Zu meiner These, dass Iran die Kaempfe im Gazastreifen geplant hat

In der NewYork Sun schreibt Benny Avni:

(…) Tehran could not have asked for a better choreographed prelude to today’s U.N. Security Council resolution to address Iran’s nuclear defiance than the “emergency” council session called by Libya on Saturday night to address Gaza. Secretary-General Ban summed up the grim mood at the council with a condemnation of Israel’s actions as “disproportionate” and “excessive.”

The Bush administration’s strongest argument to back up its Annapolis strategy was that the Sunni Arab world now realizes that Shiite Iran poses a greater regional threat than Israel, creating a perfect opportunity to launch a democratic and peaceful Palestinian Arab state.

Tehran’s countermeasure — playing the Israel-Palestinian Arab card — is working perfectly to neutralize that argument. Yesterday in Ramallah, Israel’s Palestinian Arab partner for the peace talks, President Abbas, who years ago wrote an academic paper denying the Holocaust, called Israel’s military air and ground attacks in Gaza “more than a Holocaust.” The Saudi government said in a statement that Israel was “emulating the Nazi war crimes.” (…)

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By attacking Israel through its proxies and waiting for the counterattack, Iran is successfully arousing a predictable international sympathy for the Palestinian Arabs. European and U.N. officials have lost any shred of sympathy toward Israel, and many in the American press and the State Department will soon follow, pointing to the daily death tolls as proof that Israel whines too much about its own losses while paying no attention to Gaza’s suffering.

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Update: Und hier ist Dan Diker in PowerLine

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Part of the answer may line in the fact that strategic interests here are not local. As in the Second Lebanon war, the road to war against Israel and the West began in Tehran, even at the immediate expense of its proxies; Hizbullah in 2006 and Hamas in 2008.

Similar to its objectives in the 2006 Second Lebanon War and its subsequent subversive behavior there via a rebuilt Hizbullah, Iran’s goal today is the continued destabilization of the region. Iran’s strategy is to exploit Gaza as an Iranian platform to attack Israel and subvert Egypt while simultaneously extending its hand in cooperation to its fellow Muslim power.

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The West must understand that the ongoing rocket war Hamas has been waging against Israel and a possible major escalation now appears to be the Gaza chapter of Iran’s ongoing war against the West.

Unfortunately, the United States and European countries have already voiced their opposition to a possible Israeli ground offensive in Gaza. Teheran can be counted on to use this additional leverage wisely in its deadly chess game against the US and Europe.

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