Oh me of little influence– I saw the significance of Trita Parsi's book Treacherous Alliance 18 months ago. Well Laura Rozen at Foreign Policy says that the book's sales have spiked lately because of Roger Cohen's superb endorsement in the Times of the book's idea that Israel is hyping the Iranian nuclear threat because it has been, surprise, engaged in a regional power struggle with Iran since time immemorial. Rozen says there's evidence that Parsi's book has made it to Obama's inner circle.
Another sign of Cohen's influence: the American Jewish Committee has responded to his columns angrily. Here is the press release to which I referred yesterday, in which an AJC official named Eran Lerman uses his 17-year-old daughter as a guide, because she "sees, in the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the embodiment of a design to have her dead." That's calm reasoning, for you.
And speaking of Parsi's growing influence, I can't wait for the press to get to Parsi's most unsettling idea, this quotation he got from an Israeli intelligence official about Israel's efforts to manipulate American opinion/policy going back to the '90s:
relations with the U.S. were cooling and we needed some new glue for
the alliance… And the new glue… was radical Islam. And Iran was
radical Islam."
From Israel's lips to the ears of the neocons.
"and the new glue . . . was radical Islam."
There never was an adequate explanation of the five Israelis, disguised as furniture moving employees, who were seen cheering on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River when the two planes crashed into the twin towers on 9/11. They were taken in by New Jersey police for questioning. Then they vanished.
Oh, ye of great influence, Phil. For years you've worked courageously so that others at last can speak less timorously. Thanks!
Conversations with History – Trita Parsi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVGqDfX_pgA
In, I think, 1992 or 1993, the newspaper whose editorial board I worked on received a big visit from three Israeli generals, or two generals and an intelligence officer, hyping the Iranian nuclear threat. They were visiting all the New York and Washington papers, and probably others. I don't recall if we wrote them an editorial hyping the great Iranian threat at the time, though the paper is certainly doing that now.
Then she's an idiot, and he raised her improperly, without a capacity to think, reason, or research.
I hardly think Israel's lips to the ears of the neocons is an appropriately intimate physical description of their relationship. But that aside, the US had already declared a War on Terror w/Reagan. The Dog Wags the Tail, not the other way around.
Jewbonics
Oh but the idea that 9/11 was coordinated by Mossad and/or treacherous elements within CIA is soooooo outlandish, right?
Cohen's column boosting Parsi's book was datelined Istanbul a day or two after Obama was there. I strongly suspect Cohen had discussed the book with Obama's entourage.
it's outrageous the 9/11 mossad connection cannot be broached.
here is the attitude –of of phil's commenter's–do you think he would shrink from bombing new york?
"I don't see the issue as having any moral content; it's simply the way things are. I can't help but be grateful to my ancestors for removing the Indians, since I would never have been born otherwise!
Certainly it sucks for whoever is displaced, but who do you expect to fix the world so we all get what we want and never compete over land and resources? God? 21st century liberal blogreaders?"
Posted by: David F. | April 14, 2009 at 04:01 PM
Might makes right.
It helps to spin that for mass consumption.