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18.09.2022

Editorial

Iran, a copy-paste of Israel

עיתון בין אויבים

A newspaper among enemies

Recently, the Iranian president ordered to increase efforts to establish Iranian cooperatives. Iran formulated its goal to establish economic cooperatives in a document in 2012, but only 20% of the scope of cooperatives has been founded since then. Iranian President Raisi last week gave the institutions responsible for establishing the cooperatives two weeks to formulate an explanation as to why they failed to achieve the goal. So much so that Iran sees the establishment of cooperatives as an important step on the way to a solid economy. Israel was founded on the idea of ​​cooperatives, which was one of the social and economic cornerstones of its establishment. In the beginning cooperatives such as Hamashbir and Solel Bone, which were under the Histadrut workers' association, and alongside them agricultural cooperatives in the beginnings such as Segera which later developed into the idea of ​​the kibbutz, which in many days transformed the agricultural kibbutzim into cooperative settlements whose power base is in industry; Both the industrial achievements of the kibbutzim as well as their agricultural achievements have been known throughout the world since then. It is possible that this success influenced Iran, as it turns out that other economic and social strategies that were a milestone in Israel's development and becoming a regional economic and military power were also adopted in the last decade by Iran.

In 1987, Israel realized that it could not develop the Israeli economy without stabilizing its currency and banking system. Cooperation between Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Modai resulted in Israel cutting down impossible inflation, thereby enabling the next generation to develop a flourishing market economy, with a currency that is getting stronger, as well as strengthening bank supervision; This was a new acknowledgment by the Israeli public that a cornerstone of an advanced economy is a stable, organized, innovative and supervised banking system and a stable currency. The stabilization of the currency, and the perfection of the Iranian banking system and its stabilization, under a transformation under the close supervision of the Iranian Central Bank, are three of the ten new basic rules recently set by Iranian President Raisi for the Iranian economy.

Other Iranian strategies look like a copy-paste of the Israeli economy. For example, the development of an Iranian military industry based on technology, part of which looks like the reverse engineering of Israeli items in the pictures. As well as the attempts that the Iranian president is accelerating to develop water desalination technologies, and as well as his demands from the Iranian bureaucracy to bring about the development of modern agriculture and advanced agricultural methods, which were and still are, one of the most prominent characteristics of Israel; Already as a developing country, Israel sent agricultural experts all over the world, who instructed on new methods in productivity, water and irrigation, fruits of Israeli developments, which caused astonishment in the world.

Under the influence of Benjamin Netanyahu, the development of roads, and transportation, were accepted in Israel as an important and central economic accelerator, and Israeli governments invested a lot of money in this, and the investment justified itself.  Raisi and Khamenei's Iran also invests in roads and transportation, and the president of Iran, visits Iranian provinces, and assures his listeners that roads and transportation are at the top of his mind. Even the supreme Iranian leader Khamenei, repeats and says, things that sound like a copy of the words of Israeli leaders, that the economy is at the top of his thoughts. Netanyahu saw the Israeli economy as a key to Israel's success, in all areas, and he did bring about a very significant development of Israel's economy, in a way that turned it into a regional economic and military power. Although in this context it should be said that the social consequences of this success were and remain very difficult, since the action for economic success is unbalanced with social needs and desires. Therefore, it is possible that in the future it will become clear that Israeli society will pay a heavy price for the enormous economic success brought by Netanyahu. Maybe even too heavy.

The impression from all these and more is that there is a broad common denominator between Israel and Iran, culturally and economically, yet the two, not only do not speak, but are on the brink of war. Is one of the two wrong? No. Both are wrong; It is therefore expected in our estimation that in the end logic will prevail over hatred and rage, and the two will open a dialogue. why? Because these are rational countries, and perhaps they have already started a discourse in the dark. And why would they open a conversation and not fight? Because war is not a real option for any of them. Neither Iran nor Israel can defeat the other.