Arguement: …Iran saying; hey, we would like to wipe [Israel] off the face of the earth.

Response: That’s actually a butched translation taken out of context, when in fact Ahmadinejad suggsted nothing of the sort.

A: …[Iranians] are building nucluar weapons…

R: There is “no credible evidence” of that. Arguments to the contrary are nothing but a variation of the same propaganda tactics which left us chasing smoke and mirrors into the mess which is our occupation of Iraq.

A: …[Palestinian] telivision shows for childern … that were very anti-Semitic…

R: While I agree the Mickey Mouse clone was awful, indoctrinating children into violence, at least from what I’ve seen of the show, it never suggested anything actually bigoted. Beyond that, it’s a shame organizations like Middle East Media Research Institute only cover the worst of Arab and Muslim media, as I’d like get a better idea of what television programing Israeli kids like this have been subjected to.

A: …in 1948 when Palestinians were forced to leave their land, many Jews were forced to leave their land, in Iran and Iraq and all those places…

R: When around 750,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed from what became Israel in 1948, Zionists had been promoting Jewish immigration from around the world to bolster their numbers in Palestine, and many Middle Eastern Jews went willingly both before and after the war of 1948. The fact that some three quarters of a million Palestinians had been ethnically cleansed to create the “Jewish state” resulted creating distrust of Jews among the population of the Middle East, and various nations handled the situation differently. In the case of Iran, there was no policy of expulsion, and Iraq initially disallowed immigration to Israel after the War, as did most other Arab states. Of course there were expulsions since the 1948 war, and many Jews otherwise persecuted into leaving Middle Eastern countries since then, but it takes an absurdly superficial perspective of the situation to consider it analogous the ethnic cleansing of Palestine which established the state of Israel.

I don’t hold it against Jon that he made such arguments though, as I’m sure he was just trying to represent the opposition the best he could, and such lame arguments are basically all they have. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone else actually wrote those points on his cue cards for him, as from what I’ve seen of his comments on the conflict previously, I figure he would have preferred to agree with Baltzer and Barghouti far more than he did.

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Zionist core strategy: whatever you’re doing wrong, blame it on a Palestinian.

He fed them wonderful questions to answer, which Barghouti did ably mostly.

I would have loved that heckler to go down, after the interview, and defend his position. I’m sure that tag team duo would have easily buried him under his mound of propaganda

where you float the notion of the anti-Occupation movement getting as organized as the Zionist movement and Witty’s reaction to that.

Talk about Jewish exceptionalism taken to its extreme! Although of course, to Witty, the only “real” Jews are apparently the Zionist ones. You can see it in his rhetoric on the whole notion of Jewish identity, as well as how he reacts to non-Zionist Jews like Norman Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky, Anna Balzer and even Phill Weiss — who he keeps claiming to be long time friends with, and then treats like dirt on his own blog.