Everyone's excited about Jesse Jackson's reported statement at a policy forum in France last week that Barack Obama will bring "fundamental changes" to foreign policy, beginning with the Israel-Palestine issue, where he will end the Zionist "control" of the issue here. The Times is upset by the report, and works to distance Obama from Jackson. Obama has done the distancing himself, of course. Jewcy urges Jackson to shut up.
It
seems to still be a given that the so called “Zionist movement” in
America is unshakable for reasons of political necessity. We still live
in a 21st century world where Americans scratch their heads and ask, “Why does so much of the Islamic world hate us? Why were we attacked on 9/11? How did we come to be the enemy?”
And in this same world, a significant majority of these same people are
unwilling to openly declare that the answer to those questions can, in
large part, [Weiss's emphasis; very unusual for someone to say that] be found in our unwavering propping up of Israel. And, in
truth, there needs to come a point where any country which generates so
many declarations of their “right to exist” needs to reach the stage where they prove that right to exist by doing so on their own two feet. [shocking, eh? don't occupy your neighbors' back yards]
I’m not advocating a total abandonment of Israel by the United
States, but the time has long since come for an open, honest discussion
of how well America’s interests are being served by current policy and
what our long term position should be. Perhaps Jesse Jackson has spoken
out of turn for Obama, but brought up a question we should have been
addressing more during this campaign. [me again]
Nice to hear such sentiments in the mainstream. Better if Shaw had said one word about Palestinian suffering. Even Olmert has used the word "pogroms." Can we? No. Because American Jews have a fantasy about Israel, and as Shaw implies the rest of America doesn't get to talk about it. Just amazing that this issue has been so suppressed. The media are afraid of it. Consider this Times report on Sarah Silverman's Schlep project, which fails to mention Israel at all as a wedge issue for elderly Jews in Florida. Makes it purely about racial politics.
Meantime, a McCain spokesman has leapt on to the Jackson reports:
were elected president, but it’s very concerning that people believe he
will not be a friend to Israel.”
I agree, I want this out from under the carpet. Though I fear that Obama, who has made not one misstep, is merely a site for projection. We see what we want in him. Politics is the art of the possible. He'll hand this to Dennis Ross. There'll be no solution at all. Israel will continue to set the pace on this business. The bodies will pile up. I'll join the one-stater camp, and so, one day, will even my Zionist friends…
While I hope Jesse Jackson really did say that, it's worth noting that the reporter for the piece was Amir Taheri.
Could it be that Jackson knows what battling Jews in the media can do to a campaign or career? If I'm not mistaken, Jackson isn't so fond of Obama, and an Obama victory should end his long-running con game.
There is a lot of friction between Jackson and Obama, a generational one.
I don't care who wins this race ultimately. Despite what the anti-war Obamaniacs and Jesse Jackson think, Obama has a great future in bombing Middle Eastern and third world countries. And he will certainly avail himself of that. And he's also going to surround himself with ardent Zionists, like Ross and Sandy Berger and Albright, etc. etc. There will probably be not one person of color in his cabinet.
In any event, it will certainly be funny, if he loses, to see people like my liberal neighbors, mopping around cursing those ignorant racist fundamentalist Christians that voted for Palin, McCain.
Go Palin, you hottie, Go!!
I put up a brief article on "The Great Schlep" at Silverman Confuses Hebrew and Arabic.
To tell the truth, I thought her performanced was paced a little slow, and I was not sure whether she was targeting her peers or zeyde and bobe.
BTY
Notice how nobody brings up the American Patriot Sandy Berger shoving secret files down his underwear?