Roger L. Simon » Netanyahu, Obama and the Iranian Coup d’Etat

And yet the same few days have demonstrated once again the idealism and courage of a good percentage of Iran’s youth. Perhaps their candidate Mousavi is not worth their loyalty, but his followers themselves are clearly laudable. Who would want to hurt them?

Whatever the Israelis do, I would hope they take these young people into account.

Simon is a moron of a particularly insidious type: The bleeding heart neocon.

Here’s the reality: It should not be a part of Israel’s calculus to consider the Iranian yoots except in a secondary manner. The lives and futures of the Iranian yoots are the proper purview of the Iranian leadership - in this case, a bunch of insane religious tyrants. To pretend that it should be Israel’s responsibility to protect these young people, when it is those young people’s own leadership that is putting them at risk, is to shift the responsibilty away from its actual ownership to a third party threatened by the actions of the insane leaders.

Israel’s responsibility is to its own people, including its own youth, especially because history has shown that, in extremis, no one will defend the Jews but the Jews themselves.

Simon’s moronic calculus, however, sets up a perverse situation in which, if in defending its own people from insane theocrats, it should harm the youths who are ruled by these theocrats, Israel is to blame for that harm.

This is crazy. And it is no different than the same sort of calculus that has traditionally been applied to Israel whenever it resists with force the murderous force mounted against it by Palestinian zealots, Hizb’Allah fanatics, or Iranian and Iraqi aggressors.

A final note: there was no “coup d’etat” in Iran. Had there been, the Ayatollah Khameni would have been deposed, because, in the end, he is the legitimate government of Iran, himself alone.

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