Posted on 08/12/2015 12:26:08 PM PDT by Calpublican
The first journalist from an American Jewish pro-Israel publication to be given an Iranian visa since 1979 reported Wednesday that he had found little evidence to suggest that Iran wanted to destroy Israel, as widely asserted by critics of the Iranian nuclear agreement. The journalist, Larry Cohler-Esses, assistant managing editor for news at The Forward, an influential New York-based newspaper catering to American Jews, also wrote that people in Iran, including its Jews, were eager for outside interaction and willing to speak critically about their government. While he heard widespread criticism of the Israeli government and its policies toward the Palestinians, Mr. Cohler-Esses wrote, he also found support among some senior clerics for a two-state solution, should the Palestinians pursue that outcome. “Though I had to work with a government fixer and translator, I decided which people I wanted to interview and what I would ask them,” Mr. Cohler-Esses wrote in the first of at least two articles from his July reporting trip. “Far from the stereotype of a fascist Islamic state, I found a dynamic push-and-pull between a theocratic government and its often reluctant and resisting people.”
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What part of "Wipe Israel off the map" do you not understand?
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The journalist Larry Cohler-Esses is merely a willing dupe for the Slimes and the Iranian regime in this goal. Cohler-Esses is reminiscent historically of the western intellectual dupes who went to pre-WWII Stalinist Russia and returned with rave reviews.
Yes, the attempt is transparent.
Ok I will accept your assessment of your friend. But his article remains an absurd Big Lie ( as almost any afternoon’s Destroy USA and Israel mass rally in Iran — as well as all their leaders’ hundreds of threats - attests.
“....reported Wednesday that he had found little evidence to suggest that Iran wanted to destroy Israel”
How has his brilliant amateur gumshoe managed to “miss” the reportage...of all the occurrences upon which the iranians have SWORN to eradicate Israel?
Going to Iran and not finding evidence of a conspiracy to destroy Israel is strong proof that Iran is all innocent and fluffy and populated by bunny rabbits, which is why they could be trusted to give them a guided tour.
As we saw a few years ago with the brutal repression of the popular uprising against the Iranian regime (while the dissidents got no help from the Obama administration).
The author was looking to people with no resources to destroy Israel....rather than engaging in the use of common sense.
Obama’s heart is with Islamic terrorism.
“The Forward” is a leftwing/neo kapo paper. That they would get a visa from Iran is telling in itself.
Somewhere, I’ve got photos of heinous crimes by the regime from that time. Sword wounds on a babe, and that sort of thing.
#22. Walter Duranty in the 1930’s. Got a Pulitzer for telling the world that everything was fine in the Soviet Union despite the massive genocidal manmade famine in the Ukraine, the mass executions in Lubianka Prison and the Gulags, and “The Great Terror” that the recently deceased Robert Conquest wrote so devastatingly about.
Herbert Matthews - NYT’s too. Told us how great a freedom fighter Castro, Raul and Che were. Lying red dupe ahole.
I. F. Stone - Secret member of the Communist Party USA and KGB asset/operative. “I.F. Stone’s Newsletter” and articles in various leftist publications.
Lionel Martin - CBS stringer in Havana. Old line communist.
Alden Whitman - NYT’s obit writer and admitted 12 year member of the CPUSA (he said he quit). However, the CP used him to publish flowering comments in the obituaries of “the Party dead” including Paul Robeson and Hugh Mulzac.
Anthony Lewis - one of the best anti-American, pro-Hanoi columnists around, NTY’s too.
Wilfred Burchett - guest Op-Ed column contributor. Australian CP; Soviet KGB agent; Red Chinese uniformed propagandist among Allied POWS in the Korean War (See, Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, Sen.Judiciary Committee, Testimony of George Karlin (aka KGB agent Yuri Krotkov), 1972, among others. Friend of Jane Fonda, Dave Dellinger, Norman Lear, Robert Scheer, etc. the cream of the Hanoi Financial Lobby. Details available at www.keywiki.org under the search terms “Hanoi Lobby”, “Wilfred Burchett”, “Jane Fonda”, etc.
The Forward was one an honorable newspaper (I had one article in it in the 1980’s), but the internal split destroyed a lot of the honesty it once had.
This reporter would have had a ball in Nazi-Germany interviewing German Jews on the street as to reported plans by Hitler to isolate and possibly deport them as part of his National Socialist ideology. Of course they would say that everything was “kosher”, “hunky-doory”, and “just fine” (as too many in denial did in the late 1930’s and paid for their blindness with their lives, including members of my family).
KAPO? Don’t think so. Liberal Jewish SCHMUCK. Absolutely and totally unworthy to be any kind of journalist.
Have we learned nothing about our enemies except that they tell the truth about their plans?
For the Forward, apparently not.
[[Obama’s heart is with Islamic terrorism.]]
100%.
Walter Duranty
The Forward is a Socialist publication. They don’t even pretend to be Jewish anymore.
The Forward isn’t Jewish. It has already dropped the “Jewish” and “Daily” from its name and was never Zionist.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/255421/forward-drops-jewish-its-name-daniel-greenfield
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