Aussie Radio: Israel May Be Trying to Kill Own Diplomats
February 15, 2012 15:31 by Simon Plosker
In an interview on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s “The World Today” radio program, guest pundit Geneive Abdo is asked by host Eleanor Hall who is responsible for this week’s terror attacks on Israeli embassies:
ELEANOR HALL: Iran’s leadership says it’s sheer lies that it’s behind the attacks and that the Israelis have planted the bombs themselves to discredit Iran?
GENEIVE ABDO: Well I think that’s entirely possible. I mean, if you consider what the Israelis did for many years in Lebanon and other parts of the Middle East, that theory is not so farfetched.
ELEANOR HALL: Although there is an argument that the attacks were similar in style to the bomb attacks on the Iranians scientists and that, therefore, that was a message of retaliation to Israel?
GENEIVE ABDO: Well, you know, there are many theories. I mean theory one is that the Iranians did it in retaliation for attacks on their own nuclear scientists. Theory two is that the Israelis have carried out this attack as a pretext to attack Iran. I mean the Israelis are seriously considering now launching a war against Iran. So that also has to be taken as a possible motivation for these assassinations.
The full transcript and audio recording can be found here.
Related article: ABC: Giving Airtime to Extremists
Abdo should consider the source of the outrageous claims she’s repeating and realize that should be enough to discredit them. But more disturbing is that someone is allowed to assert, unchallenged on a mainstream media show, the disgusting charge that Israel is capable of deliberately engineering terrorist attacks against itself for the purpose of political manipulation.
Such accusations of “false flag” operations are most commonly found on fringe anti-Semitic websites and in absurd conspiracy theories.
Bruce Sanders
9:04 pm
Feb 15, 2012
According to Ms. Abdo, Israel is willing to murder its own diplomats in order to create a “causus belli.” Sorry, Ms. Abdo. If history has shown anything, it is that Israel does not need to create its martyrs, Islamic extremists have proven quite capable and willing to create them. Islamic extremists are also very adept at recruiting and paying for suicide (homicide?) bombers to murder innocent men, women and children. Of course, radical Islam doesn not recognize the concept of innocence, especially if it pertains to infidels.
Let me venture a guess…Ms. Abdo also believes that Mossad was behind the 9/11 attacks; Mossad was also behind the Munich Olympics massacre; and Winston Churchill knew about the planned Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor but said nothing so the United States would be drawn into war.
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Dov Grauman
9:50 pm
Feb 15, 2012
May Ms Abdo’s hands turn in to fish hooks and her womans thing get itchy.
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Allen
10:04 pm
Feb 15, 2012
I live in Australia, but don’t both to listen to the ABC any longer. Nothing surprises me on the National radio station. Anything about Israel, especially negative stories are becoming normal. Syria, which is a story, is basically accepted as the way things happen in the Middle East. Now that is a real story on killing and murder.
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ray
1:15 am
Feb 22, 2012
The ABC is stacked with career journos and assorted hacks who are invariably well to the left of the political spectrum.
They are, after all, public servants.
The ideological left narrative of the ABC is invariably biased in favour of any news item that demonizes Israel.
Basically the whole organisation is a national disgrace and ought to be scrapped.
It caters for hard left rusted on socialists and so-called inner urban “intellectuals” (sic).
It should come as no surprise that it is blatantly antisemitic, and that this interviewee would get such a positive uncritical reception.
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Susan Coopersmith
10:05 pm
Feb 15, 2012
Give me a break! They caught one of the guys. He had an Iranian passport. The idiot accidentally blew off both of his legs!
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LUIS FROM MEXICO
3:15 am
Feb 16, 2012
Susan…..they cought one and then two more also with Iranian passports……if something walks like a duck, makes noice like a duck and looks like a duck….it’s a duck!!
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doubleblack4
10:07 pm
Feb 15, 2012
These two hydrocephalic anti-semites should try shooting their
mouths off in Iran or Saudia Arabia or Syria.
But they have no cojones and will only risk their necks in a
free country like Australia or Israel where they know they
are safe unless a certain religion is offended. Then all bets
are off.
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Feb 15, 2012
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Terrill Leff
12:25 am
Feb 16, 2012
I expected a more intelligent view from an Australian.
I was proved wrong.
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Richard
3:51 am
Feb 16, 2012
I think it’s that powerful Aussie beer….
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Jennifer Ward
1:48 am
Feb 16, 2012
I just knew it was the ABC- it’s full of Muslims, Islamophiles and Useful Idiots. Nobody with half a brain listens to it anymore. And to think our taxes pay to have this crap broadcast throughout the nation!
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Hans
1:53 am
Feb 16, 2012
Ms. Geneive Abdo seems to be under the impression that Israel requires some “casus belli” in order to attack Iran however nothing is further from the truth… Prior to the Islamic Revolution in Iran Israel and Iran had more then cordial relations… It was only after the Islamic Revolution that the Iranians broke the relations and declared war on Israel…
Certain things and certain acts have certain meanings… Once a country has declared war on another country the latter doesn’t require a “casus belli” in order to start shooting… Some anti-Israeli pundits try to claim that the Israeli attack on Iraq was somehow illegal… Despite the fact that Iraq had declared war on Israel back in 1948, had participated in several wars against Israel and had never signed a truce agreement of any kind with Israel…
This notion that Israel is somehow required to have a “casus belli” in order to act against countries that have declared war on Israel and have taken actual measures to implement such a declaration are ridiculous and quite anti-semitic (as they apply a different standard to what essentially comes down to “Jews”)…
Of course, “Abdo” is an Arab (more precisely, an Arab-Muslim) name so we really shouldn’t be surprised that Ms. Geneive Abdo is highly biased on the subject of Israel…
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BUTSeriously
1:56 am
Feb 16, 2012
Re. What Israel did in Lebanon. This must be headed by what Hezbulah & Iran did in Lebanon. This answer is well documented by Lebanese activists such as Brigitte Gabriel and others who have first hand accounts. The questioner has aligned themselves with Iran’s President who denies and mock the Holocaust and deserves to be shamed. No bravo! The ABC has become an Al Jazeera station, and will diminish sacred Aussie premises of “FAIR GO.”
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Ken
3:10 am
Feb 16, 2012
How stupid can people get – If there is any nation on earth which values the life of each of its people it is the Israelis.
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Ken
3:14 am
Feb 16, 2012
Are the Aussies trying to steal the anti-Israel award from the BBC?
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Elle
4:08 am
Feb 16, 2012
This woman is ignoring the fact that Israel does not need to create a basis for attacking Iran. The fact that Iran constantly announces its intention to obliterate Israel and Jews everywhere is reason enough.
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R. Cross
7:58 am
Feb 16, 2012
In the land of Hammas and the like, the word ISRAEL turns it into the land of the the deaf, dumb and blind. It appears that it is catching on in Australia too!
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alex
9:44 am
Feb 16, 2012
Please dont be to hard on ABC reporters they lack any understanding of history .One had to have the facts of the mid 60 murders of up to a million secular Indonesions explained to him by a UK historian .Constant references to militants instead of terrorist is a give away(ditto with the IRA)
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BUTSeriously
10:03 am
Feb 16, 2012
The ABC is now the equivalent of those who deny 9/11 and making this as a Zionist plot. Like the BBC, The Guardian and SBS, there is the suspicion of sanctioned nods and grants with doses of payola. We do need a real journalist to expose the dirt. For Australia’s sake.
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Fred Steiner Melbourne Australia
11:33 am
Feb 16, 2012
Israel does not, and would not. and need not to kill its own people, to create a reason to attack
Iran. After all. I believe it is the Iranian Leaders who want to wipe Israel from the face of the earth.
Israel wants peace and needs peace, so its citizens can feel safe in their tiny country. Israel is threatend by all its neighbours. Israel had to fight its neighbours from day one.
I can not quite grasp why these Arab countries and Iran , can not accomodate a small Israel.
Actually the answer to it is simple. Israel is a progresive its citizens are well educated, very and
wanting peace with its neighbours. Interestingly is it is amazing that the Arbs living in Isrrael have a better education, healthcare, politically free to express their view, They are citizens of Israel, The Arab Uni Students at Israely universities get on wuth their Israely Chaverim, (Friends
Israel will defend itself against Iran with all its strenght and weponry, if Iran attacks
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Robert Lewis
3:22 pm
Feb 16, 2012
Fred, if you start to chisel away all the politics, media bias, lies, rocket attacks, suicide bombings etc etc etc against Israel the ONE reason remaining for all the grief since 1948 and further back is it’s a case of the GOD OF THE BIBLE VERSUS THE GOD OF ISLAM.
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Robert Lewis
3:34 pm
Feb 16, 2012
Fred, I believe as a Christian, that if you start to chisel away all the politics, media bias, lies, rocket attacks, suicide bombings etc etc etc against Israel the ONE reason remaining for all the grief since 1948 and further back is that it’s a spiritual war between the GOD OF THE BIBLE VERSUS THE GOD OF ISLAM. Always will be, always has been. May the God of the Bible bless Israel.
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BUTSeriously
3:47 pm
Feb 16, 2012
Despite the few still embedded in old world religious racism, Christianity’s savior are nations like Australia, which have the best religion of all – its called FAIRGOISM. This is the real reason Australia will triumph, because such a premise is the true foundation of any religion.
Islamism marks the antithesis of FAIRGO and these countries are crumbling with no help from anyone. When the cat is cornered they will lash out at Israel – this has always been the history of the Arab states in the past, and they have sadly been supported by Europe, which is having a backlash on those states.
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Robert Lewis
3:36 pm
Feb 16, 2012
Sorry about the duplicate entry!!!!!!!
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R.J. Salfrais
12:25 pm
Feb 17, 2012
To show what I think of Irans’s allegations, I have written the following “news scoop”:
Dear HonestReporting,
As you know, there were two attempted attacks on Israeli embassy staff in Delhi and Tblisi. In both cases, Iran accused Israel of being behind the attacks as a pretext to wage war on Iran.
Now, with the arrest of three Iranians in connection with an attempted attack in Thailand, it looks as if Iran is proven to be involved. However, this is not the case. A friend sent me an Iranian government statement that will be published tomorrow. I have translated it from Farsi to English and give it below.
“When three Iranians were arrested in connection with an attempted attack in Thailand, the Iranian government did not understand what was going on because it knew nothing about the whole affair. Also, the fact that the third man was arrested as he was trying to get on a flight to Teheran made it look bad for Iran. Therefore, the Iranian secret service was ordered to investigate what was going on. It now appears that all three of these men were actually working for the Zionist state. The cover for these men was a shop selling mens wear in the centre of Teheran. The shop was called MOISHE, which is the abbreviation of Mossad Office in Iran, Secret HEadquarters. This is a classical case of hiding something by putting it right under someone’s nose. Also, the Iranian government does not recognise Yiddish because it is the language spoken by Zionists.
Now that this matter has been successfully solved, the Iranian government trusts that it will no longer be falsely accused of aiding any form of terrorism anywhere in the world.”
So you see how things can go.
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BUTSeriously
1:54 pm
Feb 17, 2012
You forgot to add that the Holocaust was a Zionist myth, just like 9/11 was. The world must feel sorry not for the invented Palestinians but for all Muslims – they are prisoners in their countries and can’t get out.
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robert donaldson
4:53 pm
Feb 17, 2012
as with anything that reflects the name of Gods chosen people, there it is you will smell sulphur that eminates form the evil one.
Israel has the world as her enemies.
The day is near when our heavenly Almighty Father the King of Kings will be seen to deliver the long awaited judgment due to the hoards of decieved and decievers of this world.
Be sure you do not fall into either catogory.
may His grace fall upon you all who seek first His righteousness.
Jesus said I am the way the truth and the Life.
did you know this?
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BUTSeriously
1:35 am
Feb 18, 2012
Honest Aussies must cleanse themselves of Britain’s crimes, instead of shouting IN JC all over the place and cease emulating Muslims chanting Allah Akbar when being silent of their crimes. Otherwise Christians will have tied up the hands of their Lord – no salvation under such terms. This applies:
1. The Brits corrupted the Balfour Mandate, creating a “23rd” fictitious Islamic regime on the land allocated for the Jews for 30 barrels of oil, carving off “80%” of a tiny land and calling this a
“2-state compromise” [their own Nazi term].
2. The Brits soon thereafter created ‘THE WHITE PAPER’ – barring Jews fleeing the Holocaust from entering even the 20% swamp they left – 1000′s of refugees in boats were sent back to the camps.
3. The Brits than instigated all Christian countries to slam their doors shut to Jewish immigration.
4. The Brits than fully supported the re-transfer of the name Palestinian onto those panting for another Holocaust.
5. The Brits today are obsessed with serial 2-states in the same land.
6. The Brits gleefully supported the re-naming of the 1000′s of years old Jewish name of Samaria to ‘WEST BANK’ in 1955.
7. The Brits have exposed and made guilty every single Christian alive today – the silence of a real Judas who committed the worst Post-W.W.II crimes for 30 barrels of oil is now blatant in their faces.
Insane Christians think these issues will not be raised by their Lord. Not!?
The Brits now have the gall to accuse Jews of occupying Hebron, the birthplace of Judaism, while occupying a foreign land after genociding its people and threatenting them with Nuke ships:
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