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Posted in: Naive on Iran
02/24/09 10:34 AM
Notice the author's use of "Hamas denial," to equate Israel with Holocaust deniers. But the author is in denial about Hamas - please read Article 22 of the Hamas Charter, which blames the Jews for every major crime in history, including blaming the Jews for the French Revolution. Note also his nonsense about no more "double standards." The danger with Iran is that they will use their nuclear weapon as a military strategy to neutralize Israel's, while Israel is surrounded by conventional forces, e.g., they fight a war and they win. In general, military strategy always is to neutralize the other side's weapons, while you have at least one that the other side cannot neutralize. The author appears to not understand warfare at all. Also, at the Holocaust conference in Iran a year or two ago, the president there was quoted as saying he doesn't want to kill all the Jews , but all Jews have to leave the Middle East. How is that a conflict resolution model? To show I'm even-handed, and to show that Cohen knows nothing, the rejection front in he Muslim world and the Left in Europe and America knows the issue isn't the 41 years of settlements and occupation. Everything from 1948 is occupied land from their point of view, of course, and every immigrant in history is an occupier. Also, according to all Islamists, the Jews are "imposters," a standard Islamic line. The people who call themselves Jews aren't the real Jews anyway, they argue. There are Israelis who agree with this, actually. But Cohen appears to know nothing of the real arguments against Israel - he's trying to position himself as a moderate when all informed people - whether left, right, secular, Islamist, whatever - must know he just doesn't know anything. But The New York Times published him! That's further evidence that The Times is trying to position itself politically, and such op-ed pieces themselves serve the agenda of the paper's owners. Really, reading Noam Chomsky is more valuable than reading Cohen.
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