I should also mention something weirder. Israel not only makes enough water for itself in a very dry region, on this planet, they also sell water to Jordan. Israel also is the only country on this planet that generates water from the air. I uploaded a while ago a video of the impossible task that Israel built a river in the harshest desert, the Negeb, to green the area. I usually tell my friends that if Iran was still under the rule of the Shah, Israel would have sent a few planes full with water specialists to figure out the situation and come up with ways to improve things. That will not happen with a country like Iran where the the present government has re-established some missile factories. They plan to build thousands of missiles and fire them to Israel, to overpower the missile defence system, to make the maximum damage and deaths.

A fully independent or confederally united Kurdistan is no longer a distant dream, but its realisation now hinges on two transformative regional shifts: the fall of Iran’s Islamist theocracy and the emergence of Israel as an open, decisive Kurdish ally. Should the Islamic Republic collapse and be replaced by a secular, liberal-democratic, and federally restructured Iran, Tehran would instantly cease being one of the Kurds’ four jailers. Ten to twelve million Iranian Kurds would gain genuine cultural, linguistic, and political rights overnight, along with control over their own security forces and a fair share of local resources. A democratic Iran would also lose all interest in propping up anti-Kurdish governments in Baghdad and Damascus; the Iran-backed militias that terrorise Iraqi Kurdistan and the logistical support that once reached Assad’s regime would dry up. Most importantly, a federal Iran could eventually enter a voluntary confederation with an independent Kurdistan, creating a vast, resource-rich, and democratically governed Kurdish-Iranian economic and security space stretching from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf. Israel, for its part, is uniquely positioned to turn this possibility into reality. Jerusalem already quietly supplies the Peshmerga and SDF with weapons, training, and intelligence, but a bolder policy is now feasible and necessary. By becoming the first country to grant formal diplomatic recognition to a sovereign Kurdistan (or at least to the KRG as a state), Israel would shatter the international taboo and make military aggression against the Kurds far costlier. Public Israeli air-defence early-warning systems, drone exports, and satellite intelligence could neutralise Turkey’s air superiority over Rojava and the KRG. Reviving and expanding the clandestine Kurdish-oil-to-Israel route would give Kurdistan an economic lifeline independent of hostile neighbours. Most crucially, Israel’s unmatched influence in Washington could push through binding U.S. security guarantees and legislation that finally treat the Kurds as strategic allies rather than disposable partners.

A secular, nationalist Iran that proudly re-embraces its Zoroastrian-Persian roots while adopting a contemporary Western-style liberal democratic system would instantly become the West’s single greatest ally in the entire Eurasian landmass, bar none. Eighty-five million educated, historically sophisticated people who already speak a language of poetry and empire would awaken from fourteen centuries of imposed Arabo-Islamic identity and remember that they, not the desert tribes of the Hejaz, once ruled the world with tolerance, grandeur, and law. Cyrus the Great’s cylinder would replace Khomeini’s turban as the national icon; Nowruz would eclipse Ashura; the Faravahar would fly higher than any crescent. In one stroke, the West would gain a natural brother-civilization that shares its reverence for pre-monotheistic high culture, its belief in individual dignity, and its memory of building empires that did not need to justify themselves with divine revelation. Strategically, the effect would be apocalyptic for every adversary the West currently faces. The Islamic Republic’s collapse would pull the plug on Hezbollah, the Houthis, the Syrian regime, and the entire Shia jihadist network. Sunni fundamentalism would be intellectually disemboweled: the most culturally prestigious nation in the Islamic world openly declaring that Islam was a 7th-century Arab import it no longer needs would shatter the myth of a timeless ummah more thoroughly than a thousand think-tank papers ever could. Russia and China would lose their most valuable regional partner; the Persian Gulf would become a Western lake; the Caucasus and Central Asia would realign overnight. Iran’s geography, oil, brains, and military tradition would flip from liability to superpower-level asset. Culturally and psychologically, the fit is perfect. Persians already consume Western films, music, and ideas whenever the morality police aren’t looking; freed from clerical shackles and reconnected to their own pre-Islamic pride, they would embrace Shakespeare and Jefferson as eagerly as they once embraced Plato under the Achaemenids. Tehran, Isfahan, and Shiraz would become new Berlins and Tel Avivs—vibrant, creative, proudly secular cities where ancient fire temples stand beside start-up hubs and concert halls. A liberal Zoroastrian-nationalist Iran would be Israel’s mirror image across the Middle East: two ancient-non-Arab civilizations reborn as modern, innovative, fiercely independent democracies that share the same enemies and the same vision of human flourishing.

I owe you all an apology for a mistake I did a couple of days ago. I mentioned to 2 members that I had to deal with antisemitic and antizionists people on this site. That was a mistake, because I joined 2 sites about the same time. This site gave me no problems and so far I have had or seen no attacks of any kind against Jewish and Israel articles. The attacks and major discussions were on the other site. Please forgive me for my mistake.

When anti-Western voices—whether Muslim or Chinese nationalists—dismiss my admiration for the West by hurling slurs like “colonial product” or “self-hating,” they unwittingly reveal why the West and the Jewish people form the ultimate alliance: a shared, uncompromising commitment to human progress, individual liberty, and defiance of the very tyrannies those critics still romanticize. The West did not merely invent modern science, democracy, and human rights; it created the only environment in which Jewish genius could fully breathe. Under Islamic rule, Jews lived as dhimmis—tolerated, taxed, and periodically massacred or forcibly converted (Almohad Spain, Hebron 1929, Damascus 1840). In imperial China, the ancient Kaifeng community was slowly assimilated into oblivion under a system that had no conceptual place for a people who refused to dissolve into the Han whole. In contrast, post-Enlightenment Europe and especially America threw the doors wide open. Einstein, Freud, Oppenheimer, von Neumann, Salk, Feynman—these names did not flourish in Baghdad, Isfahan, or Kaifeng; they exploded in Berlin, Vienna, Princeton, and Los Alamos because the West finally offered meritocracy, rule of law, and free inquiry instead of jizya or forced assimilation. Jewish minds and Western institutions proved symbiotic: Spinoza and Locke birthed modern liberalism together, Rothschilds and Rockefellers financed the industrial age together, Brin and Page built Google together. The partnership is more than cultural—it is existential. The West fought the Nazi evil that set out to exterminate Jews first and liberal civilization second; Allied boots liberated Auschwitz and planted the flag of freedom on the same soil. Today, when jihadist rockets fall on Tel Aviv and Paris alike, when Chinese state media parrots blood libels and funds anti-Israel blocs at the UN, Israel stands as the West’s forward operating base in a region that has never reconciled itself to either Jewish sovereignty or Western values. Tel Aviv’s start-up ecosystem, its cyber-defenses, its medical breakthroughs do not just benefit Israel—they keep the free world ahead of its enemies. In return, the West’s unwavering support is not charity; it is enlightened self-interest. A strong, innovative, democratic Israel is the living proof that Western civilization can take root anywhere and out-produce every autocracy around it.