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the original article seems to be back up...
link to aljazeera.com
Great article, thanks for the background. Is Nicolas Maduro the current president of Venezuela related to Otto Maduro?
wikispooks has it in case anyone didn't copy the original release on abrahams inheritance.
Can anyone direct me to where i can get a copy of the original document released by the church.
I'll give you my take on the reason for the switch; the isreli jews with the support of their american brethren have cultivated a narrative within the christian church in order to get cover for "such a time as this" to quote a biblical phrase from the book of esther. Dora Gold and Binyamin netanyahu and myriad others have been paraded through pat robertsons 700 club for yeeears and yeeears, searing that putrid racist message of god mandated support for that disgusting racist project in the middle east called israel in the minds of the christian sheep.
I'm not too far from the truth on this, look at that history and note the handywork.
This move getting the Church to step away from the correct biblical position re:Israel really aggravates me...i can now only hope for the day when these hyper zionist jews get their comeuppance.
Phil Giraldi says...
link to original.antiwar.com
President Obama recognizes the power represented by Jewish groups acting as a cohesive and focused political entity when he meets with them collectively in the White House, so why the reluctance in recognizing and confronting their persistent pro-war, pro-intervention agenda? At a March 7th session, shortly before his trip to Israel, Obama met with Alan Solow, Lee Rosenberg and Michael Kassen of AIPAC; Barry Curtiss-Lusher of the Anti-Defamation League; David Harris of the American Jewish Committee; Jerry Silverman of Jewish Federations of North America; Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz; former Congressman Robert Wexler; Dan Mariaschin of B’nai B’rith; Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations; Jeremy Ben-Ami, executive director of J Street; and Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Admittedly the linking of Jewish organizations’ easy access to policymakers with their possible role in launching a string of failed wars in Asia and still more in the offing on behalf of Israel makes many people uncomfortable because it invites the dual loyalty critique and even more extreme commentary that is ultimately racist in nature, but there you have it. The president knows who is pulling his strings and so should the rest of us.
Americans can either confront the ugly realities of what has been going on for the past twelve years or they can pretend that what they are seeing is not really there. The gatekeepers are understandably concerned lest Washington’s next war be blamed on American Jews..
I applaud you for your concern, I not being jewish, see the potential for blowback if a xenophobic reaction ever arises. We live in precarious economic times and those have been the times when these events have taken place in the past, and since I married jewish I try to introduce the zionist issue into my partners life so that she can intelligently choose which position she will ultimately take.
Knowledge is power.
For this point of view and the outreach that you have started with your website Mr Weiss; I salute you.
Drive that wedge through your community Phil, heaven knows you all need to separate yourselves from any association with the zionist, once the tide turns who know what that wave will bring. Judging from history there is reason for concern.
Brutus:
There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.
Julius Caesar Act 4, scene 3, 218–224
Roll Tide!!!
A better question instead of what are liberals for is why does Israel hold such power over American politics?
"Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security." Alexander Haig.
Is the nation of Israel some type of science experiment being used by the American national security nut cases ?
When will the aipac crowd realize this and stop being used by their american sponsors?
Does the aipac crowd not care that Israel is giving Jews the world over a very bad name and has the potential to cause some very serious blowback, something comparable to what the bolshevik dream caused for them in the not too distant past.
does anybody ever learn from the past?
Sometimes you're the player sometimes you're the game.
Justin Raimondo tweets about the takedown of Huffpost piece.
Justin Raimondo @JustinRaimondo 1m
RECORD TIME Huffpo piece on UN claim rebels used sarin gas taken down in 5 mins. replaced by piece saying UN "distances itself" from claim.
With Twitter and all the other internet sources out there releasing real time breaking news i do not know how the msm ( Matthew, Maddow, Hayes, Wolf etc) will be able to keep trying to pump lies down the throats of the ever gullible us populace.
The stenographers for the State need to catch a clue, they are necked before the world.
Excellent document. I am proud that the Church of Scotland has made its position clear on their reading of the Word.
I always enjoying seeing how Diaspora Jews try to remain Jews while reflexively defending Israels many transgressions.
It must suck for you all ...talk about discordance and cognitive dissonance, how do you all do it?
One of these things is just like the other.
link to ft.com
The last bastion of colonialism lies, as he said, in the corporate world.
Zuma warns west’s ‘colonial’ corporates
By Alec Russell in Cape Town
March 3, 2013 9:30 pm
I think that this Asia pivot only means that the Realist neocons have taken up the baton of militancy. Oh well if thats the best we can hope for ill take it.
i can't imagine Democrats voting against their own presidential party platform.
Poor kid never stood a chance neither did Rachel Corrie.
The Palestinian genocide is an ongoing slow motion abuse of an indigenous population by a colonial enterprise supported by the west.
But the best part is that from the entire myth about the birth of that nation to the news that is allowed to be printed about it, is suppressed and controlled.
This excerpt below is from the magneszionist its called israel's arab problem part deux nov 2, 2010
Was Meir Kahane so far away from the mainstream, after all? Was he, as his supporters maintain today, simply ahead of his time? And will we soon hear the same arguments emanating not merely from neoconservative writers but from more liberal Zionist ones? After all, as Rabbi Gordis points out, the historian Benny Morris has complained that the Israelis in 1948 were not thorough enough in their ethnic cleansing, and Morris is considered by Israelis to be a liberal, even a left-winger.
American Jews today who question this morally devoid full throttled acceptance of this doxology are no less than direct intellectual descendants of those rebbes of the old world who warned of the dangers of Idolatry with Israel as the idol.
American Jews today who question this morally devoid full throttled acceptance of this doxology are no less than direct intellectual descendants of those rebbes of the old world who warned of the dangers of Idolat ry with Israel as the idol.
Hey, the Lobby (aipac) is out crowing that this Hagel fight was good for them and that it made them stronger, so now, the Lobby is more visible and risible, but they feel empowered being under the microscope, you would think a night flower would not be comfortable under the microscope.
But what do they know, they are history's actors and we can only follow them trying to catch a clue.
oy vey what bul$h*t.
Jonathan Tobin says this.
"But those who will say the fight wasn’t worth it are wrong. Far from suffering a defeat, the last six weeks of close political combat on the issue have only strengthened the position of the pro-Israel community."
link to commentarymagazine.com
The new Israel trend will stay in place, they are headed to abandon.
Out of the mouths of knaves.
Once again comedy as news, it seems the most effective way to tell the igno-cognizanti of this age the truth.
He was just joshing around, can't we all see that it's a joke, how more absurd can something be?
Would you fellate a donkey on national tv for Israel Senator?
Yes the United State Israel worship is absurd.
Even if it is SNL that has to tell you.
These Christian tools of which i once was, have been cultivated, as the Queen Esther quoting Christians are apt to say " for such a time as this".
from the Forward feb 2, 2007
Malcolm Hoenlein being quoted.
"In the beginning of the Iraq war they talked about the neocons‚ as a code word," Hoenlein said. "Now we see that code words are no longer necessary." He warned that the United States is nearing a situation similar to that of Britain, where delegitimization of Israel is widespread.
"This is a cancer that starts from the top and works its way down," he said. "It poisons the opinions among elites which trickle down into society."
According to Hoenlein, such critics tend not only to delegitimize Israel but also to "intimidate American Jews not to speak out." He called on American Jews to take action against this phenomenon, saying that Christian Zionists seemed at times more willing than Jews to fight back.
Didn't Israel start out like this? The irgun haganna and the other terrorist groups that were used to eliminate the Palestinian population, morally, what difference is there between the days of the irgun and haganna and the present Nation state?
The lights are just now coming on and Israel is being seen more as it is and not as hasbullsh*t portrays it to be.
Even the western press ( that bastion of pravda) can't avoid reporting some of the news any longer.
Stalins' show trials were crude compared to the American bolshevik show trial.
The Hagel American Bolshevik Show trial was less crass than the Russians.
Lindsey Graham John Mcain and Ted Cruz could be nominated for an Oscar award for best actors in a stalinist style show trial, about a non existent influence lobby which has nothing to do with Israel. And the parody done by the SNL crew is second to none, it just hits it right between the gonads.
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How did these Bolsheviks ever get a hold of the strings of power in the United States?
They sure can sell a line of shit a mile long to the Congress of the United States.
And the American press, oy friggin vey how shameful a lot these are, they are more balless than if my bubbie had baetzes she'd be my zayda, or in english, if the press had balls they'd be a comedy show like Colbert or the Daily show or SNL where the truth can at least go on display.
The entire hearing and its tenor points to an influence that stinks to hell.
Great article. Why do you think it is so difficult for the press to tackle this issue head on with serious questions?
At least in commedy circles they are more intellectually sincere with their moral conscience than those members of the msm whose job it is to relay a message as frankly as possible to their customers.
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At least you are intellectually honest enough not to deny the comparison outright.
“a brutal occupation force similar to the Germans in World War II," I don’t know.
American Jew decries being called a Neocon.
"At the National Review Institute Summit in Washington, D.C. on Friday night, Washington Post columnist and Fox News Channel regular Charles Krauthammer disowned the term “neoconservative,” saying it has become little more than an epithet used to disparage Jewish conservatives.
“No,” Krauthammer said, when asked whether he identifies as a neoconservative. “It is an epithet. It is nothing more. It once had a meaning, when Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz sort of changed their political ideology and made a great case for it in the ‘70s. Today it’s usually meant as a silent synonym for ‘Jewish conservative.’”
“And when it is meant otherwise, I would ask you whenever you hear the word [to] challenge the person to describe and explain to you what a neocon is. And I guarantee you they will have no answer. So it used to mean someone who was once a liberal, as in the ‘70s, and became more conservative and made the case for the change. Thirty years later, I don’t think it has [any] meaning at all, except for a pejorative one.”
Read more: link to dailycaller.com
That little m&f'r is a terrorist in the making...just ask the nazis, what they would have said was that the little dude was a communist in the making.
The secret service would be insane to let our President go to Israel.
The only hope for change is what that one guy who you used to let post on here believed, his blog was ethnic ashkenazimagainstzionistisrael, ( i think his name was martillo, i may be wrong) but he understands that force pretty well..his belief was that only an economic collapse could do it.
"The only chance for change in months to come is from Europe and the BDS movement. They are the only means of changing the calculus of the future. The rest is just the bogosity of hope."
BaghdadTehranI can not wait for this sh_t to reach it's natural progression, it may not be pretty for some, but noone will deserve it more than these zionist rascals. There will probably be collateral damage from these zios shenanigans but there is no hope that the U.S Government will ever nip this in the bud they do not have the spine, therefore it will progress to it's natural end.
It's any and all the Israel firsters that ought to remain in the spotlight, believe me they will run like the proverbial roaches when the lights are turned on, Aipac has plausible deniability down pat.
Will this eventually lead Americans to start asking the famous Jewish question of yesteryear?
If the neocons have their way in our political system I fear this question will once again be revived.
Brutus:
There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.
" I can't say that CFR has a good name, being the fount of a lot of bad ideas, but certainly it has a reputation to uphold."
Yeap they have a great reputation to uphold with a lot of bad ideas, makes sense to me.
Chris has been enboldened by his instinct to protect his Lord and Master, such a faithful pet deserves not much from me.
I guess the neocons have finally got the plague.
Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar
"Thus, on balance, it all but seems likely that the more things appear to change, the more they might remain the same. But that will be a gross simplification of the powerful signal Obama has chosen to send by selecting two Vietnam veterans for the two key cabinet posts of secretaries of state and defense - John Kerry and Hagel.
Obama is signaling much more than a new leadership style of using more carrots than sticks, more ideas and persuasion than threats and sanctions, more "soft power" than "smart power". The bottom line is that now that he won't be running again, Obama enjoys far greater space and flexibility than during the past four years to really test a values-based foreign policy approach that relies on negotiations.
Monday's short walk with Hagel is long enough to recall who Obama used to be - and could still turn out to be. "
link to atimes.com
Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar was a career diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service. His assignments included the Soviet Union, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Germany, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Kuwait and Turkey.
Arnaud DeBorchgrave had this to say this morning writing for united press international.
"The Jewish lobby countered with bigger guns. Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice president of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, questioned Hagel's credentials for the job of defense secretary.
This would indeed be a far cry from Israel's apogee at the U.S. Defense Department when an Israeli defense official once told his U.S. counterpart at the Pentagon, "Your job is to ship the goods and ours is to deliver Congress."
The angry U.S. general involved in the exchange wrote after he retired that the items requested were on a strictly prohibited for export list.
The New York Times' Tom Friedman, who is Jewish, wrote that it's the "Jewish" lobby for Israel that is challenging Hagel, which he calls "disgusting."
The Hagel controversy is all about Israel and the far-right Likud party agenda -- and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's barely concealed hostility toward U.S. President Barack Obama and contempt for Hagel.
The AIPAC-orchestrated campaign via its neo-conservative yeomanry is now the hot favorite among odds-makers. But then there is the unknown among unknowns -- and the unknown unknowns
It is still AIPAC vs. Obama and the odds-on favorite? AIPAC.
In his 2008 book "America: Our Next Chapter -- Tough Questions, Straight Answers," Hagel wrote the U.S. should adopt independent leadership and possibly another political party."
Sen Chuck Hagel.
"I will do all I can to prevent war."
Arnaud De Borchgrave comes to the barricade.
and he calls it the "jewish lobby"
link to upi.com
This quote below is from MJRosenberg to whom i tip my hat for his candor concern and sincerity.
"But, remember, it's not the jews, it is a few unrepresentative millionaires and
billionaires who enjoy making the United States govt quake both for Netanyahu's sake and to feel all powerful . Don't blame the jews."
Phil i know you like to keep your board clean when it comes to anti semitic tropes, but this is now JMRosenberg pleading that the jews collectively not be blamed in the event that they are all lumped together with the millionaire billionaire neoconservative zionist -loving likudniks to just tag them with a few of the most damning of their appelations.
There is no chance that americans can ever associate all jews with the neocons and if it does happen there is no chance that they can ever turn anti semitic.
No chance of xenophobia here.
Is this why the battle for Hagel is so important.
Is Hagel Israels' non jewish savior?
No wonder the battle is so fierce.
The battle at Hagel ridge.
link to youtube.com
Very very nice Mondo. The time has come the walrus said...for the jewish community,and just in time too. What shall they do with Israel now that there is no excuse for not knowing.
At what stage is Israel in?
The Hasbara is wearing off and people around the globe are seeing Israel more clearly than in the past.
By the way my congratulations to all of you supporters of Israel, you guys sure did succeed.
Israel is a pariah state.
how about an apartheid state?
Note below that this document is from Herzliya and it uses the term jewish lobby.
Famed Harvard Professor speaking at 7th Annual Herzliya Conference
Speaking via satellite to the 7th Herzliya Conference of The Institute for Policy and Strategy (IPS) at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz warned Israel that they might have to go it alone in the coming years.
He pointed to 4 recent events that, according to Dershowitz, could bring about a “perfect storm” in the otherwise close relations between the U.S. & Israel.
The first event was the publishing of Former president Jimmy Carter’s book “Palestine: Peace not Apartheid” about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This book has received a lot of attention and despite the panning it took in the media; Dershowitz says it legitimizes certain negative stereotypes including the “Jewish controlled media” and the disproportional involvement by the Jewish lobby in American politics. This, according to Dershowitz is coming from a man (Carter) who’s received millions of dollars from anti-Israel & anti-Semitic organizations.
The second event is the rise of anti-Israel discussions in academic circles and on campuses around the U.S.. This legitimizes in the academia what Carter’s book legitimizes publicly. The “trash academics” as Dershowitz called it is becoming more prevalent. This could threaten the education of future American leaders.
The third event is the Media War being fought by Hizbullah & Hamas against Israel. The battle for media attention is being fought in earnest by these and other anti-Israel groups. Dershowitz did not voice his opinion as to which side is winning that war but made it clear that it is an important factor in U.S./Israel relations.
Finally, a recent statement from Former Democratic Presidential Candidate and Supreme Allied Commander of NATO in Europe, General Wesley Clark recently hinted at Jewish involvement in U.S. foreign policy by saying “New York ‘money people’ are pushing the U.S. into war with Iran”.
All of these events point to statements that in the past wouldn’t only be heard in Europe. Dershowitz’s advised Israel & Jewish groups to continue to fight against the negative image that is being perpetrated by these and other factors but he also warned that “Israel must be prepared to lose American support in the coming years both diplomatically and economically. “My message to Israel is ‘be strong’ and be prepared to go it alone.”
I am glad to hear Mr Hoenleins prediction that Chuck Hagel will be the nominee, I want the American establishment to have at least one victory over this zionist lobby. Mr Hoenlein has his finger on the pulse and has for many years now, he has known that the tide started to turn a few years back and this is just another brick in the wall of resistance against the non existent lobby's power.
this excerpt below is from the jewishforward going back about five years or so.
"Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, addressed the fears head-on last week in an address to Israel's prestigious Herzliya Conference. Lamenting what he called „the poisoning of America," Hoenlein painted a dire picture of American public discourse turning increasingly anti-Jewish and anti-Israel in the year ahead.
Hoenlein dated the trend to the 2005 arrest of two former employees of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman, on charges of passing classified national security information. Hoenlein argued that the Jewish community made a major mistake by not forcefully criticizing the arrests.
Speaking via video, Hoenlein listed several events that had occurred since then: the release of the essay criticizing the Israel Lobby by two distinguished professors, Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer; the publication of former president Jimmy Carter‚s best-selling book, „Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid"; the suggestion by former NATO supreme commander and Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark that „New York money people" were pushing America into war, and claims by former U.S. weapons inspector Scott Ritter that Israel is pushing the United States to attack Iran.
„In the beginning of the Iraq war they talked about the neocons‚ as a code word," Hoenlein said. „Now we see that code words are no longer necessary." He warned that the United States is nearing a situation similar to that of Britain, where delegitimization of Israel is widespread.
„This is a cancer that starts from the top and works its way down," he said. „It poisons the opinions among elites which trickle down into society."
According to Hoenlein, such critics tend not only to delegitimize Israel but also to „intimidate American Jews not to speak out." He called on American Jews to take action against this phenomenon, saying that Christian Zionists seemed at times more willing than Jews to fight back.
Your'e so funny, and seethrough
There is no Jewish lobby anywhere that I can see, I'm sure noone else sees it either.
Jews in America do not support Israel reflexively in their majority, under familial pressures or through financial or professional intimidation.
Below are comments made by MJay Rosenberg about the non existent lobby of mainly jewish organizations.
"Of course, the irony about the war on Hagel is that it has been launched against him because he says that the lobby acts as one to intimidate policymakers and legislators and the lobby screams that there is no such thing as an organized lobby that does these things.
Here is a list (not comprehensive) of those who have enlisted in the campaign against Chuck Hagel:
American Jewish Committee
The Anti-Defamation League
AIPAC
Commentary
Republican Jewish Coalition
National Jewish Democratic Council
The Israel Project
The Zionist Organization of America
Plus, Bill Kristol, Jennifer Rubin, Fred Hiatt of the Washington Post, Ed Koch
This list is only partial. Virtually all Jewish organizations, politicians and media figures are under pressure to condemn Hagel and many of them will. To its credit J Street is supporting Hagel and Israel Policy Forum has long been in the Hagel camp (it honored him for his support for Israel’s security in 2008)."
Nope no lobby at all.
Resentment is a bitch, beware the bite of the bitch.
The tide keeps turning, just almost imperceptibly slow.
The Devil is in the details, Phillip.
Where is Yehova when you need him to expulse the people from the land like he has done in the past when the nation has not conformed?
An assault on every front is the only way to assail the stronghold of the Neocons.
Their power needs to be dispersed as far and wide as possible to create the conditions for a victory. We all know that in concentrated form they are lethal.
The Israel project is a powerful force.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!
That was great Phil.
The campaign against Chuck Hagel is not happening and the parties not conducting said campaign do not have an agenda.
thetwittering over Hagel.
Chemi Shalev @ChemiShalev
Re Hagel nomenclature: In pc-challenged Israel, AIPAC is always referred to as the "Jewish lobby", not the "Israel lobby"
Retweeted by Glenn Greenwald
No "Jewish Leaders" Headlines?
link to moonofalabama.org
The Israel Lobby and the neocons are trying to make a case against Chuck Hagel as next U.S. Secretary of Defense. The case is bogus but it reveals some of the smear tactics behind such campaigns.
The New York Times has a piece about the non-controversy currently headlined Comments on Israel by Top Contender for Defense Secretary Are Scrutinized.
But that is not the original headline. The much more fitting first one is readable in the URL of the piece:
link to nytimes.com
Indeed the voices against Hagel in that piece are from Jewish lobbying groups. Mentioned as critical of Hagel as being a not-Israel firster are "Abraham H. Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish advocacy organization" and "Josh Block, the chief executive of the Israel Project, a pro-Israel educational group".
As the piece fits well with the initial headline visible in the URL, one wonders why the editors felt a need to change it. Is it not allowed to expose "Jewish leaders" when they are trying to dictate U.S. policies?
Looks like the handiwork of the most moral army in the world.
This has a Purim feel to it.
This is going to play out like a biblical parable.
'Republican Senate Aide Calls Hagel anti-semite'
link to thedailybeast.com
"Send us Hagel and we will make sure every American knows he is an anti-Semite." When asked to elaborate, the aide writes, "Hagel has made clear he believes in the existence of a nefarious Jewish lobby that secretly controls U.S. foreign policy. This is the worst kind of anti-Semitism there is."
The top aide Republican Senate aide passes along this quotation from Hagel: “The political reality is that … the Jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here.”
I hope the U.S puts up a balls to the wall America firster like Chuck Hagel appears to be, with no apologies to the zio-zombies from the two tribes of the apocalypse.
Let Israel first become anathema in American foreign policy.
Jimmy Carter has won a badge of honor for his stance on I/P.
I think that it is just because of this one feature of the 'special relationship', the fact that there was a marriage that will lead to a divorce that will be like that movie about a really ugly divorce called 'war of the roses'.
It is also my opinion that the divorce papers have been filed, the U.S has started preparing the soil for the settlement.
I think some parts of the establishment resent Israels arrogance and their belief that they can get away with anything, which up until now they have.
Revenge, as Stalin has been quoted as having said, is best served cold.
My hat's off to the Palestinians. An amazing story of survival.
She is not an immoral vaccuous vessel she is the best politician money can buy.
How sad that it is for sale in the first place.
Israel right or wrong, is a dangerous demand to make of politicians. At some point they may resent it.
Good luck in the future with that.
The Piece process, which sole purpose was to appropriate Palestinian land one piece at a time under the guise of a peace process.
There is no confusion as to which is which.
Alleluyah brother Kristol we's all awaiting the arrival of meschiah to the holyland of Israel.
even so come Lord Jeshuah!
Written by Forward Editorial
Friday, 02 February 2007
"According to Hoenlein, such critics tend not only to delegitimize Israel but also to „intimidate American Jews not to speak out." He called on American Jews to take action against this phenomenon, saying that Christian Zionists seemed at times more willing than Jews to fight back."
Obama has been dressed down by the neocons and Netanyahu, i hope that he has the gonads to pay them back.
Maybe Brzezinski is just clearing the underbrush?
ALex, maybe you can send this photo to cnn so they can report the story more fully and not be as biased as they now appear.
CNN is not even embarrased, calling themselves a news source does not make them the press, as obviously, they represent something that does not allow information to flow freely into the newscycle.
The best gatekeeper out there that we can see is Wolf Blitzer, bar-none. He is the Simon Bar-sinister of CNN's cartoonnewsnetwork.
not even embarred?
and no bar-none is not the rest of his name.
All one can say is Wow! Really Israel, really?
That part of the world is a tinderbox looking for a spark.
Terrible.
" The Israelis have smashed any resistance again and again. And where is our leadership?"
Bought, paid for, and cowering in the dark corner of a conscience long since compromised.
And the hits just keep on coming.
House majority leader Eric Cantor talked to an FBI official in late October about former CIA Director David Petraeus' involvement in an affair, a spokesman for the congressman told CNN Sunday.
link to cnn.com
Col Pat Lang has this over at his site...it's interesting to hear the perspective from someone who comes from the military.
link to turcopolier.typepad.com
"Don't cry over this guy. He has had a hell of a run. IMO someone "dropped a dime" on him with the FBI. Once that happened an investigation into the limits of his lover's access to classified information through her relationship with him was inevitable. The FBI has the power to investigate anyone in the US Government, including the director of the CIA, and they relish the responsibility. It is in the grand tradition of J. Edgar Hoover. A secondary consideration that is unappreciated by civilians is that as a retired US Army officer Petraeus is still subject to UCMJ and its prohibition of adultery, a crime under UCMJ punishable by a dishonorable discharge and a year in prison. It is unlikely that this would happen but it is still the law. If you don't like that, tell Congress to change the law.
Who would have "squealed" on him over his paramour? There are various candidates so far; her husband, someone at CIA who did not appreciate everything he did, someone or some group in the US Army.
He was never much liked in the Army. "Clever" is a term of art in the Army for someone "foxy," slippery and politically adroit. He was always clever. At West Point, which is, after all, a college like all others, the appreciation of teachers can be carefully cultivated by students. He excelled at that. Every WP graduate becomes an Army officer. Relationships established with officer staff there affect the rest of an officer's career. Petraeus married the daughter of the superintendant (president) of the place. This officer was a major general. Later he was a four star general. Throughout his career Petraeus carefully maneuvered to maximize his potential for promotion. He has a terrible reputation in the Army for egomania smoothly concealed beneath the appearance of the warrior scholar. He can and has charmed all, or almost all. His fluency in the English language and his ability to interact with congressmen and the press are superb.
He was not the originator of the armed forces current doctrine on COIN. He did not triumph in Iraq employing that doctrine. The improvement in the security situation there happened because he was clever enough to accept marine and Special Forces sponsorship of the "awakening" of the Sunni Arabs to the fact that they did not wish to live under Al-Qa'ida rule. This led to the creation of the "Sons of Iraq" who, for a time, virtually wiped out the Sunni jihadis. This gave the Shia Arab dominated government a chance to at least partially assert its power in some parts of the country. This serendipitous set of events was carefully parlayed in the US media into the creation of an image of Petraeus as the heir of George Marshall. Iraq is slowly becoming a satrapy of Iran. Should Petraeus have credit for that as well?
His success" in Iraq led to sending him to Afghanistan to apply the supposedly victorious doctrine of COIN there as well. We see the reult.
As I said, don't grieve for him. He had a long run and will now make a lot of money somehow. He is clever." pl
Is this a sign from above?
Very shakespearean a la "methinks he doth protest too much."
Rep. King says Petraeus story 'just doesn't add up'
link to politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com
"after Petraeus inadvertently sent him the entire email conversation!"
Yeap that's the guy you want to pick as the head of cia.
the other great trait that the Gen exibited during the email exchange with Max Boot was his groveling before that tribal power.
oh please mr boot help me not look anti something or other, please please, i'm only a general of the united states of america, possibly the strongest military power this side of heaven. grovel grovel grovel, and an american general at that.
So someone actually wants to make this remark out to be anti-semitic?
I think that anti semitic is a reprehensible accusation and ought to be reserved for race haters who commit violent acts upon those of said race.
Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
Is there a Phrenologist in the house.
Some good testimony comes from http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com
These foundational myths, of the which there are quite a few, will cause much cognitive dissonance among those whose lives these myths seem to govern.
Thats when they really start slinging around that most repulsive of terms.
Gentle as doves, wise as serpents.
Congratulations to the churches that stand strong.
So Mr Koch is asking American Jewry to back Israel come hell or high water.
Interesting proposition, I think too many American Jews have a very well developed social conscience which would cause them to question blindly supporting Israel once they become more aware of the "facts on the ground".
We see this happening daily as others take the blinders off and look with clear eyes at what Israel has become, or maybe always was.
I hope that the very term "facts on the ground" could be used to open the eyes of American Jewry.
Friends don't let friends drive drunk!
Thank you to the Carter Center for representing the best in America today.
Thank you Mr Carter.
I think JFK was talking directly to Chris Matthews when he said these words. Calling Chris Matthews' conscience! Grow a pair.
"And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of mans deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news-- that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent."
Where does that inate need to be racist and segregationist come from?
It would seem to me that the biggest outcries, protesting the formation of a racist and segregationist state anywhere on the earth would come from one and the same people that are now arguing for just such a State.
The best lawyers and the best legal minds couldn't be up against a more formidable assignment.
But please do not let anyone else notice the irony of it all.
' I'm not even asking it to allow full, equal citizenship to Arab Israelis, since that would require Israel no longer being a Jewish state. '
Technically if you're into that sort of thing the land of Israel belongs to the Lord and to add insult to injury Christ is his Zion, spiritually speaking of course. You reject Him He ejects Israel out, off the land. Them's the rules.
Is that The Declaration of an acceptable state of Israel for the enlightened Jewish community.
Do you really think that it's only Israel that wants to bomb Iran?
Does anybody believe that the U.S is an unwilling participant in any of this?
We can't live with them, we can't live without them, and they make sure of this.
These Lobby's are only doing what they know how to do, the press on the other hand has no excuse for their behaviour.
This is why I am awaiting for someone in the msm of the status of a say Chris Matthew to speak up. The Helen Thomas episode occurred back when muzzleing was the preferred method of discounting someone who steps out of line.
Keeping the issue out of the news is still of paramount importance.
link to muzzlewatch.com
"The announcement of a prestigious international academic prize doesn’t typically generate endless sturm und drang on the pages of major newspapers around the world, threatening to turn into an international incident. But when that prize is given by a German city, and the recipient is Judith Butler, one of the great thinkers of our time– who also happens to be a vocal critic of Israeli policies—apparently it signifies the end is near.
Within minutes of announcing that Judith Butler, who can best be described as the Mick Jagger of left academia, had won the prestigious Theodor Adorno prize for her extraordinary and wide-ranging body of critical theory work, the hapless judges of the Frankfurt prize were besieged with complaints by those who said it should be revoked immediately.
Writing in the pages of the Wall Street Journal, Richard Landes and Ben Weinthal claimed the decision to give Butler the award would threaten Germany and Israel’s “special relationship”, and compared it to
Germany’s circumcision bans, Berlin sending submarines to a newly belligerent Egypt, and ugly revelations of German behavior in the Munich Olympics terror attack.
Elsewhere in Opposite-landia, the weird through-the-looking-glass world created by those who would defend Israel at all costs, right-wing critics claimed Judith Butler is anti-Semitic. Judith Butler loves Hamas. Judith Butler is too political. Judith Butler isn’t political enough . Or my favorite, Judith Butler is ignorant."
Three cheers for JVP, hip hip hooray!!!
I don't think Miko Peled could be called a liberal zionist but he explains zionism really well.
Miko Peled gave this speech recently, here he tells his story, growing up the son of a famed Israeli General.
link to lewrockwell.com
So confrontational, tsk tsk.
Annie, this is the only poll I listen to.
intrade.com
More ads playing across America.
link to dailykos.com
what hypocrites these zionist be.
'Yitzhak Gruenbaum was chairperson of the Jewish Agency's Rescue Committee.
In his book, "In Days of Holocaust and Destruction," Yitzchak Greenbaum writes, "when they asked me, couldn't you give money out of the United Jewish Appeal funds for the rescue of Jews in Europe, I said, 'NO!' and I say again, 'NO!'...one should resist this wave which pushes the Zionist activities to secondary importance."
...Holocaust Victims Accuse, pp 26.'
link to jewsagainstzionism.com
Will this be the year that it will be required of the American President to recite the pledge of allegiance to Israel?
It couldn't happen in a more appropriate place, Boca!
Lets name the Debate in Boca, Hatikva in Boca!
Let's see which of the two contenders for the office of biggest tool of the state steps up to the plate and hits it out of the ballpark.
Or will this be the year that American Jewry awakens from their slumber and have a road to damascus moment and the scales might fall off their eyes.
Shouldn't Americans be thoroughly embarrassed by the entire scene of having to see their president groveling to the influence of an obviously foreign lobby.
no shame!
Just watched a nice little exchange on faux-news with Juan William, Billy the Israel lover Kristol, and Mr Israel firster Krauthammer, Juan williams was defending Obama with respect to his dissing of Netanyahu.
It was a beautiful thing to behold, i think we are this close to having this entire election being about Israel.
They know that the only people on earth that would believe such drible are the Americans, thanks to our free press.
Great job Phil, i am counting on the Republican party realists to sweep the ziocons to take a back seat after the Romney presidential run goes down in flames as it shoud.
The only chance the Repubs had to win the whitehouse was with that crazy uncle up in the attick Ron Paul, but alas the conservative party is only conservative in theory and not in practice.
Good one Annie, Phil writes mostly to us that have already been baptized, as long as he doesn't make a big splash he gets to stay in his own pool.
I am a big fan of Mondoweiss, i think he understands better than most that the real danger posed by the neocons in jewish life is that they have the potential to cause anti-semitsm, they are riding the tiger and can neither stay on once the tigers starts to spinning nor, jump of for fear of being eaten alive by the beast they sought to dominate.
When you strike a nerve you will know it.
This is one of the best pieces i have read explaining the ziocons role in getting the u.s to send their sons and daughters to die in the desserts for israel.
Phil, when will the neocons finally set their gaze upon you?
what will it take? I think some more of this name the names type of writing will make you persona non grata among the tribe.
Gary G. Sick (born 1935) is an American academic and analyst of Middle East affairs, with special expertise on Iran, who served on the U.S. National Security Council < under Presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan. He has authored two books on U.S.-Iran relations, in addition to a number of co-edited books and numerous articles and scholarly contributions.
link to garysick.tumblr.com
"Mr Netanyahu is correct in his apparent assumption that the US can do a much better job of destroying Iran’s nuclear facilities than Israel can do alone. However, his unconcealed pressure on the president of the United States during the final stages of an election is a power play without precedent. The small ally tail does occasionally attempt to wag the American dog, but seldom so blatantly."
Did anyone ask Mr Netanyahu about how Israel treats the Palestinian People?
It's probably not important anyways.
Mr Rosenberg, you are deffinitely the point man confronting aipac and israel firsters...in your opinion who are the most influential neocons?
But Phil, Mr Cohen is only doing what policy dictates he should do, isn't that excuse enough.
sheesh.
Below is an interview of Eric Margolis.
link to lewrockwell.com
Just watched Ari Fleisher tear up Anderson Cooper, if you think the Neocons are just going to accept their fate think again, these m&f'r's will go down swinging and swinging a big bat.
escalate.
Eric Margolis interviewed on Lewrockwell.com, I heard somewhere that the air force uses his book to train the young cadets. Has some comment on this interviewed that ought to be heeded.
link to lewrockwell.com
If you remember there were also boycotts held by world jewry during the early thirties trying to call attention to the rising Hitlerian regime.
Now the boycotts are held on behalf of palestinian peoplehood by objectors of conscience.
There are differences and there are similarities.