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Kirk sits at the candy desk in the senate, has supported blocking arab male immigration into the USA, and also administrative detention of Americans without due process. He's a member of the United Church Of Christ. Lives in Highland Park, if memory serves. He lied about being shot at while in the military.
Keith, I agree; in this sense US is also no different than Argentina, which via its then elite fought England over those islands, at the expense of its citizens to divert the Argentineans' attention from supreme unhappiness with their own government. US elite, via HMS, Patriot Act, internet act proposals, is moving towards a US STASI state.
Kathleen, more like attack Gaza again around that time, then, over New Year's attack Iran?
Gee, wasn't China already our de facto real enemy, along with Ali Baba in Afghanland, when the neocons took us to war in Iraq? Was that merely because Shrub Jr didn't like the idea Saddam H wanted to kill his daddy?
Jeff Klein, maybe he conflated "dirty bomb" with clean bomb? I read 20% is enough for a dirty bomb. If I were Iran (or George Carlin or Ron Paul), I'd point at a map, and US military bases, assets surrounding Iran, coupled with Israel's and USA's saber-rattling, not to mention the Shah and the US supported 8 year war on Iran by Iraq, and say it's very understandable why Iran wants the bomb, tossing in the preemptive wars already under Israel and US belts.
ToivoS, assuming Obama, prodded by Congress constantly, and the GOP shouting he's too soft, will keep pressuring every state it can to bite bullets and pull away from economic links with Iran, than a significant factor here is the Western countries, and BRIC, right? How much can the Western states due for USA? How much is BRIC taking advantage of the situation, and hence, allowing Iran to remain steadfast and still economically viable sufficiently so there's no riots in the Iranian Street? Seems to me American's thought that Bibi will pull a false flag (or a few) next is probable. How long can Bibi put off attacking Iran if the USA remains ambiguous on green light, or taking that ball itself? I just don't see Romney winning--he's now advocating deregulation of the regulations Obama has put in as a (weak) stopper on another Big Bank blowout/bailout situation--maybe the solution will offer itself if we do go into another recession as summer wans. That would be the only thing that would result in a Mitt win--if that looks likely, Bibi will have the hand he wants, to do what he wants.
Well said, American.
Thanks for sharing, John Smithson. I just followed suit.
Total US contributions to UNRWA since 1949 Is a bit over $4 Billion, the same as what US will give Israel in October.
Imagine if Israel had to service Gaza and the West Bank instead of UNRWA doing it. Gee, imagine that plus Israel getting cut off from US foreign aid. Imagine loan guarantees were actually called in; imagine Israel's credit rating if US did not underwrite Israeli debt.
In the end, the 5 million Palestinians remain stateless, and impoverished. If they are not refugees, what are they?
Israel would love it if UNHCR took over care of the Palestinian refugees, so the Palestinians would have no control themselves at all, or if the Arab countries with Palestinian camps would just absorb them as citizens. UNRWA was set up in the first place as separate from UNHCR because unlike other groups of refugees, they were stateless.
Beneficiaries had to have lived in the British Mandate of Palestine for at least two years before fleeing Palestine between June 1946 and May 1948, and must have lost both their home and livelihood as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, or 1967 War, or be the descendant of someone who had. In 2010, about 5 million Palestinians were registered under, this UNRWA's working definition of who's entitled to benefit from the program.
The USA was the largest donor in 2009 with a total contribution of around US$268 million, followed by the European Commission (US$232.7 million). These contributions made up 53 per cent of the total income UNRWA received for its regular budget. However, in terms of donations relative to population size and GDP per capita, the Scandinavian countries top the list.
2011 budget was $1.2 B; increased needs due to events like OP Cast Lead; the organization is currently underfunded.
While Turkey stands up for its citizens against Israel, the US does not: link to archive.truthout.org
You can say that the US government kicks their own citizens to the curb, or under the bus, whenever it thinks Israel wants it to do so. I'm sure you are thinking of three more fairly recent young examples, at least, including one Jewish American young lady. After all, dating back to 1967, our government has a track record of this: USS Liberty
I think it was written by a Ukranian jew around 1880, and the music can be traced back to an Italian piece, circa 1600. If memory serves, it's also the music in the Polish national anthem?
In the USA our politicians use more abstract code words to whip up the crowd against Muslims; this luxury has been afforded due to endless repetition of the word "terrorist" along with the words "Islam" and/or "Muslim" or "Arab" or "Iran" or "Palestinian" or "HAMAS" or "Hizbollah."
I just sent a letter.
Sure looks like Congress is pushing Iran to crack under the pressure and slip out some pretext for Israel and USA to attack it before the presidential campaign is over. Remember the sanctions on Iraq for so many years before we attacked it, each time?
About a half million American men were killed in WW2, one third in fighting the Japanese, and 1/3rd in air war against Germany and another third in ground war against Germany. What we got for our effort of our "greatest generation" was a Cold War with USSR and Israel's conquest of the natives of Palestine and their land in the name of the Jewish people, which is still going on.
For comparison purposes, At least 618000 Americans died in the technologically inferior Civil War, where American fought American.
Mmmm, if the Germans were not really liberated by the Americans and Stalin, especially considering how Ike changed the label on German POWS so he cold starve them to death, and considering the millions of ethnic Germans ethnically erased and "transferred" from the homes of their birth, and, oh say, Dresden et al, not to mention what Stalin did to Stalingrad's German POWS, and considering how each successive Post WW2 generation of Germans funds Israel and practically gives it nuke-ready subs and fully fundible cash for Israel to enhance Greater Israel at the expense of the natives and any just stability in the ME, key of Western civilization's economy via oil and location, then what does all that mean, e.g., for the US troops, navy, and airmen who fought WW2 on two fronts, same as the Germans did, while Stalin used USA's largess to defeat the Germans on one front (coupled heartedly by the Russian winter)? Is that a loaded question? Why, why not? And, carrying forward, what does it mean for US cannonfodder that US invaded Iraq and killed millions of Iraqis, both before Shrub attacked ( al la Madeleine Albright's "it was worth it" to kill all those Iraqi kids), and when he Iraq attacked, and right up to today?
You mean the fact that German reunification of E and W German states was made conditional on cutting of right of ethnic German refugees from beyond the borders of those two states?
Mostly all Germans born before or during WW2 are dead or retired, methinks. It's a different country, same as USA. One could make a reasonable argument, it's a better country today than the USA is. A big sign of this is Germany was against Bush Jr attacking Iraq. Germans should be proud of that, and Americans should be ashamed. And, now both countries will be tested in a similar fashion with Iran.
Annie, you might find this article and, more especially, the comments from young Germans (and inter alia Americans) under it, apropos May 7, 2010 and German guilt, or not, today: link to blogs.reuters.com
Really, Phil? I thought it was an inane article about growing bananas naturally and how most Palestinians support a HAMAS wish to drive all Jews into the sea--simply because they are Jews. With all due respect...
Yikes, marc b! Maybe Phil would find the bright side of Madoff's ambition in the fact that, although Madoff was willing to carry his MOTs a long way to share in the exploitation of investment ignorance, but in the end he applied universalism to all of mankind he was able to exploit due to their totally selfish greed?
The analogy would be to the former AIPAC honcho who turned tattle-tale on AIPAC and even filed a suit against it while the judge deep-sixed the plaintiffs anti-AIPAC case because he deemed it's reach was a political question, one that reached into the reality of elite power in the USA? Disguised as "security question" of course.
As big and wide-spread as it is, Facebook activity I see is very small-townish in its gossip, interests generally, digital board gaming, inane and sentimental thoughts, photo sharing, flirting, etc. Seems there's a real need for that by an awful lot of people, including one strain in my own extended family. To me, it's boring, very boring. Yet it's a way to keep up on a daily basis when your loved ones live far away, etc. Lots of it too is very high-schoolish.
marc b, hehheh--U nailed it!
Mark is has been quoted recently, saying one should "take note" of anti-Semitism incidents in the USA, and presumably, around Die Welt. In the context of his being a stickler not to interfere with Google's current system of objectively pulling up all urls related to your search words, such as "Jew." He's OK, for now at least, with the Google notice that stuff you may read in your search results may alarm you.
Offensive search results: link to google.com
Obviously Dennis Ross has strong influential Zionist connections to be playing Israel's lawyer for so long in the upper reaches of the USA's government--he's like an Israeli zombie that can't be killed, no matter how much of America's treasure and blood he devours: link to mondoweiss.net
“Ross’s bad habit is preconsultation with the Israelis.” Ross earned $421,775 from speeches last year, of which more than half came from Israeli and Jewish groups, according to a financial-disclosure statement. (July 2009): link to nytimes.com
I don't think so. But, merely by raising the notion in a literary work that a Kansas goy should feel perfectly OK if he or she no longer desires to pay taxes to support the foreign state of Israel, it's pretty clear why this is likely so. Phil Roth, like Phil Weiss, is considered by many opponents as a "self-hating Jew.' You may want to read the history of this concept: link to jewishquarterly.org
Recent bipartisan panel approved 9% foreign aid cut--Israel's & Egypt's share were not touched. That's 1/3 of all foreign aid right there. The press doesn't think Dick and Jane need to know this. link to postandcourier.com
The GOP recommends no cuts to military aid to Israel or Egypt, but recommends cutting 10% of that part of aid to Egypt that goes solely for humanitarian purpose, which amounts to $25M, given every year to Egypt before the Arab Spring.
I dunno, American--while the House fights each other tooth and nail over what to cut spending tax dollars on, I see they paused briefly, and, except for two congressmen, one of them Ron Paul, the other with a large Arab-American constituency, to join hands to dump a total of $4 Billion dollars on Israel come October next. Ron Paul made his objections public, but our mainstream media did not show his protest, even though he's been a candidate for POTUS all year.
Every time foreign aid as a subject for cutting has appeared in TV news shows, that subject is quickly dismissed as "a drop in the bucket." That guy from Kansas? Now if a Perot clone got out a colorful pie chart and pointing stick, and got 15 minutes of primetime TV on said subject, that might catch a tad of attention in Kansas. Colbert could do it on his show if he wanted to ruin his career. Or Stewart. Or Maher.
So Rabbi Walt has an epiphany at the Checkpoint of Reality, Palestinian reality, day to day? He's not alone; even some evangelical Christians are having the same epiphany: link to christatthecheckpoint.com
They are wondering if they should treat human beings as pawns in a game to insure their own individual assent into heaven. They are turning their eyes to other conflicting parts of scripture, such as the notion that all mankind was made in the image of God.
And so too, some Christian Establishment types are battling each other towards the same, towards the ultimate issue with Christian Rome and its counterpart, Zionist Israel, e.g., the Methodists, Presbyterians, Quakers.
Do you need to think Jesus was a Palestinian to know that there's a problem with Shelly Goldberg, born and bred in Brooklyn, recipient of every advantage that comes with birth in USA, and its prime mobile equal rights-separation of church & state, moving to Israel to take over a native family's home and land in the family for centuries? Such a deal! Getting tons of perks paid for officially by Israel's and de facto by USA's taxpayer funding of same?
Meanwhile, aren't the Egyptians voting today? Isn't it boring how the US news and US government simply refuse to acknowledge reality if it makes Israel look bad? Here's the latest poll re what do Egyptians really want? link to warincontext.org
I bet you were surprised.
Americans must give Israel the biggest chunk of its foreign aid annually, and at interest to be collected by Israel early on, and with no conditions attached that would be in America's interest, while no American politician or media or cultural pundit will last long career-wise if he or she points out in public where American interests are not the same as Israel's, let alone where those respective interests are in direct conflict.
I'd say we Americans are in deep trouble and our own government put us there, with the tremendous aid of our press, which now operates as a propaganda arm of government in any matter touching on Israel.
Since the Roma had the identical top priority as Nazi targets as the Jews had, and were in fact treated so, even more so considering Dr Mengele's medical experiments with Roma, one would think a Jewish leader like Weisel would have spoken in behalf of the gypsies too. Naw; his view has been that the Jews were unique in getting specially targeted by the Nazis.
BTW, where is the Gypsy Lobby in the USA? There's a million of them here. All they get is TLC's Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding.
So, Israel (and/or US) needs 2 attack Iran 2 insure Israeli hegemony in ME & give Palestinians a modest break? Gee, is that crazy? I thought it was Israeli and AIPAC thinking all along.
I'm thinking if it gets close to November this year, and USA has not done what Bibi wants with Iran, he will simply attack Iran to make what he wants happen. He's on record he thinks America is a pushover.
Nice to know donors to illegal settlements get de jure tax breaks in Israel now; in USA such donors only get de facto tax breaks.
Lots of options:
link to lifehacker.com
link to lifehacker.com
link to gizmodo.com
link to readwriteweb.com
But none will circumvent what MTd2 says.
Hiss was investigated in 2002 over allegations of the theft of body parts. For his role in the thefts, Hiss received only a reprimand in 2005 ".. for his involvement in the unauthorized removal of parts from 125 bodies. In exchange, Hiss will admit to the acts. The plea bargain is subject to the approval of the court. In all of the 125 cases, Dr. Hiss and his subordinates removed organs, bones and tissue without the permission of, and in many cases, against the expressed wishes of the families of the deceased." As a result of the case, Hiss was fired as Director of Israel's Abu Kabir Forensic Institute of Medicine, but was kept on as the Chief Forensic Pathologist. Hiss is still on the government payroll, and is the highest paid physician in Israel. Hiss is a controversial figure in Israel, whose standards have been questioned. He has been the subject of a few investigations on various charges over the years, but has not ever been convicted of any charges. Among other allegations, Hiss is rumoured to have played a role in Israel's removal of Yemenite children from their parents in the 1950s.
Hiss is the highest paid public employee in Israel. I read suggestions he's pretty much immune and his high income and continued importance remains rock solid because he has the inside scoop on the murdered body of Rabin.
How do you know, Samuel T, that's the way Israeli civil courts operate? Please point to Israeli law that says clearly what the standard of proof is. Thanks!
I'm not sure what civil rules of evidence, standard/burden of proof, and court procedure is being applied by the Israeli court. How akin are they to a civil trial in a US state? Some early details of the trial suggest the trial is quite a departure from what one would expect here in USA, e.g., the driver and some other key witnesses testifying did so behind a partition wall; they never had to testify in open court, so onlookers, including the Corrie family, could not watch their physical demeanor as they testified. This was justified on appeal by saying such witnesses had to be protected from the Corrie family while in court. link to ccrjustice.org
The Corries claim their daughter was intentionally murdered, or, in the alternative that the state of Israel is responsible on negligence theory. In either case, a wrongful death claim. The state claims Rachel's death was an accident, or, in the alternative, her death was due to her own negligence. It also claims she died in a war zone and there are no civilians in such a zone.
Asher Asban, who conducts professional investigations involving safety regulations related to both commercial and military incidents, provided expert testimony for the Corries. He testified that:
According to the military’s rules, it was forbidden to operate the D9 bulldozer if there were civilians within a 20 meter radius around it.
The driver would have been able to see bright colors such as that of the jacket Rachel was wearing when she was killed.
The Israeli military had the ability to purchase cameras from Caterpillar to mount on the bulldozers. Such cameras would provide 360 degrees visibility.
IDF Capt Jacob Dallal said bulletproof windows are relatively small and visibility is limited in the type of armored bulldozer that killed Corrie: a super-size model known as the D-9 often used to demolish homes. She was wearing a florescent orange vest and according to eye-witnesses, the dozer driver could not help but see her when she approached the way to the home targeted and stood in its way.
And equally as sick as Israel's chief doctor, Dr Hiss, is how the attempt by then Congressman Baird and a few other courageous souls to officially pressure Israel to pursue a totally fair and transparent investigation into Rachel's death and autopsy was stifled and buried by congress critters led by the usual Israel First crowd. Bush Jr could have helped the Corrie family here, but he ignored the case--the whole thing reminds me of how our government treated the surviving crew of the USS Liberty. If you run afoul of Israel through no fault of your own, you will not be protected by the US government. That's the take away lesson. The Corries filed civil suit because their own government would not help them wring a just and transparent investigation from the Israelis, who are never accountable to anyone, not even to the lone superpower that enables their irresponsible arrogance. You might want to review this:
link to maxblumenthal.com
So, Rowan, what does Phil have to do to bring more diversity to Mondoweiss.net? What lessons can he learn from +972?
Aw come on, Rachel got herself filmed firing an M-16.
dunno if belated colonialism explains Israeli action, but the concept of lebensraum really does. The heart of darkness is multi-tasking these days.
What has the world come to that a Palestinian kid can't be simply killed by a Jewish cop for holding a Palestinian flag? Cell phone cameras?
One Palestinian flag held by a boy, confronting hundreds of Jewish flags held by adults, backed by armed force. Yeah, yeah, Fredblogs, "Palestinian bad" got it by the numbers. You, Fredblogs, need an accountant.
Fredblogs, your advice is well-taken. Germans took it by the tens of thousands. So, remind me, why are endless generations of Germans paying reparations to Israel?
seafoid, some think that God's grand design was in Germany's 1941-45, as a precondition to 1948 Israel. Would there have been an allowed state of Israel in 1948 sans Nazi Germany? Go chat, have coffee, talk amongst yourselves.
PS, while chatting, bring up that Adolph thought he was instructed by God.
Origin of the Israeli flag: link to globalfire.tv
Atzmon, asks, "What is this religious symbol doing on the military weapons of the state of Israel?"
Odd guy that he is (as somebody who thinks of himself as a humanist first and foremost), Atzmon thinks it's reasonable to ask what the shield of David is doing, let alone Jewish prayer shawl colors, e.g., on Israeli Air Force jets (paid for by 98% goy Americans)?
A similar question would be prompted if the USA had a cross decal on the sides and wings of its own (self-paid for) F-16s.
A sea of flags; where have we seen this sort of thing before?
Lee Whitnum (US Senate candidate, Connecticut) says Israel Lobby is more powerful than AARP or The Gun Lobby, and is actually the most powerful lobby ever in existence as it is international in character.
Why else could any Jew born in Brooklyn move to Israel and take over the home and land of any Arab family who lived there for a thousand years?
Marginalization of the Arabists: link to wrmea.com
Inside the Arabist locker room, and looking back circa 1993:
link to eaazi.org
Truman's decision re Israel resulted mainly from domestic politics, that is, Zionist pressure (literally) at the WH door (Zionist $, NY jewish votes, NY jewish influence in media). Nearly everyone in US Foreign Service and State Department was against it : link to ifamericansknew.org
Re: "...my general thought is its a symptom, rather than cause, of the problem. And the same I think is true of Kristol, Ben Ami and Co. The guys phil mindlessly bestows leadership status to."
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Crowther, symptom of exactly what problem? Kristol is on TV prime time cable news all the time, trotted out as a font of wisdom. Same as Bolton, Rove, Sen Lieberman, and Chaney, Krauthammer, for example. Fox News reaches a lot of Americans, more than any other TV news show!
So, Crowther, tell us what you see as "the problem"?
Don't we need a new legislation that requires all organizations that agenda a foreign country's agenda to register as lobbyists for a foreign state, regardless if they get paid by that foreign country? When Bobby Kennedy went after the Zionist organization of America to register as agent of a foreign government, that Zionist organization eluded the US statute by reorganizing sans direct employment from Israel. I agree with whomever advocates new legislation that requires any entity operating to enhance a foreign state's agenda, to register as an agent of a foreign government, even if they don't get paid directly by the foreign state, which is, of course, Israel.
Crowther, what "horrors around the world" do ivy league spawn in government champion that are equal in negative blowback to USA & humanity generally than Israel First?
Yep, American. Me too. How anyone can argue that Big Oil is onboard with Israel First is beyond my comprehension. Why would not Big Oil favor a more balanced American foreign policy in the Middle East? Despite Big Oil power, obviously, that vital interest has no power regarding US foreign policy in the ME.
RE: "I grew up in a white collar working class jewish community – most of my friends parents were social workers, local store owners, tax attorneys and psychiatrists — not blue collar, but not “elite.”
Well, I grew up in various working class American communities more representative of America IMO, very few had a college education giving them the advantage of being social workers, tax attorneys or psychiatrists. Crowther, you have no clue, from what you say, what it means to be born and bred average American. For starters, were you a common soldier drafted into the Vietnam War? Your "not blue collar, but not 'elite'" leaves a vast unaccountability. Nobody here says you were ever part of the 1%, but we deduce you are not either Dick or Jane. Are we misguided? Explain.
Dan, look at the demography of wealth in the USA; what group has less working class members than US Jews? And, further, to the extent you find actual working class Jews in the USA, aren't they the biggest Israel First type of folks? Dan, do you actually live in the USA? Where, exactly? Your ideas here regarding American Jews seem to me very idealistic, not realistic. But that's just me, and my nearly 70 years of living in the USA, and with in-laws Jewish.
Krauss, I could not agree more. I will only add, that what keeps Obama going in this respect, unless he is totally bereft of any altruism at all except for black Americans, is his notion that when he gets his second term, maybe he can make a dent in Israel's domination of the US via AIPAC connections at the expense of the USA's once favorable impression in the world, based on facts he intends to establish in his second term. This is exactly what people like Sheldon Adelson suspect about Obama.
They may be giving Obama too much credit, but there it is. If Americans like Dick and Jane don't get that America's future is tied to the I-P situation more than to anything else, there's no hope for the USA. I don't think Dick and Jane have a clue. That's why people like Bill Kristol live the high life, knowing they are secure. You can see his confidence all the time. Why should he not be so?
See James Shanahan, Propaganda without propagandists?: six case studies in U.S. propaganda, Hampton Press, 2001, p 108: "The DOJ's search for those who fail to disclose accurately their relationship with foreign groups and enforcement of FARA is selective."
PS: A new law has been proposed , though not in the news--in the context here, which is that while JFK & his brother Bobbie tried to make the Zionist Organization of America register under FARA; it's now the historical reality that said organization eluded registering under FARA by reorganizing as AIPAC. The analogy is to a criminal group directly paying folks for crimes, but then when caught, they learn the lesson, and devise a way to only indirectly paying the same folks. AIPAC is no longer funded directly by the Israeli government as its predecessor American Zionist organization was; now Israel First donors merely support AIPAC directives without direct financial linkage. They do this individually, and through a plethora of Jewish Establishment organizations, many with American Patriot names. We need to support a new law requiring all lobby organizations applicable to register as a lobby acting in behalf a foreign government/state, regardless if it's not a direct agent paid for by the foreign government.
Wouldn't it be interesting to hear Bill Kristol comment on the Shas party or this party, which is also part of Bibi's coalition government: link to israelhayom.com
I mean, what the f&*% is wrong with Americans who totally support without criticism an Israeli regime coalition party/religious leader that spouts from the mountain top that all non-Jews in the entire world are murders , thieves, and humans without any sense?
Hah, both the Maginot Line and the Siefried Line fell fairly easily. Kushim? Shades of the Bell Curve, here we have science again pushing that the Jews are a genetic race: link to forward.com
Funny, how the various factions discussed in this Mondoweiss article mirror the many shades of unequal racism in the USA over past decades (and Europe too). Is there a culture anywhere, including native African cultures, that don't elevate lighter skin according to the degree of whiteness? Has there ever been one who reversed that apprehension? I don't think so, and I wonder why that is. I imagine the only time that issue as a cultural-aesthetic-political reality never came up is where no whites had entered the land area, ever.
Merkel has been by far the most uncomfortable of the big leaders gathered together; she looks like she's carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders, the only one there without a single hole card. Obama tried to charm her, but she stayed reserved, and even backed away from him.
So what's new? Google the specifics of HR 4133. Seems Israel is the only US state with 100 senators, rather than just 2. Hard to believe, especially in these economic and presidential campaign times, that our mainstream media is not giving this information to the American people. Only two members of the House voted against this legislation passed on quickie vote; of those two, only one spoke up in public against it: Ron Paul: link to veteranstoday.com
Note in the article how the Washington Post treated passage of HR 4133. Apparently nobody else even bothered to mention it.
hophmi, if the 98% 0f young non-Jews in USA ever get a clue about Israel's conduct, justice and fair play might actually mean something on a high level.
I agree, hophmi, most average Americans could care less about Israel, and this despite the major headlock Zionists have on US news media, not to mention what Dick and Jane do not know, which is that Israel is the biggest bum off US charity in all of US history.
I'd like to see a poll of the other 98% of Americans, the youth portion--does anyone think, absent such a poll (when it will come, only 98%?) that they are Israel Firsters? That they think giving a blank $ and diplomatic check to Israel is beneficial to them or to humanity? Interesting that nobody has done such a poll. 98% of American youth doesn't appear to count towards anything? Isn't there something wrong with this picture?
"What are you rebelling against?"
"What do you have?"
If anyone has a clue about this aspect of US young culture, please respond. We don't need a young Marlon Brando to deliver the line. (And how many American geezers know what geezer Brando thought about Israeli conduct and US participation therein?)
I have a Chicago background too; it's no excuse for anything.
piotr, so which belief is warranted that allows a young Jew born in USA to steal home and land from a native who's family lived there for centuries?
Fredblogs, did you crib from the old Nazi court opinions and verdicts? You sound the same.
Last year was the first year whites were not the majority of all babies born in the USA. And there are many places the USA where whites have been the minority for awhile now. That itself might give rise to white ethnic paranoia and resentment as the politicians keep right on speaking over their heads about special minority needs?
Wasn't the origin of The Arab Legion a product of Brit fear at the time that Rommel was winning?
Thank you, George Smith; your article was great! I sent it to everyone I could think of--get any feedback other than here?
American, done. She wrote me back.
Annie, anybody, did you watch her video clip here, speaking frankly to potential voters re her campaign for the US Senate? link to leewhitnum.com
Can you imagine her getting on US TV at prime time and speaking so? Very plain speaking about the "it's so complicated" issue--and not a single bold note of it is wrong in the slightest! She intends to make waves; will the US mainstream media follow her?
Get a load of this: link to rawstory.com
George, and Annie, has this most courageous woman ever been discussed here before, or anywhere, or is that just me? What an antidote she is for Joe Lieberman: link to leewhitnum.com
Gotta send Lee Whitnum some cash and spread her POV across the social network! She give me hope.
Meanwhile lefty PEP moneybags Irving Moskowitz, joins Neocon moneybags Sheldon Adelson in donating to anti-Obama superPacs. link to israelmatzav.blogspot.com
Get a load of this: Meet Lee Whitnum—A blonde shiksa US patriot who is AIPAC's Worst Nightmare: link to youtu.be
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Not so much of the land is still there as a practical matter for the natives. A certain type of American jew is doing this with the support of the Jewish Establishment in America: Lee Whitnum is telling the truth you won't see in mainstream media here in USA. How long will Jewish Americans get 2 go 2 Israel & murder & displace the natives? link to gilad.co.uk