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Review: The Secret War With Iran

By Jim Miles  Posted by Dick Overfield (about the submitter)       (Page 2 of 3 pages) Become a premium member to see this article and all articles as one long page.   1 comment
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I could go on ...and on...with the double standards and out of context information in this work, but then I would be rewriting it for the next while, an unnecessarily strenuous task. What then is Bergman's ultimate purpose in writing all this? Possibly threefold. First, having the U.S. attack Iran would save Israel a lot of men and equipment at least initially. Secondly, it would destroy Iran's perceived intent against Israel, but as with the Shah, would manipulate the geopolitical scene in Israel's favour. It could, but not likely, shift some of the retaliation and revenge focus away from Israel but as the U.S. and Israel are so intertwined that would not be too likely. Another consideration, as it is a work of propaganda in the truest sense, is to convince American politicians of all stripes (well, there really is only one stripe to an American politician) that attacking Iran is a necessity.



Whatever the reason, the book falls within the categories of rhetoric, dissimulation, and propaganda. Bergman has faithfully fulfilled the Israeli media position of an aggrieved Israeli state fighting off all the terrorists, while denying its own terror and ethnic cleansing within the Palestinian territory. Read it if you wish, but be guarded as to what you accept. [6]



[1] There are many recent works on this topic. See among others: Ramzy Baroud's The Second Palestinian Intifada; Ilan Pappe's The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine and A History of Modern Palestine; Tanya Reinhart The Road Map to Nowhere and Israel/Palestine; Jonathan Cook's Blood and Religion; Geoff Simons' The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine; more recently: Marda Dunsky's Pens and Swords and Saree Makdisi's Palestine Inside Out – An Everyday Occupation.

[Ed. note: The books by Dr. Pappe and Mr. Simons carry the same title: "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine."]



[2] see Michael Karpin, The Bomb in the Basement – How Israel Went Nuclear and What That Means for the World.



[3] see various works by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, including Whiteout and Imperial Crusade.



[4] see Stephen Kinzer's All the Shah's Men (Wiley, 2003) and Overthrow (Times Books, 2006)



[5] this story is written in many of the books found under note 1 and in many other books. As this month is the 26th anniversary of the massacre there have been a number of recent internet articles as well on the topic, from which two excerpts:



Robert Fisk – "If the Israelis had not taken part in the killings, they had certainly sent militia into the camp. They had trained them, given them uniforms, handed them US army rations and Israeli medical equipment. They had watched the murderers in the camps, they had given them military assistance – the Israeli airforce dropped all those flare to help the men who were murdering the inhabitants of Sabra and Chatila – and they had established military liaison with the murderers in the camps." http://www.countercurrents.org/pa-fisk180903.htm

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