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    Anonymous Israeli Official Tells Post: You Can’t Trust Persians
    ▻http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/10/01/anonymous-israeli-official-tells-post-you-cant-trust-persians

    Anonymity is, according to the Post’s own rules, something to be granted to sources very rarely, and for good reason. I’m not sure “Persians are liars” meets those standards. The Post’s rationale for granting anonymity here is that the government officials were told not to speak before Netanyahu’s address. But it’s hard to imagine how “Don’t trust Iranians” might be considered an especially risky bit of information to share.

    Or is the Post now ready afford other government officials the permission to make anonymous ethnic smears? The Post’s rules state, “Sources who want to take a shot at someone in our columns should do so in their own names.” I guess, in this case, a “shot” wasn’t taken at “someone”–just all Iranians.

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      En fait c’est la totale : ils sont non seulement perses mais aussi chiites.

      NYT Columnist : You Can’t Trust Shiites
      ▻http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/09/27/nyt-columnist-you-cant-trust-shiites

      Today New York Times columnist Roger Cohen (9/27/13) offered some reasons to be skeptical of what we’re hearing from Iranian president Hassan Rouhani. He is, after all, Muslim:

      As the Iranians say, “Not everything round is a walnut”–and not every form of “heroic flexibility” is an olive branch. Iran always operates on at least two tracks; to do otherwise would be simplistic. Its Shiite religion permits, in some circumstances, the embroidering of the truth for the protection of the faith, a divinely sanctioned dissimulation. This is a land where straight talk and virtue are not widely seen to overlap.

      Now, I prefer a different kind of skepticism, one that is not religiously based; I.F. Stone’s famous pronouncement that “all governments lie” is a better, less bigoted principle for evaluating world leaders.

      ...

      Jewish scholars and some Christians theologians such as Martin Luther have produced similar ethical doctrines about the acceptability of lying to prevent a greater evil. And antisemites have cited these Talmudic discussions to make the argument that Jews can’t be believed.

      ...

      #pitoyable

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