OBAMA, PRESUMABLY, WILL be too polite to ask Netanyahu: "What kind of Jewish state?" But perhaps his people could later put the question to Uzi Arad, the other Israeli official in the room, [who has an interesting history] who wrote in the New Republic a few years back what Avigdor Lieberman now suggests, that Israel keep the settlements and offer Palestine, in return, the Israeli Arab towns in the Little Triangle. "The various land swap plans," Arad writes, "proposing a tradeoff of territories aim to increase ethnic homogeneity... [so that] the Jewish majority would remain at 81 percent until 2050." Gee, 81 percent until 2050. And here I thought math was hard; that, anyway, Arab families living in Israel for 61 years, raised in the Hebrew language, and aspiring to lives in Israeli hospitals, high tech companies, and universities, might (if we can get past their rage) actually enrich the country.
Look, Arad was a colleague of mine for a while, and whatever he thought of me, I found him very engaging. I even once tried, in a modest way, to help him raise money in Toronto for his Herzliya Conference and research institute. He always showed me respect, even warmth (though I was hardly in a position to be his rival). I found him brilliant and morally serious; he once told me, what I took to be a kind of foundational fantasy, that he would like to organize a secret force to strike at anti-Semites anywhere in the world--something like the late Mordechai Richler's St. Urbain's Horseman, I thought.
Scott McConnell, who passed this along, writes:
What an idea, to go after anti-Semites--or "anti-Semites"--the same way the Mossad went after the PLO after the Munich Olympics. Who would be on Arad's list? Jimmy Carter? Steve Walt and John Mearsheimer? Contributors to this website? An interesting window into whom we're dealing with.
More on Richler: Haim Saban and Duddy Kravitz, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
"Who would be on Arad's list?" Just a couple of billion people.
Israel's National Security Council chairman Uzi Arad wants to send death squads around the globe to murder political activist opponents of Zionism? Does anybody doubt that what we're dealing with in these Zionists is an organization of tin-pot thugs, mobsters and mafiosa? This is "the light unto nations" that Bush, the Neocons and the Neoliberal Jewish Zionist Democratic machine is staking America's future on, as both an ally and a model? Have the reprobates in Washington completely lost their pea-sized minds, or has the syphilis from the monthly Congressional orgy sponsored by AIPAC finally penetrated their brains?
"I found him brilliant and morally serious; he once told me, what I took to be a kind of foundational fantasy, that he would like to organize a secret force to strike at anti-Semites anywhere in the world–" See, there's that "Jewish James Bond" we were all hoping to see. Apparently this smooth, sophisticated but deadly Golem (you know, like Frankenstein or even Fonebone) pre-occupies more than one Jewish mind.
He's got a little list, of those who won't be missed. Those who, in criticising Israel Use anti-Semitic myths! They'll none of 'em be missed! They'll none of 'em be missed!
"he once told me, what I took to be a kind of foundational fantasy, that he would like to organize a secret force to strike at anti-Semites anywhere in the world" Yow. What was that about "Islamofascism" again? It seems that some Zionists are as crazy as any Muslim extremist.
Maybe they should just get to the root of the problem, and organise a contingent of Jewish grandmother-types to turn up at mixed weddings and scream "A "shondah, a shondah" at the groom.
"Anti-Semites" like Anna Lindh, perhaps?
I received the following by email today: "…when it comes to the Middle East and the Palestine question there could not be a richer, more informative compilation [in a compressed 40 pages]covering this region from the 1920s, but particularly from the mid-1940s, to the mid 1970s. It particularly lays bare the risks experienced by those of us whose foreign service careers were with the Department of State in the Near East section. Among other things it is a penetrating view of Zionism in action. From the late 1940s to the mid-1960s [until his retirement away from Washington, DC] Ed Wright was far and away my most influential guru." http://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/wright.htm#...
Palestinian refugees have a right under international law to return to, live in, and use their property as they wish. Israel denies them this right – though would allow it if they gave a different answer to the question "Are you Jewish?", an open act of discrimination. The Palestinians are also one of the Semitic people. So would Arad go after the leadership of Israel?
At least the mafia go after someone for a reason. Money, drugs, etc. Are Zionists so thin-skinned they are afraid of people disliking them? Well, it was only a conversation in private, and a dumb idea at that. Part of the entire victimhood mentality, and I need revenge syndrome because of my grandfather in the camp.
EVER AGAIN -Zionofascists! And no, I am not an anti-Semite. I like Semites just fine. However, I am anti-Parasite.
They seem incapable of facing reality cont. …"Zionists, since Truman's decision in 1947-48, have lived in a Fool's Paradise. They assumed their control of the US government, press and public was permanent and based an "moral" values–therefore, the US at all times would give Israel total support. Zionists seem to live in a dream world of their own creation and think the rest of the world should accept their dream. They seem quite incapable of facing reality. George Ball is making an effort to break through to some of the realities involved in our foolish adventure into theocratic politics. It will generate a bitter and possibly violent emotional reaction on the part of US Zionists who will accuse the USA generally of "anti-Semitism." (p. 454) I have been accused of this since 1944–now it is probable that President Jimmie Carter will share the title. Returning Israel to its pre-1967 boundaries, as he has stated, is–to the Zionist–a death sentence. Their 30 year dream of "Eretz Gadohl 1' Am Gadhol"–(a great land for a great people) will be shattered." http://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/wright.htm#...
Hey, that's pretty good. In addition to the motorcycle "club" (or whatever you call it) you guys can have a band too. You would make a good song writer.