Comunicado del Asesor de Prensa del Primer Ministro
El PM Benjamin Netanyahu declaró, al finalizar la reunión de Gabinete de Seguridad, esta noche (martes, 11 de noviembre, 2014):
“Estamos en medio de una campaña de incitación y terrorismo dirigida contra el Estado de Israel y sus ciudadanos. Esta empresa continua desde la fundación del Estado e incluso antes. Derrocamos, hasta ahora, al terrorismo y lo venceremos, también, en estos momentos.
Hace un rato, convoqué al Gabinete de Seguridad y lo actualicé acerca de las decisiones que tomamos luego de consultas con las FDI, ISA y la Policía de Israel. Esos pasos incluyen una fuerza incrementada en todo el país a fin de reforzar la seguridad de cada uno de ustedes; los ciudadanos de Israel; la demolición de casas de terroristas; mano dura y castigos más severos a aquellos que arrojan piedras, botellas, bombas y fuegos artificiales; multas a los padres y a jóvenes que arrojan piedras; la ilegalización de los elementos que suscitan disturbios en Jerusalén; y otras medidas.
El terrorismo – que está siendo dirigido contra nosotros- no conoce límites. Intenta desarraigarnos de todas partes del país. Desde el punto de vista de los terroristas no necesitamos estar en Jerusalén, Tel Aviv, Gush Etzion o en otras partes.
No lo lograrán. Incluso el intento, por parte de elementos islámicos extremistas, para encender el terreno y causar una guerra religiosa no lo tendrá su recompensa. Estamos determinados en tomar toda acción posible contra la incitación y la escalada; enfrentaremos a los terroristas.
A mi pesar, Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) no es socio en este esfuerzo. Por el contrario, hoy, Abu Mazen probó, otra vez, que es irresponsable. En lugar de calmar la situación, la inflama. En lugar de decir la verdad, está diseminando mentiras o funciona con el objetivo de cambiar el status de los lugares sagrados. Esa es una gran mentira. En lugar de educar a su pueblo para la paz, Abu Mazen los está formando para el terrorismo. Lo triste es que la comunidad internacional, que corre a condenar cada balcón que construimos en nuestra ciudad capital, ignora esa salvaje incitación de Abu Mazen y, por tanto, lo alienta a continuar las acciones que pueden encender a todo el Medio Oriente.
Quisiera instar a los ciudadanos árabes de Israel: No se dejen llevar por la propaganda y la incitación. No se dejen llevar por una minoría inflamada. Son ciudadanos con iguales derechos e iguales obligaciones y, la primera obligación de todo ciudadano, es respetar la ley.
Ciudadanos de Israel;
Les prometo que tomaremos una acción determinada, responsable, equilibrada y exitosa contra el terrorismo y la incitación. Somos fuertes y decididos contra las olas de odio. Somos sensatos y tenemos profunda fe en la justicia de nuestra causa. Saldremos victoriosos, también, en esta batalla.
De parte de los ciudadanos de Israel, quisiera enviar condolencias a las familias de aquellos que fueron asesinados y mis mejores deseos de completa recuperación a los heridos. Este es el momento de unirse y estar juntos. Cuando más unidos y juntos estemos, más fuertes seremos”. Jerusalén, 11 de noviembre, 2014
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Iran’s Letter to Obama: Thanks for the Nukes!
November 16, 2014
NOAH BECK
Dear President Obama,
You’ve been a great friend for the last six years and, to express our appreciation, we’d like to acknowledge some of your many helpful actions:
1) In 2009, our presidential election results were so dubious that millions of brave, pro-democracy protesters risked their lives to demonstrate throughout our country. When our Basij paramilitary force brutalized them, you kept your response irrelevantly mild for the sake of “engaging” us. That surely helped Iranians understand the risks of protesting our “free” election of 2012 (involving our eight handpicked candidates). It was indeed a very orderly rubberstamp.
2) After eight years of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, we KNEW you’d fall for the smiles of his successor, President Hassan Rouhani! Human rights abuses have actually worsened under his rule and his polished charm only makes him better at duping the world into acquiescing to our nukes, so we LOVE how you’ve overlooked these facts.
3) You’ve been unilaterally weakening the sanctions against us by simply not enforcing them (which reassures us that you’re desperate to avoid any real confrontation).
4) You’ve threatened to thwart any Congressional attempt to limit your nuclear generosity by simply lifting sanctions without Congressional approval. Good stuff!
5) You isolated Israel on the issue of how close we are to a nuclear capability – we love how your estimates are so much laxer than theirs are!
6) The diplomatic snubs and betrayals of Israel by your Administration have been EPIC. We couldn’t have asked for more – from your humiliation of Prime Minister Netanyahu in 2010, to Secretary of State John Kerry’s betrayal of Israel during Operation Protective Edge, to calling Netanyahu a “chickenshit” a few weeks ago, without even apologizing later. We found it hilariously ironic that your Administration’s accusation of Israeli cowardice was made anonymously! And, FYI, Netanyahu is actually the only leader in the world with the guts to defy us, respond to Syrian border violations, enforce his own declared lines, etc., so we thought that this was particularly priceless.
7) Speaking of enforcing red lines, we LOVE how you backed off yours, after our Syrian buddy, Bashar Assad, used chemical weapons on his own people. That was a very helpful signal to everyone that we need not take your threats too seriously (contrary to those scary words you issued in 2012 about how stopping our nukes militarily was still an option, unlike containment, and how you don’t bluff). But we understood back then that you were trying to get re-elected, so we didn’t take it personally.
8 ) It was adorably naive of you (in 2011) to request so politely that we give back your drone that went down on Iranian soil. In fact, your request was so quaint that we couldn’t resist recently showcasing our knock-off based on that drone.
9) Fortunately, you don’t take our Supreme Leader Khamenei seriously when he tweets out his plan for destroying Israel (why let our true motives get in the way of a fantastic nuclear deal, right)?
10) We LOVE how you obsess over Israel building apartments in Jerusalem because it’s the perfect distraction from our deal.
11) You’ve been pressuring Israel to retreat from more disputed territory, effectively rewarding Palestinians for launching the third missile war against Israel from Gaza in five years last summer and, more recently, the third Intifidah inside Israel in 17 years. You’re almost as awesome as the European appeasers who think Palestinian bellicosity merits statehood!
12) It’s so cute of you to write us these letters asking for help against ISIS and showing us how desperately you want a nuclear deal. All we had to do was hint at an ISIS-for-nukes exchange and you got so excited!
13) You’re smart to go behind everyone’s backs when dealing with us. That’s a bummer that your top aide, Ben Rhodes, was caught saying how a nuclear accord with us is as important to you as “healthcare.” But we’ve got the perfect slogan to sell our deal to Americans: “If you like your nukes, you can keep them.”
14) What’s really awesome about the deal that we’re “negotiating” is that it allows us to continue nuclear enrichment but makes it even harder for Israel to take any military action against our nuclear program. And our agreement will give the press even more ammunition against such an attack. We already know about the world media’s anti-Israel bias – they can’t even get a simple story about vehicular terrorism against Israelis correct. Even we were surprised at how The Guardian writes accurate headlines when Canada suffers an Islamist car attack but not when Israel does. So if you accept our nukes and Israel then attacks them, the media will be even harsher on Israel (even though the world will be silently relieved, if Israeli courage succeeds at neutralizing what scared everyone else).
But we kind of feel sorry for you, because nobody takes you seriously and you’re a lame duck now. Putin is unabashedly conquering neighboring countries while going all Cold War on you with 40 provocative security incidents involving Western nations and Russian flights into the Gulf of Mexico (despite your promise of greater flexibility after your 2012 reelection). The North Koreans are closer than ever to building nuclear missiles. China is dangerously testing disputed borders with India, growing increasingly assertive in the contested Spratly archipelago, and stealing your sensitive defense and corporate data. Oh, and ISIS has grown into a veritable jihadi lovefest thanks to your excellent strategy against them.
Indeed, your foreign policy seems like a massive FAIL, but we’re super ready to help! Your trusted Russian friends have suggested continuing our nuclear talks past the November 24th deadline, and we’re totally down with more enrichment time (that’s another reason we’ve stonewalled the IAEA’s investigations into our nukes), so count us in on this extension like the one from last July (and any future ones). Hey, it’s good for you too: an extension (or agreement) looks so much better than calling out our manipulations and issuing more empty threats to stop us, right?
And after everyone sees the killer deal that you’re giving us, the world’s bad actors will line up to talk to you, with demands of their own that you can try to satisfy in the hope that they’ll stop opposing your national interests so much.
Overall, we appreciate you even more than we did President Carter, because getting nukes is WAY COOLER than holding 52 American diplomats and citizens hostage for 444 days.
With our deepest gratitude,
Your Friends in the Iranian Regime
p.s. We’re glad you didn’t take any personal offense when one of our officials used the N-word to describe you back in 2010. He actually has nothing but respect for you, as do we.
Noah Beck is the author of The Last Israelis, an apocalyptic novel about Iranian nukes and other geopolitical issues in the Middle East.