{"id":8708,"date":"2010-12-06T10:39:37","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T18:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=8708"},"modified":"2010-12-06T15:29:56","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T23:29:56","slug":"iranparallax-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/06\/iranparallax-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Parallax view"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>NOAM CHOMSKY:<\/strong> The Brookings Institute just a few months ago released extensive polls of what Arabs think about Iran. &#8230;They show that <strong>Arab opinion &#8230;\u00e2\u20ac\u201dholds that the major threat in the region is Israel, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 80 percent; the second major threat is the United States, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 77 percent. Iran is listed as a threat by 10 percent. With regard to nuclear weapons, rather remarkably, a majority, in fact, 57 percent, say that &#8230;it would have a positive effect in the region if Iran had nuclear weapons. <\/strong>&#8230;<br \/>\n+<br \/>\n<strong>When they talk about Arabs, they mean the Arab dictators, not the population,<\/strong> which is overwhelmingly opposed to the conclusions that the analysts here, Clinton and the media, have drawn. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also a minor problem. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the major problem. The minor problem is that we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know from the cables what the Arab leaders think and say. We know what was selected from the range of what they say. So there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a filtering process. We don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how much it distorts the information. But there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no question that what is a radical distortion is\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor not even a distortion, a reflection of the concern that the dictators are what matter. <strong>The population doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t matter, even if it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s overwhelmingly opposed to U.S. policy.<\/strong> This shows up elsewhere&#8230;. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2010\/11\/30\/noam_chomsky_wikileaks_cables_reveal_profound\"> &#8211;Noam Chomsky: WikiLeaks Cables Reveal &#8220;Profound Hatred for Democracy on the Part of Our Political Leadership&#8221; <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOAM CHOMSKY: The Brookings Institute just a few months ago released extensive polls of what Arabs think about Iran. &#8230;They show that Arab opinion &#8230;\u00e2\u20ac\u201dholds that the major threat in the region is Israel, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 80 percent; the second major threat is the United States, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 77 percent. Iran is listed as a threat by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,7,73,95,17,29,39,38,18,19,10,51],"tags":[278,681,110,715],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dictatorship","category-empire","category-hillary-clinton","category-intervention","category-iran","category-islam","category-israel-lobby","category-media","category-nukes","category-propaganda","category-war-party","category-wmd","tag-arab-public-opinion","tag-iran","tag-pentagon-propaganda","tag-wikileaks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8708"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8717,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708\/revisions\/8717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8708"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}