farmdoc's blog post number 147

I don’t know the difference between a proverb and an aphorism, but last Thursday when I was reading a news story, a whatever-it-is jumped into my mind: ‘People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones’. Here’s the story: In 1960, Rafi Eitan (pictured) led the Mossad operation that captured Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires. Now Pensioners Minister in the Israeli Government, Eitan, in an interview published last Tuesday in the German magazine Der Spiegel, was asked whether the Mossad still hunted Nazis. That era is over, he answered, but a leader such as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad could suddenly find himself before the International Criminal Court in The Hague, because those who spread poison and want to eradicate another people had to expect such consequences. The same day, Iran’s UN Ambassador Mohammad Khazee sent a letter to the UN protesting Eitan’s implied threat to kidnap Ahmadinejad. Quite properly, Israel’s new UN ambassador, Gabriela Shalev , responded by saying that it’s absurd for Iran to preach morality to Israel when its President repeatedly denies the Holocaust and calls, again and again, for the destruction of Israel which is of course a UN member. She could have added that Iran runs Hezbollah and Hamas which have both premeditatedly kidnapped Israeli soldiers. So be careful throwing your stones, Mr Ahmadinejad. Be very careful.