Iranophobia : the logic of an Israeli obsession by Haggai Ram
By Haggai Ram
Haggai Ram, an Israeli pupil, explores favourite Israeli assumptions approximately Iran to examine how those assumptions have, in flip, mirrored and formed Jewish Israeli id. Drawing on different political, cultural, and educational assets, he concludes that anti-Iran phobias within the Israeli public sphere are principally projections of perceived family threats to the existing Israeli ethnocratic order. while, he examines those phobias in terms of the Jewish state's use of violence within the Palestinian territories and Lebanon within the post-9/11 world.
In the tip, Ram demonstrates that the clash among Israel and Iran is probably not as crucial and polarized as universal wisdom assumes. Israeli anti-Iran phobias are derived both from family anxieties in regards to the Jewish state's ethnic and non secular identities and from exaggerated and displaced strategic issues within the period of the "war on terrorism."
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The issue of moral panic will have to wait until the next chapter. Nonetheless, in this chapter I explore the production of these narratives within the context of Israel’s shifting strategic concerns. To exemplify this issue I first trace the evolution of these narratives in “real time,” that is during the time of the revolution’s unfolding in the years 1978–1979. These narratives, consisting of false historical analogies, huge generalizations about human behavior, and huge assumptions about world historical processes, read more like a testimony on behalf of the “Murderous Humanitarianism”14 of the Shah regime than a testimony on behalf of its Iranian victims.
In the background victory songs are played on Iranian TV, and President Ahmadinejad declares that his country has carried out a successful nuclear experiment, joining the exclusive club of states with nuclear capabilities. Millions of Iranians take to the streets in an exhilarated show of pride, which quickly evolves into a grand spectacle of hatred against the West and Israel. 67 The other text, penned by a prominent historian of the Middle East, Benny Morris, reads as follows: One bright morning .
68 As can be gleaned from the excerpts above, these two texts portray an amazingly similar doomsday scenario regarding the dangers of a nucleararmed Iran. If there are any disparities between them it is that the scholar actually transcends the tabloid reporter in producing and disseminating Iranophobia. Little wonder, then, that some of Israel’s leading scholars have been pushing in earnest for an Israeli preemptive military strike on Iran. This was put unambiguously in September 2006 by Ephraim Inbar, professor of political science at Bar Ilan University and a well-known right-wing Israeli analyst.