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Citizen

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  • Latest DC mantra: The two-state solution is dead, long live the two-state solution!
    • Citizen June 18, 2013 at 12:22 pm

      Israel is not immune from self-serving common sense, even if it's from a goyishakopf,whether a capitalist, or moralist. This will tell in the end.

  • 'I wanted to make a film [on] the conflict between Zionism and the Palestinians': David Koff on his groundbreaking 1981 film 'Occupied Palestine'
  • In '68, Italo Calvino said the only solution in Palestine is 'the revolutionary road'
    • Citizen June 17, 2013 at 8:50 pm

      I. Rahm: Never lose an opportunity to take advantage of an opportunity. Suckers (freyers, frayers, fryers, friers) are born every day. Zionist mentality.

  • Setting a dangerous precedent: 16-year-old Ali Shamlawi faces 25 counts of attempted murder for alleged stone throwing
  • 'No consequences... ad finitum' -- Reporters reject State Dep't explanation of US policy on settlements
    • Citizen June 17, 2013 at 6:56 pm with 2 replies

      Why is the press corps so inarticulate on this subject? They mostly sound like they are college freshman struggling for words even to ask about the all-carrots-no-sticks US policy regarding the "unhelpful" and ever-expanding and illegal Israeli settlements, so in-your-face?

    • Citizen June 17, 2013 at 6:37 pm

      Lewis Carrol couldn't dream up this scenario. The press corps should get really specific, saying this all carrots-no sticks US policy exception for Israel has been going on for decades, and they shoud throw the pizza pie gobbler analogy at the WH spokeman.

  • Rob't Kraft accuses Putin 8 years later-- why now?
    • Citizen June 18, 2013 at 5:01 am

      Maybe Putin accepted it as an extended gesture of good will? Seems hard to believe he took it in public knowing Kraft wanted it back...

      And yes, the big issue is the timing, just when Russia is blocking what US so wants. I think American has the best analysis of why this petty little story came out eight years after the event.

    • Citizen June 17, 2013 at 11:31 am with 1 replies

      I'm amazed that anyone would expect Putin to be a fan of Israel. Not because he hate Jews, but because he favors Russian interests and his own career. I'd be equally amazed by any US political leader not favoring Israel, no matter what Israel does. The difference is that it's politically correct in Russia to look after Russia's best interests, while in the USA, it's politically correct to priortize Israel's whims over US interests. Look at the difference in political campaign financing in those two countries.

      You can start here: link to ifes.org

  • Exile and the Prophetic: Bought and sold
    • Citizen June 17, 2013 at 7:03 pm

      Obama and Rice folded a long time ago too, without even a whisper a la Power. Interesting how they all lost their presumed historical extended family memory once they got the power.

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    • Citizen June 17, 2013 at 11:24 am with 1 replies

      This is the most astute article Mr. Ellis has penned in a long time in his series. He does get to the core of the politically ambitious, yet well-intended human's problem in the current USA. Should I just add the obvious, that all American politics are pork-barrel politics? That Congress is most essentially Barterland? What do the described trio of individuals do with the most singularly focused and wealthiest lobby in the USA? There's a caustic reason why, e.g., Allison Weir is not running for, or trying to keep a high slot in the US government. It is what it is. Donated Dollars.

  • Israel stirs the pot in Syria
    • Citizen June 17, 2013 at 7:14 pm with 1 replies

      No, Israel has already attacked Syria twice directly. It's already decided. What's undecided is only Israel guessing what it can get away with further without catching verbal flack from the USA. It already knows aid from US will just expand, no matter what it does. But there's always that pesky PR image problem in the post 1945 world.

    • Citizen June 17, 2013 at 7:11 pm

      Obama and Putin are sitting side by side on TV now. Obama's trying to talk tactically about the Syrian civil war. Putin's just listening, not speaking at all. What level of force triggers the War Powers Act? US poll: 75% oppose Obama sending in bigger/more weapons. 20% are in favor. On Hardball now. Chris Matthews talking sloppily about "the slippery slope." Re Scott Rigell (R, Va) says we should limit aid to humanitarian aid.

    • Citizen June 17, 2013 at 10:29 am

      Israel will decide whatever; it's hole-card is always Uncle Sam's deep pocket, and his veto in the UN SC. It has already attacked Syria twice recently--and who objected? Nobody of any influence or power. Israel has 100 US senators in its back pocket. And Dick and Jane Taxpayer, go "Huh?"

  • Looking for 'a new devil,' Israeli leaders and supporters left scrambling after election of moderate Rouhani
    • Citizen June 18, 2013 at 11:55 am

      The whole point is to watch how the Israel Firsters adapt to the fact the new Iranian president can't be so easily painted as Hitler2. Not to worry, Dick and Jane are oblivious.

    • Citizen June 18, 2013 at 11:52 am

      @ rensanceman
      Your binoculars are right on target, the PNAC macro strategy to preserve and enhance Israeli hegemony, which is involved, is the operative one. It's been so before 9/11, and was jump-started by 9/11, and goes on with PEP partnership by the Obamaites.

    • Citizen June 18, 2013 at 5:46 am

      So, logically, it will be harder to demonize Iran as Rouhani has less of a tin ear. Just putting up an old pic of Hitler next to a pic of the Iranian president, or a cartoon of the Iranian president with a Hitler moustache won't quite do the trick.

      In a way, now Iran has their smooth Obama, and their cowboy Bush Jr is gone, after what, eight years too?

    • Citizen June 18, 2013 at 5:41 am with 1 replies

      Rachel Maddow did a segment on Iran's new president. She pointed out that of the eight candidates, only one was a moderate, and he won with 51% of the total vote, and that was a good thing. But, she also pointed out that the president slot did not make any key governmental decisions--something I never heard her say when talking about the former Iranian president. She showed a clip where somebody asked a question of the new president in the TV public eye, commenting that had never been done before. The question was something like, Are you going to talk with the Americans? He answered the Iran-USA relationship was a complicated one.

    • Citizen June 17, 2013 at 11:37 am

      Yep. It's really a good article, a keeper.

    • Citizen June 17, 2013 at 9:57 am

      Very excellent article, Mr. Shirazi. Astute and well-written, concise. We will watch how the Israel First crowd in US and Israeli leaders handle this new Hitler bugaboo.

  • Why has Israel closed its doors to Syrian refugees?
    • Citizen June 17, 2013 at 10:52 am

      Seems apparent to me that the basics of Judaism: treat others as you would be treated--has morphed since '67 (the test of virtue is power) into support Israel no matter what it does because it's the only safe haven from genetic Gentile anti-semitism. A recent advocate of this is, of course Joe Beiden, who does not exclude his fellow 98% Gentile Americans from this active proposition. Joe's career is known for his expedient plagiarisms. We of substantial Irish extraction call him Chicklets or Plugs.

  • Tom Friedman says candidate with AIPAC backing can raise in 3 phone calls what his opponent needs 50,000 calls to raise
    • Citizen June 18, 2013 at 6:35 am

      Well, the latest Gallup poll registered a 10% favorable rating for our political class in congress, the lowest rating of any US institution since the first such poll, in '73. OTOH, the adage: We get the representative politicians we deserve. Between the way the system is rigged to be a two-party one, with gerrymandering, and our method of campaign financing, maybe it's about time the 90% who rated congress at the bottom of the list did something about these aspects of our current system? One would think the time is ripe for a populist firebrand running on such a basic key agenda? Or was that Ron Paul, deemed an old selfish white guy by the Democrats, and a "wacko" or "flake" by the Conservatives?

    • Citizen June 18, 2013 at 6:20 am

      @ James Canning
      What is said chief economist's premises, logic to conclude so?

    • Citizen June 17, 2013 at 11:57 am

      LOL
      Monica already knew. Bill was the fool, not Monica.

    • Citizen June 17, 2013 at 11:40 am with 1 replies

      @ Donald
      Because it's a lesson in distinguishing the message from the messenger. Why do you ask?

    • Citizen June 17, 2013 at 6:18 am

      Truman set this Zionist ball rolling.

    • Citizen June 16, 2013 at 7:32 pm with 1 replies

      Certainly his son took the lesson to heart.

    • Citizen June 16, 2013 at 7:30 pm with 2 replies

      @ Clif Brown

      Yep. Neither main political party wants to change the current political campaign finance system. Soros and Adelson competively rule. Eventually history will talk about this, the moprhing of democracy into plutocracy, the USA will be the prime example. I will be long dead, and so will you, and what will be left is the numb residue of the Samson Option around the world. [...] The cycle will continue.

    • Citizen June 16, 2013 at 5:31 pm with 3 replies

      So Thomas Friedman can say it, but if David Duke says it, it's ridiculed as an anti-semitic diseases squeaking about ZOG? Sonny Bush learned not to mess with the Zionists from what happened to his Daddy for threatening to pull back aid to Israel for obstructing justice in the Middle East at the expense of America's image, soft power--which no longer exists. I'm sure Axlerod gave that lesson to Obama many time, especially after his Cairo Speech.

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  • Hillary's court is the Israel lobby
    • Citizen June 18, 2013 at 7:02 am

      I boiled it down to Jill Stein or Gary Johnson. Voted for Johnson.

    • Citizen June 18, 2013 at 6:59 am

      "Obama needs to pay attention to the consequences of over-riding the voice vote opposing the change in the party platform at the 2012 convention."

      I've never seen this incident brought up by an Obama Democrat Dick/Jane commenter, have you?

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