Last night Chris Matthews, a political genius, said that Hillary Clinton was crazy not to try her damnedest to be Obama's Sec'y of State because she would be dealing with tremendous historical challenges in the Middle East: the end of the war in Iraq and the confrontation with Iran. These are not easy questions, they will require great statecraft.
It was an inspiring statement, which nonetheless left out the shadow issue in both Iraq and Iran: Israel-- and the Israeli interest in the Iraq war, the Israeli interest vis-a-vis Iran, and the extent to which the Iran threat might be neutralized tomorrow, or put in the Pakistan category, with a resolution of the Palestinian issue. Israel/Palestine is a central piece in the puzzle. And always will be. Matthews knows it, and his non-mentioning of it leaves me desolated. Come on, Chris, forget about running for Pennsylvania Senate, step up to the plate as a journalist, like you're telling Hillary to do.
Hours pass. I'm on the couch, reading Avraham Burg's fine book about the Holocaust, which calls for reimagining the Jewish place in the world, when I come to this statement:
Huh. I love this book, I love Burg's clarity about Jewish power in the U.S. and the destruction of Palestinian society. But he's an Israeli Jew. I'm an American quasi-assimilationist in the era of the noble mutt Obama. Burg valorizes the idea of international Jewry; I find that idea highly problematic. Especially when American Jewry is compromised by the calamitous treatment of Palestinians in Israel and Palestine and its leadership's complicity in the Iraq war.
I'm not sure where to take this idea, it's more of a germ than a blog entry. Though I don't think Burg's statement can be separated from what Chris Matthews was talking about, the American challenges in the Middle East. And it would be helpful if we began to identify the separate interests at work here. If Jewry is a world superpower, then does American Jewry ever conflict with the American interest? Is this a recipe for confusion (Iraq) or moral force (Obama in the Middle East)? I'm being agnostic because I have good faith in Obama, notwithstanding everything. Though I'd add:
Joe Lieberman praises the hell out of Hillary for Sec'y of State... If there is a Jewish world superpower, who is speaking here? Is the tail wagging the mutt?
Weiss: "If Jewry is a world superpower, then does American Jewry ever conflict with the American interest?"
American Jewry is world Jewry. That's why so many Jews are internationalists, and bristle at (non-Zionist) nationalism, and even patriotism (when it can't be harnessed to serve international Jewry's interests.)
" If Jewry is a world superpower, then does American Jewry ever conflict with the American interest?"
If American Jewry is driving Middle East policy and demographic and cultural change within the U.S., then there is a major conflict that really amounts to a coup more than an ascendancy.
"reimagining the Jewish place in the world"
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire said Thursday the United Nations should suspend or revoke Israel's membership.
from: link to haaretz.com
some things never change
Isn't Burg just making the point that I have been arguing here or here when I talk about the Zionist Virtual Colonial Motherland and the Zionist Imperial System.
The conclusion I draw is that Americans are viewed as just more cattle for Orthodox Jews. Who but the Jews can retain their glitter from something but the Talmud?
Germans were hung for such visions.
Ah…such hubris. The World Power of Jews thru the mothership in Israel.
One of the world's smallest minorities and a super power state smaller than New Jersey.
The higher they get the further the fall will be. I doubt there will any sympathy or reperations this time.
The superpower is not the State of Israel but "world jewry" which is really only:
Altogether these groups constitute the Zionist Virtual Colonial Motherland. Other Jews only exist from the standpoint of the virtual motherland (total population between 100-150,00 members altogether, total GDP $2 trillion — bigger than the UK) to find mines, catch bullets, or generate sympathy (on the principle of de mortuis nil nisi bonum).
The cognitive dissonance created by this blog is difficult to shake. Israeli Jews boasting of World Jewry being a Superpower? Wait! Isn't "World Jewry" a canard? Perhaps World Jewry has become a Super Canard?
Maybe Phil can make money by publishing the Mondoweiss Book of Oneliners. Wag the Mutt would be a good title.
Also, how about Cognitive Dershonance.
Does he give a source for this?
So it was a deal between the "World Jewry superpower" and Phoenix from the Ashes "denazified Germany" that kept Hans Globke in Bonn as Adenauer's right-hand man instead of sending him to Jerusalem to witness as Eichmann demanded?
What is missing in the English Wikipedia entry is that Globke not only belonged to the Catholic network that cooperated with the Nazis, but also was working in the Ministry of the Interior from 1934 to 1945, were his last boss was Heinrich Himmler(1943-45).
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ZOA, Israeli rabbis press for Pollard pardon
By Ron Kampeas
WASHINGTON (JTA) – The Zionist Organization of America and 200 Israeli chief rabbis asked President Bush to pardon Jonathan Pollard.
Requests to pardon the former U.S. Navy analyst, sentenced in 1987 to life for spying for Israel, are routine, but these pleas come as Bush prepares to leave office at a record low popularity – a condition that has paradoxically in the past freed presidents to make unpopular pardons.
Bush’s father, for instance, pardoned officials in his administration allegedly involved in the illegal arms—for-hostages deal with Iran after his defeat to President Clinton in 1992…..
SOURCE – link to jta.org
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@JM: "Other Jews only exist from the standpoint of the virtual motherland (total population between 100-150,00 members altogether, total GDP $2 trillion — bigger than the UK) to find mines, catch bullets, or generate sympathy (on the principle of de mortuis nil nisi bonum)."
I agree that the most tenacious Zionists and Jewish network oligarchs and thieves (Zionist Power Configuration, Israel Lobby, Judeofascists, etc) only make up a percentage of world Jewry, but what percentage? By the time one factors in the percentage of Jews being utilized (whether through direct participation, manipulation, guilt or scare coercion, or the unspoken promise of connections and wealth) isn't it possible that a majority of Jews world wide are being utilized by the Judeofascists in one form or another as "willing executioners"? It appears the Judeofascists have deliberately and systematically interwoven themselves with average Jewry in order that one can't be brought to justice without going through the other.
How can gentiles distinguish? How can Jews distinguish? Perhaps the first indication of guilt is tenacious support for the larger Zionist agenda, including expansionist Greater Israel and institutionalized Jim Crow laws, as apposed to merely support for the concept of Jewish nationalism or sovereignty.
Chaim Weitzman
Weitzman at the Zionist Congress in 1935, two years after Hitler rose to power: “I’m afraid that today we exchange the concept of rescuing Jews with the concept of liberation, because Zionism is a lasting life and the rescue of thousands of Jews is considered no more than temporary life next to Zionism.”
lets see how the world feels about zionist as the financial debacle descends into the valley of meggido.
my guess is that tolerance for oppression will diminish greatly.
Instead of acting like a major power when we attack, then like a small vulnerable country when we are assaulted or criticized, we [Nazi Germany] must act as a superpower at all times. Herr Goebels, Germany's first post-Great war propaganda minister, once said, 'World Reichfolk(folksdeutche) is a superpower.' He was right, though he did not define the character that this superpower should assume. There are all kinds of powers, money-based and demographics-based. There are powers of the past and of the present, based on force and militarism… We, the Germans in other countries, are the core of the world's Nazi Germany superpower, and must act toward our enemies as a moral superpower: forcefully, uncompromisingly, and fearlessly. We should not evade the ethical challenges…
"Isn't Burg just making the point that I have been arguing here or here when I talk about the Zionist Virtual Colonial Motherland and the Zionist Imperial System."
Your points are similar from my understanding of each. But I do think that "Zionist Virtual Colonial Motherland" could turn people off because it sounds odd, like Zionist Colonial Mothership. I'm no writer, but it does seem that good ideas could be hurt by your wording.
I am always open to suggestions on terminology.
In my 2nd career, when my business partner and I invented VLAN (Virtual LAN) Routing, I called it Logical SubBridge (LSB) Routing. LSB Routing turned out to be a complete non-starter as a name even though I haven't a clue why VLAN Routing had so much more marketing traction.
On the other hand, Hollywood people tend to like my movie titles:
Unfortunately, catchy titles have not helped in finding funding.
BTW, here is the idea I am trying to capture. Historians and political scientists describe nation state consolidation during the 19th century.
As I have argued in Judonia physical territory is really unnecessary, and a fully enfranchised citizenry is more of a burden than a source of value especially when it is possible to manipulate another state into supplying the military might.
Thus, Judonia was initially a sort of high profit, low budge virtual nation state which transformed itself into a one colony colonial empire and which is now a full-fledged imperial system with a settler colony, client states (like the USA), and revenue streams from foreign dependencies throughout the world.
@JM: "As I have argued in Judonia physical territory is really unnecessary, and a fully enfranchised citizenry is more of a burden than a source of value especially when it is possible to manipulate another state into supplying the military might."
I suspect that's one reason some members of Judonia and participants in its capital agenda want to get rid of Israel — it's become too much of a propaganda burden, and the Judonia elite would be more effective and efficient at manipulation , exploitation and world intrigue without it as an anchor. Today, it actually puts an identifiable name, face and course of action on Judonia treachery, whereas before it could all be dismissed as conspiracy theory.
Also, note the crossover between the globalizationist outsourcing agenda and the idea of an enfranchised citizenry as a burden on capital accumulation. Are Americans being coerced, manipulated and starved into surrendering their rights through a series of shocks to the system followed by consolidation of power in the federal apparatus by the elite and the two-party regime?
Tough that the eternal homeland, place of refuge for the Jews for
historic anti-semitism, actually consists of a patch of real land where the test of virtue is power becomes reality.
People are looking at Israel and its policies as they are now looking also at Obama.
BTW, didn't "World Jewry" declare war on Germany before Germany
had decided what to do about its Jewish residents? I think that was a banner head line in American NY newspapers at the time.
"I am always open to suggestions on terminology."
I think it would be hard to give a title to another person's work, but I'll make a game of it and give it a try.
The Protocols of the Builders of Zion.
How's that? I don't know if that would fit, or if would go after the right audience, but it could get attention from different groups since it is somewhat loaded and vague at the same time.
And it lets all Jews know who and what you are right away.
I am merely trying to generalize the concept of nation-state construction and consolidation in a way that is useful and more comprehensive.
I am not trying to feed into conspiracy theories, which are basically phenomenologies like the Bohr atom.
People develop conspiracy theories because they know something is going on but don't have all the facts and don't understand all the connections.
Viewing Judonia as a virtual colonial motherland running an imperial system whose keystone is the Zionist settler colony explains a lot about contemporary politics and provides a new way to look at both the Dutch and Danish imperial systems.
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was as incapable of explaining international or revolutionary politics as the Bohr model was of explaining atomic physics.
JM, you are right. I read your blog regularly, and I agree with your
conclusions. Further, I think they are very important in clarifying
why the wind is blowing the way it is–my only problem is, nobody
I know would bother to read your blog except me.
I don't think that's your fault. Just the fault of mediocrity, crass ambition to power, and ignorance and ideological poverty.
I respect you immensely. I just wish I could get one person I know to read your blog. I am an average American in the sense that
I served in the Army as a teen grunt, paid my own way thru college, and
earned by solely my own effort a professional higher license, etc.
I think what might help is a popular historian who knows what
you know. Where to get one? (and then a publisher)
"The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was as incapable of explaining international or revolutionary politics as the Bohr model was of explaining atomic physics."
I understand that you aren't trying to feed into conspiracy theories. My inderstanding is that your goal is to explain what the "virtual colonial motherland" is, who built and how. Am I right? I'm not familiar with much that is on your site, but, for whatever it's worth, I think that your instincts are good.
Have you written books on the topic, or are you in the process of doing so? What is your intended audience?
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FROM HAARETZ:
Peru police nab Israeli for plotting to smuggle a half a ton of cocaine to Europe
By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Peru, Israel News, Crime
An Israeli citizen has been arrested by police in Peru on suspicion of involvement in a plot to smuggle a half a ton of Cocaine to Europe.
The Israeli, in his fifties, was arrested Thursday night in an apartment in Lima with local friends.
Police suspect the man hatched a plot with a group of Peruvian friends, using his work as a textile exporter as cover.
The man has denied all allegations against him….
SOURCE –
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1039901.html
In response to Todd.
I am in the process of turning the material on my web site as well as my external knowledge into a book, and one publisher is interested. It is mostly an issue of finding the time and the money to do certain types of research while I try to earn enough money through my hi-tech business.
I have to admit that I am probably engaging in a little too much multi-tasking because I am looking for funding for several movies (Devorah's Two Weddings, Two Weeks in September, et al.) as well as trying to start a finance industry service business while I try to raise a new family. (I remarried about 5 years ago.)
I also dealing with some patent issues that are left over from a complex lawsuit that was caused by a business partner's bankruptcy in the early 1990s.
In any case, I cringe at titles like "The Protocols of the Builders of Zion" because they suggest a conscious plan when in fact Judonia like ordinary nation states has developed in a social political non-teleological evolutionary process occasionally influenced by an extraordinary political leader with a powerful vision.
It has been a long time since I read the Protocols, but they postulate a conscious plan with Jewish plutocrats, Jewish communists, et al. working together toward a conscious and well-defined final goal.
In point of fact, the Yiddishist, Communist, Occult Mystical, Jabotinskian Zionist, and Labor (Fascist) Zionist intelligentsias were often hostile to one another and often tried to thwart each other.
Circa 1905, probably the Yiddishists were strongest, but the vast majority of Jews were probably assimilationist.
Circa 1925 the Communist Jewish intelligentsia looked liked the winner, and the Yiddishists had been for the most part broken by WW1 and the Russian Revolution.
The Zionist coup in Palestine in 47-8 signed the death warrant for Jewish communists as the quintessential Soviet class while a series a demographic, intellectual, and political trends had by 1975 completely emasculated the Labor (Fascist) Zionist intelligentsia, which has been gradually digested by the Jabotinskians in the succeeding 25 years.
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 brought Soviet Jewry into the Jabotinskian fold and made a negotiated settlement under the Oslo process impossible.
At this point the mostly Jabotinskian Zionists that run Judonia are at the peak of their power, but their success was hardly foreordained, and the only factor that gave Jabotinskians a very slight advantage was a certain aspect of their economic ideology.
This advantage was only potential for most of Zionist history because wealthy German American and British Jews tended to disdain the mostly Eastern European ethnic Ashkenazi Jabotinskians.
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FROM DAILY KOS:
The Republican Party Was Never the Party of Ideas
posted by DHinMI @ dailykos.com
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I remember back in the late '90s when Ira Katznelson, an eminent political scientist at Columbia, came to deliver a guest lecture to an economic philosophy class I was taking. It was a great lecture, made more so by the fact that the class was only about ten or twelve students and we got got ask all kinds of questions and got a lot of great, provocative answers. Anyhow, Prof. Katznelson described a lunch he had with Irving Kristol back either during the first Bush administration. The talk turned to William Kristol, then Dan Quayle's chief of staff, and how he got his start in politics. Irving recalled how he talked to his friend Harvey Mansfield at Harvard, who secured William a place there as both an undergrad and graduate student; how he talked to Pat Moynihan, then Nixon's domestic policy adviser, and got William an internship at The White House; how he talked to friends at the RNC and secured a job for William after he got his Harvard Ph.D.; and how he arranged with still more friends for William to teach at UPenn and the Kennedy School of Government. With that, Prof. Katznelson recalled, he then asked Irving what he thought of affirmative action. "I oppose it", Irving replied. "It subverts meritocracy."
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