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.
/ 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.
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.
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?
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?