NYTIMES: U.S. Agencies See No Move by Iran to Build a Bomb
By JAMES RISEN and MARK MAZZETTI
Published: February 24, 2012 222 Comments
WASHINGTON — Even as the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said in a new report Friday that Iran had accelerated its uranium enrichment program, American intelligence analysts continue to believe that there is no hard evidence that Iran has decided to build a nuclear bomb.
Recent assessments by American spy agencies are broadly consistent with a 2007 intelligence finding that concluded that Iran had abandoned its nuclear weapons program years earlier, according to current and former American officials. The officials said that assessment was largely reaffirmed in a 2010 National Intelligence Estimate, and that it remains the consensus view of America’s 16 intelligence agencies. (READ THE REST)
Recent assessments by American spy agencies are broadly consistent with a 2007 intelligence finding that concluded that Iran had abandoned its nuclear weapons program years earlier, according to current and former American officials. The officials said that assessment was largely reaffirmed in a 2010 National Intelligence Estimate, and that it remains the consensus view of America’s 16 intelligence agencies. (READ THE REST)
REUTERS: U.S. congressman confirms high-level U.S.-Israel spat over Iran
(Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blew up at the U.S. ambassador last month because he was "at wits' end" over what he sees as the Obama administration's lack of clarity on Iran's nuclear program, a U.S. congressman who was at the meeting said.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, a Republican, made his first public comments about the late August meeting in Israel in an interview with Michigan's WJR radio on Tuesday.
Continued controversy over the meeting comes as President Barack Obama on Thursday night will accept his party's nomination at the Democratic National Convention, where the level of the Obama administration's support for Israel was a contentious topic. (READ THE REST)
HAARETZ: Netanyahu 'lost his temper,' reprimanded U.S. envoy Shapiro over Iran, says congressman
Confirming previously denied reports, U.S. House Intelligence Committee chairman Republican Mike Rogers said Netanyahu believes Iran is four to eight weeks away from first nuclear bomb.Un général américain désapprouve la menace...
Report: U.S. General Dempsey says he does not want to be 'complicit' in Israeli attack on Iran
http://www.juif.org/defense-israel/176033,dempsey-je-ne-veux-pas-etre-complice-d-une-frappe-israelienne.php
Dempsey: "Je ne veux pas être complice d'une frappe israélienne"
31 Août 2012 - Juif.org
Le chef d'état-major interarmes de l'armée américain a fait jeudi des déclarations qui semblent mettre en garde Israël qu'il ne faut pas s'attendre à une aide américaine si l'état juif choisissait d'attaquer le programme iranien d'armes nucléaires.
Le général Martin Dempsey a dit qu'une telle attaque "retarderait clairement, mais ne détruirait pas le programme nucléaire de l'Iran," a rapporté jeudi The Guardian. Il a ajouté : "je ne veux pas être complice si ils choisissent de le faire."
Dempsey a déclaré ne pas connaître les intentions nucléaires de l'Iran, car les renseignements ne révèlent pas les intentions, selon lui. Ce qui est clair, a-t-il ajouté, est que la "coalition internationale" qui applique des pressions sur l'Iran "pourrait disparaître si l'Iran était attaqué prématurément".
La Maison Blanche a déclaré jeudi que l'Iran dispose d'un laps de temps limité pour accepter les conditions de l'Occident concernant son programme d'armes nucléaires.
Le secrétaire aux medias de la Maison Blanche, Jay Carney, a déclaré que les Etats Unies "étudient de près" le rapport trimestriel de l'agence internationale de l'énergie atomique (AIEA) sur l'Iran, "mais globalement parlant, il n'est pas surprenant que l'Iran continue de violer ses obligations."
"Comme le rapport le montre," a-t-il dit, "nous sommes en mesure d'observer de près le programme iranien."
Carney a dit que les Etats-Unis ont dit à l'Iran que "la fenêtre d'opportunité pour trouver une résolution reste ouverte,… mais elle ne restera pas ouverte indéfiniment."
L'Iran a augmenté sa capacité d'enrichissement d'uranium d'au moins 30% au cours des quatre derniers mois, selon le rapport de l'AIEA. Il a doublé sa capacité de production au site nucléaire de Fordo, selon le même rapport.
PRESSTV - Planned war on Iran and the General who said No!22 août 2012
Israel Assassination Attempt on General Dempsey in Afghanistan
Israel Assassination Attempt on General Dempsey in Afghanistan
US General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Today, General Dempsey, Chairman of America’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, the man who flew to Tel Aviv and informed Netanyahu that America wanted no part of his scheming against Iran was the subject of an assassination attempt in Afghanistan.
This wasn’t an act of terrorism or Taliban militants. It was a “mob hit” against someone who failed to kiss the feet of Netanyahu. His response was to unleash killers, not a fact for the public but a fact just the same, one the American military knows very well. Netanyahu has a problem with “hubris.”
The culprits, “militants,” managed to escape undetected from the most sophisticatedly defended real estate on earth, the perimeter of Bagam Air Force Base. Lucky for them they attacked at night, a time when America’s 5th generation night vision, ground radar and other detection systems were mysteriously disabled.
The rocket detection systems, early warning blimps with ground penetrating synthetic aperture radar and the continual coverage by UAV drones using infrared detection, $2 billion in technology on this one perimeter alone, cost the plane of America’s top military commander and wounds were sustained by two crew members.
Dempsey had just left Tel Aviv where he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the following:
“I may not know about all of [Israel's] capabilities, but I think that it’s a fair characterization to say that they could delay but not destroy Iran’s nuclear capabilities.”
Dempsey then told waiting reporters:
“We compare intelligence, we discuss regional implications, and we’ve admitted to each other that our clocks are turning at different rates, we have to understand the Israelis; they live with a constant suspicion with which we do not have to deal.”
There are those close to President Obama who don’t accept the attack on Dempsey at face value, with a public admission by the Taliban of complicity. Such statements, which would certainly cost dearly in reprisals by the US, are most often found on Internet sites lacking a credible connection to any Islamic source.
To some Americans, the attack appears to be a reprisal against Dempsey who, out of coincidence, cited the motive in his own appraisal of Israel’s judgment, their “constant suspicion.”
News agencies buried the failed attack, knowing Dempsey is hated by Netanyahu and respected by the Taliban as both “truthful and fair.”
Netanyahu longs for the days when General Myers held Dempsey’s job, under Bush (43), both flawed and narcissistic, predictable puppets, the perfect fodder for Netanyahu’s machinations.
Only two weeks ago, Presidential hopeful, Mitt Romney, returned from a trip overseas, coming back to America with $60 million dollars collected in Israel and Britain while accompanied by Casino boss Sheldon Adelson who’s Las Vegas and China organizations have long been reputed to be the center of worldwide organized crime.
The business, gambling, drugs, prostitution, money laundering and now war, is seeking its own president and war on Iran is the only issue driving the American campaign.
Romney, as a state governor, was, if anything, to the “left” of President Obama. Romney’s support of government health care and widespread gun controls run totally opposite to the core constituency of the Republican Party, the weapons lobby and the medical racketeers.
Romney has found, however, that, though it is illegal for any American candidate to accept money overseas, while overseas, from overseas, at home from those who are citizens of other countries, he feels himself above the law, in the sweet and motherly arms of the Israeli controlled American media.
Now drowning in illegal cash, much from London bankers, his most interesting catch was the private dinner he shared with the Tel Aviv “blood diamond” smugglers who donated up to $25 million dollars in one night.
Key to his financial successes is his lifelong history of working closely with organized crime. His investment company, Bain, was funded initially by cash infusion from El Salvador death squads many years ago. These investors are still at his side despite charges of mass murder and corruption.
Bain Capital is Romney’s money laundering and tax avoidance company with thousands of secret bank accounts in “safe havens” around the world, invisible billions, hidden transactions, unseen profits and unseen “clients.”
Now Romney has found the “mother of all causes,” selling the promise of an American war, fought by Americans, financed by Americans, American dead, American blood, American collapse, a war demanded by, not Jews of the world but by organized crime groups operating through Israel’s Likudist party, dominated by the Koch Brothers, American gasoline speculators, Sheldon Adelson, whose reputation would fill volumes and Rupert Murdoch, whose spy organization is now proven to have blackmailed three consecutive British government, well proven, and likely to have been even more successful in the United States, Germany, Canada, Australia and a dozen other nations.
Most embarrassing to both Russia and the United States has been the ability of criminal organizations to secure sanctions against Iran when both nations are burdened by official reports stating with comprehensive clarity that Iran has no nuclear program.
Even more embarrassing for Russia, who refused to veto sanctions as they did with Iran’s ally Syria, is the fact that Iran’s peaceful nuclear program is built, in near entirety on Russian technology, a Russian nuclear reactor and 3000 Russian technicians.
Statements by Obama directly contradict America’s National Intelligence Estimate. The estimate stated that Iran has no nuclear program. Russia’s Putin has similarly ignored, not just his own intelligence agencies but the fact that Russia is actually building Iran’s reactor and has 3000 technicians in Iran, all of whom probably are not entirely deaf and blind.
Obama has no rational claim to ignorance. His behavior is like that of the playground, all the other children are eating dirt, he feels he has to do the same. In this case, however, when known falsehoods likely to end in a destructive war are agreed to out of fear of retaliation by a former furniture salesman (Netanyahu) or gambling boss, the real importance of the presidency comes into doubt.
A problem no one will mention, is the behavior of Putin in Tel Aviv, backing Netanyahu’s claims of Iran’s violation of voluntary agreements based on no facts other than the statements of one of the world best known pathological liars. What does the failed furniture salesman from Philadelphia have on Uncle Vladimir?
Neither leader has dealt with the simple fact, Iran has the right to build anything it wants for any reason it wishes.
Similarly, the United States, under Bush, both withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 and withdrew from participation in the International Criminal Court at The Hague.
The latter, the withdrawal from the court, is a veritable admission of complicity in war crimes with key U.S. officials facing indictment and arrest across the globe.
Were one to be honest, the entire Bush administration is under a privileged form of “house arrest” as is Britain’s Tony Blair. All face criminal proceedings and continually make plans to travel but end up cancelling, sometimes out of public outcry for justice or to actually avoid arrest.
Despite his pronouncements, even with an election upcoming and the need to parrot childish threats in order to please the Israeli press a prerequisite, Obama has made it clear he will not attack Iran. It is time the public realizes that by opposing war and running against Romney, an agent of a hostile foreign power and longtime organized crime affiliate, the president and those around him are at great risk.
The carefully choreographed and very public attempt on the life of General Dempsey is a greeting card from the Adelson/Romney/Netanyahu camp.
Several appropriate responses, RSVPs as it were, come to mind, some partially fatal. Is an American president really the leader of the free world, as we so often say, if any “two bit thug” can dictate policy?
Despite that position, Obama controls well over 80% of the Jewish vote in the United States where, as pointed out in an earlier article, studies have shown only 4% of Jewish voters in America feel Iran is any threat to Israel.
A critical part of understanding organized crime requires the study of its origins, particularly in America, during the 19th century.
While London, from the earliest days of what America had believed to be freedom from British rule, in actuality ran America’s economy, and was, itself, subjected to rule by continental bankers.
Britain, the colonizer of the world was, itself, no more than a client of the Bauer/Rothschild group who underwrote the British pound.
The real criminal groups running American politics developed from among the immigrant gangs that settled America’s cities. There were German, Irish, Italian and Jewish gangs. All that survive now are the remnants of the Mafia, the Jewish gangs who now run Washington and Wall Street and the new threats from Kosovo and Albania, the latest round of criminal immigration into America.
With the full cooperation of FBI Director Hoover, tasked with protecting America from criminal organizations, the government stood aside while every aspect of American life, every necessity from water to electricity to medicine, leaving nothing out, came under assault by criminal groups grown fat on profiteering from war, narcotics and, during the Prohibition years, the sale of illegal alcohol.
For decades, America’s media has been tasked with blaming all ills on Italian Americans and corrupt trade unions while America has been little but a colony of key European banking families who created wars, suppressed technologies, manipulated currencies, raised and crushed stock markets and national economies and, in the end, became as a hydra, the multi-headed beast of Greek mythology, ruling all.
What drew Adelson, Romney and even Putin to Israel at this critical time as the world sits on the brink of nuclear war over Syria is simple. We are again reminded of Putin’s visit to Israel.
No Israeli citizen was spoken to, no public concerns were addressed, no, a visit to Israel is a visit to the “safe haven” for worldwide organized crime that controls and manages the vast and endless wealth of the Russian continent as easily as it runs Britain or dances its Washingtonian puppets into discarding laws and traditions and becoming a surrogate bully, not for a nation but for an international criminal conspiracy.
The language of politics must be replaced with the language of crime as the solutions to what are misconstrued as political problems are and have long been responses to the depredations of criminal organizations.
It isn’t as though Iran were the only target, simply the public target where control of the United Nations Security Council can be exercised, a demonstration of the raw power of evil.
The mistake made by so many is to use principles of geopolitics to describe the world condition, the continual entropy, the centralization of wealth and the rapid deterioration of human rights as wars rage without end.
Even the educated classes, searching for patterns and rationales to explain how 2000 trillion dollars represented by “derivative debt” could encumber all the world’s currencies, a staggering amount created by an unseen hand through a process none have yet been able to describe.
Even more embarrassing for Russia, who refused to veto sanctions as they did with Iran’s ally Syria, is the fact that Iran’s peaceful nuclear program is built, in near entirety on Russian technology, a Russian nuclear reactor and 3000 Russian technicians.
Statements by Obama directly contradict America’s National Intelligence Estimate. The estimate stated that Iran has no nuclear program. Russia’s Putin has similarly ignored, not just his own intelligence agencies but the fact that Russia is actually building Iran’s reactor and has 3000 technicians in Iran, all of whom probably are not entirely deaf and blind.
Obama has no rational claim to ignorance. His behavior is like that of the playground, all the other children are eating dirt, he feels he has to do the same. In this case, however, when known falsehoods likely to end in a destructive war are agreed to out of fear of retaliation by a former furniture salesman (Netanyahu) or gambling boss, the real importance of the presidency comes into doubt.
A problem no one will mention, is the behavior of Putin in Tel Aviv, backing Netanyahu’s claims of Iran’s violation of voluntary agreements based on no facts other than the statements of one of the world best known pathological liars. What does the failed furniture salesman from Philadelphia have on Uncle Vladimir?
Neither leader has dealt with the simple fact, Iran has the right to build anything it wants for any reason it wishes.
Similarly, the United States, under Bush, both withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 and withdrew from participation in the International Criminal Court at The Hague.
The latter, the withdrawal from the court, is a veritable admission of complicity in war crimes with key U.S. officials facing indictment and arrest across the globe.
Were one to be honest, the entire Bush administration is under a privileged form of “house arrest” as is Britain’s Tony Blair. All face criminal proceedings and continually make plans to travel but end up cancelling, sometimes out of public outcry for justice or to actually avoid arrest.
Despite his pronouncements, even with an election upcoming and the need to parrot childish threats in order to please the Israeli press a prerequisite, Obama has made it clear he will not attack Iran. It is time the public realizes that by opposing war and running against Romney, an agent of a hostile foreign power and longtime organized crime affiliate, the president and those around him are at great risk.
The carefully choreographed and very public attempt on the life of General Dempsey is a greeting card from the Adelson/Romney/Netanyahu camp.
Several appropriate responses, RSVPs as it were, come to mind, some partially fatal. Is an American president really the leader of the free world, as we so often say, if any “two bit thug” can dictate policy?
Despite that position, Obama controls well over 80% of the Jewish vote in the United States where, as pointed out in an earlier article, studies have shown only 4% of Jewish voters in America feel Iran is any threat to Israel.
A critical part of understanding organized crime requires the study of its origins, particularly in America, during the 19th century.
While London, from the earliest days of what America had believed to be freedom from British rule, in actuality ran America’s economy, and was, itself, subjected to rule by continental bankers.
Britain, the colonizer of the world was, itself, no more than a client of the Bauer/Rothschild group who underwrote the British pound.
The real criminal groups running American politics developed from among the immigrant gangs that settled America’s cities. There were German, Irish, Italian and Jewish gangs. All that survive now are the remnants of the Mafia, the Jewish gangs who now run Washington and Wall Street and the new threats from Kosovo and Albania, the latest round of criminal immigration into America.
With the full cooperation of FBI Director Hoover, tasked with protecting America from criminal organizations, the government stood aside while every aspect of American life, every necessity from water to electricity to medicine, leaving nothing out, came under assault by criminal groups grown fat on profiteering from war, narcotics and, during the Prohibition years, the sale of illegal alcohol.
For decades, America’s media has been tasked with blaming all ills on Italian Americans and corrupt trade unions while America has been little but a colony of key European banking families who created wars, suppressed technologies, manipulated currencies, raised and crushed stock markets and national economies and, in the end, became as a hydra, the multi-headed beast of Greek mythology, ruling all.
What drew Adelson, Romney and even Putin to Israel at this critical time as the world sits on the brink of nuclear war over Syria is simple. We are again reminded of Putin’s visit to Israel.
No Israeli citizen was spoken to, no public concerns were addressed, no, a visit to Israel is a visit to the “safe haven” for worldwide organized crime that controls and manages the vast and endless wealth of the Russian continent as easily as it runs Britain or dances its Washingtonian puppets into discarding laws and traditions and becoming a surrogate bully, not for a nation but for an international criminal conspiracy.
The language of politics must be replaced with the language of crime as the solutions to what are misconstrued as political problems are and have long been responses to the depredations of criminal organizations.
It isn’t as though Iran were the only target, simply the public target where control of the United Nations Security Council can be exercised, a demonstration of the raw power of evil.
The mistake made by so many is to use principles of geopolitics to describe the world condition, the continual entropy, the centralization of wealth and the rapid deterioration of human rights as wars rage without end.
Even the educated classes, searching for patterns and rationales to explain how 2000 trillion dollars represented by “derivative debt” could encumber all the world’s currencies, a staggering amount created by an unseen hand through a process none have yet been able to describe.
Debt, or as it is known in criminal circles as “loan sharking,” is the business of the world. Controlling currencies was not enough, thus controlled governments, bribed, threatened, blackmailed and bought looked away while the wealth and hope of a hundred generations was stolen overnight, a few lines of text, a few entries on computers and generations of our progeny are changed, in that moment, from citizens of the world to “useless eaters,” as Henry Kissinger would describe them.
Armies may march, air forces may bomb, drones may attack but none of this is war or politics, nor has it been for centuries. This is where we went awry. We chose to play chess while our opponents simply put a pistol on the table and emptied our pockets.
Armies may march, air forces may bomb, drones may attack but none of this is war or politics, nor has it been for centuries. This is where we went awry. We chose to play chess while our opponents simply put a pistol on the table and emptied our pockets.
America is living this today, as it looks on an upcoming election. The very few can escape the packaged news, scripted in Hollywood or Washington or Tel Aviv, our political life is a theatrical production, a comic tragedy without the Shakespearean irony.
This is a government that Sheldon Adelson, the man who believes he will be America’s real next president, believes he can take to war, a systematic conquest of the Middle East and Central Asia, done for the criminal elements some call Israel, done, quite simply, to prove the power of evil over good.
GF/JR
A Warning to Israel
Posted on September 8, 2012
A shorter edited version of this article by Justin Raimondo, with extensive additional commentary by Lasha Darkmoon on the Israel-Iran situation
ISRAEL, STOP RIGHT THERE!
“This is the first time since the days of Bush Senior that a major player has reminded that ‘shitty little country’ of its littleness. For months, the Israelis have been going around acting like they are the superpower.” — Justin Raimondo
The President of the United States may not have the cojones to stand up to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but the chairman of the Joint Chiefs does — and he’s doing it!
When Gen. Martin Dempsey told British reporters he did not want the US to be “complicit” in an Israeli attack on Iran, the boys in Tel Aviv were crushed.
For weeks Netanyahu & Co. had been telling anyone who would listen that the US would have no choice but to be sucked into a devastating regional war in the event of an Israeli first strike on Tehran: their tone was almost gleeful. In the absence of a direct response from the White House, it looked like the Israelis had us over a barrel: the American giant, it seemed, was helpless in the face of the Israeli pygmy’s deft manipulations.
Then came Dempsey, whose comments put the kibosh on Israel’s blackmail threats — and threw Netanyahu’s government into a panic.
Said Giora Eiland, national security advisor from 2003 to 2006:
Dempsey’s announcement changed something. His stark comments made clear to the world that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was isolated. And that if he opted for war, he would jeopardize all-important ties with the Jewish state’s closest ally.
“Dempsey’s announcement changed something.” That’s the understatement of the year, perhaps the decade. This is the first time since the days of George Herbert Walker Bush that a major player has reminded that “shitty little country” of its littleness. For months, the Israelis have been going around acting like they are the superpower, and we are a minuscule dependency relying entirely on our patron’s generosity — and endless forbearance.
“From the days of Jabotinski and Ben Gurion, it has always been the ambition of Zionist fanatics to gain possession of a country stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates, known as “Greater Israel”, and to rule the roost here over 100 million Arab slaves. Greater Israel would then have full control over the Suez Canal and the Persian Gulf, in effect holding the entire world — including the United States — to ransom. As it exists right now, roughly the size of New Jersey, Israel can be wiped off the map in five minutes with a single hydrogen bomb from Russia. Israel must therefore be careful not to goad the Russian bear into a fit of wrath — a fit of wrath which the six million Jews left over in America will have reason to regret.” — Lasha Darkmoon
The Israelis don’t like Dempsey much, and after this they’ll like him much less: in their eyes he’s just a tool of the Obama administration.
Even if this is true, and if Gen. Dempsey is speaking out at the behest of the White House, haven’t we come to a sorry pass when the President of the United States cannot speak in his own name and on his own authority about an issue vital to our national security?
What a testament to the power of the Israel Lobby!
Not bad for a pressure group that supposedly doesn’t even exist.
The real problem is that Dempsey is in all probability speaking for himself, and didn’t require any prompting from the White House. Nor is this the first time that the US military has signaled its opposition to striking Iran.
With US military assets in the region vulnerable to an Iranian counterattack, I wouldn’t be surprised if those alleged secret contacts between Washington and Tehran (via European intermediaries) were made at the military’s insistence: the first instinct of a commander, after all, is to protect his troops.
In effect, the Israelis, by constantly threatening a first strike at Tehran, are holding the tens of thousands of US military personnel in the region hostage — because they are likely to be targets of an Iranian counterattack.
With the White House maintaining radio silence on this issue, Dempsey and the generals had no choice but to go public in order to protect American lives. (READ THE REST)
U.S. to Israel: If You Attack, We Don’t Have Your Back
US punched Bibi, Barak in the face
An Israeli strike won’t delay Iran’s nuclear weapons program. It will start it
Netanyahu can ‘squeeze’ Obama because media and Congress will take his side if he attacks Iran
Forget Iran, it’s Israel’s Nuclear Gun Pointed at Obama’s Head: The Myth of the US-Israel Special Bond
Oublions l'Iran et pensons à l'arme nucléaire israélienne braquée sur la tempe d'Obama “L’amitié indéfectible” entre Israël et les États-Unis : le plus grand mythe de la politique américaine ?
In unusual snub, Obama to avoid meeting with Netanyahu
Bibi’s Bilious Rebuke of Obama for Abandoning Israel
Meurtre de l'ambassadeur US : « Israël essaie de discréditer Obama » (Gordon Duff)
Obama v. Netanyahu America’s special relationship with Israel more myth than reality. It’s been “propagated by politicians to mask the suspicion – and plentiful examples of duplicity and betrayal – that have marked the relationship since Israel’s founding.
Le plus grand mythe de la politique américaine ?
Netanyahu Lashes ‘Stupid’ US Newspapers for Articles Opposing War
Isolé, Nétanyahou va plaider contre l'Iran à New York
Cette crise n'est pas la première à survenir entre Israël et
son puissant allié, mais la tactique de Nétanyahou consistant à passer
par-dessus le président américain en misant sur sa non-réélection, ou en
en appelant directement au Congrès ou à l'opinion américaine, est vue
comme contre-productive par beaucoup de responsables israéliens. Le chef
du parti centriste Kadima, Shaul Mofaz, a critiqué le premier ministre
pour son ingérence dans les affaires intérieures américaines, lui
demandant s'il cherchait à remplacer Obama plutôt qu'Ahmadinejad.
Bibi Boom: Netanyahu’s UN Bomb Cartoon Triggers Internet Mockery [SLIDESHOW]
ROMNEY AND NETANYAHU FINALLY GET THE MESSAGE – NO WAR AGAINST IRAN THIS SIDE OF THE ELECTION
Iranian defense minister: Israel should set red lines for itself
In response to PM’s UN address, Vahidi says Jerusalem has ‘dozens of nuclear warheads’ and must be ‘stopped’
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Maureen Dowd Accuses The Neocons of Fomenting War — and is Promptly Tarred as an anti-Semite
By Philip Weiss
In the last day or two we have
seen one of the most remarkable policings of the discourse that I’ve
ever seen; and it seems to be one man’s achievement, Jeffrey Goldberg,
in asserting that the longtime New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd was
anti-Semitic in saying that the Romney braintrust includes the same
guys who started the Iraq war. It is remarkable because so many people
inside the Beltway have heeded Goldberg; even Joe Klein in defending
Dowd says that she was crude – this from a man who wrote openly of
Jewish neoconservatives, which Dowd didn’t do – and so the line has
held: the idea that we are allowed to debate the Jewish
neoconservatives’ role in the Iraq war for the sake of Israel, well that
is an anti-Semitic idea. As Goldberg says, it is the idea that the
gentiles didn’t start that war, but were manipulated into it by the
likes of Wolfowitz and Feith.
There has been good pushback
against the Goldberg policing by MJ Rosenberg at Huffpo and Andrew
Sullivan at his site. Sullivan has a photo of Dowd doctored to look like
Hitler and welcomes her into the anti-Semite club. Both writers say
that Dowd was right to call out the neocons for pushing the Iraq war.
But in polite discourse, Goldberg has a large following. Max Fisher who
is starting a new website at the Washington Post tweeted approvingly of
Goldberg’s accusation– between his tweets with Goldberg discussing their
favorite Jewish foods—and of course Commentary was on the case. Even
New York Magazine passed along the accusation as if it might have some
basis: “she peddles Jewish stereotypes and uses anti-Semitic imagery,
according to a number of writers, editors, and observers.” This reminds
me of the time Wolfowitz was able to deflect a question about
neoconservatives at the American Enterprise Institute by joking, Don’t
you mean Jewish? I am now waiting for Spencer Ackerman to trace the
history of snake and puppet metaphors in the literature of Jew hatred..
I don’t think Maureen Dowd will be going back there for a while.
Goldberg’s most absurd claim is
there was a “major” discussion of this issue after the Iraq war. This is
not true. Walt and Mearsheimer said what Dowd is saying, and said more
explicitly that the Iraq war was the Israel lobby’s work, but the
discussion took place at the fringes. Goldberg saw to that. He condemned
the view as anti-semitic then, and was joined by Marty Peretz, Daniel
Goldhagen and Columbia University Journalism Dean Nick Lemann.
It didn’t work then and it won’t
work now. Goldberg’s dismissal of Dowd because she uses metaphors like
snake and puppetmaster only forces the belief that she is right back
underground, sure to pop up again before long– as it did lately when
Chris Matthews asserted that the neocons “pushed” a mindless president
into an “idiotic” war.
Goldberg has his reasons to keep
the conversation underground. He vigorously supported the Iraq war, on
the basis of reports that turned out to be bogus, and before that he
moved to Israel because he thought the Diaspora was unsafe for Jews. He
has a keen sense of anti-Semitism lurking at every corner. This is an
important part of the conversation. Joe Klein points out in defending
Dowd that anti-Semitism is not a factor in American society, at all. “If
what Dowd wrote constitutes anti-Semitism, then the term has no
meaning,” Ilene Cohen writes. And Tony Judt made similar points when he
pushed for one democratic state in Israel and Palestine– because Jews
don’t need a national refuge (on ethnically-cleansed land that has seen
unending conflict).
I think it would be great if we
had Goldberg’s “major’ discussion. The simple question: Is Dowd right
when she says this about Romney’s neocon braintrust?
A moral, muscular foreign policy;
a disdain for weakness and diplomacy; a duty to invade and bomb
Israel’s neighbors; a divine right to pre-emption — it’s all ominously
familiar.
You can draw a direct line from
the hyperpower manifesto of the Project for the New American Century,
which the neocons, abetted by Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, used to
prod an insecure and uninformed president into invading Iraq — a wildly
misguided attempt to intimidate Arabs through the shock of overwhelming
force. How’s that going for us?
My answers: the neocons did push
the Iraq war out of concern for Israel’s security, they were an
important factor in our going to war, and the neocons came out of the
Jewish conservative community. Let me go over these points, last one
first.
As Alan Dershowitz has said, “the
recent neo-conservative movement in America has also been dominated by
Jews.” To be clear: conservative Jews, like Irving Kristol who said in
helping to found the neoconservatives in 1973, “Jews don’t like big
military budgets. But it is now an interest of the Jews to have a large
and powerful military establishment in the United States.” Norman
Podhoretz said that Democratic doves were a “direct threat” to Israel’s
security. So these neocon fathers led the movement out of a concern for
purported Jewish interests. Jacob Heilbrunn in his book on neocons says
the movement arose in part out of Jewish intellectuals’ resentment over
their exclusion from places in the Establishment.
The next question is whether the
neocons pushed the Iraq war out of concern for Israel, and here again
the answer is clear, Yes. All their books on the subject, Frum, Feith,
Perle, Berman, Kristol, Kaplan are inflected with the Israel issue,
chiefly mentioning the fact that Saddam supported suicide bombers in
Israel as a reason to take him out. Kenneth Pollack said we will be
greeted with liberators and the Iraq war will thereby separate the
Israel-Palestine issue from the American presence in mind of the Arab
world. How are we doing with that one! Frum and Perle said, “Victory or
Holocaust.” Perle, Wurmser and Feith before working for Bush had worked
for Netanyahu on a related project, destroying the two state solution
with the famous Clean Break paper. No doubt, these are guys who care
about Israel. Joe Klein once accused these Jewish neocons of having
“divided loyalties.”
The best line in Maureen Dowd’s
piece is when she says that the Project for a New American Century’s
manifestos prodded an uninformed Bush to invade Iraq. These manifestos
must never be forgotten. They include statements like Israel’s fight is
our fight. So we must do to Iraq after 9/11 what Israel did to the West
Bank after the second intifadah. The thinking was echoed by Tom Friedman
in his famous statement that it was necessary for the U.S. to go into
the Arab world and smash something in order to convince them not to bomb
themselves and blow up civilians. He was a big supporter of the Iraq
war.
Did they have an effect on the
war plans of Cheney and Bush? The million dollar question. I say yes. I
ask readers to remember how scared we all were after 911. “If we are to
think seriously about the world, and act effectively in it, some sort of
simplified map of reality, some theory, concept, model paradigm is
necessary. Without such intellectual construct, there is, as William
James said, only a ‘bloomin’ buzzin’ confusion,’” Samuel Huntington
writes in The Clash of Civilizations—which is itself such a paradigm.
Huntington is right; policy requires theory; and the neocons had a very
persuasive theory of Why they hate us: The Arabs had been left behind by
history and were jealous of our freedom. We only had to replace their
authoritarian governments with democracies to liberate that world; and
the Arabs would love us. Bill Clinton said it best in his speech
accepting the Democratic nomination in 92. Without vision, the people
are lost. And sometimes they are lost with visions too.
Ken Pollack bought the vision, and Bernard Lewis brought it to Cheney. Tom Friedman:
It’s the war the neoconservatives
wanted, Friedman says. It’s the war the neoconservatives marketed.
Those people had an idea to sell when September 11 came, and they sold
it. Oh boy, did they sell it. So this is not a war that the masses
demanded. This is a war of an elite.
Goldberg’s claim that a bunch of
powerful non-Jews in the White House started the war is inarguable. Of
course Bush and Cheney started the war. No one has ever questioned that.
But he is diminishing the power of mental laborers, the men and women,
many of them Jewish, who did the hard labor of explaining the new world
and pointing the finger at Iraq (which did not attack us; but had
attacked Israel). I understand why he would seek to diminish the idea
that the pen is mightier than the sword. Because he wielded one of those
pens and does not want any serious accounting. So he throws mud, and
muddies the waters.
Quelques jours plus tard, le Canada ferme l'ambassade canadienne en Iran et renvoie les ambassadeurs iraniens! (Aux USA, elle est fermée depuis trois décennies)
On September 7, 2012, Canada closed its embassy in Tehran, Iran.
VIDEO - Zionist Occupied Canada Serves Israel: Severs all Ties With Iran
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: Canada has sacrificed its national interests for the sake of Israel by suspending diplomatic ties with Iran, a government...
Canada closes Iranian embassy, suspends diplomatic ties
Canada has closed its embassy in Tehran, listed Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism and expelled all Iranian diplomats from Canada
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Harper to be honoured as world statesman Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be honoured with the World Statesman Award from the Appeal of Conscience Foundation at New York’s Waldorf Astoria on Thurs., Sept. 27. (...)
The Appeal of Conscience Foundation is an interfaith organization founded in 1965 by its President Rabbi Arthur Schneier to promote religious freedom and human rights throughout the world.
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L’ancien directeur de l’unité de traque de Ben Laden à la CIA, Michael Scheuer accuse Israël de détenir le Congrès et d’entraîner les USA vers le désastre d’une guerre contre l’Iran
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Netanyahou: « Nous vaincrons l’Islam militant »
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