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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Unfortunately, the Iranian people are not going to have a say in it.
You're having us on.
Nailed it.
If my already hostile neighbor says he is going to kill me, I don’t go looking for a “plot.” He’s past plotting. It’s time for “doing.”
Jimmy, is that you????
oh Krap!
who wants some unknown so-called ‘jewish journalist’ telling us the exact opposite of the truth....what the Iranian governing regime SCREAMS OUT LOUD at us on a Daily Basis
i mean, just how ridiculous can all this Enemy Big Lie Propaganda get??????????????????????????????????????????
so-called jewish journalist, look up what the words: Liar, Traitor, Quisling, Gobbels, and Kapo mean
So they are deaf reporters who haven’t been listening to the leaders or how else do they get this result?
ps: the handful of nice Persians interviewed MAYBE do not share their government’s RABID PASSION to destroy USA and Israel
but powerless people out on the street have no say and no control in a dictatorship
what counts is ONLY what those in POWER want to do
and they want to destroy USA (and Israel) and they continue to make these plans Crystal Clear every dam*ed day!
Is this so-called Jewish journalist still blushing from shame?
“Sure we will let you filthy Jew... I mean nice journalist into our country to promote a deal we want.
“OK go,..
“See how we are not showing you anyone who wants to kill you?”
Well the Shiite Muslims in Iran have certainly threatened Israel's desrtuction enough times to be believed.
We had the same type of threats from the Sunni Muslims in al Qaeda, and it materialized on 9-11.
Had al Qaeda had atomic weaponry then, I firmly believe they would have used it on us.
I believe Iran will use a nuclear weapons on Israel when they get them.
Both Shiite and Sunni muslims have the best reason in the world for doing what they are doing.
God (ALLAH) want's it done to us Infidels.
Doing God's work trumps everything for the true believers in Islam. -Tom
Well, freedom of speech is so great in Iran for Jews that I’m sure he’s telling the truth.;-)
Sad thing it, that’s exactly what he thought, and still does.
Obama too.
They’re living in some imaginary world...
The Humongous!
I know Larry. He is none of those things.
There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.
I think I am not the first to say that. lol.
[[If my already hostile neighbor says he is going to kill me...]]
...I don’t ask his children if he means it.
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