New York Times Creates Room for More Israel/Syria Lies and Propaganda

Here we go again. One month later and we're still getting fed lies and assumptions in hopes of shaping policy in Israel's favor. The New York Times released an article Saturday which stated "Israeli and American intelligence analysts" have come up with the apparent foregone conclusion that the Israeli strike on Syria was "in fact" the beginnings of a nuclear reactor. The 'Times' writers decided to spin the events of the past month in such a way as to put all guilt on Syria, to suggest Arab opposition to a Syrian nuclear facility, and to add no such debate to the actual reality in the facility ever being there in the first place. Despite this being 100% legal, despite the fact that it could have been used for energy purposes, despite Israel hiding the fact that they have their own worrisome stockpile of nukes, and despite the fact that it would have taken cash-strapped Syria no less than seven or more years to produce any nuclear capabilities (not to mention not even having the cash to complete it in that short of time, even with the help of North Korea), you still have to be highly skeptical that what they hit was even the beginnings of a reactor at all.

This is becoming more suspicious by the day with all the silence coming from administrations of both Israel and the U.S. At first, there were highly peculiar reports of Israel both "possibly" and "surely" having "satellite photos" of a Syrian nuke site which were passed along to the U.S., but there is no way that could have been true, as they seem to be slowly but surely talking their way towards that notion again. If there were conclusive evidence of a nuke site, there wouldn't be all this misinformation floating around. And why is it taking so long for these revelations to come about? There is absolutely no way Israel had any proof of a partial nuke site. It is straight-up nonsense. The Neo-con(Fox) News Channel has already ran with the story nationally today as if everything in the article is 100% accurate, and throwing the what-ifs about North Korea in as well for good measure. No stock should be put in the mainstream media's reporting of Middle East affairs, especially when it has anything to do with Israel. When will people learn? Belief in disinformation is so much more comforting for people here in America, and for the most part Israel, but some tend to prefer the truth.

The UN has said they are working on either confirming or denying the reports, and that they have not received any satellite or intelligence reports from Israel or the U.S. An American analyst had this to say:

"A very real question is whether Syria is technically and financially able to build such a reactor. It would be hard to justify an air strike on a facility so early on in construction and, if supplied by North Korea, unlikely ever to be finished," U.S. analyst David Albright, alluding to North Korea's nuclear disarmament agreement earlier this year, told Reuters.

"Israel may have wanted to send a signal to Iran. The U.S. wants to scare Iran (off nuclear work) and this air strike might have been a way to do it, and explain some of Israel's secrecy."

Warmonger Bolton Again Calls for Bombing of Iran

John Bolton, think-tank purveyor of Zionist lies and propaganda, is at it again. The former U.S. ambassador to the UN said Sunday that he sees no other option than to attack Iran. Why this guy is still allowed to spew his filth on the world is beyond me. Not only that, the man still has his supporters. It's time to bomb HIM, and people like him.

"I don't think the use of military force is an attractive option, but I would tell you I don't know what the alternative is."

Of course he doesn't. Rational thought left this man's skull long ago.

The fact that intelligence about Iran's nuclear activity was partial should not be used as an excuse not to act, Mr Bolton insisted. "Intelligence can be wrong in more than one direction." He asked how the British government would respond if terrorists exploded a nuclear device at home. "'It's only Manchester?' ... Responding after they're used is unacceptable."

Using his own logic there, the Middle East has every reason to hate Israel. This guy is not working for the American people. He's working for Israel and its American lobbyists. Iran's capabilities right now is equal to that of a nuclear power plant. He's trying to further justify going to war just on assumptions and lies, not that we haven't seen this before from the man.

However, he praised the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and his forthright criticism of Iran in recent weeks.

Raising the spectre of George Bush's "axis of evil", Mr Bolton said that Kim Jong-il's regime in North Korea was akin to a "prison camp" and that he would "sell anything to anyone".

Those who thought North Korea would give up its nuclear capability voluntarily were wrong, he said.

Of course he's going to praise France's new nonconservative dictator. This isn't the same France that led the coalition against the U.S. invasion of Iraq. He knows that. Predictably, he also had to spread some of the propagandist lies that North Korea is helping Syria go nuclear, which is a laughable impossibility. You can read the whole article here.

Why the Hush-hush?

Yesterday, New York Times posted an article with the headline: "IAF recently photographed nuclear facilities in Syria." That article has now suddenly been removed, but it isn't hard to find out where that fallacy came from. Here's the gist of the NY Times article:

The New York Times on Wednesday quoted a Bush Administration official as saying Israel recently photographed possible nuclear installations in Syria.

The comments come amid ongoing silence in Israel regarding Damascus’ allegations that the Israel Air Force fired missiles at ground targets deep in Syria during an overflight last week.

“One Bush administration official said Israel had recently carried out reconnaissance flights over Syria, taking pictures of possible nuclear installations that Israeli officials believed might have been supplied with material from North Korea,” the paper wrote. “The administration official said Israeli officials believed that North Korea might be unloading some of its nuclear material on Syria”

“The Israelis think North Korea is selling to Iran and Syria what little they have left,” the New York Times quoted the official as saying.

Note how it goes from genuine assurance, to "possible." In other words, you can throw everything you've read out the window. Who wrote that article, you say? Why Israelis and the Jewish media of course. What a coincidence. Nothing that's being reported about the mysterious alleged September 6th IAF air strike in Syria through the mainstream media is factitious. It's all theoretical up to this point, but you can't keep the Jewish media from spinning the story. Israel, the Saudis, and (for the most part) the U.S., have all been quiet about this. How unusual that something like this happens, and both the Israelis and U.S. remain private about it. That never happens.

I think it's because the mission was a big, fat failure, and to save themselves and others the embarrassment, they decided to just let the biased media run with it for now. I don't think the mission had anything to do with Hizbullah rockets, or if it did, they missed. Otherwise the Israelis would be gloating all over the place. Testing of Syrian air defenses is another possibility, and is not entirely out of the question. That would sort of explain maybe why the jets had to drop their fuel tanks on Turkish land. Whatever is going on, you can rest assured that we're going to get dragged into it. The silence is quite possibly the biggest mystery, and I don't believe the lies lately of Israel not wanting to go to war with Syria and Iran for a second.