Today @netanyahu made an unprecedented offer to Iran that can help save countless lives.
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— Yanki farber (@Farberyanki) June 10, 2018
When Prime Minister Netanyahu made his YouTube video on June 10, offering to help the Iranians with their water problem, it was a masterstroke. For he accomplished several things at once.
First, he reminded the Iranians that Israel has no quarrel with them, but only with the noxious regime that has been engaged in expensive aggression abroad, not least against Israel: “The Iranian regime shouts: “Death to Israel!’ and in response, Israel shouts, ‘life to the Iranian people!'” Throughout his brief talk, he made sure to distinguish between “the Iranian people” and the cruel theocracy that rules them.
He spoke directly — and repeatedly — to the Iranian people, distinguishing between the malign government of Iran, and the people it brutalizes. This is how he put it:
“The Iranian people are the victims of a cruel and tyrannical regime that denies them vital water. Israel stands with the people of Iran, and that is why I want to save countless Iranian lives.”
Second, he had a legitimate reason to remind Iran and the world that Israel is a world leader in the use of water, from desalinization plants, to drip irrigation (which both irrigates and provides targeted nutrients to individual plants according to their monitored needs), to the recycling of waste water. Indeed, he began his talk by dramatically pouring and then drinking what one presumes was recycled water — for in Israel, as he noted, 90% of the water is recycled. If Israel can be of benefit in that area, in what other areas might the “Start-up Nation” possibly be of help? And what people, other than those in Iran, might benefit from Israeli expertise even if their governments remain resolutely anti-Israel?
Third, he reminded Iranians, and the world, that Iran’s water problem has become catastrophic. Netanyahu explained that Iran’s own meteorological organization has said that nearly 96% of Iran suffers from some level of drought. Having explained Israel’s achievements in water management, he offered: “Sadly, Iran bans Israelis from visiting — so we’ll have to get creative. We will launch a Farsi website with detailed plans on how Iranians can recycle their waste-water… We will show how Iranian farmers can save their crops and feed their families… The people of Iran are good and decent. They shouldn’t have to face such a cruel regime alone. We are with you, we will help so that millions of Iranians don’t have to suffer.”
“The hatred of Iran’s regime will not stop the respect and friendship between our two peoples,” concluded Netanyahu.
Fourth, in making his public offer, Netanyahu was encouraging Iranians to comprehend both the incompetence of their own regime, that has allowed the water problem to become a national scandal, by their own water experts’ admission causing 96 per cent of the country to suffer from some level of drought (a fact that the Iranian regime no doubt would have wished not to have publicized), and the malevolence of a regime so full of hate for Israel that it would rather reject aid of obvious benefit to its people than have any peaceful and cooperative dealings with the Jewish state — even if those dealings were limited to viewing a site where Iranians could learn about whatever it is that Israel’s water experts have to teach about recycling of waste-water.
Fifth, by letting the Iranians know that Israel had established a Farsi-language website that can directly provide know-how to them as to the best ways to conserve or use or recycle water, Netanyahu was letting them know how to bypass the Iranian government, speaking directly to people who, after all, have a great interest in, and need for, such waste-water management. And there is nothing the Iranian government can do to shut down that site, or prevent its citizens from visiting it.
Sixth, the offer seems already to have been taken up by many Iranians. In just the first five days it was online, Iranians racked up 5 million views of Netanyahu’s appearance, 1.6 million of which were on Netanyahu’s own social-media channels.
Even more significantly, nearly 100,000 Iranians joined the Israeli government’s Farsi-language Telegram account within 24 hours of the video going live.
What could the Iranian government do? It cannot “jam” YouTube the way the Soviets used to jam Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. Word spread throughout Iran about Netanyahu’s video, and the official media could not ignore it, so they did what they always do when Israel is involved: they denounced the offer. Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian told reporters that Iran was not in need of any external help to solve its water crisis, adding that “the prime minister of this regime [Israel] or anyone else who claims to have the ability to manage water resources is aware that Iran is a country that has a proven record going back thousands of years in the field.”
Actually, that statement is not entirely false. It is true that ancient Persia had a system of qanats — a network of vertical shafts into gently sloping tunnels that allowed water from aquifers to be used for irrigation and for drinking. But the Energy Minister was wrong to think that a system thousands of years old, however impressive it may once have been, is up to the task today; clearly, by the Iranian experts’ own admission, it has not, for almost all of Iran has suffered drought.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Barham Qassemi also attacked Netanyahu, saying that Tehran had no need for a “trickster” to solve its water-shortage problem. The word “trickster” must have rung hollow to Iranians: here was a world leader, the object of Iranian scorn, repeatedly offering help in water management through nothing more devious than a website that would share information.
Netanyahu’s offer appears to have been watched by millions of Iranians who have chosen to ignore their government’s malevolence. And while the Tehran regime rejected Israel’s offer, Iranian Internet users bravely leveled criticism at their own government.
One user commented, “We wish them [Israelis] death and they bless us with life. I am ashamed to be Iranian.”
Another posted: “God will bless Israel and Netanyahu. I’m sure that Iran and Israel will once again be allies.”
Every Iranian, city-dweller or farmer, who benefits from Israeli know-how in water management, will be that much more likely to feel, if he does not dare to express, similar sentiments. And there is nothing at all that the regime in Tehran can do about it.
john jansen says
amen
Elisha says
John 10:10. God bless.
mortimer says
Yes, Prime Minister Netanyahu is a masterful statesman.
He has said, ‘We have seen this before … the master race. Now we see the MASTER FAITH.’
The mullahs would rather let their people die in backward misery, than take up the offer of Israel to help the Persians live and prosper in the MODERN WORLD.
The contrast between the MALIGNANCY OF ISLAM and the COMPASSION OF JUDAISM could not be more apparent than now.
eduardo odraude says
Should not be ashamed to be Iranian. If any shame is warranted, it is about adhering to Islam. It is Islam that is holding back the Persians from living a normal, advanced, civilized life.
zaki says
And is homosexuality,pornography,gambling and drinking alcohol taking west forward???
Susan B is getting really mad@# says
Is rape and murder and cruelty taking islam forward???? The west is not perfect and we have been forced to kick God to the curb by the globalist, but we will find our way back because we have God. What does islam have but hatred and murder. I think I will trust God.
Ric says
Well stated, Susan B.: ironically, we in the West realize we have flaws. It is because of our introspection, the West evolved. Meanwhile, Islam has not evolved and never shall, until it looks inward.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Susan.
Petey says
You have a lot of nerve don’t you? as if your society is any better? You shamelessly molest little boys all over the middle east, muslims are causing a rape epidemic in Europe. Alcohol is verboten yet drugs are ok. Explain to me why any ranking of countries all have all 57 shitholistans at the bottom of the ranking (Unless of course its a bad list like wife beating) Then all 57 shitholistans are at the top. No your pathetic religion with your caveman prophet and thief for a god is the reason your societies are backward!!! Get Over yourself!
Cicero says
Plus. One
Peter Buckley says
Mullahs rule unsustainable.
Parts of Iran now becoming wastelands:
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12660/iran-khuzestan-paradise
Not long to go now……………..
Peter Buckley says
People really are not aware of how bad things are in Iran:
https://en.radiofarda.com/a/iran-protests-khuzestan-water-scarcity/29333200.html
Oneiria says
Thanks for uploading the article, Buckley. Eye-opening. There’s a blackout on Iran’s interior government health since the ayatollahs have tightened the purgatorial reins on Persia.
Westman says
The Iranian Mullahs are not known to be brightest bullbs. They probably will do something about it, like persecuting farmers who use Israeli instructions, until they totally destroy the support of the Iranian citizens. They only have expertise in using religion to control people for their own designs and profit.
The IRG was created to control the people and spread mischief in other nations to benefit the Mullahs and jihad. The mullah’s fatwas are a bit too convenient as Muhammad’s Aisha would likely recognize.
Ivan Bogdanov says
Speaking of light bulbs – the bulbs lighting Europe currently, particularly Merkel, May and the boy-toy Macron (his wife is 25 years his senior) and the new addition to the club (Canada’s man-child clown woman-groper Trudeau) – I suspect were all manufactured in the same Marxist factory.
Kepha says
The Iranian mullahs are not the brightest bulbs? Maybe so. However, I’m old enough to remember how, back when the Shah fell, they ran circles around the best and brightest in Washington, who were all bet-the-farm certain that the Tudeh/Communists would emerge victorious in the Iranian Revolution. The best and brightest Iranian students in the West thought so, too.
Rarely says
Isn’t Iran’s official position that Israel is stealing Iran’s rain & snow clouds thereby creating the problem in the first place? Very imaginative of them. Of course it takes one incredibly twisted brain to think that one up and an even more twisted brain to believe it.
Woody Allen and Mel Brooks together couldn’t have thought that one up.
Comics of the world beware!!! The great muslim thinkers are thinking.
Clive Stephen Delmonte says
“Israel is stealing Iran’s rain and snow clouds”. If only someone would tell me how Israel does that !
WPM says
To the Imams everything is a” Joo plot ” be it a crop failure, earth quake aids, wild animal attacks ,why my wife,s butt grew so fat and she gives meonly daughters! It is all connected to the “JOOS” some how ,that is why they lift their butts to the sky and curse them in pray 5 times a day to the great moon god allah .
R Russell says
If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat;
And if he is thirsty, give him water to drink;
For you will heap burning coals on his head,
And the Lord will reward you.
Proverbs 25 21-22
Cicero says
This particular foe does not know the terms gratitude and compassion.
They do not follow either the Golden Rule or the Rules of Engagement
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
And yet, we should not forget that 99% of Iranians are Mohammadan and therefore align themselves to an ideology that calls for the complete annihilation of Jews.
Susan B is getting really mad@# says
Falavius, Iranians, or rather Persians are trying to break free of the chains of islam and will succeed. I have claimed this for years the Persians are not mohammedan Arabs, they are an educated and civilized people with a proud and ancient culture, the opposite of mohammedans.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Zoroastrians are not only a very small minority in Iran, they are part of a waning religion worldwide. This is the Persia that you refer to as being ancient. There is no going back to it.
Over 99% of Iranians or Persians, as you call them, are Shia Mohammadans. (Let me remind you that in the history of Mohammadism non-ethnic-Arab Shia regimes have often been as horrific (or more so) than many Sunnah regimes. Our English word, “assassin” comes from a Persian/Syrian Shia sect.) The “Iranian people” might rebel and overthrow this regime but, guaranteed, the nation will revert back to a theocracy. That theocracy will be as bad or worse than this one.
The only alternative in a country that is 99% Mohammadan is a secular dictatorship. For reasons that are way too complicated to explain in a comment section, this would be impossibly difficult to implement in Iran. In other words, the Shah “ain’t comin’ back.”
Susan B is getting really mad@# says
Flavius, I have heard estimates that 80% of Iranians want to throw up islam. They have had to live under islamic law and that will cure any sane person of islam. By the way many are converting to Christianity and their lives are in grave danger because of this. There are many underground churches. This conversion is happening all over the islamic world, however, the reason I focus on Iran is because I believe Iranians will be the first to throw of their islamic theocracy. The rest will start to follow.
http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2017/august/Christianity-is-rapidly-growing-in-Iran.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6a8276VwCI
Rarely says
Where is M. Rove when needed?
gravenimage says
I *hope* that Iranians are poised to jettison Islam. But we have been hearing this for almost forty years now, and Iran is still a hideous Shari’ah state. I’d love to see this–but I also won’t be holding my breath.
gravenimage says
Yes, Rarely–I hope we hear from brave Iranian apostate from Islam miriam rove here.
Lydia Church says
Praise the Lord for that Susan!
: D
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“… have heard estimates that 80% of Iranians want to throw up islam.”
I’ll believe it when I see it.
The force of this ideology tends to go in the opposite direction. Take Spain (Iberian peninsula) as an example: it took only seven years for Mohammadism to conquer it. Then it took about eight hundred years to rid the peninsula of Mohammadism. That’s a ratio of over a hundred fold of effort to “de-Mohammadize” a region. That’s a huge effort. As well, Iran is sitting in the middle of a very Mohammadan region, so … not likely.
I think Iran is pretty much in the Dar al Islam for the duration. Rather than worry about Iran, I think we should concentrate on efforts to keep as much of the West out of the Dar al Islam as possible.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“What could the Iranian government do? It cannot “jam” YouTube the way the Soviets used to jam Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty.”
Sorry Hugh, if it’s got an IP address then it can be blocked (even with spoofing implemented). As a matter of fact, they can implement webcrawlers and have them scan for the Farsi language and keep an eye on anything on the web with that language on it.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
I stand corrected — and abashed. Thank you.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
I’m a tech nerd
… but in matters of history, geopolitics and Islam, I respectfully defer to your knowledge and experience.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Flavius and Hugh.
vlparker says
How Machiavellian of Netanyahu. First, he steals Iran’s rain clouds and then he offers them water. Brilliant.
6woods says
Yeah, you gotta hand it to those dastardly Joos!?
gravenimage says
Ha ha
Nor says
In a nutshell, this story demonstrates the contrast between “Western” Judeo Christian morals and Islamic mores. The Golden Rule vs. Islamic supremacism/ tribal religious arrogance and pride.
gravenimage says
“We wish them [Israelis] death and they bless us with life. I am ashamed to be Iranian.”
………………….
Kudos to this Iranian!
abu taleb says
“We wish them [Israelis] death and they bless us with life. I am ashamed to be Iranian.”
Any muslim should be ashamed to be a muslim, because of the same reason. For example, non muslims have helped the victims in Aceh tsunami in 2001, and now the muslims in Aceh are oppressing the non muslims (as well as other muslims) using the shariah law.
Or, the European countries have been helped the muslims “asylum seekers” and look what happened to those countries (Sweden, France, Germany, UK etc)
But still the muslims are not ashamed, in fact they are proud for what they have received and what they have done to those who have helped them.
somehistory says
An article in the NYT about the burning kites and balloons raining fire down on Israel said that Israel, unable to stop the arson attacks, are stopping all exports from Gaza and only allowing imports of “food, medicine, and humanitarian equipment.”
Hamas says this is a “crime against humanity,” and another terror group, Palestinian Islamic Jihad says it is a “declaration of war.”
Typical response from the terrorists.
J D S says
Cortez…Well said!
If only the Muslims could or would accept Jesus as the savior of the world..then they would have a life….here and in the hereafter..Not only Muslims but also the millions out there who just seem to be caught up in “the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes… Jesus wept and is still weeping!
Dennis says
Do we see a faint light of change in some parts of the dark world?
brane pilot says
Future conflicts will be like conflicts of the ancient past.
The enemy will be annihilated to the last man, woman and child by the victor.
Google ‘rome and carthage’ for an example.
It is not a moral issue.
Back then, civilizations lacked the resources for endless war lasting multiple generations.
They settled things, once and for all time.
The new found ‘morality’ is a luxury of modern, affluent societies.
It is temporary.
gravenimage says
No, civilized people do not do this. Are you confusing us with Muslims?
Greg Taylor says
The sword sang on the barren heath,
The sickle in the fruitful field;
The sword he sung a song of death,
But could not make the sickle yield.
William Blake