Warnings from DC and “The Land of Wishes”
America is getting a new Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates who has just sent several signals to Iran, Israel and other nations closely involved with 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 their pro forma confirmation questions to him. 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 can, certainly not he, 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 Iran’s 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 on their payroll, as the firm of James Baker III 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.” Too bad the Senators are so servile that none cared to ask the fellow if a strong Israel was “a critical interest” of the United States.
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. The goal is not difficult to discern.
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 that it merits being compared to Russia or Pakistan.
Anyone who follows the news even cursorily 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 (from the root) 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.
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.
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 world state of terror and “security.”
Before considering a noteworthy Iranian media-item regarding Jews, we should 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; the message, in a meeting (July 25, 2000) 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). So, if Iran attacks Israel, America will watch and then respond, maybe.
April Glaspie was an Ambassador during the incumbency of President G. H. W. Bush. So much from the land of dreams…
A fascinating episode in the Iranian Science Fiction television series, “The Land of Wishes” offers 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 body and head robe and accompanied by a ‘here again, gone again’ animated spirit, Kashki: baggy pants, boots, sword, cool hat and cute, encouraging messages.
Fahimeh has been summoned by a “Mega-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. (Maybe ‘Black House’ is a pun on White House; everyone knows the “Zionists” rule America, as the ISG report shows [sic]).
The Evil Queen isn’t quite human: she’s powered by nuclear-generated electricity that enters her head via lots of gadgets manned by two technicians. It’s drawn down from a Star Ship like the Enterprise. 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-robed 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 steals that ability, except maybe from the Israeli and western left. Jihadists see what’s going on; 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. Perhaps Iran has its own 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 a younger Benjamin Netanyahu) to compel Fahimeh’s ‘friendship.’ But Kashki (and the appearance of her lost parents) hearten the maiden to imagine into being 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, right?
Sure enough, the sad and victimized maiden draws on her own internal inspiration and steadily the techno-supplied 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 like from a small nuclear bomb. Get it? The Star Ship blows up: goodbye America.
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 helped explain Iran’s atomic program as 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 two hundred and fifty Marines; like the ones for the American hostages in Teheran; like Oslo, the demolition of Gush Katif, etc. The land of dreams weds the land of wishes producing nightmares for everyone.
As Kashki said, “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 act to save ourselves with a stitch in time.