A couple of weeks ago, MJ Rosenberg wrote a rather pompous piece chiding AJC for our new film on Iran.
As the creator of the film, I can categorically state that I wasn’t joking about anything contained within - not the bombing of the AMIA center, not the appalling repression which Iran metes out to its citizens, not the vile public executions which the regime revels in, and certainly not the spectacle of a nuclear attack launched by the mullahs. By contrast, Hugo Chavez finds this latter prospect deeply amusing. I trust that MJ Rosenberg, political commentator and now, apparently, film maven, will be preparing an equally stern lecture for the tyrant of Caracas.
An utterly moronic piece by Rosenberg. It didn’t even seem Rosenberg was familiar with the AJC’s policy positions or had a proposal of his own to offer — just a self-righteous pontificating rant.
On the other hand, last night, CBC Radio One aired an interview with Juan Cole, who continues to protest that Iran is not making existential threats against Israel and that Ahmedinejad’s various pronounciations have been wrongly translated.
I couldn’t stand listening to him, but just before I switched him off, the interviewer, Anna Maria Tremonte, one of the “Corpse’s” better journalists did make mention of Iran’s use of proxies like Hezbollah to do the actually murderous deeds.