Israelis have always been trying to present themselves as �œthe victim” but they truth is that they have always been �œthe aggressor and oppressor,” says a researcher from London.<\/p>\n
�œFrom the moment of Israel�™s creation,” said Alan Hart, �œZionism�™s guiding strategy has been to present and have Israel perceived in the Western world as the victim, when it was and is the aggressor and oppressor.”<\/p>\n
Israeli leaders �œrealized that they needed a new enemy if they were to maintain the fiction that Israel was the victim, and that brings us to Iran,” Hart said Wednesday in a phone interview with Press TV.<\/p>\n
Irked by Iran�™s recently-sealed nuclear deal with the Sextet of world powers, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has called on US Congress to push for fresh sanctions against the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n
Iran and the six major world powers — the US, Britain, Russia, China, France and Germany — inked an interim deal in Geneva, Switzerland, on November 24 to pave the way for the full resolution of the West�™s decade-old dispute with Tehran over its nuclear energy program.<\/p>\n
The interim nuclear deal between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany also infuriated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who called it �œa historic blunder.”<\/p>\n
�œIran had to be the new enemy” that Israel needed to preserve the �œvictim” image it has been trying to depict for years in the world, Hart added.<\/p>\n
Historically, he continued, Zionism�™s calculation was that �œas long as Israel was perceived in the Western world as the victim, it could do what it liked to impose its will on the Palestinians in the whole region.”<\/p>\n
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