Iran Might Not be a Stabilizing Force in the Middle East After All
Yesterday we passed on an article describing how state of the art night vision equipment went from British companies to UN equipment warehouses to Hezbollah field operatives - who then used them to monitor Israeli movements, kidnap Israeli soldiers, and launch a war of indiscriminate civilian bombing against the Israeli people. Turns out, Iran had a lot to do with it:
Israeli officials say they believe the state-of-the-art equipment, found in Hezbollah command-and-control headquarters in southern Lebanon during the just-concluded war, was part of a British government-approved shipment of 250 pieces of night-vision equipment sent to Iran in 2003... "These are tactical night-vision systems ... given to Hezbollah by Iran. The Iranians are the 100 percent provider of all the materiel, especially intelligence materiel, to Hezbollah," Radowicz said.
And now, let us take you back less than a month ago, to the insanely stupid but ideologically revelatory opinion of the highest ranking French diplomat on the planet:
French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy says Tehran is a significant, respected player in the Middle East – 'a great country, a great people and a great civilization'. Iran is a significant, respected player in the Middle East which is playing a stabilizing role, French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said on Monday. "It was clear that we could never accept a destabilization of Lebanon, which could lead to a destabilization of the region," Douste-Blazy said in Beirut. "In the region there is of course a country such as Iran – a great country, a great people and a great civilization which is respected and which plays a stabilizing role in the region," he told a news conference.
Apparently, "giving weapons to proxy armies so they can start wars" is now the same thing as "stabilizing". And remember - when we're discussing the makeup of the new UN peacekeeping force, people are actually begging France to add more troops so they can trade off with the Muslim troops from countries that don't even recognize the right of Jews to live in Israel! That's how bad things have gotten: Israel and its allies beg for protection from countries that praise people who are trying to wipe out Israel because the alternative is to beg for protection from the people who are actively trying to wipe out Israel.
Israeli officials say they believe the state-of-the-art equipment, found in Hezbollah command-and-control headquarters in southern Lebanon during the just-concluded war, was part of a British government-approved shipment of 250 pieces of night-vision equipment sent to Iran in 2003... "These are tactical night-vision systems ... given to Hezbollah by Iran. The Iranians are the 100 percent provider of all the materiel, especially intelligence materiel, to Hezbollah," Radowicz said.
And now, let us take you back less than a month ago, to the insanely stupid but ideologically revelatory opinion of the highest ranking French diplomat on the planet:
French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy says Tehran is a significant, respected player in the Middle East – 'a great country, a great people and a great civilization'. Iran is a significant, respected player in the Middle East which is playing a stabilizing role, French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said on Monday. "It was clear that we could never accept a destabilization of Lebanon, which could lead to a destabilization of the region," Douste-Blazy said in Beirut. "In the region there is of course a country such as Iran – a great country, a great people and a great civilization which is respected and which plays a stabilizing role in the region," he told a news conference.
Apparently, "giving weapons to proxy armies so they can start wars" is now the same thing as "stabilizing". And remember - when we're discussing the makeup of the new UN peacekeeping force, people are actually begging France to add more troops so they can trade off with the Muslim troops from countries that don't even recognize the right of Jews to live in Israel! That's how bad things have gotten: Israel and its allies beg for protection from countries that praise people who are trying to wipe out Israel because the alternative is to beg for protection from the people who are actively trying to wipe out Israel.
