The 2010 World Expo, opening May 1st in Shanghai, will be Israel's first foray into the World's Fair fray. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is pulling out all the stops with a $6 million, 2000 square meter Israel Pavilion, featuring an "orchard" with talking trees apparently conversational in both English and Cantonese. Be sure to watch the Israel Pavilion video, replete with dramatic orchestral music, an aerial view of Jerusalem's Old City, and scientists doing high-tech things with lasers (!). Given that his picture is engraved on the wall, one wonders how Albert Einstein, proponent of a bi-national state much like contemporaries Hannah Arendt and Martin Buber, would feel about the Jewish state claiming him as their own.
In " Kosher Chinese," Tablet's groan-inducing politics section offers a look at the Israel Pavilion and the Sino-Semite “burgeoning bilateral relationship.” The article reads as vintage Israeli state-building mythology, as if writer Matthew Fishbane found the piece in a time capsule sealed half a century ago:
With Israel in the news all the time, [Rabbi] Greenberg says, the Chinese often ask him: “You are such a small nation. How do you do that?” He says they want to know because they like to learn from the success of others and then copy it. “We are admiring your ability to build a country from scratch,” a Chinese government official once told the rabbi, seemingly oblivious to any ominous undertones. “For we are building a country from scratch, too.”
This is some seriously retro Zionism in which Israel is "in the news all the time" not because of settlement construction, human rights abuses, or war crimes--but because of all of its "success" at "build[ing] a country from scratch." As for 1948, the New Historians conclude that half of Mandatory Palestine’s indigenous population was driven out and half of its villages destroyed--"ominous undertones" is certainly one way to gloss over Israel's original sin of Palestinian displacement.
Let's not forget what Israel's presence at the Expo is all about: “the Image of Israel,’ our branding,” Jackie Eldan, the Israeli consul in Shanghai, tells Tablet. The goal of the Foreign Ministry's massive Israel "branding" effort, of course, is to curb criticism of Israeli apartheid and the BDS movement.
Tablet explains this new hasbara frontier is opening up for Zionism because of a budding relationship between Israel and China, forged through "cultural exchange based on shared values of prosperity, education, diligence, and tribalism, set in national historical narratives that span four millennia." This is a bit like saying China and Israel became friends because their narrow-minded nationalisms have the same birthday. ("Tribalism,” a friend remarked, “wasn't that the value the Axis Powers shared too? Racism is what real friendship is all about.")
Good thing for Zionism, Fishbane writes that Chinese people conveniently live in a vacuum:
Notice how "Jew" is conflated with "Israeli," how it is implied that the world has less than a "positive image" of the state of Israel because of "prejudice" (instead of foreign and domestic policy), how a self-congratulating nod is made toward Jewish smarts and wealth--the successful assimilation of American Jews. Tellingly, no actual Chinese people are interviewed or even represented. Instead, we get American and Israeli Jews in China explaining what they think Chinese people think about Jews and Israel. I would be very surprised if anyone could procure proto-Zionists in China. But that's beside the point: the frontier is a place where one people projects their own desires onto another; perhaps we're seeing the symptoms of a broader anxiety that the hasbara is not working on Jews--that there are possibly cracks in the Zionist dream. Indeed, the dreamers themselves are having to conjure a new set of unlikely converts, just to reassure the rest of the tribe.
Let's see, what has been in the news lately? US-Israel relations seemingly on the rocks, and so American Jews are promised a new hasbara frontier, a magical place called China, Tablet fantasizes, where someone will finally dream again of an "empty" desert made to bloom. It is there that the Zionist imagination can take hold once more--this time, to extend the logic of the fantasy, in the minds of over a billion people who appreciate the wonders of drip irrigation but exist outside of history. But there is no such place.
A dream indeed. China votes along with the rest of the world (except for the US) to condemn Israel in UN resolution after resolution. They probably also don’t want Israel rocking the energy boat in the middle east.
Israel continues to hijack the world’s Jews, with or against their will. This is like New Zealand claiming Isaac Newton to prove its scientific genius.
Zionism is antisemitism. Jews sucking up to powerful elites/nations, to solidify their own place in the world? Parasitism.
I don’t think we should refer to Jews as Parasites.
BSDNOW said:
How could you say such a thing?
Cliff, it’s pretty obvious that BSDNOW knows how much parasitism is required for a project like Israel, and somehow he feels it might dilute the guilt is he can transfer the charge to all Jews instead of having it directed at the parasitic Zionists.
BSDNOW, unlike you, I am supremely un-interested in what religion the people in Israel or their leaders profess. It’s their actions I worry about, and their criminality.
Remember BSDNOW, Jewishness is not an excuse for criminality, and you can’t make it so. Try an insanity defense, at least that’s believable.
OMFG! BSDNOW is an anti-Semite!!! Release the hounds!
Well, that was a fun thought experiment about what it’s like to be one of the “chosen” in the Lobby. Heh.
Yea, that was basically my point. I was being ironic.
BSDNow is a troll of course. He makes a lot of superficial comments, meant to instigate and misrepresent.
His reply to me is a perfect example. So if we’re being facetious about something, he’ll take it literally on purpose.
Kind of pathetic how varied our trolls are. These people need to get a life, outside of the hive-mind.
You weren’t even being facetious, Cliff. The word “Jews” appears nowhere in your post. You were talking about Zionists.
Oh wait, actually it does. My mistake, but then again, you were describing what role Zionism seems to assign to the Jewish people. And we all know a lot of Jewish people who reject that role.
I did say ‘Jews’. I was being ironic, because this has been a continuing theme w/ Zionism.
Zionism brings to life many antisemitic tropes. Just last year we had the organ trafficking extravaganza. First, Israel denied it all and then admitted they had stolen organs. Their first reaction was to cry wolf though.
And how about the Reut Institutes advice to Zionist activists, that they should cozy up w/ the elites around the world in ‘hubs of anti-Zionism’?
The list goes on and on. Zionism is antisemitism. It pigeon-holes Jewishness. It reduces Jewishness to a piece of land. It turns Jewishness into another nationalism. And if there is such a thing as a ‘Jewish State’ – vis a vis the logic of Daniel Pipes, David Horowitz, et al – could we not blame Jewishness and Jews in general for the crimes of said Jewish State?
Think of the fringe Islamic radicals. Look at the hate generated by Zionists/corporate America/etc. toward all Arabs and all Muslims due to this fringe. Whereas Jewish fundamentalism and ‘criminality’ (again keeping w/ the paradigm of ‘Clash of Civilizations’ as advertised by the ZioCons) are institutionalized in our centers of higher learning, our government, our media, etc. etc.
The Christian Right for example does NOT have to undertake suicide bombing and other tactics such as that, because THEIR ‘activism’/political aspirations are mainstream and legitimized.
This is about means. Israel can kill Arabs and Muslims at their leisure. They control Arabs and Muslims at their leisure. Their means are considered legitimate, mainstream, and the perpetuation of their means is institutionalized.
It’s like Jon Stewart doing repeated segments on hateful Hamas cartoon shows while ignoring the hateful IDF t-shirts, or the Goldstone Report findings, or any one of the numerous examples of hate on the other side of the conflict – the Zionist side. Doing so, might begin to imply that Jewishness is to blame.
It’s this symbolism that gives the Zionists a shield against criticism. They use Judaism and Jewish identity like a human shield.
Just look at yonira. Some average guy. Probably wouldn’t have a problem with him outside this conflict. As soon as you broach the topic, he reveals himself to be an ass-clown. Oh and astoundingly ignorant as well – rooting for Israel like as if it were a sports team.
It’s due to a combination of ethno-religious/nationalistic fundamentalism and tribalism. With the Holocaust being a central component to the way the ideology perpetuates itself. You need to keep milking historical injustices against ‘the Jews’ to justify what Jews in the present are doing.
So if a Jew today, within the Zionist construct of Jewishness – that said Jew may accept – does something like steal organs…then a ZioCultist can cry antisemitism. Why not? They can prey on the general stupidity and ignorance of the average person who will make a gut reaction about seeing a Jew under ‘attack’ (intellectually/emotionally/etc.).
So the action (organ theft) itself becomes antisemitic. Like if you report on this action, you are antisemitic or something.
But yea, I think it’s obvious what BSDNow was doing. As I said, it’s pathetic how weak the trolling is these days. It just goes to show you how illegitimate Zionism has always been.
OMG, guys – look what BSDNow said above:
You are a rabid, Israel-bashing, Jew-hater. Take your pro-Jihadi, hate-fest elsewhere, you antisemite.
I am in no way purposefully taking your comments out of context.
I wonder what the talking orange trees will say?
At first glance it’s a Titanic Hasbara smokestack, where the glass symbolizes the new hot air being blown eastward from the blooming desert.
link to en.expo2010.cn
“It cannot be too hasty if we call this journey an exploration of Israel from “religious palace” to “technological palace”. Finally the real identity of the “capsule” was unveiled: it was a mini camera which could be swallowed and carry an inner medical checkup through the human body. The camera would then be discharged, leaving no pain to the patient at all. What a fantastic innovation! A perfect expression of the Expo theme: Better City, Better Life. “
That’s funny. As I understand it, that capsule is primarily an invention of the Japanese. Small wonder the Israelis feel safe swiping the idea and trumpeting it as theirs to the Chinese.
I get pissed whenever I see Israelis expoiting Einstein’s good name. Anyone who actually looks into history finds out that Einstein was vehemently opposed to militant Zionism, and therefore opposed the concept of an Israeli nation founded on ethnic cleansing.
Princeton published The New Quoatable Einstein (2005). His remarks on Zionism (1921 version) are there. But not his letter to the NYT on December 4th, 1948, about Begin’s “terrorist party”. So, what else was left out?
At least this one is there:
(correction): This one is there:
“Should we be unable to find a way to honest cooperation and honest pacts with the Arabs, then we shall have learned nothing from our 2,000 years of suffering and will deserve our faith.” (To Chaim Weizmann, November 25, 1929).
Neither the Chinese nor the Israelis are known for their individualism; it’s all about the tribe, same as in Japan, for example. In the USA, this notion has been belittled in terms of the majority people and culture for a long time–most especially by Jewish Americans.
In a few few years the founding whites in the USA will be just another minority population. Cultural diversity will reign completely in fact as in already now established law; equal protection under the law. How is tribalism not retrogressive in terms of
equal rights? Most Chinese appear to bow to materialism and military and economic power. Like any prostitute. So, this is Israel’s next partner? It’s fitting. The Only question–to the American people who are uncomfortable about this–seems to have already been answered, e.g., when’s the last time the Black Caucus called Israeli
activity to account? Never. These are just old wine in new bottles–is it good for the Jews? Americans? Why, they don’t count at all, unless you are talking about elite power groups in the USA–and they are not altruistic at all. Just more scammers to feather their own immediate family nest.
Another “take” is that Israel is looking for another sponsor, and Uncle USSR is no longer attractive. PLUS China has its own Palestine (Tibet) and might be a good ally for that reason. AND China needs advanced armaments and Israel can sell them all the US advanced arms.
AND Israel can threaten the US with this China possibility in order to keep the US/Israel “thang” going (I mean why go to the trouble of creating a new abusive relationship which may be abusive in the opposite direction if you can keep the old one going, hunh?).
Pabelmont, I think all those factors you mention are in play. One disadvantage of Israel moving towards China, or India, etc; is that those countries have no white guilt
about the Shoah. When one considers that the Shoah was why the Western powers backed the original partition plan at the UN, one also has to know consider that
Israel is not in that same position today.
that’s one of the major reasons Israel is moving towards China:
of course, Egypt was such a place for at least 200 and perhaps 430 years, until it wasn’t any more; the US was such a place, until it wasn’t any more; so was Spain such a place, for almost 500 years, until it wasn’t any more; so was Germany.
As Sabrosky says, did zionists ever stop to think that if everybody who invites you in eventually wants to kick you out, maybe it’s something YOU did?
hit the nail on the head, pabelmont. But this didn’t just start with World’s Fair; Israel has been anticipating the decline of the US and preparing for it by sucking up to China, thought to be the emerging superpower.
Under Dennis Ross’s chairmanship of Jewish People Policy Planning Institute (JPPPI), Salomon Wald researched China and prepared a report on the ways Israel could glom onto Chinese success. Enhancing the Standing of the Jewish People in Emerging Superpowers without Biblical Tradition
(the title is misleading, in my opinion. if you think about it, Iran does NOT have a “Biblical Tradition” — Iran’s cultural core is Zoroastrian, not Abrahamic. And, Iran is an Emerging Superpower, which is precisely what pisses off Israel.)
can’t find it right now, but somewhere Solomon Wald wrote that “the Chinese admire Jews for their ability to make money. The Chinese are obscenely greedy….”
Sheldon Adelson already has a big ole’ casino in Macau.
That money from the casino, goes to support his free Israeli newspaper.
Another way that the diaspora makes the desert bloom.
Heartwarming, no?
“Another way that the diaspora makes the desert bloom.
Heartwarming, no? ‘
Sure does. Let’s hope Sheldon makes billions and billions. Good man.
Because that’s what you think is the measure of a Jew, Julian? How quaint.
He has already made billions. That’s why he can give out free newspapers!
Yea, Jules, money money money.
Well, I say this much for them, at least they’re not putting up a Bauhaus “flying brick” monstrosity at the World’s Fair. As far as fig leaves behind which to hide crimes against humanity go, that pavilion building is actually rather nice looking, in my opinion.
beginning to understand why Israel wants to destroy Iran.
Iranians live surrounded by beauty. Contrast this building, a monument to Omar Khayyam, in Nishapur, outside Mashad, with the copulating SemiSinoSlugs.
No way would China ever put Israel before it’s long-long-long history of a well-established friendship and enduring trade deals with the Arab nation, going back before even the Silk-Trade Routes were established.
Israel and China trade arms, yes. That’s about as far as it goes as far as the Chinese are concerned. They’re not going to allow their communist/venture-capitalist balls to get squeezed black-and-blue by Chinese Aipac-ers amongst them.
Israel could never use and abuse China like it does America.
That’s not to say, of course, that China won’t ‘use’ Israel in some other scheming and unscrupulous way.
I know. Isn’t that a gas, Taxi? The Israelis are in over their heads and they don’t even know it.
Having seen how dysfunctional the special relationship has made US internal politics and foreign policy, why would the Chinese ever want to replicate it?
Yep those Israelis are in for big trouble. You have no idea how much medical equipment they are selling to the Chinese. I’m sure the Israelis are losing on every deal.
By the way what in the world is the Arab Nation? I must have missed Arab unification. Was it in the paper?
Julian,
There’s one thing that all Arabs agree on. I don’t have to spell that out to you, do I?
What, you’re fond of describing “the Arabs” as one monolithic block of terrorists and suddenly now it dawns on you that they’re not? If ignorance is bliss, Julian, you’ve got Bozo the Clown beat on bliss-spreading quotient.
With all that money the Israelis are making Jules, why do you suppose they need the world’s biggest welfare cheuqes and still can’t pay for their own weapons?
Becausse they can, thanks to AIPAC et al; most especially our US Congress & the MSM, which keeps the taxpayers ignorant.
Obviously, the Israeli branding machine and Tablet know nothing about the great Muslim histories of China and Genghis Khan. They will make a mistake if they think it is all about the Uighurs in Southwest China, and if they presume to fan those differences.
I love the supreme arrogance of conflating Israel and China. China has been a continual country for over 6,000 years. (I saw the most beautiful polished jade bowl in a museum there that was dated 6,000 B.C.) China existed before Hebrews were invented. The Chinese invented the compass in 200 BC, the elevator 2,000 years ago, and the printing press in 100-200 AD.
Who the phuck do the Israelis think they are dealing with? They think tai ren means “Wow, you are smart. And you are rich!” The Chinese are smarter and waaay richer. Rich Chinese do not show their wealth, never the extent of it.
Tai ren means “big man,” and it is not always said as a compliment. It can refer to what the big man thinks of himself, or says of himself.
P.S. Israel: you dont get kudos for a sloppy sub-standard attempt to copy their Olympic stadium.
The quality that gains the greatest respect in Chinese culture is humility. It’s in the I Ching, it’s in the warp and woof of their ancestral relationships, it is the hardest to achieve.
my understanding of Confucianism is that the merchant class ranks at the bottom of the barrel. Family loyalty, poetry, service, are premier virtues.
Merchant class has an entirely different meaning there. The Chinese people have an ingrained contempt for European style corporations where the boss works for the corporation, it’s his life, he’s proud of the corporation he’s founded, the type that Israel likes to be a tai ren about, big buildings, fancy surroundings, important titles, the big shot. The Chinese, of course, do it for international trade. Shanghai is the paragon of that.
However. The Chinese are more interested in family wealth. So, you will see lowly business surroundings and will make the assumption that it is indicative of a level of poverty, or lack of success, that is absolutely untrue. They just wont spend money on stuff like that, which is unimportant to them. The Chinese are also incredible savers. They keep their money in the bank or in investments that guarantee wealth for their descendants.
I met hawker street food sellers who were millionaires. They had a wok and a propane tank and worked in dirty shorts. I only knew of their wealth from the Chinese friends who spilled the beans.
China wants a strong AND STEADY giant foot in the middle east – has been wanting it since 1920′s when oil was first discovered, but America got there first. It has watched/observed America grow a giant foot there but ONLY for it to get shakier and shakier – you’d better believe the Chinese have studied every angle and nuance of 9/11 and other foreign policy disasters. China has also studied Aipac inside and out, so as to learn how to pit it’s own interests strategically within the internal American political machinery.
China knows exactly WHO is destabilizing the middle east and WHY.
It will use this knowledge to accelerate it’s imminent arrival at Superpowerdom.
Being mindful here of the fact that China and Israel are the two countries that have the most agents spying on us and stealing intelligence from us, this puts us here in shrivelling America right up shit creek. We’re looking kinda fucked here in the big picture.
China has no framework for allowing the Israel lobby to operate the way they do in America, in the magnitude they do in America, to gain any significant political leverage. If the Israelis get out of their line they are going to receive a significant backlash.
Israeli support in the West is primarily predicated on the basis of Holocaust guilt, Christian Zionism and hatred of Arabs. All of which are missing in the Chinese picture. The Chinese have a hard enough time tolerating the rise of Christian converts in the country, banishing its leaders and followers into hiding, let alone withstanding the kind of Israel First allegiance the lobby demands from its host political system.
In the end all this serves as is a Hasbara effort. An elaborate, over-funded PR campaign designed to whitewash the atrocities of the Israeli state.
shhhhh, Taxi, don’t say things like “China & Israel are spying on US…while we shrivel and paddle up shit creek.” If our representatives get wind of what’s actually happening, who knows what could happen? More shitty pants, and just when Chinese are no longer taking in laundry.
This reminds me of that line from Exodus, where Eva Marie Saint is like ‘I use to hate Jews, but I don’t even know why’. Not that, that self-reflection is phony, but who talks like that? It’s basically a Gentile talking like a Zionist Jew talking like a Gentile.
Oh and this:
link to youtube.com
So unnatural and lame. Zionism is about as legitimate as Scientology:
link to youtube.com
It appears that the only difference between a religion and a cult is size of membership.
Similarities to note between judaism and scientology:
A- The content of either discipline are always impossible to verify.
B- They share the same ‘god-view’. Jews say god made us, has a long white beard and watches us 24/7 from his throne where he lives up there in the sky. The scientologists believe the god that created us lives/hails from up there in the sky too, except his clothes and facial hair have a more space-age sci-fi look and appeal. I know this is goofy and simplistic, but I can’t help noting the ironic connection between the Abrahamic religions, scientology, and coocoo-land.
Well, my angle was the fake multiculturalism. Like whoever the Zionists latch on to, they have to act as though they were BFF.
So in the Israeli-Indian weapons commercial, the Israeli is like ‘we’ll protect you’ or something. I also read recently of some ‘lost tribe’ of Indian Jews. It’s just so ridiculous and totally transparent. I’m waiting for some ZioCultist to say there is an ‘unbreakable’ bond between Israel and China.
I know I beat this point virtually to death, and somewhere out there a man (or woman) named Godwin is crying, but: compare and contrast that with Nazi Germany’s occultism, mythology and attempts to find the “real” “Aryan” ancestry out in places like Tibet.
Great video. Could’ve been the AIPAC theme this year.
Well, there’s always next year.
1. How badly does China need Arab and Iranian oil?
2. How big is the Israel Lobby in the PRC, and how many Party officials owe their positions to its donations?
3. How much are the Chinese moved by Holocaust guilt?
No, China will not be a new special relationship. Only in America was everything in place for this lunatic relationship to happen.
Well said. Indeed! I think they’ve witnessed the poisonous
AIPAC influence that rots American discourse.
Can I insert a very irreverent comment and say that the design of the building reminds me of two slugs frozen in the loving embrace?
link to youtube.com
Where do architects get their inspiration?
Using a magnifying glass, I once observed a garden slug climb down my garden fence. They’ve got surprisingly super-cute faces!
Both the architects and the mating slugs get their inspiration from a Tony Blair speech at Aipac.
Israel and China have lots in common
The West Bank as Xinjiang
“The Uighurs, like the Tibetans – both Xinjiang and Tibet are known as autonomous regions rather than provinces – feel politically and economically disenfranchised. Neither group aspires to be part of a country and society that does not appear to accept them as equals, and that they do not want to join anyway.”
Palestinians as Uighurs
“According to official Xinjiang statistics, the income gap between Han-dominated urban and Uighur-dominated rural areas widened from 2.1 times in 1980 to 3.24 times in 2007″
The difference between Israeli Jews and Gazans is more like 20 to 1
Educational discrimination
“Everything is organised in an unfair way at school,” says Abulaiti, a 15-year-old. “The teachers always think the Han are the better students. And they look down on us,” he says.
Check out the latest adalah video to see what happens in Israel.
This is the strongest Israel-china link
China as modernity, Israel as progress
“The government points instead to privileges for minorities, such as the exemption from Beijing’s strict one-child policy and easier university access. But once those children enter school and university, they are served a curriculum that treats their ethnic groups with an almost colonialist perspective. According to the official narrative, the communist revolution of 1949 rescued them from a life of misery. “Before liberation, Xinjiang’s economy and culture was totally backward, the life of the minorities was very difficult, culture, education and hygiene were extremely desolate,” says Wu Fuhuan, head of the Xinjiang academy of social sciences”
link to ft.com
Israel will never make it with China.
The US relationship is unique. The Chinese don’t care about the supposedly unique event that was the Holocaust. They had their own holocausts during the Mao years.
RE: “Given that his picture is engraved on the wall, one wonders how Albert Einstein, proponent of a bi-national state much like contemporaries Hannah Arendt and Martin Buber, would feel about the Jewish state claiming him as their own.” – Kiera Feldman
SEE: Childish superstition: Einstein’s letter makes view of religion relatively clear, guardian.co.uk, 05/13/08
(EXCERPT)…Einstein penned the letter on January 3 1954 to the philosopher Eric Gutkind who had sent him a copy of his book Choose Life: The Biblical Call to Revolt. The letter went on public sale a year later and has remained in private hands ever since.
In the letter, he states: “The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this.”
Einstein, who was Jewish and who declined an offer to be the state of Israel’s second president, also rejected the idea that the Jews are God’s favoured people.
“For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything ‘chosen’ about them.”…
ENTIRE ARTICLE – link to guardian.co.uk
Einstein was shamelessly minipulated by the Zionists.
RE: Einstein was shamelessly “minipulated” – Mooser
MY COMMENT: That’s a nice one!
Well, we don’t have to look to their bible for how the Jewish people act when they have power. We can just look at Israel in terms of physical power, and AIPAC in terms of economic power–along with Madoff type people, perhaps? All his dupes were quite content for years, yes?