Friday
Jun152012
Israel 1st-Hand: "Imagine if Iran Were in the West Bank!" (Walbridge)
Friday, June 15, 2012 at 8:00 | Scott Lucas in EA Iran, EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran
There is an obsession with Iran. A settler leader and aspiring right-wing Israeli politician (and former senior aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu) was explaining why a peace agreement giving the West Bank --- sorry, “Judea and Samaria” --- to the Palestinians would be militarily unacceptable. He took us to a settlement on the edge of the Samaritan hills and pointed to the towers of Tel Aviv on the horizon. “Imagine,” he said, “if Iran were here!” ”Iran!” I blurted out, my resolve to keep my mouth shut overwhelmed by surprise. “What’s Iran got to do with it?” He looked at me as if I was a child.