The BBC quotes Ahmedinejad as blaming the current tensions in Iran on Western propaganda.
Is most of his rhetoric just a way to keep himself in power? There must be some recipe for leaders: create an Other, rally everyone together against the Other, claim yourself a victim of the Other, decry the injustices of the Other, and accuse everyone who questions you of somehow colluding with the Other. Distract everyone from your real aim: amassing and maintaining your own power.
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seriously, well put! um did you see this in the news yet?? I got really excited!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8099749.stm
Actually.... I'm really upset by it. Maybe I should be happier that Netanyahu is willing to talk about negotiations- and negotiations without preconditions, even- but I don't think that any "state" that is created will be viable. They'll have no military, Netanyahu thinks it's Israel's decision who the leadership will be (i.e. Abbas, no Hamas involvement), and he claims that they won't build more settlements, which I don't believe but even if it's true they've already annexed so much of the West Bank that the damage is done. He's also effectively said that the refugees aren't his problem, even though THEY ARE.
I just think that Israel telling the Palestinians that they can have a "state" without a military is a complete joke. Can you imagine anyone trying to tell Israel they can have a state without a military? Or any other legitimate country in the world?
But Israel will get to claim the moral high ground because they "initiated" the "peace talks" and, of course, because they're not "terrorists."
Ok. I need to calm down. Michelle, I miss you. How was Costa Rica?
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