Once Bush’s poodle, now Blair is Bibi’s

by on July 14, 2009 8
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Rob Browne writes:
The Bibi and Blair show, which was featured [credulously] by PBS's NOW show last week,  resumed today in Haaretz, discussing ways to improve
one side of the Palestinian economy.  Netanyahu has the nerve to tell
Blair that the West Bank Palestinians could have more economic
advantages if they were more cooperative with Israel.  How much more
subservience does he want from these people before he condescendingly
gives them his Shock Doctrine neo-conservative economic "benefits"?

 

One great irony is Netanyahu's promise to Blair that Israel would
take action to facilitate the launching of a new cellular phone network
in the West Bank by the end of this month.  Wouldn't it be interesting
to find out if Cellcom was somehow involved in all of this?

 

Maybe NOW can interview Blair, again, after all of this inevitably fails, and show his Nathan Thurm-like explanations.

 

About Philip Weiss

Philip Weiss is Founder and Co-Editor of Mondoweiss.net.
Posted in Israeli Government, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists

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  1. DICKERSON3870 says:
    July 14, 2009 at 7:18 pm

    RE: " One great irony is Netanyahu's promise to Blair that Israel would take action to facilitate the launching of a new cellular phone network in the West Bank by the end of this month." SEE: "Secret clause lets Shin Bet get data from cell phone firms", By Yuval Yoaz, 09/25/07 (EXCERPT) The licenses that Israel gives to cell phone companies contain a secret codicil requiring them to give the Shin Bet security service information about conversations and messages that its customers transmit on their cell phones, according to the Movement for Freedom of Information in Israel (FOIM). However, the cellular companies – Pelephone, Cellcom, Partner and Mirs – as well as the Communications Ministry and the Prime Minister's Office, which oversees the Shin Bet, all declined to confirm the existence of such a directive. If this addendum does exist, it would potentially impair the privacy rights of millions of cell phone customers in Israel without their knowledge. FOIM says that the security appendix "permits the security services to access citizens' communications data, including in real time, without judicial oversight or other supervision and without the citizens' knowledge." ENTIRE ARTICLE – link to haaretz.com

  3. Shafiq says:
    July 14, 2009 at 9:21 pm

    Do we expect any better from a person who's shown his Israel bias from the outset? He hasn't even been discreet about it – joining Labour Friends of Israel as soon as he became a member of the party. Thank God Sarkozy scuppered his plans to become EU President.

  4. nazeha ayesh says:
    July 14, 2009 at 10:26 pm

    Now that it is law not to critisize the genocidal maniacs as such, the chips are set. Now the usa will see the true genocidal maniacs they have empowered. I would like to see the results of the zionist question now and then afterwards especially since majority hide their faith because of retributions against them for the murderous and scheming zionist occupation which has NEVER done anything GOOD. ever/ . This will probably bring about the changes that all myans and nastradamous types have predicted But have the zionist really thought it though..probably not…they are setting the stages of their own demise for good once and for all time. Shadi du nay

  5. ThorsProvoni says:
    July 14, 2009 at 11:11 pm

    From It's Not Only About Palestine:

    Because Zionist Sorelianism has clear affinity with Friedman's ideas, the absence of the any discussion of the connections and interrelations between Friedmanism and Jabotinskianism in The Shock Doctrine, The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, by Naomi Klein is a glaring omission. While Jabotinskian Neoconservatism is for the most part a Jewish sect or special interest, Friedmanist Neoliberalism actively proselytizes itself to non-Jews as the true economic religion, whose high priesthood tends for the most part to consist of Jews. Non-Jews like Cheney, Rumsfeld, or Woolsey often come to accept Jabotinskian Neoconservative foreign policy ideas after indoctrination with Friedmanite Neolibeal market theory. Not only is Klein completely misleading when she implies that Israel's love affair with disaster capitalism only begins after the expections of the Oslo Process proved illusory, but she failed to mention that the erasing of the native population from areas under Zionist control in 1947-8 (Holoexaleipsis or Nakba) with concomitant seizure of practically all movable and immovable assets from Palestinian refugees is probably the earliest and purest example of massive Friedman-style transfer of wealth from the poor of the developing world to a Western elite (the Zionist political leadership) backed by a Western economic elite (mostly New York Jewish investment bankers and the Cousinhood of the wealthiest British Jews). The creation of the State of Israel on the shards of Arab Palestine is the Zionist version of the Shock Doctrine. Klein neglects to mention that the hyper-wealthy US Zionist elite and Israeli government have been heavily involved directly and indirectly in manipulating the US economy in criminal violation of SEC regulations by stoking, financing, and picking winners in the homeland security investment bubble that she describes in Chapter 14 of her book.

  6. Gene says:
    July 15, 2009 at 1:58 am

    Hey, what the heck! If they're willing to pay … Once a sod, always a sod!

  7. eitanbenshlomo says:
    July 15, 2009 at 2:01 am

    Blair out of Israel!

  8. Moo says:
    July 15, 2009 at 9:56 am

    Yep–that's the macro macine. Milks the cows automatically every time.