Better to get facts wherever they might be found, rather than clinging to unsubstantiatable nonsense, be it from YouTube, our MSM, or anywhere else.
With respect to that, Jon made some unsubstantiatable arguments during the interview. I'm guessing he was just playing devil's advocate to represent the other side of the argument when doing so rather than representing himself, but for the sake of those who might otherwise be mislead by such nonsense arguments, I will address them below:
Arguement: ...Iran saying; hey, we would like to wipe [Israel] off the face of the earth.
Response: That's actually a butchered translation taken out of context, when in fact
Ahmadinejad suggsted nothing of the sort.
A: ...[Iranians] are building nucluar weapons...
R: There is "
no credible evidence" of that. Arguments to the contrary are nothing but a variation of the same propaganda tactics which left us chasing smoke and mirrors into the mess which is our occupation of Iraq.
A: ...[Palestinian] telivision shows for childern ... that were very anti-Semitic...
R: While I agree the Mickey Mouse clone was awful, indoctrinating children into violence, at least from what I've seen of the show, it never suggested anything actually bigoted. Beyond that, it's a shame organizations like
Middle East Media Research Institute only cover the worst of Arab and Muslim media, as I'd like get a better idea of what television programing
Israeli kids like this have been subjected to.
A: ...in 1948 when Palestinians were forced to leave their land, many Jews were forced to leave their land, in Iran and Iraq and all those places...
R: When around 750,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed from what became Israel in 1948, Zionists had been promoting Jewish immigration from around the world to bolster their numbers in Palestine, and many Middle Eastern Jews went willingly both before and after the war of 1948. The fact that some three quarters of a million Palestinians had been ethnically cleansed to create the "Jewish state" resulted creating distrust of Jews among the population of the Middle East, and various nations handled the situation differently. In the case of Iran, there was no policy of expulsion, and Iraq initially disallowed immigration to Israel after the war, as did most other Arab states. Of course there were expulsions since the 1948 war, and many Jews otherwise persecuted into leaving Middle Eastern countries since then, but it takes an absurdly superficial perspective of the situation to consider it analogous to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine which established the state of Israel.
But again, I don't hold it against Jon that he made such arguments, as I'm sure he was just trying to represent the opposition the best he could. I wouldn't be surprised if someone else actually wrote those points on his cue cards for him, as from what I've seen of his comments on the conflict previously, I figure he would have preferred to agree with Baltzer and Barghouti far more than he did.
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