The Newsweek article follows up on a previous editorial, warning Trump to avoid “losing control” over Israel, which was “increasingly aggressive” as an actor. This argument stands on a fallacy, that the interests of the United States and Israel in the Middle East don’t align.
O’Connor introduced Hassan Beheshtipour simply as “an Iranian international affairs analyst.” But Beheshtipour was a journalist for Iranian state television and was close to the office of the late supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.
Instead of finding reasonable actors to treat the topic of the U.S.–Israeli relationship with a level of seriousness, Newsweek’s Jordan King went to social media, famously an arena of serious conversations and measured opinions.
Sometimes an Islamist military dictatorship with a nuclear program that chants death to America and death to Israel is just an Islamist military dictatorship that seeks a nuclear weapon to destroy its enemies with it.
As American military assets amass in the Middle East at a scale not seen in decades, and as talks with the Islamic Republic of Iran appear to hit an impasse, CAMERA collates highlights from years of analyses by our former senior research analyst, Sean Durns, who has written extensively on the regime's imperialistic "revolution without borders."
CAMERA prompts correction after Newsweek erred that Israel has no ties with any of the countries which sent rescue missions to Turkey. In fact, Israel has relations with more than two dozen counties which sent rescue delegations to assist after the earthquake.
The history of Palestinian governance is very brief, dating back only to the 1990s. It takes a certain level of journalistic incompetence, therefore, to repeatedly misreport this particularly short chapter of history.
