Mediocrates
11-16-2011, 11:47 AM
But the fact that they're screaming Death to Israel does.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/11/15/iranian-human-shields-nuclear-plant/
Hundreds of students on Tuesday formed a human chain around the uranium conversion plant in central Iran, in a demonstration staged by students to show that Iranians were ready to sacrifice their lives if the nuclear sites were attacked by Israel… After holding a noon prayer session in front of the plant’s main gate, students from Isfahan universities shouted “Death to Israel” and “Death to America.” They vowed to resist in the event of an attack.
I eagerly anticipate intricate lectures from Iran apologists explaining how the students were mistranslated. Yes, they were mobilized by Iranian authorities to serve as human shields for Iranian nuclear assets, the argument will run, but they weren’t chanting “Death to Israel” at all. Instead, what they were saying was “we’d like the mean Zionists who occasionally impose road blocks on the beatific Palestinian people to go back to Europe at some indeterminate time in the future.” And if you think that argument is too stupid for words, and that no media outlet would or could print it, you haven’t been reading the Washington Post lately. (http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2011/10/glenn-kessler-of-wapo-contextualizes.html)
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/11/15/iranian-human-shields-nuclear-plant/
Hundreds of students on Tuesday formed a human chain around the uranium conversion plant in central Iran, in a demonstration staged by students to show that Iranians were ready to sacrifice their lives if the nuclear sites were attacked by Israel… After holding a noon prayer session in front of the plant’s main gate, students from Isfahan universities shouted “Death to Israel” and “Death to America.” They vowed to resist in the event of an attack.
I eagerly anticipate intricate lectures from Iran apologists explaining how the students were mistranslated. Yes, they were mobilized by Iranian authorities to serve as human shields for Iranian nuclear assets, the argument will run, but they weren’t chanting “Death to Israel” at all. Instead, what they were saying was “we’d like the mean Zionists who occasionally impose road blocks on the beatific Palestinian people to go back to Europe at some indeterminate time in the future.” And if you think that argument is too stupid for words, and that no media outlet would or could print it, you haven’t been reading the Washington Post lately. (http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2011/10/glenn-kessler-of-wapo-contextualizes.html)