Is ‘Haaretz’ Using Michael Phelps to Lead Israel Away From Jewcentricity?

Last night I saw a big black guy and a thin white guy massaging Michael Phelps between closely-scheduled events and was proud for my country.

There was no sense of servitude in the service, just American swimming guys. Haaretz goes further, saying that two Jews and another black guy (the three include swimmers Cullen Jones and Jason Lezak) are helping Phelps to victory.

Why do you care so much about racial/religious issues? my (gentile) sister-in-law challenged me last month in anger. It's people like you who are making things worse by insisting on this way of looking things. I said, the Zionists started me on it because Jewishness is all they care about, and I'm trying to point that out and diminish this as a factor in society.

Seems like Haaretz is doing the same thing. Trying to show Israelis the way toward a pluralistic society.

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  1. charles Keating says:

    Well, Haaretz surely has fewer sacred cows than the USA's mainstream media. Who owns, and who manages, that pub anyway? I agree we should thank them.

  2. the Sword of Gideon says:

    Its also possible that it was a SPORTS STORY. Without any deep meaning.

  3. Anonymous says:

    Innocence is one of the most potent boosters of creativity and happiness. Talking about judaic perfidy to a non-aware christian is like forcing him to feed on raw meet. They will refuse in anger, but if you insist and they chew it… hmm.

    Jews brew success in the breaches of christian ethics which are in essence a kind of trap. Once the breach is crowded enough it will close with a bang.

  4. Anonymous says:

    And please give the monkey news about the lady dog.

  5. the Sword of Gideon says:

    "Judaic perfidy" might possibly qualify has anti-semitic. What say you Keating?

  6. morris says:

    "Zionists started me on it because Jewishness is all they care about"
    They are FANATICAL about it.
    It will pass, it has to!
    But with a bang or a whimper, that is the question!

  7. Anonymous says:

    "'Judaic perfidy' might possibly qualify has anti-semitic."

    Keep in mind that as an ignorant foreigner I am not fully aware of the intensity behind the words. In a sense that words are "cold."

    "Judaic perfidy" seems to me to be equivalent to "a disloyalty act comming from a group with a jewish identity."

    Now stop the whining. Otherwise I will make public my internal memo about the psy evaluation of your jealous disposition towards Charles' and Martillo's wives.

  8. the Sword of Gideon says:

    knock yourself out scumbag

  9. Anonymous says:

    Pearlman, did you use the kol nidre to erase the vow you made not to come back to Mondoweiss when Phil was dismissed from the Observer?

    Do you remember your joyous feelings when Phil was fired? You thought without the Observer Phil would vanish into irrelevancy. But no, here he is greater than before and you had to crawl back with tail between legs.

    You once scorned Mondoweiss but in the end it was here you finally found love. I wish you luck trying to convince Charles to dump the other jewish lady for you. And should Charles propose you we already know the answer you have in store for you already let it slip by accident:

    "just give me a time and place in the continental United States."

  10. Anonymous says:

    Charles, sorry for including you in that joke, but there is no other explanation for sog's obsession with your wife. I hope you take it lightly. No offense meant.

  11. charles Keating says:

    No problem, Anonymous. When my wife's parents were both deathly ill, I took care of them and their business–nobody contributed more to their well-being than me, other than my wife, which of course directly affected me–before we got married her mother did everything she could to stop it, including threatening to pour hot boiling chicken soup on my head–of course she knew nothing about me (or my family–all living far away). In the end, her dying wish was she had made me trustee of her estate–rather than her own son. This was in the context of her wide extended family locally abounding, including her all own children. Truth is always different than fiction.

  12. Todd says:

    Phil, your observation of Phelps and his helpers isn't your best observation. I agree with your sister-in-law.

  13. charles Keating says:

    This means you agree with SOG, Todd. Good. Maybe we can all lurch towards higher perspective.

  14. Todd says:

    "This means you agree with SOG, Todd. Good. Maybe we can all lurch towards higher perspective."

    Is that bad? I didn't read his post. Phil's sister-in-law seems rational.

  15. Todd says:

    "He characterized the announcements against him by Russia's government, blaming him for the suffering of the Georgian people, as "typical Nazi propaganda." He accused Russia of ethnic cleansing in the Georgian villages in the north of the country. "If Georgia falls, all of the energy supply routes will be blocked," he said."

    Interesting, Anon. It figures that he would throw out the holy trinity of Nazis, holocaust/ethnic cleansing and oil to gain sympathy.

  16. charles Keating says:

    Yeah, I noticed how the mainstream media has been saying swastika grafetti has shown up against the Russians. Geez,
    what do they think of the audience?

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