A reader has pointed out to me that the neoconservative thinktank I wrote about last night, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, is intimately connected to the illegal colonization of the West Bank. As I reported, Tony Gelbart--the board member listed in FDD's 2005 report who is not listed on the website--is co-founder of Nefesh b'nefesh, whose mission is revitalize Zionism in the U.S. by getting more American Jews to move to Israel (too few are doing so now, the group says). The organization's website shows that many of these emigrants are being directed to communities in the Occupied Territories, where they can have comfortable professional lives, they are assured.
This organization is a 501c3 "public charity," with tax benefits. New York Times columnist Bill Kristol is associated with this thinktank. Neocon=neocolonial. And as I wrote yesterday, even liberal American Jews have close connections to these apartheid-like projects. Why, when we are blowing up Muslim countries, isn't this a scandal in the American press?
Whatever its politics, I would support any group that could get Bill Kristol to move to Israel or any country other than this one.
The green line and other red lines are silly historical borders.
The Arab Legion forced some borders on Israel, and why was it fair to take the Old City under Jordanian rule.
The solution is to instill civility into the majority of Israelis and Palestinian, and create an evolving federation.
Phil is harming more the Palestinians, than the Israelis, with his endorsement of the worst extremist elements of the Palestinian society. Those few Palestinians are the universal enemies of civility and humanity.
Do you remember the mutilations and lynching of Israelis by some of those elements?
Yes, Protest I, Phil's blog is an unending stream of praise for Islamic Jihad. (I am being sarcastic.)
A 501(c)(4) advocacy organization may create a 501(c)(3) organization that operates solely for "educational" (propaganda) purposes, i.e., a "public charity," with tax benefits. Nothing like making the sheep pay for their own shearing.
For those asking rhetorical questions.
Is it time for the left to throw its liberal Jews overboard?
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Iraq, Iran and Likud-o-con think tanks, is it time to flush?
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Tax exemption: Both 501c3 and 501c4 organizations are exempt from paying federal income tax. (State tax-exemption status varies by state.)
501(c)3s are limited in the amount of time and/or money they can put into lobbying. In comparison, 501(c)4s can do an unlimited amount of lobbying (but then become ineligible to receive federal monies like grants).
501(c)3s cannot in any way support or oppose anyone running for public office, though they may be involved in political campaigns by way of non-partisan public forums, voter registration drives, etc.
501(c)4s can engage in political campaign activity, so long as this is consistent with the organization’s purpose and is not the organization’s primary activity.
Charitable donations to 501(c)3s are deductible to the full extent of the law. In comparison, such donations to 501(c)4s are not deductible.
Should your organization be a 501(c)3 or a 501(c)4?
If you are planning on doing limited or no lobbying and no campaigning, then you probably want the 501(c)3 tax-exemption so that people can benefit from donating to your organization. However, if your organization will be doing substantial lobbying or any campaigning, you should form a 501(c)4.
Here's the key: If you want the best of both worlds, you can have two separate but affiliated organizations – one a charitable 501(c)(3) and the other a 501(c)(4). Then, working in tandem, you can lobby extensively on behalf of your organization's members, yet also have an affiliated 501c3 foundation for charitable giving. Propaganda paid for by the taxed masses.
Phil is not an active proponent of Islamsists or terrorist activity related to Islamists, in fact he opposses such forces, but he is very talented at ignoring Islamists, not taking their actions into consideration and the neocons' response to those actions and threats. He see nefarious Jewish motivations behind everything, and doesn't consider the dynamic interplay between different parties. Many intelligent and savvy non-zionists take Islamist threats quites seriously and can be aligned with neo-cons on many foreign policy decisions as a result, all the while not supporting zionist aggression against Palestinians.
On a slightly related matter, Juan Cole chimes in:
People keep asking in puzzlement what Bush expected to get out of his Iraq misadventure. It is the oil, habibi, the oil.
Akhbar al-Khalij newspaper is charging that US oil interests offered each Iraqi parliamentarian $5 million to pass the oil and gas law
http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2008/01/29/american-oil-companies-offered-five-million-dollars-to-each-iraqi-mp-to-pass-the-oil-law/
There's a 1990's Osima Bin Laden proclamation on the FDD
website that lays down what prompts his actions. It's clear he thinks he's defending the powerless muslim masses and his God's will against continued colonial exploitation by the Crusader and Zionist mindset, partnered with local lackey tyrants (and their extended families), fake muslims, for their own aggregate power and material profit. When one can do nothing but protest by burning himself up with a lit rubber tire or try to toss the lit tire in the general direction of away or at, it is, in my mind, not so much a clash of civilizations as a matter of physics.
From the Nefesh B'Nefesh website:
"Thanks to a new direct road connecting Gush Etzion with Jerusalem, most of the Gush is only a 20 minute drive from the center of Jerusalem."
'Direct road' – what a LOVELY euphemism for a 'Jews-only' road. Seven thousand dunums of Palestinian land have been or will be seized in connection with this road:
http://tinyurl.com/2mpe75
Let's not call this racism. It's just a … "Gentlemen's Agreement," as it were. LOL.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039416/
Memorable quotes for
Gentleman's Agreement (2008)
Phil: I want the moon!
Witty: Yeah!… with parsley. I've asked Phil to do a piece on pro-Semitism.
Hillary: Am I going to get a credit line?
Obama: You? Why?
Hillary: Well, don't you remember when that Palestinian schoolteacher resigned, and I…
Witty: Oh, yes. Well, I knew somebody would be asking me for a credit line. I'm always stealing ideas without realizing it.
Hillary: That's what makes your magazine so original.
Nate: What's pro-Semitism?
Phil: Well, son, uh, that's when some people don't like other people just because they're Gentiles.
Nate: Why not? Are Gentiles bad?
Phil: Well, some are and some aren't, just like with everyone else.
Nate: What are Gentiles, anyway?
Phil : Well, uh, it's like this. Remember last week when you asked me about that big church, and I told you there are all different kinds of churches? Well, the people who go to that particular church are called Catholics, and there are people who go to different churches and they're called Protestants, and there are people who go to different churches and they're called Jews, only they call their churches temples or synagogues.
Nate: Why don't some people like them?
Phil : Well, I can't really explain it, Nate.
Mrs. Phil: You think there's enough pro-Semitism in life already without people reading about it?
Phil: No, but this story is doomed before I start. What can I say about pro-Semitism that hasn't been said before?
Mrs. Phil: Maybe it hasn't been said well enough. If it had, you wouldn't have had to explain it to Nate right now.
Phil: Ma, I've got it! I've got the idea, the angle, the lead. I'll be a Goy! Why, all I've got to do is just say it! No one around here knows me. I can live with myself for six weeks, eight weeks, nine months. Ma, this is it!
Mrs. Phil: It must be. It always is when you're this sure.
Phil: Ma, listen, I've even got the title. "I Was a Goy for Six Months."
Mrs. Phil: It's right, Phil.
Phil : Ma, it's like this click just happened inside me. It won't be the same, sure, but it'll be close. I can just tell them I'm a goyishkopf and see what happens.
Mrs. Phil: It'll work fine, Phil.
Phil: Blonde hair, blue eyes. Just like Brad. Just like a lot of guys who aren't goys. No cracker accent, no mannerisms. Neither has Brad.
Phil: No, no, I'm fine. I just wish I was dead is all.
Some people hate Jews, some people hate Goys.
Nate: And no one hates us because we're Americans.
Don't you ever think of what to write yourself?
Witty: I wouldn't call a dog Hymie.
Phil: So far I've been digging in facts and data-I've sort of been ignoring feelings.
Anne Dettrey: Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the most brilliant of them all?
Phil: And what does the mirror say?
Anne Dettrey: Well, that mirror ain't no gentleman.
I know dear, and some of your other best friends are Jewishut you never bother to say it.
Nate: Pop, what's that?
Phil: That's a statue of Atlas carrying the world on his shoulders.
Nate: No kidding? That's what Grandma says you're doing. She says she wishes you'd leave the world alone once in a while.
Elaine Walestein: I changed my name. Did you?
Phil: NO. What's yours?
Elaine Walestein: Estelle Wales. I couldn't take it. The applications, I mean. So one day I wrote the same firm two letters, same as you're doing now. I sent the Elaine Walestein one, and I sent it after they said there were no openings. Well, I got the job, all right. Do you know what firm that was? "Smith's Weekly."
Phil: No.
Elaine Wales: Yes, Mr. Green. The great liberal magazine that fights injustice on all sides.
Phil: I'm going to let everybody know I'm a goy.
Kathy Lacey: A goy? But you're not! Are you? Not that it would make any difference to me. But you said, "Let everybody know," as if you hadn't before and would now. So I just wondered. Not that it would make any difference to me. Phil, you're annoyed.
Phil: No, I'm just thinking.
Kathy Lacey: Well, don't look serious about it. Surely you must know where I stand.
Phil: Oh, I do.
Kathy Lacey: You just caught me off-guard.
Elaine Wales: You just let them get one wrong goy in here, and it'll come out of us. It's no fun being the fall guy for the goys.
Phil: Miss Wales, I'm going to be frank with you. I want you to know that words like shaggot or shiksa or schwartze make me sick no matter who says them.
Elaine Wales: Oh, but I only said it for a type.
Phil: Yeah, but we're talking about a the word first.
Elaine Wales: Why, sometimes I even say it to myself, about me, I mean. Like, if I'm about to do something I know I shouldn't, I'll say, "Don't be such a little shika." That's all.
Phil: What makes you say that?
Bert McAnnyberg: Oh, I don't know. You just seem like… a clever sort of guy.
Phil: What makes you think I wasn't a G.I.?
Bert McAnnyberg: What? Now, Phil, don't get me wrong. Why, some of my best friends are goys.
Anne Dettrey: And some of your other best friends are Muslims, but you never bother to say that.
Kathy Lacey: I called up my sister Jane and blurted it out, and she squealed, "Kathy!" as if she had given up any hope of anyone ever asking me. She's aching to meet you. She and her husband are giving a big party for us on Sunday. By the way, won't we have to let Jane in on it?
Phil : I hadn't thought so.
Kathy Lacey: But we will, won't we? Your mother knows.
Phil: She had to. Jane and her husband don't. If you want to keep a secret…
Kathy Lacey: But wouldn't it be sort of exaggerated with my own sister? Your sister-in-law, almost. I do think it would be inflexible of you.
Phil: I suppose it would be, inside the family. But they won't let anybody know, will they?
Kathy Lacey: They won't breathe it. They want to fight this awful thing just as much as you and I do.
Nate: Pop, are we goys? Bernie Blaustein said we were. Our broker told his broker.
Phil: Well, what did you tell Jimmy Bernie?
Nate: I said I'd ask you.
Phil: Well, it's like this. Remember that movie Judy and I took you to, and you asked if things like that really happened?
Nate: Judy said they were pretending.
Phil: Well, I'm pretending I'm a goy for something I'm writing.
Nate: You mean like a game?
Phil: Yes, but I'd appreciate it if you promised not to tell anybody it's a game.
Nate: Okay, Pop, sure.
Phil: I've been saying I'm Gentile, and it works.
Dave Hoess: Why, you crazy fool! It's working?
Phil: It works too well. I've been having my nose rubbed in it, and I don't like the smell.
Dave Hoess: You're not insulated yet, Phil. The impact must be quite a business on you.
Phil: You mean you get indifferent to it in time?
Dave Hoess: No, but you're concentrating a lifetime into a few weeks. You're not changing the facts, you're just making them hurt more.
Kathy Lacey: Oh, Dave, we couldn't get married without you. What happened?
Dave Hoess: Nothing. That's just it. I can't abandon my family forever, and I can't find a house or an apartment. If it was just me, I'd sleep on the subway, but I've got Carol and the kids. I've got to go back. I'm licked.
Phil: But that means your job, your whole future.
Dave Hoess: I'll live. I've done it before.
Kathy Lacey: But, Dave, that's terrible.
Phil : I'm going up to Flume Inn. I'll use the plane tickets we had for tomorrow afternoon.
Dave Hoess: You're wasting your time.
Phil: I know. But there must be a time once when you fought back. I want to look them in the eye. I want the satisfaction. I can't explain it.
Kathy Lacey: But Phil…
Dave Hoess: Let him do it, Kathy. You've got to fight back once. I did it at Monterey.
Phil: They're more than nasty little snobs, Kathy. Call them that, and you can dismiss them too easily. They're persistent traitors to everything this country stands for, and you have to fight them, not just for the Gentiles, but for everything this country stands for.
Resort Clerk: In answer to your question, do you follow the Christian religion yourself, or do you just want to make sure?
Phil: I've asked a simple question, and I'd like a simple answer.
Resort Clerk: Well, we have a very high-class clientele, and, well…
Phil: Then you do restrict your guests to Jews?
Resort Clerk: Well, I would hardly say that, and in any event, there seems to have been some mistake because we don't have a single free room in the entire hotel.
Nate: They called me a dirty goy and a stinking animal, and they all ran away.
Kathy Lacey: Oh, darling, it's not true. You're no more goyish than I am. It's just some horrible mistake.
Phil : Kathy!
Nate: They were playing, and I asked if I could play too, and one said that no dirty shaggot could play with them, and they all yelled those other things. I tried to speak, and they all yelled that my father has a dumb blond chin and works with his hands, and they turned and ran. Why did they do it, Pop?
Phil: Did you want to tell them that you weren't Aryan?
Nate: No.
Phil: That's good. There are a lot of kids just like you who are goys, and if you had said that, you'd be admitting there was something bad in being a goy.
Nate: They didn't even fight. They just ran.
Phil: I know. There are a lot of grown-ups like that too, only they do it with wisecracks instead of with yelling.
You aren't going to fit it at all, Kathy! You're just going to give in and let their idiotic rules stand!
Kathy Lacey: What can one person do?
Phil : What can they do?
Kathy Lacey: Plenty! Ostracize him!
Phil: And you expect me to live there now that I know all this?
Kathy Lacey: Oh, you can't change the whole world!
You can't help that you were born Jewish instead of goy. It doesn't mean you're glad you were. But I am glad. There, I said it. You think I'm an anti-Gentile person.
Phil : No, I don't. But I've come to see lots of nice people who hate it and deplore it and protest their own innocence, then help it along and wonder why it grows. People who would never gyp or beat up a goy. People who think anti-Cracker or WASP is far away in some dark place with low-class morons. That's the biggest discovery I've made. The good people. The nice people.
Phil: You still think of your mom, Nate?
Nate: Sometimes. Not all the time. Just sometimes. How old was I when she died, Pop?
Phil: You were four years old. It's been a long time.
Nate: You ever gonna get married again?
Phil : Maybe. You want me to?
Nate: I don't care. I like it fine this way.
Mrs. Phil: I never realized pain could be so… sharp.
Professor Lieberman: Millions of people nowadays are religious only in the vaguest sense. I've often wondered why the goys among them still go on calling themselves Christians. Do you know, Phil?
Phil: No, but I'd like to.
Professor Lieberman: Because the world still makes it an advantage not to be one. Thus it becomes a matter of pride to go on calling ourselves Christians.
Nate: Grandma said to wake you.
Phil : It's late, isn't it?
Nate: Yeah. Here's your bathrobe.
Phil : I don't want it.
Nate: Put it on, I said!
Kathy Lacey: I was right not to settle. I was right to keep dreaming, because it's all come true. Darling, we're going to be so happy here. This house and I were waiting for you. I was always waiting for you, I think.
Mrs. Phil: You know something, Phil? I suddenly want to live to be very old. Very. I want to be around to see what happens. The world is stirring in very strange ways. Maybe this is the century for it. Maybe that's why it's so troubled. Other centuries had their driving forces. What will ours have been when men look back? Maybe it won't be the American century after all… or the Russian century or the atomic century. Wouldn't it be wonderful… if it turned out to be everybody's century… when people all over the world – free people – found a way to live together? I'd like to be around to see some of that… even the beginning. I may stick around for quite a while.
Phil: I'm confused, but I am a gentleman.
That must have been fun for you Charles.
What is Ron Paul going to do with the money that so many donated that he is either not using for his campaign, or squandering?
Will he keep it?
Keating – You need to get a life.
Ha, you are both right as to me. As to RP–if you take the trouble to actually check him out, it would be a major feat to think he squanders money, either his or the taxpayers–
"Phil is not an active proponent of Islamsists or terrorist activity related to Islamists, in fact he opposses such forces, but he is very talented at ignoring Islamists, not taking their actions into consideration and the neocons' response to those actions and threats. He see nefarious Jewish motivations behind everything, and doesn't consider the dynamic interplay between different parties."
Darren – I get the part about Phil not supporting Islamic terrorist activity(I think I do anyway) but the rest is a bit confusing.
Maybe you'd be bothered to expand on that a little to help me understand what in the hell you're on about….
"Phil is not an active proponent of Islamsists or terrorist activity related to Islamists, in fact he opposses such forces, but he is very talented at ignoring Islamists, not taking their actions into consideration and the neocons' response to those actions and threats. He see nefarious Jewish motivations behind everything, and doesn't consider the dynamic interplay between different parties."
Darren – I get the part about Phil not supporting Islamic terrorist activity(I think I do anyway) but the rest is a bit confusing.
Maybe you'd be bothered to expand on that a little to help me understand what in the hell you're on about….
The answer is always factual sins of omission.
Karin Friedemann and I discuss Nefesh b'Nefesh briefly at the end of link to eaazi.blogspot.com
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The Spanish language version can be found at link to eaazi.blogspot.com
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