A system that can unleash a metallic cloud to shoot down incoming rockets in
the skies over Gaza or Lebanon has already been successfully tested,
according to its maker, and is expected to be deployed next year. The army
is developing a new generation of its Arrow defense system designed to shoot
down Iran's long-range Shihab missiles outside the Earth's atmosphere.
It has three German-made Dolphin submarines and is buying two more. They can
be equipped with nuclear-tipped missiles which analysts say could be
stationed off the coast of Iran. Israel says Iran, despite its denials, is
trying to acquire atomic weapons. It has never confirmed its Dolphin fleet
has nuclear capabilities, but senior officials acknowledge that commanders
are fast at work devising a strike plan in case diplomacy fails.
En boven dit artikel van Associated Press staat dit: 'Israel readying new arms to meet Iran challenge'
Dit is nu een omkering van de werkelijkheid. Israel bedreigt Iran, en het persbureau AP beweert het tegenovergestelde. Zo worden de geesten rijp gemaakt door AP-verslaggevers JOSEF FEDERMAN and STEVEN GUTKIN vanuit Jeruzalem.
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AP is Lying to Push for War on Iran (Again)
Posted in AP Can Go Jump in the Lake, Empire Apologists, Gaza, Israel, Jaded Numb over the BS They Peddle for Truth These Days, Journalistic Fraud, Warmongering by Dan Alba on January 15, 2009
Imagine that a world leader was quoted as publicly saying: “Judging from recent trends, the neocon regime is not likely to survive in this region.” Now, imagine that a major news organization published a report based on that statement. What do you suppose the headline would say?
A) World leader: Neocon regime survival not feasible
-or-
B) World leader: Not feasible for US to exist
Assuming that the translation is accurate to begin with, the obvious choice is “A” because it is clearly the most accurate, right?
Not according to “the world’s largest and most trusted source of independent news and information.”
A January 15, Associated Press headline reads:
Iran president: ‘Not feasible’ for Israel to live [1]
In other words, “Israel must die” or “Israel should die.” But did Mahmoud Ahmadinejad actually say that? Let’s look at the opening paragraph:
A top Israeli envoy delivered his country’s stance on a cease-fire agreement in Gaza to Egyptian mediators trying to seal a truce on Thursday. The Iranian president said the fighting showed Israel’s continued existence in the region is “not feasible.”
It may appear as though he’s suggesting that all of Israel (the government, people, and maybe even trees and goats — who knows?) will cease to exist. That would be awful if that is what he is actually saying. But it’s impossible to know for sure when the AP editor quotes only two words.
So, after sifting through 18 more paragraphs of Israeli PR, we find:
At a news conference, Ahmadinejad said the fighting in Gaza has been “a great lesson for all,” saying it shows “the absolute defeat and desperation of this (Israeli) regime.”
He says that “even for the supporters of the occupying regime and its leaders, it has become clear that the continuation of the Zionist regime’s life in the region is not feasible.”
So, contrary to what the AP headline and opening paragraph tells the reader, he was not suggesting the death of the entire nation of Israel. In fact, he didn’t even use the word Israel at all; the AP editor nicely inserted it for him.
In professional news reporting, the headline and the lede (the first 1–3 paragraphs or so) deliver the synopsis of the story. An unmistakable trait of shoddy news-wire journalism is when you have to read 20 paragraphs of irrelevant editorializing to get a modifying paragraph with quoted phrases and context pertaining to what the headline promised to deliver.
Question: Who’s going to stick around for that?
Answer: A lot fewer than would read only the headline and lede.
Conclusion: Damage done.
If AP was an honest outfit, the headline would have been something like, “Iran president: Zionist regime survival not feasible,” and the lede would have entailed quoted phrases and pertinent context, without inserting the editor’s choice of words. At the very least, it would have entailed an accurate paraphrasing of Ahmadinejad’s statement.
The last time The Associated Press and other major news media deliberately flooded the world with an egregious misinterpretation of an Ahmadinejad remark, it was used as a tool for 1) handicapping the Iranian (and U.S.) economy through unlawful asset freezes, trade embargoes, and other economic sanctions, and 2) subjecting the Iranian people to an immoral and unlawful shakedown via the United Nations Security Council and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), thus preventing them from fully enjoying their natural right to choose the mode of energy production that best suits them and their budget. Those sanctions are acts of war, and The Associated Press is fiddling with a few key words and tens of millions of innocent lives.
The “wiped off the map” lie has been used to collectively punish everyday Iranians (and Americans) in the guise of keeping an allegedly genocide-minded leader in check. But, did you know that the U.S. government has given hundreds of millions in U.S. tax dollars to U.S.-designated terrorist groups toward violent and illicit regime-change in Iran? [2]
Not if you’ve been getting your “news and information” from AP.
Fight the Lying Warmongers
If you are opposed to the world’s largest and most powerful news media’s efforts to bring about the deaths of millions of innocent human beings at the behest of the belligerent Israeli and U.S. regimes, then contact The Associated Press and let them know. Don’t let them lie us into another unnecessary, trillion-dollar, genocidal war of aggression.
AP Jerusalem Bureau
PO Box 13172
Jerusalem 91131
Israel
Tel: 972-2-538-5577
Fax: 972-2-537-6083
Bureau Chief, Steve Gutkin: sgutkin@ap.org
Managing Editor, Josef Federman: jfederman@ap.org
AP Headquarters
450 W. 33rd St.
New York, NY 10001
Tel: 1-212-621-1500
Email: info@ap.org
—————
1. google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g6l-TrnBjEMU0HBCWo667sTBC8eQD95NMH4O1
2. See: www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/5551 &
www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HB18Ak01.html &
rightweb.irc-online.org/rw/3277.html &
www.infowars.net/articles/march2007/300307Iran_provocation.htm
http://detainthis.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/ap-is-lying-to-push-for-war-on-iran-again/
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AP is Lying to Push for War on Iran (Again)
Posted in AP Can Go Jump in the Lake, Empire Apologists, Gaza, Israel, Jaded Numb over the BS They Peddle for Truth These Days, Journalistic Fraud, Warmongering by Dan Alba on January 15, 2009
Imagine that a world leader was quoted as publicly saying: “Judging from recent trends, the neocon regime is not likely to survive in this region.” Now, imagine that a major news organization published a report based on that statement. What do you suppose the headline would say?
A) World leader: Neocon regime survival not feasible
-or-
B) World leader: Not feasible for US to exist
Assuming that the translation is accurate to begin with, the obvious choice is “A” because it is clearly the most accurate, right?
Not according to “the world’s largest and most trusted source of independent news and information.”
A January 15, Associated Press headline reads:
Iran president: ‘Not feasible’ for Israel to live [1]
In other words, “Israel must die” or “Israel should die.” But did Mahmoud Ahmadinejad actually say that? Let’s look at the opening paragraph:
A top Israeli envoy delivered his country’s stance on a cease-fire agreement in Gaza to Egyptian mediators trying to seal a truce on Thursday. The Iranian president said the fighting showed Israel’s continued existence in the region is “not feasible.”
It may appear as though he’s suggesting that all of Israel (the government, people, and maybe even trees and goats — who knows?) will cease to exist. That would be awful if that is what he is actually saying. But it’s impossible to know for sure when the AP editor quotes only two words.
So, after sifting through 18 more paragraphs of Israeli PR, we find:
At a news conference, Ahmadinejad said the fighting in Gaza has been “a great lesson for all,” saying it shows “the absolute defeat and desperation of this (Israeli) regime.”
He says that “even for the supporters of the occupying regime and its leaders, it has become clear that the continuation of the Zionist regime’s life in the region is not feasible.”
So, contrary to what the AP headline and opening paragraph tells the reader, he was not suggesting the death of the entire nation of Israel. In fact, he didn’t even use the word Israel at all; the AP editor nicely inserted it for him.
In professional news reporting, the headline and the lede (the first 1–3 paragraphs or so) deliver the synopsis of the story. An unmistakable trait of shoddy news-wire journalism is when you have to read 20 paragraphs of irrelevant editorializing to get a modifying paragraph with quoted phrases and context pertaining to what the headline promised to deliver.
Question: Who’s going to stick around for that?
Answer: A lot fewer than would read only the headline and lede.
Conclusion: Damage done.
If AP was an honest outfit, the headline would have been something like, “Iran president: Zionist regime survival not feasible,” and the lede would have entailed quoted phrases and pertinent context, without inserting the editor’s choice of words. At the very least, it would have entailed an accurate paraphrasing of Ahmadinejad’s statement.
The last time The Associated Press and other major news media deliberately flooded the world with an egregious misinterpretation of an Ahmadinejad remark, it was used as a tool for 1) handicapping the Iranian (and U.S.) economy through unlawful asset freezes, trade embargoes, and other economic sanctions, and 2) subjecting the Iranian people to an immoral and unlawful shakedown via the United Nations Security Council and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), thus preventing them from fully enjoying their natural right to choose the mode of energy production that best suits them and their budget. Those sanctions are acts of war, and The Associated Press is fiddling with a few key words and tens of millions of innocent lives.
The “wiped off the map” lie has been used to collectively punish everyday Iranians (and Americans) in the guise of keeping an allegedly genocide-minded leader in check. But, did you know that the U.S. government has given hundreds of millions in U.S. tax dollars to U.S.-designated terrorist groups toward violent and illicit regime-change in Iran? [2]
Not if you’ve been getting your “news and information” from AP.
Fight the Lying Warmongers
If you are opposed to the world’s largest and most powerful news media’s efforts to bring about the deaths of millions of innocent human beings at the behest of the belligerent Israeli and U.S. regimes, then contact The Associated Press and let them know. Don’t let them lie us into another unnecessary, trillion-dollar, genocidal war of aggression.
AP Jerusalem Bureau
PO Box 13172
Jerusalem 91131
Israel
Tel: 972-2-538-5577
Fax: 972-2-537-6083
Bureau Chief, Steve Gutkin: sgutkin@ap.org
Managing Editor, Josef Federman: jfederman@ap.org
AP Headquarters
450 W. 33rd St.
New York, NY 10001
Tel: 1-212-621-1500
Email: info@ap.org
—————
1. google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g6l-TrnBjEMU0HBCWo667sTBC8eQD95NMH4O1
2. See: www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/5551 &
www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HB18Ak01.html &
rightweb.irc-online.org/rw/3277.html &
www.infowars.net/articles/march2007/300307Iran_provocation.htm
http://detainthis.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/ap-is-lying-to-push-for-war-on-iran-again/
2 opmerkingen:
Sorry hoor, maar ik lees in het bovenste artikel alleen dat israël een systeem heeft ontworpen om zich tegen Íran te beschermen:
1: middels een raketschild
2: middels afschrikkende wapens
Elke zo objectief mogelijke lezer van het bovenste artikel zal hier géén bedreiging van Israël versus Iran uit halen, maar precies andersom: Omdat Iran dreigt atoomwapens te hebben, bouwt Israël afweer.
er zijn drie mogelijkheden:
of het ontbreekt u aan het vermogen logisch te denken, tenminste als u ervan uitgaat dat iran een nucleaire staat als israel zal aanvallen, een zionistisch land dat telkens weer toont geen remmingen te kennen. of u bent een zionistische propagandist, of u bent een combinatie van beide. u mag zelf kiezen.
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