Second Short Quiz – Quo Vadis, Iran ???

[johnkarls]

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1. After the First Short Quiz entitled “Quo Vadis, Israel ???,” isn’t it appropriate to consider “Quo Vadis, Iran ???”???!!!

2. After all, isn’t Iran a relative newcomer to Henry Kissinger’s game of MAD (i.e., Mutual Assured Destruction)???

3. And like Kissinger’s game of MAD with the Soviet Union (and, in its wake, the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic) for more than 7 decades, doesn’t the new game of MAD with Iran also entail the potential end of human civilization???

4. Is there any indication the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei realizes he is “playing with fire”???

5. If he did, wouldn’t he be causing his pawns (Hamas, Hezbollah, the Yemeni Houthis, etc.) to behave much differently?

6. After all, didn’t he reportedly mourn deeply the 1/3/2020 assassination of Quds Commander Qasem Soleimani, the second-most powerful official in Iran?

7. And didn’t Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei 5 days later exhibit a lively interest in his own survival?

8. In other words, isn’t the rumor correct that the reason why Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps shot down Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 from Tehran to Kyiv shortly after takeoff, was because the Iranian Government believed that despite the Boeing 737-800’s 176 occupants, it was à la the 9/11 airliner attacks on NYC’s World Trade Center, an airliner-bomb aimed at assassinating Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei?

9. So if Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has already exhibited in 2020 such a keen interest in NOT becoming a martyr, then why are he and his pawns being now treated post-2020 with such “kid gloves” in Kissinger’s game of MAD (aka Mutual Assured Destruction)???

10. After all, weren’t Kissinger and the USSR forced to wake up to the fact that the USSR’s stirring up hatred for Israel leading up to the 1973 Yom Kippur War came within minutes of producing the nuclear destruction of Russia’s 7 largest cities?

11. So does anyone think Hamas would have attacked Israel on October 7 without the approval (if not express orders to do so) from Iran? An attack that was wildly popular in the Arab world?

12. And didn’t Former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen Gerald Feierstein address the NYC Harvard Club on 1/24/2024 during which he said that the Yemeni Houthis were delighted to attack Red Sea shipping with drones and missiles because there was really no significant damage that the U.S. would cause in retaliation? And because their attacks are wildly popular in the Arab world?

13. In an analogous “game of MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) situation, didn’t we launch one of our “Six Degrees of Separation E-mail Campaigns” on 3/14/2018 to President Trump urging him to hold China responsible for North Korean nuclear behavior – since North Korea’s very existence is economically dependent on China???

14. As part of our 3/24/2018 campaign, didn’t we recount how during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, Nikita Khrushchev withdrew his missiles from Cuba in recognition that if Fidel Castro fired those missiles at the U.S. -- as Castro was proposing to do in order to sacrifice the Cuban people on the altar of worldwide communism -- the American nuclear retaliation would not be confined to Cuba??? [NB: Khrushchev’s cable traffic to/from Cuba and to/from Khrushchev’s top military personnel, which became public following Glasnost, reveals Khrushchev’s reasons for withdrawing the missiles.]

15. And as part of our 3/24/2018 campaign, didn’t we recount that the reason why Kissinger reversed in “the blink of an eye” his policy of refusing to re-supply Israel with conventional ammunition leading up the 1973 Yom Kippur War, was his realization that Russia’s 7 largest cities were about to be destroyed by Israel’s nuclear missiles just before Israel was annihilated?

16. So if both international law and the legal systems of virtually all of the nations in the world recognize the responsibility for agents/countries you have enabled, and if even Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei recognized in 2020 his responsibility (like the Soviet Union before him) for stirring up hatred for Israel, why is the U.S. “pussy footing” around in contrast to where Khamanei and the U.S. were in the “Game of MAD” in 2020???

17. Isn’t the basic problem with Arab and world opinion that it ignores the historical record that since 738 AD, the Muslim world had welcomed Jews into Palestine and permitted them to purchase land???

18. And that the Brits, during their governing Palestine following its capture from the Ottoman Empire during World War I, permitted virtually no Jewish immigration???

19. And that the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (“UNSCOP”) which was established 5/15/1947 to oversee the termination of British rule, carefully catalogued who owned what?

20. And that UNSCOP reported that there were only 1,077,000 Muslims out of a total population of 1,846,000 – or 58.3%?

21. As a result of which UNSCOP recommended, and UN Resolution 181 proclaimed, British rule would end on 5/14/1948 to be succeeded by a “Jewish State” and a “Palestinian State” based on who owned what even though the Jewish State and the Palestinian State resembled a “checker board” of land ownership?

22. And that Israel accepted U.N. Resolution 181 and declared its independence on 5/14/1948 – and was immediately invaded by Egypt, Syrian, Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon?

23. And this “two state solution” was followed by two additional “two state solutions” that Arabs have rejected because they continue TO REFUSE TO RECOGNIZE ISRAEL’S RIGHT TO EXIST???

24. And the Muslims aren’t even willing, before throwing all Israelis "into the sea," to buy back the land that their ancestors sold to the Jews???

25. So as we concluded during our 12/13/2023 meeting on “The Samson Option” by Pulitzer-Prize Winner Seymour Hersh, isn’t the only practical solution the Dermer-Netanyahu plan to occupy Gaza long term – similar to the way the U.S. occupied Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan for many years to transform German/Japanese society so that today they have for nearly 8 decades, been two of America’s most loyal allies???