In his amusing book The Joy of Yiddish, Leo Rosten defines the word “Chutzpah” as “gall, brazen nerve, effrontery.” The word is perfectly applicable to the Islamic state of Iran and its leaders with their extraordinary mockery of Western values and utterances of cynicism and barefaced prevarications. This cynicism differs from the kind of utter stupidity paraded by Tawfiq Tirawi, leading member of the Palestinian Central Committee of Fatah. His breathtaking contributions to knowledge were that Israel was responsible for poisoning Yasser Arafat and, on January 16, 2016, that Adolf Hitler was not morally corrupt, he was daring. The chutzpah of Iran is vastly more skilled and adroit than the idiocy of the Palestinian leader. It is a provocative and deliberate challenge to the West and ridiculing of Western values of free speech, norms, and ethics. That challenge, and its ultimate real objective was already evident in a declaration in June 1963 by the cleric...(Read Full Article)