Comments on: In Neocons’ ‘Parallel Establishment,’ a Foundation Hides Its Israel Concerns

By: Darren

Darren — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Phil,

Forgive me, for I don't know much about your background, but what exactly did you do to leap forward?

What exactly are trying to say in your last paragraph?

By: ej

ej — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

What's democracy got to do with all this?
If they really cared about democracy, they could start in Washington.
Imagine what a difference all that moolah could make if dedicated to a genuinely moral cause.

By: David

David — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

"Forgive me, for I don't know much about your background, but what exactly did you do to leap forward?"

Phil got married, that's what he did. And he's spent the past few years doing the blog journalist equivalent of painting Jewish stars on the doors of people wealthier than himself.

By: David

David — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

By the way, Phil, do you know what "hide the salami" means?

By: Jaffr

Jaffr — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Cliff May at FDD and his ilk (especially David Horowitz) in the Neoncon pro-Israel establishment also make a big deal about so-called "academic standards" and supposed inferior scholarship by Israel's detractors. Many of them have cashed in big-time, but remain but frustrated academic wannabes.

But they apparently have no problem with blatant plagiarism by their scholarly associates and "fellows" in the interests of Zionist propaganda.

See here:

http://www.counterpunch.org/klein03142007.html

Neither FDD, FrontPage, nor some academic institutions see anything wrong with the word-for-word recycling of Israeli PR by tenured right-wingers.

By: Michael Blaine

Michael Blaine — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

"Help The Poor? Edwards Can't Be Bothered"

at Rudely Stamped

Michael Blaine
www.rudelystamped.blogspot.com

By: Ed.

Ed. — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

"That leap forward is something I participated in and celebrate. We knocked down the doors that made my parents' generation justly resentful."

What doors were those, Phil? Was your parents' generation "justly resentful" enough to lie America into the Iraq war in a justified manner? Does their "just resentment" justify the deaths of thousands of Americans and millions of Iraqis?

Bitter, narcissistic, rejected, megalomaniacs is what I see. But hey, maybe it’s all justified.

By: J. Martillo

J. Martillo — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

From http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2007/07/assimilation-v-.html

At least AIPAC is a registered lobby, and contributions to AIPAC are not tax deductible. The Israel Project and most of the national level Zionist "educational" organizations and think-tanks are 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations, and contributions to them are tax deductible.

In any case while these national organizations and think tanks are an important part of the Israel Lobby, they are not the bulk.

The real Israel Lobby comprises the web of interconnecting innocuous seeming Jewish communal organizations that exert control over public discourse for the sake of pro-Israel political agenda even at the level of book talks at Barnes & Noble (see http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/05/lobby-activities-its-just-frggin-novel_28.html ).

These Jewish communal organizations are all fraudulently claiming 501(c)(3) tax deductible status and are therefore ripping off the treasure for billions of dollars.

Note that if a Catholic church even mentions abortion in an election context, it can lose its status as an organization that can receive tax-deductible contributions.

If the tax code were interpretated fairly and uniformly, practically all Jewish communal organizations would lose their 501(c)(3) tax-deductible status, and contributors to those organizations would have to pay a tremendous amount of back taxes with interest.

Note also that Sheleg misinterprets the issue of state funding of parochial or communal schools. If such schools received state funding, it would decrease the influence of a small cabal of wealthy extremist Zionist billionaires over Jewish education. It is an issue that has been well understood since the time when the Czarist government tried to fund Jewish education in the middle 19th century.

By: Richard Witty

Richard Witty — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

I had a dream about you last night.

I dreamed that I met you outside of the Capital building, that I had yelled your name to get your attention, and that my father, aunt (both deceased), cousins, wife, children, were with me.

And that you were with another woman other than your wife, and wore a hat emblazened "new conservative", and said hello but walked away quickly as if to say, "I'm not with them" to enter some hearing, dressed well, handsome, thin with a beautiful redhead on your arm. (I was both jealous and knew that that was impossible and undesirable for me.)

I know it sounds simplistically symbolic, and the leadheads here will pounce on it.

By: Richard Witty

Richard Witty — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

I find it odd that you don't criticize conservatism, and only Jews formerly excluded from conservatism.

That you don't disagree with their conclusions, but only that Jews have some power.

$125,000 for a professional job is similar to a tenured professor, less than a lawyer, much less than an investment analyst.

Probably just barely enough income from their work, to afford a bare bones home outside of New York.

What is the CONTENT of the argument that you disagree with? What policy would you do differently? Why?