The divided Jewish family is one of my big themes here. Divide, divide! is my message. Have it out, or we're all lost! Well, here is the charming and entertaining writer Daniel Radosh, son of Ron Radosh, a sobersided neocon who thinks that it's wonderful that Israel is slaughtering Palestinians, saying acidly in his last post of 2008 that once again "Israel is killing Palestinians". I sense but don't know, that Ron and Daniel disagree on this question, and do so on almost-strictly generational grounds. Ron is Holoaust era antisemitism Jew. Daniel is modern media privileged shiksa-partaking Jew. Just an assumption there, apologies to all if I'm wrong.
But here is the very serious point: It is essential that these generations stop tiptoeing around, and have it out! Have it out over Zionism! New York Times Magazine or New York magazine or New Yorker, assign Daniel Radosh a story about fighting with his father over this question. Daniel, it is a really important story and it is yours. I know you want to write about the late great Eartha Kitt. So do I. But J Street needs some backup now, and this is NOT a parlor game, other sons around the world are looking to you. Thanks to Jeet Heer for tip.
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My impression is that the immediate problem now is that the presidential candidate that many anti-war middle-class U.S. leftists supported in 2008, former U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Member Barack Obama, has apparently still not condemned the Israeli government's decision to bomb and invade Gaza (despite Obama's claim in 2008 that he was a "change agent" and an "anti-war candidate). In contrast, former U.S. Congressional Representative Cynthia McKinney was very quick to condemn the Israeli government's recent actions and has even recently risked her own life to express solidarity with the Palestinian people.
There is no such thing as "the Jewish family", Phil, this is just Hollywood moonshine.
McKinney's most recent statement, not what she says about Big
Brother deleting the reference to the USS Liberty and her comparison
between Obama and King.
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2009/01/223367.php
If you want real change, turn on Wolf Blitzer. LOL
Sorry, I meant to type "note" but somehow it came out "not."
Have it out about what?
What do you say to your parents? (Whom I know and respect.)
What do your kids say to you? (You don't have kids.)
One of mine is more assertively pro-Israel than I, one about the same.
'[J-Street] somehow have failed to notice that the only political solution that Hamas is interested in is the destruction of Israel whose legitimacy they refuse to recognize.' — Ron Radosh
Radosh neatly inverts the truth. Hamas participated in a Jan. 2006 election, winning in Gaza. Israel and the U.S. refused to recgonize the legitimacy of Hamas's victory, in an election which they had sponsored.
What appalls me is that according to his biography, Ron Radosh is on the Presidential Information Declassification Board. So even the public-source information which trickles down to us — and more importantly, that which is withheld — is contaminated by the biases of this pro-Israel ideologue.
Witty, thanks for telling us you've been raising your own little fifth column. We've long figured as much from your comments.
Ambo. I hope the kid made it, in the photo he presents as a case where you pull out all the stops. To judge by the fact that the head wound is already bandaged and what looks like an IV is in place at the ankle, the Ambo and tubing are in place as a precaution. If they're moving him like that after doing volume and bandaging, he must be breathing on his own.
Alas this little terrorist did not make it….
'I hope the kid made it'
Retrospective decency. We'd prefer 'I wish the IDF hadn't done it; – do you?
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