in this powerful essay on the Gaza tragedy from an activist in Santa Fe named Joe Mowrey, on Counterpunch:
Has the
sense of exclusivity and entitlement created by the Zionist experiment
in Israel become so great that people there no longer see themselves in
the mirror of their own history? The irony of Jews, among the most
egregiously persecuted and maligned people in history, denying food to
hundreds of thousands of children in order, allegedly, to insure their
own security, is breathtaking. Who could ever have imagined such a
thing?
Amazing what people are starting to talk about. And this Jew wants to be right in the conversation. Let my people go.
Phil, why do you keep saying "Let my people go"? What is this supposed to mean? Who are you referring to as "your people"? Who is it you are asking to "let them go"? Are you really so conceited that you imagine you can do the Palestinians a favour by extending this windy self-identification to them, and calling them "my people"?
Also, why are several of us finding the preview and submit buttons greyed out as long as we remain logged in, so that we can only submit comments by using the anomymous comment facility and re-entering our personal details every time?
"Who could ever have imagined such a thing?"
anyone knowing jewish history.
Check your cookies Rowan.
LeaNder has reported exactly the same problem here in the last day or so.
Does ethnocentrism mean racism?
I wouldn't call it a "powerful essay", especially when it contains such limp passages as this:
If each of us were to do just one thing per week to address these issues, the result might surprise us all. Take a minute out from the long and endless chatter of day to day living and speak to a friend about the idea of social equality. Write one letter to the editor of your local paper in support of human rights. Spend just one percent of your online hours learning the truth about our complicity as U.S. citizens in the exploitation and degradation of other people and their cultures. Turn off your television. Go stand on a corner with a sign to protest war. Wear a button promoting peace and justice. One small thing at a time…
It's just the usual CounterPunch wank, really.
"Who could ever have imagined such a thing?"
Jung was the person who identified people's worst fears become dominant spectre's that control their behavior, turning them into the very thing they despise. Israel's history is a proof Jung was on to something. In order to prevent another Holocaust, Israelis are perpetrating one.
'enantidromia' was Jung's term.
Racism is the key word to focus on, it is the bottom line.
This from the number 20 on the Likud list:
link to haaretz.com
I wouldn't use either term, myself: I would say that Judaism – modern Judaism in its entirety, not just territorial, physical zionism – has become a collective psychosis.
'The irony of Jews, among the most egregiously persecuted and maligned people in history, denying food to hundreds of thousands of children in order, allegedly, to insure their own security, is breathtaking. Who could ever have imagined such a thing?'
I question this narrative, not that Jews have been persecuted, but that it is unique for them to strike back against their perceived enemies so disproportionately. The history of Jewish Bolshevism and Soviet Communism and their mass murder of Christians and dissidents demonstrates otherwise.
If that history had been properly documented and castigated, and organized Jewry properly condemned and forced to recant and reform for its role, it never would have been able to get away with Zionist and Neocon atrocities.
Who prevented proper documentation and castigation? Both organized Jewry itself, and the Left, including Western socialists and left-liberals. Why? Because Leftist mass murder was an unpleasant reminder of the true (low) morality of the Left, and it was inconvenient to the Left narrative that Christians and conservatives were the "intolerant" bad guys and the Left was comprised of an oppressed people merely yearning to be free.
Now look at where this suppression of the truth has led: to the perpetuation of Communism, to Zionism, to Western social decay, hedonism, nihilism, to the Iraq war and possibly a war against Iran built upon a fraudulent sub-text of righteously protecting "the most egregiously persecuted and maligned people in history."
The Left is an intellectually dishonest fraud, it always has been and always will be. The people who broadcast its phony narrative are charlatans and con artists. Those on the Left who scream and yell about Zionism and Neocon persecution of Muslims are thoroughly unconvincing until the go back and apologize for Communist perpetrated atrocities against Christians and dissidents, and recant the intolerant eltist/statist mindset that led to them, and until they formally cut socialism and left-liberalism’s decades old ties to Zionism at the highest levels of government.
Some on the Left profess to be completely mystified about why more on their side aren’t totally up in arms about Zionist atrocities. Well, the suppression of truth and justice fits a left-wing pattern. Look at the log in your own eye.
Morris,
I liked this paragraph from the Ha'aretz article:
The time has come to break free from the shackles of politically correct speech and call these people – Feiglin and his cronies – by their explicit name. They are not "radicals" but fascists by any acceptable definition. And had they not been born – through no fault of their own – to Jewish mothers, they would have been damn anti-Semites to boot.
Soviet totalitarianism was based on an ideology of class. The Bosheviks thought eliminating the bourgeoisie would lead to utopia.
Can Ed's comments be considered a moderate's enantiodromia reaction to liberalism?
Organized Jewry's Zionist wing, and Neoconservatism and Neoliberalism, have triangulated and harnessed both the statist Left and the statist Right, along with corporatism, to their cause, so its going to take an opposite force, anti-statist, authentic conservatism and authentic liberalism, and Christianity, the anti-thesis to corrupt organized Jewry, to defeat it.
The same old Left Wing/Right Wing statism simply isn't going to do it, because they are part of the problem.
"so its going to take an opposite force, anti-statist, authentic conservatism and authentic liberalism"
How about just democracy, so that liberalism and conservative can be authentic rather than serving elitist/statist interests?
MRW and others:
fascism
fas·cism
Pronunciation:
\ˈfa-ˌshi-zəm also ˈfa-ˌsi-\
Etymology:
Italian fascismo, from fascio bundle, fasces, group, from Latin fascis bundle & fasces fasces
Date 1921
1often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
2: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control ….
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fascism
@David Green: "How about just democracy, so that liberalism and conservative can be authentic rather than serving elitist/statist interests?"
Because democracy needs a free will Christian foundation that subscribes to moral absolutes to prevent it from going up for sale to the highest bidder, or succumbing to selfishness and nihilism, which is what has happened to American democracy as a result of the erosion and decay of American Christianity. I'm not saying everyone has to convert to Christianity to sustain a democracy, I'm saying a healthy, FREE WILL religious base is an essential foundation to a properly functioning democracy.
I also believe that democracy is no substitute or replacement for Christianity, as some (mostly left-liberals, but also corporatists, and the statist-Right) have advertised. I suspect Bush and the Neocons and the Neolibs believe that it can be, which in part explains their “spread democracy to the Mideast” rationale for the wars. The anti-Christians are desperate to find a casus beli to unite Western civilization that is NOT Christianity because Christianity gets in the way of their larger ambitions. If that fails, they attempt to corrupt Christianity (ie Christian Zionism and gunpoint proselytizing) in order to harness it on behalf of their ambition and greed-driven "one world" evil enterprise. These are very shrewd and wicked people.
@David Green: "How about just democracy, so that liberalism and conservative can be authentic rather than serving elitist/statist interests?"
Because democracy needs a free will Christian foundation that subscribes to moral absolutes to prevent it from going up for sale to the highest bidder, or succumbing to selfishness and nihilism, which is what has happened to American democracy as a result of the erosion and decay of American Christianity. I'm not saying everyone has to convert to Christianity to sustain a democracy, I'm saying a healthy, FREE WILL religious base is an essential foundation to a properly functioning democracy.
I also believe that democracy is no substitute or replacement for Christianity, as some (mostly left-liberals, but also corporatists, and the statist-Right) have advertised. I suspect Bush and the Neocons and the Neolibs believe that it can be, which in part explains their “spread democracy to the Mideast” rationale for the wars. The anti-Christians are desperate to find a casus beli to unite Western civilization that is NOT Christianity because Christianity gets in the way of their larger ambitions. If that fails, they attempt to corrupt Christianity (ie Christian Zionism and gunpoint proselytizing) in order to harness it on behalf of their ambition and greed-driven "one world" evil enterprise. These are very shrewd and wicked people.
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Mr. Berkeley,
I believe Mr. Weiss is calling for mainstream Zionist Jewish elite to allow his people to "go" formulate a Jewish identity apart from attachment to Israel.
link to acjna.org
Here another Jewish citizen does similar.
Yes, the universe is going to take care of it, the system is in progress of splintering, might not be favourable to be jewish.
And the whole two party system is a fraud
@MRW
I chose the paragraph I did cos I see racism being confused with spirituality
Ken, thank you for your suggestion, which is plauible, given Phil's general inability to think clearly. In fact, US Jews are not in any way – even psychologically – comparable to the mythical jewish slaves of the egyptian pharoah in the fairy tale.
Actually, according to the History Channel, those jewish "slaves" (Jewish biblical narrative written for Jewish eyes) in ancient Egypt were warrior allies at first, but then Egypt decided the Hebrews were
no more entitled to that privileged position than other tribes under Egyptian power, so the Hebrews, like the others, were reduced to the status of regular paid (blue-collar) workers, given the endless job of building Egypt's pyramids and more functional public works projects.
This hurt Hebrew pride, so they attacked a selected Egyptian town, looted it for provisions, killing all inhabitants in the process, and hatted out. That's why the Egyptians chased them–they had broken Egyptian laws and were murderers.
From Subjugating American Muslims to Israel.
Today Neocons and Friedmanites have globally taken the place of the Yiddish proto-capitalists of pre-modern Ukraine. The Chmielnicki Rebellion, which represented the beginning of the collapse of Commonwealth Poland, could easily pale in comparison with the sort of world-wide political and economic disaster that the new Jewish elite is courting today.