Suggested Answers to the Second Short Quiz

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Suggested Answers to the Second Short Quiz – Quo Vadis, Iran ???


Question 1

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

Answer 1

What do you think??? Let’s discuss!!!

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Yes.

Question 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???

Answer 3

Absolutely!!!

Question 4

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

Answer 4

What do you think??? Let’s discuss!!!

Question 5

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

Answer 5

What do you think??? Let’s discuss!!!

Though in formulating your answer, you may wish to consider Q&A-6 through Q&A-9 and whether he believes that he can now get away with much more than in 2020.

If so, wouldn’t he be a fool not to take advantage?

Question 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?

Answer 6

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Question 7

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

Answer 7

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Question 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?

Answer 8

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Question 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)???

Answer 9

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Question 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?

Answer 10

Yes – as we studied in detail most recently for our Dec. 13 meeting.

Question 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?

Answer 11

What do you think??? Let’s discuss!!!

Question 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?

Answer 12

Yes and Yes.

Question 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???

Answer 13

Absolutely!!!

Question 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.]

Answer 14

Yes.

Khrushchev’s cable traffic which became public following Glasnost showed that -

• Immediately after American spy satellites discovered the Russian missiles in Cuba, Fidel Castro cabled Nikita Khrushchev to say, in effect: “In the course of human events, it is sometimes necessary for a people to be willing to sacrifice themselves for the ‘greater good,’ as a result of which I am willing to sacrifice myself and the Cuban people by firing all of the nuclear missiles in Cuba at the U.S., following which it should be an easy matter for the Soviet Union to ‘mop up’.”

• Castro’s cable immediately provoked Khrushchev to cable his underlings, both in Cuba and Russia, to say, in effect: “Who is this madman??? And who gave him control (de facto if not de jure) over MY MISSILES??? And get MY MISSILES the hell out of Cuba ASAP!!!”!!!

• BTW, supreme-negotiator Khrushchev got President Kennedy to remove American missiles from Turkey in exchange for the removal of Russian missiles from Cuba -- which missiles the post-Glasnost-available Russian cable traffic showed that Khrushchev would have removed anyway.

• Though there was no shame in this for President Kennedy because, after all, he thought he was dealing with a real crisis.

Question 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?

Answer 15

Yes.

As we studied in detail most recently for our Dec. 13 meeting.

Question 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???

Answer 16

What do you think??? Let’s discuss!!!

Question 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???

Answer 17

Yes.

Question 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???

Answer 18

Yes.

Question 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?

Answer 19

Yes.

Question 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%?

Answer 20

Yes.

Question 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?

Answer 21

Yes.

Question 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?

Answer 22

Yes.

Question 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???

Answer 23

Yes – please see “12/16/23: EX POST FACTO “CROSSING SWORDS” VIS-À-VIS THE THRICE-FAILED ‘TWO-STATE SOLUTION’” at viewtopic.php?f=780&t=2457&sid=533f7abf ... 0d601ed8c8.

Question 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???

Answer 24

What do you think??? Let’s discuss!!!

Question 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???

Answer 25

What do you think??? Let’s discuss!!!