Iran’s Apologists Will Have a Hard Time Explaining Away Ahmadinejad Speech
August 2, 2012 16:36 by Pesach BensonIranian Atomic Urgency
• Why is Israel lobbying more than 100 countries to boycott (or downgrade their representation) at the Non-Aligned Movement of countries’ summit, which is being hosted by Iran? The Times of Israel explains:
According to documents obtained by Western diplomatic sources, at the summit Iran intends to press for a resolution that would recognize the right of developing countries to pursue nuclear power and to enrich uranium, beyond limits and accountability imposed on signatories of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty.
If such a resolution were to pass, it is likely that Iran would use it to emphasize its right to enrich uranium in opposition to the West.
Ephraim Halevy
• If you’re reading the tea leaves of Israeli and Iranian pronouncements, don’t miss Ephraim Halevy’s latest comments. He’s quoted in the NY Times:
“If I were an Iranian, I would be very fearful of the next 12 weeks,” said Efraim Halevy, a former chief of Israel’s intelligence agency and national security adviser.
• For more commentary, see Walter Pincus (Washington Post), CNN, Jerusalem Post, and YNet.
Arab Spring Winter
• Itamar Rabinovich addresses contradictory myths about Israel and the Syrian civil war. Writing in The Guardian, the ex-ambassador looks at Assad’s party line that the uprising is a US-Israeli conspiracy, and the idea that Jerusalem prefers “the devil you know.”
• Syrian rebels executed several members of a prominent Aleppo family said to be close to the Assad regime. Someone posted a very graphic video on YouTube, sparking debate on whether the executions were a war crime. More at The Lede and the Globe & Mail.
• An iPhone insurgency? You betcha.
This fight has been defined in Syria by endless images shot by mobile phone and volunteer videographers who know the importance of winning the media war.
Every fighter seems to have at least one mobile phone, used to speak with families, Skype girlfriends, and even advise Syrian soldiers how to defect to the opposition. Some note the difference a generation can make to the fate of their challenge against the government – and providing video evidence of atrocities and war crimes that are corroding the legitimacy of the regime.
• Egypt’s beleaguered Christians worry about persecution and neglect.
Rest O’ the Roundup
• Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah claims Hezbollah has reached a “balance of terror” with Israel. Here’s why Balance of “Activism” Doesn’t Sound Right for Nasrallah’s purposes.
The UAE, with an official population of 5.3 million but home to many more migrant labourers, needs a huge amount of energy for desalination plants and for air-conditioning in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
It plans to save its oil reserves for export and not use them for electricity.
(Image of Ahmadinejad via YouTube/AlJazeeraEnglish, Halevy via YouTube/grimer1)
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Stanley Tee
9:58 pm
Aug 02, 2012
re Ahmadinedjad’s latest tirade.
No, the apologists won’t have a hard time. After all, the whole thing is a mis-translation, you know.
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Salim Muhammad Kalifa
10:59 pm
Aug 02, 2012
The Muslim are basic hominids that are breastfed hatred for their benefactors. Israel does not saber rattle but speaks softly. The ignominious end of the majority of Muslim’s (which are basically under the same umbrella) of the teachings of Mohammad in Qur’an will find that they are taking on a technological giant that doesn’t need to bomb Iran or any other Jew hating country as Israel’s technology is beyond the need for conventional wars. Israel does not share this with the grand cyclops Ayatollah Obama.
Even the Ayatollah Obama is not beyond the reach of many “contractors” who could retire this Trojan Horse with any evidence of human intervention.
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JB
4:30 am
Aug 03, 2012
ONLY A MORAN COULD WRITE THAT
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Yohanan Stryjan
1:16 pm
Aug 03, 2012
“Iran’s Apologists Will Have a Hard Time Explaining Away Ahmadinejad Speech? No, they won’t
To the best of my checking, it was not named or quoted by any of the major press agencies.
Which is the normal procedure with embarrassing facts.
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Ephraim
7:00 am
Aug 09, 2012
The MSM doesn’t give a damn about this story or its ramifications, in all likelihood due to their industrywide blanket “revise and consent” editorial policy that they signed off on. Yet they wonder why they’re all going broke? Please.
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