A curious sense of priority
The Guardian was wetting itself this morning over its ‘exclusive’ that
The Foreign Office successfully fought to keep secret any mention of Israel contained on the first draft of the controversial, now discredited Iraq weapons dossier.This ‘mention of Israel’ consisted of the single word ‘Israel’ which was
written in the margin by someone commenting on the opening paragraph of the Williams draft. It was written against the claim that ‘no other country [apart from Iraq] has flouted the United Nations’ authority so brazenly in pursuit of weapons of mass destruction’. In statement to the tribunal, Neil Wigan, head of the FO's Arab, Israel and North Africa Group, said he did not know who had referred to Israel in the margin. He went on: ‘I interpret this note to indicate that the person who wrote it believes that Israel has flouted the United Nations' authority in a manner similar to that of the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein.’The FO was worried that the revelation of this annotation would cause a crisis in relations with Israel which would take it as further evidence of FO bias against Israel. The Guardian, it is safe to assume, takes the contrary view that the annotation proves that an inconvenient truth about Israel was covered up: that truth being that Israel had ‘flouted the United Nations’ authority so brazenly in pursuit of weapons of mass destruction’. But that is not so. For twelve years, Iraq flouted UN resolutions instructing it to stop production of its nuclear weapons programme and to prove it had done so, as the condition for the ceasefire of the 1991 war. The only thing the UN asked Israel to do about its own nuclear programme was to open it up to IAEA inspection (which it refused to do). To say that it therefore Israel had ‘flouted the United Nations' authority in a manner similar to that of the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein’ is absurd and odious. What this annotation merely shows is that someone inside the Foreign Office had a venomously distorted opinion of Israel. Big deal.
Now look at what neither the Guardian nor any other part of the British media has considered interesting or important enough to report. Iran’s President Ahmadinejad has in recent days called Israel a
‘filthy bacteria’
and also declared that
World powers have created a black and dirty microbe named the Zionist regime and have unleashed it like a savage animal on the nations of the region.’In addition, the leader of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps, Muhammad Ali Jafari, has written to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah:
The cancerous growth Israel will soon disappear... I am convinced that with every passing day Hizbullah's might is increasing and in the near future, we will witness the disappearance of this cancerous growth Israel by means of the Hizbullah fighters' radiation [therapy].Not to be outdone, Iranian Armed Forces chief Maj.-Gen. Hassan Firouzabadi also wrote to Nasrallah saying that
Lebanese and Palestinian combatants... [will] continue the struggle until the complete destruction of the Zionist regime and the liberation of the entire land of Palestine.
while Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Hadad has warned
that thecountdown to Israel's destruction has begun.This repeated announcement of Iran’s impending annihilation of Israel, which has reached a crescendo since the killing of the Hezbollah arch-terrorist Imad Mughniyeh in Damascus, has not been reported at all by the British media. From the way Iran has behaved in the past, it will almost certainly seek to take revenge for such a blow by attempting to murder Jews around the world – and it will use Hezbollah to do it. A propos of which, here is another story that the British media has totally ignored, published in Italy’s Libero on January 31. The French security service in Paris intercepted what appears to have been a Hezbollah plot to kidnap major figures in France, Germany, Italy and Britain. The police broke into an apartment in Paris and seized six Arabs, including two Lebanese and one Syrian who held diplomatic passports.
The agents proceeded to seize several documents and opened a diplomatic bag containing tourist maps of Paris, London, Madrid, Berlin, and Rome, with red highlighter marks showing routes, addresses, car parks, and ‘truck stopping points’ ...which seems to connect with the very confidential information that reached the DGSE from Beirut last week.
It said that Hasan al-Nasrallah, leader of the pro-Iranian Hizballah -- whose slogan is ‘we love death as much as Westerners love life’ -- convened a meeting of members of the Hizballah militias at a secret location in Lebanon, ordering them to activate all their cells in Europe to organize kidnappings of major figures.
Hasan al-Nasrallah is a not insignificant leader. He is the ‘spiritual son’ of Hasan al-Masri, very powerful leader of the Shiite Amal movement, which during the years of the Lebanese civil war kidnapped dozens of Western citizens, including numerous Frenchmen, a bishop of the Anglican Church, Rev Terry Waite, and an Italian, Alberto Molinari, who worked for Ferrero. DGSE agents are very well acquainted with al-Nasrallah and do not underestimate the danger posed by Hizballah, which has a logistical support network in all the European capitals. The British, Spanish, German, and Italian secret services have been notified.
So here we have Iran, using Nazi-style language to repeat in hysterical terms its genocidal intention to wipe Israel off the map, having activated its undoubtedly numerous Hezbollah cells in European countries in order to kidnap major figures in Britain and elsewhere as part of its open war against the west – and the British media reports not a word of any of it, hyping up instead some piece of venom against Israel. And they call this journalism.