[Do you like “democracy” and free elections in Gaza]
Democracy is more than just having elections. It also means having democratic institutions and a government that both enforces and obeys the rule of law. Since the only law Islam honors is Sharia, no Muslim country can ever be democratic unless they do what Turkey did under Atat¸rk and even that is now being turned back.
As for Michelle Malkin and her ilk I believe this is just an attempt by some to generate interest. I actually think they know the truth.

i_am_me on June 22, 2009 at 3:55 pm

I assume you mean faux-DEMOCRATIC-uprising, as it certainly is an uprising of one faction against another. And the videos show a far different picture than the protests in Tiananmen Square. Even the peaceful Chinese protests were not about democracy as we know it in the West.
The plus side is, no matter who prevails in Iran, this should shatter any illusions that we can negotiate with them on the nuclear issue. Perhaps not with The Clueless One but it should dry up any public or Congressional support outside of Maxine Waters and John Conyers.
Columbia’s president, Lee Bollinger’s Ahmadinejad introduction was fake. He, the faculty and most of the students support Ahmadinejad as demonstrated by the appluase he received throughout his speech.

Greg on June 22, 2009 at 4:25 pm

This Green revolution doesn’t mean anything unless they get rid of the Mullas as well as Amidinajad, and everyone else associated with that regime.
(I don’t know this for a fact, but it is rumored that segments of the Iranian people are pro-American, and even some pro-Israeli (becuase they have heard the anti-Israel rhetoric their whole lives and reject whatever propoganda comes from the regime)? Could someone shed some light on this…?

JSDude1 on June 22, 2009 at 4:52 pm

Democracy presupposes a belief in freedom coming from G-d and in limited government and individual rights. The concept is unknown in Islam which is based on submission to Allah, the duty of the believer to the ummah and on the divinely ordained ruler having the final word. The Iranian elites don’t want freedom. The people detest them but there is no sign that they can or will bring about either a change in the nature of the regime or its policies. It would be wonderful to think a successful revolution in Iran could usher in a more moderate and peaceful regime. In truth, we’re likely to end up either with the status quo or with a far more radical regime being brought to power. Islam cannot be reformed. There is no secular Islamic state anywhere in the world. As much we want to be on the side of freedom and justice in Iran, the prospects of that triumphing there are slim to none.

NormanF on June 22, 2009 at 5:11 pm

I_am – Atarturk was the exception because he wanted to build a secular Turkey. But he had no way of reforming Islam. No Muslim ruler since has found a formula for bringing Islam into the modern world. The few Muslim countries that are partly free have either repressed Islam or allowed only an official state religion in which its extremist aspects – Jew hatred excepted – can be watched closely by the state. There is no true freedom of religion for Muslim believers either. Left unchecked, they are even more extreme than the officials who are in power. We have to make do with the best of a very bad lot because the alternative waiting in the wings is far worse. And that’s kind of people the mindless adoption of democracy in the Middle East will help bring to power – now or later. More radical extremists who hate us and want to kill us.

NormanF on June 22, 2009 at 5:35 pm

Thanks for clearing up a lot. I definitely don’t want to get played by the media to cheer for a “democratic Muslim” when we don’t know what they stand for. Obviously they won’t spell it out because they just want to feel like they covered a revolution and want Obama to take credit for something. You know the “winds of change” BS. Obviously showing young women protesting plays well for the MSM. Which will lead the viewers to think “They can’t be bad, they dress like us.”
There are bloggers claiming this is a Jewish conspiracy. All being orchestrated by “neo-cons” and Israel. Totally insane. I guess for them if all else fails blame a Jew. Talk about Black Helicopters.

californiascreaming on June 22, 2009 at 7:03 pm

I think Pres. Obama is correct not to takes sides but should be a bit more vocal against the crackdown by Iranian govt. forces.
As for Malkin and others in the “green” movement, just remember that they mean well even if you think they are clueless. Malkin is Jewish, right? Maybe she thinks she’s looking out for America and Israel’s best interests.

Norman Blitzer on June 22, 2009 at 9:55 pm

Debbie, I’m happy I surfed by because all of the other “Republican” bloggers have gone insane. I wanted to say thank you for speaking out and letting people know that these so-called Republicans (bloggers, McCain, Graham) supporting those who want death to Israel and death to Americans are not speaking for all Republicans. We need to take our Conservative party back or we’re going to lose it.

JP on June 22, 2009 at 10:32 pm

I just wish Israel or somebody would get rid A Mad Jihad already and do something about their nuclear program. I will say though it does seem that this so called uprising is not grassroots and does seem to be a bunch of thugs needing an excuse to be thugs just as we have had certain riots in the US which were done by people that were criminals to begin with but needed an excuse and sadly we had politicians that made excuses for them and this heart the law abiding of this group who had to deal with these criminals. I really don’t care if they vote or not although after all we just elected Obama but maybe voting should only be done by those who can be drafted in the military and are the most directly affected by who the president is. I have nothing against the elderly, women, or men who can’t be drafted because they are near sided or something as I am but at the end of the day these people are the one’s that are going to be the most effected and wouldn’t vote for an Obama. It is crazy we have college kids who have such limited life experience voting as at one point not everyone could vote but there were some rational reasons for it that made sense as corrupt male leaders usually sent other men to die in wars of vanity. But do something about A Mad Jihad already and their nuclear program I say.

adam6275 on June 22, 2009 at 10:34 pm

Malkin Jewish??? Possibly, I guess I don’t know – but as she’s Filipino it’s overwhelmingly likely that she is Catholic.

Richard on June 22, 2009 at 10:36 pm

I cringe.. (well, more like barf) every time someone uses the word “solidarity” in conjunction with the Iranian “revolt”. Compare and contrast that with the Solidarity(note capital S) movement in Poland under Lech Walesa.. (and before anyone “corrects” me, there is an “N” sound in Walesa before the s and after the e- just like there’s no “M” in Galopki – it’s a phonetic mandate to avoid a hard stop in speech in Polish because the penultimate syllable is the one with the emphasis placed on it)…..
That was a real grass roots movement toward democracy, backed by the Catholic church and Pope John Paul II to promote real freedom in the face of Godless communism. As long as Islam is a millstone and not a proponent of individual rights and dignity, it’s a sham effort that just feeds the Islamo-fascists more fodder to continue their attrocious 7th century practices and inhumaity.

Mistress_Dee on June 22, 2009 at 10:41 pm

And thanks to you as well, Mistress Dee, for pointing out the sickness of comparing this to the Solidarity movement in Poland. We’re also watching our “Republican” leadership lie and say this is a peaceful protest. I see Muslims torching things and throwing rocks all around the world from Gaza to Sweden and seeing these Muslims who are doing that get support from Republicans is a surreal moment. Women who teach their children Jews are pigs and apes can fight for their freedom without my support. Get that green Islamic crap away from Republican party.

JP on June 22, 2009 at 10:54 pm

[Malkin Jewish??? Possibly, I guess I don’t know – but as she’s Filipino it’s overwhelmingly likely that she is Catholic.
Posted by: Richard]
She married a Jew and converted to Judaism, I believe.
[NB/R: NO. SHE IS CATHOLIC. HER HUSBAND IS A JEW. EITHER WAY, THAT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE. SHE’S JUST COMPLETELY WRONG AND UNINFORMED ON THIS. COMPLETELY UNINFORMED. IT’S LIKE WHEN SHE CONSTANTLY TOUTS CHRISTANS AND MUSLIMS WORKING TOGETHER IN IRAQ, WHEN, IN FACT, MOST IRAQI CHRISTIANS HAVE BEEN FORCED TO LEAVE BY MUSLIMS THERE. DS]

Norman Blitzer on June 22, 2009 at 11:17 pm

I would only have an interest in supporting one side over the other if it meant a change in policy or a weakening of the regime. If those things are not in the cards, I am pretty indifferent.

Worry01 on June 22, 2009 at 11:56 pm

“I think Pres. Obama is correct not to take sides but should be a bit more vocal against the crackdown by Iranian govt. forces.”
TRANSLATION: I don’t mind if my President is a spineless coward.
On a Day when:
1.) Iran’s Mullah’s are crushing any type of dissent in Iran. Telling the world “screw democracy, we run this damn show”.
2.) Al Qaeda and Taliban says “you better get those nukes out of Pakistan first or we PROMISE to use them on you.”
3) North Korea say “F*ck You America, we will invade your airspace on the 4th of July. How do you like those fireworks?”
Obviously Obama has been watching too many episodes of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqbNXtG87XI
Perez Hilton after getting his deserved beatdown yesterday said “I am honestly SHOCKED at the amount of people saying I deserved to be hit. Shame on you! NO. Violence is never the answer. NEVER.” OK that’s what happens when people know you are weak. Liberals are you listening?

californiascreaming on June 23, 2009 at 12:38 am

I’ve been surprised at the number of “conservatives” telling others to act in solidarity with Iran. Solidarity in what??? They are killing themselves, let them do so, by all means. Its a classic Alien vs Predator situation.
As far as Michelle Malkin is concerned, I think she’s hypocritical at times. I don’t have much respect for her or her posts anymore.
Oh, and she’s a Filipina Catholic, not a Jew. She’s married to Jesse Malkin who is Jewish, thats where she got the last name Malkin.

anonymous twit on June 23, 2009 at 12:59 am

[Oh, and she’s a Filipina Catholic, not a Jew. She’s married to Jesse Malkin who is Jewish, thats where she got the last name Malkin.
Posted by: anonymous twit]
Thanks for repeating what Debbie already explained, twit.

Norman Blitzer on June 23, 2009 at 2:07 am

Even if Ahmadinejad and Mousavi were polar opposites there would still be no reason for the U.S. to disobey our Founding Fathers’ repeated warnings against getting involved in other nations’ quarrels and internal affairs. Instead we should “strive to live in peace with all nations, without interfering in their internal affairs, and without permitting their interference in ours.”
Also, the choice in Iran may be between AIDS and cancer, but how about here in the U.S.? Both ruling parties (the Democrats and the Republicans) have been in power without any significant change occurring in our nationís interventionist foreign policy or in bigger and more centralized government at home. There is no difference between the two parties. They differ in their rhetoric but the end result is the same – socialism here at home with loss of our personal freedoms, the destruction of our economy, and the erosion of our national sovereignty.
It’s the constitutionalists and libertarians (NOT conservatives and liberals) who have real solutions to our nation’s problems.

ramjordan on June 23, 2009 at 5:12 am

MICHELLE MALKIN has a husband who stays at home and looks after their kids. So she isn’t playing by Debbie’s playbook, that’s for sure.
What Debbie has been trying to tell her and others that have failed to listen is: That Islamism is like communism. It is the enemy of all you, or I, hold dear. Don’t side even with a faction of it. Devil, sup, long spoon, you knowÖ
The story is the same. Christians and Jews are driven from their homes, women are brutalized and children are brainwashed.
Hate and murder readily falls from the Islamic tree. Always has.
Liberals are Woodstock hippies that have basically smoked their brains out on grass, or hash, for so longÖ they see Jesus and peace everywhere, but where He actually is. And He ain’t in Islam. And peace neitheró but they keep shakin’ that treeÖ In the end, only Bill didn’t inhaleÖ but then he was getting smoked, and was ejaculating his seed and the seal of the presidency in strange female mouths everywhere, so he proved to be the most insane of all. And utterly useless to the charge.
Debbie thinks that puppet leaders installed in the Middle East controlled and overseen by American interests works best, and will solve all our Middle-East problems.
Maybe. But such is not the will of God.
The overloaded freight train of freedom is still gathering speed, screaming down the tracks, brakes and sparks a flyin’ and it is going to plow right through the entire Islamic world, ready or not. Soon, and maybe not tomorrow.
We can’t return to old solutions. The turnback clock, busted.
And if Islamic rogues freely elect fanatics who wage war and horror upon usÖ we’ll galvanize and wipe them from the face of the earth. Just like we did to the Nazis, Mussolini and the boys etc. But freedom MUST come thereÖ because otherwise the Muslim hordes are expendable. Worthless. And can only be allowed to exist in the shadow of our comfort. And that can’t be right.
Proceeding. With caution.

The Canadien on June 23, 2009 at 7:26 am

Debbie,
I really have to hand it to you. You are about the only one keeping a level head in this whole sordid affair.
People are so desperate for an overthrow of Ahmadinejad that they totally ignore the obvious facts.
Malkin and the Hotair pseudo conservatives are totally sold on the false revolutionaries.
However, Atlas Shrugs has lost it in her emotional desire for change.
Most shocking is Savage’s blindness in this affair. He usually gets it right.
Thanks for letting us know the true facts.
Another false hope is Iraq. There is no question that when the Americans move out, they will revert to an Islamic radical government.
[FoL: MALKIN AND HOTAIR ARE CONSISTENTLY CLUELESS ON THE MID-EAST AND TOTAL DILETTANTES ON IT, EVERY STEP OF THE WAY. I ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT ON THESE THINGS. THEY NEVER DO AND HAVE ZERO EXPERTISE IN IT. DS]

Facts of Life on June 23, 2009 at 9:05 am

Moreover, Atlas Shrugs has lost it. (correction)

Facts of Life on June 23, 2009 at 9:06 am

HOLD ON there Deb & the rest of the poster’s here.I’ll agree “critical thinking” is a serious prob. as Deb mentioned above…BUT,so is critical reading!!!
I’m usually in total agreement w/ Debbie & she makes wise & insightful points here but there is much more to consider & evaluate.
I challenge all (yes,you too Debbie) to open your minds to two quick reads by experts on Iran.Both articles appear in the “Media” column:
1. The June 12 Revolution
2. The uprising is on & there’s no turning back
Find them here:
http://www.defenddemocracy.org

billybob on June 23, 2009 at 9:58 am

I’m probably going to get (virtually) beaten to a pulp for saying this, because the intent is hardly politicaly correct, nor will I soften it up to appease any kumbayah-kommandos.
The fact is that democracy only works for a country or people when their citizens themselves are capable of what I would call “enlightened reason”. It took a long while for western civilization to reach that level where democracy could work by way of the reformation, the “age of reason” and by having a confluence of great principled minds fortunately present themselves in the 18th century – both in Europe and especially the English colonies in America. Islam has had no such “awakening”, no sense of what Judeo-Christian belefs espouse in terms of human dignity, tolerance and equanimity under governance. Sharia law hasn’t evolved in 1300 years to accomodate the rights that our founding fathers knew existed universally and so wisely sought to not only instill but protect and allow to expand in concept to all people.
We are living in a new, liberal-socialist driven “Amerika” where those rights are in peril, and this so called “solidarity” with Iran merely points to the blinders that the naive (read that to be most of them) neo conservatives and loony liberals applaud. It’s merely another indication that naivete’, irrational (but effective) propaganda, revisionism, socialism, and outright stupidity with a blantant disregard for the foundational principles that come from our Judeo-Christian heritage are going to put us back to Munich in the 1930’s. Sleeping with the enemy so to speak, is nothing new.
I see it this way. The difference between any Iranian or Islamic theocratic rules is about like the difference between despots like Atilla the Hun and Czar Ivan the Terrible- there is none except the time that’s passed between their reigns.
If you won’t listen to George Santayana’s admonition about remebering history, then maybe everyone should think about what happened to Jack Nicholson as the president in “Mars Attacks” when he said “Why can’t we all just get along?”….

Mistress_Dee on June 23, 2009 at 10:06 am

That’s strange,just checked & Dr. Walid Phares article “The uprising is on & there’s no turning back” is gone.
It was there only an hour ago.Perhaps a google search under his name will locate it for you.
The other one is still there & is excellent.
[B: DR. WALID PHARES IS A CREEP AND A HACK. AS I’VE NOTED ON THIS SITE PREVIOUSLY, HE WAS A WITNESS FOR THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT IN THE DETROIT AL-QAEDA TERRORIST CELL TRIAL. BUT WHEN THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT THREW OUT THE CONVICTIONS BECAUSE IT DIDN’T WANT TO UPSET MUSLIMS IN DETROIT–AND THEN WENT AFTER PROSECUTOR RICK CONVERTINO, INDICTING HIM, WALID PHARES REMAINED SILENT. IN E-MAILS TO ME AND OTHERS, HE EXPRESSED DISMAY AND SAID THEY WERE TERRORISTS (AS HE GOT PAID TO SAY IN COURT). BUT PUBLICLY HE REFUSED TO UTTER A WORD AND LET THE TERRORISTS GO FREE AND THE PROSECUTION OF CONVERTINO TO CONTINUE (CONVERTINO WAS ACQUITTED) BECAUSE PHARES WANT TO CONTINUE TO BE A PAID JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EXPERT ON TERRORISM. TO HIM, MONEY WAS MORE IMPORTANT THAN DOING THE RIGHT THING. THINK ABOUT THAT THE NEXT TIME YOU REFER ME AND THE OTHER READERS TO HIS BS SUPPORTING THE PRO-HEZBOLLAH IRANIANS AND THEIR FAUX DEMOCRACY UPRISING. HE HAS ZERO CREDIBILITY WITH ME. DS]

billybob on June 23, 2009 at 10:06 am

@Mistress_Dee:
Agree w/ your points, but remember…Iran was a creation of the Western powers when the M-E map was re-drawn by the clueless.There’s a distinction to be made between the “Iranian” Islamic Mullahocracy & true Persians.

billybob on June 23, 2009 at 10:22 am

Fair ’nuff Debbie,point taken on his character.However,his view is not singular on what is going on behind the scenes as expressed by others I’ve read.
As in the courtroom,all evidence must be considered before a fair conclusion can be rendered.

billybob on June 23, 2009 at 10:38 am

What is the solution Debbie? I want things to change but what will change the situation? Not to be glib but do we want the Shah or some other dictator?
I see darkness and keep looking for the light.

sandy on June 23, 2009 at 11:43 am

back @ Billy bob- re:”Agree w/ your points, but remember…Iran was a creation of the Western powers when the M-E map was re-drawn by the clueless.There’s a distinction to be made between the “Iranian” Islamic Mullahocracy & true Persians.”
And what is the point in this? It’s always a convenient fall back to “blame ourselves” for the transgressions and “bad manners” of other countries.
Fact is that 2400 or so years ago, persia was the largest empire on earth but got their asses kicked by a group of 300 greeks who were part of democratic culture, and refused to let it cave in the face of an “evil empire”.
Iran has been in its current state for 30 years, poking us and everyone else in the eye whenever they can. Strange how the hostage crisis ended the day Ronald Reagan took office. These peopel understand the imminence of force and strength- not mice platitudes, apologies or weak admonitions. That is what isnt’ new in the course of two millenia.
It’s impossible for democracy and “freedom” to bear fruit in a country where the people themselves pee on the seeds, so to speak. I’m not one to beat a dead horse as an example over and over, but let’s take the faux correlary to the Polish Solidarnosz movement the neocons and libtards are using with Iran.
After WW2, Poland became a satellite of the USSR after havign been run over, stomped on and ttally destroyed by practically everyone- it was the only eastern block country that managed to retain it’s spiritual base in the face of “Godless” communism. Even though the cardinals and church leaders were rounded up and imprisoned, they still resisted, refused to be silenced about the principles of freedom, and the people of Poland kept to their faith and religious practices at the perils of the state sanctioned atheistic mandates. Eventually, as you know, the coincidence of a Polish Pope coming along who was no stranger or coward to resisting Communism, a strong leader in the Soliarity movement and a US president who vowed to defeat an evil empire, expedited the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and overturned three decades of decay and malaise to form a succesful deomocratic state.
In the case of Iran, the religion IS the state, not it’s righteous enemy. It doesn’t matter who is their president, that person will still be run by the Mullah puppet masters. The nuclear quest will continue, the demands for the destruction of Israel will continue, they will still fund and supply HAMAS, and they will still launch missile tests to support their regional if not global aims.
Iran is the antithesis of any solidarity movement you saw 30 years ago in Poland. When the iranian people decide to kick out the Mullahs and Ayatollah, only then can the movement be cosnsidered similar to Solidarnosz or worthy of support from the west. Otherwise, it’s just trading Atilla for Ivan so to speak.
So blame the west all you want. the history of Persian and Islamic ways are long in the tooth as a bellweather of what will happen there. Appeasment, Apologies, and Accomodating won’t change thing except to make them more condescending, more outrageous and hate us without respect. The ancient Greek cities in general and the Spartans in particular, had the right idea about dealing with Persia.

Mistress_Dee on June 23, 2009 at 1:17 pm

DAVID LETTERMAN’S HATE, ETC. !
David Letterman’s hate is as old as some ancient Hebrew prophets.
Speaking of anti-Semitism, it’s Jerry Falwell and other fundy leaders who’ve gleefully predicted that in the future EVERY nation will be against Israel (an international first?) and that TWO-THIRDS of all Jews will be killed, right?
Wrong! It’s the ancient Hebrew prophet Zechariah who predicted all this in the 13th and 14th chapters of his book! The last prophet, Malachi, explains the reason for this future Holocaust that’ll outdo even Hitler’s by stating that “Judah hath dealt treacherously” and “the Lord will cut off the man that doeth this” and asks “Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother?”
Haven’t evangelicals generally been the best friends of Israel and persons perceived to be Jewish? Then please explain the recent filthy, hate-filled, back-stabbing tirades by David Letterman (and Sandra Bernhard and Kathy Griffin) against a leading evangelical named Sarah Palin, and explain why most Jewish leaders have seemingly condoned Palin’s continuing “crucifixion”!
While David, Sandra, and Kathy are tragically turning comedy into tragedy, they are also helping to speed up and fulfill the Final Holocaust a la Zechariah and Malachi, thus helping to make the Bible even more believable!
(For even more stunning information, visit MSN and type in “Separation of Raunch and State” and “Bible Verses Obama Avoids.”)
[Just spied this web blast. Interesting, no?]

fairmack on June 23, 2009 at 9:46 pm

[The ancient Greek cities in general and the Spartans in particular, had the right idea about dealing with Persia.
Posted by: Mistress_Dee]
When it comes to bashing Islam and the Middle East, you guys look like total retards. The Spartans in addition to dealing with Persia, used to throw weak babies off of cliffs. At least the prophet Mohamed (pbuh) stopped infanticide and the Koran forbids abortion so I’ve been told.
[I’m probably going to get (virtually) beaten to a pulp for saying this,]
And rightfully so Lady Dee Dee and your joker face. The 300 Spartans is a fictionalized account of history and even if 300 the movie is true, the Spartans lost! (However Greece would eventually beat the Persians later.)
MD, stick to physics and leave history to smarter people.

Norman Blitzer on June 23, 2009 at 10:08 pm

Blitzer, you are such a typical liberal- tactic 1> Name calling to respond… 2> marginalize the post and let your “dis-leftia” filter out anything you dont’ want to see 3> name calling again… 4> revise or distort histry .. 5> totally miss the point.
You dont’even deserve a response but allow me to explain.. you even quited it- “The Greek cities in GENERAL and the Spartans in PARTICULAR had the right idea”- Yes, you finally numbed up to the fact that the Greeks won, after zooming in on the Spartan’s loss. Funny how you try to revise history when the Sparta neffort is documented as beign the stop gap that held the Persians off long enough for the Persians to be whupped at sea and for the Athenians and Corinthian cities to marshall to take on the Persians who having no navy left HAD to come through Corinth rather than make a sea invasion. Point being the Spartans were brave enough to put their own butts out there to stop a tyranical empire’s forces that were overwhelming- all for the prupose of saving their way of life. Would that our “Beloved Leader” had cajones of half the magnitude, and devotion to this country’s safety in even 1/4 of that measure.
The Ancient Greeks were enlightened for THEIR TIME- nto perfect at all, but still far better than their contemporaries of over two millenia ago.
Unlike today’s Muslims who still practice FGM, the horrors of Sharia law and other things not acceptable in this century or world view, but appropriate only to the dark ages.
As for -“Smarter People”? Blitzer, you’re a joke. If you were so smart, then you should have gotten the point and not taken the liberal rhetorical device of trying to revise history to suit your own lack of debating credibility. Again, as shown in another post that Debbie put up today, you are like Michelle Obama and all the other blowhard liberals who think they know a profession better than anyone else, even if you have no qualifications to comment on the subject. ELite, Effete, and Indiscrete.

Mistress_Dee on June 24, 2009 at 3:46 am

I’ve found there’s always one on a forum that is abrasive and ruins it for everyone else.

JP on June 24, 2009 at 9:16 am

@Mistress_Dee:
You misunderstand my comment to you.It was NOT to assign blame to the West.
The point is to not infer Iranians are “one” people who speak w/ one voice (or language) just because the mullahs are in control.Rather,they comprise many peoples like Persians,Tajiks,Kurds,Lars,Zazas,Balochs,Ossetians,etc.
There is much going on behind the scenes that the West doesn’t understand much less reported on.The link in my post above by Ruel Marc Gerecht is a good place to begin your due diligence.

billybob on June 24, 2009 at 11:15 am

As an appropriate aside, did anyone see National Geographic Channel’s “balanced” 2-hour special on Iran on Monday, June 22? Same bias that made them boo-hoo in 2 separate magazine issues in the last 2 years over Arab Christians suffering supposedly because of Israel. They deliberately left out mention of the Jewish Community center in Buenos Aires being bombed, being content with mentioning only the bombing of the Israeli embassy, which is as good as hinting that is was only part of a global conflict for which Israel is to blame as much as Hizbollah. They also did not mention that Argentina tried to extradite a certain London-based former Iranian diplomat who was deeply involved in the bombing, only to be rebuffed by Whitehall without explanation.
[N: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HAS BEEN HISTORICALLY ANTI-ISRAEL. AND I BELIEVE THIS SPECIAL WAS HOSTED BY KNOWN ANTI-SEMITE MICHAEL SCHEUER, WHO WAS FIRED FROM THE BIN LADEN DESK AT THE CIA AND IS A REGULAR ON THE ANTI-ISRAEL, ANTI-SEMITIC, MUSLIM LECTURE CIRCUIT. DS]

nenamldu on June 24, 2009 at 5:26 pm

“…KNOWN ANTI-SEMITE MICHAEL SCHEUER, WHO WAS FIRED FROM THE BIN LADEN DESK AT THE CIA AND IS A REGULAR ON THE ANTI-ISRAEL, ANTI-SEMITIC, MUSLIM LECTURE CIRCUIT.DS”
Quick comment on Scheuer: In recent weeks, Scheuer has been an expert “guest” on both the Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly TV shows (shows considered by some to be “fair” and/or conservative). During these appearances Scheuer spewed blatant, offensive anti-Semitic,anti-Israel hatred and lies. He was treated by the show hosts, with respect, as if his views were reasonable and worthy of the audience’s consideration.
Yes, we complained repeadtedly, but we wouldn’t be surprised to see this hater invited back. He does not deserve respect nor air time!

crazycatkids on June 25, 2009 at 8:19 am