Amazing that Time Magazine has been able to preserve a little of its tradition of non-Zionism into the Era of Goosestepping Journalism re Israel. Here is Time's Scott McLeod quoting a passage from the Olmert tapes that I hadn't registered:
"Forty years after the Six-Day War ended, we keep finding excuses not
to act," Olmert says. "We refuse to face reality … The strategic
threats we face have nothing to do with where we draw our borders …
For a large portion of these years, I was unwilling to look at the
reality in all its depth." Saying Israel would not attack Iran
unilaterally to stop Tehran's nuclear program, Olmert scoffs, "Part of
our megalomania and our loss of proportions is the things that are said
here about Iran. We are a country that has lost a sense of proportion
about itself."
to act," Olmert says. "We refuse to face reality … The strategic
threats we face have nothing to do with where we draw our borders …
For a large portion of these years, I was unwilling to look at the
reality in all its depth." Saying Israel would not attack Iran
unilaterally to stop Tehran's nuclear program, Olmert scoffs, "Part of
our megalomania and our loss of proportions is the things that are said
here about Iran. We are a country that has lost a sense of proportion
about itself."
McLeod ends by saying that American negotiators must also end their "fantasies" re Israel, hint hint, but what he doesn't say, and knows to be true, and that Tony Judt and Walt and Mearsheimer tried to give journalists the spine to say, is that: Who gave Israel this megalomania? Who gave them the keys to the car when they were drunk and 15? Malcolm Hoenlein. Alan Dershowitz. Abe Foxman. Barney Frank. Doug Feith. Tom Friedman. Bruce Kovner. My mommy.
I'm also a big Ehud Olmert fan, for what he's said about Israeli nukes, the two-state solution, the settlements and apartheid.
Too bad the settlements can stay and yet he has to go: but that's zionism.
If you all stopped calling them names, you'd probably find MUCH MORE common cause with Dershowitz, Frank, and your mommy (people that I'm familiar with) than you now posture.
Anybody catch the Larry King interview with the President Of Iran?
Is this the first break by CNN with the lockstepping muzzle? Larry didn't even call him any names.
Phil,
Why do you use a conspicuously child-referenced word "mommy" to refer to your mother?
Weiss: "Who gave Israel this megalomania? Who gave them the keys to the car when they were drunk and 15? Malcolm Hoenlein. Alan Dershowitz. Abe Foxman. Barney Frank. Doug Feith. Tom Friedman…"
All diaspora Jewish Zionist chickenhawks (Barney Frank in multiple senses of the word). There is something deeply perverted about the psyches of these people. It's unclear if what they really want, on some level, is the destruction of their own torment and burden, ie the destruction of Israel.
Olmert refers to: "Part of our megalomania and our loss of proportions is the things that are said here about Iran." But who is giving Israeli megalomaniacs reason to believe they are invincible (something they would never believe without the girth of the US government behind them as a consequence of US Jewish Zionist agitprop)? Primarily US Jewish Zionists of the type on the above list, who lead Israelis to believe no matter what they do, Uncle Sam will ride to their rescue.
Yet another perverted consequence of the nation of Zion being allowed (and encouraged by its own milieu) to double deal in the diaspora.
Anybody catch the Larry King interview with the President Of Iran?
Someone did:
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – A true alternative to McBama!
'Phil,
Why do you use a conspicuously child-referenced word "mommy" to refer to your mother?'
This gets my vote for the most amusing attempt by Richard to change the subject. I have to admit though that 'mommy' is a 'conspicuously child-referenced' word. Maybe Phil's use of it is some kind of Freudian slip which invalidates his whole argument. Worth a try I suppose, when you have nothing else.
Actually Richard, you belong on that list too. Somewhere between Kovner and Phil's mum, along with Ralph Seliger and thousands of others, the grass roots sayanim.
Dunno, Glenn. This one here is my all-time fave:
"I dreamed that I met you outside of the Capital building, that I had yelled your name to get your attention, and that my father, aunt (both deceased), cousins, wife, children, were with me.
And that you were with another woman other than your wife, and wore a hat emblazened "new conservative", and said hello but walked away quickly as if to say, "I'm not with them" to enter some hearing, dressed well, handsome, thin with a beautiful redhead on your arm. (I was both jealous and knew that that was impossible and undesirable for me.)"