{"id":2407,"date":"2011-01-06T11:24:06","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T07:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=2407"},"modified":"2011-01-08T09:54:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T05:54:10","slug":"conspiracy-theories-and-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/showcase\/conspiracy-theories-and-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Conspiracy, Stupidity Hovers over Iran, Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/vulture.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2408\" title=\"vulture\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/vulture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commentarymagazine.com\/blogs\/index.php\/totten\/385617\">Yesterday I said<\/a> to watch out if an Egyptian government comes to power that reflects the  mood of its people, as such a frightening percentage of Egyptians  believe the most outlandish and imbecilic things about a  phantasmagorical Israel that only exists in their minds.<\/p>\n<p>What I worry  about, of course, is a future Egyptian government that acts much like  the current Iranian government.<\/p>\n<p>And today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2011\/01\/the-mossad-did-it\/68802\/\">Jeffrey Goldberg digs up an article from Iran\u2019s government-run <em>Press TV<\/em><\/a> about the recent church-bombings in Egypt. \u201cThe fresh plot by  terrorists to target churches,\u201d it says, \u201cis an organized Zionist  scenario aimed at creating a rift between Muslims and Christians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iran and Egypt are in many ways each others\u2019 opposites. Egypt\u2019s  government doesn\u2019t believe this crap, but many if not most of its people  do. Hysterical nonsense like this is the molten core of the Iranian  government\u2019s ideology, but vastly fewer people who live in Iran take it  seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Israel today is at war with Tehran and has a peace treaty with Cairo,  but I for one won\u2019t be remotely surprised if the situation ten years  from now is reversed.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: The Saudis just captured a vulture and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-12120259\">fear the bird is spying for Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing the Israelis can do to appease this kind of reckless  stupidity. They are hated in large part because the people who hate  them are mad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MICHAEL J. TOTTEN: There&#8217;s nothing the Israelis can do to appease this stupidity. They are hated in part because the people who hate them are mad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":2408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,82],"tags":[378,203,18300,1245,18306,3553,3554,18311,3555,18297,128,2744],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}