‘Charlie Wilson’s War’ Cites Power of Israel Lobby. Who Gave Them Permission?

by Philip Weiss on December 31, 2007 · 39 comments

I saw "Charlie Wilson’s War" last night. B+. It was too one-note for me. But any Hollywood film that tries to deal with foreign policy gets kudos here.

Also, I was pleased to see that the film touches on my favorite subject, the Israel Lobby. Charlie Wilson, a Democratic congressman from East Texas (played by Tom Hanks), tells a rightwing socialite (Julia Roberts) who is pushing him to back the mujahedin resistance to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan that he can’t give arms to Muslims because of "the Jews." How many Jews are in your district? she asks. Seven. But those Jews don’t matter. It’s the Jews in New York and L.A. who support his campaign because he’s a friend of Israel, he says. Of course, Wilson is determined to arm the resistance, so he gets both the Israelis and Egyptians on board, and visits Jerusalem and Cairo. The film then addresses a second cliche about Israel/Palestine. When the Egyptian and Israeli start quarreling about history, Charlie Wilson wearily says, "Oh not that again," and asks them to put aside their ancient differences for the sake of the Afghan resistance.

I found it bracing that the film so openly acknowledged the importance of Jewish money in Congress. You could say that this openness was created by Walt and Mearsheimer, with their brave book. The alternative theory is that director Mike Nichols is Jewish, and so apparently is screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (sure is good to see Hollywood making room for my people!) and it’s O.K. for Jews to talk about the lobby, especially if it’s shtik. Alan Dershowitz wrote all about the power of the lobby in Chutzpah, then when Walt and Mearsheimer dared to take up the subject he called them antisemites. Philip Roth talked about the lobby in The Counterlife, Saul Bellow in his Jerusalem book. That was OK, till two gentile scholars decided to look into it. The author Jeffrey Goldberg has displayed something of the same attitude. The famous quote Goldberg extracted from an AIPAC lobbyist, saying he could get the signatures of 70 senators, or congressmen, on a napkin by the next morning, was an important contribution to our understanding of the lobby. But at a Yivo event last month, the reporter condemned Walt and Mearsheimer as antisemites (according to a friend’s transcription).

To me it’s one of the most specious parts of this book is their constant denials…. [T]hey don’t define anti-semitism. But then they deny that they themselves are anti-semitic. It doesn’t matter one whit what you say…. It’s not up to a white person to tell a black person what is racist and what is not. And is not up to a non-Jew to tell a Jew what is anti-semitic. I think that cultural, political autonomy means that we get to define what we think is anti-semitic. And these protests in the book about how much they’re not anti-semites are completely unconvincing to me.

The fascination here is the comparison of Jews to blacks in the south. We are victims, so we get to name our oppressors. As an autonomous ethnic group, we are accountable only to ourselves. It’s completely out of step with millennial America, where Jews are part of the establishment and have true power, the ability to influence others’ lives. It would be nice to see more responsibility. Maybe Charlie Wilson signals a change.

P.S. One other thought. Charlie Wilson’s big epiphany in the movie comes when he views the suffering of Afghan refugees at a vast camp in Pakistan. He is moved to action. As the activist Hilda Silverman likes to point out, movies have made a lot of the D.P. camps to which Jewish refugees were confined in the years after WWII. When will someone do a movie showing the camps to which Palestinians fled during the ethnic cleansing of ‘48? When will Americans be moved by that human story?

Related posts:

  1. Charlie Rose Breaks a Taboo, Allowing Open Discussion of ‘Jewish Lobby’
  2. The Times Says the Israel Lobby Doesn’t Go Back to Truman. What About Wilson?
  3. Zbig Brzezinski Says Israel Lobby Is ‘McCarthyite’
  4. Will the Real Joseph C. Wilson IV Stand Up?
  5. Dershowitz Contradicts Himself on the Power of the Israel Lobby

{ 39 comments }

1 Alan December 31, 2007 at 2:08 pm

Phil – Not that a movie about Palestinian refugee camps wouldn't be valuable, but what movies have made a big to do about the DP camps after WW II? I'm a relatively big movie buff and I can't think of any of the top of my head that address these camps.

Phil – Do you think that ANY of your commenters here are "anti-semitic"? If so, which ones, and based on what criteria?

2 me December 31, 2007 at 2:33 pm

I have to start resting some of the responsibility on non-Jews – we simply have to start ignoring or laughing at the 'anti semite ' charge – true that powerful Jewish groups can do a lot to wreck your career even if you stand up to them – but its basically all based on fear – the Jewish elite has us like deer in the headlights. We have to realize we're not deer!

Having grown up in NYC, I am used to this behavior and I don't put up with it. But then again, I am not a celebrity or politician who will be ran through the mud.

3 me December 31, 2007 at 2:52 pm

Hollywood has made over 180 major motion films about the Holocaust, not one about Stalin's willing executioners, or the ethnic cleansing of Palestine which is continuing as we speak.

4 Charles Keating December 31, 2007 at 2:57 pm

What do you think? How many with internet access have or will
ever access Phil's blog? It's like a DP camp of its own, or rather, a place where current or former DPs come to view color film of themselves, rather than (so removed) B & W film of reality which, in turn, very few come to observe.

5 David December 31, 2007 at 2:58 pm

A collective guilt complex over the Holocaust™ kept most of the gentile world from speaking out at Israel's behavior in '47-'48, but they knew about it.

The famous war journalist Dorothy Thompson made this documentary in 1950–
"Sands of Sorrow"
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=892542142032491827

6 Ed. December 31, 2007 at 3:15 pm

"Jews are part of the establishment and have true power, the ability to influence others' lives. It would be nice to see more responsibility."

Dream on, Phil. You yourself recently cited an AJC poll that (despite unconditional support for Israel for decades, to great US tragedy and detriment) found that 87% of US Jews still see American anti-Semitism as "a very serious problem" or "somewhat of a problem" and found that 91% of US Jews expected anti-Semitism around the world to "stay the same," "increase somewhat," or "increase greatly."

http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2007/12/charlie-wilsons.html#comments

Fear and loathing, paranoia and neurosis obviously isn't the result of anti-Semitism in America; they are obviously conditioned into the Jewish people by organized Judaism itself for its own purposes. And you want that irrational, paranoid, neurotic collective filled with fear and loathing of the gentiles that surround it to act "responsibly" toward people that they believe mean them harm? That itself is a fantasy.

Kevin McDonald is right: Due to their conditioned fear and hatred of gentiles, most Jews in America (unfortunately) comprise a "hostile elite."

http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/blog.htm

This explains why America is having, and will continue to have, huge social, political and economic dislocation: a powerful minority within despises its neighbors, and on some level wants to see them suffer. It also apparently believes it is an imperative to extract as many resources as possible from them before those neighbors finally and inevitably turn on them so they can at least live comfortably in Israel with their extracted loot.

Is all this conscious? Probably not. But unfortunately it is a psychological reality painstakingly constructed by organized Jewry Jew by Jew over the course of centuries.

The history of anti-Semitism is one of organized Jewry deliberately bringing about self-fulfilling prophecy on its own people in order to keep them in the fold and continually manipulate them in a bizarre, incestuous relationship.

7 Lone Jew December 31, 2007 at 3:29 pm

Ed – I think you're on to something, but what can I, a lone Jew who has been kept out of the cabal, do to break out of this horrible historical condition. I love my non-Jewish neighbors as much as I love my Jewish neighbors; Some much more actually, some a little less. But yet, when I read your comments I get afraid that a cabal of non-jews who fear jews is going to come and kill me. I know it's crazy to think that, since nothing like that has ever happened, and would never happen, but I'm psychologically intense so it's hard not to allow my mind to go there.
Please tell me what I can do to get out of this mess I'm in. I will stop my donations to Haddassah immediately, but what hope is there for me?

8 Charles Keating December 31, 2007 at 3:30 pm

History certainly shows Jews want to survive as Jews, whatever that means; it's clear other group have not had such a persistent group bent. We could go to the Gypsies for half of the answer, but the difference is: Jewish survival affects Gentiles, but Gypsy survival does not. What to make of this? Everytime a Gentile asks the question he or she is effectively removed to an iceberg to die.

9 Ed. December 31, 2007 at 3:32 pm

[correction] link to the AJC poll on anti-Semitism cited above should have been:

http://www.ajc.org/site/c.ijITI2PHKoG/b.3643385/

Addendum: as to "a powerful minority within despises its neighbors, and on some level wants to see them suffer", I should also add that, with all the Jewish-establishment and Israel lobby money used to buy policy, Washington itself has internalized the Jewish siege mentality and is circling the wagons against average Americans and is looting them as well. It has been for some time. The stubborn two-party intransigence on Iraq withdrawal is a symptom of this treachery.

10 Charles Keating December 31, 2007 at 3:40 pm

Agree. There's no question that Chaney adopted the Israeli siege mentality, and it's cohort, preemptive war. And that's why we are in the fix we are in. Except Ron Paul, nobody running for commander in chief even has a clue.

11 Gordian December 31, 2007 at 3:41 pm

"History certainly shows Jews want to survive as Jews, whatever that means; it's clear other group have not had such a persistent group bent"

Charles – Most immigrant groups left homelands knowing there would continue to be a Greece and Greek culture or a Mexico and Mexican culture. One of the desires that drives zionism is for a similar "anchor" in the world. With a secure Israel, the Jewish diaspora will decrease significantly with assimilation and inter-marriage. Jews will have a relationship to Israel as Italian-Americans have to Italy.

me – you live in NYC. Ever talk to any Albanian-Americans about Albania? Once Albania and Kosovo are stabilized they too will assimilate and be less concerned with fighting for the KLA – which many of them did.

12 me December 31, 2007 at 3:51 pm

Gordian
Haven't met any albanians yet -but in case you haven't noticed, as the quip goes, the only thing melting is the pot.
This country – largely thanks to efforts by the Jewish elite – is going to be overrun by immigrants, its Anglo Protestant core marginalized, and then its going to start to get ugly.

13 Gordian December 31, 2007 at 3:54 pm

me – Have you ever read Jean Raspail’s Camp of the Saints?
Recent events in France make it a timely read. How do you see events playing out here in the USA?

14 Gordian December 31, 2007 at 3:58 pm
15 me December 31, 2007 at 3:58 pm

Gordian
Yes I have read Camp of the Saints…I think in the future that will become as referenced as 1984 is now.

Hard to tell how things will play out – will we cede part of europe for 100s of years until we have the will to take it back? The Kool-Aid that most europeans have drunk is makes them incapable of defending themselves barring a 'black swan'.

In the US its difficult to tell – will the Mormons be one ethinic block country, for example, in a sea of Metizio ones??

Unless there is some radical change, I don't see our borders lasting through 2050. Of course to the Neocons that's a good thing.

16 Gordian December 31, 2007 at 4:01 pm
17 Ed. December 31, 2007 at 4:06 pm

To Lone Jew:

"I know it's crazy to think that, since nothing like that has ever happened, and would never happen…"

I suggest you look beyond the received history of the big 'H' Nazi Holocaust, and into the little 'h' Soviet holocaust of Christians, peasants and dissidents that preceeded it, but killed millions more. What you will find is that the little 'h' holocaust was perpetrated largely by ethnic Jewish ideologues…

http://www.vdare.com/misc/051105_macdonald_stalin.htm

and

http://www.savethemales.ca/001863.html

…who were also (not coincidentally) filled with fear and loathing of their gentile neighbors. What you will also find is that there is a direct correlation between the two, with the first laying the seeds for the second:

http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780511079498&ss=exc

I know it will be painful to find that most of what you have been taught (brainwashed) is largely a lie. But if you truly are "psychologically intense" (as opposed to an intellectual poseur, like so many of your brethren) you should be able to handle it. Just don't expect to ever be able look at your people in quite the same child-like, rosy-eyed way.

18 me December 31, 2007 at 4:21 pm

Ed:
I think what is interesting is that mainstream Jewish groups like the ADL, AJC, and AIPAC, besides lobbying for more money and favors, are putting nearly all their efforts and energy into suppressing information like what you posted about both the Holocaust and Israel which really are two peas in the pod.

How long can this sham continue? It shows no signs of letting up withing the mainstream american establishment -Congress and the Press are lock step with the Jewish elite…but I have a feeling when it all comes to an end it will come to an end suddenly, swiftly, and unexpectedly.

19 Anonymous December 31, 2007 at 4:21 pm

"Washington itself has internalized the Jewish siege mentality and is circling the wagons against average Americans and is looting them as well."

Human ecology, Ed, or do we really think jews were born from a divine call to Abraham? Jews are not an isolated event, they are an old and permanent (in many guises) colection of self-sustaining elites in search for human aglomerates. Once you are not a gentile (commoner) and cease to have any obligation to them, then you have either become an isolated and vanishing aristocracy, or you have become a wandering elite and your reward is an eternal sense of fear of those you have betrayed.

Which way do you think people like Howard Dean will be remembered in the future. American betrayer or patriarch to a jewish family?

20 Ed. December 31, 2007 at 4:50 pm

To both:

I believe the internet is changing human consciousness in the same way that the printing press did 500 years ago. Discussion such as on this blog are not as uncommon as one might imagine. The fact that the Iraq war fraud was so quickly and efficiently deconstructed and turned against (something that would have taken many more years absent the internet) is itself testimony to its power.

Religiously tribal bigots are becoming a relic of the past, as are politically tribal politicians and ideologues. History is marching on without them.

They will continue to exist, but ever further on the margins.

Some future museum will probably feature a lifelike exhibit of depictions of red-faced, bug-eyed Dershowitz, Podhoretz and Hagee screeching for World War III (or is it IV — I've lost track) to which children might point and ask: "Mommy, what is THAT?"

"Just Zionists, dear. They were…oh, let's just move along."

The exhibit will be in Israel.

21 ANON December 31, 2007 at 4:52 pm

Ed,
http://www.savethemales.ca/001863.html

Thanks for posting….does Putin have any interest in creating a mueseum to this tragedy?

Ever wonder why the neo Cons and their favorite pols like McCain hate Putin so much…remember McCain said called him a thug ? and said that he would kick Ru oit of the G8!! Wow….why Does McCain hate Ru so much but love China and Mexico?
Is it b/c Putin renationalised Ru's assets that were stolen in the 1990's by "liberalisation."
any thoughts?

22 Charles Keating December 31, 2007 at 4:59 pm

Of all the world's ethnic tribes, only the Caucasian ones have drunk the kool-aid of individualism to the top. It remains to be seen in the on-going material conflict/dialetic what this will mean. I'm guessing by 2050, the point where projections show Caucasian Americans will have achieved minority status in all fifty states (right now it's only 5 states), the s… will hit the proverbial fan in earnest–I don't see any othe dominent group picking up the baton for individualism, hence equal rights uber alles.

23 Name Withheld December 31, 2007 at 5:19 pm

There seems to be a lot of White Nationalist consciousness in this blog. Have any of you thought about reaching out to the organizations that currently exist to support white rights?

http://www.stormfront.org/whitenat.htm

Q. What is White Nationalism?

A. The idea that Whites may need to create a separate nation as a means of defending themselves.

Q. Do White Nationalists feel they are superior to other races?

A. No. The desire of White Nationalists to form their own nation has nothing to do with superiority or inferiority.

Q. Do White Nationalists seek to dominate other races?

A. Not at all. In fact, formation of a White nation removes any possibility of White dominance of other races, as well as the plausibility of the accusation that Whites wish to dominate others.

Q. Do White Nationalists seek to insulate themselves from competition from other races?

A. No. A separate White nation would establish a policy of free trade with its new neighbors. Labor markets are global, and the formation of a White nation would not protect Whites from economic competition.

Q. Well if White Nationalists don't feel superior, don't want to dominate others, and don't seek protection from competition, then why would they want a separate nation?

A. To avoid exploitation.

Q. Exploitation? This is rich! So how is it that Whites are exploited?

A. It is a long list. Burdensome racial preference schemes in hiring, racial preference schemes in university admissions, racial preference schemes in government contracting and small business loans. Beyond quotas there is the denial of rights of free speech and of due process to Whites who are critical of these governmental policies. We have special punishments for assaults committed by Whites if the motives might be racial. In addition, Whites pay a proportion of the costs of the welfare state that is disproportionate to what they receive in benefits.

But the most exploitative aspect of the situation is that neither the racial quotas, the business preferences, the loss of freedom of speech, nor the disproportionate contributions to the welfare state have managed to sate the appetites of non-Whites living in the United States.

The more Whites sacrifice, the more non-Whites demand. Many Whites are beginning to believe that no amount of tribute, other than mass suicide, would satisfy the non-White demands.

If our presence stirs up that much hatred in the hearts of non-Whites, then the only sensible course of action is to separate ourselves from them.

Q. You claim that non-Whites are the aggressors and haters in race relations. Aren't you afraid that most Whites will think this is ridiculous?

A. Not in the slightest. For the past 30 years most Whites have taken part in a mass migration or "White flight" away from neighborhoods inhabited by non-Whites. Aggressors don't flee. For example, on a per-capita basis, Blacks are 49 times more likely to assault a White than a White is to assault a Black. Assaults by Whites against Blacks are approximately 40 times scarcer than they would be if races were randomly mixed and assault rates did not vary by race. The best measure of racism is the number of non-economically motivated attacks. White score low in this regard, non-Whites high.

The fact is that non-Whites are clamoring to enter this country in droves. Whites are fleeing en masse to formerly uninhabited areas to escape these new arrivals.

Q. But how can Whites be exploited when it is Whites who have enacted these racial preferences, the taxation, the welfare payments and set immigration quotas?

A. Excellent question! It is true that Whites are exploited by their fellow Whites. In fact, we do not expect any resistance by non-Whites to the formation of a separate nation. We expect White integrationist elites to resist. They are the ones who have a great deal to lose.

Q. If life in America is so bad for Whites why don't you just move back to Europe?

A. We are a majority. We do not have to move back. We can resolve to defend ourselves against this onslaught. We have the option of peacefully ceding lands already inhabited by non-Whites to separate non-White nations. We would save money, and could restore our civil liberties and free ourselves from constant threats of violence by so doing.

Q. What would your separate state look like?

A. The truth is we don't know yet. Our separate state would follow the geographic outlines of White flight. The model for this state would be the modern gerrymander created by the Voting Rights Act to create majority non-White congressional districts. We would simply cede these to a separate nation. The mechanics of this process will be explained more fully later in a post entitled "sweating the details."

Q. Would all Whites be welcome in your separate state?

A. Absolutely. There would be no restriction by country of origin, and no genetic tests, skin color or hair color tests or any nonsense like that. The only restriction would be that those who would wish to recreate the present system by importing non-Whites and then encouraging their hostility would not be welcome. They would have to remain in or move to the lands ceded to the non-Whites.

Q. You are proposing that inclusion and exclusion be based on ideology and feelings. Won't your act of nation splitting turn into a witch hunt?

A. For White liberals it is definitely going to feel like a witch hunt! When the time comes, those who are guilty of "integrationism" should do the sensible thing and flee. It will spare us all a lot of pain.

Q. Is this White nation something that you intend to pursue right away?

A. No. The White nation is, by most accounts, about 20 years off. When the rest of the U.S. begins to look like Southern California it will happen more or less automatically, without much of a push from us.

Q. Why do you use the term "European-American?"

A. All Whites are descended from European immigrants, and we are not actually "White." The term European-American has political significance for two reasons. First, it recognizes that most people in the U.S. of European extraction have intermarried to such an extent that it is no longer possible to identify American Whites as "Irish" or "German" or "Italian." But more important, use of the term "European-American" is intended to recognize that White elites in the United States have exploited differences based on religion and European national origin to divide European-Americans, with the intention of rendering us unable to defend ourselves against non-White demands.

Q. What is White separatism?

A White separatists will agree on most points with a White Nationalist, except that he may not see a need to establish a separate nation within the present territorial boundaries of the U.S.

Q. What is a White supremacist?

A. That is a White who wishes to subjugate other races by force, ordinarily by military conquest. White supremacists are very rare in 1997, and there is no visible trend or base of support which would allow them to carry such a political program into effect.

24 me December 31, 2007 at 5:32 pm

Personally, I am an American nationalist, a la Steve Sailer, I find it funny that Weiss' blog is a potential recruiting ground for white nationalism though!

Personally I would just like to see the Jewish duplicity and aggresive attempts to make me a minority in my own country cease. However, I don't think they will ever stop.

25 Charles Keating December 31, 2007 at 5:44 pm

I agree that USA whites are not in any way into conquest of other groups; they just want to be able to exist as a group amongst all the other ethnic groups, and with their values, even individualism, which no other group has shown by deed as well as creed, they believe in–except as a grease for the exact opposite.

26 me December 31, 2007 at 5:53 pm

Charles – problem is Neocons think we are a proposition nation – and that's the view of the elite from Bush to Hillary and all points in between. And we are working on that assumption – just look a the reaction – noticeablely from the Jewish elite to Sam Huntington's book "Who Are We" – at the same time they demand we support the 'Jewish State' and preserve their identity – and that's what pisses me off. They never see the hypocrisy.

I have literally received answers like "well america is multicultural and Israel is the Jewish state", when confronting them. So much for high iqs.

27 Alan December 31, 2007 at 6:01 pm

This is getting a bit creepy.

Happy New Year to all. May 2008 bring more openness, self-reflection, and good will towards all.

28 americangoy December 31, 2007 at 6:31 pm

I actually saw the same thing about Charlie Wilson's War (the book).

First it stripped the veil of the BS we are fed in high school about how American government really works (Doc Long anybody?), and second, it pointed out to me the real behind the scenes power of the Jewish lobby.

I made a blog post about this same issue – in fact, my blog post grew out of my "epiphany" comment here on Mr. Weiss' blog that dealt with how the book woke me up to AIPAC et al.

29 americangoy December 31, 2007 at 6:32 pm

I actually saw the same thing about Charlie Wilson's War (the book).

First it stripped the veil of the BS we are fed in high school about how American government really works (Doc Long anybody?), and second, it pointed out to me the real behind the scenes power of the Jewish lobby.

I made a blog post about this same issue – in fact, my blog post grew out of my "epiphany" comment here on Mr. Weiss' blog that dealt with how the book woke me up to AIPAC et al.

30 LeaNder December 31, 2007 at 7:49 pm

Well Lone Jew, the problem is that Ed fantasizes numbers that aren't there.

http://www.ajc.org/atf/cf/%7B42D75369-D582-4380-8395-D25925B85EAF%7D/SurveyJewish07.PDF

Does that mean? Reading too much MacDonald severely affects people's perception?

31 cogit8 December 31, 2007 at 8:44 pm

Philip, I can't fault your "Charlie Wilson" post but this caught my eye:

"The film then addresses a second cliche about Israel/Palestine. When the Egyptian and Israeli start quarreling about history, Charlie Wilson wearily says, "Oh not that again," and asks them to put aside their ancient differences for the sake of the Afghan resistance."

This cliche is fostered by the House of Israel, ie, ignorant tools should believe that Arabs have hated Jews since ancient times, the better to gain sympathy as one steals Pal land and water in the dead of night. The truth is that until Hertzl wrote The Jewish State in 1896, Arabia was a haven for persecuted Jews, where Arabs and Jews did business side by side for generations.

32 Gordian January 1, 2008 at 6:50 am

I actually looked up some statistics on Jewish-American attitudes towards immigration and there is quite a range.

http://www.cis.org/articles/2006/2006poll.html

These results map fairly closely to the political leanings of American jews:

16. I’m going to read you a list of political views that people might hold. They are arranged from extremely liberal to extremely conservative. Where would you place yourself on this scale?
Extremely liberal 4
Liberal 23
Slightly liberal 16
Moderate, middle of the road 31
Slightly conservative 9
Conservative 13
Extremely conservative 3
Not sure 3

Specifically regarding illegal immigation their views seem to be undistinguishable from other Americans. 79% think it is a serious problem.

How serious a problem do you think the issue of illegal immigration is for the United States right now — very serious, somewhat serious, not too serious, or not a problem at all?
Very serious problem 42
Somewhat serious problem 37
Not too serious problem 16
Not a problem at all 5
Not sure 0

33 Gordian January 1, 2008 at 8:20 am

Jews clearly don't have the same influence in Europe that they do in the USA, yet Europe is struggling with even more acute immigration issues. How to explain this?

34 Anonymous January 1, 2008 at 9:17 am

There's some kind of immigration to India too (via Xymphora):

"What began in 1994 as the great post-military escape to India has turned into a new-age Diaspora of young and embittered men and women looking to flee what they say is their country's armed turmoil with the Palestinians and the spiritual emptiness of Judaism."

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=a12JnKt1Pwlc&refer=uk

35 Cal January 1, 2008 at 12:58 pm

This…

"To me it's one of the most specious parts of this book is their constant denials…. [T]hey don't define anti-semitism. But then they deny that they themselves are anti-semitic. It doesn't matter one whit what you say…. It's not up to a white person to tell a black person what is racist and what is not. And is not up to a non-Jew to tell a Jew what is anti-semitic. I think that cultural, political autonomy means that we get to define what we think is anti-semitic. And these protests in the book about how much they're not anti-semites are completely unconvincing to me."

Reminds me what Einstein said…

"Anti-Semitism is nothing but the antagonistic attitude produced in the non-Jew by the Jewish group. The Jewish group has thrived on oppression and on the antagonism it has forever met in the world… the root cause is their use of enemies they create in order to keep solidarity…
— Albert Einstein, Collier's Magazine, November 26, 1938

Scince I started paying attention to the Jewish question I too believe that the Jews are their own worst enemy.
Does that nmake me as smart as Einstein?

36 Arie Brand January 1, 2008 at 10:16 pm

What always amazes me in talk about the "Arabization" of Europe, or similar concerns in the US, is that people tend to forget about the infinite cultural malleability of the human species and its very small amount of genetic variation (actually smaller than that of Chimpanzees).

Yes, the "Arabization" of Europe but what about the "Europeanization" of Arabs? The grandchildren of, say, Moroccan migrants to Western Europe will be quite unlike their grandparents.

That white skin has no cultural implications. If your aim is to preserve a certain domain of culture, talk about that and forget about that skin.

(Here is a snippet of the conversation by the palaeoanthropologist Timothy White with Harry Kreisler in the UC Berkeley series: "Conversations with History":

"White: If you sample the mitochondrial DNA of people around the world, whether it's Australia, Scandinavia, wherever you want to do it, it turns out the human species has a very small amount of total genetic variation compared to other species. The chimpanzees have more genetic variation than humans — it's a surprising find.")

37 Gene January 2, 2008 at 1:04 am

Lone Jew: "Please tell me what I can do to get out of this mess I'm in. I will stop my donations to Haddassah immediately, but what hope is there for me?"

Have you tried eating ham sandwiches for lunch on Wonder Bread with mayonaise?

38 orville wright May 3, 2008 at 10:37 pm

You guys are pathetic. Let me get this right, you learn your history from movies? Get a life

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