"Why
is it manipulative to ask the great powers - as is required under the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty - to engage in disarmament? Why is it presumptuous to
ask that Israel be bound by these international obligations? … Essentially, Iran,
apart from the option of a self-knowledge ban, has no way of satisfying the
West."
Is the West and its media truly open to argument and facts on the nuclear issue? To many people in the Arab and developing world, the clearest and simplest arguments seem beyond Western comprehension.
Western propaganda against
Iran is strong and powerful, so don't expect the media to properly cover the international
conference organized by Iran. For many Western citizens, bombarded by an
insidious onslaught of Newspeak,
the only way to hear another side of the story would be to search the Internet
for blogs that make fools of the guardians of "proper" thinking.
Posted
by WORLDMEETS.US
The theme of this
international conference, which is a rejoinder to the global anti-Iran
conference organized by Barack Obama, is “nuclear energy for all, nuclear
weapons for none.” In the traditional media, it is thought to be ironic that Iran is
impertinent enough to want precisely what the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty (NPT) provides for: no nuclear weapons but the free use of nuclear
energy for peaceful purposes. Although the "civilized" media have for
years hammered home that Ahmadinejad is a madman or an oddball - with the help
of some of his unnecessarily provocative comments - it has had some difficulty
finding the right response to a simple statement: general disarmament under the
supervision of an international organization. It is therefore ironic that some
cry out that this is some kind of ploy or manipulation.
We really don’t see it! Why is it manipulative to ask the great powers - as is required
under the NPT - to engage in disarmament? Why is it presumptuous to ask that
Israel be bound by these international obligations? If you put such simple
questions to the great communicators of the “axis of good,” the best you can
hope for is to be considered dangerously naive. But, more prosaically, you would
be seen as someone who hasn't understood the order and reality of the world - an
order that wants to see Iranian scientists forbidden from enriching uranium and
mastering civilian nuclear energy, and Israel authorized to have a nuclear
arsenal.
Essentially, Iran, apart from
the option of a self-knowledge ban, has no way of satisfying the West. Because
all knowledge acquired by its researchers is "potentially" capable of
military use. It's difficult for a nation to require its researchers to close
their eyes - yet that’s what Westerners are asking of Iran.
Posted
by WORLDMEETS.US
The communicators of
civilization don’t like it much when things are expressed simply and clearly. When
Israel's nuclear arsenal is brought up, their response is invariably the same: “that
has nothing to do with it!” For a Palestinian, an Iranian, an Egyptian or an
Algerian, it has everything to do with it. Some of these brave communicators -
whose job it is to make us believe, among other things, that cruise missiles
bring democracy! - believe that Israel is a “democracy” and that its possession
of nuclear weapons is “no problem.” This theory has often been heard.
Arab friends of the “axis of
good,” who try on orders from Washington to persuade others of the Persian
menace, haven't used this argument due to its failure. That's understandable! These
"great communicators" are like courtiers from a Hans Christian
Andersen fairy tale applauding the imaginary clothes of a completely nude
King!
