What about a high-profile Jewish peace delegation to Iran, meeting Jewish Iranian MP Maurice Motamed, other Iranian leaders, and ordinary people of Iran? A Christian peace delegation from the National Council of Churches, the United Methodist Church, Pax Christi, etc. has already visited Iran: "U.S. Religious Delegation Finds Hope in Iran," <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/ncc020307.html>. But a Jewish delegation is bound to get far more media coverage*, especially if you take George Soros with you.
Jewish leftists on this list -- why not visit Iran and write about it?
If nothing else, you'll get to meet many beautiful people in beautiful modern and historic cities**, before Washington or Tel Aviv wipes them off the map.
* <http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/48794/> Media Blacks Out Iran Peace Delegation Representing 50+ Million in US Posted by Bruce Wilson at 12:59 PM on March 4, 2007. Bruce Wilson: Pro-Nuclear War Lobbying Group Gets More Attention
In their book The Record of The Paper : How The New York Times Misreports US Foreign Policy, Howard Friel and Richard Falk amply document how New York Times mis-reporting helped pave the way for the US invasion of Iraq.
[they] demonstrate how the newspaper of record
in the United States has consistently, over the last
50 years, misreported the facts related to the wars
waged by the United States. From Vietnam in the 1960s
to Nicaragua in the 1980s and Iraq today, the authors
accuse the New York Times of serial distortions.
They claim that such coverage now threatens not only
world legal order but constitutional democracy in the United States.
In late February 2007, delegates representing the National Council Of Churches, which has roughly 45 million members, and other religious groups traveled to Iran and met with top Iranian religious and political leaders, in hopes of increasing trust and reducing tensions that might lead to war between the US and Iran. On Monday February 26th the delegation gave a Washington press conference about the trip. Beyond a vitriolic New York Post parody of the delegation. _Not a single major US media venue has opted to cover the story._
** This video gives you a glimpse of Iran's beauty, its nature, cities, and people: <http://www.lucasgray.com/video/peacetrain.html>. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>