Gisteren publiceerde de NRC een artikel van de reactionaire Israelische journalist Shmuel Rosner, waarin hij zonder feiten te geven Iran 'expansionisme' verwijt. Deze hetze is geheel in lijn met de ideologische kijk op het Midden Oosten van de NRC-redactrice Carolien Roelants. Daarbij is Iran het rijk van het kwaad en Israel het rijk van het goede.
Een veel genuanceerder beeld geven Amerikaanse (en zelfs Israelische) deskundigen als Phyllis Bennis, fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, die algemeen beschouwd wordt als een van de best ingevoerde geleerden op het gebied van het Midden Oosten. Haar onlangs verschenen boek Understanding the US-Iran crisis. A Primer wordt door Seymour Hersh van The New Yorker als volgt gekwalificeerd: 'This important analysis deals with the facts - and not the deception and fear-mongering - of the Bush administration's verbal, thus far, war against Iran. Can anyone read this book and stil support an attack on Iran?' Een goede vraag, die u eens aan Carolien Roelants van de slijpsteen voor de geest zou moeten voorleggen. Op mij reageert ze niet, misschien wel op u.
Overigens kreeg ik net dit bericht:
'The US elections and the Middle East crisis: a prospect for change?
Public lecture
DATE: Thursday 6 November 2008
VENUE: ABC Treehouse, Voetboogstraat 11, Amsterdam
door open 20h00, start 20h30
Free admission
English spoken
Public lecture
DATE: Thursday 6 November 2008
VENUE: ABC Treehouse, Voetboogstraat 11, Amsterdam
door open 20h00, start 20h30
Free admission
English spoken
The world is anxiously waiting to see who will be the next US president
and what will be the new administration's foreign policy. Will the
occupation of Iraq continue? Will there be a turn away from the current
policy towards Iran or will the aggressive threats escalate?
Just a day after the election results emerge, Phyllis Bennis, a veteran
analyst of US foreign policy, will examine the history of the current
U.S. wars and crises, and assess the prospects for change that may - or
may not - open with the arrival of the new administration.
Bennis has just published new primers on the Iraq war and the US-Iran
crisis. Written in an easy-to-read "frequently asked questions" format,
ENDING THE IRAQ WAR discusses the issues that have determined the course
of the war, and provides a set of strategies for ending the US-led
occupation and allowing Iraqis to reclaim their own country to build
their own peace in Iraq and the region. UNDERSTANDING THE US-IRAN
CRISIS: A PRIMER examines the history of U.S.-Iran relations, and calls
for replacing the current U.S. policy of aggression toward Iran with
alternative strategies for defusing the crisis.
Both just-published books are for sale at the venue!
Phyllis Bennis is a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in
Washington, D.C. and the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. She is a
long-time analyst of U.S. policy in the Middle East, particularly
regarding the Iraq war and Israel-Palestine conflict. She is the author
of another book in this series, UNDERSTANDING THE PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI
CONFLICT: A PRIMER.
For more information, contact Andrea Sturkenboom
andrea[at]tni.org or Call +31 (0)20 662 66 08'
and what will be the new administration's foreign policy. Will the
occupation of Iraq continue? Will there be a turn away from the current
policy towards Iran or will the aggressive threats escalate?
Just a day after the election results emerge, Phyllis Bennis, a veteran
analyst of US foreign policy, will examine the history of the current
U.S. wars and crises, and assess the prospects for change that may - or
may not - open with the arrival of the new administration.
Bennis has just published new primers on the Iraq war and the US-Iran
crisis. Written in an easy-to-read "frequently asked questions" format,
ENDING THE IRAQ WAR discusses the issues that have determined the course
of the war, and provides a set of strategies for ending the US-led
occupation and allowing Iraqis to reclaim their own country to build
their own peace in Iraq and the region. UNDERSTANDING THE US-IRAN
CRISIS: A PRIMER examines the history of U.S.-Iran relations, and calls
for replacing the current U.S. policy of aggression toward Iran with
alternative strategies for defusing the crisis.
Both just-published books are for sale at the venue!
Phyllis Bennis is a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in
Washington, D.C. and the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. She is a
long-time analyst of U.S. policy in the Middle East, particularly
regarding the Iraq war and Israel-Palestine conflict. She is the author
of another book in this series, UNDERSTANDING THE PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI
CONFLICT: A PRIMER.
For more information, contact Andrea Sturkenboom
andrea[at]tni.org or Call +31 (0)20 662 66 08'
En nu kijken of de krant die de nuance zoekt een tegenstem laat horen. De pro-Israel lobby hebben we gehoord, nu nog de andere kant. Zo hoort dat in een democratie. Na de fictie de feiten.
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