THE JEWISH NEWS SYNDICATE, a/k/a “JNS” wins the award for stupidest headline of the week.
At https://tinyurl.com/y25echvv JNS asks What does Iran’s pivot to China mean for Israel?
It HAS to be kidding.
Consider:
* China owns Israel’s Haifa and Ashdod ports
* China is making attempts to build Israeli infrastructure
* China owns at least one major food supplier (Tnuva)
* China is notorious for stealing other counties’ secrets
* China is known to “play both ends against the middle” for its own benefit
* China has, largely through deception and spying, stolen military secrets from the U.S. and Russia and on those secrets it has built its modern military
That being the case, China’s “pivot” to Iran — a “pivot” that has been going on for at least a decade and includes trade with the ayatollahs banned by the U.S. and others — MUST be a concern for even the most leftist Israeli.
The enemy of my enemy . . .
The Muslims have an expression: The enemy of my enemy is my friend. That can be reversed in the case of Persia: The friend of my enemy is my enemy.
China is Iran’s friend — at least for the time being.
China has a goal — restore the trade route between China and Europe. It is making the effort over land and over water.
In itself, there is nothing inherently wrong with China’s ambition.
The problem is China’s abuse of its political and trade alliances.
China never has been known as a peacemaker, so any hope that China would mitigate the ayatollah’s goal to destroy Israel is no more than a pipe dream.
What China could do, and based on its history, likely will do, is to “sell” information about Israel to the ayatollahs who in turn will share it with their proxies in Lebanon, Syria, Gaza, and Jordan. Do they really care about the floundering PLO/PFLP? It may not be worth the ayatollah’s effort or funds.
China is offering — for a fee, of course — to dig tunnels in Israel for rapid transit, a la major cities’ subway (“tube”) lines.
Israel sits on a major fault — that’s how the walls of Jericho fell1 — and quakes are known to happen throughout the country.
Dead Sea Fault line (FIU article & image @ https://tinyurl.com/y3orf9dl)
The Dead Sea Fault (DSF) has branches (below) toward the Mediterranean Sea that pass beneath some of Israel’s most densely populated areas.
DSF branches into population centers
Left: Maps of the World @ https://tinyurl.com/y2vgv3o5
Right: From FIU map (ibid.)
Although the fault and is branches are fairly well documented, the Chinese would, of necessity when digging tunnels, precisely locate the fault lines. Sharing this information with the ayatollahs and their proxies could result in a major earthquake destroying much of the country.
Would the ayatollahs risk destroying the Mosque-on-the-Temple? Would they risk endangering the lives of their friends under PLO/PFLP? Consider the Muslim desire to die in an intifada. Given that, what is the obvious answer?
Pay me now or pay me later
Israel must decide if it really is in its best interest to allow the Chinese to buy the country food companies, to take over the sea ports — U.S. ships visit Haifa; will that cease when the Chinese flag flies over the port? — to dig tunnels near a fault line.
Granted, there may be some financial benefits to selling the country to the Chinese — could it be worse than the Roman, Greek, Assyrian, or other occupations? — but in the long run, is it in Israel’s long-term best interests?
There was a Fram oil filter commercial many years ago2 that told car owners: Pay me now, or pay me later.
If Israel sells out to the Chinese will it have to pay later?
TO BE HONEST, this scrivener heartily dislikes the Chinese government. It has sent the U.S. a long list of faulty and dangerous products, it has given the world more than one virus (COVID-19 being just the latest), it has proven it steals secrets, both government and commercial. In this scrivener’s opinion, China cannot be a trusted friend.
Sources
1. Joshua 6 2-17 (JPS ©1955)
2. Fram commercial: https://tinyurl.com/z2up2ug
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