The Israel lobby is an expression of older Jews chiefly. Sidney Harman is as old as Methuselah, almost. His wife Jane Harman, a congresswoman who appears at AIPAC and works for Israel's interests, is 65. Forbes on Sidney Harman's purchase of Newsweek:
“Jane Harman would like to control Newsweek. She is interested in exiting Congress and Newsweek would be a perch for her to be a major player,” says the source. Harman has served in the House for 17 years. If House Democrats lose as many seats this November as polls predict, her new minority status could certainly accelerate such a decision. Harman is the second richest House member and chairs its Homeland Security Subcommittee. Republicans respect Harman’s hawkish national security views. “She’s tough and inquisitive,” says the operative.
what exactly is the conspiracy theory?
newsweek goes from one pro-israel owner (w. post) to another?
The media conspiracy isn’t a theory. It’s a fact. Zionism exercises such control of the media that the free press is an exception.
If Hartman leaves/loses her seat, then that sure is one big fat hallelujah for California! Whohoooooooo and yippeeeeeedoooooooo!!!
She can go rot in Newsweek or Newsday for all I care.
She’s already a known spy for Israel. No doubt the FBI are still watching her.
Yet, at Newsweek, she’ll be an ordinary citizen (with influence over the stupid), and will therefore have no need to hid her dual loyalties no more.
Point is, at least my California tax dollars won’t be paying for her extra-curriculum activities in the holy land.
Taxi, I agree but then we still have all the other pro-Israel democrats to get rid of. My rep: Pete Stark is great though. He’s retiring, but he has never hidden his politics (and disdain for Israel) and he’s proud of that. Write him a letter and complain and about Israel and he responds back saying, “I know, I’ve been saying that for decades…” Love him!
The sad truth is Mrs. H is leaving cause the FBI heat is still on her and she probably thinks she could be both safer and still useful to israel if she’s outta the ‘direct’ politics. Sadder truth is that Cali-Aipac will probably stick another israel egghead right in her seat. Seen that happen again and again.
Anyway, I’m totally stoked to think I don’t ever have to see Harman’s ogre face on posters at election time no more!
Good effing riddance for sure! That Stepford Wives hairdo she sports and everything below it, won’t be missed at all.
Isn’t AIPAC the only democracy in the US?
Of course, this means push those easy governmental wiretaps until they snag a zionist pusher, who then whines about creepy wiretaps.
Well, congratulations on getting rid of her. Perhaps Winograd who primaried her twice and was defeated might run and win next go-around.
Sayanim harman spent all that effort to defeat Winograd and now we find she has plans on leaving congress.
I guess the whole point of that was to make sure israel would continue to have its person occupying the seat, demican or republicrat.
That’s 1 point for israel and -1 point for the people of the usa.
Then Harman can use Newsweek to help defeat her again. Or so she thinks.
“She is interested in exiting Congress and Newsweek would be a perch for her to be a major player,”
Sounds like a game of musical chairs among the aristocracy is afoot.
She belongs in prison.
So a zionist old fart has bought an Old Media outlet.
Does anyone under 65 actually read that crap? I haven’t seen a copy of Newsweek for years.
Let’s hope Jane Harman and her AIPAC co-conspirators end up fecklessly talking to themselves, while the world moves on.
Farewell, Jerusalem Jane. You did a lot to us.
I haven’t seen a copy of Newsweek for years.
the only place i’ve seen a newsweek is in the reception wait room
of the dentist.
(jerusalem jane, tel aviv joe. all sound like a collectors action figures. – part of the save israel heroes collection.)
holy mackerel Chu, do you realize what you just said:
“Jerusalem Jane, Tel Aviv Joe, the Action Figures ™″ (Save the Israel Heroes © collection, Star of David sold separately)
Be the first one on your block to own the whole collection!
Excellent Hannukah gift, Dredel Dredel Dredel
I would buy all of them.
-the invisible arlen spector
-al the joker frankin
-superman schumer
and those are just a few from the
senators series collection.
you still don’t get it Chu: don’t be the buyer, be the Entrepreneur! Invent the damn things! You’ll be rich beyond your wildest dreams.
I’ll shake my piggy bank to get you started…
I saw a copy of Newsweek two weeks ago at my dentist’s office. I hadn’t seen one in years. What surprised me was how slim it was and how superficial. It looked like My Weekly Reader.
The quality of dentist office reading material has always been low. Maybe they hope the vict…patients will fall asleep and they can save on novocaine.
…exactly the plan, savin money. Novocaine ain’t cheap these days. At the dentist, I suck down some sweet air, wait a few minutes, and newsweek becomes a pretty interesting paper over golfer’s digest or better homes & gardens.
‘the only place i’ve seen a newsweek is in the reception wait room
of the dentist.’
Mwa ha ha, we all had the same image. Of course the digirati have broadband video on their smartphones.
But the geezer set still risks ink smudges on their fingertips to indulge their anachronistic habit of reading words on paper.
See Jane Harman. See Jane type. Type, Jane, type! But please use a large font so we can read it.
What a drag it is getting old …
How is it that this stupid, rotten traitor was never arrested? Why won’t the FBI make a move? What is everyone afraid of?
Israel and its lobby, chiefly. Careers in the Beltway live and die by the Israel lobby.
Also, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales refused to authorize a direct investigation of Harman. Recall that she was taped lying during an investigation of the person she was conspiring with to subvert the American justice system on behalf of a foreign power. Allegedly that was Haim Saban.
how ’bout we take it easy on old fartdom. still some beans left in that gang of aging hippies; some of ‘em — the ones with their own teeth — are capable of taking a few bites out of the zionist hide.
plus, unless Newsweek does a big print edition, those failing over-65 eyes might not be reading the pos either.
Meacham’s leaving Newsweek; that’s no big loss; he’s weaseled and waffled to try to stay on zionism’s good graces. hope he’s saved enough to retire to some remote island . . .
Some truth to that, PG. Bob Herbert in the NYT yesterday bemoaned the low status for US education among the 24-34 set. We are No 12 among 36 nations.
The 2000 census (altho’ the info didn’t show up until 2004) showed that, adjusting for age, the most highly educated age group in the US now is 55-65. And it’s all downhill from there.
Sounds like addition by subtraction. Harman out of the House means she’s no longer able to do Israel’s bidding in the odfficial corridors of power. Harman at Newsweek means she’s able to proagandze the great unwashed masses [that's us], but there at least exist some countervailing forces to that.
Let’s wish this unregustered agent of a foreign power with some obvious and painfully divided loyalties ‘best of luck’ as she enters a new career turn as an ink-stained wretch [figuratively speaking, of course].
not to beat a dead horse while its down, but here is another example of the comforting myopia that characterizes the NYT and its readership:
link to nytimes.com
the ease with which merkin dispenses her whinging narcissistic commentary, evaluating her various psycho-therapists, in part, on the basis of their ethnicity, is suggestive of a conversation with an intimately known companion, one who can keep an open secret. daphne and 900,000 of her closest, likeminded friends.
is it possible to get any more self-absorbed?
“People turn to Wellbrutin rather than to psychoanalysis….”
I’m on the last pages of Haggai Ram’s “Iranophobia,” which is a psycho-social analysis of why Israelis hate Iran so much (it’s projection: Israelis see themselves in Iran and hate the image in the mirror — or something like that).
In the postscript Ram gets really psychological, about all the tortured ways Jews try to fit in to European society and, having been rejected by Europe, determine to gratify their need to be accepted by Europe by creating a European society in the ‘Orient’ where they WILL fit in. Israelis hate Iran (in part because Jews require someone to hate, says Ram) because Mizrahi Jews, which is what Iranian Jews are, remind Ashkenazi Jews of the Jews they were when the Ashkenazi did not fit in to European society. Whew. that’s exhausting.
As I was reading Ram’s ping pong explanation, I was picturing the Iranians I had seen in Shiraz and Isfehan and Kashan and Nishapur: the Iranian people are completely, unself-consciously, confidently comfortable in their land and in their skin. It is not at all uncommon to see a group of Iranians spread a cloth on the ground — in a park, on the bridge over the river in Isfehan, on the sidewalk in Shiraz, in a parking lot in Kashan — lay out food, prepare tea, sit on the ground and read to each other and recite poetry while their children play nearby. You see this everywhere.
THAT is what Jewish Israelis cannot stand — because that is what Jewish Israelis want with every fibre of their beings: to belong unquestioningly and unconditionally.
It’s what we all want.
The Jewishness of the US media dates back to earlier times in the 20th Century when anitsemitism limited opportunities for Jews but it was still possible to get into publishing. Fast forward to the present when the media went from print to audio to video to digital in this age of the superpowerful telecom industry. It would be useful to know why that group of Jews in decision making positions in our media is so remarkably homogeneous in their support for or apology for whatever Israel does.
I would think because to them, Israel is their constructed castle in the desert and has been in the collective imagination of zionists for centuries. Worship it and you will reap many rewards, as you are a soldier of zionism.
I still wonder why “2 Jews, 3 opinions” does not apply to the Jewish decision makers in our media regarding Israel/Palestine where we might substitute “101 Jews, 1 opinion.”
LES- It is because of the Zionist ideology which has come to replace Judaism as the unifier of world Jewry, so that a Jew can remain a Jew instead of becoming merely Jewish, or, in the case of secular Jews, just another face in the crowd. One ideology, one people, one opinion on Israel.
This site is representative of those Jews who oppose occupation and ethnic cleansing. My original question remains, why does the phrase “2 Jews, 3 opinions” not apply to Jewish decision makers in our media.
good question les. I only imagine it’s an issue that is not up for discussion. Kinda of like voting to cut military spending in the US senate. a sacred cow…
and it should be 101 jews vs.1 jewish opinion supporting palestine. cause you’ll never see barghouti on the mainstream news, but a jewish representative like baltzer, speaking for palestinians.
anitsemitism limited opportunities for Jews
that schtick is tiresome; it’s the same one that Jerry Muller uses as the intro to “How Jews Invented Capitalism” — that Jews were shut out of everything else and besides Christians weren’t allowed to lend at interest.
It’s a bogus argument when Muller makes it — and the hundreds of Jewish “historians” who have repeated the premise so often that it’s become a truism — and it’s bogus to say that “antisemitism limited opportunities for Jews.” Bullpucky. Jews have had proportionally more success and enjoyed more prosperity in US than have most other ethnic groups, and some ethnic groups in US have been more and more perniciously shut out of “opportunities” than Jews ever were.
Jacob Heilbrunn writes in “They Knew They Were Right” that the early neocons were a bunch of Jewish kids who didn’t get into Harvard or Yale, had to settle for City College of NY (it was free at the time, iirc) and were really pissed at the humiliation of not attending an Ivy.
This was before the mass of Italians, Irish, not to mention Blacks, Hispanics could even get through the front door of the local state college.
Jewish self-pity is really tiresome.
ps. you can begin to suspect Muller’s argument is bogus from the fact that he does not mention the Bank of St. George, the Genoese bank that ran Europe — including the Spanish Empire when it dominated the New World, complete with its hoardes of gold — for over a century. Some Jews worked FOR Bank of St George, but Europe was not bereft of financiers until Jews came along to save the day; Persians, Arabs, Italians knew how to do banking from the time of the great cosmopolitan city of Babylon 400 years BC — which is likely where Jews learned how to do banking.
I never thought about it that way. My parents and their siblings fall squarely into that category. They were busting their asses to get access to any kind of higher education (working in factories, nightshift janitorial work, delivering milk at 5AM, etc) during the exact same time frame when these neocon pansies were whining about not getting into Harvard. How much privilege does a neocon need before he starts feeling privileged?
Ditto for my family Colin. It always annoyed me while reading of how deprived and discriminated against the American Jews were, growing up here since circa WW1. Their novels are filled with this BS. No perspective at all. They were elevated by the guilt-ridden WASP literary establishment during those times while the vast majority of whites were not even in the fictious text-picture book and the blacks were there only as an occasional metaphor stick figure (for the poor [four dimensional] jew character redeux under the red, white, and blue).
As Judt said, it’s because the US has been manipulated by (minority) identity politics for decades now, but American Jews are uncomfortable with so easily identifying themselves as “Jewish Americans” in public their self-identify is evoked by claiming “Israel” and “The Holocaust.”
Hence the said homogeneous support.
Kudos to Judt, and In Memoriam.
This deceptive form of identity politics was illustrated yesterday on CSPAN’s Washington Journal when a caller asked the guest, “Are you Jewish?” The (gentile male) host cut in and, hanging up on the caller, sternly said
the question was “irrelevant and wouldn’t be tolerated.” The immediate topic was an aspect of US foreign policy in the Middle East.
So long Jerusalem Jane – we won’t miss you (hell, we won’t quite yet be rid of you) … stinker, traitor, soldier spy
Her goal is to be Jerusalem Jane. So far she has functioned in Congress as Tel Aviv Jane. If and when the US can get Abbas to sign away East Jerusalem and vast chunks of the West Bank at a US sponsored Munich pact meeting, Harmon might then lay claim to her long sought trophy.
I would think Harman would be of more use to AIPAC and Israel in the congress than at Newsweek…so I am not sure she would leave unless she did get voted out.
It gives me nightmares that Schumer might be the dem head and that Berman is chair of the Foreign Relations Committee and people like Harman are anywhere close to Homeland Security.
I keep trying to look forward to see where this horribly unbalanced Israel and zionist influence in our congress leads us in the ME. …will it lead us to some kind of action that will finish off the already dwindling US power and influence, as well as our already almost dead economy?
I see that Obama’s popularity in Arab nations, almost everywhere actually, has hit rock bottom. They’ve been fooled again by the US.
One of these days we have get us an actual leader instead of a politican.
Maybe that will come after the US crashs like Russia or bleeds out in Arabia or Asia.
Jon Stewart at ComedyCentral: “why pay one dollar for Newsweek? On internet, it’s free!”
LOL:
“Harman’s “wife problem”
h/t link to politico.com
Phil..You’re a great writer..no really..Clear, concise, articulate with just enough eloquence to drive your point home..It baffles me to observe that when it’s possible to write so effectively, why would one chose to scribble in such a (voluntarily?) gauche, entangled, obscure and obscured, vague manner as one “writer” here( you know who I guess) usually does to a point where I wonder if the difference is not, simply, that one has a point to make while the other has basically none..
Snooki says she’ll be “snookin’ forever.” See Snooki’s personal dictionary.
Ditto for Harmon.