“Settlements For Iran” Linkage Acceptable?
February 28, 2013 14:24 by Pesach BensonIranian Atomic Urgency
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• A number of papers cited NY Times coverage of the nuclear talks. The main proposal for the mullahs to mull would “sharply constrain Iran’s stockpile of the most dangerous enriched uranium, in return for a modest lifting of some sanctions.” So why is Tehran upbeat?
But the six powers dropped their demand that Iran shut down its enrichment plant at Fordo, built deep underneath a mountain, instead insisting that Iran suspend enrichment work there and agree to take a series of steps that would make it hard to resume producing nuclear fuel quickly. The six also agreed, in another apparent softening, that Iran could keep a small amount of 20 percent enriched uranium — which can be converted to bomb grade with modest additional processing — for use in a reactor to produce medical isotopes. . .
A senior European diplomat was even more skeptical, saying that the technical meeting was essentially to explain the proposal to the Iranians once again, and that Iran might very well come back in April with an unacceptable counterproposal that swallows the “carrots” of the six and demands more.
• For commentary/analysis on the talks, see Meir Javedanfar.
Arab Spring Winter
• According to the NY Times, the US is now training Syrian rebels and expanding non-lethal assistance.
• Time examines Iran’s entrenchment in Syria.
• A Muslim Brotherhood member,Yasser Al-Dakany, is due to become top dog at Egypt’s state-run Nile News Channel. I know what you’re thinking, and Nile TV’s outgoing director said the same thing. The Egypt Independent (via Elder of Ziyon) writes:
If confirmed, Dakany will replace Ahmad Sharaf, who accuses the minister of turning the channel into a Brotherhood mouthpiece.
• Egypt seized 60 anti-tank missiles smuggled from Libya. A security official told AP the missiles were headed for the Sinai.
• Jihad finally meets its match:
• Hezbollah’s rhetoric took a funny turn when one of its spokesmen referred to the Al-Nusra Front in Syria and other Islamist rebels as “Sunni jihad.” Asharq al-Awsat‘s editor, Adel Al Toraifi noted the irony:
In truth it is interesting that Hezbollah leaders have begun to scaremonger by portraying others as jihadists, while the same rhetoric applies to them.
• For more commentary on Hezbollah’s headaches, see the Daily Star and Haaretz.
(Image of Abbas via YouTube/Ahmed Zakaria)
For more, see yesterday’s Israel Daily News Stream.
Ed Hausman
4:15 pm
Feb 28, 2013
“Erdogan said, slamming politicians who use communication tools to deepen the gap between cultures.”
Using communications to deepen the gaps is exactly what he’s doing here. Somebody please hold up a mirror for the man so he can see what he looks like!
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Herbert Kaine
4:22 pm
Feb 28, 2013
It is time for the world to recognize the Armenian genocide and the suppression of Kurdistan
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Frank Adam
5:00 pm
Feb 28, 2013
Islamophobia is a dicey coinage. It means fear of Moslems/Islam – justified to some degree – and not hatred of Islam as Antisemitism means to hate Jews without the excuse of fear of Jews.
While Moslem Salafis and Jihadis throw bombs shouting Allah Akhbar intolerantly of other people’s religious and linguistic differences, there is a justified fear of Islam and Moslems.
What is unjustified is to hate Moslems for the sake of hating them as a displacement psychology for one’s own problems; or as Lord Samuel said, “Antisemitism is hating Jews more than necessary.”
For differentiation we need: “Anti-Islamism” to distinguish unfounded hate from (Islamo)phobia from experience.
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jimmy
6:45 pm
Feb 28, 2013
To use Frank Adams logic, the world is Judophobic.
Africans kill African civilians and the world yawns.
Arabs kill Arab civilians and the world tsks.
Israel kills Arab terrorists and the world calls Israel Nazis.
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Ed Hausman
10:11 pm
Feb 28, 2013
Israel defends against Arab terrorists even without killing and the world calls Israel Nazis.
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Frank Adam
10:52 pm
Feb 28, 2013
The World is Antisemitic because it has no cause to fear Jews – nor Israel. Antisemitiism meanns [in Greek] “against Jews” – without mentioning why.
Islamphobia means [in Greek] “fear of Islam” which is only a partly justified term when Moslem extremists do wield imperialist violence of assorted varieties.
For the back street prejudice about immigrants and other innocent Moslems trying to make an honest living, the word Islamophobia is inappropriate and something like my suggested
Anti-Islamism woulld calm the tensions – somewhat.
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Nivrams
4:10 am
Mar 01, 2013
” If Israel makes peace with the Palestinians, then the US will make war on Iran.” is a canard floated to make an argument. Honest Reporting should try to live up to its name and verify its sources. Or the sources of its sources.
America will not go to war to reward Israel making peace. Our stupidity has limits.
In any case, there is not much chance of of peace breaking out with the Palestinians as long as the Arabs have the numbers and the will to expend the lives of their own children. They are working for a victory, albeit a Pyrrhic one.
These points were made in Zalman Shoval’s column… which apparently required a canard to write.
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Frank Adam
1:11 pm
Mar 01, 2013
It was an Arab Israeli sociologist who wrote that the tragedy is the Israeli Jewish majority still has its minority mentality [of fearful caution] and the Arab Israeli minority still has its majority mentality [of mouth and no trousers] – my own editorial [ ].
The error of all outsiders is the notion peace can come of forcing Israeli concessions. The Arab parties have to accept Israeli independence and self determination and close the conflict and its claims. The US will become energy independent next year for the first time since 1970. So the US can suspend all subsidies/aid to UNWRA and the PA till the PA talks and only restore aid to a new treaty Palestine after all ratify the peace.
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kate b
8:06 pm
Mar 01, 2013
Why does no-one cry at the RE-establishment of Lebanon and Syria and have a problem with RE-established Israel? All League of Nations Mandatories are from the 1920s (Israel has not come out of WWII). All Mandatories have Arab political hegemony and choice of capital or in Israel’s case a Jewish politcal hegemony with its capital – the ONLY Mandate not honoured.
WWII slogans read “Jews back to Palestine” why?
Palwins (Palestinian Wine 1882) Muslims don’t drink wine
Pal Post
Pal Symphony Orchestra
Anglo-Pal Bank ALL JEWISH.
Pal are Arabs from ARABIA or their 56 Islamic states – Palestinian Jews from Judea and rest of Israel the ONLY Jewish state. http://www.mythsandfacts.org/conflict.asp
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kate b
8:10 pm
Mar 01, 2013
If you are interested google History GCSE P.L.O see what they’re teaching our kids.
Look up top 5 searches, especially teacher’s notes and model answers – whom is the occupier?
Make a big noise, write, complain.
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Saxeviverbwer
6:20 am
Apr 10, 2013
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