NYT backs idea of killing 70 m Iranians
Mohammad Ali Sattar | Sunday, 31 August 2008
Not too many people get to read the New York Times (NYT), especially the strapped people of the Third World. Either they cannot afford to subscribe to the broadsheet or do not have the privilege of access to online publication. Even the well-off section of the First World care less what the newspapers carry.
Late last month the NYT published an article by an Israeli historian, Professor Benny Morris, advocating an Israeli nuclear attack on Iran with the likelihood of killing 70 million Iranians: "Iran's leaders would do well to rethink their gamble and suspend their nuclear programme. Barring this, the best they could hope for is that Israel's conventional air assault will destroy their nuclear facilities. To be sure, this would mean thousands of Iranian casualties and international humiliation. But the alternative is an Iran turned into a nuclear wasteland."
The article written by the Israeli historian advocating for elimination of 70 m people of Iran and one of the largest circulated daily of US publicizing the suggestion are something that won't be viewed with ease. Brotherly ties between the Jewish state and the US has become, by now, a political and strategic issue which is the nucleus of any peace talk or war plans in the Western Asian region.
The overwhelming interest of the US power engine to keep Israel revving is also taken into highest consideration when the matter comes up for discussion at any level.
The Israel historian in question is not alone in this crusade against the Muslims. The very power base of the state has the idea ingrained in them. Iraq, or for that matter, Saddam Hussein, has been its bane for a few decades.
There have been unending strategic meetings and plannings in the US and Tel Aviv and a few other capitals and cantonments and nuke sites to destroy Saddam and his weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).
Iraq had no WMDs. Iraq was always viewed as a threat to Israel's survival and it has been treated accordingly. It now bleeds, engulfed in an internecine struggle.
Iran has been the target ever since US invaded Iraq. Talks have been on about striking Iran and its possible repercussions. In Israel, the academics and intellectuals have been spreading venoms in the minds of the Jewish populace around the world against the Muslims and the Muslim states in the West Asia. This anti-Muslim school of thoughts is a large majority and happens to be mighty powerful.
Their researches and findings are well backed up by the state machinery, which is again mothered by the US. The publication of this article advocating for a mass murder of a nation by state-backing is indicative of the dangerous mindset that surpasses even of the worst adventurers like Hitler or Karadzic.
Here the NYT sides with the advocate of mass murder reaching the case to people who would be interested to join the terminators. The NYT has -- for reasons best known to them -- shifted its stance. It has been claiming to publish all the news that is fit to print and which informs the 'educated classes' in the US and which serves as the conscience of the cultural, economic and political elite in the country.
How far the 'article to kill' will serve the conscience of the socio-economic and political elite of the US and also of the world is a pertinent question. The NYT, a leading player of the press does bear the responsibility of promoting peace and harmony as do any other publication. Fanning extremism is what it has done.
The US is already involved in unjust conflict in the Middle East (ME). President Bush is being termed as the most unpopular President due to his senseless actions and utterances. Senior US journalists, Fareed Zakaria being one of them, have been voicing their concern over the blunders that the US leaders committed thus far and the dangers of hostilities in Iraq and Afghanistan ignited by the US.Apart from the ME, the US is also involved in many unrealistic exercises in socio economic issues round the globe. The press plays a dominant role in guiding the conscience of the society and the government - in this particular case, the NYT has acted against its own people who want peace and is, thus, fanning the chauvinists. In other words, it is beating the drum of annihilation of a nation. NYT has much to publicize than the sick message of Benny Morris.
The writer can be reached at E-mail: [email protected]
Late last month the NYT published an article by an Israeli historian, Professor Benny Morris, advocating an Israeli nuclear attack on Iran with the likelihood of killing 70 million Iranians: "Iran's leaders would do well to rethink their gamble and suspend their nuclear programme. Barring this, the best they could hope for is that Israel's conventional air assault will destroy their nuclear facilities. To be sure, this would mean thousands of Iranian casualties and international humiliation. But the alternative is an Iran turned into a nuclear wasteland."
The article written by the Israeli historian advocating for elimination of 70 m people of Iran and one of the largest circulated daily of US publicizing the suggestion are something that won't be viewed with ease. Brotherly ties between the Jewish state and the US has become, by now, a political and strategic issue which is the nucleus of any peace talk or war plans in the Western Asian region.
The overwhelming interest of the US power engine to keep Israel revving is also taken into highest consideration when the matter comes up for discussion at any level.
The Israel historian in question is not alone in this crusade against the Muslims. The very power base of the state has the idea ingrained in them. Iraq, or for that matter, Saddam Hussein, has been its bane for a few decades.
There have been unending strategic meetings and plannings in the US and Tel Aviv and a few other capitals and cantonments and nuke sites to destroy Saddam and his weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).
Iraq had no WMDs. Iraq was always viewed as a threat to Israel's survival and it has been treated accordingly. It now bleeds, engulfed in an internecine struggle.
Iran has been the target ever since US invaded Iraq. Talks have been on about striking Iran and its possible repercussions. In Israel, the academics and intellectuals have been spreading venoms in the minds of the Jewish populace around the world against the Muslims and the Muslim states in the West Asia. This anti-Muslim school of thoughts is a large majority and happens to be mighty powerful.
Their researches and findings are well backed up by the state machinery, which is again mothered by the US. The publication of this article advocating for a mass murder of a nation by state-backing is indicative of the dangerous mindset that surpasses even of the worst adventurers like Hitler or Karadzic.
Here the NYT sides with the advocate of mass murder reaching the case to people who would be interested to join the terminators. The NYT has -- for reasons best known to them -- shifted its stance. It has been claiming to publish all the news that is fit to print and which informs the 'educated classes' in the US and which serves as the conscience of the cultural, economic and political elite in the country.
How far the 'article to kill' will serve the conscience of the socio-economic and political elite of the US and also of the world is a pertinent question. The NYT, a leading player of the press does bear the responsibility of promoting peace and harmony as do any other publication. Fanning extremism is what it has done.
The US is already involved in unjust conflict in the Middle East (ME). President Bush is being termed as the most unpopular President due to his senseless actions and utterances. Senior US journalists, Fareed Zakaria being one of them, have been voicing their concern over the blunders that the US leaders committed thus far and the dangers of hostilities in Iraq and Afghanistan ignited by the US.Apart from the ME, the US is also involved in many unrealistic exercises in socio economic issues round the globe. The press plays a dominant role in guiding the conscience of the society and the government - in this particular case, the NYT has acted against its own people who want peace and is, thus, fanning the chauvinists. In other words, it is beating the drum of annihilation of a nation. NYT has much to publicize than the sick message of Benny Morris.
The writer can be reached at E-mail: [email protected]