The story is old news; the only thing new about it is NPR humping it, for god knows whatever reason. Listen to the rightwing Israeli warmongers on NPR yesterday morning, emphases mine:
Host SCOTT SIMON: Last weekend's meeting on Iran's controversial nuclear program didn't produce breakthroughs, but the envoys from six world powers and Iran suggested that the talks in Istanbul started a process that could lead to an eventual compromise. But one nation, Israel, was not happy with the results....
DANNY AYALON: We want to caution from falling into the trap of a good atmosphere...
GARCIA-NAVARRO: That's Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon. In a press conference this week, he told members of the international news media that the talks in Israel's view are being used by Iran as a stalling tactic.
AYALON: The Iranians should stop immediately. We would like to see results now.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Israel wants Iran to stop enriching uranium right now...
EITAN LIVNE [director of Iran Research and Content for the rightwing Israel Project]: Iran was given the one thing it needs the most, and that's more time.
Why isn't our national radio covering Obama's position on this? Or Hillary Clinton's? The State Department?
Ha ha, the trap of a good atmosphere! Oh no, can’t have that, we demand a baad atmosphere, prompted and manufactured by those veterans of hate and war, Israel. Hilarious. True colours leaking out. These goons think they are so powerful in the US, so impervious to criticism or reason, that they can wheel out this stuff without realising the poison they are dripping into people’s ears is utterly transparent and contemptible. When has Israel ever been involved in anything generating a ‘good atmosphere’. They are spoiled beyond belief. Great negotiating tactic and propaganda point. Not.
And don’t talk to us about stalling, you shmucks. Israel has stalled on negotiations for 60 years, stalled on the implementation of justice and human rights, stalled on living up to its so-called promises and commitments, and oh yes, stalled on admitting its nuclear plans and facilities to international inspection. You have no ethical right to criticise Iran, given your woeful track record.
i know jp, i cracked up when i read that.
/ Listen to the rightwing Israeli warmongers /
So nice to hear the familiar Soviet propaganda rhetoric even if it is in English.
Childhood memories are the best ones even if you grew up in a rotting totalitarian
state.
NPR = Soviet propaganda rhetoric
excellent framing oleg.
No idea who NPR are but you dear annie certainly use a lot of the rhetoric
that hits a familiar chord.
Dan Crowther would agree with me on that though i doubt we would agree on much else.
You should think about that.
No idea who NPR are
;) lol
Hey, everyone knows NPR stands for National Palestinian Radio!
@Terryscott Beg to differ. About 15 years ago an acquaintance called NPR “National Jewish Radio.” Totally outside the context of the I/P issue. Totally unsuspected from this person. Totally not meant in true anti-semitic fashion, rather just as an observation of predominant input, outlook, and priority.
To be clear that is not at all bad, in fact it is and can be a major positive to view the world through the eyes of the “other.” And she didn’t mean it as a derogatory, only that it is different in origin and projection from how the rest of us perceive the world around us.
Knowing now what I didn’t know then (to paraphrase Bob Seger), throw in the I/P conflict and the fact that it is actually a fight that MW is engaged in (a sizable difference of opinion within the Jewish community on I/P), NPR does in fact express views that occlude the Palestinian point of view from their reporting and interviews.
As I write this, I educate myself…
Yes, this one’s rather open-and-shut. For the Iraq war preps, we had USA’s own neocons and could ignore the possibility (or fact) that Israel was plumping for war. Why mention it, when enough USAers (even if Israel-connected) were demanding war?
Now, with quisling Obama stalling and trying for a gooood atmosphere, we can ONLY hear from Israel herself (altho surely there must be some USA neocons again plumping for war) (war: best thing since sliced bread!).
But as distinguished and careful listeners have noted, above, NPR’s Israeli-mafia only report pro-war and pro-sanctions stuff, not anything else. Sometimes I imagine that 90% of donations to NPR and the radio stations are from big-$$ Zios who throw their weight around enough for NPR to get the message very well.
they are addicted to pumping the fear iran narrative, revving it up after the massive fail hasbara weekend.
>> So nice to hear the familiar Soviet propaganda rhetoric …
Ah, so that’s where the Jewish state gets it from.
>> Ah, so that’s where the Jewish state gets it from.
where do you think the soviets got it from? check out Yuri Slezkine’s book The Jewish Century.
Probably much truth in that.
best to nuke iran right now because there’s no doubt that an additional six weeks will give its islamic government more than enough time to develop and manufacture not only its own nukes, but also the necessary delivery systems with which to annihilate israel.
or so the israeli government and its u.s. israel firsters would have us believe
given that opinion polls in germany indicate that over 80% of the public approves of gunter grass’ poem declaring israel to be a threat to an already fragile world peace, i wonder what the response in the u.s. of a. would be to either g.g.’s poem or a like-minded message from a public figure here? my guess is that it would be welcomed and approved by a majority of americans. perhaps that’s why msm hasn’t carried g.g.’s poem (as opposed to the zionist entity’s criticisms of it) to its audience. fortunately for those of us in the justice for palestine movement, msm’s abdication of its responsibility to fully inform the public on what an iran war would mean for america (and the world) is our opportunity to get the word out through the internet/alternative media. what’s more, by putting israel firsters on the defensive, our perseverence in said effort would create a space for our ever reluctant (some say cowardly) president to openly break with the zionist entity on the iran war, and is there any doubt as to whether such a move would be a game changer?
Americans hear the word poem and they immediately reach for their TV remote control; in this sense they are different from Europeans even though 60% of them descend from EU nations via blood line. A poem to an average American, in my experience, is like a totally melted Mauser rifle.
RE: “Why isn’t our national radio covering Obama’s position on this? Or Hillary Clinton’s? The State Department?” ~ Annie
MY RHETORICAL QUESTIONS: What percentage of NPR’s regular listeners are “older-type Jews”? What percentage of NPR’s regular donors are “older-type Jews”? What percentage of the people who regularly give NPR “feedback” (putting it mildly) regarding its coverage of the Middle East are cranky, crabby, cantankerous* (like my own dear mom, bless her pea-picking heart) “older-type Jews” who “kvetch” like hell every time NPR carries anything that even slightly casts doubt (thereby inducing beaucoup cognitive dissonance) on their most prized dogma – that of “saintly” (can do no wrong) Israel?
“Seek and ye shall find answers!”
Now therefore arise and go forth.
* P.S. Boy did I get up on the wrong side of a side-less bed this afternoon. Can I be a real horse’s a_s, or what?!?! Pot calling kettle black? Psychological projection, much?
P.P.S. RE: “like my own dear mom, bless her pea-picking
heart” ~ me, above
BETTER PHOTO OF MY cranky, crabby, cantankerous (Fox News-loving) dear own mom (who will not listen to anything that conflicts with any of her many closely held dogmas), bless her pea-picking heart – link to facebook.com
Hey, Dickerson, it’s just like the Seinfeld episode Larry David never made. Should Mel Gibson get in in the fun?
Luv ya man.
Conan knows, but he wants the material perks that goes with his career, like so many others. So does that other Irish comedian, the woman–what’s her name? She even did a comedy skit about it, telling us all she wouldn’t attack the Jews as she valued her career?
Today is Earth Day…a day to celebrate our natural environment.
A day to review human successes and failures in caring for our planet.
A time to consider our sustainable attitudes and practices.
Yes, attitudes.
I visited the old San Miguel Mission on the way to San Luis Obispo, built in the 1700′s by the Catholic faith. There is a slightly larger than life bronze statue of Christ. At his feet, in the base, are three words: “Love One Another”.
That sounds like a sustainable attitude, to me.
The opposite: Hate One Another, does not.
Let’s Talk…sounds sustainable.
Let’s Not Talk…doesn’t.
On the surface, it might seem odd to quote Christ (yes, I know…did he even exist). …apparently the founder of Christianity, but also a Jew. But, wisdom crosses all lines.
But, does everyone consider to, Love One Another, wisdom?
I’m not an expert on why Christ got sideways with those in control…
but, then as now, it seems like there are some trying to kill the message.
NPR, yes. But check out CBS!!
UNBELIEVABLE segment on 60 minutes tonight.
Bob Simon rips Oren a new one here:
Christians of the Holy Land
I am totally opposed to nuclear weapons but nobody has explained to me why Isreal CAN have nuclear weapons but Iran CAN”T. This whole situation has been brought about so that Isreal can maintain its military domination of the Middle-East.
The end result is that the whole world will have to pay more for petrol !!!
Exactly. And – I think most people know that, and further that Israel has undeclared nuclear weapons AND aren’t a signatory to the NPT.
In short, Israel’s word has no moral weight. They might be able to get 100 US Senators to line up and sign on the dotted line but I think Mr and Mrs Average on the street are wise to Israel’s gag. Christian zionists aside…
I think if Israel attacks Iran or lures the US into attacking Iran there will be a massive public backlash. Million of us were out on the street trying to prevent Bush’s bogus war on Iraq – and of course it turns out we were right, and then some. There’s a lot of people who are still pissed about Iraq. I expect all that will be stirred up again if war with Iran commences or seems imminent.
Actually, I think Garcia-Navarro did a decent job with much of this report, emphasizing that Israel stands outside the international consensus of relief that Iran is negotiating and clarifying that the criticism was coming from Israel’s Foreign Ministry and that there is dissent within Israel to the Foreign Ministry’s rhetoric as well as its creating tension with the Obama administration. Americans who are not hardline Zionists can separate Israel’s and America’s interests in that part of the story.
What concerns me is N-V’s accepting both Israelis’ contentions about Fordo and Iran’s nuclear program without question.