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Earlier today we did a post on the resignation from the Democratic National Committee in Palm Beach County, FL, of Evelyn Garcia after leaked emails showed her expressing criticism of Israel.
Well the emails have been published, and they are honest, straightforward and demonstrate a gumption missing from Garcia’s later submission to party officials. You can see that the conversation about our “special” friend in the Middle East is just bursting at the seams. Garcia is now running for statewide office.
The original email from Garcia that reportedly caught the ire of a congressional aide who spilled the beans came a year ago, when she forwarded one of Code Pink’s announcements for its Move Over AIPAC event in Washington, “Combat Blackmail of Obama by US Congress!”
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A conversation quickly ensued. Note the aide’s reaction (his or her name is blacked out):
“This was sent by Code Pink? I’m appalled..AIPAC is always right!….[Obama] will need the Jewish vote to win and he’s treading on thin ice right now.”
May 24 2011
Other emails speak for themselves:
June 1 2011
“I am against the illegal occupation of Palestine…”
Thank you Evelyn.
June 1 2011
We printed the last exchange here.
The very last sentence in the series of emails from Garcia asks: “If your friends don’t tell you what they think who will?”
When, oh when will Americans have the guts to say “I am against Israel”. In this account, as in so many other cases, a critic must always profess praise for Israel with the exception of the difficulty of the Palestinians.
But the little difficulty is the basis on which the country was founded – dispossession – that continues to this day.
RE: “Earlier today we did a post on the resignation from the
Democratic National Committee in Palm Beach County, FL, of Evelyn Garcia after leaked emails showed her expressing criticism of Israel.” ~ Annie Robbins
SEE: “Miami mayor: ‘Settlements’ is wrong word to use”, by Herb Keinon, Jerusalem Post, 11/20/11
SOURCE – link to niqnaq.wordpress.com
RE: “Gimenez, who pointed out that there were many differences and nuances within the US Hispanic community. . .” – from the article above
MY COMMENT: I have read that South Florida’s Cuban-Americans (mostly descendants of Cubans who had supported the Batista dictatorship) are often offended at being characterized as Latino/Hispanic because they consider themselves to be better than (superior to) immigrants from Mexico, Central America, and South America.
Not surprisingly, South Florida’s Cuban-Americans tend to vote Republican, whereas Latino Americans whose origins are Mexico, Central America, and South America tend to vote for Democrats.
“”“Cuban-Americans identify very closely with Israel,” he said. “We were basically without a country, and know what it is like to be persecuted for your beliefs.”
Really…without a country?..so what are you calling yourself Cuban-”Americans”?
RE: “We were basically without a country, and know what it is like to be persecuted for your beliefs.” ~ Gimenez
MY COMMENT: Well for Heaven’s sake, we certainly wouldn’t want anyone “persecuted” for supporting a corrupt, repressive, murderous, mafia-connected dictator like Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar , would we! ! !
Especially since Hell hath no fury like a Batista devotee scorned!
And as to basically being without a country, when I hear from our elected officials like Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, David Rivera, Mario Diaz-Balart and Marco Rubio (not to mention all of the creepy, right-wing WASPs); I feel like I am basically A Man Without a Country! ! !
This is great:
The scheduler for congressman blank lives in Ft. Lauderdale. The real question is why does congressman blank have a racist aide who writes:
and
Shouldn’t be hard to find out who the aide of either the senator or congressman was…he or she represents S. Fla and has an office in Fort Lauderdale.
Fort Lauderdale is split between two congressional districts: the 22nd, represented by Allen West; and the 23rd, represented by Alcee Hastings. They both have offices in Fort Lauderdale. However, we can exclude West, because he is a Republican. I’d be surprised if someone on Alcee Hastings’s staff would have the views expressed in the e-mail, but I can’t exclude the possibility.
I think we can exclude both U.S. Senators from Florida. Marco Rubio is a Republican. Bill Nelson’s state offices in Florida, according to the Almanac of American Politics, do not include one in Fort Lauderdale.
Great post annie!
On a related note, the venerable Phil Giraldi has a great article about how the lobby has turned America into Israel.
link to original.antiwar.com
thanks c&d, another great article by giraldi.
Interesting article by Giraldi. It reminded me of this which continues to haunt all involved in that pardon that never should have happened.
Mr. Holder, according to Ms. Nolan’s testimony, told her that if the Israelis were in fact pushing for the pardon, he would find that “persuasive” and would be “neutral leaning toward” favorable.
link to nytimes.com
In other words, if Israel wants it, that is good enough for our government officials to make it happen.
Bibi and Sharon are so right — Israeli leaders do have Washington under control.
Mr. Lawrence Haas cited in the exchange seems like a fairly disturbed individual. Here is the op-ed, although not from PB Post.
HAAS: Palestinians’ statehood bid imperils Israel
Terror, not peace, animates drive for U.N. legitimacy
link to washingtontimes.com
Annie, can we start a petition (with Code Pink?) in support of her outspokenness – Calling on other Americans in positions of influence to speak out? Would that be helpful in any way?
eleanor, sounds like a plan. i will write medea and rae.
Medea and team are very open to suggestions, ideas and will always respond.
Rae and Medea will even admit that they jumped on the anti apartheid movement in the last five or so years. That Medea had not been involved as she has been with so many other issues. But when Medea jumps on a social justice issue one takes notice. The woman is a power house and willing to admit that she was silent about this issue for a very long time
Folks Medea is always open to suggestions. Code Pink has and continues to be a remarkable organization
Contact her about the petition idea
MEDEA@GLOBALEXCHANGE.ORG
Another great contact is Allison Weir from If Americans Knew. She might also be open to doing a petition that supports Evelyn
link to ifamericansknew.org
Annie Robbins related:
“The original email from Garcia that reportedly caught the ire of a congressional aide who….”
So that to really grasp the nature of the problem it isn’t really enough to just introduce into the conversation the term “Israeli Firsters,” but more accurately to talk about a “mafia of Israeli Firsters.”
Just another example of the discrimination american jews have to deal with, in this case from a member of the all powerful haitian american community – until Haitian americans accept Jews as equals, there will continue to be these problems.
DICKERSON3870, Miami Mayor: “settlements is wrong word to use”. I agree with the Mayor, grave war crimes is how the Geneva conventions describe them [ Geneva conventions Article 49.6]
So much for a freedom of speech.
thank you Evelyn Garcia. Her stance, her words, her efforts honorable. You can be sure DNC chair Wasserman Schultz was put in that position to appease, work the Jewish crowd and keep the lid on this critical issue
Contact Evelyn and let her know you support her powerful and honest stance on this issue
link to evelyngarciacampaign.com
Read this hate filled, personal attacks on Evelyn rant
link to debbieschlussel.com
A coordinated petition between Code Pink, If Americans Knew and IRMEP would be a great combination of efforts for Evelyn
Folks all ready received a thank you from Evelyn. Please contact her and let her know there are many Americans who support her brave, honest stance on this issue. She needs to hear from each one of us.
link to evelyngarciacampaign.com
Annie have you read this? Heavy heavy
link to counterpunch.org
Evelyn Garcia facebook page
link to facebook.com
As a candidate of conscience for US HOUSE of Representatives, D. 5, Fl., who has been to the State of Israel and throughout the Land of Palestine, seven times since 2005, I applauded Garcia and THANKED her on her Facebook Wall for breaking this much needed conversation into the mainstream and wrote for Veterans Today:
“In Solidarity With Evelyn Garcia for Giving U.S. Some Truth”
link to veteranstoday.com
Her ‘reply’ was censoring/deleting my comments and blocking me from her Facebook Wall.
I am Eileen Fleming for US HOUSE, D.5, Fl. and I approve of ALL of my messages-and very unlike Garcia-I won’t back down!
link to eileenfleming.org