I can't say enough about Aaron David Miller's richly-detailed book The Much Too Promised Land. It puts flesh on the sometimes-skeletal understanding in Walt and Mearsheimer's book. Anyway, last night I read that George Bush's historic June 24, 2002 speech in which he called for a Palestinian state, if only the Palestinians would get new leaders, was partly written by Israelis. Writes Miller:
"The State Department pushed for more expansive language on statehood and Jerusalem, believing that a more specific political horizon was required, but they were lucky to hold the line on statehood...One guy who had no doubt the president had done the right thing was Ariel Sharon. In fact, the Israelis seem to have had significant input in shaping the speech, even providing some of the language. Natan Sharansky, the Soviet dissident, former Israeli cabinet minister, and proponent of democratization as the key to peace, appears to have had influence through Vice President Cheney....Efraim Halevy, the Mossad chief.... believed Bush's speech was a 'spectacular achievement' for Sharon. Dov Weisglass, who would join the prime minister's team as a key advisor in May 2002, agreed completely. He wouldn't quantify Israel's input into the speech for me, but he recalled, 'there was an exchange of texts, ideas, and information.' For the president to 'see eye to eye with us' on major principles of our policy, Weisglass recalled, was a 'critical accomplishment.'"
The only thing to add to this really is: Is this how we should make policy? But I must add a couple points. The speech was considered a necessary sop to the Arab world in the runup to the Iraq war. Anyone who says that Zionist neocons didn't play an important role in Bush warmaking must read Miller's account. Yes: Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld made policy. But Miller now adds Sharansky (a true extremist) to Cheney's kitchen cabinet, along with neocon Bernard Lewis.
I've long said that the Jewish community will not come to terms with its role in supporting the Iraq war until liberals in that community turn on the neocons, identify their plans for greater Israel, and speak of their influence in the Bush administration. Aaron Miller is doing that important work.
Well, I didn't know that Sharon helped Bush draft his speech. But it don't surprise me. Now that Sharon's a vegetable, Bush and Sharon don't possess ten IQ points between them.
But although I didn't know it, I sensed it. For the Iraq war protests we did every Saturday on Route 59 in Nanuet, New York, I made a banner out of a gray tarp, denouncing Bush and Sharon. It included an upside-down American flag.
The flag just berserked the "American patriot" types. "That is supposed to be a distress signal," they lectured me. "Damn straight," I shot back. "This country IS in distress."
But the Sharon reference upset a different crowd. An Israeli immigrant, in a white commercial van with his son, screeched to a stop and jumped out to complain. "Sharon is a man of peace," he insisted. "A MAN OF PEACE!"
"Well, fine," I shot back. "You're welcome to your opinion." He rushed back to his van. Five minutes later, he and his son emerged with a big scrap of cardboard torn from a dishwasher carton. The crude Magic Marker letters read, "Sharon is a man of peace!"
It was 4 p.m., ending time for our weekly protests. So we left the hapless Israelis there on the corner of College Avenue, doing their bit for Sharon. If they'd only known — Bush is a man of peace, too. Really he is!
I read about this somewhere on the "internets" a couple of years ago. That source referred to Sharon's having faxed the speech to Bush, and Bush's having read the speech that evening to the American people via television.
I have also read that Bush thought Sharansky's book was "totally awesome" and that ignited his missionary zeal for spreading "God's gift" of democracy to oil-rich countries.
ALSO: FROM THE WAYNE MADSEN REPORT
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com
Lebanon and Gaza invasions planned last month in Colorado meetings between Netanyahu, Sharansky, and Cheney.
July 22/23, 2006 — The Israeli invasion of Lebanon was planned between top Israeli officials and members of the Bush administration.
On June 17 and 18, former Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Likud Knesset member Natan Sharansky met with Vice President Dick Cheney at the American Enterprise Institute conference in Beaver Creek, Colorado.
There, the impending Israeli invasions of both Gaza and Lebanon were discussed. After receiving Cheney's full backing for the invasion of Gaza and Lebanon, Netanyahu flew back to Israel…….
I love how Haygood puts "American Patriot" in scare quotes. Now just see what happens if you question the patriotism of a terror appeasing bed-wetter like Haygood!
Bed-wetters dream of endless amphibious assaults, a whole night trying to reinforce the bedhead, only to wake-up feeling cold and smelling funny. And for all our brave efforts the only decoration we earn is the purple face.
invasion of gaza? I know palestiniens are despicable liars, but invasion? I think the word you're looking for is withdrawl!
You know I give up on this country.
Let the dumb americans bomb and invade iran for israel – they are too stupid to even realize they are being used.
people like that deserve to be used and then laughed at by everyone else.
Having once again conjured up the Queen of Hell—our striking red and black friend—in a recent blog post, and having also had a brisk dispute with a rather unpopular titled lady I know by email—it occurred to me last night, before I went to sleep, to formally invite the Queen of Hell to send her furies into my soul, so that the soul could bask in the nihilism and cynicism of the damned.
Sure enough, she did. I dreamed repeatedly of episodes like those in my youth but more so, episodes in which I walked into the living rooms of successive groups of my ex-friends—in those days, we lived in groups—and pulled their expensive stacks of consumer electronics to the floor, smashing them, then leaped down the stairwells to escape.
I awoke with an ache in my chest that was also reminiscent of this hate-filled earlier period in my life, and an improved understanding of what drives the haters, which is to say, the zionists and their allies in the US capitalist classes. Like me in my dream, they delight in provoking the hatred of their victims, and escaping the consequences. Like me, this makes them feel strong, clever, victorious, and hence, in a non-moral sense, heroic.
I want to mention another curious experience I had not long ago, while contemplating the small picture on one of my walls that contains the name of Allah, written in arabic characters. It had struck me, looking at it, that the entire Jewish world—or almost its entirety—is being deceived by the God of history, whom we may certainly call Allah in this context, into revelling in the invulnerability which it imagines comes from being the favoured son or daughter of the most powerful empire in the world, that it believes can taunt the powerless and grind their faces into the dust, often literally, with Uncle Sam always covering its back—and that the God of history is encouraging it in this delusion until it has thoroughly and irrevocably damned itself to all eternity.
If this is the case, I think I would be wise to embrace Islam, really. You don’t find this doom-laden deception in the thoughts of the Christian God. Instead, you find the tortured insistence of such as Hagee that “the Jews” will always remain “the apple of God’s eye.”
Is berekely of the above post a paranoid schizophrenic? His post suggests, quite seriously, that he is.
David, if we sink deeply into our own psyche and its storages, we tend to become uncommunicable to the outside world.
Basically I like to learn about the private person behind the posters. And I learned something out of this: Rowan is older than I thought.
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http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=1753
This is peculiar, but not surprising. Turkish Germans were heavily targeted by the extreme right over here long before 911, so strictly this is no surprise. I'll watch it. Haven't made up my mind, what to think about it.
The referenced article "German neo-Nazis: We're pro-Israel, condemn anti-Semitism" appeared first in Israel news–here's the rational according to a Talkback poster, one Hermann, from Germany:
"Why We Support Israel
I understand, that from a Jewish perspective this is not easy to understand: after all you accuse our movement of being responsible for the Holocaust and the killing of many Jews.
But we are modern, critical Nazis and there are many reasons, why we support Israel, which did not even exist in Hitlers time.
We ask ourselves: What would Hitler say in our time?
Obviously there is a great difference between the powerful and civilized state of Israel today and the Jews in Hitlers time. Jews have prooven, that they are good soldiers and decent peasants. But in the past many Jews were bolshevists and left-wing traitors. Others were just divisive and threatened our voelkisch ideology with weird intellectual constructions, that are strange for the German mind.
Lets not forget this.
Lets also not forget, that Jewish books from the time, such as 'Germany must perish!' clearly prove, that Jews wanted to exterminate all Germans, just as the Hamas charter reveals today the intentions of the Muslims: they want to kill all Jews on earth!
But things have changed and today there are good reasons, to fight together against the Muslim threat.
Hitler always understood, that races must never mix and that the strong people are always in an existential struggle with weaker races.
The (false) prophet of Islam for example preached, that there are no differences between races, which is obviously nonsense:
'… an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over black nor does a black have any superiority over white except by piety and good action.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farewell_Sermon
Unlike the do-gooders and left-wing traitors der Fuehrer understood, that there can´t be any compromise. It´s either us or them. Either we exterminate them or they annihilate us.
Patriotic Jews in Israel see things in a similar way. Today we are confronted by a global Muslim conspiracy, which threatens our values. Israel stands in the first frontline and many concerned citizens ask themselves: how can we solve the Arab problem?
After many decades they reach conclusions, that are not unknown to us Germans. There is the idea of transfer for example. For many years the National Socialist movement tried to implement the so-called Madagascar plan, which came very close to the Zionist desire for a Jewish state.
This became impossible because of the World War and some very dedicated members of the National Socialist movement made a very serious decision.
My opinion here is simply: if you want to make an omelette, you have to break some eggs.
Anyway, shit happens, lets move on!
Today we work together with patriots from the United States and Israel, who have understood, that our western values (racism, intolerance, our narcissistic complex, our superiority in general, the purity of our blood) are threatened as never before.
We must nuke them, before they nuke us. We must wake up the masses in a feverish and fanatical propaganda effort.
We can expose the evil nature of the Muslim religion for example, by telling the truth about the Qur´an. MEMRI has provided us with so much useful material."
Thanks, Charles.
Yes that fits, the name that is:
Heer Mann = army man
connected to a victory against the Romans:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arminius
Arminius is the Roman name. In German it's Hermann der Cherusker. And the associated battle: Hermannschlacht, the Hermann's battle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Teutoburg_Forest
Sharon will arise from his slumber in his richly flowing white hospital gowns welcoming McBush and John Hagee to Jerusalem on the day of the Rapture.
the attack of lebanon and the failed iraqui expedition along with the incursion into afghanistan were precipitated by the "attacks".
and building seven of the world trade center still imploded onto its own footprint…and was prognosticated by cnn and the bbc before it even happened.
who wrote the speech bush delivered is a subject of much interest, especially if it was some nice right wing israelis.
but who created the events that led to the writing of the speech and the invading of the middle east nations and the muder of innocent civilians who have nothing to do with this political b.s that drives these madmen of the world with their political ideologies.
http://www.ae911truth.net/omnitv_interview.htm