The Iranian threat is the real issue

Dear Friends:

I would like to present to you a very important reason for not voting for John Kerry in the coming elections. If John Kerry would be elected, his foreign policy is likely to endanger the future of the USA and jeopardize the very existence of the State of Israel.

John Kerry may sacrifice Israel politically for an Iranian unreliable promise to stop enriching uranium and build nuclear bombs. The Iranians may be ready to launch a nuclear attack on Israel in two years.  They vowed to do this as soon as it will be possible. Kerry promised to negotiate with Iran rather than destroy their nuclear facilities. However, he has nothing of significance other than Israel to offer to the Islamic clergy in order to satisfy their religion-driven political ambition, at least for a while. 

The US attack on Iraq, so bitterly criticized by Kerry, was aimed not just to topple Saddam but, more impotently, to achieve a regime change in Iran, the most dangerous member of the “Axis of Evil.”  Unfortunately, this objective has not been met, and Tehran is now fighting the US in Iraq to prevent this threat from happening. This has been the greatest failure of the war in Iraq.

The US cannot permit a nuclear threat from religious zealots who cannot be deterred by retaliation. It will have little choice but to confront and defang Iran sooner or later as part of the global war with Islamism. This will be a major decision that the next US President will have to make.  John Kerry, who has shown a life-long reluctance to project militarily abroad, is extremely unlikely to take a preemptive step against Iran, or urge Israel to do it, before it might be too late for the Jewish state.

A single successful nuclear strike would devastate Israel. After such an attack the US will have no choice but to fight Iran with or without global consensus. However, for Israel it may be too late. If the US does not subdue theocratic Iran, it might have to capitulate to Islamism, which will then proceed with its global expansion. John Kerry will promise anything to win the elections, even if it contradicts his life-long political convictions. Therefore, his promises regarding Israel are utterly unreliable. 

I am ready to go out on a limb and state that if Kerry is elected any Jew who voted for him will have contributed to the potential destruction of the State of Israel and eventually to the demise of the Jewish people.  My prediction is not intended to scare people. I hate to be a Cassandra and I truly hope that this nightmare never happens. However, the growing virulent anti-Semitism in Europe under the guise of anti-Zionism, echoed by the American Left (which is the political power base of John Kerry), combined with the vicious aggressive Jew-hatred of the Arab and Iranian Islamists, make this a realistic projection.

I cannot forget that Adolph Hitler was elected Reichskanzler (Imperial Chancellor) of Germany in free democratic elections. This took place when his supremacist ideology was public knowledge.  Hitler’s “Mein Kampf,” was published four years before those elections. Please understand that I am not comparing Kerry to Hitler. These two personalities have diagonally opposed ideologies. I brought up Hitler’s election to show that of a democratic process in an enlightened society can elect a leader whose decisions result in a national disaster. Unfortunately, too few Americans pay attention to the passivity demonstrated in Kerry’s political track record and to his anti-nationalistic ideology.  Both these attributes are likely to be disastrous in a time of war.

I am a one-issue voter. That issue is the survival of Western culture, its ethics and way of life, which is now under attack. The Jewish nation is likely to become the first victim of that assault, just as it was two generations ago, before Hitler started his expansionist campaign in Europe. All other political and social issues are miniscule compared to the issue of survival. When this issue is at stake, all of us should become single-issue voters. If Jewish civilization, on which Western civilization is founded, will not survive, nothing else will matter.

Michael Anbar, Ph.D.

Author of “Israel and its Future,” 2004