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  • Jewish Values vs. Israeli Policies: Why five young Jews disrupted PM Netanyahu in New Orleans
  • Did billionaire Lester Crown get to Obama on Israel?
  • Passive president, busy lobby
  • 'Pigs for Palestine'
    • BDS now June 8, 2010 at 7:41 pm

      Oops, that final sentence above should have said "And hence their rationality would be diminished even more than it is today."

    • BDS now June 8, 2010 at 6:27 pm with 1 replies

      Mooser,

      A continuation of the "slow genocide" or a thoroughgoing "ethnic cleansing" would only make the fears of the responsible Zionists worse. That's the clear implication of what Margaret Atwood wrote, is it not?

      If every last Palestinian was removed from Israel by either process, the Zionists responsible would fear every Arab and every Muslim on the planet even more than they do today. And hence their irrationality would be diminished even more than it is today.

    • BDS now June 8, 2010 at 5:47 pm with 3 replies

      Phil,

      You say "The fervent lobby has lost its solid rank and file. It is left with the fringe."

      But is it not possible that some of the rank and file in this country has
      become fringe as their fears have multiplied. Reports say that is happening in Israel. Why not here as well?

      I am reminded of this quote from an excellent recent essay by Margaret Atwood -- http://tinyurl.com/23oaly7 -- The Shadow over Israel:

      The Shadow is not the Palestinians. The Shadow is Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians, linked with Israeli’s own fears. The worse the Palestinians are treated in the name of those fears, the bigger the Shadow grows, and then the fears grow with them; and the justifications for the treatment multiply. [italics added]

  • Finkelstein: Did Netanyahu OK nighttime commando raid to restore Israel's Entebbe glory?
    • BDS now June 6, 2010 at 2:35 pm with 7 replies

      Chaos4700 said...

      "The Israeli capacity for bloodlust seems to be endless . . ."

      hophmi replied...

      "It does? Then why didn’t Israel just sink the Mavi Marmara?"

      and followed up with...

      "I’m simply asking, because undoubtedly, firing a torpedo into the Mavi Marmara would have been an easy solution that would have placed no soldier in danger. So why didn’t Israel do it?"

      Well -- Duh! -- not one Hasbara liar in the world could have convinced anyone, even an idiot like Joe Biden, that sinking the thing was self-defense.

      As it is, at least a few idiots can still be convinced.

  • Israeli Strangelove now at Harvard calmly lays out 'Armageddon scenario'
    • BDS now June 6, 2010 at 11:59 am

      P.S. - Note the following in the description below the video:

      While I was checking the final edit of this video, the Israelis gave the world yet another stark reminder that they are not fit to control a collection of bumper cars, let alone a land they have stolen from others, much less an arsenal of over 200 nuclear weapons. Clearly, Israel does not want peace with the Palestinians or anyone else in their region, yet the membership of AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, support, aid and abet these criminals in their disregard for the lives of others. They have done their best to suppress the Goldstone Report on the 2008/9 attack on Gaza, and now, no doubt, they will side with Israel in their latest atrocity. I am referring to the attack of May 31st, 2010, on the Gaza Flotilla which was attempting to bring much-needed humanitarian aid to the Palestinians in their beleaguered, fenced-off, Apartheid Prison called The Gaza Strip.

      Do these Israelophants, the members of AIPAC, realise just how the rest of the world views them, Israel, and, because of the connections, the United States and its citizens? If they don't, then I can tell them: With deep suspicion, dismay and an increasing lack of respect, because, it seems, Americans are incapable of running their own country, decently, by electing officials who don't take bribes or other favours, but who have the interests of their own constituents in mind when they vote on how their taxes should best be spent. And no half-way decent public official would vote to invade another country, in order to steal its oil and other resources, under the pretext of protecting their own security, and Israel's from thousands of miles away. A majority of the current membership of the United States congress are, in fact, traitors to their own nation, because they have indicated, time and time again, a desire to put the protection of the Apartheid State of Israel ahead of considerations for the safety and security of the realm to which they have been pledged their allegiance: The United States of America.

      Treason from Within

      "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the galleys, heard in the very hall of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor -- he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and wears their face and their garment, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation -- he works secretly and unknown to undermine the pillars of a city -- he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared."
      Cicero, 42 B.C.

      Because of the uncertainties and ambiguities associated with U.S. aid to Israel, arriving at a precise figure for total direct U.S. aid to Israel probably is not possible. Parts of it are buried in the budgets of other government agencies—mostly the Defense Department—or in a form not easily quantifiable—such as the early disbursement of aid, allowing Israel a direct gain and the U.S. Treasury a direct loss of interest on the unspent money. The figures quoted in the video have been taken from the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, November 2008, pages 10-11; subtitled Congress Watch.
      link to wrmea.org

      Other references on aid to Israel:
      link to globalresearch.ca
      link to

      Attack on the Liberty
      link to ussliberty.org

      link to ussliberty.org

      link to youtube.com
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      Five Dancing Israelis Arrested on 9/11
      link to youtube.com

    • BDS now June 6, 2010 at 8:11 am with 1 replies

      Avi said..."The world hasn’t learned, because the leaders of the powerful nations on this planet are corrupt, racist and detached from reality. "And Keith said..."The real scary thing is to be aware that Israel’s position is quite consistent with the US position."

      Yesterday I came across a short video that provides an explanation of why U.S. "leaders" behave as they do and why the U.S. geopolitical position is so consistent with Israel's. I recommend it highly:

      link to youtube.com

  • Blinding the witnesses

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