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Daily Kos —
... Concern Jumps ... Among the GOP E. J. Dionne: When President Obama addresses the nation tomorrow, he should not be distracted by Washington's obsessions over partisanship and ideology. He needs, above all, to speak to the country's raw fear. Robert Kuttner: Fiscal conservatives are using the temporary deficit increase to attack a perennial target -- Social Security and Medicare. Roger Cohen: [Iran] - At Palestine Square, opposite a mosque ...
Did The New York Times Really Print This?
The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely —
... aren't persecuted. I've done what is humanly possible to educate people about Iran and the Jews that live there. And as a non-Jew I learned the hard way that there are things I am "not allowed" to say. Or, rather that there are things I cannot authoritatively discuss, even though I probably know more about the Jews living in Iran than most American Jews. How's that for democracy and freedom of speech?
But this? I'm really blown away the New York Times even had the balls to print this:
I’d visited the bright-eyed Sedighpoor, 61, the previous ...
The credulous cohen, the more moderate mahmoud and the technical threat
Yourish.com —
... Nichaols Kristof and Roger Cohen are the two most extreme anti-Israel columnists for the New York Times. For the past couple of weeks, Cohen has been distinguishing himself by writing propaganda for the murderous Iranian regime. Today he takes his pro-regime advertising to a new low with What Iran’s Jews say. ...
NSN Daily Update 2/23/09
democracyarsenal.org —
... in Iran; Roger Cohen discusses Iran’s Jews. Ali Reza Eshraghi argues that ...
The Jews of Iran
Newshoggers.com —
... A very good article in the New York Times regarding the Jewish community in Iran. The following are a couple of choice excerpts, but I recommend reading the entire thing: ...
NY Times: Anything to promote the anti-Israel agenda
Israel Matzav —
NY Times: Anything to promote the anti-Israel agenda Monday's New York Times publishes an op-ed by Roger Cohen who describes his meetings with the Jewish community during a recent trip to Tehran. I asked Morris Motamed, once the Jewish member of the Majlis, if he felt he was used, an Iranian quisling. “I don’t,” he replied. “In fact I feel deep tolerance here toward Jews.” He said “Death to Israel” chants bother him, but went on to criticize the “double standards” that allow Israel, Pakistan and India to have a nuclear bomb, but not Iran. Double standards don’t work ...
Roger Cohen hits bottom, digs deeper
Israel Matzav —
... by claiming that Iranian Jews are hostile to Israel and not to the Mullahcracy and that reality in Iran is that Jews have freedom of worship - after the vast majority of Iran's Jews have escaped over the last thirty years. Double standards don’t work anymore; the Middle East has become too sophisticated. One way to look at Iran’s scurrilous anti-Israel tirades is as a provocation to focus people on Israel’s bomb, its 41-year occupation of the West Bank, its Hamas denial, its repetitive use of overwhelming force. Iranian language can be vile, but any Middle East peace — ...
Roger Cohen, Useful Idiot
The Corner on National Review Online —
Monday, March 02, 2009 [image] Roger Cohen, Useful Idiot [Michael Rubin] I was traveling for lectures last week, and so am only catching up on my reading now. I came across this column by the New York Times 's Roger Cohen entitled " What Iran's Jews Say " and his defense of it, ...
The Personal and the Political in the Middle East
Michael J. Totten —
Roger Cohen is taking heavy criticism for a piece he recently wrote in the New York Times in which he said the annihilationist anti-Semitic rhetoric of the Iranian regime tells us less about Iran than the fact that he, an American Jew, was treated with consistent warmth on his trip to Tehran and Isfahan. I cant say I agree, but I sympathize to an extent with what hes saying because I've had similar surprises in the Middle East, happening upon hospitality instead of expected hostility.
Arabs, Persians, and Kurds are so well-known for their considerate ...
Bernstein on Human Rights Watch
Matthew Yglesias —
... For one thing, The New York Times really shouldn’t publish op-eds stating that “the government of Iran . . . has openly declared its intention . . . to murder Jews everywhere.” There are Jews in Iran, unmurdered, subject to the same repressive dictatorship as Iran’s Muslims, with its abuses ...
