Iran Wrap-Up: FOR, JCER, McCain's Falsehood

by Charles Lenchner · 2008-10-09 09:08:00 UTC
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Here's a few current items on Iran:

The venerable Fellowship of Reconciliation finds itself in the odd position of agreeing with Dr. Kissinger. Joseph Gerson writes:

I find myself in the unusual position of agreeing with Henry Kissinger. It is, indeed, time and past time to begin a serious dialog with Iran.

The Jewish Council for Education and Research (JCER) is the outfit behind the fantastic Sarah Silverman GOTV video. In their new, not as profanity laced video, they present a rather sane version of what a pro-Israel Iran policy might be. In this video, according to the PR blurb, "...many of the most respected military and intelligence experts in Israel discuss the impact of the Bush/McCain foreign policy on Israel, the need for the United States to engage directly with Iran, and their personal feelings about Sen. Barack Obama."

Retired Generals of the Israeli Defense Forces and high-ranking Mossad officials on Barack Obama... from www.JCER.info on Vimeo.

Finally, here's a quote from John McCain from the Cincinnati debate on Tuesday:

What would you do if you were the Israelis and the president of a country says that they are -- they are determined to wipe you off the map, calls your country a stinking corpse?

Just wanted to point out that he has misquoted Iranian President Ahmadinejad, as so many, on both sides of the aisle, have done. Actually, he said, quoting from an old phrase of the Ayatollah Khomeini, that Israel was 'destined to be wiped from the pages of history.' The implication is not that doing so is Iran's destiny, but that 'it will happen' because presumably Zionism is evil, etc. According to Juan Cole, "Ahmadinejad did not say he was going to 'wipe Israel off the map' because no such idiom exists in Persian". Instead, "He did say he hoped its regime, i.e., a Jewish-Zionist state occupying Jerusalem, would collapse." [Thanks Wikipedia and NY Times.]

I think that the current Zionist regime in Jerusalem is destined to someday disappear. There I said it. Of course, I don't think it will happen quickly, and it might well be replaced with a different Zionist regime, or an Israeli regime that is no longer Zionist, or some joint Israeli-Palestinian confederation fantasy that makes us want to hug our children and adopt kittens. I hope that doesn't make me a 'goddamn kitten-loving anti-Semite.'

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Charles Lenchner
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