To vanish or not to vanish

... from the page of time, that's the question!

“This regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time,” is what Iranian president Ahmadinejad said, quoting Ayatollah Khomeini. He never said that Israel should be wiped off the map...

Today, the Islamic Republic of Iran celebrates the 1979 Revolution, when the people of Iran, under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, overthrew the dictatorship of the shah and delivered a devastating blow to U.S. hegemony in the Middle East.

The Islamic Republic celebrated successes and suffered defeats. Saddam's Iraq imposed a crippling 8-year war. The U.S. declared its hostility to the “regime of the Mullahs”. Still, Iran is a democracy, not a theocracy. Its democracy certainly has its limits. Candidates are scrutinized by the Islamic clergy and many are disqualified. Even so, the Iranian voters have a choice. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was not the presidential candidate of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Yet, he won in the elections. Isn't the choice of the American electorate also limited? Sure, there are many candidates, but only two matter. The Iranian voters have a wider choice!

In an interesting article (The Guardian: The new Jewish question), the British-born Jewish historian Tony Judt is quoted as saying: “Israel does exist. It exists just like Belgium or Kuwait or any other country which was invented at some point in the past and is now a fact.”

Very interesting indeed! Belgium and Israel may very well be inventions from the past and may therefore be a fact. And yet, they may also vanish from the page of time! Belgium will vanish sooner rather than later. The monarchy, this evil Medieval institution should vanish from the page of the 21st century for sure. If King Albert II dies, Belgium will vanish. The crown prince is utterly incompetent, his sister would bring Belgium once again under the rule of the Habsburgs of Austria and his younger brother is a corrupt thief. Prime minister Verhofstadt today said he was opposed “to any form of separatism which would lead to the disappearance of the Belgian federation”. He may say whatever he wants, his idiotic utterances will not stop the course of history.

Iran's Ali Larijani (pictured) once again reiterated that Iran's nuclear program is not a threat to Israel. But the Bush administration is still beating the war drum.

Maybe some states have been invented by somebody in the past, but those states could very well vanish in the (not so distant) future. Belgium and Israel will both vanish from the page of time. The United States, the invention of the coyboys, build upon the genocide of the native Indians, will also vanish. If Bush, the war criminal, dares to attack Iran with nuclear weapons, the United States of A. will be relocated to the dustbin of history.