Kurt Nimmo
Another Day In The Empire
Wednesday, November 15, 2006

For some reason, Bibi thought tech investors in Palo Alto, California, wanted to hear the Likud line on Iran. No, they didn’t want to hear about quad-core computer chips or iPod versus Zune, but wanted instead the scoop on Iran.

“Opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu told technology investors in Palo Alto, California that Iran’s development of nuclear weapons is a greater threat to peace than the war in Iraq,” reports Arutz Sheva, a sort of clearinghouse for rabid Israeli settlers. “The issue is not Iraq… the issue is Iran,” warned Netanyahu. “If you stay in Iraq or leave Iraq, and Iran acquires nuclear weapons, you lose Iraq, you lose Jordan and Saudi Arabia. The Persian Gulf will become just that, a Persian gulf.”

Bibi didn’t explain why technology investors would give a whit about Jordan. But then, obviously, it did not matter who the audience was, so long as the message made it out to the corporate media.

Red Herring, on the other hand, provides an explanation. Netanyahu issued his warning about Iran, another in a long and tedious series of warnings designed to prompt America to invade the country, at the behest of Ken Wornick and Larry Greenfield of the Republican Jewish Coalition. Wornick said “he hoped that Mr. Netanyahu would help convince moderate Democrats in Silicon Valley to consider supporting Likud,” the fascist political party that grew out of the racist ideology of Ze’ev Jabotinsky. According to Wornick, there “are a lot of people on the fence,” that is to say they either don’t care about Israel’s obsession with Iran or don’t see what Iran has to do with technology stocks. Wornick and Netanyahu want to convert them to the cause, never mind it is hardly in their best interest.

In fact, the event was staged primarily for Bibi’s diatribe, basically an anti-Iran dog and pony show tacked on to a speech about investment opportunities in Israel, a country that should have an investment image worse than the former apartheid state of South Africa, but doesn’t, thanks to the corporate media.

Bibi “compared the current situation to that of the 1930s, saying that much of the world is unaware of the danger to the entire world posed by Islamic extremism. When asked about Iraq, he replied, ‘Iraq is the wrong issue.’ In his view, he said, if Israel were to disappear, the threat posed by Islamic extremism would extend to Europe and eventually the United States. Thus, it is not any more a ‘Jewish issue’ than Hitler was, he said. He received a standing ovation,” mostly from the Republican Jewish Coalition and friends of Amatzia Ben Artzi, CEO and co-founder of NetPost along with Menachem Livni, an Israeli publishing tycoon.

Later, in Los Angeles, Bibi “warned delegates attending the United Jewish Communities’ General Assembly at the Los Angeles Convention Center… that Iran today resembled Germany in 1938,” the neocon-infested Jerusalem Post reports. “Iran is Germany that is arming itself with atomic bombs and declaring it will destroy the Jewish State,” Netanyahu told the appropriate audience, Israeli Army Radio.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad never said Iran will destroy the “Jewish State,” this is little more than a lie cooked up by MEMRI, the Middle East Media Research Organization, an outfit run by Colonel Yigal Carmon of Israeli intelligence.

Not that it matters, of course, as the lie was thrown against the wall, it stuck, and the corporate media, forever truckling to the tiny outlaw and racist state, made it a reality, sort of like Saddam’s delusory weapons of mass destruction. In fact, Ahmadinejad said there will need to be a political change in Israel, but then this sort of thing does not sell newspapers or fool Silicon Valley elite.

Naturally, as always, Bibi implored the United States to attack its declared enemy. It’s not enough the “Jewish State” lives off the succor of blindsided American taxpayers, who are generally none the wiser, but also demands the Pentagon expend its dwindling resources, supposedly marshaled to protect America, to go after the Iranians, who never did anything to America, or for that matter Israel. “We must do everything to ensure that [US President] Bush holds to his promises to prevent a [nuclear] armed Iran, but we must also prepare Israel for defending itself should the need arise,” avowed Bibi.

It was, of course, a “promise” extracted by Israel First neocons in Bush’s administration—but then a promise is a promise, never mind the Strait of Hormuz will be closed down after the United States follows through. It will be glutted with flaming tankers, and gas prices will quite naturally skyrocket, that is if the average consumer will be able to get gas at all, as the situation will make the 1973 Oil Embargo look like a picnic.

“Netanyahu claimed the international community was taking Ahamdinejad’s threats too lightly,” the Post concludes. In other words, a lot of folks are hep to Israel’s perennial scam and tired of its incessant exaggerations and endless Holocaust incantation, replete with bromidic references to Hitler.

Even so, the corporate media, forever an obeisant lapdog for Israel, faithfully telegraphed Bibi’s timeworn message, while studiously ignoring more portentous developments.

For instance, Ehud Olmert’s unabashed effort to further radicalize his administration, bringing onboard Avigdor Lieberman, chairman of the reactionary Yisrael Beitenu (Israel Is Our Home) Party. Lieberman, who talks interminably about “transferring” (i.e., ethnic cleansing) Arabs out of Israel, is reputedly connected to the Russian Mafia, a not surprisingly revelation. It should be noted that this fanatic, who declares Arab members of the Knesset should suffer the “fate of the Nazi collaborators” for talking with Hamas, the elected representatives of the Palestinian people, will be responsible for “coordinating” Israel’s policy towards Iran. “His entry into the government is widely seen as a signal that Israel would attack Iran, as Israel devolves into a full-fledged fascist state,” writes Dean Andromidas.

In other words, Israel will goad the United States into attacking Iran, thus keeping its “promise,” more akin to an economic death knell.

No doubt more than a few Silicon Valley investors understand this madness will ultimately send their game spinning wildly off the skids. But then, if we are to believe Red Herring, it was primarily Jewish and Republican, that is to say neocon, technology investors who soaked up the fascist ambiance of Bibi Netanyahu, the possible next leader of Israel, that is if the people of the small outlaw state, citizens of the “only democracy in the Middle East,” continue their propensity to elect racists and warmongers.