Under the skin, just another crude tribalist.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090112/shawn

I've experienced similarly, and by similar examples, including here.

He apparently shares my view that Hamas is no angel, and that the left (including Phil) do NOT distinguish their concern for Palestinian civilians, and Hamas' efforts for power and nihilistic version of leadership.

Israel, right to defend itself?

I would say no. How can a country that have no right to exist have a right to defend itself?
You know very well what happened in 1948. Or should know. I refer you to Israeli historian Ilan Pappé.

The Jews massacred and expelled 800 000 Palestinians, the rightful owners of the country. Therefore Israel has no right to exist. It is built on a crime.

Of course, ordinary dumbass Yanks don't have a clue about this. How could they? Living inside the Jewish owned American media bubble.
Oh, so that's a conspiracy theory? With no basis in reality?

Give me a break. This guys is just another demented Jewish Zionist. He says American “Jew-hating has made a comeback.” The “crypto-Nazi” John Bircher evangelical right-wing is out to get the Jews; left-wing pro-Palestinian academic humanities departments are out to get the Jews “for the sake of academic advancement”; average Americans angry about the Wall Street meltdown are out to get the Jews for scapegoating purposes. Everyone is out to get the Jews for selfish, cynical reasons and none of it has any basis in rationalism whatsoever.

Meanwhile, all the Palestinians have to do to end their misery is “two things: 1.) to stop lobbing rockets into Israel; and 2.) to come to the peace negotiating table with a position other than the idea that Israel has no right to exist.”
link to jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com

This is the standard Jewish-victim narrative: the world is irrational and intractable in its anti-semitism, organized Jewry is honorable, well-intentioned and relentlessly hounded through absolutely no fault of its own. And its culture of greed and murder? Myths orchestrated by anti-Jewish bigots.

“What remains to be seen, of course, is whether the new spate of All-American red-white-and-blue Jew-hating will ramp up and turn into something I have been predicting for a while: ‘Corn-pone Nazism.’…The basic formula persists, though, despite Hitler, Himmler, Eichman, Hasan Nasrullah, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: when something goes wrong with money, blame the Jews.”

Yawn. Whatever. We’ve heard it all before, Kunstler. And nobody is falling for the Jew-victim narrative anymore. That must be upsetting to all those Judeofascists out there who thought the Holocaust granted them license to rampage and murder into perpetuity.

I wonder if Kunstler even knows what corn-pone is?

We should not prioritize the concern of Jews in our anti racism struggle. I refrain from even using this term. I just use racism, to be specific, I call it anti Jewish racism. No racism is more racist that other forms of racism.

Also, war itself can be argued to be the worse form of racism. If palestinians were given the choice by IDF to pick between Slander and insult or bombs and missiles, I bet they would have picked insults over bombs. Racism hurts emotionally, at least most of the time, but Bombs kill and destroy.

I have been very vocal since December 27 every time I hear some one says "Jews" or "Jewish media" or anything similar that implicate Jews or substitute them in the crimes of Israel. At the same time, I refuse to worry more for the anti Jewish racism resulting from this war than I care for the real casualties of bombings.

Let's stop the killing, then we can address racism, and particularly anti Jewish racism.

Isn't that … antisemitic?

Kunstler's not prophetic; he's a fact-free nutcase who knows just enough about energy to feed his end-of-the-world fantasies.I'm not interested in his opinions over Israel; I just hope that no-one is taking Kunstler seriously as an energy expert. Go listen to Amory Lovins instead, or the NEI fanboys. At least they're committed to actual science instead of paranoid theories.