Israeli ambassador Michael Oren was in Seattle this week. The Seattle Times caught up with him:
Oren also portrays Israel as a country under siege. He says the threats include a hostile Iranian regime seeking to build nuclear weapons, Hezbollah missiles that can reach all over Israel and evidence of an al-Qaida presence in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
“If you are a terrorist, Sinai is heaven for you,” Oren said Wednesday during a visit to Seattle. “It is extremely rugged terrain. You can hide a lot.”…
And more:
In an interview Wednesday at The Seattle Times, Oren touched on a range of issues, including concerns about the fate of a three-decade long peace with Egypt that has enabled “us to beat many of our sword into plowshares.”
Oren said the Arab Spring, which he preferred to call the “upheaval” has resulted in political parties in the Egyptian parliament whose leaders regularly refer to Israel as the enemy.
And what about the Egyptian people’s right to choose their leaders? Does that matter to someone who claims to love democracy? That treaty and American military aid helped to preserve a dictatorship in Egypt.
oh heavens, is this an example of the kind of hasbara we can expect from israel wrt egypt for the next few years?
We must bomb Iran and Egypt immediately! And any other enemies of Israel!
We must kill off all the Arabs–and probably anyone who isn’t Jewish or zionist!
Or there will be a Holocaust! Holocaust!…
yawn….
Wow, if it’s THAT dangerous I guess I won’t make Aliya this year….
Chevy Chase, MD/neocon haven seems so much safer to live.
Read again Mr. Oren that Egypt/Israel peaceagreement, especially that part which contains Sinai area.
Enemy at the gates, part xxxxxxxxxx.
“Almost all wars are based on lies. Lies are considered legitimate instruments of war. Lebanon War I (as it was later called) was a glorious example.
From beginning to end (if it has ended yet) it was a war of deceit and deception, falsehoods and fabrications.”
Uri Avnery
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/06/08/the-war-of-lies/