Bill Kristol said at Yivo a few years ago, prophetically, that Zionists will have to turn to the Christians more and more. This is huge; Max Blumenthal reports on Huckabee's speech to Knesset. He spoke "very Zionistically," an Israeli rightwinger said happily. And what does this signal?
Egypt will liberate the U.S. It will have a huge effect on our political culture, exposing the Israel lobby. The lobby will increasingly be seen as a rightwing movement in American life. Schumer will be forced to reconcile his support for the Egyptian people, which his base demands, with his opposition to democracy in Israel. I am saying that the Democratic Party must abandon the hard Zionism that it is attached to if it wants to retain a progressive base. It means that the special relationship will finally be discussed in the mainstream media. When, please?
We (progressives, anti-Zionists, whoever) must point out that if a post-Mubarak Egypt is no threat to Israel (as it is not), no one should doubt that a post-occupation Palestinian state will ALSO not be a threat to Israel. How could it? even if armed, its arms would never amount to a hill of beans next to Israel’s jet fighters, A-bombs, H-bombs, etc., etc.
That being so, why has the USA worked so hard to lose its soul in protecting Israel in its war-crimes, etc., all of which would be unnecessary if only Israel would make the peace that Arafat proposed in 1988 and that the Arab League proposed in 2002.
The USA should be ashamed and we should work hard to see that it is.
But do military imbalances last over centuries?
Don’t hold your breath. The progressive movement where I live has effectively had its political back broken. Except for below the state government level, we have no voice whatsoever.
Obama managed something no Republican ever had — he destroyed the remaining bit of enfranchisement that Progressivism had in the US government. As far as I can see, there’s very little left that will stop corporations and their neocon allies from sacking proverbial Rome.
Huckabee is a traitor. So is Barney Frank.
One is right, the other is left.
Yet we got no one to depend on for love of country when it comes to israeli interests.
on Huck’s FB page someone from/ in Israel asked him to run for Prime Minister. can you imagine a Muslim politician so pro-Arab that Arabs are asking him to run in an election in their country? they’d be all over jihadwatch and rapturewatch and ruined before their next breath.
RE: “In the Knesset, speaking Zionistically, Huckabee says that Egyptian revolution is a ‘threat to Israel’” – Weiss
MY SNARK: It looks like the next Republican candidate for U.S. Presidency might well be chosen in Israel.
SEE: Mitt Romney meets with Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel ~ by Jennifer Epstein, Politico, 01/11/14
ENTIRE ARTICLE – link to politico.com