{"id":9389,"date":"2011-03-02T13:07:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T21:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=9389"},"modified":"2011-03-02T13:07:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T21:07:18","slug":"wednesday-iran-talking-points-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/02\/wednesday-iran-talking-points-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Iran Talking Points"},"content":{"rendered":"

from LobeLog<\/a>: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for March 2nd, 2011:<\/em><\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em>: The WSJ<\/em>\u2019s editorial board catalogs newspaper and blog commentary on \u201cThe \u2018Israel First\u2019 Myth: Obsessed with the Jewish state, Mideast \u2018experts\u2019 got the region all wrong.\u201d The writers lash out at the New York Times<\/em>\u2019s Thomas Friedman for his history of endorsing \u201clinkage<\/a>\u201d and for suggesting <\/a>that, \u201cIf Israel could finalize a deal with the Palestinians, it will find that a more democratic Arab world is a more stable partner.\u201d They write: \u201cIt was fanciful of Friedman to think that Arab dictators\u2013whom he now acknowledges have depended on scapegoating Israel to maintain their hold on power\u2013would have agreed to such plans,\u201d and \u201cThe current regime in Iran is dedicated to Israel\u2019s destruction. It\u2019s hard to see how Israel would be better off today if it had entrusted its security to the Arab dictators whose own people have suddenly made them an endangered species.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tablet Magazine<\/a><\/em>: Hudson Institute<\/a> Visiting Fellow Lee Smith<\/a> opines that \u201cWhile protest rage across the Middle East, Israel stands as a regional model of resiliency, relevance and democratic stability.\u201d Smith admits that this is an about-face from the position he took last wee<\/a>k, when he claimed that \u201cIsrael is finished\u201d and \u201cthe fall of Hosni Mubarak is only the latest setback in a decade of extraordinary strategic debacles for Israel.\u201d This week, he argues, \u201cThe Arab model for success is not Iran, or Turkey, but Israel,\u201d and, more specifically on Iran: \u201cIran\u2019s nuclear program and full-throated opposition to the United States and the Zionist entity may make it the envy of some fans of resistance in the region, but the fact is that an Iranian bomb is the Hail Mary pass of a dying society where there\u2019s been no economic development for 30 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a><\/em>: The Post<\/em>\u2019s \u201cRight Turn\u201d blogger takes issue with the White House\u2019s \u201ctepid language\u201d in denouncing the Iranian government for its detainment of opposition leaders Mehdi Karroubi and Mir-Hossein Mousavi. Jennifer Rubin<\/a> observes that \u201c[the administration\u2019s statements] highlights perhaps the greatest failing of the Obama administration: its failure to seize the moment and provide support (rhetorical and otherwise) to the Green Movement in 2009.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for March 2nd, 2011: The Wall Street Journal: The WSJ\u2019s editorial board catalogs newspaper and blog commentary on \u201cThe \u2018Israel First\u2019 Myth: Obsessed with the Jewish state, Mideast \u2018experts\u2019 got the region all wrong.\u201d The writers lash out at the New York Times\u2019s Thomas Friedman for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"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":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"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\/9389","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\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9390,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9389\/revisions\/9390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9389"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}