Adam Shatz in LRB on the neocon strategy to preserve Jerusalem by flooding swing states with the anti-Islam film, Obsession:
[Film producer] The Clarion Fund is a front for neoconservative and Israeli pressure
groups. It has an office, or at least an address, in Manhattan at Grace
Corporate Park Executive Suites, which rents out ‘virtual office
identity packages’ for $75 a month…
[The film] has found a
powerful backer in the real estate magnate Sheldon Adelson, who
describes himself as ‘the world’s richest Jew’. The Endowment for
Middle East Truth, a neoconservative think tank in Washington DC which
recently hosted a series of seminars named after Adelson and his wife,
arranged distribution of ‘Obsession’, at a cost in the tens of millions.
makers of the film, like their subjects, are soldiers of God. Almost
everyone associated with it or with Clarion has worked for Aish
HaTorah, an ‘education’ group with offices in East Jerusalem and strong
links to the settler movement..
The film’s chief claim is that 2008 is like 1938, only worse, since
there are more Muslims than Germans and they’re more spread out
geographically: ‘They’re not outside our borders, they are here.’
Someone explain to me again why it is inappropriate to compare zionists to nazis.
"Someone explain to me again why it is inappropriate to compare zionists to nazis."
Because it wrecks Abe Foxman's dinner.
Glenn Greenwald has an interesting post today on the combination of aggressive rage and sense of victimhood which animates the US Right. Of course the phenomenon has a long history in our country, especially with regard to race relations and the guilty fear whites felt over slavery.
The Nazis also famously saw themselves as victims (of the other European powers and especially the Jews) even as they launched an atrocious and brutal war of aggression.
This strikes me as a good paradigm for the mentality of contemporary Zionism, especially but not exclusively the right-wing settler variety. It also describes the outlook of many organized supporters of Israel in the US, who rage against ever mutating alarms of anti-Semitism and persecution — even as their wealth, power and influence in the country has clearly grown exponentially. And why they find such a congenial alliance with our otherwise nativist and "Christian" Republican Right.
Needless to say, Greenwald did not make this connection. . .
"Glenn Greenwald has an interesting post today on the combination of aggressive rage and sense of victimhood which animates the US Right."
Interesting.
The same animated the German right in the Weimar republic…
Although German Jews comprised only 1% of Weimar Germany, they were a very disproportionate influence on all the standard levers of power in any modern nation. Via the same roads, they have even more influence in the USA today while comprising 2% of the population. See The Fatal Embrace By Benjamin Ginsberg
While Weimar Germany was fighting for its survival post WW1, the USA is fighting for Jewish survival or expansion, that is, for a foreign tribal state. "We both love Israel," as the recently trained Palin told the American public during the VP debate last night. The Arab world, most especially the natives of Palestine, do not
even register in the American psyche as real humans.
The most important reason for this is who dominates the tools of
mainstream public opinion. It was no different in Weimar Era in Germany.
It's a shame to see the historian Martin Gilbert associated with this junk.
Makes me wonder how much of his history is skewed by his extreme zionist position.
Even Benny Morris has called Martin Gilbert a propagandist for using overinflated casualty figures in his history of Israel. (See Morris, "Israel's Border Wars," p. 101.)
yeah roger your right we expect far more from Martin Gilbert ,