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chauncey

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• Remnick ignores the Nakba's role in Israeli 'democracy'
  • chauncey March 13, 2012 at 5:08 pm with 3 replies

    Right on

• Democratic chair Wasserman Schultz said to cancel speech to Muslim voting-rights group under rightwing pressure
  • chauncey March 10, 2012 at 6:50 pm

    I'm still seeing the old avatar?

• Israel's lobby (updated)
  • chauncey March 8, 2012 at 4:57 pm with 1 replies

    "Israel lives in a tough neighborhood."

    "Iran threatens to wipe Israel, as they say, off the map."

    Heard several times a day by listeners swaddled in the happy talk of NPR.

• Opposing boycott, Walzer shares stage with speakers known for attacking Islam
  • chauncey March 5, 2012 at 4:44 pm with 10 replies

    thumbs up on the new avatar

• The last time a Democratic president took on Benjamin Netanyahu...
  • chauncey March 4, 2012 at 12:15 am

    well framed, pix

• Responding to commenters on recent bannings
  • chauncey March 4, 2012 at 12:34 am

    Thomson, your comments, while imho not necessarily much at odds with Annie's views... very relevant and instructive nonetheless. I just read The Israel Lobby, everyone should. Thanks for the exerpts.

  • chauncey March 2, 2012 at 6:44 pm with 1 replies

    I've learned a lot from the site and read it every day, but I also protest about Blankfort. He was an author on this site and he got dumped without even the chance to comply. It doesn't compute.

    Maybe I'll ask ten friends if this was unfair, and if they all say, "yes," Blankfort will be reinstated. (You may remember, J. Slater attempted to trump Blankfort in their debate by sending Blankfort's comment to 10 of his friends, all of whom responded that Blankfort is, you guessed it....anti-semitic.)

• ADL enlists city of Oakland to block Atzmon event
  • chauncey February 29, 2012 at 9:03 pm

    He's cookin', alright.

    Someone asked for Bouillabaisse and he thought he heard "blood base."

  • chauncey February 28, 2012 at 7:03 pm with 1 replies

    Un Coeur en Hiver is indeed a gem...and Nelly and Mr Arnaud, also starring Emmanuelle Beart and by the same director, is great too.

  • chauncey February 28, 2012 at 6:59 pm

    For the moment, Rick, you have the last word, and I second it. I see no evidence of holocaust denial, and I see basically a humanitarian. Thanks for the post.

• Surprise-- courageous Elizabeth Warren is craven on Israel lobby
  • chauncey February 26, 2012 at 7:33 pm

    no prize I'm afraid...rather "toothless" as far as metaphors go...you could do better?

• Weir criticizes lack of diversity in NYT's Jerusalem appointments
  • chauncey February 24, 2012 at 4:44 pm

    If you are exaggerating about NPR, it ain't by much.

    CAMERA has referred to NPR as "National Palestine Radio." If that is accurate, I am a monkey's uncle.

    The best defense is a good offense, I guess.

  • chauncey February 23, 2012 at 5:46 pm with 3 replies

    I read about this case but didn't know Harman was involved. Can you provide a link?

• A lull on this site
  • chauncey February 17, 2012 at 5:40 pm with 2 replies

    Also sorry to see the retroactive ban of Blankfort, truly a grizzled veteran of the "war of ideas" (heck, he even fought the ADL, and he won!).

    JB a feather in the cap of MW, an exclusive, a jewel if not the jewel in the crown, MW the closest thing to a blog of his own. The baby out with the bath water, as Taxista put it. Hopefully, a reversal.

  • chauncey February 9, 2012 at 5:02 pm with 6 replies

    Annie, speaking of posting and the "lull," perhaps this might be worthy...
    an Israeli ad makes a joke out of the idea of a Mossad agent accidently blowing up an Iranian enrichment plant.

    link to haaretz.com

• Wait-- do you like Israel? (Jeffrey Goldberg's ultimate test)
  • chauncey January 30, 2012 at 8:58 pm

    Goldberg is an honest broker, he's a straight shooter, he's got no agenda, he's fair and balanced.

    Here's what he said about Rachel Corrie's murder by bulldozer:

    "She came too close to one and she was plowed under" (pp. 300-1).

• 'Invented' Palestinian confronts Gingrich at GOP debate
  • chauncey January 27, 2012 at 8:41 pm

    Note how Romney was compelled to repeat Netanyahu's name using the nickname.
    "Benjamin Netanyahu---Bibi Netanyahu." Chummy

• 'Center for American Progress' censors references to Israel from piece on Islamophobic film
  • chauncey January 27, 2012 at 1:39 pm

    Greenwald wrote about this today.

    link to salon.com

• Robert Reich pretends he's stupid
  • chauncey January 27, 2012 at 6:31 pm

    The link provided is to the Reich article at readersupportednews.org.
    RSN is run by Marc Ash, who started truthout.org. This fellow (and RSN) is very PEP.
    link to counterpunch.org

    (BTW, Ash claims he averaged 140k founding and running truthout before he got the boot.)

• Bad career move by Tilda Swinton
  • chauncey January 25, 2012 at 9:47 pm

    megadittos...what dupes we've been of this Hollywood disinfo.

    You watch Reel Bad Arabs, and you say to yourself, we've been played.
    link to youtube.com

    From Chapter Two (Neil Simon, 1979):

    James Caan's character is asked: "How was London?"

    He responds: "Full of Arabs."

    Nice.

• 'I better not call Betty' -- My long path to unreasonable optimism about the conflict
  • chauncey January 15, 2012 at 1:53 pm

    Thank you for this wise and inspiring essay, it was a joy to read. This kind of article is a great feature of MW.

• Even 'SNL' is talking about Israel firsters....
  • chauncey January 9, 2012 at 1:34 am

    It was indeed flat, so flat that I had tuned out already by the 2-minute mark and missed the money quote.

    Producer: "Ok, you can use that, but put it in the Santorum ad, no one will be paying attention after the first minute."

• Uniformed corporal's criticism of Iran attack breaks off on CNN mid-sentence
  • chauncey January 5, 2012 at 12:28 pm

    Good digging on Bash. . . . I like how she uses the old fox method, "SOME Republicans out there HAVE BEEN SAYING that Ron Paul would be very dangerous. . ." . . . yeah, like her!

• Linda Gradstein: 'I'm not an Israeli citizen, but that being said, I'm part of Israel.'
  • chauncey January 3, 2012 at 8:56 pm

    funny! I especially like the "in all seriousness"

  • chauncey January 3, 2012 at 8:50 pm

    your passion is refreshing, Kathleen...reminds me of how much I enjoyed reading your gettin' after Steve Clemons...

  • chauncey January 3, 2012 at 1:40 am with 2 replies

    This is a great illustration of the upside down, absurd, tragic reality. Gradstein, so clueless, making her jokes, "falling into" her "cool job" helping to write the first, phony, draft of history, on which few red marks will appear. So insulated, expecting criticism as pro-Palestine and requiring a police escort from the synagogue!

    I've ceased my support for NPR as well. I like pabelmont's idea: send one dollar with a note.

    The closing mention of "Jews as Victims" reminds me, a few months back I heard an
    episode of "This American Life" called "Notes on Camp" (original airing 1998).
    Included was a 3-minute segment featuring a woman describing her experience as a ten-year-old at a "very left wing, Zionist camp" in Wisconsin. One day a rock was thrown through the dining hall window, with a note attached, saying "We don't want no Jew camps in Wisconsin." The camp sprang into action---they held meetings, they posted guards, they painted their faces black so they wouldn't be seen at night.
    Then one night suddenly someone saw that a large cross was burning on the front lawn, and there were men wearing white sheets with pillowcases over their heads; one was riding a horse. They made everyone go outside, and they shouted that they wanted the lousy Jews out.

    Not too long ago, I probably would have swallowed all of this. But instead I thought, "This is fake!" And sure enough, the woman explained that the whole thing was staged, "it was all a political lesson we were supposed to be learning." And so, based on my own experience, I add my voice to those on this site who say, this stuff isn't working so well anymore.

• Kampeas: Jewish neocons are more than 2 degrees removed from Bush's decision to invade Iraq
  • chauncey December 31, 2011 at 9:29 pm

    I wouldn't call it a "hijack." The article discusses whether neocons directly influenced Bush's decision to invade Iraq. It's not that big a leap to suggest that 9/11 was a false-flag attack to set the stage. Evidence is plentiful.

  • chauncey December 31, 2011 at 3:48 pm with 1 replies

    No heavyweight claims here, but your assumption is not ludicrous in my book.

    The 9/11 question is begged by the discussion of the neocons' push for the Iraq war.

    There were plans to invade Afghanistan prior to 9/11 that weren't coupled with a propaganda campaign. Perhaps because the "new Pearl Harbor" was
    in the works. And Iraq plans were in place too, just ask Paul O'Neill, or Richard Clarke, who was ordered by G.W. Bush to connect Iraq with
    the 9/11 attacks in the immediate aftermath.

    If you watch a video of the collapse of building 7, its sure looks like a classic demolition, and it wasn't hit by a plane. How did the 9/11
    Commission report handle the collapse of building 7? By not mentioning it.

    WTC buildings 1 and 2 exploded outward, with large pieces sent long distances sideways. These were not collapses caused by
    gravity after plane impacts.

• Welcome Annie Robbins as Writer at Large
  • chauncey December 5, 2011 at 8:57 pm

    This is a fine development. I've enjoyed your comments since I began visiting this site, Annie.

• The earlier me
  • chauncey December 3, 2011 at 11:32 am with 2 replies

    Thanks, JH. I plan to read "Fatal Embrace." I recently read and recommend "Breakthrough: Transforming Fear into Compassion," similarly written after a look in the mirror, by Richard Forer.

• Why is Charlie Rose hugging Seth Klarman?
  • chauncey December 1, 2011 at 10:07 pm with 1 replies

    Robert Kraft started the IFL, the Israel Football League, with 8 teams.

    link to santacruzsentinel.com

    Here is an exerpt, suitable for US MSM readers:

    " HOLY LAND CALLING

    When Martisius was 20, he made three trips to Israel in a 12-month span. The first was a birthright trip during the Lebanon War.

    "The birthright trips are designed to get you excited about being Jewish," said Hilary Martisius, John's mother. "They're zionistic. When the war happened, it made him think and it made him brave."

    Martisius was drawn to the country and its people. He wasn't going to let conflict with Palestine dissuade him gaining Aliyah, the immigration of Jews to the Land of Israel.

    "The threat of attack from the Palestinians, the threat of invasion ended about 1½ years ago. There's no more suicide bombings. It seemed like it stopped like a switch. It just turned off. There have even been peace rallies for Israelis and Palestinians. ... Israel is not a war-hungry place. [Israelis] don't want any more land than God wants them to have."

    He said he began to identify spiritually with the Holy Land with each visit. He appreciated the country's diversity and friendly people.

    "We have Jews from all over the world here," he said. "It's like San Francisco, in terms of diversity."

    He said most restaurants and major businesses have security guards who check suspicious-looking people for weapons and explosives.

    "I feel 100 percent safe," Martisius said.

    Southern Israel is still a target for rockets and mortar bombs fired from the Gaza Strip."

• Warmongering Jeffrey Goldberg calls on Obama to use missile strikes against Iran
  • chauncey November 9, 2011 at 12:04 am

    Is Goldberg's writing skewed in one direction?

    Here's what he said about Rachel Corrie's murder by bulldozer:

    "She came too close to one and she was plowed under" (pp. 300-1).

• 9/11 commission prevaricated about prime grievance behind the attack, Palestine
  • chauncey September 6, 2011 at 2:54 am with 12 replies

    Mr. Fisk is homing in on the "why," but does he have the "who"?

    In August of 2007, in an article called "Even I question the 'truth' about 9/11," he was asking important questions about the "how":

    "But – here we go. I am increasingly troubled at the inconsistencies in the official narrative of 9/11. It's not just the obvious non sequiturs: where are the aircraft parts (engines, etc) from the attack on the Pentagon? Why have the officials involved in the United 93 flight (which crashed in Pennsylvania) been muzzled? Why did flight 93's debris spread over miles when it was supposed to have crashed in one piece in a field?"

    and

    "If it is true, for example, that kerosene burns at 820C under optimum conditions, how come the steel beams of the twin towers – whose melting point is supposed to be about 1,480C – would snap through at the same time? (They collapsed in 8.1 and 10 seconds.) What about the third tower – the so-called World Trade Centre Building 7 (or the Salmon Brothers Building) – which collapsed in 6.6 seconds in its own footprint at 5.20pm on 11 September? Why did it so neatly fall to the ground when no aircraft had hit it?"

    and

    "But what about the weird letter allegedly written by Mohamed Atta, the Egyptian hijacker-murderer with the spooky face, whose "Islamic" advice to his gruesome comrades – released by the CIA – mystified every Muslim friend I know in the Middle East? Atta mentioned his family – which no Muslim, however ill-taught, would be likely to include in such a prayer. He reminds his comrades-in-murder to say the first Muslim prayer of the day and then goes on to quote from it. But no Muslim would need such a reminder – let alone expect the text of the "Fajr" prayer to be included in Atta's letter."

    Mr.Fisk may be getting warmer about the "why," but until he's got the "who," he's got the cart before the horse.

• Ajl on the social origins of the tent protests
  • chauncey August 18, 2011 at 4:35 pm

    "Like white sharecroppers in the dust bowl protesting in hobo camps while up the road a black chain-gang works under the watchful eye of state prison guards."

    Wow, that is some deft analogy. Bravo.

• Insider (Jewish) baseball
  • chauncey August 17, 2011 at 3:19 pm

    BTW, the correct usage is "champing at the bit," not "chomping." Sorry, it's a pet peeve.

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