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Chaos4700
Digital artist and anti-war/anti-occupation activist in the Midwest. "There is no greater power in the universe, than the need for freedom." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPjmxIWLEaU
The fact that he is perfectly welcome here is, for the record, why I left for good. This is pointless. Oleg and dimadok and Fredblogs are Judaism's future. They very nearly are Judaism's present.
I don't intend to stay in a forum where, quite frankly, evil hateful men and women with no morals whatsoever are given free reign. People like this should be in a prison somewhere. Instead they hold a place of respect in Jewish society, even as they wage pogroms. The irony is beyond outrage.
Goodbye, everyone.
So the UN is a terrorist organization to you? Many of the prominent buildings targeted by your aircraft (flying over an occupied civilian occupation with no air defenses whatsoever) were operated by the UN. So now doctors and teachers are terrorists to Israel? Never mind Palestinian schoolchildren, or civilians taking shelter in schools and hospitals during your targeted slaughter.
So when did you stop beating your wife, Oleg. Anyway, if you disapprove of our prison system so much, maybe you should reject our foreign aid, right?
My grocery list is more important than yet another crappy merchandise-movie Hollywood product.
Join the IDF? Some people don't actually like having innocent blood on their hands, Oleg.
Ooooooh we're spoiled? How about turning down that $3 billion dollar welfare check you get from us and then trying to say that? So much for all those claims that Israel is this massive hive of neo-Tokyo technology, huh.
Do you see any Catholic think tanks talking about war with Iran, hophmi? Oh, how about Muslim lobbyists?
It's disgusting that the United States holds political prisoners on behalf of Israel.
Yes, but when Palestinians do it, it's a crime against the state. Wasn't there an article here in the last year or so about that?
...which means you can't become a Jew by converting, right? Remind me again when Israel stopped organization its ID system by (what it considered) a person's race (Jewish or Arab, instead of just Israeli).
Like Annie says. These people aren't actually being charged with anything. They're only 'crime' as far as Israel is concerned, is they were not born Jewish.
Abridged hophmi: A thousand Palestinian lives aren't worth a single Jewish fingernail. (Wow, I guess rabbis are fonts of Jewish wisdom!)
Yeah. Iron Dome. Good luck with that boondoggle, kiddo. I suppose at least you didn't have to pay for it, Israeli -- Americans did.
Quite frankly Phil? You are losing. The American Jewish community shows no signs of redemption whatsoever. That's why I don't hang around this site as much as I used to -- the solution can't be found here. Zionism has permanently changed the nature of Jewish culture and there really isn't any going back. Or at least, I see no evidence that there is. Too much of American Jewish culture is invested in Israel, and not in their fellow Americans.
Yeah that doesn't sound like complete and utter bullshit. I heard Mussolini made the trains run on time, too.
It's what her bosses hired her to do, after all.
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." And that's assuming people like Nuland actually have a conscience at all.
I can tolerate cowards, Mr. Weiss. What I can't tolerate are people who facilitate the systematic oppression and murder of a whole culture, purely for fun and profit.
Oh, would only sound vastly more liberal and human? Yeah that doesn't sound fake at all.
What, they're going to be rejected by their parents because they think prison camps and white phosphorous is too much Zionism? I'm with Daniel Rich. This is kind of like a white guy being afraid that his KKK parents will reject him because he sat next to a black man in a college class.
On the contrary, Israel understands power quite well. It's moral conviction that they refuse to acknowledge.
So you're convinced all the Palestinians in Israeli detention are terrorists? Even the babies in prison camps? If they're terrorists, why doesn't Israel charge them and give them a trial? Isn't there evidence? What laws have they broken, then? Doesn't the rights guaranteed in the Israeli Constitution state... that... Whoops! Nevermind.
Literally anyone in the world can edit wiki entries. Though fortunately, it leaves one hell of a paper trail, so to speak, when they do.
Yeah, and how many people did Irgun and Haganah slaughter outright, Freddy?
Hey Oleg? This headline would be what I was talking about, if vis-a-vis our mutual New York-New Jersey example.
Anti-terrorism training as long as it has existed in the US has pretty much always been as a vehicle for Islamophobia. Follow the money. Most of the "consulting firms" and "think tanks" and "action centers" have roots in Israel, rather than in locally.
Is Oleg endorsing anti-Semitism now? I'm confused. :)
The Israelification of the US military really makes me sick to my stomach.
Where were the majority of "Israelis" born in 1948? Hypocrite.
To be fair, who else knows more about the unsanctioned pursuit and profligate trafficking of nuclear weapons than the Israeli government? They've veritably made an art form out of making nuclear threats against other people's civilian populations.
How do cease fires really end? Just a little reminder of who starts the violence in the conflict, as a matter of fact. Literally, as a matter of fact.
Yep. Funny who hasn't learned from history and is repeating it, hmm?
I wonder how many Jews in New Jersey would tolerate a twenty foot concrete wall topped in razor wire and sniper posts bisecting their backyard. I'm pretty sure the gentiles of New Jersey would be categorically appalled.
Isn't it amazing how totally not like Nazi eugenicists these people sound like? With all the deciding who enjoys the privilege of even being born, let alone who gets to bear children?
Oh please. A) he's probably already lost those states, anyone who is vehement enough against gay marriage to make it something they'd vote differently on wasn't going to vote for Obama anyway. B) Up until Biden opened his mouth, the Administration was squarely against gay marriage in action, and quite frankly, I expect that to continue no matter what Obama claims.
Remember Don't Ask Don't Tell? Oh sure, Obama said he was against it. He didn't campaign to repeal it. He didn't put any pressure on Congress. The only reason the repeal passed was because Nancy Pelosi made it happen and Harry Reid was too busy being led by Republicans to water in the economy and budget trough so he could be made to drink. The repeal only passed because House Democrats were more passionate than the White House, Senate Democrats and Republicans (all of whom were busy and different hot button issues) were attentive.
And the Obama Administration maintained the actual policy enforcement on DADT for months and months and months after the repeal in Congress was signed by the President. It wasn't until there were threats of judicial action that the Obama Administration finally, grudgingly, obeyed the new law.
Obama is to support of gay rights what Romney is to support of... anything... and everything... depending on the time of day you ask him.
For starters, Israel has been in continuous violation of the Camp David Accords vis-a-vis their continued occupation and military territorial expansion, and their agreement by signing the accords to uphold certain UN resolutions.
Oh there's a shocker, you were unfamiliar with literature.
"Racial profiling DOES work!" Is that what you are saying?
Like people who intend to continue living on land as the generations before them when that land "should" be "Jewish?" Oh we knew that, Oleg. The fences aren't about keeping people out... they're designed to keep people in. Most concentration camps rather need to work that way, ethnic cleansing doesn't proceed very well when you have "untermenschen" children cavorting where you want to build your government-subsidized condos.
Oh, and Sabra and Shatila.
Why do only Jewish lives matter, Oleg?
Cough cough Lavon Affair cough.
It must be tedious to listen to people who are criticizing you when you have boots on people's necks.
How do cease fires end?
An absolutely ringing endorsement of Stalinesque security procedures, Oleg.
Did you just admit that Israeli actions in 1948, immediately following your declaration of independence, was solely a war of territorial expansion? The Green Line is not on the UN sanctioned border.
And if Jews in New York had wiped hundreds of towns in New Jersey off the map and set put thousands of people into prison camps and destroyed thousands of acres of farmland so that they could build Jews-only government subsidized condos, Oleg? They would be anti-American.
"Albert Einstein College of Medicine?" Oh, and would you get your cardiac bypass surgery done by a physicist instead of a surgeon? Remind me again why the Nazi definition of who is a Jew, is what Zionists constantly depend upon for imposing their definition of who qualifies as Jewish. Myself, I'll rely upon genuine academics like Shlomo Sands, thank you very much.
Riiiiiiight because as Operation Wrath of God proved, Israel has never ever NEVER engaged in large sweeping campaigns of political assassination.
Nuclear armed former Russian terrorists don't seem to understand the finer points of interpreting factual data, do they? Then again, all they are really interested in is a fig leaf so they can go right on robbing from and killing Arabs.
People out of uniform given orders to carry weapons onto other people's lands? Wouldn't that make these people... um... terrorists?
Actually, the character of Mr. Garrison from South Park is transgender, not gay. Can't you even get pop culture references right, or must all of your posts be thoroughly wrong in every way?
Oh my gosh, I guess somebody needs to phone up Nelson Mandela and Archbiship Desmond Tutu and inform them both that they're full of shit, according to this guy.
And what does that make Asherpat, then, you think? The 21st century equivalent of Charles Lindbergh?
How about the image of David with his slingshot against Goliath in an armored bulldozer? Or occupying Roman soldiers manning flying checkpoints?
How is "back to Israel" even fair? Most of these clowns are European or Russian in descent.
I guess Zionists are about as capable of sixth-grade reading comprehension as they are at restraining themselves from racism and ethnic cleansing.
Can we assume that's your reply to historical statistics about the Holocaust, too, asherpat?
Most of the Jews I've ever met have the same skin color, hair color, eye color, etc. as I do, and I'm not Jewish. There's nothing even remotely genetic about Judaism. Thousands of years and miles removed? You might as well be talking about me having Italian DNA just because I was raised Catholic. Remind me again why Zionists use Nazi standards for determining who's a Jew these days, anyway?
And these are the people you're so desperate to remain associated with, Phil? Sheesh.
Chu -- yonira and DBG were the same person. So who do you suppose Fred is?
Welcome to another episode of
Mondoweiss Theater of the Absurd
...and I don't even have to paraphrase that to emphasize the zaniness. You know that's part of the reason I don't comment so much anymore.
As if the US government really needed any help to make themselves look ridiculous.
Well OF COURSE an organization in the United States answers to the Israeli government. Right?
Yeah. A threat to destroy Israel. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING like what Zionism has done to Palestine.
At least somebody who's an apologist for Iran isn't an advocate for people who kill whole families to steal land, sets fire to schoolchildren and hospital patients, etc. Too bad you can't say the same, Fred.
As opposed to what you and your flying checkpoints and armored bulldozers do? Ooooh! How scary those bicyclists must be to occupying soldiers like you! Armed only with the best weapons American tax money can buy you.
Cue the Zionists crying crocodile tears about the persecution of
GermanIsraeli soldiers inPolandPalestine"the God-given homeland of the Jews."Do you suppose hophmi has found those nukes in Iraq yet? Or has he stopped looking?
Keep channeling Dick Cheney, hophmi. He makes a nice patron saint for you. "So what?"
Of course not! They're promised state subsidized housing in the West Bank! Oh wait, wrong mercenaries, my mistake.
And done what, exactly? Slaughtered the Germans while they were still destitute and starving? I keep forgetting that only Jewish lives matter to people like you.
...And then Hitler moved on the West Bank! And the Golan! Oh, but credit where credit is due, at least the Nazis returned the Sinai to Egypt, right?
Oh wait. Am I not Jewish enough to cite Nazis on this blog like hophmi without getting my post blocked?
Just don't, you know, expect an actual reply or anything.
Why even bother asking this question, at this point, Phil? The answer hasn't been made painfully obvious? By the articles you've ALREADY posted here? Should I start with where funding for the Democratic Party comes from in huge swaths, for starters?
You know I wasn't aware there were so many Israeli airports in Europe.
Even that's too nice. They're assassins torturers and butchers. There's a reason why the US military has avoided using soldiers like this for most of our history. Mercenaries were used against us in our revolution. But the memory hole doesn't apparently have to run all that deep for facts to be lost in it.
It's getting so bad over here, seafoid, and most people just sweep it under the rug and pretend this is business as usual. I wish I could see the end of this cycle of violence, but I can't. And soon it will come home, and then Americans will not be able to ignore it.
And as bad as it is here, it's nothing like the hell we inflict upon others in the Middle East.
What settlement freeze? Why are we even using that language? Israel never stopped its settlement expansion enterprise. You might as well be using the term "flat Earth."
Can we stop saying settlement freeze? There is no such animal, vegetable or mineral.
There is no discourse with Israel's supporters. You haven't been in these types of forums very long, have you?
FirsterIt should be noted that as bad as injuries from rubber bullets are, what Israel fires are not rubber bullets (i.e. bullets crafted mostly from rubber) but rubber-COATED bullets, still made mostly of metal. A rubber bullet will be incredibly painful and leave a nasty bruise, and may break the skin but generally won't penetrate your body. A rubber-coated bullet does just about everything a real bullet does except crushing and spreading out or fragmenting like a standard hollow point bullet. It's not uncommon for an Israeli soldier to shoot an unarmed person in the face with a "nonlethal" "rubber" bullet and end up sending the bullet into their brain.
You may or may not be right about that, but this new generation, if it's truly Progressive in any meaningful characteristic, is going to be emerging politically disenfranchised. For all intents and purposes the US government and the political elite class have declared virtual war on liberal-leaning organizations. Just look at what was done to ACORN and Planned Parenthood (which are only liberal-leaning in that these organizations provide vital services to a whole class of people which capitalism tramples under its wheels).
Huh. I've fallen behind on keeping up with the tech curve. I was going to write something cynical but opto-electronics (I prefer optronics, because that's the term Star Trek uses :D) is actually a revolutionary leap in electronics technology. And here I thought practical progress in computer technology had stagnated.
In the only sense that Obama isn't like Bush is that Congress might as well be sending bills to a rubber stamping machine in the Oval Office. Obama isn't going to go against Congress, and Congress in its majority is in the pocket of Israel.
I appreciate how you feel about Obama, I felt that way about him once too (long long ago) but, and I'm sorry, you need to wake up. Gitmo is still open, we're still in Iraq in any practical sense that matters and no one who kills civilians in our occupations gets punished with any sort of jail time, let alone anyone who tortures (and we have no reason to seriously believe the torturing has stopped).
That's rather how I feel too. Heck, I haven't seen a post of yours yet that I haven't agreed with.
On a side note, have you ever made comments at Huffington Post? The screen name is sort of familiar and your style reminds me of the screen name I'm thinking of.
NPR: National Propaganda Radio. (Just wish it was at least our nation...)
Forgive me for being cynical but I'll just wait patiently over here for the backflip, the backpedal and the backstab. The Lobby isn't going to let this stand and I don't believe Stewart really has the backbone not to cave when they come after him.
The problem, ToivoS, is this is the closest thing we have to a serious examination of this issue on any prime time viewing venue in the United States.
This is the only thing that passes for serious examination of politics and human rights issues, for most Americans.