[lbo-talk] Khomeni & Israel

Joel Schalit managingeditor at tikkun.org
Wed May 3 11:32:54 PDT 2006


Yeah - definitely. Israel was happy to do anything it could to keep Iran's front with Iraq hot at the time. Israel bore a grudge with Iraq for deploying divisions on the Syrian front during the 1973 War, and had other long-standing issues with it which made this an ideal opportunity, so to speak. Nevertheless, the Israelis failed to make this dependency relationship quash a growing relationship of antagonism with the Iranians during the 1980s - witness Hezbollah.

On May 3, 2006, at 11:24 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:


> [this is rather amazing - I had no idea! - I presume this was to
> annoy Iraq?]
>
> <http://www.juancole.com/>
>
> But, by the way, Khomeini sold oil to Israel, and Israel sold him
> weapons and spare parts, and put the Reagan administration up to
> doing the same thing. You will note that when Khomeini originally
> made the statement about the occupation regime over Jerusalem
> vanishing from the page of time, that was not front page news. In
> fact, secret Israeli arms shipments were arriving in Tehran as
> Khomeini was speaking. So whatever is going on now is not about the
> rhetoric, is it?
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