This is a truly pathetic piece in Kos about Governor Palin's meeting Israeli President Shimon Peres and gushing about the Israeli flag in her office. Kos finds this laughable and dubious, another hick Palinism, and so is able to extract no inkling at all of the true matter here. It is as if the entire Israel lobby debate has gone on out of sight. Pathetic because this is a sign of the willful ignorance of leftwing writers when it comes to informing people about central issues of the time. I think Orwell called this, In front of your nose. Invisible.
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The cowardice of the left in addressing the
problem of the Zionist Power Configuration
and its operations in this country is repugnant beyond words. It is further proof
that elite opinion, whether on the left or on the right, has been largely Judaized.
The elitist two-party regime has united around parasitic bankers and parasitic Zionists. That’s no coincidence; that's mentality.
I don't read the Daily Kos so I don't know what they say or don't.
My impression of the press like New York Times and Washington Post is that they've got it right, right message, right proportion.
Phil,
As I've said many times, you are on a side show, and driving your career into a cul-de-sac.
Its an innaccurate assessment, a poor judgement of weight of importance, and accomplishes nothing politically or professionally.
Counterpunch.org and their newsletter of the same name is a leftist media org, and they publish articles about Israeli politics and their atrocious treatment of Palestinians almost daily. Daily Kos is a moderately liberal org and avoids any critical mention of Israel, its politics, its expansion, its oppression and the ungodly amounts of military aid given to it by the US. It is the moderates who will not broach the subject of Israel's crimes, not leftists.
Leftists suffer from the parasite mentality, too. What is Communism but a very narrow elite of top Party members (usually well under 10% of a country) forcefully extracting the material resources of a country necessary for survival and distributing them to insiders? Meanwhile, average people are exploited, starved, beaten and terrorized by the State. And all of this is done under the guise of attaining social justice and egalitarianism.
At least the Capitalist parasites don't pretend to be humanitarians.
I think Americans are getting sick and tired of being forced to choose between the lesser of two profound evils. And “moderate” left-liberalism/socialism isn't splitting the difference, as our current corrupt, Big Government, Big Money, warmongering, Zionist, two-party regime proves.
As I said before, this particularly noxious political pathology has a name: LDS (Lobby Denial Syndrom). Like most societal-derived pathologies, LDS can be classified as a meme, and has more in common with fundamentalism than with right/left divisions. Like all viral infections, it can be triggered by mutations of otherwise healthy genes, but once triggered it spreads rapidly, taking over autonomous functioning of synapses. Interestingly, the origins of the LDS meme can be traced to overly aggressive treatment regimens designed to cure its near-opposite – namely, good old anti-semitism. Much like over-use of antibiotics can bring about new antibiotics-resistant strains, so the LDS may well be a case of over-medication administered too liberally and without adequate controls – possibly in a desperate attempt to contain the old scourge of anti-semitism. What could have happened is that the original meme mutated and ended up infecting quite indiscriminantly far larger segments of society than the original disease ever did. Not only that, it seems to have morphed into specially virulent form in the one segment previously nearly-immune to the anti-semitism disease, ergo, the jews. Alas, no amount of education – whether through extra Talmudic studies, the acquisition of multiple degrees/amassing of accomplishments and/or judicous application of reason – has proven effective so far in combatting the disease itself, though there were some anecdotal indications that the administration of generous dosages of reason and/or Talmudic wisdom may alleviate some of the worst symptoms.
Alas, so far, the prognosis is not hopeful – as evidenced here by the interesting Witty case.
And a comment to Ed: I believe that you are on the trail of one of the suspected contributors to the worst recent outbreak of LDS. A number of studies have now come out showing that money has the effect of suppressing immune system further. In fact, there are those who suspect that it was the confluence of capital and predisposition to exceptionalism that contributed to the current outbreaks. It is interesting to note that the worst strain uncovered so far – neoconianism – germinated in the blissful isolation of think tanks funded and cared for by the financially well endowed, where the "Sink or Win" mentality was allowed to grow undisturbed. It is certainly unfortunate that 100's of thousands of Iraqis were sacrificed before serious efforts to identify the disease even started.
"My impression of the press like New York Times and Washington Post is that they've got it right, right message, right proportion." — Richard Witty
After my recent prefrontal lobotomy, I too find it strangely comforting to let the Times and the WaPo do the intellectual driving, whilst I sit in the back seat smiling and gazing placidly out the window.
As long as they don't criticize Israel, that is. Then I scream and grimace and slobber on the window, and the attendants give me a shot and I go to sleep.
Didn't I meet you in the recovery group?
Phil:
I believe you've got it right. And it's got to be discussed, not swept under the rug.
I'll admit to having been foolish to think that there was going to be a more open discussion of the lobby as a result of Walt and Mearsheimer's book, but it appears to have died on the vine.
Just as there is a sociology of knowledge (perspectives taken on an issue are the result of positions within a social hierarchy) there is also a sociology of silence. One thread within, would look for what was not said when it would have logically followed and try to understand whether or how this lapse was determined.
This is very fruitful territory…
Dana:
You really have to get laid more. You've got too much time on your hands.
Why, SOG – did my little diagnostic hit the mark?
Not to worry – there's still hope for a cure…….there is, in fact, an ongoing research study of possible antidotes to LDS. Would you like to sign up?
Gee, reading thru the DKos garbage posts to this article from various people…
No one asks just WHY THE F**K a politician from Alaska (Jewish population: 0) has an Israeli flag in her office?!??!?!?!?!
f**k it wrong a post under that diary.
now watch me get banned, smeared and pictures of kittens posted.
Witty:
"Phil,
As I've said many times, you are on a side show, and driving your career into a cul-de-sac.
Its an innaccurate assessment, a poor judgement of weight of importance, and accomplishes nothing politically or professionally."
Yes, Phil, if only you became a true Zionist, and cheered on the death of Palestinian kids, the gates would open, and your career would take off.
No, really, that is the way things work in America, am not kidding.
On the other hand, if your like American Goy. You get your rocks off when Jewish kids get killed, Don't you buddy..
Israeli children should not be killed, but they are not killed with weapons given to Palestinians by America. Americans should be concerned about Palestinian children being killed because those children are killed with weapons given as gifts to Israel, which makes Americans complicit in the killings. The Lebanese children killed by Israel in the summer of 2006 were also killed with weapons given to Israel by America. America should suspend all military aid to Israel until Israel removes all of its settlements and withdraws from all territories outside the UN borders mandated in 1947. The US should not help defend any Israeli territory outside those borders.
As the purchasing power of the American Dollar goes into a freefall, it seems to me that the severely weakened American subsidies to Israel will place her into a position of seizing all of the Middle East or having nothing at all. I guess that's what happens when you let religious nutjobs speak for you, whether you agree with them or not. I say if God and evolution are one and the same, why aren't there more Jim Joneses?
Kos is CIA. It is well known. Google Kos/CIA. He is paid to shape the discourse of the left and thereby enhance the distraction value of the fraudulent political system. There have been many like him in the past and there will be many more.