This piece in Vanity Fair online is historic: it is an open discussion, in a glossy social column, of the social resentment among WASPs toward the new wealth, the Jews and their allegedly-gauche manners, in this instance the (truly) horrifying fact that Stephen A. Schwartzman’s name is being incised on the facade of the NYPL, something I decried weeks ago, and something the Astors, the original givers to that shrine of learning, never would have allowed. The only writers to address this issue directly before are me, Scott McConnell, and Kevin MacDonald, though in MacDonald’s case it is interlarded with antisemitism.
This piece too is interlarded with antisemitism. The writer both echoes the antisemitism and condemns it at the same time. What is the answer? We should talk about it, and have this out. A giant shift has taken place in the American establishment. Jews are principals in the Establishment now. This column is a great help. It suggests that the meritocracy has eroded old bars and discriminations. Alright, yes. And thru intermarriage the Christians are flesh of my flesh, and Jews are flesh of theirs. Get used to it. Guess who’s coming to the inauguration. Obama is about to ring in a great new age of miscegenation.
What this social column does not address are the absolutely necessary sequiturs: How much of political giving now comes from Jews? Why is McCain thumping the Iran drum? Is that about money? What is Sheldon Adelson, the third richest man in America, doing at Bush’s head table when Haaretz says he wants to push the Arabs out of the West Bank? Why is Haim Saban funding the Brookings Institution? Why is Lester Crown funding the Council on Foreign Relations–and reportedly banging tables about Iran? When Obama says that McCain’s talk is about "domestic politics," is he speaking about Jewish wealth?
In short, what is the new Jewish leadership’s agenda for the Middle East? And does the next generation of Jews want Zionism incised on the facade of the Lincoln Memorial? (Nope, hallelujah). These are real political questions. Get over your ancient dogeared canards and look at the face of America.
The issue is not merely Jews vs. WASPs but is Yids versus "Our Crowd."
There is a sort of echo of the situation in inter bellum Poland.
Before WW1 Polish Jews and Polish Germans generally got along fairly well, for they functioned in different and complementary sectors of the economy of the Polish territories.
After WW1 the ethnic Polish leaders worked with Polish Jews to drive Polish Germans out of the economy, and Jewish-German hostility reached extreme levels.
Later suspicion developed towards Polish Jews because of the Soviet Jewish connection, but the Polish state needed Jews even more after the ruination of the Polish German economic sector, and the Polish government may have underestimated the Soviet threat in the aftermath of the Miracle of Warsaw.
I talk about the intra-Jewish difference in link to members.aol.com but the section link to members.aol.com is also important.
"In short, what is the new Jewish leadership's agenda for the Middle East? And does the next generation of Jews want Zionism incised on the facade of the Lincoln Memorial" – mondow
new agenda same as old agenda. next generation, after serving in the israeli sadism force, will have israel incised on…
(what the old and the new and the future do for their entity):
Tough Love for Israel: The Deceitful `Peace Process'
Henry Siegman — The Nation
"… There is no prospect for a viable, sovereign Palestinian state, primarily because Israel's various governments, from 1967 until today, have never had the intention of allowing such a state to come into being … As long as Israel knows that by delaying the peace process it buys time to create facts on the ground, and that the international community will continue to indulge Israel's pretense that its desire for a two-state solution is being frustrated by the Palestinians, no new peace initiative can succeed, and the dispossession of the Palestinian people will indeed become irreversible."
Basicly people don't like each other. When another group has a behavioral norm that differs it IS grating. I defy any one to say otherwise. My ancestors came from Germany in the mid-nineteenth century and spoke German for 50 or 60 years until WWI when there was an anti-German backlash. What's the big deal? It passes. UNLESS…there is a big deal. Jews have been accepted in America as well as any other immigrant group I think. Italians probably didn't get into the country club in Connecticut either. So what? When your children go to school together it starts melting.
African Americans have the bigger problem in that the historical crime was perpetrated by Americans. Their sense of victimization is warranted. But even in that case, entitlement deriving from victimization doesn't promote good things.
The Vanity Fair piece was superficial, Phil asks the more important questions.
AND I think Phil's wife is right. Immigrant behavior can be somewhat annoying to others who don't need to prove themselves. The English said it about Americans.
from a commenter at xymphora. dont know where to post it but it needs to be read. many more such. jews always being holocausted(the industry started at least ww1) or a way to get wealth. magical six million.
September 29, 1919, p. 7, New York Times
FELIX M. WARBURG TELLS
SAD PLIGHT OF JEWS
Felix M. Warburg Says They Were the Worst Sufferers in War.
Felix M. Warburg, Chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee of American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers, who returned several days ago from a trip to Europe for that organization, made public yesterday some of his findings.
'The successive blows of contending armies have all but broken the back of European Jewry,' he said, 'and have reduced to tragically unbelievable poverty, starvation and disease about 6,000,000 souls, or half the Jewish population of the earth.
'The Jewish people throughout Eastern Europe, by sheer accident of geography, have suffered more from the war than any other element of the population. The potential vitality and the capacity for self-help that remains to those people after the last five years is amazing to me.'
The people are deeply moved by the help given them by America, Mr. Warburg said, but it would be fatal to lessen the emergency aid now while millions are in tragic need. The $30,000,000 spent by this committee, he said, has fed and clothed more than a million children and it has renewed the hope of five million parents and elders.
'For more than four years,' he said, 'The war on the Eastern front was fought largely in the congested centers of Jewish population. A straight north and south line from Riga, on the Baltic, to Salonica, on the Aegean Sea, will touch every important battle area of the Eastern war zone and every center of Jewish population. After the cataclysm of the last few years it is too much to expect this Jewry to become self-sustaining in a short twelve-month.'
Mr. Warburg is concerned over the program soon to be started for the discontinuance of emergency relief. This plan, he said, calls for the formation of a $10,000,000 reconstruction corporation.
'This organization,' he said, 'would afford facilities for constructive aid to Jews abroad in the way of loans and credit at nominal interest rates. The value of this sort of assistance as a substitute for pure charity is apparent.'
Other relief projects recommended by Mr. Warburg include the establishment of an express company to forward money and packages from Jews in this country to relatives and friends abroad; the distribution of $120,000 worth of fuel in sections of Poland where destitution is greatest; the purchase of $300,000 worth of cloth in the bolt whereby unemployed workmen of Poland may get raw material, and a plan to reunite those Jewish families that have relatives in the United States and those who have become separated abroad."
note from me: during vietnam conflict and gulf war 1, jews also suffered more than all other sectors of se asia and iraq.
So, may I look forward to a new version of The Way We Were?
The Robert Redford part will be a Jewish American, somebody with endearing appropriate features, perhaps even a younger Phil Weiss, the Barb Streisand part, played by an obvious schiksa actress.
Seems there's already a lot to build on for the look from TV sitcoms over the last decades. Instead of cutsy back & forth, you play romantic with big-time serious undertones.
Growing up, for me the WASP "preppie" style set the standard–except when I didn't live in the small suburbs; in the city it could get you harassed, beat up.
Since the early 80's there's been a plethora of teen-young adult movies where the bad guy's been the WASP preppie (nearly always rich & blonde).
For a quarter of a century.
So, now will this cultural role casting slowly reverse?
What will the usual teen-young adult movie and TV couple
series show us, say in 2030? Which type will be the usual bad guy versus our hero protagonist?
Having said that I'm no WASP lover–I've always hated frat rats; besides, look at what they did to our country–why, just look at Bush–he makes a good case for good riddance.
This is tangential to the subject of this post as it deals with the character of Schwarzman himself rather than with the issue raised by Phil. Still, it would be worthwhile if the nature of Schwarzman supposedly generous donation was examined. There is a reason to suspect that Schwarzman, while trying to look good and more "legit" by making charitable donations, in reality still keeps his profits in mind (even beyond the obvious questionable use of the term "charitable" for something that is clearly a purchase – in this case of the naming rights). A recent New Yorker profile of Schwarzman
link to newyorker.com
mentions two following cases (among other unpleasant facts about the guy in question):
"Schwarzman pledged ten million dollars to the Kennedy Center, but the pledge was to be fulfilled over ten years, which gave it a present value significantly lower than ten million. According to a fellow member of the library board, “He has given, but not remotely what he could. A big capital campaign is coming up. We hope that he’ll give very generously.”
One of Schwarzman’s most controversial proposed gifts was to Yale, his alma mater, which, during the late nineties, agreed to name the freshman dining commons after Schwarzman in return for $17 million. Some people at Yale thought the commitment was in hand, but it emerged that Schwarzman’s gift would actually be a contribution to one of Blackstone’s investment partnerships on Yale’s behalf. No money would change hands until the fund was liquidated, and there was a risk that the investment might be worth far less than $17 million (although there was also the possibility that it would be worth more). Yale balked at trading a significant naming opportunity for what it considered a speculative commitment, and Schwarzman did not give the money."
I am not in favor of smear campaigns and so am a bit uncomfortable crossing into this territory, but somehow I feel this guy's history warrants a closer examination of the matter.
Felix Warburg: 'The Jewish people throughout Eastern Europe, by sheer accident of geography, have suffered more from the war than any other element of the population. The potential vitality and the capacity for self-help that remains to those people after the last five years is amazing to me.'
There is something very obtuse about the above claim because practically all of Poland was a battlefield in WW1, which was then followed by the Polish Soviet War of 1920.
Warburg apparently looked at Poland and saw only Jewish suffering which differed in no obvious way from ethnic Polish suffering.
Note that much of the Jewish wealth that so scares politicians nowadays had its origins in the huge financial bubble that now is passing into history.
Anybody wonder why all five members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors are Jews.
Jewish wealth and influence are likely to recede (at least on a relative basis) in the years ahead as the economy shifts away from parasitic financial bubbles that enrich the few at the expense of the many towards more productive and useful activities.
The heavily Jewish financial industry is on the ropes but farmers are prospering as never before. And very few farmers and ranchers are Jewish.
"The heavily Jewish financial industry is on the ropes but farmers are prospering as never before." – Crimson Ghost
i know very little about such things but i will guess that farmers and truck drivers and teachers and soldiers and fry cooks will be bailing out the financial industry.
Kevin MacDonald is anti-semitic, how so? And how is smearing MacDonald as anti-semitic any different from smearing Jimmy Carter or Mearsheimer & Walt as anti-semitic?
This is not intended to be merely a rhetorical question, I am really curious as to the basis of your allegation, Phil.
Over the weekend I spent some time reading a book by Stephen Kinzer detailing how the American and British governments conducted the overthrow of the Iranian regime in 1953. Subsequently, the Shah maintained an iron hand over the Iranian people and was seen as a not so benevolent imposition of American power. Ever since the Shah was forced from power in the late 70's, Iran has maintained a degree of hostility toward America. I certainly don't see this hostility as some sort of intrinsic hatred of Americans. Instead it should be seen as a justified resentment of America having imposed its own interests upon Iranians in a very undemocratic fashion, using bribes, controlled media…and whatever other levers of power available to impose American power upon suffering Iranians. Granted most Americans did not actively support that coup, but it was performed for our 'benefit', by our governing body.
Are not most Americans out here in flyover land likewise entitled to a degree of resentment toward those who impose our MidEast policies designed to 'benefit' Israel upon us? Why would any reasonable person conclude that resentment to be a form of racism as suggested by the "anti-semitic" labeling?
Remember the Bear Stearns give-away. It was equivalent to printing money, i.e. inflating the currency — part of the reason it costs $60 to fill up a gasoline tank.
Yep, farmers, and middle and lower economic class Americans are bailing out the finance industry.
Thank Bush, the Jabontiskian Neocons and the Friedmanite Neoliberals.
I was enjoying this cyber corner found quite by chance, though now, I'm very disappointed to find the blog owner refers to kev McDonald as anti Semitic. I really don't think so at all, more, I hope the Israel-first/homegrown zealot crowd leave the professor's career in tact. Apart from an interesting outside analysis of "us" – In view of the many anti gentile amongst my group, I think we can take a little self introspection. We've certainly been generous in our own observations of others. maybe too much so without allowing the right of reply subject to a thousand smears and career death.
Anyway, Very interesting contributions which I largely agree with from Joachim Martillo.
from the comments to the Vanity Fair article
My personal experiences, having grown up in a Protestant/Catholic household with many Jewish friends has informed me that the idea that WASPS are any more racist as a group than Jews is an absolute falsehood! The amount of anti-Protestant and Christian rhetoric that comes out when many of the Jews I associate with are behind closed doors is in many ways much more overt than any of the racism expressed among groups of Protestants I am familiar with, and to a lesser extent among the Catholics. The myth of the WASP's cornering of the prejudice market would be a far superior topic of examination for this series. The author would serve his own interests if he stepped beyond the re-treading of old controversies and began to illuminate new ones.
from the comments to the Vanity Fair article
My personal experiences, having grown up in a Protestant/Catholic household with many Jewish friends has informed me that the idea that WASPS are any more racist as a group than Jews is an absolute falsehood! The amount of anti-Protestant and Christian rhetoric that comes out when many of the Jews I associate with are behind closed doors is in many ways much more overt than any of the racism expressed among groups of Protestants I am familiar with, and to a lesser extent among the Catholics. The myth of the WASP's cornering of the prejudice market would be a far superior topic of examination for this series. The author would serve his own interests if he stepped beyond the re-treading of old controversies and began to illuminate new ones.
Uri Avnery wrote:
Among the fraternity of flatterers, the ones that attracted the most attention were the Jewish billionaires from America (who also paid for the extravaganza).
Several of them were summoned to police headquarters immediately on arrival to give evidence on the affair that is rocking Israel now – the corruption investigation of Ehud Olmert.
A smell of corruption has accompanied Olmert right from his beginnings in politics, 45 years ago. But this time, the smell is overpowering. The police has made it known that the American-Jewish billionaire Moshe Morris Talansky has been supplying him with cash-filled envelopes for years.
Where have we seen this before? Of course, in American movies and TV-series. Somebody opens a suitcase stuffed with bundles of banknotes. The donor invariably belongs to the Mafia, and the recipient is generally a corrupt politician. Can it be that Olmert has never seen these films – he of all people, who started his career with demagogic speeches denouncing “Organized Crime”?
But it is not Olmert who interests me in this affair so much as Talansky.
He belongs to a species of “Israel-loving” billionaires, most of them resident in the US, but also in Canada and Switzerland, Austria and Australia and other places.
They are all Israeli patriots. They are all philanthropists. All contribute millions to Israeli politicians. And almost all of them support our extreme Right.
What makes them run? What induces these billionaires to do what they are doing?
A research in depth discovers that a great many of them made their money in dark corners. Some are gambling barons, casino-owners with all the inevitable connections with violence, crime and exploitation. One at least made his fortunes from brothels. Another was involved in a scandal involving old people’s homes. Yet another is a scion of a family who made their money bootlegging during prohibition days. Some are arms merchants of the most despicable kind, selling weapons to the political gangs which sow death and destruction in Africa.
But money, as is well known, does not smell.
Most of the multi-millionaires of this kind feel that they are not receiving the honor due to them. Their co-billionaires, high society people, treat them with disdain. A person reaching this position is not satisfied with money alone. He craves honor. Such honor can be bought in Israel, on the cheap.
Israel is selling honor of all kinds, no questions asked. For a suitable donation, even a gambling-hell owner will be received by the Prime Minister, dine with the President, put his name on a university building.
(Once I wrote a light-hearted piece about the Third Temple, may God build it soon, Amen: the Rosenstein Holy of Holiest, the Rosenzweig altar, the Rosenberg cherubim, etc.)
Just after the Six-day War, during the great days of our generals, a new fashion spread among the best Jewish billionaires: to keep an Israeli general, in order to present him to friends as a pet. Some generals found no fault in this. It was owed to them, after all.
One billionaire kept Ezer Weizman, the Air Force hero (who had to resign from the presidency when it came out). Two billionaires adopted Ariel Sharon and set him up in the largest farm in the country. Shimon Peres was no general (and not even a soldier), but at least three billionaires took him under their golden wings.
No billionaire ever lost money by keeping an Israeli general, supporting an Israeli politician or making a generous donation to an Israeli cause. Ego is ego, patriotism is patriotism, but business is business.
That’s where the corruption set in. A person who donates millions to a politician in Israel (or, for that matter, the US, or Italy or any other place on the globe) knows full well that he will get it back with interest. When the politician becomes a minister, or Prime Minister, or President, the supporter has hit the jackpot.
In politics there is no innocent donation. One way or another, the donor will reap his reward – many times over. That’s true in the US, that’s true in Italy, that’s true in Israel, too. If the donor declares to the police that he has no business interests in Israel, all it means is that they must dig deeper.
The Olmert affair confirms anew what we have known for a long time: the fuel Israeli politics runs on is not just money, but money from abroad. To win primaries and campaign in elections, a candidate needs millions, and these almost always come from foreign donors.
Foreign billionaires financed Olmert in the party primaries, and they financed him in the general elections, in which he was assured of becoming Prime Minister. After being elected, he started Lebanon War II, with all its death and destruction. It can be said: American Jewish billionaires killed the soldiers and civilians, Israeli and Lebanese, who lost their lives in the war.
In his speech to the Jerusalem conference, Shimon Peres lauded Israeli chutzpa. What we need is more chutzpa, he said. That sounded fetching and naughty, but was pure poppycock.
I want to speak about another chutzpa. Not metaphorical, but real. Simple chutzpa. The chutzpa of billionaires in New York and Geneva and all the other places who interfere in our elections and determine the fate of our nation. The chutzpa of donating for a war in which not their sons, but ours, are killed. The chutzpa of sending billions for the establishment of settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, and especially in Jerusalem, which are put there for the express purpose of preventing peace and imposing on us a permanent war, a war that threatens our future – not theirs.
Let’s be clear: I am not criticizing well-meaning donors, who feel a moral need to contribute to a hospital wing or a university building in Israel. I appreciate people who send a few hundred dollars to a political cause close to their heart. I object to foreign billionaires who aspire to dictate the direction of our state.
Perhaps in other countries, too, politicians receive donations from foreign sources. But it is generally a marginal phenomenon. Here it is a major factor.
That is one of the ill effects of the definition of Israel as a “Jewish State”. Because of this, these donors do not look like what they are – impertinent foreigners who interfere in our lives and corrupt our state – but like “warmhearted Jews” who support a state that belongs to them as well.
Gideon Levy has recently written an article in which he begged them to “leave us alone”. Being a less refined person than he, I shall say this in a ruder way: Go home and take your money with you. We are not for sale. Stop trying to manage our life (and death)!
Uri Avnery is a peace activist, journalist, and writer. Visit his website.
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Uri Avnery wrote:
Among the fraternity of flatterers, the ones that attracted the most attention were the Jewish billionaires from America (who also paid for the extravaganza).
Several of them were summoned to police headquarters immediately on arrival to give evidence on the affair that is rocking Israel now – the corruption investigation of Ehud Olmert.
A smell of corruption has accompanied Olmert right from his beginnings in politics, 45 years ago. But this time, the smell is overpowering. The police has made it known that the American-Jewish billionaire Moshe Morris Talansky has been supplying him with cash-filled envelopes for years.
Where have we seen this before? Of course, in American movies and TV-series. Somebody opens a suitcase stuffed with bundles of banknotes. The donor invariably belongs to the Mafia, and the recipient is generally a corrupt politician. Can it be that Olmert has never seen these films – he of all people, who started his career with demagogic speeches denouncing “Organized Crime”?
But it is not Olmert who interests me in this affair so much as Talansky.
He belongs to a species of “Israel-loving” billionaires, most of them resident in the US, but also in Canada and Switzerland, Austria and Australia and other places.
They are all Israeli patriots. They are all philanthropists. All contribute millions to Israeli politicians. And almost all of them support our extreme Right.
What makes them run? What induces these billionaires to do what they are doing?
A research in depth discovers that a great many of them made their money in dark corners. Some are gambling barons, casino-owners with all the inevitable connections with violence, crime and exploitation. One at least made his fortunes from brothels. Another was involved in a scandal involving old people’s homes. Yet another is a scion of a family who made their money bootlegging during prohibition days. Some are arms merchants of the most despicable kind, selling weapons to the political gangs which sow death and destruction in Africa.
But money, as is well known, does not smell.
Most of the multi-millionaires of this kind feel that they are not receiving the honor due to them. Their co-billionaires, high society people, treat them with disdain. A person reaching this position is not satisfied with money alone. He craves honor. Such honor can be bought in Israel, on the cheap.
Israel is selling honor of all kinds, no questions asked. For a suitable donation, even a gambling-hell owner will be received by the Prime Minister, dine with the President, put his name on a university building.
(Once I wrote a light-hearted piece about the Third Temple, may God build it soon, Amen: the Rosenstein Holy of Holiest, the Rosenzweig altar, the Rosenberg cherubim, etc.)
Just after the Six-day War, during the great days of our generals, a new fashion spread among the best Jewish billionaires: to keep an Israeli general, in order to present him to friends as a pet. Some generals found no fault in this. It was owed to them, after all.
One billionaire kept Ezer Weizman, the Air Force hero (who had to resign from the presidency when it came out). Two billionaires adopted Ariel Sharon and set him up in the largest farm in the country. Shimon Peres was no general (and not even a soldier), but at least three billionaires took him under their golden wings.
No billionaire ever lost money by keeping an Israeli general, supporting an Israeli politician or making a generous donation to an Israeli cause. Ego is ego, patriotism is patriotism, but business is business.
That’s where the corruption set in. A person who donates millions to a politician in Israel (or, for that matter, the US, or Italy or any other place on the globe) knows full well that he will get it back with interest. When the politician becomes a minister, or Prime Minister, or President, the supporter has hit the jackpot.
In politics there is no innocent donation. One way or another, the donor will reap his reward – many times over. That’s true in the US, that’s true in Italy, that’s true in Israel, too. If the donor declares to the police that he has no business interests in Israel, all it means is that they must dig deeper.
The Olmert affair confirms anew what we have known for a long time: the fuel Israeli politics runs on is not just money, but money from abroad. To win primaries and campaign in elections, a candidate needs millions, and these almost always come from foreign donors.
Foreign billionaires financed Olmert in the party primaries, and they financed him in the general elections, in which he was assured of becoming Prime Minister. After being elected, he started Lebanon War II, with all its death and destruction. It can be said: American Jewish billionaires killed the soldiers and civilians, Israeli and Lebanese, who lost their lives in the war.
In his speech to the Jerusalem conference, Shimon Peres lauded Israeli chutzpa. What we need is more chutzpa, he said. That sounded fetching and naughty, but was pure poppycock.
I want to speak about another chutzpa. Not metaphorical, but real. Simple chutzpa. The chutzpa of billionaires in New York and Geneva and all the other places who interfere in our elections and determine the fate of our nation. The chutzpa of donating for a war in which not their sons, but ours, are killed. The chutzpa of sending billions for the establishment of settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, and especially in Jerusalem, which are put there for the express purpose of preventing peace and imposing on us a permanent war, a war that threatens our future – not theirs.
Let’s be clear: I am not criticizing well-meaning donors, who feel a moral need to contribute to a hospital wing or a university building in Israel. I appreciate people who send a few hundred dollars to a political cause close to their heart. I object to foreign billionaires who aspire to dictate the direction of our state.
Perhaps in other countries, too, politicians receive donations from foreign sources. But it is generally a marginal phenomenon. Here it is a major factor.
That is one of the ill effects of the definition of Israel as a “Jewish State”. Because of this, these donors do not look like what they are – impertinent foreigners who interfere in our lives and corrupt our state – but like “warmhearted Jews” who support a state that belongs to them as well.
Gideon Levy has recently written an article in which he begged them to “leave us alone”. Being a less refined person than he, I shall say this in a ruder way: Go home and take your money with you. We are not for sale. Stop trying to manage our life (and death)!
Uri Avnery is a peace activist, journalist, and writer. Visit his website.
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"Go home and take your money with you. We are not for sale. Stop trying to manage our life (and death)!"
It looks like we have the same problem in the United States. Meritocracy, hah!
"i know very little about such things but i will guess that farmers and truck drivers and teachers and soldiers and fry cooks will be bailing out the financial industry."
Why not? Fortunes and industries have been made from the spare dollars of teens.
Wow….. what an ignorant man this Philip Weiss is. The only things the Jews have any say on is foreign policy with regards to Israel and the middle east. EVERYTHING else the Jews have almost no say in. Sure looking through the eyes of a Jew the world may revolve around Israel and this may be the centre of Mr Weiss world but if anything happened in the world which the WASP felt half as passionately about as the Jews do with regards to Israel I am sure everybody would see the elephant in the room and the Jews would once again be down the back with their Israel.
Its not Jewish power its just that nobody else is interested enough in influencing middle eastern foreign policy. Sorry to burst your bubble Mr Weiss.
The article is weak and uninteresting. It doesn't delve into the larger implications of what the Jewish takeover of the American Establishment has meant: first and foremost – all values beyond that of money are obsolete or on the wane. Secondly, the distribuition of wealth has become much more egregious. And, thirdly, America's foreign policy is tilted to what's "good for the Jews" i.e. Israel. Any discussion of this outside of a few blogs is off-limits. How long can that last?