Jeffrey Goldberg has a feeling he’d like to share: John Bolton thinks Israel might strike Iran before the end of the year. So do I, for what it’s worth. I sense a growing feeling among some Israeli analysts that a strike is almost inevitable.
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When the lobby likes to tell lies
The following letter appeared in the Australian Jewish News on July 10: Last week a member of the Jewish community was slandered in the media but I’m not expecting Jamie Hyams’ “Media Week” column to point out the glaring unfairness of the description. Why? Because the person was the community’s enfant terrible, Antony Loewenstein. I…
Loewenstein sucks, says Jew
The following letter appeared in a recent edition of the Australian Jewish News: Sorry Sal Salbe, but on balance, Greg Sheridan is correct (AJN 10/07). Antony Loewenstein might occasionally criticise the Iranian regime on his blog, but compared to his repeated and hysterical media condemnations of Israel he is, as Sheridan phrased it, listless. Proof…
Iran’s issues are not just their own
Roger Cohen in the New York Times on the Iranian paradox: A succession struggle of sorts has begun in Iran. Rafsanjani, 74, is challenging Khamenei, 70. So is Mohammad Khatami, the reformist former president who called Sunday for a referendum on the legitimacy of the election. They are saying Iran is a great and proud…
Not forgetting the silenced Iranians
The crackdown continues: Iranian riot police detained dozens of pro-reform protesters in central Tehran today, a witness said. The witness said the protesters were chanting slogans against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the government, including: “Ahmadinejad – resign, resign” and “Death to the dictator”. The witness added: “Riot police are taking dozens of protesters into their…
More than two sides in the global arena
Tony Karon writes in The National about the dangerous tendency of many in the political and media establishment to frame everything in terms of simple terms and good versus bad: Last summer it was so much easier for Americans: “Today we are all Georgians,” John McCain declared at the height of the Russian offensive provoked…
How to survive prison in Iran
Greek journalist Iason Athanasiadis was recently imprisoned and released from Iranian prison. He provides some advice: Jail cells — alongside yoga studios — are the last bastions of true inner peace. When I became the first foreign journalist in decades to be thrown into Iran’s notorious Evin Prison I was exposed to a mixture of…
How afraid are they, really?
The Islamic Republic blocks the whistle-blowing website, Wikileaks. The ugly face of a repressive and paranoid regime.
How to kill citizens silently
Iran, nation of secrets: Hundreds more people may have died in Iran‘s post-election unrest than the authorities have admitted, amid allegations that the death toll has been obscured by hiding victims’ bodies in secret morgues.
