Yesterday’s Times had a front-page piece on a telephoned threat to N.Y. Gov. Spitzer’s father, and the Republican consultant who’s accused of making it.
Sadly, no one in the mainstream press has gone after the vicious anti-Arab telephone calls and emails issued by a State Department official to Arab-Americans, including the eminent James Zogby. The best coverage here has been George Ajjan’s blog. Here’s what the Arab-hater, Patrick Syring, said to Zogby:
"The only good Lebanese is a dead Lebanese. The only good Arab is a dead
Arab. Long live the IDF. Death to Lebanon and death to the Arabs."
Syring has retired from Foggy Bottom and was indicted in federal court for threats last week. The Washington Post has covered the case, somewhat. I want a real story. I want to know whether Syring is Jewish (given his feelings about the IDF), I want to know who knew about his attitudes in the State Department and why it took a year for this to come out. Anti-Arab prejudice ought to be rooted out, like other forms of prejudice. Where’s the press?

Phil, clearly the wily Jews have subverted that well known Likud/Kahane bastion the state department. The only way our fellow Americans can really know when we are around, ( tis to allow them to be on guard ) is to have an outward identification. A yellow star affixed to the coat. And armband pehaps.
Joechem; Surely the ethnic racist, dog hating ashkenazi Khazars are involved in this incident, how can it be other wise
Syrings comments are disgusting Phil. Yours are too. Grow up already. You're like a 4 year old playing with matches.
I want to know whether Syring is Jewish (given his feelings about the IDF
I think that's misplaced, Phil. Whether Syring is Jewish or not should not be material. Whether he has affiliations with right wing/neo con groups including ones like AIPAC is very germane & that should've been yr focus.
Richard, you are right that the point is not whether he is or isn't Jewish, in a racial sense. But I'm sure Phil didn't mean it like that.
It is important to understand if the Islamophobia we are being flooded with is coming from people motivated by ideas of Jewishness.
A Palestinian children's soccer team was scheduled to visit Britain on a three-week goodwill tour playing against the youth teams of British soccer clubs. But now their visa applications have been denied by the British consulate in Jerusalem.
link to cbc.ca
Given recent evidence of who is promoting Islamophobia and the methods they use, what forces in the British government might be behind this?
The Israel Lobby demonizes Arabs and Muslims the way John C. Calhoun dehumanized African slaves.
Obviously Calhoun did not want the slaves to be freed. The Israel lobby does not want Arab and Muslim Americans to be free to exercise their rights to participate fully in American society and politics.
Since Slavery there has been no Lobby like the Israel Lobby, and the US congress criminalized this sort of conspiracy against rights.
Using a state of war to subvert the US government clandestinely to serve a foreign government's interests and to negate the constitutional rights of American citizens is getting real close to an attempt to put down the US government. It is time to research the case law, for the Israel Lobby is treading very close to a violation of Title 18.2384 Seditious Conspiracy.
It has to be high crimes and misdemeanors for a sitting president to surround himself with advisors that are engaged in conspiracy against rights and very close to seditious conspiracy.
Now why would Jews be sensitive to Islamic fundamentalism. Could it be that the Islamists are constantly calling for the killing of Jews?
I don't understand why racist Eastern Europeans somehow believe they can steal a country and ethnically cleans its population without angering a lot of people.
Zionists are simply angry that Palestinians can draw on the support of at least 1.3-1.6 billion Muslims.
Guess what. The hatred is completely justified, and we can be fairly certain that approximately 300 million Americans will evenutally join in.
If Jews do not want to experience such completely legitimate hatred, it is time to start demanding that everything that was stolen from Palestinians be returned and to start running a collection to pay damages for all the crimes that Zionists have been committing over the last 100 years or so.
Between Iraq, Somalia, Lebanon, and Palestine, there are about 15 million people displaced directly as a result of Zionist machinations, removing 5 million Zionist invaders and interlopers from Palestine looks completely fair to me, and there are more than 1 billion people that would agree.
Guess what Joachim – The West's hatred of Muslims is also completely justified. Now where does that leave us?
Now how exactly are you pinning the dysfunction in Somalia on the Jews? I know this will be good.
The Islamic Courts almost managed to get some sort of stability in Somalia, and then the Bush administration under the guidance of Neocon/Zionist policy makers wrecked everything on the false belief that the Islamic courts were associated with al-Qaida.
Britain and France, out of imperial greed, vivisected the Ottoman Empire, which was at least as much a Rechtstaat as the UK at the beginning of the 20th century. They managed to create a plethora of toxic warloard states, in whose governments they and the US keep interfering interfere. Britain enabled vicious ethnic fundamentalist Eastern European invaders to steal Palestine in an orgy of ethnic cleansing and murder that continues to this day. The US overthrew the popular Mossadegh regime in Iran and backs Zionist genocidaires in Palestine. France ran a heinous war against Algerian independence. The US played both sides in the Iran-Iraq war to maximize slaughter. The US has destroyed Iraq first with sanctions and then with invasion — mostly at the best of Zionist policy makers more loyal to Israel and to ethnic Ashkenazi tribalism than to the USA. The US and France have been trying to destabilize the Sudan since the late 1960s. The US has returned Somalia to chaos from which it was just emerging.
When have the peoples of the Middle East come to Europe and N. America and stomped and crapped all over our countries. The peoples of the Middle East, N. Africa and the horn of Africa have lots of good reason to hate us. What did they do to us? Before WW1, the Ottoman Empire and Iran were trying to modernize on western models and they wanted to trade peaceably with the West.
Off-topic again, but relevant to me : regarding the fake hate messages posted on your blog by zionist trolls under my name, which have resulted in a hysterical representative of the London zionist mafia getting me thrown off a hebrew course : shiela samples (who has experienced similar smears since writing her own 911 article) asks me why I don't simply request you to remove the misleading items (and inform Nitza Spiro of the Spiro Ark in London that her action was based on a forgery)?
Re the above, I am not going to keep checking back, phil, since i find this blog singularly unexciting, but if you are prepared to do the decent thing and sort this smear out, email me.
Phil – Can you please just delete whatever this Berkeley guy has his panties in a bunch over so he will stop hijacking the thread?
Thank you.