What Will Grow?

 

I feel a lot of people don't take the intentions of the Iranian regime so seriously. The Iranian leaders have said openly, many times, that Israel should simply not exist, and the fact that they finance Terror groups like Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis is not a secret.

But still, people think that the region is just "complex" and what needs to be done is to give incentives to those governments to go back to "reason", to the "normal", which means, for us, to care mostly about the Economy.

Maybe people think that all this bloody rethoric is a political trend, a bad choice of method to mantain power. That what those people want, obviously, is to be influent, so they use this "trend". But I think it goes deeper than that.

Why do some leaders go in the direction of inciting violence, in first place? Some theorists may have an explanation that goes like this: "give people a 'common enemy', and you gain popularity".

It is not a wrong vision in itself, having a "common enemy" is indeed a strategy of power. But these things are not "created" out of nothing, neither do they pass so easily, with just a simple adjustment of direction.

Hatred as a form of power is something that has deeper roots than people use to think.

There has always been people who have a tendency to hate the different and place all the blame in the other for everything.

The Iranian regime grew from the part of the Iranian population that had that tendency, which is old in the Arab World. Hatred for the Jew is not a recent political invention.

There are so many people in Iran - as in the Arab Muslin World - that want, not to destroy someone, but to seek good things for themselves, but the ones that rose to power in Iran - and in some other parts - come from the background of hatred.

And they formed their whole structure of power around it.

Who are the people that a murderous regime have as leaders, and who are the people around the leaders?

Who are the men that have been chosen to lead and to be part of the Terrorist groups? The ones that plan and execute mass murders, mass rapes?

Their intentions are clear and this is the direction they are going to. In extremists ideological regimes, fidelity to the "cause" is the main thing that anyone must show for their leaders, their peers and their subordinates.

So we don't know how far it can go.

This kind of problem is not solved with simple "incentives" to be "normal".

They've crossed so many lines, and the danger for the good people - including the good muslins - is a danger of death, because those cults don't really care about life. They put a "cause" so much above life that life loses its value.

We can't let investment in violence, domination, be something that pays back. We can't make everything so relative that other countries feel safe to be best friends with bloody and aggressive dictatorships.

The recentes facts show that all this have left the realm of speech and turned into action quite a while ago. With horrible consequences for people.

Are we passing a clear message that threatening and targeting a country like Israel, and to finance terrorist groups against them is unnacceptable?

Or are we letting that part of humanity - I don't have the demographics - grow?