A futile exercise

A “futile exercise” is an action, attempt, or endeavour that is completely pointless, useless, or unlikely to succeed.

It describes a task that wastes time and effort because it produces no results or fails to achieve its intended goal.

This definition succinctly sums up frantic attempts to engage the Islamic occupiers of Iran in a meaningful dialogue with the aim of somehow preventing their jihadist agenda from acquiring nuclear weapons and terrorising all those who oppose it.

One had only to look closely at who was actually pushing for these “negotiations” to realise that the whole exercise was a charade from the very beginning.

Pakistan has promoted itself as the latest knight in shining armour, aiming to bring peace and goodwill to the world. In the process, it hopes to gain the White House’s appreciation and earn credit for its seemingly sincere endeavours. In reality, this nuclear-empowered Islamic nation is far from the peaceful dove it strives so valiantly to portray. Apart from the fact that it poses a threat to India, its fanatical obsession against the Jewish State should automatically disqualify it as any sort of “neutral” mediator.

Pakistan does not recognise Israel as a legal country with any right to exist. Its defence minister recently declared that Israel is a “genocidal country” and a “curse for humanity.”  Coming on the eve of Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), this foul language exposes their real agenda. After an uproar from Jerusalem, the statement was deleted from social media, but of course, by then the message was perfectly clear.

Only habitual Jew haters and complicit followers would be fooled into believing that Pakistan is any sort of suitable facilitator of peace and goodwill. The images of Vance and Trump tolerating this Pakistani hypocrisy are jarring.

Another so-called mediator is Turkey, whose anti-Israel credentials certainly qualify it for this coveted position.

Erdogan, the latter-day Ottoman sultan, has described Israel’s Prime Minister as the “Hitler of our times.” He has also expressed the belief that Turkey could invade Israel at any time it desires. These expressions of “goodwill” certainly make him a natural “neutral” and seeker of peaceful relations.

Without a shadow of a doubt, the fact that Pakistan and Turkey are embraced by the Iranian Islamic regime tells you all you need to know about the lunacy of the situation.

The fact that the Americans are also so easily bewitched makes one wonder where it will all end up. There are already whispers of further “talks” to extend the ceasefire and no doubt dangle more concessions.

Any student of history can tell you that negotiating with tyrannical regimes is a lost cause and can only end in disastrous results.

By their very nature, deceiving and lying are standard negotiating tactics employed to delay and defy. Iran has been masterful at using these tools for the last five decades.

They have learnt that democracies with no backbone, appeasers and weak-kneed politicians can be lulled into believing that peace can be purchased.

The Mullahs of Tehran have seen how North Korea was able to bluff its way to nuclear status and continues to threaten murderous mayhem. If North Korea can successfully continue to literally get away with murder, then why can’t Iran do the same?

Just as Hitler took advantage of the democracies’ craven desire to avoid confrontation in the face of evil, the Mullah regime is following the same scenario. Starmer of the UK declares that freedom of the Strait of Hormuz is important, but then in the next breath refuses to do anything other than mouth inane platitudes.

The bottom line is that the Iranians know all they have to do is shlep out the drama for as long as possible.

Doing that guarantees certain probabilities.

Causing economic mayhem will cause the craven EU, UN and others to surrender and agree to Iranian demands.

Political mayhem in the American midterms will start an isolationist revolt in the Republican Party, and the campaign against Iranian terror will unravel. Suggestions of a five-year moratorium on Iranian nuclear development are an indication of possibly kicking the problem down the road again. With the prospect of a new US administration in two years’ time being distinctly cool on Israel, the Iranians have everything to play for in their strategic duplicitous agenda.

 Oppression and executions in Iran will increase, and the Islamic regime will survive and continue its deceptive march towards nuclear terror status and terror proxy patronage.

Each and every so-called ceasefire will be used to rearm and reorganise for the inevitable next round. The longer the ceasefires drag on, the more opportunities there will be for deception and evasion. Pulling the wool over the eyes of democracies desperate for an easy way out is an old tactic guaranteed to produce the desired results from all those befuddled by reality.

Despite this clear and well-worn path of deception, there will still be voices advocating “dialogue and diplomacy” as the only way forward. Protesters will be out in force, and Christian religious leaders will remain silent or complicit in the face of impending disaster.

This week, Jews worldwide gathered to commemorate the Shoah and its catastrophic impact.

Most of the world has tuned out as far as the lessons of those years are concerned and this is what makes current developments so dangerous for Israel and Jewish Communities in the Diaspora.

Of course, some politicians will make all the right noises proclaiming their fervent desire to combat Jew hate in its latest incarnation, but their annual exhortations will fall on increasingly deaf ears.

A failure to actually tackle the rising scourge, combined with continual condemnations of Israel as a facilitator of “genocide” and an “illegal occupier” among other cardinal sins, steadily reinforces in the minds of an ignorant and ill-informed public negative connotations and stereotypes.

Countries such as Spain and Ireland are leaders of the anti-Israel pack. The former, under its current leftist coalition, is reverting to age-old libels and basically branding the Jewish State as a pariah of the international community.

Ireland, meanwhile, wallows in anti-Israel policies. Its one-sided obsession has now resulted in a Dublin fundraising event for Magen David Adom being cancelled. Apparently, according to Irish supporters of the PLO, Israel’s first responders are guilty of “genocidal” policies. Anyone who knows anything about MDA would realise that this is just another slanderous accusation, but for those already conditioned to think the worst about Zionists, it is the gospel truth.

Starmer, Carney and Macron all profess friendship, but their rhetoric, almost on a daily basis, against Israel merely reinforces the negative perceptions among a public already saturated with poisonous and pernicious accusations.

On Yom Hashoah, the sirens wailed, and most Israelis stood in silent memory of the six million Jewish martyrs murdered by the German Nazi regime and its not inconsiderable band of willing accomplices. The German Chancellor chose the eve of this event to berate Israel for allowing Jews to live in Judea and Samaria. When Israel’s Finance Minister slammed this attempt at telling Jews where they cannot live he was pilloried for being “undiplomatic.”

Unfortunately, being diplomatic has seldom helped Jews in the past.

To top off another vintage week in international double standards and raging hypocrisy, a report in the London Jewish Chronicle must win first prize.

It encapsulates precisely why Iran feels confident that it can outsmart and outfox all those who believe that talks, dialogue and diplomacy are the only way to usher in an era of eternal love and peace.

Dozens of countries, including the United Kingdom, have made the mind-boggling decision to nominate Iran to join a UN committee responsible for shaping policy around human rights, despite the Islamic Republic last year carrying out the largest number of executions in almost four decades.

Iran will become a new member country on the UN’s Committee for Programme and Coordination after being selected by the body’s Economic and Social Council, which comprises 54 nations, including the UK, Australia, France and Canada. The US was the only country to object, on the basis that Iran along with Cuba and Nicaragua, which were also elected to the committee – were “unfit.”

The committee is scheduled to meet next month when it is due to discuss gender equality and women’s empowerment, human rights, disarmament and terrorism prevention.”  

A more blatant example of an exercise in futility would be hard to find.