This story in the Washington Post is revealing. America is essentially saying it has no issue with Israel bombing Iran and it can’t stop her, anyway. Who the hell runs the show over there?
Two weeks before President Obama visited China, two senior White House officials traveled to Beijing on a “special mission” to try to persuade China to pressure Iran to give up its alleged nuclear weapons program.
If Beijing did not help the United States on this issue, the consequences could be severe, the visitors, Dennis Ross and Jeffrey Bader, both senior officials in the National Security Council, informed the Chinese.
The Chinese were told that Israel regards Iran’s nuclear program as an “existential issue and that countries that have an existential issue don’t listen to other countries,” according to a senior administration official. The implication was clear: Israel could bomb Iran, leading to a crisis in the Persian Gulf region and almost inevitably problems over the very oil China needs to fuel its economic juggernaut, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
“existential issue and that countries that have an existential issue don’t listen to other countries,”
Kierkegaard’’s existential crisis was the mind-bending crap that is Christianity.
The existential crisis of Israel and its camp followers is not Iran but the mind-bending crap that is Zionism.
What Israel needs is not bombs but the collective psychiatrist’s couch. The sooner is this psychosis eradicated the better for all of us.
“countries that have an existential issue don’t listen to other countries”
I’ll bet they would listen if NOT listening became an existential issue.
Israel is the existential destroyer of Palestine when it ethnically cleansed a majority of the Palestinians and wiped Palestine off the map. Israel is the existential threat to the 22% remnants of Palestine that it forcibly occupies and colonises.
Israel is the existential threat to Lebanon by repeatedly invading and bombing Lebanon back to Stone Age, and continuing to occupy Lebanese territory.
Israel is the major threat to Syria by continuing to occupy Syrian territory and bombing Syrian facilities at will.
Israel is the major threat to Iran by continuously threatening to bomb Iran even as Iran is surrounded by hostile US troops on both its western border (Iraq), and eastern border (Afghanistan).
Israel is the existential threat to the Middle East through its many wars of conquest and aggression and its arsenal of nuclear weapons.