Iran, Much of the World Kind of Anti-Semitic
Let's imagine for a second that a prosecutor in a foreign country opened a case against an Israeli leader. How much attention do you think it would get? You don't have to come up with an exact number. Just ask yourself whether it would be more or less than the less than 1,000 stories that Google News has about how Argentine prosecutors are seeking the arrest of Iranian ex-President Rafsanjani:
Argentine prosecutors asked a federal judge to order the arrest of former Iranian president Hashemi Rafsanjani and seven others for the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural centre that killed scores of people. The decision to attack the centre "was undertaken in 1993 by the highest authorities of the then-government of Iran," prosecutor Alberto Nisman said at a news conference. Lebanon-based Hezbollah carried out the attack, he said.
We actually have kind of an answer to that question. Here's a very crude comparison, in the form of a Google search on Sharon Belgium Prosecute. It's obviously not a great comparison, but you can tell that something's up since the second Google search is coming up with almost a quarter of a million hits. The word you're looking for is "obsessed". As in "you can tell that someone is anti-Semitic when they're obsessed with finding the 'Jewish angle' or the 'Jewish influence' to everything".
And you should also consider that a lot of those Iran hits are not about the case at all, but in the context of Iran's nuclear program. Also a couple hits for stories about how Iran wants to indict the Argentine prosecutors for besmirching their genocidal maniac of an ex-President:
"We will seriously pursue the matter," said Ghorbanali Dorri Najafabadi, Iran’s prosecutor general. "We will take the case before an international court and we shall see whether the Argentine party can provide documentary evidence. If they are not able to do so, it will be they who should be indicted for making charges without evidence and tarring the reputation of high-ranking Iranian officials," he added. Dorri Najafabadi also said on Friday that Iran would “demand spiritual and financial compensation and will not tolerate a conspiracy against the Iranian nation.”... Israel blames Iran and the Lebanon-based Hezbollah group for the AMIA attack and for another that destroyed the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires in 1992, killing about 30 people. Iran and Lebanon dismiss the charges as "Zionist propaganda." The Israeli ambassador to Argentina, Rafael Eldad, said on Friday that a warning from Iran that Argentine officials should avoid repeating past mistakes when blaming Iranian officials for the AMIA attack sounded "like a threat."
What exactly is "spiritual compensation"? Is that like a forced conversion or something?
And how sadly predictable is it that the word "conspiracy" and the phrase "Zionist propaganda" always seem to go together? And how scary is it that Iran just basically "nice country... it'd be a shame if anything happened to it"-style threatened Argentina, and no one seems to care?
Argentine prosecutors asked a federal judge to order the arrest of former Iranian president Hashemi Rafsanjani and seven others for the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural centre that killed scores of people. The decision to attack the centre "was undertaken in 1993 by the highest authorities of the then-government of Iran," prosecutor Alberto Nisman said at a news conference. Lebanon-based Hezbollah carried out the attack, he said.
We actually have kind of an answer to that question. Here's a very crude comparison, in the form of a Google search on Sharon Belgium Prosecute. It's obviously not a great comparison, but you can tell that something's up since the second Google search is coming up with almost a quarter of a million hits. The word you're looking for is "obsessed". As in "you can tell that someone is anti-Semitic when they're obsessed with finding the 'Jewish angle' or the 'Jewish influence' to everything".
And you should also consider that a lot of those Iran hits are not about the case at all, but in the context of Iran's nuclear program. Also a couple hits for stories about how Iran wants to indict the Argentine prosecutors for besmirching their genocidal maniac of an ex-President:
"We will seriously pursue the matter," said Ghorbanali Dorri Najafabadi, Iran’s prosecutor general. "We will take the case before an international court and we shall see whether the Argentine party can provide documentary evidence. If they are not able to do so, it will be they who should be indicted for making charges without evidence and tarring the reputation of high-ranking Iranian officials," he added. Dorri Najafabadi also said on Friday that Iran would “demand spiritual and financial compensation and will not tolerate a conspiracy against the Iranian nation.”... Israel blames Iran and the Lebanon-based Hezbollah group for the AMIA attack and for another that destroyed the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires in 1992, killing about 30 people. Iran and Lebanon dismiss the charges as "Zionist propaganda." The Israeli ambassador to Argentina, Rafael Eldad, said on Friday that a warning from Iran that Argentine officials should avoid repeating past mistakes when blaming Iranian officials for the AMIA attack sounded "like a threat."
What exactly is "spiritual compensation"? Is that like a forced conversion or something?
And how sadly predictable is it that the word "conspiracy" and the phrase "Zionist propaganda" always seem to go together? And how scary is it that Iran just basically "nice country... it'd be a shame if anything happened to it"-style threatened Argentina, and no one seems to care?
