Iran publishes book on how to outwit US and destroy Israel
By Amir Taheri
August 1, 2015 | 3:00pm
While Secretary of State John Kerry and President Obama do their best
to paper over the brutality of the Iranian regime and force through a
nuclear agreement,
Iran’s religious leader has another issue on his mind: The destruction of Israel.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has published a new book called “Palestine,” a
416-page screed against the Jewish state. A blurb on the back cover
credits Khamenei as “
The flagbearer of Jihad to liberate Jerusalem.”
A friend sent me a copy from Iran, the only place the book is
currently available, though an Arabic translation is promised soon.
Obama administration officials likely hope that no American even hears about it.
Khamenei makes his position clear from the start: Israel has no right to exist as a state.
He uses three words. One is “nabudi” which means “annihilation.” The
other is “imha” which means “fading out,” and, finally, there is “zaval”
meaning “effacement.”
Khamenei claims that his
strategy for the destruction of Israel is not based on anti-Semitism,
which he describes as a European phenomenon. His position is instead
based on “well-established Islamic principles.”
One such principle is that a land that falls under Muslim rule, even briefly, can never again be ceded to non-Muslims. What matters in Islam is ownership of a land’s government, even if the majority of inhabitants are non-Muslims.
Khomeinists are not alone in this belief.
Dozens of maps circulate in the Muslim world showing the extent of
Muslim territories lost to the Infidel that must be recovered.
These include large parts of
Russia and Europe, almost a third of China, the whole of India and parts
of The Philippines and Thailand.
However, according to Khamenei, Israel, which he labels as “adou” and
“doshman,” meaning “enemy” and “foe,” is a special case for three
reasons.
The first is that it is a loyal “ally of the American Great Satan” and a
key element in its “evil scheme” to dominate “the heartland of the
Ummah.”
The second reason is that Israel has waged war on Muslims on a number of
occasions, thus becoming “a hostile infidel,” or “kaffir al-harbi.”
Finally,
Israel is a special case because it occupies Jerusalem, which Khamenei describes as “
Islam’s third Holy City.”
He intimates that one of his “most cherished wishes” is to one day pray in Jerusalem.
Khamenei insists that he is not recommending “classical wars” to wipe
Israel off the map. Nor does he want to “massacre the Jews.” What he
recommends is a
long period of
low-intensity warfare designed to make life unpleasant if not impossible
for a majority of Israeli Jews so that they leave the country.
His calculation is based on the assumption that large numbers of
Israelis have double-nationality and would prefer emigration to the
United States and Europe to daily threats of death.
Khamenei makes no reference to Iran’s nuclear program. But the subtext
is that a nuclear-armed Iran would make Israel think twice before trying
to counter Khamenei’s strategy by taking military action against the
Islamic Republic.
In Khamenei’s analysis, once the cost of staying in Israel has become
too high for many Jews, Western powers, notably the US, which have
supported the Jewish state for decades, might decide that the cost of
doing so is higher than possible benefits.
Thanks to President Obama, the US has already distanced itself from Israel to a degree unimaginable a decade ago.
Khamenei counts on what he sees as “Israel fatigue.” The
international community would start looking for what he calls “a
practical and logical mechanism” to end the old conflict.
Khamenei’s “practical and logical mechanism” excludes the two-state formula in any form.
“The solution is a one-state formula,” he declares. That state, to be
called Palestine, would be under Muslim rule but would allow
non-Muslims, including some Israeli Jews who could prove “genuine roots”
in the region to stay as “protected minorities.”
Under Khamenei’s scheme, Israel, plus the West Bank and Gaza, would
revert to a United Nations mandate for a brief period during which a
referendum is held to create the new state of Palestine.
All Palestinians and their descendants, wherever they are, would be
able to vote, while Jews “who have come from other places” would be
excluded.
Khamenei does not mention any figures for possible voters in his dream
referendum. But studies by the Islamic Foreign Ministry in Tehran
suggest that at least eight million Palestinians across the globe would
be able to vote against 2.2 million Jews “acceptable” as future
second-class citizens of new Palestine. Thus, the “Supreme Guide” is
certain of the results of his proposed referendum.
He does not make clear whether the Kingdom of Jordan, which is
located in 80% of historic Palestine, would be included in his one-state
scheme. However, a majority of Jordanians are of Palestinian extraction
and would be able to vote in the referendum and, logically, become
citizens of the new Palestine.
Khamenei boasts about the success of his plans to make life impossible for Israelis through terror attacks from Lebanon and Gaza. His latest scheme is to recruit “fighters” in the West Bank to set up Hezbollah-style units.
“We have intervened in anti-Israel matters, and it brought victory in
the 33-day war by Hezbollah against Israel in 2006 and in the 22-day
war between Hamas and Israel in the Gaza Strip,” he boasts.
Khamenei describes Israel as
“a cancerous tumor” whose elimination would mean that “the West’s
hegemony and threats will be discredited” in the Middle East. In its
place, he boasts, “the hegemony of Iran will be promoted.”
Khamenei’s book also deals with the Holocaust which he regards either
as “a propaganda ploy” or a disputed claim. “If there was such a
thing,” he writes, “we don’t know why it happened and how.”
This is what Iran’s leaders are preaching to their people and their allies in the Middle East. Do we really want to give succor?
