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Titolo: Netanyahu's messianism could launch attack on Iran

A quanto pare non sono il solo a pensare che un attacco all'Iran è tra 
le non trascurabili possibilità dei prossimi mesi.
L'articolo ha il merito di analizzare la psicologia degli appartenenti a 
quella che definisco la Cupola "sionista".  L'organizzazione che finora 
ha potuto progettare indisturbata il futuro, o il non futuro, di Israele.
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Netanyahu's messianism could launch attack on Iran
By Sefi Rachlevsky
Benjamin Netanyahu promised to tell the truth at the United Nations, and 
the truth was indeed revealed. The prime minister chose in this speech 
to quote reverently from his meetings with one person only: the 
Lubavitcher Rebbe, who viewed himself as the messiah.
Neither the source nor the inflammatory quotation was coincidental. 
Netanyahu was intimately acquainted with the Rabbi King Messiah, and 
also with the views he expressed from on high. The rebbe's followers 
stood behind Netanyahu's victorious campaign in the 1996 election, which 
following the incitement-filled demonstrations and Yitzhak Rabin's 
assassination, with the slogan "Netanyahu is good for the Jews." And on 
Sunday, the prime minister's entourage was sent to genuflect at the 
rebbe's court.
The Lubavitcher Rebbe was famous for his vehement opposition to even the 
tiniest withdrawal from any territory ever held by the Israel Defense 
Forces, even in the framework of full peace. He even opposed withdrawing 
from territory on the other side of the Suez Canal. In his view, not one 
inch of the Holy Land could be given to the Arabs. He based this 
opposition on both security concerns - that missiles would be deployed 
on any vacated territory - and religious-historical arguments. Netanyahu 
reiterated both claims in his speech to the United Nations.
The most prominent emissaries of the Lubavitcher Rebbe - the great 
rabbi, as Netanyahu termed him at the United Nations - included Baruch 
Goldstein, perpetrator of the 1994 Hebron massacre, and Yitzhak 
Ginsburg, the rabbi of Yitzhar, he of the radical books "Baruch the Man" 
(which celebrates the massacre ) and "The King's Torah: The Laws of 
Killing Gentiles." Nor was this by chance. The Lubavitcher Rebbe 
inculcated his followers with the doctrine of "your people are the 
land's only nation": In the land of the messiah, there is no room for 
Arabs. Thus racism entered Netanyahu's speech at the United Nations - 
not "merely" against Islam, but also against Arabs: They, he said, are 
not like your neighbors in New York.
Relying on the Lubavitcher Rebbe and his teachings in a speech that was 
ostensibly in favor of a Palestinian state is like relying on a racist 
who fervently supports slavery in a speech that is ostensibly in favor 
of abolition, while also making abolition contingent upon conditions 
that will never be met. And thus, in a speech that warned about the 
danger of radical Islam, Netanyahu relied upon the most radically 
messianic Jewish theologian of our generation.
But Netanyahu, whose speech was steeped in religious extremism, 
surpasses even his rabbi. For all his hatred of Arabs, the Lubavitcher 
Rebbe never incited against Jews. Netanyahu - from the demonstrators 
chanting "with blood and fire we'll expel Rabin" through the whispers 
that "the left has forgotten what it is to be Jewish" to his links with 
the radical Im Tirtzu organization - has also engaged in domestic 
incitement.
The Quartet's plea that Netanyahu, of all people, should bring about a 
full withdrawal from the occupied territories and Arab East Jerusalem 
within a year is thus pathetic. It is like wishing that Michele Bachmann 
would turn America into a welfare state or that Eli Yishai, leader of 
the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, would separate religion and state.
Bill Clinton, someone with vast experience of Netanyahu, had it right: 
The man is not interested in peace and compromise. Netanyahu opposed 
peace with Egypt and the first Oslo accord. He led a campaign of 
incitement against the Oslo-2 agreement and then refused to implement 
it. Ariel Sharon, Rafael Eitan and then-Israel Defense Forces Chief of 
Staff Amnon Lipkin-Shahak were stunned by what they interpreted as his 
willingness to consider arming doomsday weapons in the face of Saddam 
Hussein's threats, and they worked to dissuade him. Netanyahu opposed 
the pullouts from Lebanon and Gaza, and not because he thought they 
should have been done by agreement. Nor did he respond to Mahmoud Abbas' 
moderation by taking advantage of the opportunity: Instead, he waged a 
campaign of incitement to preempt any chance of a deal and a withdrawal.
After all, he is the emissary of the Chabad messiah, the man who taught 
that this is the Jews' land exclusively. He returned from the United 
States with the feeling that the American government is a rag to wipe 
his feet on, with no power to stop his most extremist plans.
This is the background to what must become a global understanding of the 
issue that is now most important of all, which will also be the main 
topic of U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's visit. Netanyahu is 
completely serious in his desire, and also in his preparations to 
circumvent the warnings of the entire defense establishment in order to 
implement this desire, which many of those in his inner circle have 
defined as messianic: to attack Iran before winter. Before the clouds 
come, anyone who can stop him must do so.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/netanyahu-s-messianism-could-launch-attack-on-iran-1.386927
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 Lubavitcher Rebbe, who viewed himself as the messiah.
 
ah ecco. Adesso per fare tornare i conti, occorrerebbe trovare uno
scritto del Rebbe di Lubavitch in cui spinge alla guerra contro
l'Iran. Che altrimenti tocca prendere atto che era solo un rabbino
come tanti altri, particolarmente carismatico e capace di fare aprire
i cordoni della borsa a leader di ogni schieramento politico (incluso,
ma Persio non lo dice, Vlaidimir Putin).