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Iran publishes book on how to outwit US and destroy Israel

2015-08-05

[NYPost] While Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
and President B.O. 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 "Paleostine," 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.

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 Moslem rule, even briefly, can never again be ceded to non-Moslems. What matters in Islam is ownership of a land's government, even if the majority of inhabitants are non-Moslems.

However,
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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 Moslems 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."

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 thon the lam 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 Theocratic 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 B.O., 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.