I’ve been meaning to comment on the UN speeches but it took me a while to get here to do that, I’ve just been too busy with school. But things, I feel, are really falling into place and I’ve developed a routine so expect more frequent blog updates.
Anyway, in case you missed Qadhafi’s outrageous UN speech, click here. Since his tirade was extra long, it was broken up into different parts, all of which can be found on the sidebar. The UN conference was actually kind of entertaining, especially since clowns like Qadhafi turned the event into a circus. He actually managed to outdo Ahmadinejad’s speech. Here is his rant.
I recently read a very interesting take on his speech and wanted to share it with you guys. The title of the piece is “President Ahmadinejad’s Diplomatic Victories in New York.” Here is the article:
“There is a cerÂtain buzz in IranÂian papers about Ahmadinejad’s trip to NYC last week. EchoÂing Israeli newsÂpaÂpers critÂiÂcizÂing of Prime MinÂisÂter Netanyahu’s remarks at the UN, the IranÂian media is celÂeÂbratÂing the unseatÂing of the state of Israel’s priÂmary jusÂtiÂfiÂcaÂtion for itself. Netanyahu’s rant about the HoloÂcaust (notice how ridicuÂlous and disinÂgenÂuÂous he looks wavÂing papers provÂing the Nazis’ intenÂtion of anniÂhiÂlatÂing the Jews) was the most glarÂing indiÂcaÂtion that, 60 years after the end of the horÂrors of Nazism, the Prime MinÂisÂter of Israel is now forced to stand in front of the world body and actuÂally argue that the HoloÂcaust DID hapÂpen. For a nation whose priÂmary jusÂtiÂfiÂcaÂtion for exisÂtence is to avoid another holoÂcaust, havÂing to prove that the horÂror hapÂpened in the first place is nothÂing but a sign of deep disÂcomÂfort, a sign that Israeli polity feels a need to jusÂtify itself, a sign that there might be sea changes boilÂing under the offiÂcial proÂpaÂganda, self-victimization and chest beatÂing of the most milÂiÂtaÂrized sociÂety on earth. ComÂing out of the interÂnaÂtional outÂrage over Israel’s masÂsacres in Gaza and recent UN reports callÂing Israeli actions in Gaza as war crimes and placÂing an IDF genÂeral on a list of war crimÂiÂnals, Israel has many reaÂsons to feel inseÂcure … but not necÂesÂsarÂily because Iran is going to start a war with it, rather, because it seems like Israeli politiÂcians are not getÂting away with murÂder as easÂily as they used to. But this time, Netanyahu’s rather typÂiÂcal maneuÂver to divert attenÂtion from interÂnaÂtional critÂiÂcism by self-victimizing seems to have backÂfired. By using AhmadineÂjad as that foil, Netanyahu ended up givÂing Iran’s PresÂiÂdent the pleaÂsure of seemÂing that he has a hand in Israel’s weak ideÂolÂgiÂcal standing.
Israeli papers are pointÂing out as an embarÂrassÂment, and in Iran, the offiÂcial media is not losÂing the opporÂtuÂnity to make this a vicÂtory of their own.”
If you weren’t irrelevant until now, you certainly proved it now. You sound a lot like a propaganda mouth piece. What is it about bloggers like you with such extreme point of views and these rants? You keep sasying Israeli newspapers and media as if there is a general consensus among them with regards to holding a view like yours or how it was an embarrassment. Rather you only showed ONE opinion piece from Haaretz who has been known to be extreme Left in a lot of their views. As a matter of fact, it is the exact opposite of what you are or what you quoted in this blog. This is far from reality and I hope you could see it. However given your extremist ideology and hatred toward the Jewish State as a blogger, I am convicned you’d never see that since you used such article that is not even accurate in the facts it is utilizing to prove its point.
So you say I’m irrelevant, and now I am just because you say so? Who are you? haha.
I did not write that piece, but thought it made an interesting point and I still think it makes an interesting point. You simply saying that the article is inaccurate doesn’t mean it is so. The article made an interesting point and then cited sources, Ha’aretz being one of them, which is, of course, a major source. All you do is say it’s “inaccurate” without actually backing your allegation with sources. You also resource to childish personal attacks that get zero mileage here and will not dissuade me from posting anything here. That’s it, good night.
Yes, pouya, given your “hatred toward the Jewish state as a blogger” etc. etc. Arash your English is so horribly awkward.
Online reports of a study by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency cast doubt over the survival of Israel beyond the next two decades. Regardless of the validity of the report, with what is now known about the costs in blood and treasure that the U.S. -Israeli relationship has imposed on the U.S. , its key ally, Israel could fall within five years.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/articles/39/Where-will-Israel-be-in-five-years-.html
Well, that would certainly be great for world peace and security, but its unlikely to happen within my lifetime, unfortunately. Making me somewhat 🙁
Dear Ipouya:
The story makes reference to only one Leftist Newspaper (I’m not sure in the printed version either). That’s the point I am making. The article alleges that Israeli Newspaper(s), implying that majority of consensus feels that way. That is simply untrue and inaccurate, as a matter of fact, Israeli media and Jewish Community in the U.S takes a different opinion of the matter. Some of these publications and media outsource including the Jewish Journal, Channel 1, Channel 2, Maarive, Jerusalem Post, and many other publications supported the Prime Minister’s speech. This article took a single article in Leftist newspaper and made an over exaggerated and highly inaccurate conclusion simply to back his/her ideology.
In terms of being irrelevant, once a blogger use inaccurate article and try to sell it as fact, it becomes irrelevant because it shows their own agenda and their disregard for truth just like in this case. I can only assume you used this article because it supports your ideology, and you forgot to do a simple fact-check on the matter. I am not a blogger, but I do enjoy reading them.
And what is my ideology? Since you seem to live in my brain, why don’t you enlighten us.
Furthermore, simply referencing sources does make your opinion true? Why don’t you post some links?
Regardless, for an opinion to be considered interesting, it doesn’t have to be verified by all other news outlets. The author simply made an observation and provided some credible sources to give his opinion some weight. That’s how it’s done. You can’t even do that.
And despite what you think about the blog, it will continue to have a steady readership. You may choose to be a part of it or not. Either way, it makes zero difference to me.
David K
you make two very good points : one of them, you intend and the other, you clearly do not
The letter by Gideon Levy printed in Haaretz which I point out as “Israeli papers” is certainly NOT the majority of Israeli papers. I actually saw the article in the US printed version of Haaretz and then did a search for it online and saw that it was picked up a lot (Haaretz had another editorial basically laying out the same argument, so at least Haaretz seems to be taking this line) but not all papers in Israel. I stand corrected
On the other hand, your point that the majority of Jews in US and Israelis supported Netanyahu’s UN speech further proves my point. If Jews and Israelis are at a point to be defending the FACT of the Holocaust, then there is a problem, isn’t there? As time passes and the Holocaust becomes a memory, it is becoming harder and harder to point to it as an incentive and justification for Israel’s existence. Now that I think of it, it is perfectly natural for that to happen. That’s the way history works.
But for those of us who are not swayed by the argument that the Jewish people’s tragedy in the Holocaust justifies the Palestinian people’s continuing tragedy at the hands of Israel, it is certainly significant development. Israel is losing one of its main sources of justification. A leader like Netanyahu exposes himself as a criminal and a disgusting opportunist when he gets up and cynically uses the death of HIS OWN family to justify his war mongering and policies of ethnic cleansing. Further proving that Israelis are NOT the spiritual descendants of the Holocaust, rather the people who are the TURE descendants of the holocaust (meaning: those who are horrified by that tragedy to be TRUELY trying to make a world that would never allow another such a tragedy), are not necessarily the descendants of the victims of that Holocaust. You have Israel to blame for that.
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addresses the Islamic Radio and TV Union Assembly
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says corporate media has turned into a weapon of subterfuge, with the sole aim of advancing the West’s political agenda.
In a Saturday address to the Islamic Radio and TV Union Assembly, Ahmadinejad cited random examples of political bias in US and European media outlets.
As a first example of biased reporting in the West, Ahmadinejad pointed to the scant media coverage of Israel’s three-week attack on Gaza, which killed over 1500 Palestinians mostly women and children, earlier in the year.
“Israelis easily used thousands of bombs against the defenseless population of Gaza Strip, who were stripped of medicine and their most essential needs. Now, eight months have passed and we see that the event has been already sunk into oblivion.â€
Ahmadinejad said criticism of Israel and its actions has become ‘off limits’ in American and European media.
Then, Ahmadinejad turned to the sheer lack of media attention to the brutal murder of Marwa el-Sherbini, a pregnant Egyptian woman who was stabbed to death in a German courtroom while the whole jury and court officials stood by and watched.
Last but not least, Ahmadinejad pointed to the recent media hype over Iran’s second nuclear enrichment plant. “In the past few days, we saw Western media outlets repeating false accusations against Iran’s nuclear issue.â€
“This is how the Western media works. First they >distort facts and fabricate news. Then they incessantly repeat their false allegations, just to make sure that it is forever etched on the minds of people,†he said.
“[US President Barack Obama] made a huge mistake when he accused Iran of secrecy and gave rise to the recent torrent of false reports,†said President Ahmadinejad.
Referring to the sudden commotion over the newly-revealed Fordu nuclear facility in southern Tehran, President Ahmadinejad said Iran has always kept the IAEA posted on its enrichment work in line with its policy of transparency.
“Our activities are entirely based on honesty and transparency. There are no secrets between us and the IAEA whatsoever,†he noted.
Ahmadinejad warned that the mainstream media in the West has grown to become more dangerous and more threatening than any chemical or nuclear weapons.
“The media campaign has turned into a full-fledged war. I believe the West’s abundant arsenals of chemical and nuclear weapons are there to deceive and intimidate,†he said.
According to President Ahmadinejad, unbiased media does not exist in the West. “Claims of freedom of press are all lies, each and every one of the western media outlets serve the interests and policies of their states,†he said.
“When I was in New York for the General Assembly, I was interviewed by several news networks, all of which asked the exact same set of questions,†he said.
“I asked them how can you call yourself an independent media, when all the questions you are asking me have been clearly dictated by your governments. Which one of these questions are posed in the interest of your people?†he noted.
President Ahmadinejad said Iran’s mission today is not limited to spreading information. Our main responsibility today is to defend humanity and to create a global culture in support of the oppressed people, he explained.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=107711§ionid=351020101
Fact A: Ahmadinejad is critical about the US mainstream media.
Fact B: Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glen Beck, Michael Savage, Mark Levin and several other prominent US radio-talk-hosts are highly critical about the US “Drive-by” media.
Fact C: Fox News TV (e.g. Bill O’Riley, Laura Ingram, Ann Culter, etc.) are all critical about the US mainstream media.
Anybody knows if the above A, B, and C have anything in common?
What should “the mainstream media” do to please all the above three?
CJ, so are Chomsky and Norman Finkelstein.
You are absolutely correct Pouya. In fact the Zionists are losing, this just in from today… Israeli minister and former military chief Moshe Yaalon cancelled a UK visit because he’s scared of being arrested and charged with war crimes over the 2002 killing of a Gazan, in which 14 others died, at least eight of them children.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8290554.stm
Interesting reading on Iran and the media
Some interesting reading for the day:
Scott Ritter debunks some myths promoted in the media. Ritter would know about this, since he was recruited by British intelligence in 1997 to help sell the Iraq war.
Also:
The corporate media reached a feverish pitch playing up and pontificating on the recent UN appearances by Iran’s Ahmadinejad, Libya’s Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, President Obama’s speech, and Israel’s Netanyahu’s spirited defense of the historicity of the holocaust, but failed predictably to even bring up the most significant UN news item, namely the subject of Israel’s defiance of the UN and violation of international law as documented and condemned by the UN itself in the Goldstone report — the failure that, of course, visibly delighted the Israelis. – Faramarz Farbod, Monthly Review
I was curious – considering the endless, insistent hyping of the “Iran threat” , how much of an effect has all this Iran-bashing had thus far? Last I checked, the world pretty much thought that the US was the real threat:
The Germans: 45% saw the US as a threat to the world, versus 28% who considered Iran to be the threat.
In a poll conducted by the EU, 59% of Europeans in general considered Israel to be the greatest threat to the world, ironically leading the EU to issue to an apology to Israel for even daring to take such a poll.
South Koreans consider the US to be a greater threat than even North Korea, which has nukes and artillery pointed at their capital.
Despite all the efforts by the pro-Israeli lobby in playing up Arab fears of Iran, the fact remains that Arabs consider the US and Israel to be far more of a threat.
The Brits — along with the Canadians and Mexicans — also see the US as the biggest threat too.
This sort of thing is pretty consistent. Compare 1993 and 2006.
Of course the Israelis won’t let go of trying to portray Iran as the threat, what with “flying gas chambers” and the usual warnings of an imminent Iranian nuclear weapon.
More updates as the day progresses . . .
http://www.iranaffairs.com/iran_affairs/2009/10/interesting-reading-on-iran-and-the-media.html
Re. Thr critics of the US. mainstream media, the 12 October 2009 issue of the Nation Magazine (page 21) has a 3 page article by Bill Baker entitled “How to Save the News”. It is a worthwhile read. It concludes by saying:
“It shouldn’t seem radical to expect the same government that recognizes the freedom of the media to also ensure the survival of the media”.
It rang a bell with me. Come to think of it, what is the use of so-called “freedom” [in the first amendment] if all you do in your life is merely a struggle to survive — which is the story of over 50% of Americans.