Following Roger Cohen’s sensible calls for restraint towards Iran in the New York Times a few days ago, the paper publishes a collection of reasonable letters in response. Not one crazed Zionist here: To the Editor: Those who got Iraq so wrong should read “Israel Cries Wolf,” Roger Cohen’s April 9 online column about Iran,…
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It’s clear where the worry lies
The Israeli President must think the world is stupid: Sooner or later, the world will discover that Iran has the aspiration to take over the Middle East and that it posses colonial ambitions. Left unsaid, of course, is the American role in colonising most of the Middle East and backing dictatorships (all backed by the…
Watching the elites move their cards
Two opinion articles in today’s New York Times that suggest a noticable shift in that paper’s stance on Israel/Palestine (or at least providing space for more critical voices). First up, Roger Cohen writes in yet another piece that Obama cannot allow under any circumstances Israel to bomb Iran: “Israel would be utterly crazy to attack…
Please, somebody stop them
Is Israel still likely to attack Iran? Possibly, yes. Haaretz urges caution.
Imagining true independence
Jerusalem Post neo-con columnist Caroline Glick, in a piece titled, “Surviving in a post-American world“, is forced to consider the Jewish state without Washington’s 110% backing (though I think she’s seriously exaggerating the chances of Obama hanging Israel out to dry): …If Obama’s assertions that Israel must support the immediate establishment of a Palestinian state,…
Abuse is alright when directed at them
The Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is grilled by German magazine Spiegel Online. There is no doubt that his country deserves to be challenged on its gross human rights abuses, but would the journalist ever challenge Western politicians in the same way? Of course not.
Ahmadinejad needs cash
The Iranian economy is faltering and might, just might, affect the country’s relationship with the West.
The Jewish divide is growing and this is good
Zionist fanatic Mort Zuckerman wonders how soon somebody, anybody, will bomb the Islamic Republic back to the stone age. New York Times columnist Roger Cohen issues caution and adds this: “Israeli hegemony is proving a kind of slavery. Passage to the Promised Land involves rethinking the Middle East, starting in Iran.”
How willing is Obama to change?
Roger Cohen, writing in the New York Times – his recent columns have challenged the Israel right or wrong brigade in the US – continues his exploration of alternative uses of American power in the Middle East (during an interview with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan): Dreams aside, I see Obama moving methodically to…
The case for Ahmadinejad’s sanity?
Blogger Andrew Sullivan on Iran’s supposed suicide wish: Jeffrey Goldberg provides a long list of the Islamist’s statements on Israel. It’s a good complement to this. Reading them all, it becomes quite clear to me that Ahmadinejad does indeed want Israel to cease to exist, but equally clear that he is not speaking of dropping…