Folks have been passing around Andrew Sullivan’s attack on the New Republic and its new owner Chris Hughes. Sullivan says he thought the Facebook magnate would end the magazine’s defense of the settlement project.
There was some thought that Chris Hughes might actually bring some air and oxygen to the magazine’s relentlessly predictable coverage of the Middle East, when he bought the magazine from Marty Peretz. Ha!
The full context here is that Chris Hughes’s husband Sean Eldridge has aspirations to go to Congress from upstate New York. And the article in his magazine that Sullivan cites is an important reminder that the Greater Israel lobby (as he has termed it) is very much Democratic Party territory (because there are so many Zionists in the Democratic Party). Sullivan:
from TNR’s Isaac Chotiner to Senator Chuck Schumer:
“Are you worried that your old colleague John Kerry has gotten ahead of himself with these Iran negotiations?”
Seriously. As Schumer is spear-heading a sabotage of the negotiations with Iran, and echoing, word for word, the apocalyptic rhetoric of Bibi Netanyahu, he gets a question like that from a Democratic party magazine. Extra special bonus:
[Chotiner]: Kerry had some pretty harsh comments on Israel the other day.
[Schumer]: Yeah, I saw that. I thought that was a mistake.
This was the mistake: “Kerry said that Israel’s attachment to its settlements shows that the country is ‘perhaps … not really serious’ about wanting peace.”
That’s worth noting in case you ever thought that TNR’s protestations that they oppose West Bank settlements aren’t several courics in weight. …
I cant think of anything I havent said already about Schumer, the I Firsters in the Donkey Party and pandering to the Zios to get elected to political office.
So I’ll just add …’strike while the iron is hot’….the US public’s isolationist trend needs to be linked to, expanded into the Isr-USA con game on the US public.
American isolationism just hit a 50-year high. Why that matters. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs…
Snips…
”The most striking poll result is the share of Americans who believe that “the U.S. should mind its own business internationally and let other countries get along the best they can on their own.” For the first time since Pew began asking in 1964, more than half of respondents say they agree with that statement, a staggeringly high 52 percent. That number has historically ranged between about 20 and 40 percent. The share who said they disagreed with that statement is now only 38 percent. ”
”Another metric found similar record highs in isolationist attitudes. When asked if they agreed that the United States should “not think so much in international terms but concentrate more on our own national problems,” 80 percent surveyed said they agreed, an all-time high. Only 16 percent disagreed .
”Slightly more than half of Americans say that the country tries to do too much in “solving the world’s problems.” Interestingly, this metric has an unusually low partisan divide; 52 percent of Republicans and 46 percent of Democrats said they agreed the United States does too much. ”
Oh well, Yuval Diskin would probably beg to differ with Schumer:
http://www.guardian.com/world/2013/dec/05/israeli-security-chief-conflict-threat-iran
He thinks the continued occupation a bigger threat than Iran:
“The failure to reach a deal to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict poses a bigger existential threat to Israel than the Iranian nuclear programme, according a former head of the country’s security agency, Shin Bet.
Yuval Diskin, who left office two years ago, criticised the continuing occupation and the growth of settlements in the West Bank, saying a solution based on two states would soon no longer be an option.
“I would like to know that our national home has clear borders and that we hold the people sacred, not the land. I would like to see a national home that is not maintained by occupying another people.”
Of course Schumer would say this. He’s never hidden the fact that he is willing to abuse his office and his position in the service of an alien state. The fact that he is not a pariah in his own party for this is a great indictment of his fellows.
America’s political system — in large part because of its long and expensive elections — which are themselves no accident, since they ENABLE the system of big-money oligarchs — makes harlots of most elective politicians. Necessarily.
Schumer is not unusual. But he is (or makes himself out to be) a “true believer” rather than a run-of-the-mill harlot. Be nice if more Americans KNEW that Kerry criticized the settlements 9if he did) or their growth (as I believe he did).
We can expect Chuck Schumer to be full of cr*p when it comes to the illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank. No surprise on that score, to John Kerry.