Republican Whip Eric Cantor reminded the 2009 General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in Washington this week that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is “the man holding the gun with which he vows to kill Israel and the Jews”: Some Jews always need an enemy.
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Ahmadinejad wonders just what Obama has really achieved
The Guardian asks Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad what it would take to normalise relations with the US: Change should happen in practice. Which change has happened? Was Guantánamo Bay shut down? Were the US policies supporting Zionists and the mass murder of Palestinians stopped? Were the US policies in Afghanistan changed? Were the policies in…
How threatened are Jews by alternative views? (hint: a lot)
Parochial Jews love to feel like victims, despite the fact that they’re largely a successful, connected and wealthy community. Being a victim is terribly effective politically, despite its inherent dishonesty. In that tradition, here’s a recent letter in the Australian Jewish News: Where would we Australian Jews be without our demons? Without (in no particular…
Life in Aceh, Indonesia
My following article is published in the Huffington Post: In a collection of just released work by Acehnese writer Azhari, Nutmeg Woman, we are brought into a world before the devastating 2004 tsunami that killed over 220,000 Indonesians. Civil war wracked the province. Indonesian occupation was brutal and fought against the Free Aceh Movement (GAM).…
Will Iran be tolerated as a regional power?
Founder of Conflicts Forum Alastair Crooke on the real challenge Iran poses to the world order: It was pure drama: The leaders of the United States, Britain, and France stepped onto the stage at the Pittsburgh Group of 20 meeting recently to unveil Western intelligence that showed that Iran had a second nuclear fuel enrichment…
The UN are really Nazis, says prominent Jew
Michael B. Oren, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, issues an absurd argument that simply shows the desperation of Zionists only able to smear any fair critic: The Goldstone Report [on Gaza] goes further than Ahmadinejad and the Holocaust deniers by stripping the Jews not only of the ability and the need but of the…
Nazis are everywhere, especially under Israeli beds
Gideon Levy in Haaretz reminds us that Israel is very happy to cheapen the memory of the Holocaust when it suits their needs: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cheapened the memory of the Holocaust in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday. He did so twice. Once, when he brandished proof of the…
Iran, Michael Jackson, and Generation X
My following article appears in the Asia-Pacific Magazine The Diplomat: Our writer argues that his young tech-savvy peers, celebrity fixations aside, are increasingly engaged in global issues like this summer’s riots in Tehran. The violent June uprisings in Iran ricocheted around the world. While young, old, conservative and liberal Iranians protested the stolen election win…
Ahmadinejad is a man with a serious dislike of Jews
Following Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent foul speech on “Jerusalem Day” about Jews, Israel and the Holocaust – he’s been welcomed to New York this week with Iranian protests -… Juan Cole digs deeper into his words to reveal an even bleaker picture: For him to suggest, as he does here, that anti-Semitism was justified…