My UK Anti-Iran Message Outside Iranian Embassy Broken Up by Police
The anti-deal campaign in the UK has been much more muted. But a number of UK Jews have been in the lead campaigning against it. At the request of Sharon, I wrote a message for their protest outside the Iranian embassy. Their protest and the speech however was interrupted by the arrival of the police. You can see it on these videos and read the message here.
On the September of another year, another Prime Minister stood outside 10 Downing Street and declared that he had brought "peace for our time".
The people were told not to worry. To "go home and get a nice quiet sleep."
The paper, which Neville Chamberlain boasted had the name of "Herr Hitler" on it proved to be worthless. It did not bring peace or even symbolize a Nazi desire for peace. All it represented was the willingness of a generation tired of war to delude itself into believing that it could have peace through appeasement.
The crowds chanting for peace in London and Paris cursed the Czechs. A few years later, the British and the French were the Czechs with the latter living under occupation and the former living under the bomb.
Like Nazi Germany, Iran is a totalitarian regime.
Like Nazi Germany, Iran is expanding by occupying its neighbors, by pitting neighbor against neighbor in bloody wars and civil wars that have already cost hundreds of thousands of lives.
These wars have already involved the use of chemical weapons against civilian populations. And yet, our leaders and our betters would like us to believe that Iran may subsidize the use of chemical weapons, but that it would never use nuclear weapons.
For those who want a deal with Iran, it's easy to dismiss the people facing deadly battles against Iran's armies and terrorist militias.
It's easy to dismiss all the inconvenient facts that stands in the way of the promise of peace for our time.
The promise that we may sleep a nice quiet sleep in our hopes without having to worry about all these foreign people and their foreign wars.
The inevitable tide of history however comes with its own alarm clock.
Appeasing imperialist tyrants and maddened fanatics does not bring peace, it ensures war.
Iran is already invading and occupying, directly or indirectly, four other countries. It has designs on a fifth country as well. It has begun to terrorize shipping and its threats have only escalated with this deal.
The surrender of Czechoslovakia did not bring peace. It accelerated the coming war.
This deal will not peace with Iran. It will expand the war with Iran that is already taking place. It will draw the West surely and inevitably into that war. And when that takes place, we had better hope that Iran will not have had sufficient time to develop and deploy nuclear weapons.
Because if it does, the alarm clock of history will make a terrible noise that none will be able to sleep through.
This deal is not a choice between peace and war. It is a choice between ignoring events in the region and paying attention to them.
It is a choice between dealing with reality and trying to sleep through it.
This deal may buy us an extra few minutes, or perhaps an hour or two, of sleeping through history, but waking up from that sleep will be all the harder and more painful for it.
And some may never wake up from it at all.
Some who were promised the quiet sleep of peace by Chamberlain woke to bombs falling from the sky. If we do not wake up now, we may never wake up at all.