A fabulous piece of reporting in the San Francisco Chronicle by Carla Marinucci that underlines everything I've said on this blog: Gaza is a crisis of the American Jewish spirit. Just beautiful reporting. Many instances, from Jon Stewart saying that the attack is politically motivated because of Bush's exit (which is another obvious answer to Michael Walzer's just-war scales), to the Jewish organizations that now recognize this is a p.r. disaster, to this hushed statement from a Jewish professional who didn't want her name used out of fear of alienating her business clients:
(No, the question is: What is Israel? Find out.) Marinucci then takes the story to the national level. She says that the Jewish fragmentation over Gaza is empowering J Street and is going to give Obama political room to maneuver to the left. And if the fear of alienating her business clients is not enough, Marinucci has this brilliant pickup from Los Angeles that is all about the Israel lobby:
That prompted Salam Al-Marayati, executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council Israel, to ask publicly: "Why is the mayor of Los Angeles dragging himself and his constituents into international conflicts in the Middle East?"
We know why: because of powerful Jewish monolithic support for Israel that is now ending!!! We are Jews and Muslims and Christians and atheists who oppose this slaughter. We are Obama's base. Yes we can.
What's so great about j street, phil, just remind us please.
At last! Time for a CONCERTED BOYCOTT, by fabulous Naomi Klein. The REAL, great, Jim Haygood posted this last night, at the end of 33 comments, so here it is again:
link to guardian.co.uk
'We are Jews and Muslims and Christians and atheists and non-voters who oppose this slaughter. Yes we can. [italics added by JH]
Obama and the Demonrat and Repugnican parties are tagging along at the rear of the parade, looking disoriented and asking 'What happened? Where's everybody going? HEY, WAIT FOR ME!'
I think you're irrationally exuberant about Obama.
Yeah, HA, that's what happens when you've been heavily suppressed a long time.
Good point citizen. It's such a shame.
On the other hand, since Obama's in for 4 years, whether you have incredible fantasies about what he's gonna do, or you're a realist who already knows Obama's a fake, that will not change anything. Maybe Mr Weiss will come to his senses soon enough.
Yeah, sometime during the early phase of WW3. Phil thinks his Dad's notion that needed change in the USA will come quietly is intact–Obama will
bring us to WW3, just as Roosevelt brought us into WW2. It's as
Shrub said, the elite will act, the chattering class will chatter, and the elite will move on. Nobody acting will care much at the moment what is written in the future after increasingly classified info is finally available for the stupid History Channel.
It's as Shrub said, the elite will act, the chattering class will chatter, and the elite will move on. Nobody acting will care much at the moment what is written in the future after increasingly classified info is finally available for the stupid History Channel.
That made me laugh. Thanks.
also, what is "the american jewish spirit"? is this some hegelian construct no one bothered to demonstrate previously?
I suggest an entirely new approach to the Israel-Palestine problem: Join Israel and the territories into one new State, with the name of CANAAN, home to all Israelis and Palestinians INCLUDING THE PALESTINIAN REFUGEES. Join Canaa, to the United States of America as the 51st State, giving all of its citizens the full rights and duties of Citizens of the United States of America. Utopia? It is worth considering an UTOPIA when any other alternative is TOO AWFUL TO CONTEMPLATE.
Alfred de Grazia Prof. of Political Science, New York University, ret. Università di Bergamo,Italy – see my NEW BOOK: THE AMERICAN STATE OF CANAAN link to americanstateofcanaan.com
link to canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan.com