Call for a Lipstick Revolution

By Norma Zager

In recent years Russia has regularly shipped nuclear material to Iran through Azerbaijan who notified the US of these shipments. The United States instructed Azerbaijan leaders to do what they wished with the shipments.

This feigned world surprise is no more than a charade. The US and others have been well aware of Iran's activities, and Israel has validated the progress regularly through reports from Mossad.

Once again the world has ignored a bad seed until it is too late for any amount of fertilizer to neutralize what has become a giant Oak.

Now only the blood of innocents can remove this sick tree from the international landscape.

Had the most severe sanctions been implemented years ago, Iran would have new leadership today.

The saddest of all sadness is man's inability to heed past lessons.

Iran's desire to destroy Israel and the Jews is not a claim the world hasn't heard many times before.

Unfortunately, as Netanyahu warned that band of lower intellects that comprise the UN, when evil sets its sights on destruction of the Jewish people, the world pays the ultimate price.

Leaders of countries like Iran are a cancer on the body of the world. If ignored, it will spread quickly to destroy whatever good cells and organs it passes through.

What is so distressful about the situation we face now is that a group of evil men were allowed to laugh and mock the world. Our leaders have been impotent and blind. Now it is not they who must put their lives on the front lines to battle evil once more, it is the children.

This time the price will be higher.

The world is larger, the evil greater and the cost in human life will be beyond comprehension.

Had any leader had the courage to stand against this evil empire and its minions, the world would be safer. None has, so the world is not secure and may never be again.

Nuclear engagement will leave a devastating scar on earth, far greater than World War II.

Shame on the politicians.

Not a single country has cared enough about its people to stand up to Iran's wicked regime and protect lives.

What can the citizenry do when we suffer for the fools we empower? Nothing. We have learned nothing from past folly. Man has proven himself to be no more than an animal roaming the planet until, as so many species before, we are extinct. Iran is rushing us toward that extinction and our so-called leaders are marching in step.

The time has come for women to take the reins and protect our children from evil.

Watching the women of Iran murdered in the streets of Tehran with no whisper of an outcry from women of the world was unimaginable to me.

Where was the outrage of Gloria Steinem, Hillary Clinton or the First Lady? What happened to us, have we become so complacent we care nothing for our children or our own embattled gender? Is the women's movement the one-trick-pony pro-choice pitiful joke it appears?

Women are not the weaker sex, but the smarter and bolder one.

When will we unite and use our power for good?

Women are being stoned and malevolence is allowed to wander unfettered, plotting its murderous intent. Where are our voices? Why are we mute? Too many sons and daughters have died already as we cowered in the shadows.

As we who are complacent enough to suffer these fools of history and allow them to lead us into slaughter again, are fully aware this war may be humankind's last.

Let the Lipstick Revolution begin and let us honor all dying soldiers crying out for their mothers. Women must hear and act to save our children now. Fight for our sisters-for our world-and pray it is not already too late!

In the series "Postcards from Israel," Ari Bussel and Norma Zager invite readers throughout the world to join them as they present reports from Israel as seen by two sets of eyes: Bussel's on the ground, Zager's counter-point from home. Israel and the United States are inter-related - the two countries we hold dearest to our hearts - and so is this "point - counter-point" presentation that has, since 2008, become part of our lives. Feel free to share with others.

© Postcards from Home, October, 2009

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