Attention: The Letters Editor,
Business Day.
Philip Lloyd’s letter of 27-3-2012 headed: Israel at fault, not Iran,” refers.
Lloyd complains that “fears of an Israeli attack on Iran … are sending oil prices unsustainably high” and he blames Israel for this. He justifies this attitude by listing Iranian compliance with the terms of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and agrees with its decision not to adhere to the amendments.
The United Nations and the rest of the world are of the opinion that Iran is racing to build an atomic bomb and consider this such a menace that they are doing everything in their power to force Iran to cease such development.
Lloyd is obviously not too worried about this bomb. He is only concerned about the hole that increased oil prices will make in his pocket.
I am sure that Israel sympathises with Lloyd but it has greater problems than the financial aspects. There are plenty of countries that have nuclear armament but none of them have ever threatened to “wipe another country off the map” as Iran has done.
So why should Israel feel targeted? The answer is overwhelming:
The President of Iran is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and he has been abusing and threateningIsrael for many years. In 2005 he said, quoting the Imam Khamenei,
“Israel should be wiped off the map.”
Just a slip of the tongue perhaps? Michael Axworthy, Britain’s consular officer in Teheran, testified that slogans draped over missiles in Iran’s military parades stated
“Israel must be wiped off the map.” Ahmadinejad’s own speech was peppered with
threats of “Death to Israel.”
In 2011 he likened Israel to “a cancer that spreads through the body, stating that
“This regime infects any region [and must therefore] be removed.”
There are about seven million people living in Israel of which 75.8% are Jews and the balance Arabs, Christians, Druze and other races. President Binyamin Netanyahu is responsible for each and every one of those men, women and children. I am sure that the “unsustainability of oil prices” is not his greatest worry when faced with a hate-filled lunatic armed with nuclear weapons.
He must act while there is still time.
Don Krausz
Media Team Israel 