Roger Cohen on Iran, the Jews and Germany

Roger Cohen wrote  this column in New York Times yesterday on how Iran is being positioned in people’s mind as a big danger of the world while it is not. Personally I can not agree more with what he says. I am not at all in favor of the government in Iran nor I agree with any of their actions but a military strike is just going to ruin everything in that semi-stable society and just create another Iraq with street bombing. This much is clear to me that believing CNN and Fox type of stories about Iran is just silly. Maybe I expect to much from average people.

Here’s an paragraph from his article:

“…equating of Iran with terror today is simplistic. Hamas and Hezbollah have evolved into broad political movements widely seen as resisting an Israel over-ready to use crushing force. It is essential to think again about them, just as it is essential to toss out Iran caricatures.I return to this subject because behind the Jewish issue in Iran lies a critical one — the U.S. propensity to fixate on and demonize a country through a one-dimensional lens, with a sometimes disastrous chain of results.”