IDNS: Iranian Atomic Chief Confirms Tehran Misled West
September 20, 2012 16:35 by Pesach Benson
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Today’s Top Stories:
1. A big hissy-fit hit the German media, with prominent columnist Henryk Broder calling another publisher, Jakob Augstein, an anti-Semite. The Jerusalem Post explains:
In his Monday Spiegel Online blog article, titled “To whose advantage is the violence?,” Augstein wrote: “Fires are burning in Libya, Sudan, Yemen, all countries that are among the poorest in the world. But the arsonists are elsewhere. The furious young men burning American, and now also German, flags are just as much victims as the dead in Benghazi and Sanaa. Who profits from this violence? Only the crazies and the unscrupulous. And this time also – as if incidentally – the American Republicans and the Israeli government.”
To which Broder responded:
Writing in his own blog, Die Achse des Guten (The Axis of Good), Broder, regarded as Germany’s leading expert on contemporary anti-Semitism, said: “A few days ago, I wrote here that the editor of Freitag, Jakob Augstein, was a ‘salon anti- Semite.’ Now I have to correct myself. Jakob Augstein is not a salon anti-Semite, he’s a pure anti-Semite, an anti-Semitic piece of work, an offender by conviction who only missed the opportunity to make his career with the Gestapo because he was born after the war. He certainly would have had what it takes.” . . .
In a telephone conversation with The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday, Broder said commentaries in Der Freitag, Augstein’s weekly, were packed full of comments supporting anti- Semitism.
Fereydoun Abbasi
2. The top dog at Iran’s atomic energy program confirmed that Tehran has misled the IAEA about its capabilities. Writes YNet:
Head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Agency Fereydoun Abbasi said Thursday that Tehran “occasionally” gave the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) “false information” to protect Iran’s nuclear facilities.
In an interview with the London-based al-Hayat newspaper, Abbasi said, “There is no choice but to mislead other intelligence bodies. Sometimes we show weaknesses we don’t have. Sometimes we show strengths we don’t have. Later this is evident in talks with the IAEA.”
3. Maan News: A Palestinian prisoner released in the Gilad Shalit swap tried to burn herself in Ramallah’s Manara Square.Fortunately for Abbas, the anti-America riots have eclipsed the Palestine Spring, as a Washington Post staff-ed astutely notes.
Israel and the Palestinians
• Deliberate timing? The BBC scheduled its Mideast editor, Jeremy Bowen, to have a Q&A with readers on Twitter — during Rosh HaShanah. Blogger Daphne Anson doesn’t think the timing was accidental.
And nobody would be cynical enough to suggest that despite Al Beeb’s bend-over-backwards attempts at inclusiveness and accommodation of all sorts of minority groups a much-touted-by-the-BBC question and answer session on Twitter regarding the Middle East with the pally title “Ask Jeremy” took place on the first day of Rosh Hashana in order to evade pesky Jewish questioners.
There’s more to the story at BBC Wishes Jewish Viewers a Sour New Year.
• Mahmoud Abbas threatened to quit, reportedly giving the various factions 10 days to find a successor. We’ve seen that dance before. But will the Palestinian street call his bluff?
• AP: The UN Security Council threw its weight behind “naming and shaming” governments and armed groups that recruit, kill or sexually children in armed conflicts. Let’s talk about Hamas and Hezbollah-run summer camps.
bernard
7:25 pm
Sep 20, 2012
Henryk versus Augstein, Jakob
It’s been a couple of month ago when I responded to an Jakob Augstein piece in Spiegel online (Spon) where I called him an antisemite. Yes, he really is: one of this intellectual and arrogant anti-Jewish writers in Germany. Unfortunately, this moron is occasionally one of this strange “anti” guests in broadcasted talk shows. Some editors in German TV apparently think that this dolt is a critical and intelligent person worthwile to have him in the studio. However, when he speaks you can hear Hamas and Hesbollah together. Remembers me in a way to intellectuals who paved the way for the Nazis in the 20/30th of last century. A man with dangerous, poisened ideas.
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happyminyan
7:44 pm
Sep 20, 2012
Can’t wait to see the day that the German neo-nazis and the muslims are at each others throats.
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Sep 20, 2012
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David Guy
11:52 pm
Sep 20, 2012
There may be more to the Abeer Odeh story than we know. Some acts of terrorism by women are conducted in order to escape from abuse at home. Some with the idea of enhanced status as a female warrior. Some as a form of blackmail for alleged or actual offences against the family honour. But when they come home it is assumed that they have been violated in prison; their marriage potential has been reduced to zero and the abuse starts a fresh. Ending oneself in flames may be a more attractive result than living in Palestine as a forgotten ‘hero’.
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jeb stuart
12:46 am
Sep 21, 2012
It would be good news, if true, the Israeli’s and Republicans benefit most from the current murdering rampage at the Libyan Embassy and riots falsely reported by a two month old video but reacted to on 9-11. Finally today the inept Obama admin had to admit that the violence was about Islamic extremism, it would seem the German bigot noted above, had already come with a narrative to cover the collapse of the propaganda the White House had spun the “activism” was about a video no one had even seen. Mass media outlets can not pass their Islamic submissive news to democratic audeinces and expect credulity on our part, they have been reduced to blaming those who have been Islams targets .
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steven L
1:58 am
Sep 21, 2012
Pr. O if he delivers the Jews and Israel to the Muslims may become their new prophet!
He is not missing one opportunity to blackmail IL with the assistance of the Jewish democrats!
He has been so far well brainwashed by E. Said and Khalidi.
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Paul Tenenbaum
10:04 pm
Sep 22, 2012
First let mw say: I am an American citizen and a Korean War Veteran. I WILL not accept any kind of idiiotic insuinuation by some some ignorant people to come out with comments of which they have no knowledge except those diffused by Prem. BiBi. he had any kind of diplomatic common sense, you should know: do not bite the hand that feeds you especially weapons used by Israel for their defense. Retired IDF and Mossad leaders all agree with my comment.
Just because Bibi received a standing ovation by the republicans does not mean that our President will bend the knees. Bibi can make beautiful speeches but that is all he does. Would Israel exist today without the U.S. help??
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