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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Road Walker who wrote (344648)7/31/2007 3:36:24 PM
From: Thomas M.  Read Replies (2) of 1572558
 
How many Americans are aware that Iran's leader agrees to recognize and make peace with Israel? Even among the extremely well-read segment of the population, virtually none.

<<< ... In the West, any wild statement of Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, immediately gets circulated in headlines, dubiously translated. But as is well known, Ahmadinejad has no control over foreign policy, which is in the hands of his superior, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The U.S. media tend to ignore Khamenei’s statements, especially if they are conciliatory. For example, it’s widely reported when Ahmadinejad says that Israel shouldn’t exist-but there is silence when Khamenei says that Iran “shares a common view with Arab countries on the most important Islamic-Arabic issue, namely the issue of Palestine,” which would appear to mean that Iran accepts the Arab League position: full normalization of relations with Israel in terms of the international consensus on a two-state settlement that the U.S. and Israel continue to resist, almost alone ... >>>

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