{"id":352962,"date":"2018-03-20T01:36:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T00:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-fake-enemy\/"},"modified":"2018-03-20T01:36:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T00:36:42","slug":"the-fake-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-fake-enemy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fake Enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_99016\" style=\"max-width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99016\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-14-at-4.17.26-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"361\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by thierry ehrmann | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Towards the end of 1941, the\u00a0Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and declared war on the US. Their Nazi ally\u00a0followed with its own declaration of war, and so did all its satellites.<\/p>\n<p>The joke tells about the Hungarian\u00a0ambassador in Washington who delivered his declaration of war to the\u00a0Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, who decided to have some fun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHungary, Hungary,\u201d Hull\u00a0queried, \u201cAre you a republic?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo,\u201d the ambassador\u00a0corrected him, \u201cWe are a monarchy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndeed? So who is your\u00a0king?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have a king, but a\u00a0regent, Admiral Horthy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn admiral? So you have a\u00a0large navy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have no navy at all,\u00a0because we have no outlet to the ocean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStrange, a monarchy without\u00a0a king, an admiral without a navy. So tell me, why are you declaring war on\u00a0us? Do you have claims against the USA?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, we have claims against\u00a0Romania.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo why don\u2019t you declare war\u00a0on Romania?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t! Romania is our\u00a0ally!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I remember this joke every time\u00a0Binyamin Netanyahu utters his blood-curdling threats against Iran. The\u00a0struggle with Iran heads his agenda. He warns of the danger of an Iranian\u00a0effort to produce nuclear weapons\u00a0and implicitly threatens her with our\u00a0\u201csecret\u201d nuclear arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>God knows. I search desperately\u00a0for a reason for the Israeli-Iranian conflict, a struggle of life and death,\u00a0and do not find any. Nothing. Niente.<\/p>\n<p>Wars between nations are based&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/03\/19\/the-fake-enemy\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by thierry ehrmann | CC BY 2.0 Towards the end of 1941, the\u00a0Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and declared war on the US. Their Nazi ally\u00a0followed with its own declaration of war, and so did all its satellites. The joke tells about the Hungarian\u00a0ambassador in Washington who delivered his declaration of war to the\u00a0Secretary of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-352962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}