Weird that neocon Seth Lipsky, the founder of the late New York Sun, is granted space on Sunday's NYT Op-Ed page to argue that the Marc Rich pardon--which is threatening to ensnare Obama AG pick Eric Holder 8 years on--was a good thing... And in doing so, Lipsky once again displaces his own love of Israel on to an American political figure. Here is the only reference to Israel in the piece:
Weird that Lipsky, who sought to confound the "peace process," now gets to invoke it piously at the Times...
None of these guys is ever guilty. Marc Rich. Pincus Green, Steve Rosen, Keith Weissman, Jonathan Pollard. The issue at the bottom here is dual loyalty. Suspicions of dual loyalty legitimately proliferate because the neocons were never transparent about their affections. Lipsky ought to be forced by the Times editors to make some declaration of his own love of Israel here. As it is, like John Alden declaring Miles Standish's love in the famous Jewish story (sorry, that was ironical), he hides it behind Clinton, and it adds to the subterfuge that has wrecked our politics. The Sun is gone, the neocons are gone in the tides of November, still our journalism is broken.
Seth is a great dumb American. Actually he makes the case against Holder. Just a thought but I can't help but wonder how much money got deposited into Swiss accounts for American politicos who helped in the pardon.
FYI: years ago I was in the NYC construction business and delivered cash to a governor for a senator and to a mayor to obtain NYC contracts. So there's just one roach? Money makes the government work.
Israelis Lobbied for Fugitive Rich's Pardon
It always has. The Rothchilds funded both sides of the Napoleonic wars. Look at Jacob Schiff or Armand Hammer. And who did Balfour write his letter to? Rothschild. And we are all paying for that.
[...] "to the Mossad’s efforts to rescue and evacuate Jews from hostile countries…"
Rescue and evacuate Jews? Hostile countries? What myth is this?
Name one country where Jews — as a religious group — had to be rescued and evacuated from in the last 60 years.
Name one.
Weiss: "None of these guys is ever guilty. Marc Rich. Pincus Green, Steve Rosen, Keith Weissman, Jonathan Pollard. The issue at the bottom here is dual loyalty."
"Dual loyalty," or singular loyalty?–to Zionism and its network, which span the political spectrum. I doubt there is one political cause that any committed Zionist would put in front of Zionism and the network if the two ever came into conflict, including the American political cause. And yet mainstream media ignore the entity entirely, or only touch upon its edges before quickly retreating and backtracking. I have no idea how any of these mainstream reporters covering either the domestic or Mideast political beat maintain any self-respect. No wonder their product is so inferior: they're utter cowards.
Ed,
Their editors wont publish any anti-Zionist pieces.
Go over to Huffington Post. Try to post a reasonable, non-ranting response that criticizes Zionism or dual-loyalty. Wont get through. HuffPo only publishes the obvious nutcase or the deluded or the one who professes a great love of Israel.
Try it.
Their online moderators are in their 20s. They've been told to do it.
It's way past time for EVERYONE of good conscience to stop thinking in terms of Left or Right. The question should be: Zionist Collaborator or Zionist Opponent — especially because the Zionist question now touches nearly every other political question and issue in some way, shape or form.
We can all go back to petty partisan squabbling once the Zionist Menace has been removed, because removing the Zionist Menace will also remove another large segment of our problems: its collaborators.
The "alien attack" that Ronald Reagan dreamed about to unite humanity is upon us, but it is not extra-terrestrial, but rather coming from the Zionist/Collaborator coalition. Unite against it, or submit to slavery and death, because it demands nothing less.
I was astonished by this editorial, particularly that the author was so brazen about accepting that normal legal standards do not apply to those favored by the Zionist lobby and Israel.
Will Americans accept that a private citizen may "negotiate" justice with a head of state while hiding overseas?
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/dec/08/freedoms-watch-shut-end-month
I knew it. october bankrupted adelson
@MRW
The same policy applies at high-minded, academic Crooked Timber.
The taboo walls are tall…pretty much insurmontable.