It’s become monotonous. The New York Times runs a report on U.S.-Iran relations, including the sparring over the nuclear deal — and the paper leaves out the Israel angle entirely. The latest example the other day was headlined: “Impasse Over Iran Nuclear Talks Sets Off International Scramble to Save Accord.”
The article, in addition to the U.S. and Iran, mentioned Britain, France, Germany, China, Russia and the European Union — but no Israel.
The reporter, Lara Jakes, is a veteran correspondent, with many years of experience, including in the Mideast. She didn’t just parachute into the story from covering town board meetings in Westchester County.
The Times’s editors are legendarily powerful, which raises the suspicion that 1) they either cut any reference to Israel, or 2) Jakes knew better than to include one.
The omission is inexplicable. Israel fought vigorously against the Iran nuclear deal back in 2015, a campaign that included Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress behind President Barack Obama’s back. Since then, large sections of the powerful U.S. pro-Israel lobby cheered Donald Trump’s 2018 exit from the agreement, and one of Israel’s main mouthpieces here, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, loudly opposes a U.S. return to the deal.
The Times’s failure to include Israel’s role is even more egregious in light of the recent Op-Ed by retired Israeli Major General Yair Golan, who said “key leaders in the Israeli Defense Forces” welcomed the agreement when it was signed in 2015. So far, neither reporters from the Washington Post, (which ran General Golan’s article), nor the Times have followed up on his assertions, which also included the charge that Benjamin Netanyahu opposes the agreement for selfish political reasons, not because he thinks it’s a genuine threat to Israel’s security.
Meanwhile, the Israeli daily Haaretz, citing the Wall Street Journal, said that “Israel has struck at least 12 ships carrying Iranian oil to Syria” since late 2019. Israel is obviously not an innocent bystander to developments in the Mideast, but the New York Times apparently does not always find that news fit to print.
Meanwhile, reports and evidence of Israeli kamikaze drones (supplied to Azerbaijan) have also surfaced, striking Armenian positions and infrastructure. If those were Iranian drones there would be headlines across the mainstream media and the US would be targeting Iranian supply chains and arms convoys with air strikes, and raising more sanctions against Iran. The hypocrisy and deafening silence on Israel’s outright belligerence in the region is astounding.
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“These murders might be state operations but are no different in their brazen nature, their illegality and their brutality from hits organised by Mafia gangs. In the case of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a distinguished physicist, he was apparently dragged from his car during the attack and finished off in the middle of the road. The crime was so heinous that even voices usually hostile to Iran (including the New York Times and former CIA director John Brennan) were appalled.
“Each of these attacks is a casus belli for war. Two can play at this game, which means that by these attacks, Israel is virtually inviting the assassination of its own political leaders and military commanders, or its senior representatives abroad. That Iran does not strike back, in the same way, is not necessarily a sign that it does not have the capacity to organise such retaliation. Apart from the criminality and violations of international law that such actions represent, Iran is never going to strike back at a time of Israel’s choosing.”
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The Assassin’s Creed: Murder As Israeli State Policy – American Herald Tribune (ahtribune.ca)
“The Assassin’s Creed: Murder As Israeli State Policy” American Herald Tribune, Nov. 30/20 by Jeremy Salt.
“If our dreams for Zionism are not to end in the smoke of assassins’ pistols and our labor for its future to produce only a new set of gangsters worthy of Nazi Germany, many like myself will have to reconsider the position we have maintained for so long in the past.” — Winston Churchill, November, 1944, from his address to the House of Commons on the murder of Britain’s Resident Minister in the Middle East, Lord Moyne, by two members of the Zionist terrorist organization, Lehi.”
EXCERPT:
“Israel’s crimes against Iran in the past decade include the sabotage through the Stuxnet virus of the centrifuges in its nuclear development program, the killing through missile attack of its militia members in Syria, the sabotage of its Natanz nuclear plant in July this year and the murder in recent years of five of its leading nuclear scientists, most recently, a few days ago, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
“Each of these attacks would have been carried out at least with the approval of the US government, if not the active involvement at some level of both the US and its puppet Iranian terrorist organization, the MEK (Mujahedin e-Khalq). In reverse, Israel would have been closely involved in the US assassination of Qasim Suleimani in Iraq in January this year. (cont’d)
One thing is clear, Iran has consistently been made to look like the bad guy, and it is as if poor Israel is constantly being bullied or threatened by them. Israel does control the US media in many ways, and the narrative in the US is far, far different, to what the rest of the world knows, and their exposure to the truth. Israel has perpetrated a hell of a lot of crimes against Iran, including getting their agents within Iran to kill their Scientists, and conspiring with the US to play war games in other Middle Eastern nations. Iran is no saintly nation, but neither are Israel and Saudi Arabia, and yet the media keeps giving the American people, a one sided narrative, making Iran the boogey man, just like Iraq was. Iran has never attacked the US, nor any other nation for decades, and we cannot say the same for Israel or Saudi Arabia.
It is very easily explicable: Zionism.