Israel & Iran: New News
February 9th 2010
Over the last number of days, both Israel and Iran have announced significant items of news. In Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced his country will begin enriching uranium in open defiance of a UN ban, up to a level of 20% enriched. He also signified the February 3rd inauguration of production lines for “advanced drones capable of precision bombing” in the Iranian military. However the announcement couldn’t be complete without his traditional exclamation of Israel’s elimination being “imminent.”And the news from Israel? Sending stock prices soaring, and watering the mouths of venture capitalists / entrepreneurs worldwide, Israeli businessman Shai Agassi announced Sunday, plans for his company, Better Place, to release a country-wide electric car grid system in Israel, equipped with over 100 charging stations spread throughout the country. “Israel has taken on the problem (of oil dependency) and has decided independently to solve this for the entire world,” he said.
Better Place recharge pump
It continues to amaze me that while Israel, at its own will, takes world problems head-on, and is continuously looking at life in the framework of its future generations, building, improving, inventing, and solving, all toward a goal that can only practically be referred to as ‘a perfect world’ - its enemies continue to press onward in the many-century old religiously-driven fanatic crusade bent on destroying its existence.
How many field hospitals did Iran send to and manage in Haiti after its recent paralyzing earthquake? How many babies did Iranian doctors deliver in those field hospitals? And how many policemen and other security force agents did Iran send to Haiti to help keep peace & order during the aftermath of the disaster? The answers are 0, 0, and 0. Israel, on the other hand, set up the most advanced field hospital in Haiti, and delivered more than 7 babies, amongst performing many other types of specialized, critical surgery, on-site, while involved in round-the-clock search & rescue missions. Israel sent a taskforce of 210, compared with China’s 60 - not including the security personnel Israel sent after the initial days of the disaster.
Yet, the world continues to sit by idly, waiting for World War III to erupt in the Middle East, re: the Iranian nuclear crisis. If the US really wanted this problem solved, it could have been solved literally years ago, and would have disappeared from news headlines. But instead, in actuality, absolutely not a single thing has been done. Either world leaders are the most incapable people of implementing things they want accomplished, OR, they simply don’t really care about the outcome of this situation (not super wise for a world leader). Iran continues to fund and train terrorist organizations based primarily on Israel’s borders, but also throughout Africa, and other parts of the world, virtually without resistance. In fact, they actually receive quite a lot of funding from the Western world, via wonderful organizations such as the United Nations and The International Red Cross.
I was trying to wrap my head around how long this crisis has been going on without a single change in course. I took a quick scan at this very blog’s old posts, and I see that on November 28, 2008 I wrote an article emphasizing the importance of this crisis, stressing that something be done about it, and ASAP. It is now February 9, 2010, and can anyone tell me what has changed, aside from the larger # of enriched uranium centrifuges now in Iran’s possession + the many months they have had to further develop their missile delivery systems?
My true fear is one day sitting at my computer, writing the “I told you so” blog, after Iran announces its fully capable, deliverable nuclear warhead, and shocks the world by revealing its nuclear program actually WASN’T for nuclear power all along (gasp!). Only, that “I told you so” will be a bitter one, and not a ‘haha’ one, as I live just a short 1,000 miles from Tehran, and under 100 from its puppet terrorist organizations, Hizballah (to my North) and Hamas (to my South)… yeah, that’s gonna suck.
Why can’t someone just tell Iran to chill the chill out? Maybe if someone hooked them up with a cappuccino machine and XBox 360, they’d see there is more to life than trying to ruin everyone else’s short time on this earth. Leave us be, yo, we’re busy perfecting the world, and spending time with our families and friends! Get a life (preferably one that has nothing to do with us)!