished all this from “a defensive posture” by “resisting the occupation” not only of Arab lands but of minds, too. Who can blame her? Robert Gates stated that Iran’s atomic program is one of defense against its enemies, like us. What we really need is more negotiations, don’t you think, — like the ones that pushed the Israelis out of Lebanon and led to the death of several hundred marines; like the ones for the American hostages in Teheran and led to fiasco in the desert; a softer gentler touch like at Mogadishu; like Oslo, the demolition of Gush Katif, etc. Thus the land of dreams weds the land of wishes making nightmares for everyone.
Kashki says, “don’t be afraid! Create your own fighter! There’s not much time till the reactor explodes!” He’s right.
Israelis and others should consider themselves warned but their government, like the new Cabinet, Congress and ISG in America is controlled by hypnotists who have taken away our ability to think and save ourselves with a stitch in time.