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No, it's not official yet, but what seemed like an odd joke just a week and half ago, is looking more and more like a done deal.
Ha'aretz reports that Avigdor "minorities are the biggest problem in the world" Lieberman has moved from making his case for the position to making demands. He wants "full autonomy" in his new post and is worried that Benjamin Netanyahu will bring in trusted Likud aides to do the heavy diplomatic lifting . It makes sense that Netanyahu would be a bit worried about Lieberman becoming the face of Israel to the world, this is the man after all who: has called for the execution of Israeli Arab MPs who had dealings
with Hamas, for Gaza to be "treated like Chechnya" and for Israel to
fight Hamas "just like the United States did with the Japanese in World
War II." In October, he told Hosni Mubarak to "go to hell" for
not coming to Israel, and after Israeli leaders apologised to the
Egyptian president for the remarks, slammed them for acting toward
Cairo like a "battered wife." Doesn't look like Lieberman is quite ready for his close up yet. I'm sure Netanyahu hopes he gets ready quickly.
God, he looks like a Bond villain, LOL. Where's the white Persian cat? Maybe he nuked it. :\
The psychology of the slogan "I trust him" is interesting. Obviously there is no actual "I" behind it: the character supposedly saying this is completely fictitious, possibly an artificial construct generated by condensing focus group findings, like 'Joe the Plumber.'
If Communism was Socialism in a hurry, Lieberman is merely Zionism in a hurry. Bring him on. The quicker we put these rabid dogs down, the better. Lieberman is going to do for Zionism what bin Laden did for Islam. Just like what Bush and the Iraq war did for Neoconservatism.
It's time these anti-Christian frauds have history shoved down the g-d throats…and it hurts!…
He sounds like a mild version of ED.
He sounds like a mild version of ED.
lol! yep…as nutty as he sounds, he's got nothing on the nutters here.
Are these Israelis nutters too?
http://www.realisticdove.org/
Seems they'd be in support of Freeman.
Are these Israelis nutters too?
http://www.realisticdove.org/
Seems they'd be in support of Freeman.
Interesting to read what the site's founder, Dan Fleshler, wrote about himself:
"One of the challenges I’ve tried to address is figuring out how to criticise Israeli policy and the conventional Israel lobby without bolstering the arguments of those who reject the legitimacy of a Jewish state."
I'd love to hear him share more specifics of how he goes about that, how he reconciles the fact that the desire to keep Israel a "Jewish state" is in fact what leads to so much of the racism, settlement expansion, illegal occupation, violence, etc. that he doesn't care to see.
More:
Credos of this blog: A) “progressive” and “pro-Israel” need not be an oxymoron; B) there is no contradiction between being pro-American, pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian
Wanted:>
1) encouraging an evenhanded, just and activist American Middle East policy that does not sell either Israelis or Palestinians down the river;
2) helping the forces of peace and passionate moderation in the Middle East;
3) taking America’s pro-Israel community back from the neocons, settler apologists, passive acceptors of the status quo and quashers of dissent who have hijacked it.
More from Fleshler at Realistic Dove:
Over at MondoWeiss, Adam Horowitz gives us a “Zeitgeist Alert” and proclaims that “The two-state solution is dead.”
He quotes a piece by Sandy Tolan in the Christian Science Monitor that presents all-too-familiar arguments for why it is too late, there is no hope, the Palestinians have been deprived of a state of their own, give up, give up, all you two-state idealists, the settlement enterprise is irrevocable, nothing can get the Jews out of Ariel…
That might be true, of course. The odds are more daunting than ever. But these warnings are hardly new. What is new is the turned-up volume of the one-staters, who have decided that, somehow, magically, out of the torn limbs and mangled homes of Gaza, at a moment when the utter hatred between Israelis and Palestinians has never been more raw, the answer comes from…Albert Einstein.
Here is Horowitz, quoting Tolan:…
Why Albert Einstein can’t help the orphans of Gaza
[irony off]
But as a general believer in the Hegelian dialectic, I DO believe Zionism is anti-Christian in that it is in many ways the opposite of pure Christianity.
Corrupted Pharisaic Judaism and the Roman Empire governing Judaea produced Christianity, which was the opposite of the corrupt and violent mentality of the time. The Christian West took root, and eventually became corrupted. Jews went on to play a central role inside and outside of the 20th Century totalitarian ideologies and wars of the corrupted Christian West, which produced Zionism — the opposite of the “Christian” West (which was actually a secular-Christian-heavily-Jewish-influenced amalgamation, not unlike contemporary America).
To spur their fledgling ideology, Jewish Zionists cultivated themselves as the anti-Christians — necessarily opposite Christianity for Jewish survival and continuity, according to their narrative. Thus an anti-Christian identity is one that Jewish Zionists carry with them to this day.
But the only way that one can subscribe to the common Jewish Zionist narrative, that they’re mostly a group of victims scrambling for “survival” and continuity in a hostile world, is to believe they played a passive role in all of this, which is absurd. How “passive” were the 20th century Jewish Communists and ideologues? How "passive" are the Jewish Zionists in the Levant? How “passive” is the Israel lobby? (For that matter, how “passive” are Avigdor Lieberman and the Jewish Zionists on this board?)
Their intensely aggressive nature belies the very narrative they have managed to construct and sell as a shield, a smoke screen, and rhetorical leverage justifying their aggression.
Since there are no pure christinas, this is all moot.
I'm sure there are some pure christinas.
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Ed, you are correct with your thumbnail sketch of relevant history. Irony: If HAMAS is not the new "jew" peoplehood, what is? And if the USA is not the new Rome, what is? Easy question: Who or what is now Pontius Pilate?