What Makes Ahmadinejad Smile?

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  • Posted By: Kamran moeen @ 01/12/2009 5:35:52 AM

    We have also heard the news that Indian intelligence agencies are working very closely in Gaza while this operation is carried out by Israel. On one hand, India is condemning Israel on the other hand learning how to use brutal force ala Israel to crush Kashmir movement.

  • Posted By: pgadia @ 01/12/2009 12:52:41 AM

    Hamas is not only an expansion by the Iranian goverment as Mr. Zakaria's claimed, but a sacrificial pawn to divert world attention from their nuclear project, also to create trouble in that region to increase oil prices that benifits mostly those world oil producers. That's the picture that the world must see and understand, as they brain washed Palestinians in Gaza to their ideology then use them to their advantage to attack Israel, that's why Hamas has so many weapons to send to their neighbor, Iran was the finacier, financed by their oil, it's the same nation that sends their young men to walk through mine fields during their war with Sadam Hussein and the Iraqis. I believe Iran is asking for a fight because that's the personality of their leaders & goverment.

  • Posted By: navyrg @ 01/11/2009 11:20:38 PM

    One thing I wish someone would explain to me is how the Palestinians get weapons into Gaza when their only borders are with Israel and Egypt, neither of whom has any tolerance for Hamas. If the Egyptians cannot stop the smuggling of weapons into Gaza, how would any proposed international force be able to?

  • Posted By: fluffy II @ 01/11/2009 9:06:40 PM

    When the Israelis attack Iran, they will use airfields of a country in Central Asia and with logiistic support from India.

  • Posted By: froy1100 @ 01/11/2009 7:35:34 PM

    Obviously, Iran's interest in the Palestinian plight has nothing to do with the welfare of the Palestinians themselves. Iranians are not even Arabs. But they know the sway this issue has among Muslim people across the world (including Iran), so they use their inflammatory rhetoric against Israel and their support of Palestinian resistance movements as propagandistic tools to get public support for their regime at home and abroad.

    Only the most paranoid, narrow minded or insincere would claim that Iran actually pretends to "erase Israel from the map" for real and that Ahmadinejad's harangues are something more than hot air. They have no quarrel with Israel whatsoever. What the mullahs intend is to increase their influence in the Middle East at the expense of the great Arab powers, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

  • Posted By: valwayne @ 01/11/2009 2:08:38 PM

    Fareed Zakaria is strangely silent on what he thinks Israel should actually do. One wonders if he thinks they should just let the terrorist keep shelling and killing them until they are all dead. Mumbai just sufferred a terrorist attack. What would India do if it wasn't one attack from largely unknown terrorists, but daily consistent attacks from a known location? Where was the outrage and articles from the world and Zakaria opposing the daily shelling of Israel's innocent citizens. And Arabs tilting toward Israel.....When was this magical occurance going to take place? Zakaria's position seems to be that Israel should let the terrorist kill their citizens on the off chance that lots of dead Israeli children will win some kind of support from the "moderate" Arabs? Well Zakaria is right in one respect....when the last Israeli is dead the moderate Arabs will support that!

    • Posted By: froy1100 @ 01/11/2009 7:19:00 PM

      Maybe if they try to give back the land they stole and stop all actions of war such as sieges and raids they will get the peace they say they want. They can't expect the Palestinians to stay idle while they expand their settlements on their land, block food, fuel and medicines, and kill their people whenever they please. A bit of sincere dialogue between both sides would be welcome.

  • Posted By: cwarner @ 01/11/2009 12:26:05 PM

    There is a serious disconnect between the world view of the Muslim Radical and the West. Hamas is responsible for the carnage occuring in Gaza, because they have the ability to stop it merely by halting the targeting of Israeli civilians with their rocket fire. It seems that, so long as the civilians are non-Muslims, the attackers, whether against Israelis, Europeans or Americans, acquire the status of public hero. Even when they use their own civilian populations as disposable pawns in the publicity wars, they are forgiven by the Muslim public. The genocidal goals of the Muslim radicals are not part of the great tradition established by the Prophet nor expressed in the Koran and other sacred writings, no matter what the perverted interpretation espoused by the radicals might want us to believe. Hamas is the one blocking humanitarian rescue of the civilian public because they claim the right to destroy Israel. if the world community condones their actions, woe be it to all of us, no matter what our religious perspective.

    • Posted By: froy1100 @ 01/11/2009 7:08:58 PM

      Get your facts right. The Red Cross has already accused Israel of blocking humanitarian rescue, and the UN has denied fabrications about militants hiding in the facilities Israel bombed, massacring the civilians sheltering inside.

  • Posted By: TheGardener @ 01/11/2009 11:56:02 AM

    Why don't we look at the bigger picture? 60 -100 years. Since 1948 Israel has endured three major conventional warfare attacks from the Islamic front. Israel Won. Since the Islamics realized they were the losers a change in strategy how to conquer resulted in the creation of an artificially gang warfare called "The Palestinians". What or who are "The Palestinians"? It is a general term referring to Islamic Arabs organized in gangs to promote Islamic culture. These gangs mushroomed since the 1980s. They are the New Islamic Armies. Islamics know they cannot win in conventional warfare attacks. Anyone who overlooks this evolution from its beginnings with Arafat to today's multi-gangs sponsored by interested parties is missing out. The Media has been used as part of its strategy. In retrospect this is quite visible. The Media is part of this propaganda machine used (so far, very effectively)by the Islamics to wage its wars. How the content is being reported is a crucial part of the Islamic strategy. They use the UN very efficiently for the past 40 years. Israel is weak when it comes to propaganda wars. The cultural differences are even seen here. However the cat has poked its head out of the bag. Hamas and its Covenant hasn't changed. Is the Media in denial about its content? In the Hamas Covenant, replace the word 'Israel' with any other name of a country and it is evident we have a global Palestinian problem. A 'Palestinian' problem can erupt anytime anywhere...Kashmir, Somalia, Thailand,our own 911, London, Spain,Paris,,,,and we have the UN to thank for the courtesy of this service. As for the gods: Allah and company,one can only imagine the fun they enjoy, watching a match between their slave puppets on Earth. When the brains stop functioning, wars happen.

    • Posted By: froy1100 @ 01/11/2009 7:06:25 PM

      Palestinians were the Arabs that were living in the area known as Palestine for the last 15 centuries or so, and that Israel expelled in their wet dream of retaking their mythical Promised Land through ethnic cleansing. That they weren't called "Palestinians" before doesn't mean they didn't exist or that they don't have any rights to the land of their direct ancestors. There weren't any "Jordanians" or "Iraqis" before WWI either, but those Arabs were still there.

  • Posted By: adawy_2050 @ 01/11/2009 6:57:04 PM

    mr fareed zakaria iam watching ur program on cnn u and most of the reporters are very fared of talking about israel crimes iam not sure u are arab or not but ur name is very near to arab and so u have witnessed the crimes of israel of using planes over civilians and much more crimes u know more than me so i wann the next program u just be fair and god gives money that words mean if loppy in us fired u from cnn u can work @ aljazeera which is better than cnn ahahahahah
    please mr zakaria contact me @ this email
    engahmedadawy@yahoo.com

  • Posted By: Valeu @ 01/11/2009 6:51:04 PM

    This is what I call, safe journalism. Fareed Zakaria has very thorough analysis of most of the topics and does a fairly good job has failed miserably when it comes to Israeli excesses. He wants to play lest be labeled as anti-semite and lose his cushy contracts with NewsWeek and CNN. So he is playing safe while fully knowing in his heart that truth is something else. Irrespective of who is supporting who in Middleast, it is the innocents being killed. Not one or two, but 800 of them have lost their lives with over 250 bring children. Why is that people like Mr. Zakaria who have the platform to speak the truth do not dare a single word, but rather take the Israli point of view.

    Well one thing is for sure, solks such as Zakaria have blood of innocent children on their hands by condoing the acts of an ally of superpower. Israel gets $3B in aid yearly, has the latest technology, has ignored many UN resolutions, has divided Palestine into two parts, has Gaza under siege for long time, still continues to get the support of western powers? it baffles me to think of this.

    At least there are few rational minds out there, read the article by MJ Aker who provided the most rational and balaned view of the current situation. Mr. Zakaria should learn a bit from Mr. Akber.
    http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Middle_East/Blood_does_not_sleep_stays_awake_as_nightmare/articleshow/3961870.cms

  • Posted By: adawy_2050 @ 01/11/2009 6:50:11 PM

    ahmed adawy egypt>>>>>>> iam very interested in reading that unfair news u news week are talking about small rockets that for an 8 years killed 20 israel and for 16 days about 800 palestinian people killed no one say any thing about that i will say that iam sure u are not human u are not even animals u are just the evil that is all...........
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  • Posted By: adawy_2050 @ 01/11/2009 6:49:11 PM

    ahmed adawy egypt>>>>>>> iam very interested in reading that unfair news u news week are talking about small rockets that for an 8 years killed 20 israel and for 16 days about 800 palestinian people killed no one say any thing about that i will say that iam sure u are not human u are not even animals u are just the evil that is all...........
    e mail ..........engahmedadawy@yahoo.com
    just watch and be very happy to watch that
    u love blood of children take this
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7Wgk85x72M
    more and more good tasting
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOwIVgYAS-g
    blood is the solution for hungry us israeli people take this
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni04NOcHuTM
    thanks god for every thing the god is and was and will be fair...........

  • Posted By: Catch_22 @ 01/11/2009 6:05:21 PM

    I think this analysis is spot on. Israel; through it's actions; has weakened moderates all throughout the Arab world and strengthened radical Islamists. Ahmedinazad will emerge from this stronger -- and that is a very bad thing for the world.
    No one expects the Arabs and the jews to live peacefully in one nation. World opinion would be on the side of Israel if they appeared to be pushing for an just two-state solution. Unfortunately; like the Palestinians; Israeli governments appear to have failed them. By failing to talk with the enemy -- be it Arafat or Hamas -- and by supporting rabied radicals in their continued grabbing of Palestinian lands; Isreal has lost credibility. Recklessly killing civilians -- children, in many cases -- doesn't help. Israel is on the path to either Arab genocide or self destruction -- or perhaps both.

  • Posted By: Ethan30 @ 01/11/2009 5:21:59 PM

    Saudi Arabia is not a modrate state, and as opposed to Egypt (which is a secular Arab regime) they are religious- but they hate Iran- because one is Sunni and one is Shiite. That is why, despite of Suadi's anti- Semitism, they are happy to watch the Israelis fight the Hamas.
    They don't want Iran meddling in their neighborhood.

    Egypt is a secular regime and hate Iran- because Iran wants all Arab regimes to edhere to them and to be religious regimes under the Ayatollah.

    That is why Egypt is not opening the border to Gaza and not helping the Gazans. They hate Hamas.
    Ayatollah Khamenei said that he has two sons (Hamas and Hezbollah) and one of them is in danger.

    Not Egypt, not Saudi Arabia wants Iran to continue to meddle with their own regimes and intice the radical Islam in their countries.

  • Posted By: Ethan30 @ 01/11/2009 5:12:59 PM

    Lebanon is already in the hands of Iran's proxy- the Hezbollah, and they don't care about the people of Lebanon but follow Iran's orders and serve their interests.

    Gaza is controlled by the Iran's proxy - the Hamas.

    This is how Iran operates- they use terrorist organizations as proxies to advance their cause of global Jihad.

    First they want to assume power over the Middle East- and for that matter they need to take down the regional superpower- Israel, and Next- they will want to take down the world's superpower- the USA.
    That is why want to complete their nuclear program.

  • Posted By: Ethan30 @ 01/11/2009 5:09:29 PM

    Iran is weakened and worried about Israel fighting their proxy- Hamas.
    That is why Egypt and the Saudi Arabia are happy that Israel is finally dealing with Hamas.

    Iran is the bully who wants to control the Middle East and they are after Egypt and Saudi- their arch- enemies.
    So now Israel is fighting the war of Egypt and the other secular Arab regimes in the area.

  • Posted By: ross1972 @ 01/11/2009 1:17:02 PM

    The saudi government could be considered moderate if you dont stare too hard.It is a kingdom which has a great deal of interest in regional stability in order for the oil that is its lifeblood to flow unimpeded.It has also quietly supported the US in any way it can after the first gulf war and also despises irans shiite government which it feels is trying to encroach in the sunni arab sphere.Many radical groups particularly saudi spawned ones like al qaeda want to destabilise the kingdom and topple its leaders who they regard as unislamic and who do not use the kingdoms money to spread islam and support islamic causes.

  • Posted By: M3iX @ 01/11/2009 1:04:27 PM

    Since when and under what criteria is Saudi Arabia a moderate Arab state?!?

  • Posted By: ross1972 @ 01/11/2009 12:56:02 PM

    Shiite Iran now holds sway over not only its own territory but also wields enormous influence in Iraq,Syria and Lebanon.In the future,a nuclear capable iranian military will be able to send tank battalions and troops unhindered and unopposed right to the border of israel itself.Its fighters and bombers will fly from bases all across this wide region with no need to ask for airspace permission and they may very well be able to drive the Jewish people into the sea.A decade ago that would have been an Iranian mullahs pipe dream.Now it is coming true.Iran has a vision of the future that has remainrd constant for decades.

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