[The medieval wag] Juha was sitting on his doorstep as people were coming and going before him, and he became bored. He decided to have some fun, so he shouted out to some of the passers-by to hurry, because there was a wedding party and big banquet taking place on the outskirts of the village. The people rushed to where Juha was indicating, and others heard him and rushed behind them. Juha saw the people on the road, all running to where he was pointing, and he told himself that perhaps there was a wedding and feast at the edge of the village, and ran behind them, as he had believed his own lie. From Juha to Israel: it is the original lie believed by those who said it to the degree that they began talking about a country from the Nile to the Euphrates, although Ancient Israel did not even exist on the West Bank, or Judea and Samaria, as they say, and there was no Jewish kingdom in any part of Palestine. There were small tribes, and they were likely of Canaanite origins. The Romans persecuted everyone, although they did not kick the Jews out of Jerusalem in 70 AD and they did not destroy the Temple of Solomon. This prophet, in his Old Testament form, was an invention, like David before him. They are not the prophets who are mentioned in the Quran, and we all know that the revelation in it corrected the Jewish version. Does anyone think that after 60 years of occupying Palestine and after decades of searching, prior to that, under the British Mandate, the Jews have found no historical evidence, in the form of ruins, of these ancient kingdoms and presumed Temple? The Jews actually dug under the al-Haram al-Sharif and found Omayyad artifacts but did not stop their lying. There are some limited ruins, from passing tribes, such as the hundreds that have passed through the region, and graveyards, but no kingdoms. After this introduction, and this old lie, history has been summed up into another lie, this one about the Iranian nuclear bomb. Iran does not have this bomb, and will not have it, whether in a year, or five. The available information, for those who want to know, is that their centrifuge tubes can enrich uranium up to 5 percent. To operate a civilian reactor, such as the one near Tehran, to perform medical tests, 19.75 percent enrichment is needed, which is why there was an agreement in Geneva, then Vienna, which Iran went back on, which stipulated that Iran would ship 75 percent of its uranium stock, or around 1,200 kilograms, while Russia would enrich it to 19.75 percent, and then France would follow, transforming this uranium, or about 120 kilograms, into fuel rods, to be used in the civilian reactor. The information also says that the nuclear bomb requires uranium enriched to 90 percent, and this is impossible for Iran, even if it built ten new reactors, as Ahmadinejad promised. This is because the centrifuge is the key point; it should be extremely fast for enrichment for war purposes, or at least 90 percent or more. People, ask Dr. Mohammed El-Baradei about it, then read the reports of scientific associations and nuclear experts, and you will find today that Iran has the knowledge of how to produce a nuclear bomb but not the means to actually do it, and it is information available on the internet, if anyone is interested. Then I read the western newspapers quoting intelligence reports saying that Iran has developed a neutron “trigger”, used to detonate a nuclear bomb. Leaked intelligence reports mean evil journalism, and Mossad is behind it, even if the leak came from London, Paris, or Washington. If we assume the information is true, then Iran has a “trigger,” however, it does not have the nuclear bullet. In other words, the chamber is empty, except for this presumed “trigger.” When the leak is not suspect in terms of its source and topic, Ahmadinejad comes forward with his own news. Thus, we heard about the Iranian test of an advanced missile, which can hit Israel. If we assume that this is true, what will Ahmadinejad put on the warhead of this missile? Three members of the Basij militia, or ten? The Jews believed the first lie, about Old Testament Israel, and have recently believed the latest one, about Iran's bomb, although the matter was simply that during the last year of the Bush administration and the first of the Obama administration, we have talked about solving the Palestinian issue, and Israel has said, “Iran”. Perhaps in Israel today, there are some who believe that Iran is on its way to possessing a nuclear bomb, if it does not actually have one. Meanwhile, the settlers are building on Palestinian lands, and believed the former lie about the Promised Land, while Juha believed his lie about the banquet at the edge of town. I am not afraid of the Iranian bomb, because it does not exist, but I am afraid of Iran's aspirations in the Gulf, because they do exist. I am afraid that Israel will drag America and Europe into a military confrontation with Iran, after deciding on a fourth round of sanctions in the United Nations Security Council. We will pay the price, we are the legendary orphan at a banquet of villains, and we can only say, “Lord, protect us.”
