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Wyobraź sobie Hitlera z bombami atomowymi; teraz wyobraź sobie irańskich mułłów z bombami atomowymi

Jul30

Irański reżim pospiesznie dąży do zdobycia broni jądrowej. Temu trzeba zapobiec. Iran już dostarcza rakiety balistyczne grupom terrorystycznym. Dlaczego nie miałby wyposażyć tych grup również w broń jądrową? (Źródło zdjęcia: iStock/Getty Images)

Wyobraź sobie Hitlera z bombami atomowymi; teraz wyobraź sobie irańskich mułłów z bombami atomowymi

Majid Rafizadeh
Tłumaczenie: Małgorzata Koraszewska

Reżim irański pospiesznie dąży do zdobycia broni jądrowej. Temu trzeba zapobiec. Reżim irański stanowi niebezpieczeństwo co najmniej tak samo groźne jak Hitler, gdyby posiadał taką broń. Biorąc pod uwagę ideologiczny ekstremizm irańskiego przywództwa, w połączeniu z jego strategicznymi ambicjami i regionalnymi wpływami, nie można przecenić potencjału regionalnej i globalnej niestabilności, która mogłaby z tego wyniknąć. Umożliwienie Iranowi zdobycia broni jądrowej po prostu zwiększy ryzyko wyścigu zbrojeń nuklearnych na Bliskim Wschodzie i niszczycielskich konfliktów globalnych.

W odróżnieniu od reżimu Hitlera, który był skoncentrowany na działaniach niemieckiego państwa, reżim irański preferuje działania pośrednie przy pomocy podmiotów niepaństwowych i grup bojówkarzy. Iran tworzy i utrzymuje milicje i grupy terrorystyczne w całym regionie bliskowschodnim i poza nim, by znacznie rozszerzyć zasięg swoich działań. Jego sieć pełnomocników i sojuszników najprawdopodobniej wykorzysta te zdolności nuklearne w asymetrycznej wojnie w imieniu Iranu. Przypuszczalnie po to, by móc ukrywać się za “wyglądającym wiarygodnie zaprzeczeniem” własnych zamiarów, reżim irański chętnie zaopatruje te zagraniczne milicje w zaawansowaną broń. Iran już zaopatruje grupy terrorystyczne – Hezbollah i Huti – w pociski balistyczne. Dlaczego nie miałby wyposażyć tych grup również w broń jądrową?

Reżim Iranu nie ukrywa swojego pragnienia unicestwienia Izraela (“Śmierć Izraelowi!”) w drodze do unicestwienia Stanów Zjednoczonych (“Śmierć Ameryce!“). Mułłowie niewątpliwie widzą Izrael jako przeszkodę do osiągnięcia tego celu.

Z perspektywy Iranu, Izrael, mniejszy od New Jersey, jest, jak powiedział były prezydent Iranu Akbar Haszemi Rafsandżani , krajem “jednej bomby”:

“Użycie nawet jednej bomby atomowej w Izraelu zmiecie go z powierzchni ziemi, ale [taka bomba] wyrządziłaby jedynie niewielkie szkody Światu Islamskiemu”.

Rozważmy scenariusz, w którym nie tylko państwa sojusznicze Iranu, ale także inni sojusznicy Iranu, tacy jak Wenezuela lub Kuba, są wyposażeni w broń jądrową.

Czy ktokolwiek wyobraża sobie, że gdyby Hamas dysponował bronią jądrową, kiedy wysłał “ogromną salwę rakiet” i wtargnął do Izraela 7 października 2023 r., to zawahałby się przed jej użyciem?

Rozprzestrzenianie broni jądrowej stwarza zagrożenie egzystencjalne nie tylko dla Izraela, ale oczywiście powoduje szerszy, bardziej nieprzewidywalny kryzys bezpieczeństwa globalnego.

Co więcej, w przeciwieństwie do Hitlera, reżim irański dysponuje zaawansowaną technologią pocisków balistycznych, zdolnych do precyzyjnego osiągania celów dalekiego zasięgu. 13 kwietnia Iran wystrzelił ponad 300 pocisków i dronów w kierunku Izraela. Irańskie pociski mogą wkrótce zostać wyposażone w głowice nuklearne, co umożliwi Iranowi dotarcie do dowolnego punktu na świecie – w Europie, Ameryce Łacińskiej lub Stanach Zjednoczonych.

Irański reżim, żarliwie oddany eksportowaniu swojej islamistycznej rewolucji, aby każdy mógł mieć udział w tym darze, dąży do ustanowienia jednej islamistycznej społeczności na całym świecie. “Będziemy eksportować naszą rewolucję na cały świat – oświadczył przywódca irańskiej rewolucji islamskiej z 1979 r., ajatollah Ruhollah Chomeini. – Dopóki okrzyk ‘Nie ma boga prócz Allaha’ nie będzie rozbrzmiewał na całym świecie, będzie [trwała] walka”; i “Ustanowienie Państwa Islamskiego na całym świecie należy do wielkich celów rewolucji”.

Konstytucja Iranu, określająca jego oddanie dla utrwalania rewolucji w kraju i za granicą, również uświęca tę misję. Stanowi ona:

“Zwracając należytą uwagę na islamską treść irańskiej rewolucji, która była ruchem mającym na celu triumf wszystkich mustad’affun nad mustakbirun, Konstytucja zapewnia niezbędną podstawę do zapewnienia kontynuacji rewolucji w kraju i za granicą. W szczególności, w rozwoju stosunków międzynarodowych, Konstytucja będzie dążyć wraz z innymi ruchami islamskimi i ludowymi do przygotowania drogi do utworzenia jednej światowej wspólnoty…”

Potrzebne są natychmiastowe działania, aby powstrzymać Iran przed zdobyciem broni jądrowej, nawet jeśli wymaga to prewencyjnych ataków na jego obiekty nuklearne i ośrodki badawcze. Jest to interwencja, która powinna była zostać podjęta wiele lat temu, ale została niestety udaremniona przez administrację Obamy. Wszelkie dalsze opóźnienia mogą prowadzić jedynie do katastrofalnych skutków dla stabilności międzynarodowej.

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My Son Was the First American Killed by Hamas

Jul30
My Son Was the First American Killed by Hamas


JOYCE BOIM

I’m here to make sure we take the fight against the terrorist organization seriously.

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A 2014 photo of the author holding up a photo of her son David Boim, who was murdered by Hamas terrorists at the age of 17 NIR ALON/ALAMY

The recent news that a group called American Muslims for Palestine was ordered by a Virginia court to provide financial documentation to state Attorney General Jason Miyares as part of an investigation into the group’s funding sources and allegations it may have used funds for “benefitting or providing support to terrorist organizations,” was another reminder of the need to shut down Hamas and its terror tentacles worldwide. But to me, the news hit particularly hard, because my son David Boim was the first American citizen killed by Hamas.

It was Monday, May 13 of 1996, and David was 17. Although he was born in New York, he was studying at a yeshiva in Israel, and, that fateful morning, he was standing at a bus stop with his friends, chatting happily as he waited for his ride back home to Jerusalem.

Tragically, Amjad Hinawi and Khalil Tawfiq Al-Sharif had other, evil plans. The two Hamas terrorists contemplated an attack on a nearby military base, but the sight of soldiers with guns made them lose heart. Better, they reasoned, to seek out more vulnerable targets. Driving around, they first shot at a bus, wounding two passengers. Then, they spotted the kids at the bus stop and opened fire.

David’s friend Yair Greenbaum was shot in the chest and later recovered. David wasn’t so lucky: He was struck in the head and was pronounced dead within the hour. Hinawi and Al-Sharif fled to the Palestinian Authority and remained committed to murder and terrorism. A year after he had murdered my son, Al-Sharif blew himself up on Jerusalem’s Ben Yehuda street, killing five and wounding 192 Israelis.

The same newspapers that minimized our suffering as understandable collateral damage today continue to draw false equivalences. The same so-called defenders of human rights extend sympathy to everyone but Jews.

Over the years since David was murdered, I have visited his grave hundreds of times. I told him about the lawsuit his father and I filed against American organizations we believed were fundraising fronts for Hamas. I shared with him the good news when we won that lawsuit in 2004 and were awarded a $156 million judgment. And I wept for him as the same organizations found guilty of providing material support to the terrorists quickly disbanded rather than comply with the court’s ruling. Then I was told that many of the same terrorism supporters went on to play very similar roles in very similar organizations, only with different names.

I’m not a lawyer and not a legal expert, but I know a mockery of justice when I see one, which is why my husband and I decided to file another lawsuit and insist that justice prevail.

But it’s not the legal proceedings I’ve been thinking about since Oct. 7. It’s not even hearing that some of the very same people who provided support to my son’s killers are now training young college students, not much older than David was when he was murdered, to once again hate and assault Jews. Rather, it’s that so little seems to have changed since my son was shot for no other reason than being Jewish. The same terrorists who helped plan my son’s execution are now overseeing the murder and kidnapping of other young Jews. The same newspapers that, back then, minimized our suffering as understandable collateral in a complicated conflict continue to draw false equivalences and refuse to condemn the murderers for what they are. The same so-called defenders of human rights and dignity seem to extend sympathy to all but the targeted Jews.

You’d think that all this causes me nothing but anguish. But that’s not the case.

When I lost David, I swore to myself that his death shall not be in vain. That even though I cannot bring him back to me, hold him once more in my arms, tell him again how proud I am of him and how much I love him, I can—and will—not only hold the perpetrators and their helpers accountable, but also continue to warn the world about what happens when we let evil men do evil things without standing up for what’s right.

And the horrors of Oct. 7 reminded me that my work here is far from done.

I will continue to do whatever I can to remind anyone listening that Hamas is a murderous terrorist organization, not a legitimate national or religious group; that it is still holding American citizens hostage; and that it continues to murder innocent Israelis and Americans, just as it murdered my boy. And I will continue to remind them, too, that the Hamas terrorists who pull the trigger and plan attacks, are aided by men and women all over the world who raise funds, spread propaganda, and take other similar actions to support the killers in their work.

My goal is as simple as it is sacred: to make sure no other mother ever goes through the same ordeal as me. I can think of no more worthy thing to do with my remaining years, and, since Oct. 7, as I watched protesters cheering for Hamas in American cities and colleges, my task, alas, has grown urgent.

Joyce Boim lost her son David to a Hamas terrorist attack in 1996.

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6 Israeli Foreign Minister Calls on NATO to Expel Turkey After Erdogan Threatens to Invade Israel

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Israeli Foreign Minister Calls on NATO to Expel Turkey After Erdogan Threatens to Invade Israel

Algemeiner Staff

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a joint statement to the media in Baghdad, Iraq, April 22, 2024. Photo: AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/Pool via REUTERS

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz on Monday urged NATO to expel Turkey after its President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made an explicit threat to invade Israel.

“In light of Turkish President Erdogan’s threats to invade Israel and his dangerous rhetoric, Foreign Minister Israel Katz instructed diplomats … to urgently engage with all NATO members, calling for the condemnation of Turkey and demanding its expulsion from the regional alliance,” the foreign ministry said, according to Reuters.

“Turkey, which hosts the Hamas headquarters responsible for terrorist attacks against Israel, has become a member of the Iranian axis of evil, alongside Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis in Yemen,” Katz said in the statement, listing Middle Eastern terrorist groups backed by Iran.

Erdogan, a fierce critic of Israel, on Sunday threatened that Turkey might invade the Jewish state in support of the Palestinians.

“We must be very strong so that Israel can’t do these things to Palestine,” Erdogan told a meeting of his Justice and Development Party (AKP) in his hometown of Rize, referring to Israel’s war against the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas in Gaza.

“Just as we entered Karabakh, just as we entered Libya, we might do the same to them,” Erdogan continued. “There is nothing we can’t do. We must only be strong.”

The Turkish president appeared to be referring to some of his country’s past military interventions.

In 2020, Turkey sent military personnel to support the UN-recognized Government of National Accord of Libya amid its civil war.

As for the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia, Turkey has denied any direct military involvement to help the former. Last year, however, Ankara said it was using “all means,” including military training, to support its Azerbaijani allies.

Turkey has the NATO alliance’s second largest military.

Beyond the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s statement, Katz responded with a veiled threat to Erdogan on X/Twitter.

“Erdogan follows in the footsteps of [longtime Iraqi leader] Saddam Hussein and threatens to attack Israel. Just let him remember what happened there and how it ended,” Katz wrote.

Hussein was captured, convicted of crimes against humanity, and executed by fellow Iraqis following the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.

While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has so far been silent on Erdogan’s latest attacks, Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has not.

“President Erdogan is ranting and raving again. He is a danger to the Middle East,” Lapid posted on social media. “The world, and especially NATO members, must strongly condemn his outrageous threats against Israel and force him to end his support for Hamas. We won’t accept threats from a wannabe dictator.”

Meanwhile, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan praised Erdogan for his remarks on social media.

“Our president has become the voice of humanity’s conscience,” Fidan tweeted. “International Zionist circles, especially Israel, who want to suppress this righteous voice, are in great alarm. History ended the same way for all genociders and their supporters.” (1)

Hours after Erdogan’s threat, Turkey’s Foreign Ministry compared Netanyahu to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

“Just as genocidal Hitler ended, so will genocidal Netanyahu,” the foreign ministry posted on X/Twitter. “Just as the genocidal Nazis were held accountable, those who tried to destroy the Palestinians will also be held accountable. Humanity will stand with the Palestinians. You will not destroy the Palestinians.” (2)

Drawing comparisons of Israeli policy to that of the Nazis is antisemitic, according to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, which has been adopted by over 1,000 global entities including dozens of governments.

The Turkish government’s comments were the latest in a recent wave of hostile moves targeting Israel.

In May, for example, the Turkish trade ministry said it had ceased all exports and imports to and from Israel. The announcement came after Turkey imposed trade restrictions on Israeli exports over Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza following the terrorist group’s Oct. 7 invasion of and massacre across the southern region of the Jewish state.

Meanwhile, Turkey has also announced its intention to join South Africa’s so-far-unsuccessful case at the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of committing “state-led genocide” in its defensive military operations in Gaza.

That came after Erdogan in March threatened to “send Netanyahu to Allah to take care of him, make him miserable, and curse him.” He previously accused Israel of operating “Nazi” concentration camps and compared Netanyahu with Hitler.

Weeks earlier, Erdogan said that Netanyahu was a “butcher” who would be tried as a “war criminal” over Israel’s military operations in Gaza. He has also called Israel a “terror state.”

Turkey hosts senior Hamas officials and, together with Iran and Qatar, has provided a large portion of the Palestinian terrorist group’s budget.

Several Western and Arab states designate Hamas, an offshoot of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, as a terrorist group.

However, Erdogan has defended Hamas terrorists as “resistance fighters” against what he described as an Israeli occupation of Palestinian land.

Israel withdrew all its troops and civilian settlers from Gaza in 2005.

Turkish-Israeli diplomatic relations have nosedived since the Hamas atrocities of Oct. 7, when the terrorist group that rules Gaza murdered 1,200 people in southern Israel and kidnapped over 250 others as hostages, launching the ongoing war in the Palestinian enclave.

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