Tuesday, December 01, 2020
Jeremy Ben-Ami, the president of JStreet, on Sunday condemned
the assassination of senior Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
Ben-Ami took his cue from the EU, which took its cue from Tehran. One can
understand why Tehran would condemn the assassination of the man considered to
be the father of Iran’s nuclear program, someone considered “irreplaceable”
in the mullahs’ quest to get the bomb. Iran wants the bomb, and the elimination
of Fakhrizadeh is a setback. Big time. The condemnations coming out of Brussels
and from Ben-Ami, on the other hand, can be explained only by the famous quote
from Winston Churchill:
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping
it will eat him last."
It makes sense that JStreet would want to appease Iran by condemning
the elimination of Fakhrizadeh, a man with deep knowledge of the Iranian nuclear
program. A nuclear Iran threatens the free world, not least of all the United
States. Go to any protest, or even to the Iranian parliament after Soleimani was killed, and you will hear the chants of, "Marg bar
Āmrikā," (Death to America).
JStreet’s Ben-Ami hopes that in agreeing with his wannabe murderers, they will consent to eat him last.
Perhaps more to the point, JStreet is an anti-Israel organization pretending
to engage in Israel advocacy. JStreet actually shares the aim of the Iranian
nuclear program: the elimination of the Jewish State—witness the organization's covert
support for BDS. It is believed that Israel is behind the assassination
of Fakhrizadeh, though the Jewish State has neither confirmed nor denied a role
in the targeted killing of the scientist. Israel has a good motive for taking
out Fakhrizadeh and that is that while a nuclear Iran may be the greatest
existential threat to the free world—which unfortunately includes Jeremy
Ben-Ami among its inhabitants—Israel is Iran’s closest target, and the elimination
of the Jewish State a primary goal for Khameini.
Ben-Ami, knowing that Israel is first on the menu, hopes
that in condemning the actions of the Jewish State, he will be last on the list
of tasty items to be consumed by the crocodile named Iran. That is why Ben-Ami
was pleased to be included on the guest list of Jewish leaders invited to Obama’s
table to discuss how Israel might be pressured to give away more indigenous
Jewish land to the Arabs. Obama is the main architect of that ultimate appeasement
of Iran: the JCPOA (which Iran never
signed). It is Obama who sent the world’s leading state sponsor of terror, pallets
of untraceable cash.
It is only natural that Ben-Ami would wish to be a starring
ingredient in the dessert course, to ally himself with Obama. Ben-Ami, like
Obama, wants to be eaten last. Alas, the only way for these men to fulfill this
aim is to make themselves relevant until the end. They hope that if they appear
to share the goal of the crocodile, and even assist in procuring food for the
beast, the beast might save them for another day, when there is nothing tastier
to eat.
The problem is that the crocodile is a bully, and the
problem with appeasing a bully is that the bully always comes back for more.
Which means that the bullied are never free, even as they delude themselves
that the opposite is true, that they are saved. Being last to be eaten, on the
other hand, by definition means that one is eventually eaten. Which is how the
game ends.
And the game always ends unless you stand up to the
crocodile, to cut off its sustenance for good. That is the only way to do away
with the crocodile, once and for all. Which Israel knew. Which is why Fakhrizadeh
had to go.
It only makes sense. It’s the only real way to game the
system, to not get eaten, last or otherwise.
Anyone who understands this, anyone with a modicum of sechel or common sense, therefore did
not vote for Joe Biden. Biden, predictably, intends to revive
the JCPOA, because he too, hopes to be eaten last, as do those who voted for
him. The Biden voters either hope to be last to be eaten by the Iranian
crocodile, or else they are oblivious to the danger in the swamp. They are
oblivious because the media dangles progressive sugar plums before their eyes,
the shiny and exciting causes they prefer to embrace above life itself: BLM,
Antifa, illegal immigrants, and above all, a supreme hatred of the Orange Man.
The people who voted for Biden (and Obama before him), can’t
see the crocodile lurking, waiting to pounce on those with no clue of the
danger waiting for them in the wings. The crocodile, meanwhile, watches on as its
early prey, the Biden voters, spew their hatred of anyone who thinks
differently from them: the people who won’t get with the plan. The Biden voters
don’t know that all along, the plan has been out of their hands and even unknown
to them, the people to be eaten first.
The people who voted for Biden, knowing he would probably
reinstitute the JCPOA, are like so much unwitting chum. They have no idea how delicious
they are, as an appetizer, or even a main course. Ben-Ami, meanwhile, awaits
his turn on the platter with bated breath—perhaps garnished with edible gold—as
the crocodile opens its yawning cavern of a mouth, never to be sated or
satisfied.
Always wanting more.
