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I’ve written this before on these here pages: Israel in cahoots with the Americans is going to bomb Iran before the 4 November US elections. How do I know, especially after sitting on a sailing boat for six weeks? That’s an easy one. Over the years I’ve made some pretty good contacts in Washington, and there is such a thing called email, a hard nut I have managed to crack going on ten years. Here’s how the Taki scenario goes: (with a little help from a Washington-based Belgian count).
Russia has now shown America to have a loud voice but to carry a small stick. The Americans and the neocons feel humiliated (like that other great warrior David Cameron). Russia is selling Iran anti-aircraft systems to defend nuclear installations against an Israeli attack. Dubai is the new Hong Kong, a major port where goods arrive from all over the world for the planet’s most modern city. Some 300,000 Iranians, mostly businessmen, live in Dubai, where shuttle services run to Iran 100 miles away. There are $300,000 million worth of construction projects now underway in Dubai, a place swimming in riches. The ruling Maktoum dynasty wants to stay on the good side of the mullahs in Tehran, and the last thing the Maktoums want is an Iranian retaliatory strike on their real estate against American targets. Which they will get once Tel Aviv unleashes its air force against Iran.
When does the clock run out? It all has to do with the US elections. If McCain is shown to be leading in October, Israel might hold its fire. McCain, a decent man, is under the tutelage of Senator Joe Lieberman, also a decent person but an Israel firster. But if Obama’s ratings take off, which I believe they will, fuggeraboutit. Although Obama has gone down on his knees in front of the Israeli lobby and sworn allegiance to that ‘s****y little country’, as a French ambassador once described Israel in the house of our ex-proprietor Lord Black (both our ex-proprietor and the ambassador have since been demoted, the former is — however unfairly and unjustly — in prison, and the Frenchman is giving cocktail parties in Algiers or somewhere as depressing), he is not trusted by the neocons nor by Jewish American leaders. I suppose because Obama was against the disastrous Iraqi adventure, he is seen as weak by neocon bums, whose idea of hell on earth is sending anyone of their immediate family to serve in the army.
Be that as it may, it’s funny how the whole thing may blow up because of the perception certain clowns have about the two candidates. Naturally I was for McCain at the start because anyone whose father and grandfather were admirals, and who himself has led one of the largest air squadrons in Vietnam and has spent five years in a North Vietnamese dungeon could do no wrong. But after listening to him on Iraq I realised that, personal feelings aside, McCain was still locked in the Cold War. Obama not only had bet right on Iraq, he was beating probably the only woman on earth I would gladly slap across her fat face on general principles. Then Obama got the nomination and started to go wobbly on me. His remarks about Jerusalem were terrible — the city belongs to Christians, Muslims and to Jews, and Israel has no more exclusive right to it than the Greeks have — as was his flip-flopping about the time to get out from Iraq. I guess politics make decent men turn into phoneys and liars, but I thought Obama wanted change from business as usual. Fat chance.
There are also other factors which lead the great war strategist Taki to predict an Israeli strike. Tel Aviv’s man in the White House is Elliott Abrams — Norman Podhoretz’s son-in-law, need I say more? — who is assisting Cheney (now a total lunatic in Dr Strangelove mode) to carry out American foreign policy using the bogus issue of Iran’s legitimate quest to produce nuclear energy. And ensnaring a new president in a situation where the political and military options are limited by the ongoing conflict would serve the neocons as well as George W’s stupidity did in starting a war against someone who had nothing to do with 9/11. Hence the great prediction that Israel will start the third world war before 4 November. Am I going out on a limb? You betcha, as they say in Noo Yawk. Will the reputation of one of the world’s greatest political and military minds suffer if 4 November dawns and Israelis are on the beach eating their dates? Not in the slightest.
The Taki phenomenon of always getting it right has now endured 31 years in the Speccie alone. But if the Israelis do attack, and the American media immediately close ranks and we have 9/11 all over again, do not expect to see a Kenyan–American in the White House. Do expect to see the fat face of the only woman on earth the greatest Greek thinker since Aristophanes wants to slap in the White House in 2012. (McCain will be a one-term president because Cheney–Bush have done such a job on the economy no living person can turn it around in four years.)
And another thing. Get ready to welcome thousands of Arab multimillionaires into our midsts. War heroes all, they will start running as the Israeli jets are flying over their camels. They know that the mullahs do not approve of their lifestyle. Before the Iranian missiles start flying in retaliation, go long on hookers and short on prayer mats. If you need to bet, Fitzdares is the place to do it (7 per cent owned by Taki, the rest by the Goldsmith brothers. By far the fairest bookies in town, and we also provide credit that others do not. And many other things, too. But I digress). Good luck.
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