It seems clear the Israeli right or center-right (IR) and its current government prefers fundamentalist boogeymen for neighbors (and targets). The G.O.P. also prefers easy targets for demonization purposes. So they make statements jeopardizing the dissidents with impunity. One recalls that GHW Bush was much more circumspect during the collapse of the Soviet regime, which they really did want to see come down.
A-N stole the election, fair and square, so why destabilize? He doesn't need any further discrediting. What the IR wants least is a progressive regime whose hostility to Zionism has democratic authenticity, an outcome we could expect in any Muslim country with democratic processes.
Obama wants a government he can make deals with, so it has an interest in supporting regime change. Obviously if it pushes too hard it backfires. I fail to see any rationale for any autonomous U.S. intelligence community operations at variance with the above.
Sometimes what appears to be happening is exactly what is going on.
-----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of Eric Beck Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 4:07 PM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] paranoia
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Barry Brooks<durable at earthlink.net>
wrote:
> Pat Costello posted this to the Marxism list...
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http://www.chartingstocks.net/2009/06/proof-israeli-effort-to-destabil
ize-iran-via-twitter/
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> Right-wing Israeli interests are engaged in an all out Twitter
attack with
> hopes of delegitimizing the Iranian election and causing political
> instability within Iran.
Wow. Israel trying to destabilize one of its enemies. Thanks for delivering that bombshell.