Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad continues his foul Holocaust denial during a speech today for “Jerusalem Day” at the University of Tehran. The Hamas leader, interviewed by Ken Livingstone in this week’s New Statesman, offers many insights, including this: The conflict is the outcome of aggression and occupation. Our struggle against the Israelis is not because…
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The nuclear game in the Middle East
Dr. Abdul Khader Khan, the father of Pakistan’s nuclear program, recently granted an interview to local TV: Iran was interested in obtaining nuclear technology. And because Iran is an important Islamic country, we wanted it to have the technology. The Western countries pressured us on this issue, and it wasn’t fair. If Iran can have…
America says it is good and true and the globe laughs
Salon’s Glenn Greenwald on the inherent delusions of the American corporate media and posits: the world looks at us with contempt and slams the exceptionalist mindset: I’m asking this sincerely, not rhetorically:… is there anything other than extreme self-delusion, grounded in blinding self-regard… (i.e., self-decreed exceptionalism), that can explain this?… … The Washington Post Editorial Page today is…
Minute by minute planning to bomb the Islamic Republic
Amos Harel in Haaretz on the supposedly normal plans to bomb Iran: For an Israeli attack to be considered, Israel would need the tacit approval of the Obama administration, if only in the sense that it looks the other way. This is due above all to the necessity of passing through the Iraqi air corridor,…
Many young Jews don’t see Israel as the promised land
The New York Times publishes this weekend a feature on the “pro-peace and pro-Israel” lobby J Street (a group I’ve mentioned many times here.) The piece is important, for no other reason than it tells the world that not all Jews subscribe to the fanatical Greater Israel mindset. Sure, the writer talks about the “very…
Just some genocide provided by Jewish settlers
If a Muslim calls for the destruction of Israel or Jews, it is rightly condemned. But how about a radical Jew writing this? For peace and truth to unite and prevail, Israel must first triumph over her enemies, today led by Satanic Iran. Israel is waiting for the moment. She knows that the mullahs of…
Jews are far too keen to launch missiles on Iran
The drive for war against Iran is gathering pace, led by fundamentalist Zionist groups: Top U.S. congressional leaders and an Obama administration official are scheduled to meet with Jewish leaders to discuss how to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, which will…
Iran’s true face is not hard to see
The New York Times writes a spot-on editorial: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran is preparing to come to the United Nations this month where he will enjoy the freedom to speak his mind. Back home, far too many people are denied their basic rights and are deprived of their freedom. Since fraudulent presidential elections in…
For this Jew, boycotting Israel is a bridge too far
Following my article in Crikey yesterday, David Imber responds today (under the headline: “This time Loewenstein, you went too far”): As a Jew who is used to reading controversial pieces about Israel (and as someone who was friends with him at uni) I have been content to let the views of Antony Loewenstein go through…
The Israel lobby gets a bang for its huge bucks
Anti-War examines the ways in which the Zionist lobby in the US beautifully greases the wheels of the American political elites: Many Americans who thought that the health care debate was important must have wondered where their congressmen were in early August during the first two weeks of the House of Representatives recess.… It turns…