Haaretz: "U.S. not opposed to Israel pumping more funds into settlements."
From Rashid Khalidi’s book, The Iron Cage. Please note Khalidi describes U.S. policy from nearly 20 years ago, never enforced.
…the United States failed to respect its own commitments in the joint U.S.-Soviet letter of invitation to the Madrid Peace Conference, and particularly in the U.S. letter of assurance to the Palestinians, both dated October 18, 1991. The latter set out the U.S. position regarding actions by either side that would prejudge, preempt, or predetermine the outcome of the deferred final status negotiaions. Described as "U.S. understandings and intentions" regarding the negotiating process, which it said was aimed, among other things, to provide "an end to Israeli occupation," the letter stressed that nothing done in this phase should "be prejudicial or precedential to the outcome of the negotiations." It affirmed: "We encourage all sides to avoid unilateral acts that would exacerbate local tensions or make negotiations more difficult or preempt their final outcome." The letter further stated: "The United States has long believed that no party should take unilateral actions that seek to predetermine issues that can only be resolved through negotiations. In this regard the United States has opposed and will continue to oppose settlement activity in the territories occupied in 1967, which remain an obstacle to peace."
If you say the words “Israeli settlements in occupied land” to most Americans I know, and have known, they won’t have the slightest clue what you are talking about. They will all know the latest tidbit on Tiger Woods, or at least that his image has been tarnished by leaks of him plowing babes.
I don’t imagine it was different in the golden days of ancient Rome. That’s saying a lot considering the First Amendment, the Fourth Estate, and the internet. It says a lot
about the increasing sophistication of propaganda, and the static sheeple quality of citizenship aka consumer. Bread and Circuses still rule.
John F Kennedy called for walls to come down. Barack Obama orders the building of more walls.
Barack Obama, you are no John F Kenndy.
RE: “Barack Obama, you are no John F Kenndy.” – potsherd
MY COMMENT: I am so ‘over’ Obama! OBAMA: I quit you!
Obama is just George W Bush in blackface.
Anyone who still has a ‘religious belief’ in Obama is out of his/her tiny mind.
Not only the sick joke of his accepting a Nobel Peace Prize within days of announcing his second massive ‘surge’ into Afghanistan, or his total failure to have any back-up plans to enforce a settlement freeze on Netanyahu, nor his total fuck-up of the financial situation (link to rollingstone.com
Obama is a corporately-owned nigger.
Richard? I understand the point you’re trying to make but seriously, using that word — even in the context of relating Obama’s behaviors as openly submissive to white corporate culture — is unconscionable.
I use ‘nigger’ very deliberately – to make Americans feel things they’ve swept under the carpet haven’t just gone away by wishful thinking, but are still there, and waiting to break out if they’re given an opportunity.
See countless reports
You use it because you feel you’re above social norms and can use words that are deeply offensive to make your points. Get over yourself.
I’m going to be a little less polite than Chaos. You’re a freaking moron, an insensitive jackass. I don’t like Obama and judge his politics the way you do, but what the hell is wrong with you?
I hate that word. The way it sounds is offensive in and of itself.
But I don’t think he’s saying it to be racist but to convey how Obama is viewed by his superiors.
Like I said, I understand the intended context but there are a lot of connotations that word carries that really make it unsuitable for any use.
I’m a white man and I can’t even say the word. I mean I can’t even bring myself to articulate the sound of it because I’m aware of all the hatred that has been invested in the word, and what the very act of a white man saying it connotes. I’m not even sure I can type it. I don’t mean to sound melodramatic but words matter. Meanings you don’t intend, still matter.
I deliberately used that word – nigger
It’s been banned from ‘decent’ usage in much the same way as so much of America’s first century of imperial expansion has been, and much the same way as it’s secomd century was cocked up.
I am trying to demonstrate just how much Obama is not doing what we thought he might do.
Many thought he would be a breakthrough black, leftish president, but they were wrong.
Okay fine but you have to live with the crapstorm your using that word causes. Don’t put yourself in a position to reap a whirlwind if you find wind burns painful. You could have easily expressed that sentiment without resorting to a racial epithet.
Think of it this way, the “N” word makes all sorts of foreboding feelings arise and disgust. What the Zionists wish to create is that same gut reaction when anyone chooses to speak against Zionism, this is what their goal is – so they can play on emotions without any facts in the matter. (to get us back on the subject of the post)