It's no fun to be marginalized. Let me tell you. The same week that American Enterprise Institute began purging the neoconservatives, and a few weeks after the plug was pulled on the New York Sun, the Forward allows the neocons in diaspora to go into what could become familiar prevarications about Iraq and who they are--familiar, that is, if the press gives them them a platform. But I don't think they will get a platform. They're gone. If the silence that greeted Douglas Feith's non-mea-culpa book of last spring, War and Decision (It Was All George Bush's Decision) is any indication, Richard Perle's opus due in January on How he opposed the Iraq war, or was sucked in by double agents of Saddam Hussein, will disappear with the sound of one amputee clapping.
In the Forward, Perle says, "I'm not a Republican."
Why did you get a big job in the Bush Administration? Feith also was not a Republican not long ago. Elliott Abrams seemed to slip from one side to the other. His father in law Norman Podhoretz was a Democrat until the late 70s or so when he saw the lower defense budgets and said they'd hurt Israel, and went Republican. Irving Kristol took the same path; both elders were open about their Israel-firstness, but then they were just writing for little magazines, not making American policy.
Why does party mean so little to these men? Because ideology is far more important. And in the end that ideology boils down to a militant policy toward the Arab world so as to rationalize Israel's brutal occupation as Just the way things are done in a very tough neighborhood. You cannot remove the Zionist strand from their thinking without it ceasing to be their thinking. Of course, the Forward does not press this question because the newspaper is implicated in dual loyalty issues itself. As to the neocons' remarkable staying power, credit the Israel lobby: the dependence of the Republican party on Sheldon Adelson, and his and Feith's One-Jerusalem program.
No matter. The world is moving on under Obama of Hawaii. We are about to see the reconstructed Israel lobby. Just watch: the Jewish world will slowly separate itself from the dual loyalty problem without fireworks, as my father always says--without any open discussion. Two-state will soon be the only official position, tho maybe too late. And no one will care about the neocons, besides the Forward and me.
That's right! Obamonkey is all about CHANGE, REAL CHANGE! HOPEY CHANGEMAS, EVERYBODY!
Boxing Day Present from the Oppressed Palestinians ™
Medics: Palestinian rocket accidentally kills 2 Gaza sisters
By Reuters
A rocket apparently fired by Palestinians on Friday struck a house in the Gaza Strip, killing two Palestinian sisters aged five and 13, Palestinian medics said.
Hamas police said they were investigating the cause of the blast in Beit Lahiya village in northern Gaza, which medics said seemed to be due to a rocket aimed at Israel that had misfired.
Gaza militants frequently fire rockets at Israel from the same area.
The incident came amid rising tensions with Israel, with officials threatening stepped-up military action against Gaza militants to stop rocket shootings from the coastal territory.
agents provocateurs, just like the rockets found in lebanon.
Yep Rowan, you're right! Hiroshima and Nagasaki too.
Neocons are not Republicans. They are Stalinists who, one day, on a trip back from Moscow took a sidetrip to Jerusalem.
The one place they never have any interest in, except as a tool to serve their homeland of the moment, is the USA.
'Without fireworks' … Phil may be on to something here. Even America's Pravda — the New York Times — is taking hesitant baby steps outside its self-imposed zionist Iron Curtain.
I refer to a seemingly innocuous Art and Design feature titled 'Full Constant Light.' After a page of easily digestible art-crit fluff, reporter Holland Cotter tosses off this sharp-edged zinger:
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For the contemporary artist Daniel Joseph Martinez transparency as fulll disclosure is suspect and potentially subversive. His new sculpture “the west bank is missing, i am not dead, am i,” installed in the City University of New York Graduate Center, has, it seems, nothing to hide. In the form of two enormous upright rings, it is made of clear plastic, looks abstract and is fully visible from the street.
The piece is, however, coded. Odd-shaped patterns stamped into the plastic were molded from two architectural models. One was for a suburban development in Irvine, Calif.; the other, inspired by that plan, for an Israeli settlement project on the West Bank. In the United States modern suburban communities have often served to isolate middle-class whites from urban minorities. In Israel, Mr. Martinez suggests, another kind of apartheid is in operation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/26/arts/design/26ligh.html?_r=1
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Israeli apartheid … as unremarkable as the winter snow. No fireworks.
I guess we're all post-zionists now. All except Abe Foxman, Dave Harris, and a few disgruntled neocon trolls living under the bridge.
Good to have you back, Jim the geniune Haygood. Your forbearance is noble, possibly too much so.
Dishonest arguments require dishonest tactics, it seems. The spoofers know no shame. But what does that say about their belief system (for that is what it is)?
What makes you think this Jim is the legitimate one? Just because he's not pro-Israel?
Look at the evidence; the real Haygood always wrote long emails. This "Haygood" writes only a sentence or two. The real Haygood NEVER used . . . elipses, as this "Haygood" just did.
The jury is still out.
Really think the neos and zios are going to disappear without fireworks? Realist that I am somehow I don't think so. They will just don different costumes as they always have…as they are doing now. Israel will probably be the one to provide the fireworks necessary for Americans to expedite the departure of the zios.
But here's to all their 'enablers'. We know who you are and what you are.
'So likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained, and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens (who devote themselves to the favorite nation), facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.
Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government. But that jealousy to be useful must be impartial; else it becomes the instrument of the very influence to be avoided, instead of a defense against it. Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other.
Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests.'
..Geo Washington 1779
Make your New Years Resolutions now. Black is no longer white in America.
Of course the Jewish Neocons aren't really Republicans or Democrats — they're fist and foremost Zionists. The same goes for Jewish Zionists who explicitly profess to be either GOP'ers or Dems — they're Zionism-firsters, too. At least the Jewish Zionist neocons are slightly more honest about it. Also, the Jewish neocons are in no way "gone." They have their tentacles prominently displayed in high profile, mainstream media positions, and they have plenty of Jewish Zionist Democrat allies inside Congress, and burrowed way up inside the Obama administration — at his invitation.
Besides, the Israeli Zionists are playing the long game. Do you really think they're going to let a bunch of incoming, spoiled-rotten Obama-ites impose borders upon their ambitions, even if they really wanted to? Do your really think the snot-nosed Jewish American Zionist princesses and princes in Congress and in the administration are really even going to try?
We should ceremoniously condemn Steve R for being a douchebag in every thread he posts in. Once again, he posts an article that insinuates a kind of consensus ("thats how it is all the time").
Go away you pathetic troll.
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A "MUST SEE"(if you haven't already):
The Power of Nightmares
(from Wikipedia) The Power of Nightmares, subtitled The Rise of the Politics of Fear, is a BBC documentary film series, written and produced by Adam Curtis. Its three one-hour parts consist mostly of a montage of archive footage with Curtis's narration. The series was first broadcast in the United Kingdom in late 2004 and has subsequently been broadcast in multiple countries and shown in several film festivals, including the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
The films compare the rise of the Neo-Conservative movement in the United States and the radical Islamist movement, making comparisons on their origins and claiming similarities between the two. More controversially, it argues that the threat of radical Islamism as a massive, sinister organised force of destruction, specifically in the form of al-Qaeda, is a myth perpetrated by politicians in many countries—and particularly American Neo-Conservatives—in an attempt to unite and inspire their people following the failure of earlier, more utopian ideologies.
IN THREE PARTS (1 HR. EACH)
1) link to video.google.com
2) link to video.google.com
3) link to video.google.com
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A "MUST SEE" (if you haven't already):
The Power of Nightmares
(from Wikipedia)The Power of Nightmares, subtitled The Rise of the Politics of Fear, is a BBC documentary film series, written and produced by Adam Curtis. Its three one-hour parts consist mostly of a montage of archive footage with Curtis's narration. The series was first broadcast in the United Kingdom in late 2004 and has subsequently been broadcast in multiple countries and shown in several film festivals, including the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
The films compare the rise of the Neo-Conservative movement in the United States and the radical Islamist movement, making comparisons on their origins and claiming similarities between the two. More controversially, it argues that the threat of radical Islamism as a massive, sinister organised force of destruction, specifically in the form of al-Qaeda, is a myth perpetrated by politicians in many countries—and particularly American Neo-Conservatives—in an attempt to unite and inspire their people following the failure of earlier, more utopian ideologies…….
IN THREE PARTS (1 hr. each)
1) link to video.google.com
2) link to video.google.com
3) link to video.google.com
That is an excellent documentary, highly recommended….