‘The rape of Washington’

by on March 14, 2009 14

Those Israeli journalists are tops. That’s Uri Avnery’s headline for his piece on the Freeman affair. “The portrayal of the power of the lobby by Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, has been fully vindicated.”

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  1. MX says:
    March 14, 2009 at 11:45 pm

    Whoa.

    The Lobby could have kept Freeman safely contained as a Federal employee. But now he's something far more dangerous to them — he's a symbol!

  2. DICKERSON3870 says:
    March 15, 2009 at 12:24 am

    RE: 'The rape of Washington'

    ME: Give 'em hell, Uri! "The Indefatigable Uri Avnery"

  3. DICKERSON3870 says:
    March 15, 2009 at 12:43 am

    RE: "…now he's something far more dangerous to them — he's a symbol!"

    ME: Yes, yes, yes; he's a "CAUSE CELEBRE". Remember the Bastille! Storm the ramparts! "I love the smell of napalm in the morning." Apocalypse Now…apocalypse tomorrow…apocalypse forever! Viva la Coppola! (Sorry, I got 'carried away'.)

  4. Chris Berel says:
    March 15, 2009 at 9:38 am

    And soon, like Corrie, he will be old news. Forgotten as soon as the next made up piece of antisemitic propaganda comes along.

  5. Susie Kneedler says:
    March 15, 2009 at 9:41 am

    Charles Freeman will speak to Fareed Zakaria at 1 PM Eastern today:

    "Fareed Zakaria GPS: Outspoken former U.S. Ambassador Charles Freeman on why he withdrew his name from his new post as chairman of the National Intelligence Council."

    From

  6. Richard says:
    March 15, 2009 at 10:00 am

    I don't know where your hasbara crew as been assigned from, but their expressed views are positively disgusting and abhorrent:

    "And soon, like Corrie, he will be old news. Forgotten as soon as the next made up piece of antisemitic propaganda comes along.

    Posted by: Chris Berel | March 15, 2009 at 09:38 AM"

    Rachel Corrie was not "a made up piece of antisemitic propaganda". She was a courageous young woman crushed to death, quite deliberately, by an Israeli military bulldozer driver, as she was doing her best to protect someone's home.

  7. Todd says:
    March 15, 2009 at 10:17 am

    Many American writers and journalists have written against Israel's influence over the years, and continue to do so.

  8. Citizen says:
    March 15, 2009 at 11:34 am

    Chris Berel is SOG aka Bill Pearlman. Yes, he's still with us folks, and has gone to the trouble to pick
    up some hasbara partners since Israel sent out the call to hire PR cover over the GAZA massacre ending last January.

    To somebody like Chris (SOG), Rachel & Freeman, & the poor good-looking American guy shot in the head with the USA- paid -for canister for protesting peacefully against Israel's brutal SS occupation and its apartheid wall of shame, the hero is instead, people like the American born Israeli physician who perpetrated the 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre in the city of Hebron, killing 29 Muslims at prayer in the Ibrahimi Mosque (within the Cave of the Patriarchs) and wounding another 150 in a shooting attack. That's Chris's Stools, Bill Pearlman's hasbara clique's version of what it means to be an American.

  9. MX says:
    March 15, 2009 at 11:48 am

    More people know Rachel Corrie's name every year. Posthumously, she will become a household name.

  10. Citizen says:
    March 15, 2009 at 12:01 pm

    Unfortunately, most American never heard of the name Rachel Corrie, at least the people I know; I don't see that changing anytime soon. If something is not brought up on MSM & MSM MSM TV it does not exist.
    Nothing has changed since Bernays wrote about propaganda around 1928; if anything, considering the
    proliferation of news medium technology, it has gotten worse. BTW, Goebbels viewed Bernays as his mentor.

  11. Chris Berel says:
    March 15, 2009 at 1:17 pm

    Indeed, more people know Rachel Corrie's name every year. Posthumously, she has become a darwinian symbol. Luckily, for the world, she left no spawn.

  12. G-D says:
    March 15, 2009 at 9:03 pm

    CB would rather have his rabid tribe survive. Let's get rid of these ugly humans; they have no spiritual life except the exclusive and tiny light enlisted only for their own sub-human species.

  13. Chris Berel says:
    March 15, 2009 at 11:28 pm

    Now, where have I heard that moron before?

  14. Observer says:
    March 16, 2009 at 11:45 am

    Everytime SOG aka Bill Pearlman ever posted a comment. Keep listening to your own inner voices, Chris–you have so many yet all sound the same.

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