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Opinions/Editorials Title: The Destructive Madness of Extremism: First McCarthyism, Then Radical Zionism The right-wing government leaders of the state of Israel, bolstered by their powerful US allies, are trembling with excitement at the prospect of a military attack against Iran. Everything is in place for Iraq Redux. This time the Extremists are determined to get it right. No ground troops, just highly sophisticated bombing runs that will target nuclear targets in Iran. The American public is being manipulated by Israel's Zionist extremists to believe that Iran is on the verge of developing nuclear arms which will be able to "wipe Israel off the map." Time to choose up sides, folks: Are you with us or against us? Republican candidates for president, congressional Republicans and conservative Democrats, with the active encouragement of the always predictable Israel Lobby, are all spoiling for a fight for "our side." Truth of the matter, as Paul Pillar reported in the website, The National Interest, Israel has already launched its war with Iran through stealth assassinations of Iranian scientists, who may have, or more likely, did not have, a part in developing nuclear military capability. Pillar's source is a report by Richard Engel and Robert Windrem, developed for NBC news: "Although the assassinations of Iranian scientists have until now been followed by no indication of responsibility other than smug comments of satisfaction from officials of the most likely foreign state perpetrator, now NBC offers something more specific. "According to a report by Richard Engel and Robert Windrem, the assassinations have been the joint work of Israel and the Iranian cult-cum-terrorist group Mujahedin-e Khalq. "According to the report, the partnership has involved Israel providing financing, training and arms to the MEK to accomplish the hits, as well as to commit other acts of violent sabotage inside Iran. The story tracks with accusations from officials of the Iranian government, who say they base most of what they know on interrogations and captured materials from a failed assassination attempt in 2010. "Such accusations by themselves would be easy to dismiss, of course, as more of the regime's propaganda. But the NBC story cites two senior U.S. officials, speaking anonymously, as confirming the story. A third official said 'it hasn't been clearly confirmed yet,' although like the others he denied any U.S. involvement. The Israeli foreign ministry declined comment; the MEK denied the story." No one is fooled by the Israeli denials. In fact, as the NBC report suggests, Israel deflects attention away from its involvement in all things nefarious, by suggesting that Iran is the aggressor here with its "attacks" on Israeli diplomats, a case dutifully made by the Washington Post here and here. Juan Cole, a Middle East scholar, writing on his Informed Comment blog, is not persuaded by the Israeli spin. He finds Indian sources more credible than Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman: "American media that just parrot notorious thug, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in [these] unlikely allegation are allowing themselves to be used for propaganda. Why not interview Indian authorities on this matter? They are on the ground and have excellent forensic ("CSI") abilities. Stop being so lazy and blinkered; that isn't journalism." Deflect attention from reality, create fear, and take the "high road." This is the way extremists operate. It has always been so. We need only to travel back to the post WWII days of the 1940s and 1950s, when the US public was transfixed by a Washington drama that pitted suspected Communists against the American Way of Life.
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#1. To: Brian S, *Yukon neo-Progressive Vermin* (#0)
Ot course neocon libtards (Rockefeller Republicans) have gone in the wrong direction.
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