I turned to J Street this morning to see where they are on Netanyahu's push for an election in Israel. No comment. AIPAC also is concerned with Iran. Isn't there a strong American interest in heading off Netanyahu and Shaul Mofaz? Even as a non-Zionist, I am much less afraid of Tzipi Livni, who is negotiating hard, than I am of the anti-two-state solution right in Israel. The U.S. offers its opinion all the time re Hamas and Fatah, what about extremists in Israel? How committed are we to the two-state solution? How much power do the One-Jerusalem neocons still have? Sarkozy just interfered, charmingly, in our politics. Can't Obama do a wink-wink to Tzipi now? What does it mean that 3/4 of Netanyahu's campaign contributions have come from diaspora Zionist nuts--isn't that interference?
Everywhere I go people speak of the weakness of the political leadership of the Palestinians and the Israelis. I wonder if in the end that weakness will not mean a continued cycle of violence, international intervention, and an imposed solution--as a solution was imposed by the United Nations in 1947 in complete defiance of Arab opinion. Maybe we can head off further calamity, and let the Israelis know where we stand.
Who would have ever thought Blacks and Whites could get along in the United States and yet we have. Why can't Jews envision a state where they could live along side non Jews as one? The Palestinians have demonstrated they can. Certainly Jews can grasp this when it comes to the U.S. and other countries where they want to live. Why is a Jewish state the exception? And why do Jews world wide accept this? The answer is because down deep even the most liberal, empathetic Jew believes he (the Jew) is special, he is an exception.
"No comment" to describe that web reference?
Do we speak the same English?
Do you get that there is an active Palestinian civil war in progress?
Did you read that Olmert has withdrawn from elections, and announced his retirement when a replacement is elected?
Did you read that Livni is seeking a unity government in Israel that includes Likud and Labor (but not Meretz, not any Arab parties, not the Israeli religious parties, though they'll probably join in)?
Did you read that Abbas threatened to disband the PA itself, if Israel released ANY Hamas prisoners in exchange for Shalit?
Where is the path?
Sincerely. Don't blow smoke.
Witty is blowing smoke.
Are you, Phil and Charles, advocating that the US or UN go in and force a resolution on the Palestinian civil war?
You'll be the new neo-con-liberals.
Israel and Palestine leadership is weak?
Looks like to me the US is the one with weak leadership. It has been neutered by the jewish political money and the lobby.
I am preparing myself for Israel to strike Iran and drag the US in… I hate it but I am trying to regard it as a necessary chemo treatment for the US to rid itself of it's political cancer.
Are you, Phil and Charles, advocating that the US or UN go in and force a resolution on the Palestinian civil war?
You'll be the new neo-con-liberals.
Posted by:Richard Witty
YES indeedie..that is what I have advocated all along.
And that is what it is going to take.
The jews are always screaming about why the US and world didn't act sooner to stop Hitler…well let's stop Isr before they roll over Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Iran , and spark another WW.
I only ask, What is good for the Americans?
Sorry, for being such a traitor.
Isn't the situation just a natural consequence of Zionist ideology in that the State of Israel belongs to the Jewish people and not its citizens?
Israeli politics has always been dominated by American Zionist political economic oligarchs and American Zionist intelligentsia, who as (Judonian)peninsulares so to speak count as much more important than the mere criollo population that lives in the ME.
Generally, the American Zionist oligarchs and intelligentsia have been uncomfortable with strong Israeli criollo leaders like Sharon.
Because Netanyahu (like his father) functioned for a long time as an American Zionist intellectual, the (Judonian) peninsulares both Jabotinskian and non-Jabotinskian like him a lot and naturally support his candidacy.
I typically ask, what is good for my family?
Then, what is good for my community?
Then, what is good for humanity?
Then, what is good for Judaica?
Then, what is good for America?
I'm really mostly concerned about what is good for America to the extent that it effects the preceeding.
Often it does well. Its barely a secondary focus for me.
It is the jurisdiction thatI and a lot of humans live within so I respect it and obey its laws.
I think the amended and interpreted constitution is a good basis of governance, so I can do so enthusiastically.
I resent the litmus test of flagpins, pledges of allegiance, criticism for dual loyalty.
I personally consider multiple loyalty to be a higher level of personal integrity than the trivial patriotic.
Under US law there really is no problem with multiple identities or multiple loyalties until the law or the civil code is broken, and at this point the organized Jewish community (OJC), Israel advocacy groups, and Zionist American political econic oligarchs are in serious violation tax code rules, FEC rules, SEC rules, and the United States criminal code (especially conspiracy against rights).
Far too many Jews in the government are engaged in massive obstruction of justice. OSI deports dog trainers when Rahm Emanuel's father took part in genocide and ethnic cleansing. Isn't there something wrong there?
Far too many Jews in academia are involving their universities in all sorts of code violations. For the sake of Israel, some Harvard Jews have involved the university in massive tax fraud over a period of approximately two decades.
If we look at finance and the economy in general, the Zionist intelligentsia and oligarchs have wiped out or stolen more than a tenth of the US economy.
There is no serious public discussion and practically no prosecutions, which typically prominently feature most prominently the small number of implicated non-Jews, e.g., Ralph Cioffi in the auction rate securities mess.
Now it is possible that gentiles like Cioffi become the center of prosecutorial attention because they do not benefit from the sort of protection and information trading that Jewish social networks provide in the finance industry, but the statistics on arrest and prosecution for finance fraud seem totally out of whack.
We either have one set of laws for Jews and non-Jews in the USA or the American political system falls apart.
Proportionately, how many Jews who have American citizenship are part of the sub-prime situation? Conversely, how many Jews enlisted in the U S Army or Marines?
Stats tell a lot.