What a disgrace. McCain has called Rashid Khalidi's going-away party the equivalent of a neo-Nazi gathering. Let's get this party started! Finally the campaign is turning to true differences between Obama and McCain over the Middle East. Drudge is featuring this Palestinian making calls for Obama high on his page. Make Obama be clear about where he stands on the Palestinian narrative. Force him to say something positive about Rashid Khalidi, a fine scholar and a good man. Let the neocons go down with the ship–and let them take the neolibs with them.
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And, who would the neo-libs be?
And what exactly is the problem with that description. Why is it not true?
Dream on. Do you think Obama is going to provide ammunition at this point? Besides, he clearly threw Khalidi & Said under the bus, if you can throw a dead person under the bus.
By the way, Khalidi is a brilliant but relatively conservative Palestinian, that is, an elitist.
I agree with the Angry Arab's blog post, as usual:
"US media lies and political propaganda. Sometimes you have direct experience with the US media that only confirms the perception that they–all of them: liberal and conservative alike–can't be trusted especially on Middle East issues. I woke up today to news coverage regarding that dinner which Obama in honor of Rashid Khalidi. Rashid has been described this week as "PLO spokesperson", "PLO functionary", "PLO official", "Palestinian activist", "adviser to Yasser Arafat", etc. Rashid was my teacher and adviser at the American University of Beirut from 1978 uintil 1982. And he had no official capacity with the PLO whatever. He left Lebanon and came to US in 1983: the same year I came to the US. He came to Georgetown as a visiting professor and I came as a graduate student."
Who would neo-libs be??? Thomas Friedman, Dennis Ross, Robert Rubin, etc. Fat chance Obama will challenge any one of them. Palestine is off the table, not that it's ever really been on it.
Especially Dennis Ross, Obama's apparent man; what's worse, McCain's Lieberman? Hardly can tell the difference.
The Sabbath goys, or the hired Hessians for Israel? Take your pick.
You won't find Nader, Kucinich, or the Green Party around, but do go shopping at the mall at that new 30% default credit rate you can accept or have your card cancelled.
McCain Funded Work Of Palestinian [Rashid Khalidi]
His Campaign Hopes To Tie To Obama
Neoliberalism, by the way, is an economic rationality that isn't anchored to a particular political party.
So, what do Ron Paul, Dennis K, and the Green Party have to say about neoliberalism's view of economic reason?
Great blog, and saw you awhile back on Colbert. Scott Horton at Harper's just posted about this subject as well. You can find it here:
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/10/hbc-90003779
John
What do you mean, we all know the bailout of the bankers into their own hands was OK'd by both Obama and McCain-Bush?
SOG typifies the Israel-firsters perverted thinking: Any and every vile characterization of an Arab or a Muslim is warranted because all Muslims and Arabs deserve to be lumped in with the extremists who have committed violence against Jewish civilians; but there is no such thing as valid criticism by any Arab or Muslim — including those innocent civilians who have lost their homes, their land, their loved ones, their food and water, their dignity, and so on — of any Israeli person or group or government action. You're an appallingly hateful, ignorant, self-centered and paranoid person, SOG.
We should hear just as much, if not more, about "Judeofascists" as we do about "Islamofascists." If we have "radical Islam," then surely we must talk about "radical Judaism," which is carried out by Zionists and should not be confused with Judaism at large, just as "radical Islam" should not be confused with Islam at large. If only we had a non-Zionized media to spread a fair message…
As a counterpart to Islamist, I've always thought "Jewist" should be more widely used. It works well for both religious fundamentalists, and for third-category secular tribalists like RW.
Neoliberalism is merely a "liberal" version of Neoconservatism, or rather, Neoconservatism as practiced by fakes who use liberalism as cover for their materialist and ethnic chauvinist ambitions. Its characteristics: 1) staunch Zionism and ethnic Jewish nationalism in Israel, and 2) (always to be practiced elsewhere): open borders, economic internationalism, coerced "free markets," money-worship as a unifying cause, and "spreading democracy" (which is actually the pretext for invasion and occupation in order to wrench open markets) as the cause célèbre.
It’s no coincidence that the greediest and most ambitious of Jews have coalesced around the greediest and most ambitious of gentiles in the current two-party regime, and together, and providing rhetorical cover for one another, always hurling charges of narrow-mindedness, isolationism and anti-Semitism at their opponents, they are pursuing the Neocoervative/Neoliberal agenda at the expense of average Americans. Business is one thing, but those who put money-worship before family and country are the lowest form of life on earth, which is exactly what most of Washington does. I’ll at least say this for the Jewish Zionists: they’ve managed to incorporate theoretical protection of their family into their money-worshipping agenda, unlike their gentile collaborators in Washington.
Liberals (and even "socialists", Michael Walzer, etc.) need Israel to make them look tough, formerly anti-Communist tough, currently anti-Islamic terror tough, always anti-anti-semitism tough; as well as acceptable to the establishment.
Conservative gentiles need Israel to make them look like they identify with victims–worthy victims, that is–at a point in history when there are no risks in this country to identifying with Jews, but plenty of rewards. They can separate themselves from the anti-semitism of their forefathers and gloss over the whole race issue in one fell swoop; they are for the "underdog" after all, and if Jews and Israel can make it, why can't blacks?
All of this depends, of course, on Israel continuing to provide its services in projecting American power into the Middle East and beyond.
Should Khalidi Sue McCain?
Joachim,
Send the email.
Why do you Islamofascist MUHAMMAD call yourself "weiss"?
Khalidi, just another ARAB MUSLIM anti Israel bigot [Arabism is racism & Islamism is bigotry] who is campaiging for genocide (wiping off map) under the fake "victimhood' called "poor, poor palestinian".
Good idea, Joachim.
And here come the Zionists! Laura and Johnny with some thought-provoking comments.
Any comparison of Arabs to Germans – the PLO to Nazis, the desire to remove colonists as seeking a Judenrein palestine, we're 1938 again etc – shows the intense bigotry of the person making the comparison. The palestinians have exactly the same concrete reasons to object to jewish colonialism that the algerians had to french colonialism, and to compare that with the collective madness of 1933-45 Germany shows a real hatred of the palestinian arabs.
Both truths, Otto.
Can you hold that in your mind?
Hey Witty, why do you agree with Otto's assessment, yet disparage his intellect and integrity?
And if you really do agree with Otto's assessment, why are you always throwing smoke in Phil's similar eyes?
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