ONCE THE DUST SETTLES . . . IRAN WILL BE ON TOP & TRUMP WILL BE GONE:
No One Knows Who Will Be Leading America In About Three Years From Now, Other Than It Won’t Be Donald Trump. We Don’t Even Know who will be Leading Iran in the Next Three Years, But If I Have To Guess . . . It Still Will Be The Ayatollahs & The IRGC.
So any Deal Trump Makes Today with the Ayatollahs and the IRGC is a Deal that Only Has to Outlast the Current Presidency.
In Arabic – A Hudna Is Strictly A Strategic Pause In Fighting, To Rearm & Re-Organize.
I HOPE THE THEME OF THIS EDITORIAL IS WRONG:
Trump Wants The World To Believe He Is Getting A Peace Agreement With Iran –The Iranians Know they are Getting a Hudna with Trump, which will Enable Iran to Get Back to Business as Usual, as soon as they Deem the Time to be Right, And Even More-So . . . as the Country in the Middle East that Survived the Worse America Threw at them . . .Without Bending A Knee – The Bigger The Myth Of Iran Will Grow.
TRUMP BRAGGED – “NETANYAHU WILL DO WHATEVER I WANT HIM TO DO”
If That’s True, Which I Suspect It Might Be . . . Whose Fault Is This Incredible Mess?
If Trump Was Calling All The Shots As Trump Alluded . . . and Netanyahu was Trump’s Bumboy, who Wasn’t even Privy to the Negotiations Responsible for Whatever Forthcoming Agreement Witkoff & Kushner are Fabricating with Pakistan (A Sworn Enemy Of Israel) and Iran – The Results . . . Good, Bad Or Ugly . . . They Are All On Trump.
But Who Knows . . . Maybe The Trump/Netanyahu Dust-Up Is Just Wartime Deception.
WANT A LITTLE CINÉMA VERITÉ?
In The First Episode Of Rocky . . . Rocky Balboa (The Italian Stallion) was Expected to Take a Pounding at the Hands of the World Heavy-Weight Boxing Champion Apollo Creed, Which Is What Happened . . . But What Didn’t Happen . . . Rocky Never Took a Knee – And Went The Full 15-Rounds Bloodied & Broken.
At The End Of The Fight, Apollo Creed Came-Out on Top in a Split Decision, But Rocky Balboa . . . Was Without Question The Ultimate Winner, Just For Finishing The Fight.
Why Am I Telling You About A Make-Believe Fight In A Movie Made Many Years Ago?
THE MOVIE WAS FICTION . . . BUT REAL LIFE IS NOT:
In The Persian, Arab & Moslem World . . . Perception Is Everything.
That Iran Stood its Ground Against the Big Satan (America) and the Little Satan (Israel), as Iran Fought-Back Against America, Israel and all of Iran’s Gulf State Neighbors with Missile & Drones, While Iran Crippled World Commerce by Closing the Strait of Hormuz – Said Everything.
REALITY DOESN’T MATTER . . . WHEN PERCEPTION BECOMES REALITY:
Trump Has Been Claiming For Months How Iran Is Dying To Make A Deal – So Where’s The Deal?
Trump Repeatedly Made-It Clear . . . No Nukes or Nuclear Program for Iran, and No Enriched Uranian (Nuclear Dust), Which Shouldn’t Even Exist In Iran. But if Trump’s Claim that America Obliterated Iran’s Entire Nuclear Program through His B2 Bombings . . . I Don’t See The Big Deal . . . Unless The Claim Just Isn’t True.
Trump Demanded Regime Change, Promising the Iranian People that Help was on the Way, Until . . . “Acceptable” Regime Change Became One Bad Iranian Actor, Changed for an Even Worse Iranian Actor, which seems to be the Case.
Trump Insisted On No Iranian Missile Manufacturing, Until all of a Sudden, Iranian Missiles Don’t Seem to be all that Important Any-More.
Trump Made It Clear . . . No Iranian Financing of Proxy Terror Groups, which Seems to Indicate that Israel Had to Stand-Down to Iran’s Proxy Terrorists (Hamas & Hezbollah) . . . Opposed To Taking-On Iran’s Proxy Terrorists, which Now seems to be OK if Israel Fights Back, even in Lebanon.
But Who Knows, Because The Deal Continues To Change.
And Not Necessarily Final . . . But Now – at the Top of Trump’s Hit-Parade – No Iranian Closure of the Strait of Hormuz, which seems to be the Most Important Condition Towards a Peace Agreement Next to No More Nukes.
THROW THE FIRST PUNCH . . . DO NOT EXPECT NOT TO GET PUNCHED BACK:
Trump Got Into The Fight, And According To Trump . . . That Was His Decision, Not Netanyahu’s.
THE DAY HASN’T GONE BY SINCE 1948, WHEN ISRAEL WASN’T UNDER ATTACK:
Israel Does Not Have The Luxury To Punch & Run. Israel Has Fought Life & Death Wars Against Huge Odds, from the Day the United Nations Declared the Rebirth of the Jewish State in 1948 . . . When Losing Any Of Those Wars Would Have Meant Armageddon For The Jewish State.
Every Israeli Lost Someone Close To Them In Battle Defending The Jewish State.
Every Jewish Israeli Family Has Had to Sit Shivah to Mourn their Dead, who Either Died in Battle, or was Murdered by Arab Terrorists . . . Israelis Know The Torture Of Battle, And Don’t Take War Lightly.
When The Israelis Made The Decision To Attack Iran Alongside America, they Knew that it Should Have Been for the Long-Haul Until the Iranian Regime as it is Could No Longer Stand . . . But After just a Couple of Weeks of Bombing, Trump Decided it was Enough . . . ORDERING Israel To Cease & Desist, While Israel Was Still Fighting Iran’s Proxies In Gaza & Lebanon.
And Now . . . Israel, which was Critical in Fighting Beside America, Has To Stand-By Watching, as Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia & Egypt, Along with Wittkof & Kirshner – Decide The Fate Of Israel’s Middle East.
Like I Said In The Preceding . . . I Hope It Is All An American/Israeli Ruse.
A LEOPARD CANNOT CHANGE ITS SPOTS . . . AND NEITHER CAN IRAN:
In This Case . . . A Bad Deal is Far Worse for the Entire Middle East and the Rest of the World than No Deal. Until Regime Change – Iran will Remain Being the Leopard, whose Spots will Never Change.
If You’re Not Prepared To Stick Around For The Complete Fight – Don’t Throw The First Punch.
Best Regards . . . Howard Galganov
One Comment
Trump is concerned about his legacy. His name goes on everything from the Kennedy Center to an airport in Florida. However, if he does not finish what he started in Iran and in Gaza, his legacy will be TACO, the man who can’t finish what he started. The Israelis, Iranians, and even the Gazans will remember the tragic situation that he will leave them in. If he doesn’t finish off the IRGC, Hamas, and Hezbollah, his name will be like mud.