Iran’s future is far more complicated than the Western media usually tells us. This New York Times piece proves this very point. The anti-Ahmadinejad forces are growing.
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Alan spends a little too much time on the IDF tit
“I don’t want to have a conversation even indirectly with [Alan] Dershowitz,” [Jimmy] Carter told The Boston Globe. “There is no need for me to debate somebody who, in my opinion, knows nothing about the situation in Palestine.”
Let the offensive out?
Holocaust denier David Irving may be odious but this decision is welcome: Thirteen months after being jailed in Austria for statements denying the Holocaust, the British historian David Irving was freed Wednesday by a court in Vienna, which ruled that he could serve the remainder of his prison sentence at home on probation. Noting that…
This is apartheid
Saree Makdisi, San Francisco Chronicle, December 20: Former President Jimmy Carter has come under sustained attack for having dared to use the term “apartheid” to describe Israel’s policies in the West Bank. However, not one of Carter’s critics has offered a convincing argument to justify the vehemence of the outcry, much less to refute his…
From the horse’s mouth
The Iraq war is lost (and in a grimly humorous tale, at least some Iraqi women are still getting pleasure.) But what of the neo-cons behind this debacle? Many have jumped ship, though their legacy remains one of deliberate provocation. One true believer, Israeli Meyrav Wurmser, a researcher at the conservative Hudson Institute and wife…
Home seems so far away
Steve Coll, The New Yorker, December 25: The arrogance and the incompetence that brought the United States to this moment in Iraq cannot release it from the obligations and the interests, some of indefinite duration, that require its persistence there. Much of this work is defensive in character, such as managing Kurdish autonomy to prevent…
The truth is clear
Following Iran’s recent Holocaust conference, many in the Western media has chosen to portray all Iranians as tainted by the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad brush. This is patently untrue and debate within Iran proves this. The source of a perhaps unlikely rebuke of Ahmadinejad’s views on the Holocaust has emerged from former Palestinian militant Mahmoud Al-Safadi. He…