Jonathan Cook
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Jonathan Cook (* 1965 in Buckinghamshire, England) ist ein unabhängiger Journalist, Auslandskorrespondent und Autor, der sich auf das Schreiben über den Mittleren Osten und den israelisch-palästinensischen Konflikt spezialisiert hat.Cook lebt seit September 2001 in der hauptsächlich von israelischen Arabern bewohnten Stadt Nazaret im Norden Israels. Er schreibt regelmäßig für Al-Ahram Weekly in Kairo, für den Daily Star in Beirut und für das Aljazeera.net. Zuvor war er Mitarbeiter bei den Zeitungen The Guardian und The Observer und hat über den israelisch-palästinensischen Konflikt auch für Le Monde diplomatique und Counterpunch geschrieben. Sein Buch „Blood and Religion“ handelt von der Problematik Israels als „jüdischem und demokratischem Staat“, sowie von der religiösen Durchdringung der israelischen Politik.[1]
Bücher [Bearbeiten]
- (2006) Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State. Pluto Press. ISBN 0-7453-2555-6
- (2008) Israel and the Clash of Civilizations: Iraq, Iran and the plan to remake the Middle East. Pluto Press. ISBN 978-0-7453-2754-9
- (2008) Disappearing Palestine: Israel's Experiments in Human Despair. Zed Books. ISBN 978-1-84813-031-9
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Hier nun das Interview von RT
http://rt.com/Politics/2010-07-22/jonathan-cook-middle-east.html#
“Israel is regional bully with nuclear weapons” – author
Published 22 July, 2010, 10:28
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is continuing to divide the Middle East. RT sat down with journalist and author Jonathan Cook who says that Israel actually benefits from the division.“The Jewish population in Tehran is at least 20,000, maybe 30,000 people, and when they talk about their lives there, they seem very comfortable. If Iran had a kind of racial hatred against Jews, if the Iranian regime was just a symbol of a ‘new Hitler regime’, the Nazis, why would they not be starting with their own population?” Jonathan Cook says.
“The reason why Israel can’t allow Iran to have nuclear weapons is because if Iran developed its own nuclear arsenal, it would totally change the balance of power in the Middle East,” he says. “At the moment Israel is the regional bully, it has its own nuclear weapons, it can pull them out as it has done several times in the past, most notably during the 1973 war when it threatened the US that it might use those weapons if it wasn’t rearmed and that is why the Americans had to come in and intervene. It has that kind of ability to pressure America and terrorize the rest of the neighborhood, if you like, because it has nuclear weapons.”
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