Thursday April 23, 2009

I've Been Thinking:

Iran is ratcheting up the tensions.
Iran is trying to create an "us versus them" situation.
"Us" is Iran, "them" is the whole rest of the world.

Creating that tension was one of the intentions behind the keynote speech delivered by Ahmadinejad in Geneva at Durban II.

Perpetuating that tension was the job of Ali Larijani, speaker of the Iranian parliament and a trusted closed adviser of Ahmadinejad, who said on national Iranian TV yesterday that if attacked "Iran will respond in a way so that they will not be able to sleep easy anymore."

That statement was a direct counter threat addressed to Israel.
In that statement, "they" was Israel.

At the same time Shimon Peres, the president of Israel, was quoted as saying that Israel is not planning an attack on Iran.

In truth, Shimon Peres does not have the faintest idea what Israel is planning because the president of Israel is a non-policy, largely ceremonial, post.

The point is that Peres is trying to dial down the tensions.

In an ironic twist, Peres is the father of Israel's nuclear program.
It was his brainchild and his initiative, dating back to the early years of Israel.

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