There are politicians that argue that today the world is a safer place.
Sorry – but I’m just not buying it.
The disastrous “Iran Nuke Deal”
January 16, 2016 will go down in infamy as the day that a
humiliated United States lost any last vestige of respect and credibility in
the Middle East. As Charles Krauthammer wrote in the
Washington Post: “Iran shed almost four
decades of rogue-state status and was declared a citizen of good standing of
the international community, open to trade, investment and diplomacy…without
giving up, or even promising to change, its policy of subversion and aggression… without having forfeited its status as the world's greatest purveyor of
terrorism…Overnight, it went not just from pariah to player, but from pariah to
dominant regional power, flush with $100 billion in unfrozen assets and
virtually free of international sanctions…”
Not to mention the fact that Iran now has a clear pathway
to developing and stockpiling nuclear weapons within a few short years...or
much less if they cheat.
Are Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shiite Iran
on the Brink of War?
The execution of Saudi Shi'ite cleric Nimr
al-Baqer al-Nimr and the subsequent
attacks of Iranian rioters on the Saudi embassy in Tehran, and consulate in
Mashhad, caused unprecedented damage to the relations between the two
countries. Saudi Arabia cut off all diplomatic
relations with Iran, together with other
Arab-Muslim countries including Bahrain, Sudan, Somalia, Djibouti and the
Comoro Islands. The UAE lowered the status of its diplomatic relations and the
governments of Qatar and Kuwait recalled their ambassadors for consultation.
Jordan joined the protest against Iran, but retained diplomatic relations.
Iran threatened revenge and warned that the end of the
Saudi regime was close. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei threatened the Saudis with
"divine retribution" against the heads of the regime.
But is war eminent? It’s possible though most analysts
doubt it. One reason is that the Saudis and most Middle East countries believe
that because of the watered down conditions of the “Nuke Deal”, Iran is still in
the same the 2-6 week nuclear “breakout” stage it was this time last year.
That’s why Saudi Foreign Minister Adel
Al-Jubeir flew to Pakistan last week not only to get
assurances that the only Sunni Muslim nuclear country will provide assistance to repel Iranian aggression, but also possibly to get 2 or 3 off-the-shelf nukes.
Israel: Knife, gun and car ramming
terrorist attacks continue.
Despite the cold and wintry weather, in recent days there
has been an uptick of terrorist attacks against Israeli citizens and security
forces. Here are just a few:
- Two terrorists stabbed two women on Monday (1/25) afternoon at a grocery store in the settlement of Beit Horon in the West Bank. A security guard shot and killed both of the attackers.
- Security forces found three home-made bombs in the vicinity of the store, apparently planted there by the terrorists, and a bomb squad was called to the scene to neutralize them.
- The Shin Bet, in cooperation with the IDF, recently arrested 18-year-old Palestinian twin sisters Diana and Nadia Hawilah, following a search of their house that revealed weapons including pipe bombs, fertilizers used for making explosives, as well as a knife and Hamas headbands. According to the investigation, Diana bought the chemicals found in her home, watched online video tutorials to learn how to build explosive devices, and intended to use them against Israelis.
- A 13-year-old Palestinian girl tried to stab a civilian security guard at the entrance to the settlement of Anathoth in the West Bank's Binyamin region on Saturday morning. The security guard shot and killed her before she was able to hurt him.
There are politicians that argue that today the
world is a safer place. Like I said above…I’m just not buying
it!
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