{"id":26139,"date":"2015-07-27T22:21:17","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T02:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=26139"},"modified":"2015-07-27T22:21:17","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T02:21:17","slug":"being-misled-by-the-major-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=26139","title":{"rendered":"Being Misled By The Major Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America) posted an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.camera.org\/index.asp?x_context=2&amp;x_outlet=38&amp;x_article=3062\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> today about an article that appeared last Wednesday in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/worldviews\/wp\/2015\/07\/22\/how-the-iran-deal-is-good-for-israel-according-to-israelis-who-know-what-theyre-talking-about\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Post<\/a>. The headline of the Washington Post states,<strong> &#8220;How the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Iran\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=35.6833333333,51.4166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=35.6833333333,51.4166666667 (Iran)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Iran<\/a> deal is good for <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Israel\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=31.7833333333,35.2166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=31.7833333333,35.2166666667 (Israel)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Israel<\/a>, according to Israelis who know what they&#8217;re talking about.&#8221;<\/strong> I will admit that I saw the article, but did not do a story about it because it made no sense to me. I have read enough about the nuclear deal with Iran to understand that there is no way it could be good for Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The CAMERA article explains:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tharoor first mentions <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Ami Ayalon\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ami_Ayalon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Ami Ayalon<\/a>, a former head of the Shin Bet, Israel&#8217;s internal security service, and\u00a0links to a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The Daily Beast\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/thedailybeast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"twitter\">Daily Beast<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/07\/21\/ex-intel-chief-iran-deal-good-for-israel.html\" target=\"_blank\">piece<\/a> entitled &#8220;Ex-Intel Chief: Iran Deal Good for Israel.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Unfortunately for Tharoor (and for Daily Beast commentator Jonathan Alter), Ayalon, who begrudgingly supports the deal because it is &#8220;the best plan currently on the table&#8221; and because he believes there are no available alternatives, nonetheless has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Israel-News\/Politics-And-Diplomacy\/Ami-Ayalon-tells-Post-hes-not-upset-Kerry-quoted-him-410170\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in no uncertain terms, <em>&#8220;I think the deal is bad. It&#8217;s not good.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article then cites the next expert who approves of the deal:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Tharoor then cites former intelligence chief <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Efraim Halevy\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Efraim_Halevy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Efraim Halevy<\/a>, and strangely links to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-4644691,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Op-Ed<\/a> Halevy wrote after a framework agreement was finalized in Lausanne last April but <i>before <\/i>the details of this final deal were agreed upon in Vienna this month.\u00a0In a more recent (and thus\u00a0 relevant) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-4681951,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Op-Ed<\/a>, Halevy described what he sees as several strong points in the agreement and concludes that it is &#8220;important to hold a profound debate in Israel on whether no agreement is preferable to an agreement which includes components that are crucial for Israel&#8217;s security.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;What he does not say is that the deal signed in Vienna is, as a whole, &#8220;good.&#8221; In an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Israel-News\/Politics-And-Diplomacy\/Ex-Mossad-chief-Halevy-emerges-as-one-of-Israels-few-supporters-of-Iran-deal-410102\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a> with Israel&#8217;s Channel 2, he repeats his call for national debate, and paints a much more equivocal picture:<em> &#8220;This is not an agreement that is entirely bad,&#8221;<\/em> Halevy said. &#8220;There are positive elements in it.&#8221; Later, he added that\u00a0&#8220;this agreement has a number of very good elements for Israel, and there are elements that are not as good.&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Amos Yadlin\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amos_Yadlin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Amos Yadlin<\/a><\/b>, a former head of Israel&#8217;s <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Military intelligence\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Military_intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Military Intelligence<\/a> branch, is the next expert mentioned. He has stated,\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;This is not a good deal. This a problematic deal. You also could call it a bad deal.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The next expert mentioned is\u00a0<b><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Meir Dagan\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meir_Dagan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Meir Dagan<\/a><\/b>, another former Mossad chief, who has not gone on the record about the deal in either direction.<\/p>\n<p>If you were a person who only gets their news from The Washington Post, you would believe that the Iranian nuclear agreement has strong support from some military and security experts in Israel. And you would be very wrong. This is the reason we need organizations like CAMERA and other alternative news sources. Our mainstream media has forgotten how to tell the truth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<h1><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America) posted an article today about an article that appeared last Wednesday in The Washington Post. The headline of the Washington Post states, &#8220;How the Iran deal is good for Israel, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=26139\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9264,3077,8661,9262,246,86,9263,9265,8367],"class_list":["post-26139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ami-ayalon","tag-amos-yadlin","tag-committee-for-accuracy-in-middle-east-reporting-in-america","tag-efraim-halevy","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-meir-dagan","tag-nuclear-deal-with-iran","tag-the-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26140,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26139\/revisions\/26140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}