IAEA Chief El Baradei breaks it down for you clowns.
The Washington Post published Sunday an interview with Mohamed El Baradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency. He is the top U.N. nuclear proliferation official, and one of the most respected Arab officials in the world (which is not saying much).
The interview is significant for what he says about Israel, even if he says it in indirect and implicit officialspeak kinds of ways. I feel you Mo, and I know you feel me too.
He points out the double standard in the world’s view on Iran’s technological progress. Other countries can have the means to develop nuclear weapons, and choose not to, such as Japan, to which the Post interviewer responds, “The Japanese government hasn’t said that its aim is to destroy the state of Israel.”
El Baradei’s answer to that is an interesting acknowledgement of the one-state solution:
There have been a lot of offensive statements, frankly, on the part of Iran, although from what I understand, Iran wants a one-state solution [to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict] — not, as reported in the media, that Israel should be wiped off the map.
Naturally, the Post interviewer is concerned about the primacy of Jewish chauvinism in the holy land, and questions him, “And you know that one state means the end of Israel because there are more Palestinians than Jews.”
To which, El Baradei says “I’m not taking sides on that…” He than goes on to bridge to a different message, about the importance of working with moderates.
Israel is mentioned just one more time in the interview:
[WP]: People say you criticized Israel harshly for bombing the nuclear reactor in Syria — that you weren’t tough on Syria for building a nuclear reactor.
I have been very harsh on Israel because they violated the rules of international law on the use of unilateral force, and they did not provide us with the information before the bombing, which we could then easily have established whether Syria was building a nuclear reactor. To that extent, the blame is also shared with the U.S., who sat on the information for a year and six months after the bombing. Now we are doing our best to try to see what Syria was doing, but it’s like Iran. I cannot jump the gun and say Syria was building a nuclear facility because what we are doing now is trying to verify what was there.
This man is fighting the good fight credibly, I have to say. Even if he is sometimes accused of being a western hand puppet, I am a fan. Correct if I’m wrong. But he knows Zionist supremacy is the problem and hinted at it in this interview. Maybe after the next “peace process” fails, official Arabs will be able to speak their minds and say what we already know.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7856213.stm
Posted by Anonymous | February 2, 2009, 6:37 amhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7856213.stm
Posted by Anonymous | February 2, 2009, 10:38 amThere have been a lot of offensive statements, frankly, on the part of Iran, although from what I understand, Iran wants a one-state solution [to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict] — not, as reported in the media, that Israel should be wiped off the map.
It’s so strange that a seemingly intelligent man can fail to realize that a one state solution is not contradictory with the destruction of Israel. Or is he just playing word games because he thinks everyone else is too stupid to notice? Or maybe it’s just because he’s bald.
Posted by programmer craig | February 2, 2009, 10:44 amBaradei is irrelevant. I don’t know how anyone can say he is a puppet of the West, when he has proven again and again his allegiance to everyone’s interests EXCEPT those of the US and Israel.
To compare Japan, a thriving modern democracy that has threatened no one in 70 years, to Iran, a theocratic despotic regime that murders and tortures its people by the train car load, establishes and arms proxy Islamist armies and violently interferes in the affairs of neighboring states, one must be either ignorant or complicit.
But the IAEA is not alone in its growing irrelevance. One by one, UN institutions have become corrupt and complicit with those who seek to destroy and delegitimize the West, America, democracy, capitalism, Jews, modernization and interference with the despicable affairs of ignoble nation states.
Posted by Anonymous | February 2, 2009, 11:00 amThanks for the conspiracy theories anon.
Posted by Arayus | February 2, 2009, 11:15 amWhat conspiracy theories?
Posted by Anonymous | February 2, 2009, 12:41 pmThis comment is not contradictory with the idea that Craig is still an idiot.
If they can’t have babies as fast, why should the Palestinians pay for that?
Posted by American Muslim Girl | February 2, 2009, 12:47 pmYou sure about the babies AMG? I've never heard anyone challenge Jewish women to a fertility contest. Perhaps it's time to issue such a challenge.In Egypt, the Jews went from a population of 70 to 2-3 million within 210 years, and this is credited to the merit of the Jewish women.Maybe it's time for a repeat performance.
Posted by Anonymous | February 2, 2009, 9:23 amPC! I saw your comment on Michael Totten!!! Wow, what a small “internets”!
Wasn’t that a great piece?
Posted by Anonymous | February 2, 2009, 2:24 pmSo women should be coerced into making more babies to keep up in an obscene arms race for political power? Great.
HINT: Secularists have FEWER BABIES than religious types because they’re too busy living BETTER LIVES and being BETTER PEOPLE.
A society where both sides feel compelled to give in to having more kids to try and maintain a political power bloc is a society circling the drain.
The problem with a one-state solution is that the Palestinian leadership won’t allow the society of that state to be nearly as open and secular as Israel’s is today (for Israeli citizens, not talking about their foreign policy.)
You honestly think, if a one-state solution comes to pass, that I can go to that state and hold a gay pride parade without being harassed? Hand out copies of Hitchens’ book “God is Not Great” in Arabic, free from harm?
I get that there are plenty of secular Palestinians; I’ve been to the West Bank, I’ve met them.
What I don’t see is any evidence that the Palestinians can manage secularism in their government as well as Israel is doing right now.
If Fatah were to finally defeat Hamas for good, govern *all* of the Palestinian territory, and implement this sort of secularism for a while, I’d be much more willing to consider a one-state solution.
So, yeah. More Fatah supporters on this blog, please?
The issue isn’t transitioning Israel and Palestine into a single state.
The issue is transitioning Israel from a secular Jewish state to, simply, a secular state.
Posted by Joe | February 2, 2009, 5:24 pmHaha, no, but seriously. The issue is Jews being Jews, not Jews being French coffee shop liberals.
Posted by Anonymous | February 2, 2009, 7:48 pmJoe, you should read this.
Posted by Anonymous | February 2, 2009, 7:50 pmAnon 2:24, yeah it was a great piece! Joe, you need to click that link that anon put up to MJT’s post… it’s very relevant to what you were just saying about your hopes for fatah and the PA.
Posted by programmer craig | February 2, 2009, 8:57 pmMichael Yon also did a piece within the past couple of days. One of the comments he made that struck me – given his training with the SEALs – was how everyone says the Qassam rockets are children toys, including the writers of this blog.
These rockets are advertised to be small and not much of a nuisance, but each one carries about 15 times more explosives than a hand grenade.
Harmless toys, Will?
Anyway, it seems the Israelis worked him over pretty well about Iran, including a speech by the all but elected Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Yon has been extensively covering Iraq and Afghanistan from an embedded freelance reporter perspective, so he knows very well who the Iranians are and what the Iranian ambitions are. It seems he’s now understanding the threat beyond Iran’s immediate neighbors.
It strikes me again, and again, and again how people outside of Israel, a military person in this case, just look at the Jews incredulously for taking this bullshit for so many years.
It seems completely logical to every human being on the planet that when someone goes to war with you, you fight until you either kill them or their ambition to fight. Israel is the only country expected to never defeat its enemies, to fight them just so much as to hold them back for a week or a month or a year, and not more. And then to give up everything it achieved in the war during diplomacy.
Posted by Anonymous | February 2, 2009, 11:13 pmAnon above me, the link was surprisingly decent, considering that it’s Michael Totten (not the world’s greatest source) and the guy in question blogged for Commentary (an absolute cesspool)
Though I don’t see anything in there that contradicts my knowledge at all.
Really, the only area the author of that article and I disagree on is in our conclusions; I think that while Fatah’s corruption is still ridiculous, it’s abated *somewhat* since Arafat’s death, and more importantly, a corrupt, authoritarian, secular regime is still the best hope for an independent Palestinian state.
The best strategy, by far, is “Win the state, then once you have the state, take on Fatah corruption”.
Posted by Joe | February 3, 2009, 12:36 am(Just to be clear, the above means that I only support a ‘one-state solution’ as an eventual successor to an already-implemented two-state solution, after a few decades of relative calm and if both societies feel it’s beneficial to integrate.)
Posted by Joe | February 3, 2009, 12:38 amIran is a wacho that likes to play the Palestinian card for its own interest, as they dont give a shit what happens to Palestinians! Bradae is just like Amr Moussa in Davos, a sissy to be direct and acuse Israel of its crimes. Arabs have reached the lowest point of all.
Posted by Ali | February 3, 2009, 1:47 amJoe, you are exactly what Khaled Abu Toameh said about Westerners who no matter how many times they are raped in the ass by Fatah thugs keep giving and giving.
Stop giving. Stop trying to control the outcome by throwing money and guns at people. You are not helping Israel. You are not helping the Palestinians. You are deluding yourself and throwing Palestinians into the arms of Hamas. Just stop. Stop!
Posted by Anonymous | February 3, 2009, 2:07 am“”
Stop giving. Stop trying to control the outcome by throwing money and guns at people. You are not helping Israel. You are not helping the Palestinians. You are deluding yourself and throwing Palestinians into the arms of Hamas. Just stop. Stop!”"
If they choose to be ‘thrown into the arms of Hamas’, well, that’s their choice, but they’re making a giant mistake.
They should accept the Fatah overlords until independence. They’re not pretty, but they make the trains run on time.
Posted by Joe | February 5, 2009, 12:14 pmCruelty is not a Jewish trait, Joe.
Posted by Anonymous | February 5, 2009, 11:02 pmComplete silence and complicity by Kabob for Hamas crimes. I overheard Will say, referring to the Gazans, “Resistance forever. And the people? Let them eat dirt”.
Posted by Anonymous | February 8, 2009, 12:10 am