Israel Hayom..
20 July '12..
Wednesday’s suicide bombing in Bulgaria may have been a startling reminder that Jews are not safe in the world today, but it did not come as a surprise to anyone involved in intelligence, espionage and counterterrorism. That such acts of targeted, cold-blooded killing have not been carried out on a daily basis, as they were during the Second Intifada, is due to the incredibly heroic work of our security services, not to a weakening of the will or means of our enemies.
Nor was it accidental that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu immediately responded by pointing the finger at Iran and its chief proxy, Hezbollah. Whatever spin analysts have been trying to put on Netanyahu’s blatant and authoritative accusation, made before all the forensic facts were in, anyone paying the slightest bit of attention knows that there is a global war going on between the East and the West — with the former fast and furiously building a nuclear weapons arsenal that could blitz the latter if not into oblivion, then at least into submission.
It is being said by pundits that the purpose of Netanyahu’s statement about Israel’s not being the only entity in danger from the Iranian threat was to prepare the ground for a possible joint military operation against the Islamic republic’s nuclear facilities. This is doubtful.
In the first place, Netanyahu had trouble this week even keeping his own coalition intact. Indeed, the short-lived merger with the Kadima party fell apart over the issue of drafting the ultra-Orthodox into the army. So it is not likely that the prime minister would be able to make out any better with outside elements, particularly not those “allies” who continue to conduct pointless, fruitless — and therefore dangerous — “dialogues” with Tehran, while it marches full speed ahead with its centrifuge perfection and uranium enrichment.
Secondly, even if he could trust the Obama administration’s assertions that the U.S. would not allow the Iranians to stall indefinitely, Netanyahu has pressing problems that go far beyond an election campaign. These include Syria, on Israel’s northern border, and Egypt, to the south — not to mention the need to step up security for El Al and other airlines that fly to and from Israel.
While U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is busy making speeches about Middle East strife, Netanyahu is the only free world leader actually sitting on the front lines of each country in the region engaged in internecine battles between Jack the Ripper and the Boston Strangler. (This makes choosing sides a tad trickier than Clinton would have Americans believe, especially when she has just over three months to sway their ballots in her boss’s favor.)
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