Chief Rabbi says that Israeli offensive is really about Iran

Yesterday morning on BBC Radio 4’s Thought For The Day Britain’s Chief Rabbi, Lord Sacks, was caught off guard when he claimed that the current situation in Israel and Gaza was really about Iran. He made the comment while speaking in support of the BBC’s annual Children In Need appeal.

He said it is “the right of every child to be safe and secure and reach their own potential”. The Rabbi would do well to remember that Palestinian children also are entitled to that right. The irony of his comment in light of the Israeli impoverishment and killing of Palestinian children, seemed to have by-passed him. The Rabbi failed to make any reference to them. Goy children are not worthy, clearly.

Anyway, what is equally as revealing is the BBC's clear pro-Israeli partisanship. The presenter Evan Davis briefly bucked the trend when he asked the Rabbi (who thought he was off-air) about his thoughts on what’s going on in Israel and Gaza.

After an audible sigh, the Chief Rabbi replied, “I think it has got to do with Iran, actually.”

In the usual pro-Israeli manner, BBC co-presenter Sarah Montague, looking alarmed, whispered, “We’re live.”

The Chief Rabbi then put himself back into broadcasting mode and said the crisis demanded “a continued prayer for peace, not only in Gaza but for the whole region.”

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The question his off-guard comment triggered in my mind was this: In what way could Israel’s latest war (in all but name) on the Gaza Strip be “to do with Iran”, at least in part?

It is clear to me that Bibi has a plan. This is all about his attempts to drag Iran into the conflict by implication as the justification for an Israeli attack on that country. In an interview with RT, in the past day or two, a high-ranking Israeli military spokeswoman stated specifically that East Jerusalem had been hit by an Iranian-made missile fired from Gaza.

First, the likelihood that Iranian missiles could have been smuggled into Gaza are extremely slim. Gaza, after all, is under total lock-down and 24/24surveillance. The claim is that Militants are in possession of an upgraded missile which is 9 1/2 feet long and requires a big, sophisticated launching device. The idea that anyone could (a) smuggle such weaponry into Gaza, and (b) move the equipment around the Strip without being spotted is patently absurd.

Israel HAD to come out with propaganda of this sort as it is well known that Jerusalem is outside the range of the Militants' rockets.

Meanwhile, The New York Times and many other Western media sources are parroting the Iranian missile nonsense, though this NYT article reports rockets reaching Tel Aviv and Jerusalem which, in the case of Jerusalem, is simply not possible, from a technical standpoint.

The goal, of course, is to associate "terrorist" Hamas with "terrorist" Iran, in preparation for an assault on Iran. Israel may be equipped with highest- tech military equipment, but what the country truly exceeds in is relentless, far-reaching lies and propaganda.

Keep these things in mind, next time you come across claims of Iranian missiles in Hamas's hands ...