Daily Archives: 12 May 2009

Chickenhawks: Israel will DIE if you talk to Iran

Trauma drives West’s denial of Iran’s genocidal anti-Semitism “The West is ignoring Iranian genocidal anti-Semitism due to a psychological ‘trauma model,’ according to an Israeli professor. . . . There is an ‘identification with the aggressor out of fear’ that the perpetrator will cause further harm, Lubin told The Jerusalem Post. This helps to explain why the Iranian ‘threat to annihilate Israel, which is very straightforward, very alarming, is ignored by the West,’ she said.” (Read more from jpost.com)

I wonder how this propagandist reconciles Iran’s “genocidal anti-Semitism” with the peaceful co-existence of 30,000 Jews in Iran.

Gingrich: Obama endangering the Jewish state “Former US House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Sunday blasted the Obama administration for setting itself on a collision course with Israel and endangering the Jewish state, ahead of his address to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).” (Read more from jpost.com)

Motorola succumbs to boycott-Israeli-apartheid pressure

“Motorola has sold a controversial unit that produced bomb fuses and other equipment for the Israeli military, according to the Israeli financial newspaper Globes. The sale rids Motorola of some activities that had made it the target of a growing boycott in the US and worldwide. No explanation was offered in the media reports for the sale by Motorola Israel — a wholly owned subsidiary of Motorola — of its unit called Government Electronics Department (GED) to the Israeli company Aeronautics Defense Systems Ltd.

The sale came just days after a 30 March protest in Brooklyn by The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel (NYCBI) kicking off a city-wide campaign to boycott Motorola over its support for Israeli apartheid.” (Read more from electronicintifada.net)