"On Friday, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said his country will assist any nation or group that 'confronts' Israel, describing it as a 'cancer.'"
In fact, Khamenei went far beyond labeling Israel a "cancer." According to Iran's Mehr News Agency (http://www.mehrnews.com/en/newsdetail.aspx?NewsID=1524218), Khamenei threatened to eradicate Israel on Friday:
“The tumor of Israel, which is in fact cancerous, must be removed from the region, and this will definitely happen.”
Why is The New York Times hiding this fact?
The Times writes:
"The costs of an Israeli military strike — with or without American support — would be huge. It would likely only set Iran’s nuclear program back for a few years."
"Only set Iran's nuclear program back for a few years"? That's easy enough to say, when your existence is not at stake.
The Times continues:
"President Obama has spent three years rallying the toughest sanctions ever on Iran — including a European Union oil embargo."
"Obama has spent three years rallying the toughest sanctions ever on Iran"? Excuse me, but this is pure claptrap. In fact, in 2009, in an effort to appease Khamenei, Obama refused to speak out when the mullahs brutally quashed Iran's Green Revolution. More recently, Obama opposed the sanctions sought by the US Congress (see: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/democratic-senator-blasts-obama-administration-opposing-iran-sanctions_610853.html).
As I concluded in my prior blog entry (http://jgcaesarea.blogspot.com/2012/02/will-israel-attack-iran.html), in light of Obama's ambivalence and indecision regarding taking action of any kind against Iran, and given his overriding concern with re-election, Israel may indeed have to go it alone.
Sadly all you write is true Jeff.
ReplyDeleteThe discrepancy between what is said and what is reported by the NY Times et al is deeply troubling. Their warped misrepresentation, distortion of the reality of the situation is calculated to present he true situation in a false light, consonant with the political agenda of the writers. It was the same up to the bombing of Pearl Harbour. The isolationism, the wilful denial of the dangers of Nazism was then at the expense of Jewish lives and European freedom. Today the Iranian threat is more blatant than Hitler's propaganda.
The US liberal ostrich has found the same patch of sand to bury its head in.