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Friday, May 23, 2008
Many of the National Inquirer-like headlines in Israeli newspapers have been recently based on Saudi newspapers, or on the newspaper of Kuwaiti propagandist, Ahmad Al-Jarallah (one of the early Arab advocates of Anwar Sadat (he later became an advocate of Saddam Husayn, and was also an advocate of Bashshar Al-Asad and then they had a feud). Take this headline in Haaretz: "Iran reportedly irate over Israel-Syria peace talks." When I read this headline, I said to myself: I wonder how they know, only to learn that it was based on the account of the mouthpiece of Prince Salman, Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat. And Saudi media are as reliable on the inner working of the Syrian or Iranian regimes, as Fox News is on the inner working of the Obama campaign. Also, as if the Iranian regime would not, under certain conditions, deal or negotiate with Israel. We remember Iran-Contra.