Danny Dayan, a leader of Israel’s settler movement, described the new Iranian charm offensive as “a theater of lies and deception.” Ronald Reagan repeatedly used the Russian proverb, "doveryai no proveryai." You probably guessed that the proverb translates as “trust, but verify.”
But there can be no trust when Hassan Rouhani insists, as he did before the U.N. General Assembly, that his nation is only developing nuclear materials for peaceful purposes and that Iran has no intention of acquiring any nuclear weapons. Rouhani’s address truly was a theater of lies and deception.
I am reminded of other theaters of lies and deception in modern times:
__In 1938, Hitler promised British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that if Britain allowed Nazi Germany to take over the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia, it would be the final territory that he wanted and that peace would be maintained in Europe. Chamberlain returned home, waved the written agreement in the air while declaring "Peace in our time." One year later, Germany invaded Poland and WWII began.
__On December 7, 1941, at the very moment Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, a delegation of Japanese diplomats was in our county negotiating a peace treaty between the United States and the Empire of the Sun.
__Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has repeatedly assured the international community that he favors a two state solution to resolve the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. He always spoke in English when making those promises. However, he has also repeatedly vowed, while speaking in Arabic, that there will be only one state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, a Palestinian state, not a Jewish one.
In a meeting between the two on Monday, Obama told Netanyahu that Iran had to prove its sincerity with actions. We shall see.
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They will play us just like North Korea did. How well did that work out? We need somebody in charge who doesn't believe it is raining when people come in and piss on his shoes. We don't have that now.
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