Spencer Ackerman has a good point, that this is a moment of testing for progressives in the face of the "shtetl police." He says progressive Jews-- I don't care so much about Jews--Everyone in the U.S. faces the shtetl police: the Israel lobby. It's a moment that tests Obama's anti-Iraq-war base in the face of actual atrocities. So: Who's with us? J Street has passed the test, Jeffrey Goldberg has failed it. Brit Tzedek has failed it. Steve Clemons has passed it, Huffpo has passed it, the New York Times has failed it. Rabbi Brant Rosen has passed it. So has Rabbi Ellen Lippmann. The Forward is about to take the test; I bet they're going to fail it. Reform Judaism failed it. JVP passed it. The mainstream media have failed it, bigtime. Though there are certain editors and producers who obviously are quietly on our side, just with picture placement. Dailykos has passed it. Zbig Brzezinski has passed it.
From this moment forward a new coalition goes forth. Join us. It's easy. Just pass a test. Here's how: Remember that you are an American, and that in the words of our founding fathers, all men are created equal. And condemn the slaughter of Arabs.
Wow, Brezinski passes the "test". So does Eva presumably. The spirit of jedwebne and kielce lives.
Joe Scarborough!. Amazing.
It is about time you inserted "racism" in place of "ethnocentrism" Phil. Take the jump, you know it is right.
The tenet of universality, and punishing an entire population for the kassam missiles should give the greenlight for suicide bombers and a 24 hour Sderot bombardment. If the Israeli Occupation Forces can kill with impunity in Gaza, then the Israeli population should see some comeuppance.
Does one agree with such war crimes and targeting civilians, no, I vehemently disagree. This is merely exposes the hypocrisy of the governments and constituents who have blames Gazans for this mess, for voting in Hamas. Well who voted in the war criminal Sharon, Livni, and Olmert. If the Gazans are responsible for Sderot, the pizza parlours are responisble for Gaza.
Universality. Racism. Come on Phil, drop the diplomacy, call it for what it is.
"MURDER as COVER for THEFT is NOT *self-defense*!" ~ LT
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ANON: "Come on Phil, drop the diplomacy, call it for what it is."
ME: Anon, don't phuk with Phil!
How nakedly arbitrary can you get.
"X passed the test. Y failed it."
It reminds me of when in sixth grade, I daily made lists of which girls were cool.
It's not arbitrary at all as Phil shows–nor is it infantile unless you
consider, e.g., how the USA's judicial appointments are made at the highest levels juvenile. It's simply politics. Gaza bow is a litmus test
by any standard–unless you don't consider shooting fish in a barrel
with America's best and free technology nothing to be concerned about.