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• After Kerry visit, Israeli and Palestinian leaders quietly re-open economic negotiations
  • DICKERSON3870 June 19, 2013 at 12:08 am

    RE: "[J]ust last week Sweden announced that it would cut around $30 million in funds to the PA, for lack of progress in peace negotiations." ~ Allison Deger

    SEE: "'Yes, we are funding the occupation', Swedish minister glibly tells Gaza youth", by Rana Baker Electronic Intifada, 6/15/2013
    

    [EXCERPTS] . . . Carlsson [the Swedish minister], clad in a traditional Palestinian embroidery dress, began by suggesting that Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank should be “brought together” noting, with a smirk, that people in the West Bank refer to themselves as “West Bankers,” just as people in Gaza often refer to themselves as “Gazans.” However, she made no mention of Israel’s policy of dividing Palestinians and forcing them into separate bantustans, with municipal powers at best. We told her that bringing Palestinians “together” in the physical sense is impossible due to the Israeli-controlled Erez checkpoint that perches between us.
    Carlsson nodded – nodding was the mantra – then went on to blame Hamas for cracking down on cultural activities and youth gatherings, implying that had it not been for the Hamas government and its security apparatus, Gaza would have flourished culturally.
    I explained to Carlsson that Israel is the primary actor in the deterioration of the social and cultural life in the Gaza Strip, and that Israel’s missiles neither spare students nor universities. I also gave the example of the recent Palestine Festival of Literature in Gaza, during which members of the Hamas youth, and even some of the group’s high-profile officials, attended a few of the events and participated just like anyone in the audience.
    This notion was reiterated more than once by many of us who were in the discussion. Seeing that no one agreed with her complete evasion of Israel’s responsibility for dwindling cultural and social conditions, Carlsson asked: “So you think we should talk to Hamas?” But before anyone could answer she said: “But you know our contact policy in the EU. We are waiting for the Palestinian elections to be held.”
    At this point everyone at the table, save the Swedish officials of course, burst out laughing. “Good luck waiting,” commented Yasmeen El-Khoudary, a blogger and co-founder of the Diwan Ghazza cultural forum. I could barely keep silent, and literally had to bite my lip to avoid cracking up.
    Carlsson was not impressed. The reaction was perhaps not what she expected. “So how do you think we [in the EU] can help?”
    Here the conversation started to sting. Carlsson was obviously expecting us to ask her to supervise an initiative that calls for fighting misogyny under the “Islamist rule” of Hamas or against the “Islamization” of the Gaza Strip.
    "You can do a lot,” I answered, “the EU has influence over Israel but it is simply not interested.” Here Carlsson turned her face, talked to the waiter, then an official, as if I was not speaking to her. “For example,” I continued raising my voice a little bit, “the EU decided that settlement products will be labeled as thus but this is taking longer than needed, the EU also upgraded its trade relations with Israel last year.”
    Carlsson did not address any of my points. In between her chat with the waiter and official, she nodded and nodded, but being so focused on what the official was telling her, in a low voice of course, I do not think she heard much of what I was saying.
    Sameeha Elwan, a blogger and human rights worker, also criticized EU’s policy and double standards. “Yes, we are funding the occupation, you can blame us,” Carlsson finally confessed. . .

    ENTIRE ARTICLE - link to electronicintifada.net

• Snowden shows up Obama on leadership
  • DICKERSON3870 June 18, 2013 at 11:34 pm

    RE: "When you find yourself defending yourself from charges of being Dick Cheney, you know that the aura of your presidency is coming down." ~ Krauss

    MY CONTRIBUTION:
    ● "I welcome this kind of examination . . . I'm not a crook!" ~ 'Tricky Dick' Nixon, 1973
    ● "[W]e need to have this debate . . . I'm not [Pricky] Dick Cheney!" ~ Barack Obama, 2013

    P.S. Richard Nixon: "I welcome this kind of examination . . . I'm not a crook!" [VIDEO, 00:37] - link to youtube.com

  • DICKERSON3870 June 18, 2013 at 10:54 pm

    RE: "Congress hasn't declared war on the countries - the majority of them are our allies - but without asking for public permission, NSA is running network operations against them that affect millions of innocent people. And for what? . . . So we can potentially reveal a potential terrorist with the potential to kill fewer Americans than our own Police?" ~ Snowden

    ANSWER TO "FOR WHAT": Because we must act in accordance with our most cherished (national) myth(s)! ! !

    SEE: "How the Power of Myth Keeps Us Mired in War", by Ira Chernus, TomDispatch.com, 01/20/11
    

    [EXCERPT] . . . White Americans, going back to early colonial times, generally assigned the role of 'bad guys' to 'savages' lurking in the wilderness beyond the borders of our civilized land. Whether they were redskins, commies, terrorists, or the Taliban, the plot has always remained the same.
    Call it the myth of national security -- or, more accurately, national insecurity, since it always tells us who and what to fear.
    It’s been a mighty (and mighty effective) myth. . .

    SOURCE – link to tomdispatch.com

• Taking on Bill Clinton and the 'bigshots', Chris Matthews says American people are opposed to Syrian intervention
  • DICKERSON3870 June 18, 2013 at 10:26 pm

    RE: "Who voted to commit an act of war against a government with whom we do have diplomatic relations, a government we recognize as the legitimate government of Syria? . . . The bigshots say we should pay no mind to what the people in the country think. Bill Clinton even said the other day that presidents shouldn't bow to the pollsters." ~ Weiss

    'PRICKY DICK' CHENEY SEZ: "So?"
    ● "So?" says Dick Cheney [VIDEO, 00:51] - link to youtube.com

    P.S.
    DONALD RUMSFELD SEZ: "Stuff happens and it’s untidy . . ."
    ● "Stuff Happens!" - Rumsfeld on the looting after the fall of Baghdad [VIDEO, 00:27] - link to youtube.com

• Judge who acquitted war criminals at Hague had 'close and confidential relations' with U.S. gov't
  • DICKERSON3870 June 18, 2013 at 10:06 pm

    RE: "[A]n American-Israeli judge was working to acquit Serb and Croat leaders who had been convicted of war crimes so that the precedent would not ensnare American and Israeli officials." ~ Weiss

    MY COMMENT: This debasement of international law*by the U.S. and Israel is yet another reason I fear that Revisionist Zionism and Likudnik Israel (specifically by virtue of their inordinate sway over the U.S.) might very well be an “existential threat” to the values of The Enlightenment! ! !
    "Down, down, down we [the U.S.] go into the deep, dark abyss; hand in hand with Israel."

    * SEE: “The Second Battle of Gaza: Israel’s Undermining Of International Law”, by Jeff Halper, mrzine.monthlyreview.org, 02/26/10
    LINK - link to mrzine.monthlyreview.org

    P.S. OTHER EXAMPLES OF ISRAEL'S VALUES TRUMPING (OVERRIDING) THE VALUES OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT - link to mondoweiss.net

• In '68, Italo Calvino said the only solution in Palestine is 'the revolutionary road'
  • DICKERSON3870 June 17, 2013 at 5:30 pm

    RE: "It is very common to hear how galvanizing the Six Day War was to Europeans and Americans . . ." ~ Weiss

    A NICE URI AVNERY COMMENTARY ON THE SIX DAY WAR:
    "The Six-Day War; Triumph and Tragedy", by Uri Avnery, Counterpunch, 6/14/13
    

    [EXCERPTS] . . . It started low-key. A little piece of paper was thrust into the hand of Prime Minister Levi Eshkol as he was reviewing the Independence Day parade. It said that Egyptian troops were entering the Sinai peninsula. . .
    . . . A few weeks before, I had given a talk in a Kibbutz on the Syrian border. As is customary, I was invited to have coffee afterwards with a select group of members. There I was told that “Dado” (General David Elazar), the commander of the Northern sector, had lectured there the week before, and then had coffee. Like me.
    After swearing me to secrecy, they disclosed that Dado had told them – after swearing them to secrecy – that every evening, before going to bed, he prayed to God that Nasser would move his troops into the Sinai desert. “There we shall destroy them,” Dado had assured them.
    Nasser did not want the war. He knew that his army was quite unprepared. He was bluffing, in order to please the Arab masses. He was egged on by the Soviet Union, whose leaders believed that Israel was about to attack their main client in the region, Syria, as part of a worldwide American plot. . .
    . . . When the bow was strained to near breaking point, the Israeli army was unleashed. . .
    . . . I was attending the Knesset session on that first day of the war. In the middle of it, we were told to go to the bomb shelter, because the Jordanians in nearby East Jerusalem had begun to shell us. While we were there, a friend of mine, a high-ranking official, whispered in my ear: “It’s all over. We have destroyed the entire Egyptian Air Force.”
    When I reached home that evening after driving through the blackout, my wife did not believe me. The radio had said nothing about the incredible achievement. . .
    . . . Why? The Israeli government was convinced – quite rightly – that if the Arab countries and the Soviet Union realized that their side was nearing disaster, they would get the UN to stop the war at once. This indeed happened – but by that time our army was well on its way to Cairo and Damascus.
    Against this background, when the victory was announced, it looked immense – so immense, indeed, that many believed in an act of God. Our army, which had been formed in the small State of Israel as it was at that time, conquered the entire Sinai peninsula, the Golan Heights, the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. From the “Second Holocaust” to miraculous deliverance, in just six days.
    So, was it a “defensive war” or an “act of naked aggression”? In the national consciousness, it was and remains a purely defensive war, started by “the Arabs”. Objectively speaking, it was our side which attacked, though under utmost provocation. Years later, when I said so in passing, a leading Israeli journalist was so upset that he stopped talking with me.
    Be that as it may, the Israeli public reaction was stupendous. The entire country was in delirium. Masses of victory-albums, victory-songs, victory-this and victory-that amounted to national hysteria. Hubris knew no bounds. I cannot claim that I was entirely untouched by it.
    Ariel Sharon boasted that the Israel army could reach Tripoli (in Libya) in six days. A movement for a Greater Israel came into being, with many of Israel’s most renowned personalities clamoring for membership. Soon the settlement enterprise was under way.
    But, as in a Greek tragedy, hubris did not go unpunished. The gold turned to dust. The greatest victory in Israel’s history turned into its greatest curse. The occupied territories are like the shirt of Nessus, glued to our body to poison and torment us.
    Just before the attack, Dayan had declared that Israel had absolutely no intention of conquering new territory, but aimed solely to defend itself. After the war, Foreign Minister Abba Eban declared that the pre-1967 armistice line was “the border of Auschwitz”. . .

    ENTIRE COMMENTARY - link to counterpunch.org

• Exile and the Prophetic: Bought and sold
  • DICKERSON3870 June 17, 2013 at 6:33 pm

    RE: "The other viral story of the week - the National Administration Agency snooping and the company that Edward Snowden worked for, Booz Allen Hamilton, the multi-billion dollar security firm - is equally depressing on a variety of levels." ~ Marc Ellis

    A GREAT COMMENTARY: "America at the Precipice; Can Fascism be Far Behind?" ~ by Norman Pollack, Counterpunch, 6/13/13
    

    [EXCERPTS] CP writers Sperber and Kampmark, among others, superbly discuss legal-moral-political implications, respectively, of the revelations of Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden in their exposure of US government war crimes (Manning) and domestic spying on a comprehensive scale (Snowden) and, especially, where this leaves us a nation presumably under the rule of law. Let me add: No other country in the world presently stands out so nakedly—the Manning-Snowden symbolism—in clamping down hard on internal dissent, on erecting secrecy into a principle of the state (now capitalized in practice as the State, the National Security State), on developing the legal arguments and provisions which legitimate the suspension of the Constitution in the name of the law. Supplementary baggage doesn’t help: the Patriot Act, Guantanamo, targeted assassinations, illegal, unwarranted intervention, all of these, now under Obama, as the continuance and intensification of the work of his predecessors, for which he must therefore take full responsibility (even more so, since the previous contours of policy were well-known, and he willingly followed suit), places the US in the unenviable position of representing a society almost alone, by its action, in combining domestic repression and foreign aggression, becoming the more integrated the further each is pursued, in order to cover up the other.
    Manning-Snowden should be viewed as a unitary political-structural phenomenon, inseparable from the direction America is taking (a) as an historical process of the militarization and financialization of American capitalism, (b) necessitating that in this mature stage (of impending decline) drastic steps be taken to maintain what before had been unilateral dominance in economic and political affairs, and (c) among these is suffocating internal dissent for a course of permanent war and the violation of international law. . .
    . . . The assault on privacy, precisely like the wanton killing of civilians through drone strikes, a one-two punch of domination that is intended to put the world on notice of America’s capacity for acting unrestrained and with impunity, puts the raw component of power on display for others to see, appreciate, and submit to. Surveillance at home, under the spurious cover of counterterrorism, naturally a good idea, indeed brilliant in that using the hostility built up over decades (anticommunism) to tap into the latest manufactured scare, is an idea any self-respecting despot and his national-security advisers would approve.
    For in this way, the populace internalizes its own false consciousness and thereby affords the leadership free grace to pursue its military adventures. Surveillance and the commission of war crimes, these become the Patriotic Duo of US culture, ideology, and politics. With that becoming set in stone, can fascism be far behind?

    ENTIRE COMMENTARY - link to counterpunch.org

• Why has Israel closed its doors to Syrian refugees?
  • DICKERSON3870 June 17, 2013 at 5:57 pm

    RE: "Indeed, our ghetto mentality precludes involvement in the big bad world around us – far safer to stay alone, hunkered down, sure in the knowledge that they all hate us." ~ Angela Godfrey-Goldstein

    SEE: "Israel’s Defense Chief OK’s Hundreds of Israeli Deaths", By Ira Chernus, CommonDreams.org, 11/11/11
    

    [EXCERPT] . . . An essential motive of Zionism from its beginning was a fierce desire to end the centuries of Jewish weakness, to show the world that Jews would no longer be pushed around, that they’d fight back and prove themselves tougher than their enemies. There was more to Zionism than that. But the “pride through strength” piece came to dominate the whole project. Hence the massive Israeli military machine with its nuclear arsenal.
    But you can’t prove that you’re stronger than your enemies unless you’ve also got enemies -- or at least believe you’ve got enemies -- to fight against. So there has to be a myth of Israel’s insecurity, fueled by an image of vicious anti-semites lurking somewhere out there, for Zionism to work. Since the 1979 Iranian revolution, Iran has gradually risen to the top of Israel oh-so-necessary enemies list. Iranophobia is rampant in Israel, as one Israeli scholar writes, because “Israel needs an existential threat."
    Anyone who has grown up in Israel, or in the U.S. Jewish community (as I did), and paid attention knows all this. . .

    ENTIRE COMMENTARY - link to commondreams.org

    P.S. ALSO SEE - "Iranophobia: The Panic of the Hegemons", by Ira Chernus, Tikkun Magazine, November/December 2010
    LINK - link to tikkun.org

• When a 'stockpile of homemade bombs' is ho-hum and ha-ha
  • DICKERSON3870 June 18, 2013 at 7:33 pm

    RE: "@Annie, you live in a country where citizens are entitled by law to have weapons stashed in their dwellings." ~ Mayhem

    FROM WIKIPEDIA [Nuisance]:
    

    Nuisance (also spelled nocence, through Fr. noisance, nuisance, from Lat. nocere, "to hurt") is a common law tort. It means that which causes offence, annoyance, trouble or injury. A nuisance can be either public (also "common") or private. A public nuisance was defined by English scholar Sir J. F. Stephen as,
    

    "an act not warranted by law, or an omission to discharge a legal duty, which act or omission obstructs or causes inconvenience or damage to the public in the exercise of rights common to all Her Majesty's subjects".[1]

    Private nuisance is the interference with the right of specific people. Nuisance is one of the oldest causes of action known to the common law, with cases framed in nuisance going back almost to the beginning of recorded case law. Nuisance signifies that the "right of quiet enjoyment" is being disrupted to such a degree that a tort is being committed.
    Under the common law, land owners are entitled to the quiet enjoyment of their lands. However this doesn't include visitors or those who aren't considered to have an interest in the land. If a neighbour interferes with that quiet enjoyment, either by creating smells, sounds, pollution or any other hazard that extends past the boundaries of the property, the affected party may make a claim in nuisance. . .
    Legally, the term nuisance is traditionally used in three ways:
    

    1. to describe an activity or condition that is harmful or annoying to others (e.g., indecent conduct, a rubbish heap or a smoking chimney)
    2. to describe the harm caused by the before-mentioned activity or condition (e.g., loud noises or objectionable odors)
    3. to describe a legal liability that arises from the combination of the two.[2] However, the "interference" was not the result of a neighbor stealing land or trespassing on the land. Instead, it arose from activities taking place on another person's land that affected the enjoyment of that land.[3]

    The law of nuisance was created to stop such bothersome activities or conduct when they unreasonably interfered either with the rights of other private landowners (i.e., private nuisance) or with the rights of the general public (i.e., public nuisance).
    A public nuisance is an unreasonable interference with the public's right to property. It includes conduct that interferes with public health, safety, peace or convenience. The unreasonableness may be evidenced by statute, or by the nature of the act, including how long, and how bad, the effects of the activity may be.[4]
    A private nuisance is simply a violation of one's use of quiet enjoyment of land. . .

    SOURCE - link to en.wikipedia.org

  • DICKERSON3870 June 18, 2013 at 5:43 am

    RE: "@Annie, you live in a country where citizens are entitled by law to have weapons stashed in their dwellings. I would suggest that the tendency is rather to hide cases involving Muslims . . ." ~ Mayhem

    MY REPLY: I'm guessing that Mayhem will also insist that Jews were made into soap!

    SEE: "New Israeli film debunks myth that Nazis made soap from Jews", By Roy (Chicky) Arad, Haaretz, 6/04/13
    Legend was spread by guards as psychological torture of Jewish inmates, as director Eyal Ballas' movie shows.
    

    [EXCERPTS] "Soaps," a new film by director Eyal Ballas, searches for the root of the myth that Germans used the bodies of Jews to manufacture soap. Contemporary historians think the Nazis did not produce soap on an industrial scale using dead human bodies, a position shared by Yad Vashem. But the myth continues to hold sway with the big segments of the public.
    The movie shows that in many places in Israel and the world, people light memorial candles beside soaps they believe were created from the bodies of Jews. Chemical analyses show they are actually made of vegetable materials.
    The soap myth dates all the way back to World War I, when Germans were first rumored to be turning bodies into the stuff. During World War II, SS guards often tormented concentration camp prisoners by threatening to turn them into soap.
    At least 10 cemeteries and memorial centers in Israel have graves containing soap either believed to have been made from Jews or used as symbols of Jewish communities ravaged by the Nazis. . . .
    . . . "Soaps" shows that one thing that contributed to the myth was confusion over the markings on some bars of soap. Certain German soaps produced in the Third Reich had the initial "RIF" imprinted on them, which was thought to stand for "Reichs Juden Fett," which means "State Jewish Fat." In fact, RIF stands for "Reichsstelle fur industrielle Fettversorgung, or "National Center for Industrial Fat Provisioning," the German government agency responsible for the wartime production and distribution of soap and washing products. RIF soap contained no fat at all, human or vegetable. The Holocaust Museum in Bat Yam exhibits an RIF soap bar donated by a Holocaust survivor, though the museum's director, Prof. Yuri Lyakhovitsky, does not claim to be sure it is made from Jewish fat. He says the charismatic personality of Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal influenced the development of the myth. . .
    . . . At the climax of the film, people who have believed for their entire lives that the soaps are made of Jewish fat are confronted with the overwhelming historiographic consensus that they are not. Even when the believers are told that Yad Vashem has declared the soap myth baseless, they stubbornly refuse to change their minds, arguing that the studies which disprove it were paid for by Germans. Israeli poet Yisrael Har, who is interviewed in the film, says the refutations of the soap myth come from Holocaust deniers and Wikipedia.

    SOURCE - link to haaretz.com

    P.S. Mayhem seems to be an excellent example of "White Australia"*! ! ! I wonder if he's a "monarchist" like former Australian prime minister John Howard (whose father had been a New Guinea plantation owner, an admirer of Winston Churchill, and a supporter of Australia's New Guard fascist movement).
    * White Australia policy - link to en.wikipedia.org

• Meet the Israeli-linked firm that sold Big Brother machines to Mubarak, Qaddafi – and Washington
  • DICKERSON3870 June 16, 2013 at 3:15 am

    P.S. The end is nigh; ‘get right’ with God PRISM®! ! !
    Is PRISM® actually The Dark Side of the Moon?
    "Enquiring minds mimes want to know!"

  • DICKERSON3870 June 16, 2013 at 3:09 am with 1 replies

    RE: "Meet the Israeli-linked firm that sold Big Brother machines to Mubarak, Qaddafi – and Washington"

    MY COMMENT: The migration of these types of "Big Brother" eavesdropping\spying technologies from Israel to the U.S. is yet another reason I fear that Revisionist Zionism and Likudnik Israel (specifically by virtue of their inordinate sway over the U.S.) might very well be an “existential threat” to the values of The Enlightenment [like the "right of free speech" and the "freedom of association"] ! ! !
    "Down, down, down we [the U.S.] go into the deep, dark abyss; hand in hand with Israel."

    ● OTHER EXAMPLES OF ISRAEL'S VALUES TRUMPING (OVERRIDING) THE VALUES OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT HERE IN THE U.S.
    • "How We Became Israel", By Andrew J. Bacevich, The American Conservative, 9/10/12
    LINK - link to theamericanconservative.com
    • “America Adopts the Israel Paradigm”, by Philip Ghiraldi, Antiwar.com, 7/05/12
    LINK – link to original.antiwar.com
    • “Report: Israeli model underlies militarization of U.S. police”, By Muriel Kane, Raw Story, 12/04/11
    LINK – link to rawstory.com
    • From Occupation to “Occupy”: The Israelification of American Domestic Security, By Max Blumenthal, Al-akhbar, 12/02/11
    LINK - link to english.al-akhbar.com OR link to informationclearinghouse.info
    • NRA PUSHES PLAN IMPORTED FROM ISRAEL TO PUT POLICE IN ALL OF OUR SCHOOLS - NRA President's Report: David Keene on the Push to Protect Our Children [VIDEO, 12:10] - link to youtube.com
    • “Two Secretive Israeli Companies Reportedly Bugged The US Telecommunications Grid For The NSA", By Michael Kelley, Business Insider, 6/07/13
    LINK - link to businessinsider.com
    • “IDF Unit 8200 Cyberwar Veterans Developed NSA Snooping Technology", By Richard Silverstein, Tikun Olam, 6/07/13
    LINK - link to richardsilverstein.com
    • “Meet the Israeli-linked firm that sold Big Brother machines to Mubarak, Qaddafi – and Washington", by Max Blumenthal, Mondoweiss, 6/15/13
    LINK - link to mondoweiss.net
    • “What was the Israeli Involvement in Collecting U.S. Communications Intel for NSA? ~ By Haaretz, The Associated Press and Reuters, informationclearinghouse.info, 6/08/13
    LINK - link to informationclearinghouse.info
    • “The Second Battle of Gaza: Israel’s Undermining Of International Law”, by Jeff Halper, mrzine.monthlyreview.org, 02/26/10
    LINK - link to mrzine.monthlyreview.org
    • "The Trial of Israel’s Campus Critics", by David Theo Goldberg & Saree Makdisi, Tikkun Magazine, September/October 2009
    LINK - link to tikkun.org
    • "Brooklyn College's academic freedom increasingly threatened over Israel event", by Glenn Greenwald, guardian.co.uk, 2/02/13
    LINK - link to guardian.co.uk
    • “Peter ‘Powder Keg’ Beinart is disinvited from gig at Atlanta Jewish book festival”, by Annie Robbins, Mondoweiss, 11/05/12
    LINK - link to mondoweiss.net
    • ‘Israelis are helping write US laws, fund US campaigns, craft US war policy’, by Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss, 6/30/12
    LINK – link to mondoweiss.net
    • “David Yerushalmi, Islam-Hating White Supremacist Inspires Anti-Sharia Bills Sweeping Tea Party Nation”, by Richard Silverstein, Tikun Olam, 3/02/11
    LINK - link to richardsilverstein.com
    • "Boston airport security program rife with racial profiling has Israeli links", by Alex Kane, Mondoweiss, 8/14/12
    LINK - link to mondoweiss.net
    • "Obama's kill list policy compels US support for Israeli attacks on Gaza", By Glenn Greenwald, guardian.co.uk, 11/15/12
    LINK - link to guardian.co.uk

• Chris Matthews takes populist stance against another Establishment war on an Islamic country
  • DICKERSON3870 June 15, 2013 at 12:16 pm with 4 replies

    RE: "Chris Matthews takes populist stance against another Establishment war on an Islamic country [Syria] . . ."

    THE DEBATE IN THE U.K.: "The Coalition gives Clegg a veto on arming Syria", By Mary Dejevsky, The Independent, 6/12/13
    

    [EXCERPTS] . . . The greatest vindication of Nick Clegg’s decision to take his party into government, however, may still be to come. Over the past week, there have been persistent reports that the Cabinet is split on the foreign policy question of the day: whether to arm the Syrian rebels. Two weeks ago, Cameron went to Brussels to argue for the European Union not to extend its arms embargo on Syria, a move that would open the way for the supply of weapons to those seeking to overthrow Bashar al-Assad. After a long, and by all accounts stormy meeting, Cameron emerged to claim victory. Although the decision was hedged about with caveats and many EU leaders expressed serious misgivings, the embargo was, in effect, lifted.
    If Cameron had hoped to be met on his return as a conquering hero, however, he was disappointed. As The Independent reported, at least five Cabinet ministers, including Clegg, raised “serious reservations” about any move by Britain to increase its involvement in Syria. With backbenchers expressing concern as well, it is possible that Cameron will have to concede a vote in Parliament before the Syrian rebels are sent any arms.
    There are ominous signs, though, that Cameron may be trying to shore up his more interventionist stance. The Foreign Secretary made a flying visit to Washington yesterday, where Syria – as well as, no doubt, intelligence matters – loomed large on his agenda. The US administration is also split about engagement in Syria, with much of the military establishment dead against. But you only have to think back to certain UK-US meetings in Washington in 2002 and 2003 to fear the potential damage from such bilateral encounters.
    Which is where Nick Clegg and his party come in. . .
    . . . As Deputy Prime Minister, with other party members in the Cabinet, Nick Clegg . . . can make representations as an equal at the top table and be guaranteed a hearing. If it is “sofa government”, he has a place there, too. He can be a rallying point for other reluctant interventionists. Best of all, though, he has a real weapon at his disposal: ultimately, he could take his party out of the Coalition.
    Opposing armed intervention in Syria is a cause for which the Liberal Democrats should be prepared to break the Coalition. And the benefit could be twofold. Not only would they do the country a service, by pre-empting another costly act of national folly, but in so doing they would also win a chance to escape the fate of most junior coalition partners and increase the party’s vote next time around.

    ENTIRE ARTICLE (limited # of articles per month w/o subscription) - link to independent.co.uk

• US and Israel are accused of manipulating Hague to acquit accused Serb and Croat leaders
  • DICKERSON3870 June 15, 2013 at 11:17 am

    RE: "The New York Times reports on a 'mini-rebellion' of judges at the UN war crimes tribunal at the Hague over an Israeli-American "president" judge who is setting the bar impossibly high so as to acquit Serbian and Croat leaders who allegedly authorized atrocities in the former Yugoslavia." ~ Weiss

    MY COMMENT: This new instance of the debasement of international law* is yet another reason I fear that Revisionist Zionism and Likudnik Israel (specifically by virtue of their inordinate sway over the U.S.) might very well be an “existential threat” to the values of The Enlightenment! ! !
    "Down, down, down we [the U.S.] go into the deep, dark abyss; hand in hand with Israel."

    * “The Second Battle of Gaza: Israel’s Undermining Of International Law”, by Jeff Halper, mrzine.monthlyreview.org, 02/26/10
    LINK - link to mrzine.monthlyreview.org

    P.S. OTHER EXAMPLES OF ISRAEL'S VALUES TRUMPING (OVERRIDING) THE VALUES OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT - link to mondoweiss.net

• 'I was not a party to, and never will be, to the planting of trees on expropriated and stolen land': Former South African Ambassador to Israel rejects JNF trees planted in his name
  • DICKERSON3870 June 15, 2013 at 3:34 am

    ● FACEBOOK: The Village Under The Forest
    Movie
    Unfolding as a personal meditation from the Jewish Diaspora, The Village Under The Forest explores the hidden remains of the destroyed Palestinian village of Lubya, which lies under a purposefully cultivated forest plantation called South Africa Forest.
    162 likes · 151 talking about this
    TO LIKE - link to facebook.com

    ● TWITTER: Village Under Forest (VUFdoc) on Twitter
    Where greening is an act of obliteration... The Village Under The Forest documentary is directed by Emmy-winner Mark J Kaplan and written by Heidi Grunebaum
    South Africa/Palestine/Israel · villageunderforest.com
    45 TWEETS / 706 FOLLOWING / 92 FOLLOWERS
    TO FOLLOW - link to twitter.com

• Will Rush Holt-- who questioned Israel's policy of 'total devastation' in Gaza-- stand by Palestine in NJ Senate race?
  • DICKERSON3870 June 15, 2013 at 9:40 am

    You inspired me to also make a contribution (via ActBlue using PayPal). I hope to make a couple more before the August 13 primary.
    ● Rush Holt for U.S. Senate | Campaign Website - link to rushholt.com
    ● TO CONTRIBUTE - link to secure.actblue.com

• Report from Yemen: 'I thought the United States was all about democracy and the rule of law. Instead, what you’re teaching us is the law of the jungle.'
  • DICKERSON3870 June 15, 2013 at 10:07 am

    RE: ‘I thought the United States was all about democracy and the rule of law. Instead, what you’re teaching us is the law of the jungle.’ ~ Ali Mohammed Aziz of Yemen

    CHANNELING AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM: It's a dog eat dog world, and the U.S. is the biggest, baddest dog of them all! Hooah!
    We're number one!
    We're number one!
    We're number one!
    [ad nauseam]

    P.S. The Majority Report is a daily political talk show hosted by Sam Seder at 12:00 noon EST. You can listen to the show live, or you can listen via podcast.
    LINK - link to majority.fm

• Afraid of burgeoning civil rights meme, 'WSJ' lobbyist maligns Arab women, Palestinian protesters, and Alice Walker
  • DICKERSON3870 June 14, 2013 at 1:44 pm

    RE: "Turns out [Richard] Friedman first published this screed, or its parent, in the Birmingham newspaper. He is a former newspaper reporter who took part in the movement against segregation in the south. More Anthony Weiner-ism, more PEP (progressive except Palestine, which curdles everything)." ~ Weiss

    My COMMENT: Love liberal Richard Friedman, Phil! Love him! Love him! Love him, Phil! He's a liberal!

    PHIL OCHS (1966):
    

    I cried when they shot Medgar Evers
    Tears ran down my spine
    I cried when they shot Mr. Kennedy
    As though I'd lost a father of mine
    But Malcolm X got what was coming
    He got what he asked for this time
    So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

    I go to civil rights rallies
    And I put down the old D.A.R.
    I love Harry and Sidney and Sammy
    I hope every colored boy becomes a star
    But don't talk about revolution
    That's going a little bit too far
    So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

    I cheered when Humphrey was chosen
    My faith in the system restored
    I'm glad the commies were thrown out
    of the A.F.L. C.I.O. board
    I love Puerto Ricans and Negros
    as long as they don't move next door
    So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal . . .

    ● Phil Ochs -- Love me, I'm a liberal [VIDEO, 4:40] - link to youtube.com

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• Exile and the prophetic: (Jewish) gatekeepers
  • DICKERSON3870 June 14, 2013 at 1:15 pm with 1 replies

    P.P.S. Is PRISM® actually The Dark Side of the Moon? "Enquiring minds mimes want to know!"

  • DICKERSON3870 June 14, 2013 at 12:55 pm with 2 replies

    RE: "Those others who laugh with us, the even newer arrivals we vet, aren’t doing us any favors. They, too, want to grab as much as they can. This includes those women and African Americans and Latinos who are eating at empire’s trough now or might be able to if they just pass the (Jewish) power elite test." ~ Marc Ellis

    THE (JEWISH) POWER ELITE TEST, FROM THE AIPAC WEBSITE (undated):
    

    ● African American Political Leaders and Activists Visit Israel

    A group of African American politicians, consultants and activists arrived in Israel this week to participate in an American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF) Seminar. The group of 18 includes eight state and local elected officials and three appointed government officials, including the presidents of the city councils of Atlanta and Detroit.

    The other participants are all deeply involved in political and civic life in their communities, including five who are co-chairs for the DNC’s Generation44 fundraising initiative in their cities. A number of the seminar participants have already attended pro-Israel events in their communities and have shown interest in strengthening the U.S.-Israel relationship. Atlanta City Council President Ceasar Mitchell and DeKalb County Commissioner Lee May passed Iranian divestment resolutions in their jurisdictions in 2009.

    SOURCE - link to aipac.org

    P.S. The end is nigh; 'get right' with PRISM®! ! !

• Weiner should be 'hounded' for his support for apartheid
  • DICKERSON3870 June 15, 2013 at 10:50 am

    RE: "Has New York become oddly extremist in my absence? What if a candidate for mayor said, simply (as Henry Kissinger once did) I’m strongly committed to protecting Israel’s existence, but not its conquests? Would that now be a losing proposition in a Democratic primary?" ~ Scott McConnell

    SHORT ANSWER: Yes, because the Zionists believe in "full-spectrum dominance" of U.S. foreign policy as to the Middle East. They know that the rest of the world has had it with Israel's expansionist, "iron wall"xxx lugheadedness, and they are determined to squelch even the slightest variance (here in the U.S., whether in N.Y.C. or the backwoods of Alabama) from the hard-line Likudnik agenda.

    SEE: "Jewish Donors Warn Obama on Israel", By Laura Meckler, Wall Street Journal, 5/19/11
    

    [EXCERPTS] Jewish donors and fund-raisers are warning the Obama re-election campaign that the president is at risk of losing financial support because of concerns about his handling of Israel.
    The complaints began early in President Barack Obama's term, centered on a perception that Mr. Obama has been too tough on Israel.
    Some Jewish donors say Mr. Obama has pushed Israeli leaders too hard to halt construction of housing settlements in disputed territory*, a longstanding element of U.S. policy. Some also worry that Mr. Obama is putting more pressure on the Israelis than the Palestinians to enter peace negotiations, and say they are disappointed Mr. Obama has not visited Israel yet. . .
    . . . Robert Copeland, a Virginia Beach, Va., developer, who has given large donations to many Democrats, has already decided he won't vote for Mr. Obama in 2012. "I'm very disappointed with him," he said. "His administration has failed in Israel. They degraded the Israeli people." . . .
    . . . Malcolm I. Hoenlein, the executive vice chairman of The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, said he saw potential for the discontent to affect Mr. Obama's fund raising.
    "It's that people hold back, people don't have the enthusiasm and are not rushing forward at fund-raisers to be supportive,'' he said. "Much more what you'll see is holding back now." . . .

    ENTIRE ARTICLE - link to online.wsj.com

    * Note the WSJ's use of the term "disputed territory" in referring to the West Bank!

• Northeastern University criticized for sanctioning Students for Justice in Palestine
  • DICKERSON3870 June 13, 2013 at 6:15 pm with 1 replies

    RE: "In 2010, the Muslim Student Union at the University of California, Irvine was suspended by the school administration after members of the group repeatedly disrupted a talk given by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren. A coalition of civil rights groups decried the suspension as 'unparalleled in their severity'.” ~ Alex Kane

    MY COMMENT: In essence, the ADL has outsourced its "enforcement" (and perhaps its spying as well) to college administrators by using the influence of their donors in a manner very similar to the way that political donors are used by AIPAC to keep politicians in line.
    FOR INSTANCE: "Jewish Donors Warn Obama on Israel", By Laura Meckler, Wall Street Journal, 5/19/11
    LINK - link to online.wsj.com

    ALSO SEE: "The Strange History of the Anti-Defamation League:
    ADL Spies", by Jeffrey Blankfort, Counterpunch, 6/12/13
    

    [EXCERPTS] . . . What is definitely in order is a reminder that this year also marks the 20th anniversary of the exposure of a nation-wide spying operation run by the ADL that went back at least five decades.
    In January, 1993, San Francisco newspapers reported that the city’s police department had raided the ADL’s Northern California office and discovered it was keeping files on more than 600 largely liberal civic organizations and over 10,000 individuals whose interests and activities included but also went far beyond those of the Arab-American community.
    After examining the sequestered files, San Francisco police inspector Ron Roth, estimated that 75% of the information had been illegally obtained and by November, District Attorney Arlo Smith appeared to be on the verge of indicting the ADL for numerous violations of state and city codes. . .
    . . . In California, the ADL’s secret spying and file keeping was mainly the provenance of Roy Bullock, a beefy San Francisco weight-lifter, who went by the code name, “Cal,” and reported to the ADL’s chief spymaster in New York, the now deceased Irwin Suall.
    To keep the relationship out of public as well as government eyes, Bullock was paid through a cut-out in Beverly Hills, Bruce Hochman, a lawyer and member of the ADL’s board, also now deceased.
    As late as July 19, 1992, Suall had described Bullock as “our Number One fact finder” whose assignments included, in addition to his duties in California, attending and monitoring conferences and conventions of Arab-Americans across the country. . .
    . . . At the time, Bullock was receiving close to $25,000 a year for monitoring what he and the ADL considered “antidemocratic” organizations and individuals and he had been doing it for 40 years. . .

    ENTIRE ARTICLE - link to counterpunch.org

  • DICKERSON3870 June 13, 2013 at 5:41 pm with 2 replies

    RE: "Northeastern University student Porell told the Globe that the university is sensitive to charges of anti-Semitism. The sanctions on SJP have been imposed after Northeastern has come under attack from anti-Muslim activist Charles Jacobs, the founder of the Zionist group The David Project." ~ Alex Kane

    SEE: "The Trial of Israel’s Campus Critics", by David Theo Goldberg & Saree Makdisi, Tikkun Magazine, September/October 2009
    

    [EXCERPT] . . . It is an extraordinary fact that no fewer than thirty-three distinct organizations - including AIPAC, the Zionist Organization of America, the American Jewish Congress, and the Jewish National Fund - are gathered together today as members or affiliates of the Israel on Campus Coalition. The coalition is an overwhelmingly powerful presence on American college campuses for which there is simply no equivalent on the Palestinian or Arab side. Its self-proclaimed mission is not merely to monitor our colleges and universities. That, after all, is the commitment of Campus Watch, which was started by pro-Israel activists in 2002. It is, rather (and in its own words), to generate “a pro-active, pro-Israel agenda on campus.”
    There is, accordingly, disproportionate and unbalanced intervention on campuses across the country by a coalition of well-funded organizations, who have no time for — and even less interest in — the niceties of intellectual exchange and academic process. Insinuation, accusation, and defamation have become the weapons of first resort to respond to argument and criticism directed at Israeli policies. As far as these outside pressure groups (and their campus representatives) are concerned, the intellectual and academic price that the scholarly community pays as a result of this kind of intervention amounts to little more than collateral damage. . .

    ENTIRE ARTICLE - link to tikkun.org

• U.S. gov't sides with 'UN Watch' and lobby and against Richard Falk
  • DICKERSON3870 June 12, 2013 at 4:46 pm

    RE: This is from the B'nai Brith, which also landed on Falk: “A few days later, a U.N. spokesman said that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the Boston Marathon bombing and that he ‘strongly believed that nothing can justify such an attack,’” [B'nai Brith rep Klaus] Netter quoted the spokesman as saying. “He rejected Falk’s comments and indicated that…such public comments by special rapporteurs ‘could undermine the U.N.’s credibility and the work of the United Nations.’”

    SPEAKING OF B'NAI BRITH:
    

    October 7, 1971

    Dear President of Israel,

    In tonight’s television we saw that Israel was expelling Black people women and children. Israel did the right thing. I’ve been driving a Tonical here in San Francisco over thirty-five years now and I’ve seen what the black people will do to destroy and destroy.

    …

    Now in San Francisco thirty years ago. There was only about fifteen thousand Blacks in a population of whites 800,000. In these years I have witnessed how they bring drugs to white women a long long time ago. [He apparently had seen the racist, propagandistic 1936 film "Reefer Madness"*! ~ J.L.D.] These people destroy cities and people. Our population is down to 700,000 people and 300,000 are black. There is never an hour, night or day that black people don’t commit purse snatching, rape, robbery. I know because I’ve been robbed and when I saw thousands of photos of blacks, for only one year, my eyes were open also.

    …

    Oh yes I guess you now have read about school desegregation. White people all over the United States are upset over this. After bussing babies, and small children, out of their neighbors school, the black organization is now trying to prevent better education to bright school children. Israel should make a law, that when a black man commits any crime, he or she could be expelled to another country.

    Don’t wait or Israel will be sorry. My wife is Past President of Bnai Brith and now is Past President of Past Presidents of Bnai Brith. Although we will never be able to visit Israel, because I never can make enough for us to travel to Israel, our hearts and minds are for her greatness in ??? affair and at home. God bless Israel. I know that never a Jew will be called a man without a country.

    Yours sincerely,
    David B. Dulberg
    1967 32nd Avenue
    San Francisco, California
    94116

    SOURCE – link to davidsheen.com

    * P.S. Reefer Madness (1938) [VIDEO, 1:08:20] - link to youtube.com

• The kids are back, and it's not alright
  • DICKERSON3870 June 14, 2013 at 11:54 pm

    RE: "The Khazars converted to Islam." ~ miriam6

    MY COMMENT: Some Khazars apparently converted to Judaism. According to Wikipedia, "[a] mainstream scholarly consensus does not yet exist regarding the extent of the conversions". Some Khazars apparently converted to Islam. Others apparently converted to Christianity.

    FROM THE WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE ON THE KHAZARS (FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH):
    

    [EXCERPTS] . . . Beginning in the 8th century, the Khazar royalty and much of the aristocracy are reported to have converted to Judaism, though the populace remained multiconfessional and polyethnic. . .
    . . . The Khazars occupied a prime trade nexus. Goods from western Europe travelled east to Central Asia and China and vice versa, and the Muslim world could only interact with northern Europe via Khazar intermediaries. The Radhanites, a guild of medieval Jewish merchants, had a trade route that ran through Khazaria, and they may have been instrumental in the conversion of the Khazars to Judaism. . .
    . . . Jewish communities had existed in the Greek cities of the Black Sea coast since late classical times. Chersonesos, Sudak, Kerch, and other Crimean cities sustained Jewish communities, as did Gorgippia, and Samkarsh / Tmutarakan was said to have had a Jewish majority as early as the 670s. Jews fled from Byzantium to Khazaria as a consequence of persecution under Heraclius, Justinian II, Leo III, and Romanos I.[97] These were joined by other Jews fleeing from Sassanid Persia (particularly during the Mazdak revolts),[98] and later from the Islamic world. Jewish merchants such as the Radhanites regularly traded in Khazar territory and may have wielded significant economic and political influence. Though their origins and history are somewhat unclear, the Mountain Jews also lived in or near Khazar territory and may have been allied with the Khazars, or subject to them; it is conceivable that they, too, played a role in Khazar conversion.[citation needed] . . .
    . . . At some point in the last decades of the 8th century or the early 9th century, the Khazar royalty and nobility converted to Judaism, and part of the general population may have followed.[99] The extent of the conversion is debated. The 10th century Persian historian Ibn al-Faqih reported that "all the Khazars are Jews." Notwithstanding this statement, most scholars believe that only the upper classes converted to Judaism;[100] there is some support for this in contemporary Muslim texts.[101] . . .
    . . . Besides Judaism, other religions practiced in areas ruled by the Khazars included Arianism, Greek Orthodox, Nestorian and Monophysite Christianity, and Zoroastrianism, as well as Norse, Finnic, and Slavic cults.[115] The Khazar government tolerated a wide array of religious practices within the Khaganate, and many Khazars reportedly were converts to Christianity and Islam. . .
    . . . The date of the conversion of the Khazars to Judaism, and whether it occurred as one event or as a sequence of events over time, is widely disputed. The issues surrounding this controversy are discussed above.
    The number of Khazars who converted to Judaism is also hotly contested, with historical accounts ranging from claims that only the King and his retainers had embraced Judaism, to the claim that the majority of the lay population had converted. D.M. Dunlop was of the opinion that only the upper class converted. Analysis of recent archaeological grave evidence by such scholars as Kevin A. Brook asserts that the sudden shift in burial customs, with the abandonment of pagan-style burial with grave goods and the adoption of simple shroud burials during the mid-9th century suggests a more widespread conversion.[116] A mainstream scholarly consensus does not yet exist regarding the extent of the conversions. . .

    SOURCE - link to en.wikipedia.org

  • DICKERSON3870 June 12, 2013 at 4:19 pm

    P.S. SPEAKING OF THE "BAY AREA PRO-ISRAEL BLOGGERS", HERE IS ONE OF THEIR RACIST FOREBEARS/PRECURSORS:
    

    October 7, 1971

    Dear President of Israel,

    In tonight's television we saw that Israel was expelling Black people women and children. Israel did the right thing. I've been driving a Tonical here in San Francisco over thirty-five years now and I've seen what the black people will do to destroy and destroy.

    ...

    Now in San Francisco thirty years ago. There was only about fifteen thousand Blacks in a population of whites 800,000. In these years I have witnessed how they bring drugs to white women a long long time ago. These people destroy cities and people. Our population is down to 700,000 people and 300,000 are black. There is never an hour, night or day that black people don't commit purse snatching, rape, robbery. I know because I've been robbed and when I saw thousands of photos of blacks, for only one year, my eyes were open also.

    ...

    Oh yes I guess you now have read about school desegregation. White people all over the United States are upset over this. After bussing babies, and small children, out of their neighbors school, the black organization is now trying to prevent better education to bright school children. Israel should make a law, that when a black man commits any crime, he or she could be expelled to another country.

    Don't wait or Israel will be sorry. My wife is Past President of Bnai Brith and now is Past President of Past Presidents of Bnai Brith. Although we will never be able to visit Israel, because I never can make enough for us to travel to Israel, our hearts and minds are for her greatness in ??? affair and at home. God bless Israel. I know that never a Jew will be called a man without a country.

    Yours sincerely,
    David B. Dulberg
    1967 32nd Avenue
    San Francisco, California
    94116

    SOURCE – link to davidsheen.com

  • DICKERSON3870 June 12, 2013 at 4:07 pm with 9 replies

    RE: "Last month we did a post on a group of Jewish kids declaring they won’t be ethnically cleansed from their 'native land'. And though they live in California, they weren't talking about California: but Israel, Jerusalem, and the West Bank. Within hours of our post, the video got pulled. Well, it's back. A Bay Area group Pro-Israel Bay Bloggers, evidently connected to the Rimon Club that originally posted the video, reposted the video as of Monday." ~ Annie Robbins and Phil Weiss

    ATTENTION RIMON CLUB & "PRO-ISRAEL BAY BLOGGERS" : Your "native land" is most likely Khazaria, and it is located in central Asia, not in the Middle East! The Khazars were a semi-nomadic Turkic people, many of whom apparently converted to Judaism beginning in the 8th century.
    KHAZARIA.COM (A Resource for Turkic and Jewish History in Russia and Ukraine) – link to khazaria.com
    WIKIPEDIA [Khazars] - link to en.wikipedia.org

    ALSO SEE: "New Study Shows Yeshiva University Researcher, Others Appear To Have Cooked The Genetic Books To ‘Prove' Middle Eastern Origin Of The Jewish People When One May Not Really Exist", by Shmarya Rosenberg, FailedMessiah.com, 12/29/12
    

    "My research refutes 40 years of genetic studies, all of which have assumed that the Jews constitute a group that is genetically isolated from other nations,” Dr. Eran Elhaik says.
    That's because Jews were never genetically isolated, making those other studies fatally flawed and very often contradictory.
    Now Elhaik, in a study that is being called more profound than all of those that came before his combined, has exposed that fatal flaw and is the first to propose a viable way resolve those contradictions, Ha'aretz reports.
    The answer to the origin of the Jewish people Elhaik found is startling – for most of us, our Jewish origins really do begin with the Khazars, the Medieval central Asian people whose ruling elite (and perhaps its merchant class, as well) converted to Judaism.
    The 32-year-old does his work at the School of Public Health of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. His study was published earlier this month as, "The Missing Link of Jewish European Ancestry: Contrasting the Rhineland and the Khazarian Hypotheses", in the prestigious journal, 'Genome Biology and Evolution', which is published by Oxford University Press. This study is based on a complete analysis of the comprehensive genetic data published in preceding studies.
    But in the absence of genetic data for the long-lost Khazars themselves, Elhaik uses a procedure often used by researchers in his field - he used data from populations that are genetically similar to the Khazars, including Georgians, Armenians and Caucasians, populations that Elhaik says have all come from the same genetic soup.
    When doing so Elhaik discovered what he calls the Khazar component of European Jewry.
    According to his study’s findings, the dominant element in the genetic makeup of European Jews is Khazar. Among Central European Jews, this makes up the largest part of their genome, 38%. For East European Jews it does the same, at 30%.
    Elhaik found that European Jews genome is mostly Western European.
    "[They are] primarily of Western European origin, which is rooted in the Roman Empire, and Middle Eastern origin, whose source is probably Mesopotamia [a name for the area of the Tigris–Euphrates river system, corresponding to modern-day Iraq, the northeastern section of Syria and to a lesser extent southeastern Turkey and smaller parts of southwestern Iran - J.L.D.], although it is possible that part of that component can be attributed to Israeli Jews,” he told Ha’aretz by phone from Maryland.
    That possibility is important because, if it turns out to be true, it could connect European Jews to Israel. However, even if it is true, that connection is only a tiny part of the overall genome, a percentage so small that it would reportedly not be statistically significant enough to show that the origin of the Jews is the Kingdom of Judah in the biblical Land of Israel. . . . .

    SOURCE - link to failedmessiah.typepad.com

• Activists deliver petition to Alicia Keys’ Brooklyn charity asking her to cancel Israel show
  • DICKERSON3870 June 12, 2013 at 5:47 am

    RE: “We assume Alicia Keys wasn’t familiar with Israel’s abuses of Palestinian human rights, when scheduling, because her performance is legitimizing a country that systematically undermines her nonprofit’s mission, that ‘every person has the right to health care and that all children deserve a future'." ~ Andrew Kadi

    ANOTHER THING ALICIA KEYS MIGHT NOT BE FAMILIAR WITH:
    "Golda Meir Was First Israeli Leader to Expel African-(American) Refugees" By Richard Silverstein, Tikun Olam, 6/10/13
    

    The current furor in Israel about the “epidemic” of African refugees “flooding” the country is unfortunately not new. Nor is the plan by the Netanyahu government to throw them into concentration camps or expel them. In 1969, Black Israelites began to arrive in Israel from the U.S. They claimed to be Jewish, but Israel’s rabbinical establishment rejected their claims. This meant they could not become citizens.
    Finally, the Golda Meir government in 1971 began the process of expelling them. Over the years hundreds have been. Though there is now an uneasy truce, with 5,000 currently living in Israel. So Bibi learned this trick of turning a cold shoulder to Black refugees from a beloved leader of Israel’s Labor Party. So much for Labor’s liberal Zionism.
    Thanks to David Sheen, one of Israel’s foremost activists on behalf of the African refugee community. He’s dug up this racist letter written to Golda Meir, after she’d expelled some of them. There are more examples here.
    Alhough the circumstances then were different than now, when there are 60,000 African refugees in Israel, these sentiments Golda preserved, even at that early period, are reflected precisely in current racist Israeli attitudes. MKs rabble-rouse, calling Africans a cancer among the Israeli nation. Not far at all from this calling them a “5th column.”
    The American Jew who wrote this letter to the Israeli prime minister was little better than the Likud when it came to issues like these that threatened Israeli Jewish hegemony. In fact, the racism reflected in this letter would be little different in tone or substance than the views of Meir Kahane. . .

    SOURCE - link to richardsilverstein.com

• The MSM tries to distinguish between Manning and Snowden. Don't let them
  • DICKERSON3870 June 14, 2013 at 11:23 pm

    Don't worry about it, most people don't get my "humor" either.

    P.S. My life is an open book, hence the heavily stained pages.

  • DICKERSON3870 June 11, 2013 at 4:24 pm with 2 replies

    P.P.S. I think the NSA has been rummaging through my dirty laundry hamper, but I don't care; because I don't have anything to hide. My life is an open book (and a hell of a lot of very dirty boxer shorts). So, go for it, NSA! And enjoy the aroma, boys.
    I just wish they would thoroughly launder everything, neatly fold it all, and put it in its proper places in my clothes closet. Is that too much to ask?

  • DICKERSON3870 June 11, 2013 at 4:12 pm

    P.S. ALSO SEE: “IDF Unit 8200 Cyberwar Veterans Developed NSA Snooping Technology", By Richard Silverstein, Tikun Olam, 6/07/13
    LINK - link to businessinsider.com

  • DICKERSON3870 June 11, 2013 at 3:58 pm with 4 replies

    The U.S. has become its very own "banana republic". I wonder if the CIA will try to assassinate Snowdon in Hong Kong like the Mossad assasinated Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh in Dubai. Or, will they try to take him out using a Predator® drone armed with Hellfire™ missiles?

• Approaching 60, Norman Finkelstein reflects
  • DICKERSON3870 June 14, 2013 at 11:08 pm

    [LINKS ADDED]
    ** P.P.S. FOR INSTANCE: "Jewish Donors Warn Obama on Israel", By Laura Meckler, Wall Street Journal, 5/19/11
    LINK - link to online.wsj.com
    ALSO SEE: "Saban family tried to give Emanuel over 1/2 a million", By Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss, 1/24/11
    LINK - link to mondoweiss.net

  • DICKERSON3870 June 14, 2013 at 10:56 pm with 1 replies

    RE: I hope the connection is a “post hoc ergo propter hoc” (succession does not indicate causality) coincidence. ~ ritzl

    MY COMMENT: Strictly speaking, the connection between DePaul's canning Finkelstein (at Dershowitz's* urging) and $100,000,000 of taxpayer's funds being allocated for DePaul’s proposed new stadium is quite likely a “post hoc ergo propter hoc”. But ask yourself this, would DePaul be getting the $100,000,000 in taxpayer's funds from Rahm Emanuel if it had given Finkelstein tenure (over Dershowitz's objections)**?
    I rest my case! ! !

    * P.S. Dershowitz is just a F. Lee Bailey wannabe!
    Spice Girls: "Wannabe" [VIDEO, 03:58] - link to youtube.com

    ** P.P.S. FOR INSTANCE: "Jewish Donors Warn Obama on Israel", By Laura Meckler, Wall Street Journal, 5/19/11
    ALSO SEE: "Saban family tried to give Emanuel over 1/2 a million", By Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss, 1/24/11

    P.P.P.S. Personally, I can't stand F. Lee Baily! As obnoxious as Dershowitz can be about Israel, I like him better than I do F. Lee Bailey.

  • DICKERSON3870 June 11, 2013 at 4:56 pm with 5 replies

    RE: "The ordeal at DePaul University left a very sour taste in my mouth . . ." ~ Finkelstein

    MY SNARK: And it is leaving a hell of a lot of money in DePaul's coffers!

    DEPAUL REAPS ITS $100,00o,000 REWARD FOR HAVING CANNED FINKELSTEIN: "Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said DePaul's proposed new stadium that would cost taxpayers $100 million was 'essential' to the city.", by Tony Lee, breitbart.com, 31 May 2013
    

    DePaul, a school that did not even average 3,000 fans a game last season in attendance and has only won seven games combined in the last five years in Big East play, is a private Catholic school that turned down offers to play rent free at the United Center.
    Speaking at the 2013 Intersport Activation Summit in Chicago on Thursday, Emanuel said he was going to "make sure that DePaul has a facility in the city" and that DePaul's stadium was “essential to the city’s quality of life and economic development."
    According to Sports Business Journal, Emanuel noted that the "Big Ten basketball tournament will come to Chicago every other year" and the city wanted to land more of those types of events.
    Chicago, meanwhile, is broke and closing 50 public schools because of budget shortfalls.

    SOURCE - link to breitbart.com

• An Israeli veteran comes forward to decry 'how shitty we are' to Palestinians
  • DICKERSON3870 June 11, 2013 at 4:38 pm with 2 replies

    RE: "The latest testimonies from the Israeli soldiers' group Breaking the Silence are extremely powerful, but I haven't seen these amazing women popping up yet in the American media. Soon I hope." ~ Weiss

    MY ÜBER-PESSIMISTIC COMMENT: Dream on, Phil!
    SEE: "Jewish Donors Warn Obama on Israel", By Laura Meckler, Wall Street Journal, 5/19/11
    LINK - link to online.wsj.com

    FROM WIKIPEDIA [Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media]:
    

    [EXCERPTS] "Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media" (1988), by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, is an analysis of the news media, arguing that the mass media of the United States "are effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function by reliance on market forces, internalized assumptions, and self-censorship, and without overt coercion".[1] . . .

    ● Editorial bias: five filters
    Herman and Chomsky's "propaganda model" describes five editorially distorting filters applied to news reporting in mass media:
    • Size, Ownership, and Profit Orientation: The dominant mass-media outlets are large firms which are run for profit. Therefore they must cater to the financial interest of their owners - often corporations or particular controlling investors. The size of the firms is a necessary consequence of the capital requirements for the technology to reach a mass audience.
    • The Advertising License to Do Business: Since the majority of the revenue of major media outlets derives from advertising (not from sales or subscriptions), advertisers have acquired a "de-facto licensing authority".[4] Media outlets are not commercially viable without the support of advertisers. News media must therefore cater to the political prejudices and economic desires of their advertisers. This has weakened the working-class press, for example, and also helps explain the attrition in the number of newspapers.
    • Sourcing Mass Media News: Herman and Chomsky argue that “the large bureaucracies of the powerful subsidize the mass media, and gain special access [to the news], by their contribution to reducing the media’s costs of acquiring [...] and producing, news. The large entities that provide this subsidy become 'routine' news sources and have privileged access to the gates. Non-routine sources must struggle for access, and may be ignored by the arbitrary decision of the gatekeepers.”[5]
    • Flak and the Enforcers: "Flak" refers to negative responses to a media statement or program (e.g. letters, complaints, lawsuits, or legislative actions). Flak can be expensive to the media, either due to loss of advertising revenue, or due to the costs of legal defense or defense of the media outlet's public image. Flak can be organized by powerful, private influence groups (e.g. think tanks). The prospect of eliciting flak can be a deterrent to the reporting of certain kinds of facts or opinions.[5]
    • Anti-Communism: This was included as a filter in the original 1988 edition of the book, but Chomsky argues that since the end of the Cold War (1945–91), anticommunism was replaced by the "War on Terror", as the major social control mechanism.[6][7] . . .

    SOURCE - link to en.wikipedia.org

    P.S. SOMETHING ELSE YOU WILL NOT SEE IN THE MAINSTREAM/CORPORATE MEDIA:
    • “IDF Unit 8200 Cyberwar Veterans Developed NSA Snooping Technology", By Richard Silverstein, Tikun Olam, 6/07/13
    LINK - link to richardsilverstein.com

• World Bank, the PA and Israel work together to confiscate Palestinian land for West Bank dump site
  • DICKERSON3870 June 10, 2013 at 5:53 pm

    RE: "Vichy governement… Exactly, but palestinians doesnt seems to care, unfortunately."

    SEE: "Palestinian Authority minister flees criticism at boycott conference", by Asa Winstanley, Electronic Intifada, 6/08/13
    

    [EXCERPT] The Palestinian Authority’s minister of national economy Jawad Naji was chased out of the national boycott conference in Bethlehem University today. Participants in the BDS conference were angry with the PA’s politics of trade and normalization with Israel, and many openly criticized the PA, the Palestine Liberation Organization and PA leader Mahmoud Abbas himself.
    The day-long conference saw attendee after attendee take the microphone during question-and-answer sessions, denouncing normalization with Israel and calling for better efforts to boycott Israeli products within the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
    They were also angry the PA has not followed through on promises dating from 2010 to prevent the “ubiquity” of settlement products in Palestinian shops in the West Bank. Long-time Abbas aide Yasser Abed Rabbo was described as the “founder of normalization.”
    During a session intended to allow activists to hold the PA and the PLO to account, questioner Nizar Banat challenged Naji, and pointed out the elephant in the room when it comes to local BDS. He exclaimed: Abbas says openly that he collaborates with the Israelis.
    At this point Naji, who had been growing visibly uncomfortable at the mounting criticism, snapped. He accused the questioner of “barking” and shouted that he did not accept that someone could say “bad things” about “the president.”
    The audience, who had loudly applauded Banat’s stinging denunciation of Abbas, then turned on Naji. The people demanded Naji apologize but he refused and instead walked out. The minister fled the hall with his entourage to angry chants of “get the minister out” and “collaborators!” . . .

    ENTIRE ARTICLE - link to electronicintifada.net

• Israel is biggest importer of philanthropy, but exports? Not so good
  • DICKERSON3870 June 10, 2013 at 12:49 pm

    RE: "Israel is biggest importer of philanthropy, but exports? Not so good" ~ Weiss

    MY SNARK: But . . . but, what about "Baby Israel" Phil? Iddy biddy Baby Israel! Coochie Coochie Coo! ! !

    SEE: "The Zionization of Disaster Relief", by Richard Silverstein, Tikun Olam, 01/19/10
    

    [EXCERPTS] [A]t Israel’s Haiti field hospital, they delivered what the Israeli PR flacks called “the first since the earthquake.” The medical staff urged the woman to name her baby “Israel” (who, if he reaches adulthood, would never be welcome in Israel) and she was only to eager to oblige. Another Israeli PR coup! . . .
    . . . Didn’t know there was anything particularly Zionist about providing disaster relief? You learn something new every day. This is a story of exploiting the suffering of poor, defenseless Haitians on behalf of Israeli triumphalism.
    Sol Salbe translated an eye-opening column from Yediot by an Israeli doctor who was an integral member of all Israeli international disaster response teams until recently. Then he made the mistake of writing a mildly critical statement about Israeli disaster relief efforts. As a result, he was relieved of his obligation for further IDF service and further participation in the disaster relief program. The op ed is so revealing (and not yet available online in English) I’m going to quote large sections . . .
    

    ● Public Relations instead of saving lives

    Sending portable toilets to Haiti would have been a better option, but this does not provide good photo opportunities. Israeli missions to disaster areas in the past have shown that such activity was in vain.

    • Yoel Donchin

    I received my final exemption from the army after I published an article which said that the State of Israel acts like the proverbial Boy Scout, who insists on doing a good deed daily and helping an old lady cross the road even against her will. . .
    . . . Generally speaking, we start preparing for such a mission within hours of the announcement of a natural disaster. Most often the Israeli mission team is the first one to land in the area. Like those who climb Mount Everest, it plants its flag on the highest peak available, announcing to all and sundry that the site has been conquered. And in order to ensure that the public is aware of this sporting achievement, the mission is accompanied by media representatives, photographers, an IDF spokesman’s office squad and others . . .

    ENTIRE POST - link to richardsilverstein.com

    P.S. Video: ‘Israel’ Born in Haiti after IDF Delivers Healthy Baby, Arutz Sheva TV, 01/17/10
    The IDF Field Hospital in Haiti has delivered its first baby, and the mother was so happy that she called him “Israel.”...
    LINK - link to israelnationalnews.com

• The education of Samantha Power
  • DICKERSON3870 June 9, 2013 at 7:51 pm with 1 replies

    RE: "Then, she [Samantha Power] directly addressed the accusations that she harbored animus toward Israel. And in the presence of the leaders of our community, she suddenly became deeply emotional and struggled to complete her presentation as she expressed how deeply such accusations had affected her. Tears streamed down her cheeks . . ." ~ from Shmuley Boteach's endorsement

    PHIL OCHS, 1966:
    

    I cried when they shot Medgar Evers
    Tears ran down my spine
    I cried when they shot Mr. Kennedy
    As though I'd lost a father of mine
    But Malcolm X got what was coming
    He got what he asked for this time
    So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

    I go to civil rights rallies
    And I put down the old D.A.R.
    I love Harry and Sidney and Sammy
    I hope every colored boy becomes a star
    But don't talk about revolution
    That's going a little bit too far
    So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

    I cheered when Humphrey was chosen
    My faith in the system restored
    I'm glad the commies were thrown out
    of the A.F.L. C.I.O. board
    I love Puerto Ricans and Negros
    as long as they don't move next door
    So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal . . .

    ● Phil Ochs -- Love me, I'm a liberal [VIDEO, 4:40] - link to youtube.com

• The horror: 'Breaking the Silence' releases women's frightful testimonies of occupation
  • DICKERSON3870 June 9, 2013 at 8:02 pm

    RE: "You can't think that they're good hardworking people trying to survive in a closed, place."
    "I realized that in order to be there you have to break them, break their spirit. Breaking them means making them wait, blindfolding them, treating them badly . . ." ~ former soldiers describing the brutalization of the Palestinians

    SEE: "Permanent Temporariness", by Alastair Crooke, London Review of Books, 03/03/11:
    ALISTAIR CROOKE, London Review of Books, 03/03/11:
    

    [EXCERPTS] . . . It was [Ariel] Sharon who pioneered the philosophy of ‘maintained uncertainty’ that repeatedly extended and then limited the space in which Palestinians could operate by means of an unpredictable combination of changing and selectively enforced regulations, and the dissection of space by settlements, roads Palestinians were not allowed to use and continually shifting borders. All of this was intended to induce in the Palestinians a sense of permanent temporariness. . .
    . . . It suits Israel to have a ‘state’ without borders so that it can keep negotiating about borders, and count on the resulting uncertainty to maintain acquiescence. . .
    . . . Israel’s vice-premier, Moshe Ya’alon, was candid when asked in an interview this year: ‘Why all these games of make-believe negotiations?’ He replied:
    

    Because … there are pressures. Peace Now from within, and other elements from without. So you have to manoeuvre … what we have to do is manoeuvre with the American administration and the European establishment, which are nourished by Israeli elements [and] which create the illusion that an agreement can be reached … I say that time works for those who make use of it. The founders of Zionism knew … and we in the government know how to make use of time.

    SOURCE - link to lrb.co.uk

• Gideon Levy thanks Superland for revealing to Israelis that they practice apartheid
  • DICKERSON3870 June 9, 2013 at 7:14 pm

    RE: "They just want Superland’s management to make their gnawing cognitive dissonance go the hell away! ! !" - me (from above)

    FROM BRITANNICA [cognitive dissonance]:
    

    [C]ognitive dissonance [is] the mental conflict that occurs when beliefs or assumptions [e.g., "Israel is enlightened." - J.L.D.] are contradicted by new information [i.e., Superland's discrimination - J.L.D.]. The unease or tension that the conflict arouses in a person is relieved by one of several defensive maneuvers: the person rejects, explains away, or avoids the new information, persuades himself that no conflict really exists, reconciles the differences, or resorts to any other defensive means of preserving stability or order in his conception of the world and of himself. The concept, first introduced in the 1950s, has become a major point of discussion and research.

    SOURCE - link to britannica.com

  • DICKERSON3870 June 9, 2013 at 6:57 pm with 1 replies

    RE: "What do they want from Superland's management? It's just a playground, which has suddenly turned out to be a true reflection of society. Superland has dared to be a Mini-Israel as well. If so, what's the fuss?" ~ Gideon Levey

    ANSWER: They just want Superland's management to make their gnawing cognitive dissonance go the hell away! ! !

    FROM WIKIPEDIA [Defence mechanisms]:
    

    [EXCERPTS] In Freudian psychoanalytic theory, defense mechanisms (or defense mechanisms) are psychological strategies brought into play by the unconscious mind[1] to manipulate, deny, or distort reality (through processes including, but not limited to, repression, identification, or rationalization),[2] and to maintain a socially acceptable self-image or self-schema [and to minimize cognitive dissonance - J.L.D.].[3]
    Healthy persons normally use different defenses throughout life. An ego defense mechanism becomes pathological only when its persistent use leads to maladaptive behavior such that the physical and/or mental health of the individual is adversely affected. The purpose of ego defense mechanisms is to protect the mind/self/ego from anxiety [i.e., cognitive dissonance - J.L.D.] and/or social sanctions and/or to provide a refuge from a situation with which one cannot currently cope [i.e., a refuge from cognitive dissonance - J.L.D.].[4]
    Defence mechanisms are unconscious coping mechanisms that reduce anxiety generated by threats from unacceptable impulses.[5]
    . . . The list of defence mechanisms is huge and there is no theoretical consensus on the number of defence mechanisms. . .

    ● Vaillant's categorization of defence mechanisms

    Level 1: Pathological

    Level 2: Immature

    Level 3: Neurotic
    These mechanisms are considered neurotic, but fairly common in adults. Such defences have short-term advantages in coping, but can often cause long-term problems . . .
    • Displacement: Defence mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses to a more acceptable or less threatening target; redirecting emotion to a safer outlet; separation of emotion from its real object and redirection of the intense emotion toward someone or something that is less offensive or threatening in order to avoid dealing directly with what is frightening or threatening. For example, a mother may yell at her child because she is angry with her husband.
    • Intellectualization: A form of isolation; concentrating on the intellectual components of a situation so as to distance oneself from the associated anxiety-provoking emotions; separation of emotion from ideas; thinking about wishes in formal, affectively bland terms and not acting on them; avoiding unacceptable emotions by focusing on the intellectual aspects (e.g. isolation, rationalization, ritual, undoing, compensation, magical thinking).
    • Rationalization (making excuses): Where a person convinces him or herself that no wrong was done and that all is or was all right through faulty and false reasoning. An indicator of this defence mechanism can be seen socially as the formulation of convenient excuses - making excuses.

    Level 4: Mature
    These are commonly found among emotionally healthy adults and are considered mature . . .
    • Humility: A quality by which a person considering his own defects, has a humble opinion of himself.
    • Mindfulness: Adopting a particular orientation toward one’s experiences in the present moment, an orientation that is characterised by curiosity, openness, and acceptance.
    • Altruism: Constructive service to others that brings pleasure and personal satisfaction.
    • Humour: Overt expression of ideas and feelings (especially those that are unpleasant to focus on or too terrible to talk about) that gives pleasure to others. The thoughts retain a portion of their innate distress, but they are "skirted round" by witticism, for example Self-deprecation. [J.L.D.: FOR EXAMPLE - Photoshopped spoof billboard in front of Superland's ferris wheel ""Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays for Jews. Mondays and Wednesdays for Arabs." - link to mondoweiss.net ]
    • Sublimation: Transformation of negative emotions or instincts into positive actions, behaviour, or emotion. [E.G., BOYCOTT SUPERLAND! - J.L.D.] (ex. Playing a heavy contact sport such as football or rugby can transform aggression into a game)[19]

    SOURCE - link to en.wikipedia.org

• End your illusion: Israeli government will never implement a two-state solution, top official says
  • DICKERSON3870 June 10, 2013 at 12:19 am

    The link to Avnery's article at Redress does not work.
    Here is a link to the article at gush-shalom.org - link to zope.gush-shalom.org

  • DICKERSON3870 June 9, 2013 at 11:22 pm with 1 replies

    P.P.P.P.S ALSO SEE - "Israelis afflictions: instilled memory and paranoia vera" ~ By Uri Avnery, Redress, 7/10/11
    Uri Avnery considers the psychological disorders underlying Israel's response to criticism and peaceful protest, most recently manifested in its over-reaction to the humanitarian flotilla to Gaza, and the Israeli publics generally docile acceptance of what their government and media tell them.
    

    [EXCERPTS] I saw on TV the results of a scientific investigation by Israeli researchers into “instilled memory”. Their experiments show that people who have seen something with their own eyes, but are told by everybody else that they have seen something else, start to suppress their own memory and “remember” that they saw what the others had allegedly seen. Neurological research then showed that this is can actually be seen happening in the brain: the imagined memory replaces the real. Social pressure has done its work: the instilled memory has become real memory.
    I believe that this is even truer for an entire nation, which is, of course, composed of individuals. I have seen this many times. . .
    . . . There is a mental disorder called “paranoia vera”. Patients adopt a crazy assumption – e.g. “everybody hates me” – and then build an elaborate structure around it. Every bit of information which seems to support it is eagerly absorbed, every item that contradicts it is suppressed. Everything is interpreted so as to reinforce the initial assumption. The pattern is strictly logical – indeed, the more complete and the more logical the structure, the more serious is the disease.
    Among the accompanying symptoms are belligerent behavior, recurrent suspicions, disconnection from the real world, conspiracy theories and narcissism.
    It seems that whole nations can fall victim to this illness. Ours certainly appears to have.
    The whole world is against us. Everybody is out to destroy us. Every move is a threat to our very existence. Everyone critical of Israeli policy is an anti-Semite or self-hating Jew. . .

    SOURCE - link to redress.cc

  • DICKERSON3870 June 9, 2013 at 7:27 pm

    P.P.P.S. ALSO SEE: "Is There a Way Beyond Israeli Madness?" [Will the Chosen People and the Exceptional People Go Down Together?] ~ by John Grant, Counterpunch, 8/31/12
    

    The patient, by the name of Israel, walks into the room and instantly bursts into a tirade of arguments conclusively proving his credentials, and says that he is better than everyone else.
    - Ofer Grosbard, "Israel On The Couch: The Psychology of the Peace Process"

    The problem Americans have with Israel is that the region it exists in is in the midst of a major political sea change, while Israel is frozen in time and holding on to its militarist, right-wing policies of extending settlements in the West Bank. It’s a policy that harks back to the ideas of the British-trained militarist Ze’ev Jabotinsky’s Iron Wall, which is based on the idea a live-and-let-live policy between Jews and Arabs is impossible and, thus, Jews must militarily control and repress Palestinians [i.e. the mindset of the "pale" - J.L.D.] . . .
    . . . How does a people turn back a racially-oriented demonization program with roots that extend back many decades? How do you ratchet down a nation’s narcissism so people are able to simply see the other as a human being? . . .
    . . . On our part, Americans and the United States need to stop being a permissive yes-man and begin to show Israel some tough love. We need more US criticism of Israel. No doubt this approach will be received with gales of cynical laughter from hardliners … but so what?
    In my mind, the Israeli narcissistic and arrogant mindset would benefit from a little Buddhist detachment, more of the posture that sees the world not of separate individual selves and egos but of human beings as part of a larger flow of life. The Buddhists call the self-obsessed, separatist state-of-mind [i.e. the "pale" of Israel surrounded by Ze’ev Jabotinsky’s Iron Wall - J.L.D.] that Israel thrives on and defends with weapons as “the illusory self.”
    “Once one identifies with a permanent self-concept, the pride and craving adhering to this become the pivot from which an egocentric world arises,” writes Gay Watson, a psychotherapist attuned to Buddhism.
    David Loy puts it this way: “To become completely groundless is also to become completely grounded, not in some particular, but in the whole network of interdependent relations that constitute the world.”
    I’m not suggesting Israel become a Buddhist nation. The point is for Israelis, and more important Americans, to figure a way out of the worsening condition of “us versus them” to avoid the need to obliterate them and set off a war that no one really wants. The point is to re-shape our minds to make “the other” less threatening to permit talking.
    I’m not holding my breath that Benjamin Netanyahu and Avigdor Lieberman are going to become peace activists. But I’m done as an American being a silent stooge while Israeli militarist madness fuels hatred and sets the stage for war.

    ENTIRE COMMENTARY - link to counterpunch.org

  • DICKERSON3870 June 9, 2013 at 3:55 am

    P.P.S.
    ● RE: "Speaking about the international community’s routine condemnations of Israeli construction in East Jerusalem, Danon declared that the government can do whatever it pleases, wherever it pleases." ~ from the Gluntz post
    ● AND RE: "Elliott embodied the hubris of the neocon perspective. His attitude was, ‘All the rest of you are pygmies. You don’t have the scope and the vision we have. We are going to remake the world.’ ~ from the HistoryCommons.org excerpt above

    ● FROM WIKIPEDIA [Megalomania]:
    

    [EXCERPTS] Megalomania is a psychopathological disorder characterized by delusional fantasies of power, relevance, or omnipotence, "Megalomania is characterized by an inflated sense of self-esteem and overestimation by persons of their powers and beliefs."[1] Historically it was used as an old name for narcissistic personality disorder prior to the latter's first use by Heinz Kohut in 1968, and is used these days as a non-clinical equivalent.[2][3] . . .
    . . . A quotation by Bertrand Russell gives his interpretation of megalomania: "The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history."[5]
    Russell's near-contemporary, Sigmund Freud, freely used the same term in a comparable way. Referring with respect to an adult neurotic to 'the omnipotence which he ascribed to his thoughts and feelings', Freud reckoned that 'this belief is a frank acknowledgement of a relic of the old megalomania of infancy'.[6] Similarly Freud concluded that 'we can detect an element of megalomania in most other forms of paranoic disorder. We are justified in assuming that this megalomania is essentially of an infantile nature and that, as development proceeds, it is sacrificed to social considerations'.[7]
    Edmund Bergler, one of his early followers, considered that 'as Freud and Ferenczi have shown, the child lives in a sort of megalomania for a long period; he knows only one yardstick, and that is his own over-inflated ego....Megalomania, it must be understood, is normal in the very young child'.[8] Bergler was of the opinion that in later life 'the activity of gambling ["all or nothing" in the case of Likudnik Israel - J.L.D.] in itself unconsciously activates the megalomania and grandiosity of childhood [i.e. the mythical/Biblical "Land of Israel"* - J.L.D.], reverting to the "fiction of omnipotence".[9]
    Otto Fenichel states that, for those who react in later life to narcissistic hurt with denial, ' a regression to narcissism is also a regression to the primary narcissistic omnipotence which makes its reappearance in the form of megalomania'.[10] . . .

    SOURCE - link to en.wikipedia.org

    * SEE: "The Invention of the Land of Israel by Shlomo Sand – review", By Donald Sassoon, The Guardian, 4/18/13
    In this second volume of his trilogy of Jewish studies, Sand explores how the 'Land of Israel' was invented, and debunks popular nationalist mythology
    LINK - link to guardian.co.uk

  • DICKERSON3870 June 9, 2013 at 3:17 am

    P.S. FROM HistoryCommons.org [Elliott Abrams]:
    

    ● "June 2001: Abrams, Other Think Tank Neoconservatives Move to Join White House"
    Hardline neoconservative Elliott Abrams (see June 2, 1987) joins the National Security Council as senior director of Near East and North African affairs. A State Department official will later recall: “Elliott embodied the hubris of the neocon perspective. His attitude was, ‘All the rest of you are pygmies. You don’t have the scope and the vision we have. We are going to remake the world.’ His appointment meant that good sense had been overcome by ideology.”

    • Rush of Neoconservatives into Administration
    Abrams’s entry into the White House heralds a rush of former Project for the New American Century members (PNAC—see January 26, 1998 and September 2000) into the Bush administration, almost all of whom are staunch advocates of regime change in Iraq. “I don’t think that most people in State understood what was going on,” the State Department official will say later. “I understood what this was about, that PNAC was moving from outside the government to inside. In my mind, it was an unfriendly takeover.” [UNGER, 2007, PP. 205]

    • Neoconservatives Well-Organized, Contemptuous of Congress
    In June 2004, former intelligence official Patrick Lang will write: “It should have been a dire warning to the US Congress when the man who had been convicted of lying to Congress during the Iran-contra affair [Elliott Abrams] was put in charge of the Middle East section of the NSC staff. One underestimated talent of the neocon group in the run-up to this war was its ability to manipulate Congress. They were masters of the game, having made the team in Washington in the 1970s on the staffs of two of the most powerful senators in recent decades, New York’s Patrick Moynihan and Washington’s Henry ‘Scoop’Jackson (see Early 1970s). The old boy’s club—Abe Shulsky at OSP [the Office of Special Plans—see September 2002], Undersecretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith, Middle East Desk Officer at the NSC Abrams, Defense Policy Board Chairman Richard Perle—had not only worked together in their early government years in these two Senate offices, but they had stayed together as a network through the ensuing decades, floating around a small number of businesses and think tanks, including the American Enterprise Institute and the openly neoimperialist Project for a New American Century. The neocons were openly contemptuous of Congress, as they were of the UN Security Council.” [MIDDLE EAST POLICY COUNCIL, 6/2004]

    SOURCE - link to historycommons.org

  • DICKERSON3870 June 9, 2013 at 2:59 am with 5 replies

    RE: "Speaking about the international community’s routine condemnations of Israeli construction in East Jerusalem, Danon declared that the government can do whatever it pleases, wherever it pleases. ‘The international community can say whatever they want, and we can do whatever we want,’ he said." ~ from the Glunts post

    ME DAMNING WITH FAINT PRAISE, OF SORTS:
    "Monkey see, monkey do!" Neocons will be neocons!

    FROM WIKIPEDIA [Reality-based community]:
    

    Reality-based community is an informal term in the United States. In the fall of 2004, the phrase "proud member of the reality-based community" was first used to suggest the commentator's opinions are based more on observation than on faith, assumption, or ideology. The term has been defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from judicious study of discernible reality." Some commentators have gone as far as to suggest that there is an overarching conflict in society between the reality-based community and the "faith-based community" as a whole. It can be seen as an example of political framing.
    The source of the term is a quotation in an October 17, 2004, The New York Times Magazine article by writer Ron Suskind, quoting an unnamed aide to George W. Bush (later attributed to Karl Rove[1]):
    

    The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."[2]

    SOURCE - link to en.wikipedia.org

  • DICKERSON3870 June 8, 2013 at 1:11 pm

    RE: "We oughta just ask Israel straight out now instead of prolonging the waiting: How many acres don’t you want? Oh that’s right though, Israel doesn’t respond to same; that’s why it doesn’t declare its borders. (Despite constantly proclaiming it’s just like every other state.) They’re really secret from the rest of the world it seems. Expandable to utterly unstated and unknown limits . . ." ~ Sin Nombre

    MY REPLY: That's why I sometimes refer to The Dissociative State of Israel™!

    FROM JOEL KOVEL, 1-20-13:
    

    . . . As with everyone I know of in official political culture, [Thomas] Friedman [probably like Kerry and Obama - J.L.D.] assumes that Israel is a rational actor on the international stage who will obey the calculus of reward and punishment that regulates the conduct of normal states.
    The presumption is that if you tell it the truth, and even pull back US support, it will get the message, reflect, and change its ways. But Israel is not a normal state, except superficially. It will make adjustments, pulling back here, co-operating there, making nice when necessary, crafting its message using a powerful propaganda apparatus employing the most up-to-date social science. But this is simply tactical and no more predicts or explains the behavior of the Zionist state than an individual sociopath can be explained by the fact that he obeys traffic signals while driving to the scene of his crime. . .

    SOURCE – link to mondoweiss.net

  • DICKERSON3870 June 8, 2013 at 12:59 pm with 1 replies

    RE: "LOL Anybody send Danon’s memo to Obama and Kerry?"~ Citizen

    MY REPLY : There's absolutely no need in sending Danon’s memo to Obama and Kerry, because it's all one great big "kabuki dance"! ! ! I can assure you that Obama and Kerry sho ain't no "nosy fellas"*. That's why, for the remainder of his presidency, the Israel-Palestine conflict will be Obama's "Chinatown".
    Like the DA told that "nosy fella"* Jake Gittes in the 1974 film Chinatown, one should do "as little as possible" when assigned to Chinatown. Consequently, regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, expect to see from Obama a heavily camouflaged policy of "benign neglect".
    "I get burned once, shame on them; I get burned twice**, shame on me!"
    * Nosy Fella – Chinatown (1/9) Movie CLIP (1974) [VIDEO, 01:13] - link to youtube.com
    ** Jewish Donors Warn Obama on Israel, By Laura Meckler, Wall Street Journal, 5/19/11
    LINK - link to online.wsj.com

    P.S. FROM THE 1974 FILM CHINATOWN:
    

    • Evelyn Mulwray: "Tell me, Mr. Gittes: Does this often happen to you?"
    • Jake Gittes: "Actually, this hasn't happened to me for a long time."
    • Evelyn Mulwray: "When was the last time?"
    • Jake Gittes: "Why?"
    • Evelyn Mulwray: "It's an innocent question."
    • Jake Gittes: "In Chinatown."
    • Evelyn Mulwray: "What were you doing there?"
    • Jake Gittes: "Working for the District Attorney."
    • Evelyn Mulwray: "Doing what?"
    • Jake Gittes: "As little as possible."
    • Evelyn Mulwray: "The District Attorney gives his men advice like that?"
    • Jake Gittes: "They do in Chinatown."

    SOURCE - link to imdb.com

• Racy, or just racist? Israel cracks down on social networking in uniform
  • DICKERSON3870 June 7, 2013 at 7:31 pm

    P.S. Or Donald Trump! And Sheldon Adelson!

  • DICKERSON3870 June 7, 2013 at 7:14 pm with 1 replies

    She's probably just desperate for attention, like Pam Geller.

• Creator of 'Two and a Half Men' says other Americans want to ship him to a concentration camp
  • DICKERSON3870 June 7, 2013 at 7:23 pm

    RE: "Certainly we have been persecuted historically; but a historical lens keeps many of us from acknowledging our place in American society... Jon Stewart once said that Jews had to be good at looking over our shoulders because of pogroms. In this place and time, this is a delusion. And an irresponsible one." ~ Weiss

    SEE: "Injustice Collecting", By Nando Pelusi, Ph.D., psychologytoday.com, published on November 01, 2006
    You can't let go of a grudge, says Nando Pelusi, Ph.D., because there are deep-seated emotional payoffs.
    

    [EXCERPTS] We have a complicated relationship with the grudges we hold. We get obsessed and aggravated by the many slights [not to mention far more grievous victimization - J.L.D.] that befall us, but we're ever reluctant to bury our pain and move on. Like an illicit affair, our beloved grudges usually end up creating misery for all involved.
    The tendency to itemize every unfair knock we've ever suffered is known as injustice collecting. Sometimes the injustices are personal, as in, "My boss unfairly promoted Rick over me." This kind of self-talk leads to anger. At other times, the catalogued outrages lead to overwrought generalizations, such as, "Nothing ever goes well; this is too unfair." This type of thinking leads to hopelessness and rage.
    Enough grudge holding and soon you'll see more iniquity than actually exists. The injustice collector becomes a trigger-happy perceiver. If you walk down the street recounting the affronts you've suffered lately, you'll kick up quite a cloud of dejection.
    Injustice collecting springs from a sensible motive: the monitoring of fairness as a form of self-protection ["looking over our shoulders" ~ Jon Stewart], an impulse that evolved among social creatures who depended on one another. Nursing grudges may have raised our odds of survival and reproduction, however unconsciously. . .
    . . . But injustice collecting is about more than just resentment toward cheaters; just as often, it's resentment on a mass scale—about anger at the very order of the universe. If a tree falls on a school bus or an earthquake levels our home, we're stricken by the absolute injustice of it all. Islamist radicals, for example, resent the West's development, and many are willing to die for their version of justice.
    Self-pity plus religious outrage—a combination that fuels suicide bombers—might also be a cognitive virus, replicating itself because humans are so easily attuned to believing in absolute justice.
    Fairness is a desirable abstraction, and one we'd better reach for, but it is not a concrete measurement, however much we might wish the courts, God, or the Constitution to decree it. . .

    ENTIRE ARTICLE - link to psychologytoday.com

• CNN asks: Should soccer boycott Israel's European Championship tournament?
  • DICKERSON3870 June 7, 2013 at 12:58 pm

    RE: "CNN asks: Should soccer boycott Israel’s European Championship tournament?"

    MY REPLY TO CNN'S QUERY: "Is the Pope Catholic?"

    SEE - "Suspicion and Hate: Racist Attacks On Arabs Increase in Israel", By Julia Amalia Heyer, Spiegel Online, 6/05/13
    

    [EXCERPT] . . . Asi, who lives in a small village [in Israel] near Caesarea, supports the Beitar Jerusalem football club. On a Thursday evening, he and other Beitar fans are standing at an intersection in Herzliya. Asi has a friendly face and a neatly trimmed beard. Like his fellow fans, he is here to demonstrate against the club's owner.
    When it was revealed in January that the Club planned to sign two Muslim Chechen players, the stands in the stadium became filled with hateful signs, with words like "Beitar -- Pure Forever." The fans chanted: "We are chosen, we are holy, but the Arabs are not."
    Beitar Jerusalem, says Asi, that's the holy menorah on a yellow background. The team, he says, can only win as a Jewish team, which is why Muslims shouldn't be allowed to play in the club.
    Beitar's management has since cancelled the contracts with the Chechens and sent the two men back home. There were simply too many problems [most especially, Israeli racism - J.L.D.], the club wrote in a statement.

    ENTIRE ARTICLE - link to spiegel.de

• Exile and the Prophetic: Samantha Power’s quest
  • DICKERSON3870 June 7, 2013 at 11:40 am

    RE: There you have the official line – “Liberal values stop at Israel’s shores. Samantha knows the limits of criticism. She’ll betray her own principles to get ahead. Besides she is an interventionist on the issues that count for us. ~ Marc Ellis

    PHIL OCHS, 1966:
    

    . . . I love Puerto Ricans and Negros
    as long as they don't move next door
    So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

    ● Phil Ochs -- Love me, I'm a liberal [VIDEO, 4:40] - link to youtube.com

• Despite media blackout, Christians not backing down on 'draconian' treatment in the holy land
  • DICKERSON3870 June 6, 2013 at 6:52 pm with 1 replies

    RE: "Members of the local Palestinian community were even more passionate in their demands, with a Facebook group identified as Palestinian Christians calling on church leaders to ‘[s]ay a word of truth to the Israeli authorities. Let Christians reach freely their Church on the day of their feast.’” ~ Reverend Gradye Parsons

    FACEBOOK: Palestinian Christians
    Religion · Community Page · 391 likes
    LINK (TO "LIKE") - link to facebook.com

• Despairing of his Israel fantasies, Leonard Fein says racism goes 'unimpeded'
  • DICKERSON3870 June 6, 2013 at 6:10 pm

    RE: Yesterday I got a letter from Leonard Fein on behalf of the liberal Zionist organization, Americans for Peace Now... The letter's tone is one of despair in the face of Israel's unrelenting racism, which "unimpeded" by authorities, "finds increasing expression in behavior." ~ Weiss

    SEE - "Suspicion and Hate: Racist Attacks On Arabs Increase in Israel", By Julia Amalia Heyer, Spiegel Online, 6/05/13
    

    [EXCERPT] . . . Instead of advocating peaceful coexistence, some politicians, especially nationalists and the ultra-religious, prefer to draw attention to themselves with anti-Arab statements. Former Interior Minister Eli Yishai referred to illegal African immigrants as "intruders who are contaminating the country with diseases."
    A lawmaker with the governing Likud Party referred to them as a "cancer in the nation's body." Africans are also increasingly the targets of attacks, in areas like south Tel Aviv, where adolescent gangs have it in for the immigrants. Their leader is a former member of parliament with an ultra-right party.
    Knesset Speaker Juli Edelstein wrote on Facebook that the Arabs are "a deplorable nation." And Avigdor Lieberman, the Israeli foreign minister until recently, wants to transfer Israeli Arabs to Palestine in the context of an exchange of territory and to revoke the citizenship of those who are "disloyal." He even once called for the execution of Arab lawmakers who had met with Hamas politicians. But half of the Israelis feel that Lieberman has fascist tendencies.
    Although there are also politicians who protest against such sentiments, the extreme rhetoric still percolates into the collective consciousness. And with the police often sympathizing with the attackers, it's no surprise that those responsible for racist attackers are not always punished. "There isn't enough punishment for these actions," says legal expert Kremnitzer, adding that many of the culprits have no sense that what they are doing is wrong. "They believe that politicians support what they do."
    Football fan Asi, 23, says that he isn't a racist, just a nationalist. "I have no problem with Arabs, as long as they raise the Israeli flag and sing along when our national anthem is played." Lieberman used the same logic to justify a bill he introduced calling for new citizens to deliver an oath of allegiance.
    Asi, who lives in a small village near Caesarea, supports the Beitar Jerusalem football club. On a Thursday evening, he and other Beitar fans are standing at an intersection in Herzliya. Asi has a friendly face and a neatly trimmed beard. Like his fellow fans, he is here to demonstrate against the club's owner.
    When it was revealed in January that the Club planned to sign two Muslim Chechen players, the stands in the stadium became filled with hateful signs, with words like "Beitar -- Pure Forever." The fans chanted: "We are chosen, we are holy, but the Arabs are not."
    Beitar Jerusalem, says Asi, that's the holy menorah on a yellow background. The team, he says, can only win as a Jewish team, which is why Muslims shouldn't be allowed to play in the club.
    Beitar's management has since cancelled the contracts with the Chechens and sent the two men back home. There were simply too many problems, the club wrote in a statement.

    ENTIRE ARTICLE - link to spiegel.de

• 'Any Revolution Needs an Anthem': Lessons from the downfall of the original Apartheid
  • DICKERSON3870 June 6, 2013 at 5:46 pm

    RE: "Searching for Sugar Man documents the search of two white South Africans to find out who was the musician known as Sixto Rodriguez and what ever happened to him" ~ Rick Sterling

    DOCUMENTARY: Searching for Sugar Man, 2012, PG-13, 86 minutes
    The incredible true story of Rodriguez, the greatest '70s rock icon who never was. Decades after Detroit singer-songwriter Rodriguez disappeared following the failure of his two critically praised records in the 1970s, two fans from South Africa, where Rodriguez was a huge hit, try to track down their idol.
    Director: Malik Bendjelloul
    Netflix format: DVD and Blu-ray
    Netflix listing - link to dvd.netflix.com
    Internet Movie Database - link to imdb.com
    TRAILER: Searching for Sugar Man - link to sonyclassics.com

    P.S. OTHER POSSIBILITIES AS ANTHEMS:
    ● Flobots: "White Flag Warrior" featuring Tim McIlrath [VIDEO, 03:41] – link to youtube.com
    ● Flobots: "Rise" [VIDEO, 04:08] – link to youtube.com

• Bennett slams European labelling measure, saying occupation demonstrates 'true coexistence between people'
  • DICKERSON3870 June 6, 2013 at 5:00 pm

    RE: "Bennett is insane . . . No doubt some predecessor of his argued in antebellum Georgia that slavery was far more dignified than life in West Africa." ~ seafoid

    MY REPLY: "Gee whiz", forget about "antebellum", Georgia's current "chickenhawk" senator Saxby Chambliss (who has been on the Israel Project's "Board of Advisors" since he was first elected to the U.S. Senate back in 2002) probably thinks that way today!

    SEE: "Saxby Chambliss Attributes Military Sexual Assault To 'The Hormone Level Created By Nature'", By Amanda Terkel, huffingtonpost.com, 6/04/13
    

    . . . Here is what he [Saxby Chambliss] said at the Senate armed services hearing today:
    

    "The young folks who are coming into each of your services are anywhere from 17 to 22 or 23. Gee whiz, the hormone level created by nature sets in place the possibility for these types of things to occur."

    I'm not sure what's more offensive, the boys-will-be-boys "gee whiz", or describing groping, rape and sexual assault as "these types of things", or the idea that somehow hormones make this inevitable. . .

    ENTIRE ARTICLE - link to huffingtonpost.com

• Exile and the Prophetic: Crossing the - Israel - and Palestine - Rubicon
  • DICKERSON3870 June 7, 2013 at 12:04 am

    RE: "Often liberal Jews have protected politicians in their quest for an American foreign policy that protects human and political rights. But they won’t have Obama’s back – and Rice and Power’s back – if they don’t have Israel’s back." ~ Marc Ellis

    A MID-SPRING EVENING’S MUSICAL INTERLUDE, proudly brought to you by the makers of the new Über-Xtreme Ziocaine Ultra SR® (Sustained Release) Transdermal Patch: Let The Good Times Roll!™
    

    I cried when they shot Medgar Evers
    Tears ran down my spine
    I cried when they shot Mr. Kennedy
    As though I'd lost a father of mine
    But Malcolm X got what was coming
    He got what he asked for this time
    So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

    I go to civil rights rallies
    And I put down the old D.A.R.
    I love Harry and Sidney and Sammy
    I hope every colored boy becomes a star
    But don't talk about revolution
    That's going a little bit too far
    So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

    I cheered when Humphrey was chosen
    My faith in the system restored
    I'm glad the commies were thrown out
    of the A.F.L. C.I.O. board
    I love Puerto Ricans and Negros
    as long as they don't move next door
    So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal . . .

    ● Phil Ochs -- Love me, I'm a liberal [VIDEO, 4:40] - link to youtube.com

    P.S. COMING SOON: New Über-Xtreme Ziocaine Ultra® Once-A-Week™ Injectible ! ! !

• Obama will never pressure Israel to end occupation, because his only goal is No war with Iran
  • DICKERSON3870 June 6, 2013 at 4:19 pm

    RE: "[B]ecause Obama needs political capital (or thinks he needs it), he will never put any pressure on Israel to withdraw from colonized territory. So there will never be a two-state deal under Obama." ~

    MY COMMENT: That's why, for the remainder of his presidency, the Israel-Palestine conflict will be Obama's "Chinatown". Like the DA told that "nosy fella"* Jake Gittes, one should do "as little as possible" when assigned to Chinatown. Consequently, regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, expect to see from Obama a heavily camouflaged policy of "benign neglect".
    "I get burned once, shame on them; I get burned twice**, shame on me!"
    * Nosy Fella – Chinatown (1/9) Movie CLIP (1974) [VIDEO, 01:13] - link to youtube.com

    FROM THE 1974 FILM CHINATOWN:
    

    • Evelyn Mulwray: "Tell me, Mr. Gittes: Does this often happen to you?"
    • Jake Gittes: "Actually, this hasn't happened to me for a long time."
    • Evelyn Mulwray: "When was the last time?"
    • Jake Gittes: "Why?"
    • Evelyn Mulwray: "It's an innocent question."
    • Jake Gittes: "In Chinatown."
    • Evelyn Mulwray: "What were you doing there?"
    • Jake Gittes: "Working for the District Attorney."
    • Evelyn Mulwray: "Doing what?"
    • Jake Gittes: "As little as possible."
    • Evelyn Mulwray: "The District Attorney gives his men advice like that?"
    • Jake Gdittes: "They do in Chinatown."

    SOURCE - link to imdb.com

    ** P.S. SEE: "Jewish Donors Warn Obama on Israel", By Laura Meckler, Wall Street Journal, 5/19/11
    LINK - link to online.wsj.com

• UN nominee Power spoke of Israeli human rights abuses and US 'domestic constituency' with 'tremendous' financial clout
  • DICKERSON3870 June 5, 2013 at 9:39 pm with 1 replies

    RE: "Let's say you're an adviser to the president. How would you advise him to put a structure in place...[in Israel/Palestine] if one party or the other might . . . be moving toward genocide?" ~ Kreisler asked of Powers

    MY COMMENT: And, don't forget about Israel having nukes!

    SEE: “The War Game”, By David Hurst, Guardian.uk, 09/21/2003:
    

    [EXCERPTS] . . . Without a ‘just, comprehensive and lasting’ peace which only America can bring to pass, Israel will remain at least as likely a candidate as Iran, and a far more enduring one, for the role of ‘nuclear-crazy’ state.
    Iran can never be threatened in its very existence. Israel can. Indeed, such a threat could even grow out of the current intifada. That, at least, is the pessimistic opinion of Martin van Creveld, professor of military history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. . .
    . . . In this situation, he went on, more and more Israelis were coming to regard the ‘transfer’ of the Palestinians as the only salvation; resort to it was growing ‘more probable’ with each passing day. Sharon ‘wants to escalate the conflict and knows that nothing else will succeed’.
    But would the world permit such ethnic cleansing? ‘That depends on who does it and how quickly it happens. We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets for our air force. Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: “Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.” I consider it all hopeless at this point. We shall have to try to prevent things from coming to that, if at all possible. Our armed forces, however, are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that will happen before Israel goes under.’

    SOURCE – link to guardian.co.uk

• Never Surrender: A Palestinian-American recounts harassment and discrimination during trip to Israel/Palestine
  • DICKERSON3870 June 5, 2013 at 6:12 pm

    P.S. MORE ON ISRAEL'S SKUNK® LEGACY, COMING SOON TO A COMMUNITY NEAR YOU:
    "IDF Skunk Cannon Odorizes West Bank", by Richard Silverstein, Tikun Olam, 3/06/13
    

    [EXCERPT] The IDF routinely uses a truly disgusting weapon of war to maintain the Occupation: a skunk cannon. To the uninitiated, imagine instead of fire hoses and police dogs, Sheriff Bull Connor used a massive stream of raw sewage mixed with skunk oil and let it fly not just on the civil rights marchers but all the citizens and businesses in town. Then imagine you’re one of the victims and it’s flying at you from a truck the size of a small tank. The ostensible purpose of this vehicle is to disrupt protests on the West Bank. Keep in mind, that these are for the most part totally non-violent incidents in which demonstrators are expressing their legitimate opposition to issues like building the Separation Wall, which in itself is an illegal project under international law. In short, the purpose of the skunk cannon is not to break up violent rallies or protect the IDF from the wrath of Palestinians. It is purely meant to suppress the political will of the Palestinian people.
    Ynet reports (Hebrew) that in addition to spraying protesters, those who operate the vehicles randomly spray residential homes and businesses having nothing to do with the demonstrations. This is collective punishment . . .

    ENTIRE ARTICLE - link to richardsilverstein.com

  • DICKERSON3870 June 5, 2013 at 6:02 pm with 1 replies

    RE: "My epiphany began upon my arrival in Tel Aviv at Ben Gurion airport and continued throughout the duration of my visit. What shocked me the most was the fact that it was not the high school bullies and prejudiced civilians carrying out the racial discrimination and harassment towards my family and I, on the contrary, the Israeli authorities were systematically administering it!" ~ Moe Diab

    MY COMMENT: This racial discrimination and harassment will soon be coming soon to an airport near you*, courtesy of the "Start-Up Nation"! Yet another "legacy", of sorts (like Skunk®**).

    * SEE: "Boston airport security program rife with racial profiling has Israeli links", by Alex Kane, Mondoweiss, 8/14/12
    

    [EXCERPTS] Security officers at Boston’s Logan International Airport have come under fire for the widespread racial profiling of Arabs, Muslims, Blacks and Hispanics in their zeal to ferret out terrorists.
    The 'New York Times' broke the story over the weekend after officers who requested anonymity came forward;
    some officers have complained internally to the Transportation Security Agency as well. A Massachusetts lawmaker has called for congressional hearings on the racial profiling allegations.
    The 'Times' reports that officers estimated that “80 percent” of passengers “searched during certain shifts” were people of color. What’s more, the Boston airport “is the testing ground for an expanded use of behavioral detection methods at airports around the country.”
    But what’s not touched on in the 'Times' report is the fact that Logan International’s security procedures are modeled on Israel’s policies at their own airport–policies that are blatantly racist. . .
    . . . The Israel connection is integral to understanding Boston’s racial profiling problems. In 2009, according to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the Jerusalem Post reported that “Boston’s Logan Airport has tapped the Israeli company New Age Security Solutions to help secure the facility using Behavior Pattern Recognition.” . . .
    . . . It took until August 2011 for the Israeli-inspired model to be operationalized. That was the date when the “behavioral profiling” became an official model at Boston’s airport–and this was “a direct result” of “Israeli influence” on security procedures at the airport, according to the Associated Press.
    Fast-forward to the New York Times story. The 'Times' reports that one anonymous TSA officer complained that this “behavior detection
    program is no longer a behavior-based program, but [rather] a racial profiling program.”
    To observers of how Israeli security works at Ben Gurion Airport, the allegations of racial profiling will come as no surprise. Palestinian and Arab travelers at Ben Gurion are guaranteed to be harassed by Israeli security. . .

    ENTIRE ARTICLE - link to mondoweiss.net

    * ALSO WATCH: On the Wish List from the Boston Bombings - The Israelization of America (Aaron Cohen, "National Security Expert" on Fox "News" saying that we need to "get on the Israeli page") [VIDEO, 00:24] - link to youtube.com
    ·

    ** FROM WIKIPEDIA [Skunk (weapon)]:
    

    [EXCERPT] "Skunk" is a malodorant, non-lethal weapon used for crowd control by the Israeli Defense Forces. Deriving its name from the animal of the same name, "Skunk" is dispersed as a form of mist, fired from a water cannon, which leaves a terrible odor of rot or sewage on whatever it touches. It does not wash off easily and is said to linger on clothes for up to five years.[1] First attempts at developing a scent-based form of crowd control began in Israel in 2004; Skunk was first used for crowd control in September 2008.
    According to David Ben Harosh, head of technological development for the Israeli police, the recipe is based entirely on natural organic ingredients, including yeast and baking powder, does not include any harmful materials, and may even be ingested without causing harm. The inventors plan to market Skunk to other forces worldwide. . .

    SOURCE - link to en.wikipedia.org

• Exile and the Prophetic: A word from the (Jewish) Secretary of Pandering
  • DICKERSON3870 June 5, 2013 at 6:46 pm

    RE: "If you haven’t heard John Kerry at his lowest level of being, listen to his remarks to the American Jewish Committee a few days ago. If his pandering doesn’t make you physically ill, I doubt you’re conscious." ~ Marc Ellis

    URI AVNERY [REFERRING TO "GUNTER THE TERRIBLE"*]:
    ". . . For me, this extreme kind of pro-Semitism is just disguised anti-Semitism. Both have a basic belief in common: that Jews – and therefore Israel – are something apart, not to be measured by the standards applied to everybody else. . ."

    * SEE: "Gunter the Terrible", By Uri Avnery, The Palestine Chronicle, 4/13/12
    

    [EXCERPT] Stop me if I have told you this joke before:
    Somewhere in the US, a demonstration takes place. The police arrive and beat the protesters mercilessly.
    “Don’t hit me,” someone shouts, “I am an anti-communist!”
    “I couldn't give a damn what kind of a communist you are!” a policeman answers as he raises his baton.
    The first time I told this joke was when a German group visited the Knesset and met with German-born members, including me.
    They went out of their way to praise Israel, lauding everything we had been doing, condemning every bit of criticism, however harmless it might be. It became downright embarrassing, since some of us in the Knesset were very critical of our government’s policy in the occupied territories.
    For me, this extreme kind of pro-Semitism is just disguised anti-Semitism. Both have a basic belief in common: that Jews – and therefore Israel – are something apart, not to be measured by the standards applied to everybody else. . .

    ENTIRE COMMENTARY - link to palestinechronicle.com

• A Jew, Jesus and Justice for Palestinians: An interview with Mark Braverman
  • DICKERSON3870 June 5, 2013 at 7:28 pm

    RE: "The Jewish progressives are-- in some ways they are a bigger problem than the out- and- out Israel right or wrong apologists. I relate them now to Martin Luther King Jr.’s statement about the real problem being not the Ku Klux Klan, but the white moderate." ~ Mark Braverman

    FROM WIKIPEDIA [Letter from Birmingham Jail]:
    

    [EXCERPTS] The Letter from Birmingham Jail or Letter from Birmingham City Jail, also known as The Negro Is Your Brother, is an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights leader. . .
    . . . King's letter was a response to a statement made by eight white Alabama clergymen on April 12, 1963 titled, "A Call for Unity". The clergymen agreed that social injustices existed but argued that the battle against racial segregation should be fought solely in the courts, not in the streets. They criticized Martin Luther King, calling him an “outsider” who causes trouble in the streets of Birmingham. To this, King referred to his belief that all communities and states were interrelated. He wrote, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly… Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider…”[2] King expressed his remorse that the demonstrations were taking place in Birmingham but felt that the white power structure left the black community with no other choice.
    The clergymen also disapproved of the immense tension created by the demonstration. To this, King affirmed that he and his fellow demonstrators were using nonviolent direct action in order to cause tension that would force the wider community to face the issue head on. They hoped to create tension: a nonviolent tension that is needed for growth. King responded that without nonviolent forceful direct actions, true civil rights could never be achieved.
    The clergymen also disapproved of the timing of the demonstration. However, King believed that "this 'Wait' has almost always meant 'Never.'"[2] King declared that they had waited for these God-given rights long enough and that “justice too long delayed is justice denied.”[2]
    Against the clergymen’s assertion that the demonstration was against the law, he argued that not only was civil disobedience justified in the face of unjust laws, but that "one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."
    King addressed the accusation that the civil rights movement was "extreme", first disputing the label but then accepting it. He argues that Jesus and other heroes were extremists and writes: "So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love?"[3] His discussion of extremism implicitly responds to numerous "moderate" objections to the civil rights movement, such as President Eisenhower's claim that he could not meet with civil rights leaders because doing so would require him to meet with the Ku Klux Klan.[4] . . .

    SOURCE - link to en.wikipedia.org

• Hannah Arendt and the Hungarian Jews
  • DICKERSON3870 June 4, 2013 at 6:36 pm

    RE: "Ben Gurion quote is an antisemitic fake: If you read my comment above, you’ll note that the quote has been cited by Zionist historians, including Martin Gilbert and Yoav Gelbert....." ~ Hostage

    MY REPLY: Not to mention Tom Segev in 'The Seventh Million'! ! !

    SEE: “The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict”, Third Edition (2001), Published by ‘Jews for Justice in the Middle East’:
    

    [EXCERPTS] . . . “In 1938 a thirty-one nation conference was held in Evian, France, on resettlement of the victims of Nazism. The World Zionist Organization refused to participate, fearing that resettlement of Jews in other states would reduce the number available for Palestine.” ~ John Quigley, 'Palestine and Israel: A Challenge to Justice'
    “It was summed up in the meeting [of the Jewish Agency’s Executive on June 26, 1938] that the Zionist thing to do ‘is belittle the [Evian] Conference as far as possible and to cause it to decide nothing... ~ Israeli author Boas Evron, 'Jewish State or Israeli Nation?'
    “[Ben-Gurion stated] ‘If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, but only half of them by transporting them to Palestine, I would choose the second — because we face not only the reckoning of those children, but the historical reckoning of the Jewish people.’ In the wake of the Kristallnacht pogroms, Ben-Gurion commented that ‘the human conscience’ might bring various countries to open their doors to Jewish refugees from Germany. He saw this as a threat and warned: ‘Zionism is in danger.’” ~ Israeli historian, Tom Segev, 'The Seventh Million'...

    ● Roosevelt’s advisor writes on why Jewish refugees were not offered sanctuary in the U.S. after WWII ...

    “[Roosevelt] proposed a world budget for the easy migration of the 500,000 beaten people of Europe. Each nation should open its doors for some thousands of refugees... So he suggested that during my trips for him to England during the war I sound out in a general, unofficial manner the leaders of British public opinion, in and out of the government...The simple answer: Great Britain will match the United States, man for man, in admissions from Europe...It seemed all settled. With the rest of the world probably ready to give haven to 200,000, there was a sound reason for the President to press Congress to take in at least 150,000 immigrants after the war...
    “It would free us from the hypocrisy of closing our own doors while making sanctimonious demands on the Arabs... But it did not work out...The failure of the leading Jewish organizations to support with zeal this immigration programme may have caused the President not to push forward with it at that time...
    “I talked to many people active in Jewish organizations. I suggested the plan...I was amazed and even felt insulted when active Jewish leaders decried, sneered, and then attacked me as if I were a traitor... I think I know the reason for much of the opposition. There is a deep, genuine, often fanatical emotional vested interest in putting over the Palestinian movement [Zionism]. Men like Ben Hecht are little concerned about human blood if it is not their own.” ~ Jewish attorney and friend of President Roosevelt, Morris Ernst, 'So Far, So Good'

    ENTIRE “ORIGIN” BOOKLET – link to archive.org

  • DICKERSON3870 June 4, 2013 at 6:20 pm

    RE: "Carl's brother Anti was a communist and was picked up early for that reason, in 1940 or so. He escaped the labor camp they put him in and fought with the Partisans in the woods throughout the war." ~ Michael Smith

    A RELEVANT DOCUMENTARY: Howling with the Angels, 2006, NR, 60 minutes
    Filmmaker Jean Bodon chronicles the remarkable story of his father, Jan, a Czechoslovakian Jew who fled Hitler's Nazis and joined the Czech resistance movement while hiding his heritage. Blond and blue-eyed, Jan was able to survive the harrowing times, while thousands of Czech Jews were exterminated. Bodon's documentary reveals his father's hidden life story and brings to light the horrors of World War II Czechoslovakia.
    Language: Czech (with English subtitles)
    Netflix format: DVD
    Netflix listing - link to dvd.netflix.com
    Internet Movie Database - link to imdb.com

• Kerry tells the lobby: I'm your boy, but you're radicalizing the world
  • DICKERSON3870 June 4, 2013 at 6:00 pm

    RE: "Yesterday Secretary of State John Kerry spoke to the American Jewish Committee and warned the audience that the two-state solution is about to expire so they had better do something." ~ Weiss

    MY COMMENT: Kerry was wasting his breath, because the American Jewish Committee is just another "two state faker"*. It mouths the words "two-state solution", but it opposes any practical measure that would help bring an independent Palestinian state into existence.

    * REGARDING "TWO STATE FAKERS", SEE: "Flotilla 3.0: Redeeming Obama's Palestine Speech with Gaza's Ark", By Robert Naiman, truth-out.org, 3/25/13
    

    [EXCERPT] . . . Bibi doesn't want an independent Palestinian state; Bibi's government doesn't want an independent Palestinian state; AIPAC doesn't want an independent Palestinian state; and Congress - which defers to AIPAC - doesn't want an independent Palestinian state. Of course, many of them mouth the words - not Bibi's government, they don't even do that - but those who mouth the words oppose any practical measure that would help bring an independent Palestinian state into existence. They're "two state fakers." Settlement freeze? Impossible. UN membership for Palestine? Can't be done. No, according to the two state fakers, the only option on the menu in the restaurant for the Palestinians is to return to negotiations without a settlement freeze, negotiations that for 20 years have brought more land confiscation, more settlements, more restrictions on Palestinian movement and commerce, more oppression. . .

    ENTIRE COMMENTARY - link to truth-out.org

  • DICKERSON3870 June 4, 2013 at 5:37 pm

    RE: "As Obama did, Kerry fawned over Israel. They believe that the only way Israelis will do something is if you love them to death." ~ Weiss

    MY COMMENT: Obama and Kerry should talk to some good psychiatrists about the wrongheadedness of being Israel's enabler out of the (mistaken*) belief that "the only way Israelis will do something is if you love them to death"**. It is possible for an enabler to literally love the enabled to its (literal) death.***

    * FROM JOEL KOVEL, 1-20-13:
    

    . . . As with everyone I know of in official political culture, [Thomas] Friedman [probably like Kerry and Obama - J.L.D.] assumes that Israel is a rational actor on the international stage who will obey the calculus of reward and punishment that regulates the conduct of normal states.
    The presumption is that if you tell it the truth, and even pull back US support, it will get the message, reflect, and change its ways. But Israel is not a normal state, except superficially. It will make adjustments, pulling back here, co-operating there, making nice when necessary, crafting its message using a powerful propaganda apparatus employing the most up-to-date social science. But this is simply tactical and no more predicts or explains the behavior of the Zionist state than an individual sociopath can be explained by the fact that he obeys traffic signals while driving to the scene of his crime. . .

    SOURCE – link to mondoweiss.net

    ** JACLYN FRIEDMAN (from "It's Time for Some Israel Real Talk"):
    

    [EXCERPT] . . . I love Israel. As an American Jew, the dream of Israel has held me in thrall since I was a small child. The day I wept at the Wailing Wall was one of the most transcendent and emotional of my life. But loving someone doesn’t mean helping them do whatever destructive thing they want. Call that enabling or co-dependence, but it’s not love. I love Israel like I’d love a drunk friend who wants their car keys. . .

    SOURCE - link to prospect.org

    *** ALSO SEE: "How Israel Is Like an Alcoholic Mother", by Megan McArdle, The Atlantic, 3/22/12
    

    [EXCERPT] . . . What is it Alex Portnoy overhears his mother say to her friends, apropos of the lengths she has to go to to get him to eat? "I have to stand over him with a knife!"
    To be a bit more serious for a moment, though, Chesterton famously quipped: “My country, right or wrong is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying: "My mother, drunk or sober.” Well, yes, but she is your mother, drunk or sober, right? Similarly, it is your country, whether your country is right or wrong. The question is what that entails. If your mother is a drunk, and begs for another drink, are you obliged to give it to her? Presumably not.
    But are you obliged to devote yourself to getting her to dry out? That, it seems to me is the real heart of the question. I think many of Beinart’s critics — like Jeffrey Goldberg — would say: that’s exactly how they think about Israel and the settlements. They are against them. . . They think they were and are a grave and historic mistake. . .
    . . . So they are doing what they can to convince their mother to check herself in and dry out. But she’s their mother. If it takes her a long time to convince, they’ll keep trying. If she slips a drink on the sly, they’ll try to hide the liquor better, but they’ll forgive her. [In other words, they will act as "enablers". ~ J.L.D.] And, whatever she does, they certainly aren’t going to call the cops on her, and give the neighbors (who never liked her, even have tried to get her evicted) the satisfaction of seeing her humiliated by her own son in public. After all, she’s their mother. [Let's call this "constructive engagement"! ~ J.L.D.]
    Well, talk to a few children of alcoholics, and you’ll discover that “my mother, drunk or sober” is not always a tenable proposition. Sometimes, for some people, the sense of obligation to one’s mother is trumped by a sense of obligation to oneself, and to protect oneself from her disease. And that, in a nutshell, is what Beinart is saying. She may be my mother, yes, but if she keeps carrying on, I don’t care what the neighbors say, and I don’t care if she never speaks to me again afterward: I’m going to call the cops on her. . .

    ENTIRE COMMENTARY – link to theatlantic.com

• Exile and the Prophetic: Barghouti's warning - the alternative to two states is 'persistent conflict' without any middle ground
  • DICKERSON3870 June 4, 2013 at 7:19 pm

    RE: "So what in the world are these Mandela two-state, nonviolence advocates thinking?" ~ Marc Ellis

    MY COMMENT: I wouldn't waste a lot of time trying to figure that out since, in reality, most of them are just "two state fakers"*! ! !

    * REGARDING "TWO STATE FAKERS", SEE: "Flotilla 3.0: Redeeming Obama's Palestine Speech with Gaza's Ark", By Robert Naiman, truth-out.org, 3/25/13
    

    [EXCERPT] . . . Bibi doesn't want an independent Palestinian state; Bibi's government doesn't want an independent Palestinian state; AIPAC doesn't want an independent Palestinian state; and Congress - which defers to AIPAC - doesn't want an independent Palestinian state. Of course, many of them mouth the words - not Bibi's government, they don't even do that - but those who mouth the words oppose any practical measure that would help bring an independent Palestinian state into existence. They're "two state fakers." Settlement freeze? Impossible. UN membership for Palestine? Can't be done. No, according to the two state fakers, the only option on the menu in the restaurant for the Palestinians is to return to negotiations without a settlement freeze, negotiations that for 20 years have brought more land confiscation, more settlements, more restrictions on Palestinian movement and commerce, more oppression. . .

    ENTIRE COMMENTARY - link to truth-out.org

  • DICKERSON3870 June 4, 2013 at 7:04 pm

    RE: "In his [Bargouti's] words [about his aduction and imprisonment over the last 11 years], I hear the legacy of the state of Israel. In his words I hear the legacy of the Jewish people. Is this what we have become?" ~ Marc Ellis

    MORE "LEGACY", COMING SOON TO A COMMUNITY NEAR YOU*:
    "IDF Skunk Cannon Odorizes West Bank", by Richard Silverstein, Tikun Olam, 3/06/13
    

    [EXCERPT] The IDF routinely uses a truly disgusting weapon of war to maintain the Occupation: a skunk cannon. To the uninitiated, imagine instead of fire hoses and police dogs, Sheriff Bull Connor used a massive stream of raw sewage mixed with skunk oil and let it fly not just on the civil rights marchers but all the citizens and businesses in town. Then imagine you’re one of the victims and it’s flying at you from a truck the size of a small tank. The ostensible purpose of this vehicle is to disrupt protests on the West Bank. Keep in mind, that these are for the most part totally non-violent incidents in which demonstrators are expressing their legitimate opposition to issues like building the Separation Wall, which in itself is an illegal project under international law. In short, the purpose of the skunk cannon is not to break up violent rallies or protect the IDF from the wrath of Palestinians. It is purely meant to suppress the political will of the Palestinian people.
    Ynet reports (Hebrew) that in addition to spraying protesters, those who operate the vehicles randomly spray residential homes and businesses having nothing to do with the demonstrations. This is collective punishment . . .

    ENTIRE ARTICLE - link to richardsilverstein.com

    *P.S. FROM WIKIPEDIA [Skunk (weapon)]:
    

    [EXCERPT] "Skunk" is a malodorant, non-lethal weapon used for crowd control by the Israeli Defense Forces. Deriving its name from the animal of the same name, "Skunk" is dispersed as a form of mist, fired from a water cannon, which leaves a terrible odor of rot or sewage on whatever it touches. It does not wash off easily and is said to linger on clothes for up to five years.[1] First attempts at developing a scent-based form of crowd control began in Israel in 2004; Skunk was first used for crowd control in September 2008.
    According to David Ben Harosh, head of technological development for the Israeli police, the recipe is based entirely on natural organic ingredients, including yeast and baking powder, does not include any harmful materials, and may even be ingested without causing harm. The inventors plan to market Skunk to other forces worldwide. . .

    SOURCE - link to en.wikipedia.org

• Kerry’s plan: Palestinians to be cast as fall guys - again
  • DICKERSON3870 June 4, 2013 at 4:42 pm

    RE: "[I]t will be overseen by Tony Blair, Britain's former prime minister who has been the Quartet representative, the international community's "man in Jerusalem", since 2007. He is a strange choice indeed, given that the Palestinian leadership has publicly dismissed him as "Israel's defence attorney" and privately argued -- as revealed in the Palestine Papers leaked in 2011 -- that he advocates "an apartheid-like approach to dealing with the occupied West Bank". ~ Jonathan Cook

    MY COMMENT: Tony Toady* Blair is apparently walking in (i.e., following) the footsteps of Winston Churchill**!

    * NOTE: "Toady" is Elmer Fudd's speech-impaired version of 'Tony'.
    • Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd battle-cartoon (Un-censored) [VIDEO, 07:08] - link to youtube.com.
    • I Taut I Taw a Puddy Tat [VIDEO, 02:56] - link to youtube.com.

    ** REGARDING SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL'S "FOOTSTEPS":
    

    What about Gandhi’s nemesis, Winston Churchill? Today we only remember his heroic opposition to Nazism. But while he was against gassing and tyranny in Europe, he was passionately in favour of it for “uncivilised” human beings whose riches he wanted to seize. In the 1920s, Iraqis rose up against British imperial rule, and Churchill as Colonial Secretary thought of a good solution: gas them. He wrote: “I do not understand this squeamishness… I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.” It would “spread a lively terror”. He was quite clear about why Britain should do this. He explained: “We have engrossed to ourselves an altogether disproportionate share of the wealth and traffic of the world… mainly acquired by violence, largely maintained by force.”

    SOURCE - link to commondreams.org
    

    "I do not agree that the dog in a manger [i.e., Palestinians/Arabs - J.L.D.] has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of American or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place." ~ Winston Churchill to the Peel Commission in 1937

    SOURCE - link to message.snopes.com
    

    When Britain lost control of Egypt in 1956, Prime Minister Anthony Eden said he wanted the nationalist president Gamal Abdel Nasser “destroyed, murdered, I don’t give a damn if there’s anarchy and chaos in Egypt.” Those insolent Arabs, Winston Churchill had urged in 1951, should be driven “into the gutter from which they should never have emerged.”

    SOURCE - link to nlpwessex.org

    ● P.S. Churchill's ancestral home & birthplace - link to en.wikipedia.org

• Why John Kerry is wasting everyone’s time
  • DICKERSON3870 June 4, 2013 at 4:17 pm

    RE: "Illegal settlement construction has significantly and systematically increased since the signing of the Oslo accords (20 years ago this September), and Israel has continued to introduce discriminatory laws that help enforce their occupation of Palestine territory. Not to mention their continuing violation of international law and their long list of human rights abuses towards the Palestinians." ~ Shereen Eldaly

    FROM JOEL KOVEL, 1-20-13:
    

    . . . As with everyone I know of in official political culture, [Thomas] Friedman [probably like Kerry and Obama - J.L.D.] assumes that Israel is a rational actor on the international stage who will obey the calculus of reward and punishment that regulates the conduct of normal states.
    The presumption is that if you tell it the truth, and even pull back US support, it will get the message, reflect, and change its ways. But Israel is not a normal state, except superficially. It will make adjustments, pulling back here, co-operating there, making nice when necessary, crafting its message using a powerful propaganda apparatus employing the most up-to-date social science. But this is simply tactical and no more predicts or explains the behavior of the Zionist state than an individual sociopath can be explained by the fact that he obeys traffic signals while driving to the scene of his crime. . .

    SOURCE – link to mondoweiss.net

• 'Hannah Arendt''s 'thoughtful' hasbara
  • DICKERSON3870 June 3, 2013 at 7:00 pm

    Thanks for this very interesting, well-written article about the new Arendt film.

• Story glorifying US tourists' gunplay in settlement is denounced as AIPAC propaganda by angry NPR commenters
  • DICKERSON3870 June 3, 2013 at 5:10 pm

    RE: "Story glorifying US tourists’ gunplay in settlement is denounced as AIPAC propaganda by angry NPR commenters"

    SPEAKING OF "GUNPLAY" AND AIPAC, there appears to be a "mature symbiotic relationship" between the these two lobbies. Specifically, the NRA was making common cause with Israel and the Israel lobby in the wake of the (the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting). I saw David Keene, "El Presidente" of the NRA on the boob tube sh-t screen, and he said that when the December shooting at the school in Newtown, Connecticut occurred he just happened to be (surprise, surprise**) in Israel. It was from Israel that he got the idea that there should be a policeman at each and every school in the U.S.* (like they have in Israel).
    This is yet another reason I fear that Revisionist Zionism and Likudnik Israel (specifically by virtue of their inordinate sway over the U.S.) might very well be an “existential threat” to the values of The Enlightenment.
    I do not want to live in a police/garrison state like Israel! ! !
    Give me liberty, or give me death.

    * ● SEE - NRA President's Report: David Keene on the Push to Protect Our Children [VIDEO, 12:10] - link to youtube.com

    ** ● FOR A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS (A COUPLE OF MONTHS LATER), SEE: "Israel Project brags on planting story in CNN and taking 38 journalists on helicopter trips in Israel", by Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss, 4/18/13
    LINK - link to mondoweiss.net

    ● THE BLOG 'GUN WATCH' (Note the Israeli flag to the right) - link to gunwatch.blogspot.com

    ● AND HERE'S THE NRA'S CHIEF 'HIRED ASSASSIN' "LUCKY (LA) PIERRE" : "NRA calls for armed police officer in every school", By Phillip Elliott and Nedra Pickler, Associated Press, 12/21/12
    

    [EXCERPT] . . . The nation’s largest gun-rights lobby broke its weeklong silence on the shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School with a defiant presentation. The event was billed as a news conference, but NRA leaders took no questions. Twice, they were interrupted by banner-waving protesters, who were removed by security.
    Some had predicted that after the slaughter of a score of elementary-school children by a man using a semi-automatic rifle, the group might soften its stance, at least slightly. Instead, LaPierre delivered a 25-minute tirade against the notion that another gun law would stop killings in a culture where children are exposed daily to violence in video games, movies and music videos. He argued that guns are the solution, not the problem.
    ‘‘Before Congress reconvenes, before we engage in any lengthy debate over legislation, regulation or anything else; as soon as our kids return to school after the holiday break, we need to have every single school in America immediately deploy a protection program proven to work,’’ LaPierre said. ‘‘And by
    that I mean armed security.’’
    He said Congress should immediately appropriate funds to post an armed police officer in every school. . .

    ENTIRE ARTICLE - link to boston.com

• Video: On 3rd anniversary of 'Mavi Marmara' attack, witnesses return to the boat
  • DICKERSON3870 June 2, 2013 at 3:24 pm

    RE: "[O]ur work didn't finish when the Mavi Marmara was attacked. Our work continues now because the siege continues and because Palestine is still not free . . . [W]e have to be organizing the next flotilla and the next until the siege is broken and Palestine is free." ~ Sarah Colborne

    SEE: "Flotilla 3.0: Redeeming Obama's Palestine Speech with Gaza's Ark", By Robert Naiman, truth-out.org, 3/25/13
    

    [EXCERPT] . . . So, ...the question boils down to this: Can we engage the multitude in civil society initiatives to end the Israeli occupation of Palestine . . . ?
    A compelling effort to do this is a project called Gaza's Ark. Gaza's Ark is a logical next step to follow the Gaza freedom flotillas, and some of the folks who helped organize previous flotillas are helping to put it in place. Unlike the flotillas, Gaza's Ark isn't going to sail into Gaza. It's going to sail out from Gaza, carrying Palestinian exports. . .
    . . . Gaza's Ark is starting a campaign to support Gaza's economy by encouraging people to buy Gaza's exports: "trade not aid," as they say. It's a "procott." Don't support the blockade? Put your money where your mouth is.
    I claim that by supporting Gaza's Ark, you can support a civil society initiative to oppose the occupation without giving up any evenings. Put your money where your mouth is. Buy Palestinian goods from Gaza. If the Israeli government tries to stop you, then they're interfering with your commerce.
    I claim that by supporting Gaza's Ark, you can support a civil society initiative to oppose the occupation without giving up any evenings. You can sign up [I.E. SIGN THE PETITION] here. - link to gazaark.org

    ENTIRE COMMENTARY - link to truth-out.org

• Exile and the prophetic: Hannah Arendt's Israel moment
  • DICKERSON3870 June 2, 2013 at 3:57 pm

    RE: "Arendt distinguished sharply between aggressive and defensive military involvement, and she thought of the 1967 war as reasonable as the 1956 one had been foolish." ~ Marc Ellis

    MY COMMENT: It sounds as though she fell for the hasbara of her time regarding the '67 war. In more recent times, it has become the general consensus that the 1967 war was not a defensive war on Israel's part.

    FROM WIKIPEDIA (Controversies relating to the Six-Day War):
    

    [EXCERPTS]. . . After the war, Israeli officials admitted that Israel wasn't expecting to be attacked when it initiated hostilities against Egypt.[15][16] Mordechai Bentov, an Israeli cabinet minister who attended the June 4th Cabinet meeting, called into question the idea that there was a "danger of extermination" saying that it was "invented of whole cloth and exaggerated after the fact to justify the annexation of new Arab territories."[17][18] Menachem Begin said that "The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. (...) We decided to attack him".[19][20] Israel received reports from the United States to the effect that Egyptian deployments were defensive and anticipatory of a possible Israeli attack,[21] and the US assessed that if anything, it was Israel that was pressing to begin hostilities.[18] Abba Eban, Israel's foreign minister during the war, later wrote in his autobiography that Nasser's assurances he wasn't planning to attack Israel were credible: "Nasser did not want war. He wanted victory without war." [22] Israeli military historian Martin van Creveld has written that while the exact origins of the war may never be known, Israel's forces were "spoiling for a fight and willing to go to considerable lengths to provoke one".[23] Israel's attack isn't seen as fulfilling the criteria of the Caroline test for anticipatory self-defence.[24] . . .

    • Footnotes
    15. ^ “Various Israeli officials said later... that 'Israel had not in fact anticipated an imminent attack by Egypt when it struck June 5'”. The Case for Palestine: An International Law Perspective, p. 164; John B Quigley - link to books.google.com
    16. ^ 'Armed Attack' and Article 51 of the Un Charter: Evolutions in Customary Law, by Tom Ruys, page 280 "It has been observed that several official Israeli sources admitted after the war that Egypt did not have the intention of attacking Israel" link - link to books.google.com
    17. ^ Quigley, John (1990). Palestine and Israel: A Challenge to Justice. Duke University Press (May 1990). p. 170. ISBN 0-8223-1023-6.
    18. ^ a b The Myth of Annihilation and the Six-Day War, by Joseph Ryan (Carnegie Council, September 1, 1973) - link to worldview.carnegiecouncil.org
    19. ^ Menachem Begin, the first Likud Prime Minister of Israel, also said: "In June 1967, we again had a choice. The Egyptian Army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him." "Israel's First Fifty Years", by Robert Owen Freedman, page 80; for another quote, see Cooley, Green March, Black September, p. 162.
    20. ^ Address by Prime Minister Begin at the National Defense College, 8 August 1982. (Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs)- link to mfa.gov.il
    21. ^ U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara told Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban that the U.S. intelligence assessment was that "the Egyptian deployments were defensive in character and anticipatory of a possible Israeli attack". Memorandum of Conversation, Washington, May 26, 1967, 10:30 a.m.; The Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Michael B. Oren has acknowledged that "By all reports Israel received from the Americans, and according to its own intelligence, Nasser had no interest in bloodshed..." Israel's assessment was that "Nasser would have to be deranged to take on an Israel backed by France and the U.S. Sixth Fleet. War, according to the Israelis, could only come about if Nasser felt he had complete military superiority over the IDF, if Israel were caught up in a domestic crisis, and, most crucially, was isolated internationally—a most unlikely confluence." Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East, Oren 2002, pp. 59–60).
    22. ^ Abba Eban: An Autobiography, Random House, 1977. (p. 360)
    23. ^ The Sword And The Olive: A Critical History Of The Israeli Defense Force (Martin van Creveld) p. 172 - link to books.google.co.uk
    24. ^ ASSESSING CLAIMS OF A NEW DOCTRINE OF PRE-EMPTIVE WAR UNDER THE DOCTRINE OF SOURCES (James Thuo Gathii, OSGOODE HALL LAW JOURNAL VOL. 43, NO. 1 & 2, 2005) p. 75. link - link to vedegylet.hu

    SOURCE - link to en.wikipedia.org

• Bill Clinton takes a cool half-million from Jewish National Fund for speech in Israel
  • DICKERSON3870 June 2, 2013 at 3:02 pm

    RE: "Bill Clinton takes a cool half-million from Jewish National Fund for speech in Israel"

    MY COMMENT: It should come as no surprise that Clinton accepted $500,000 from a racist institution* like the Jewish National Fund.
    While he was a student at Georgetown University, he sent a postcard** to his grandmother (whom he addressed as "Mammaw") in a nursing home in Hope, Arkansas. To say the least, it was a 'racially insensitive' postcard (showing a barefoot black man "polishing" a watermelon).

    * SEE: "Jewish National Fund UK faces official questions over racial discrimination", by Asa Winstanley, Electronic Intifada, 05/21/2013
    LINK - link to electronicintifada.net

    ** Bill Clinton's Racist Postcard - link to serr8d.blogspot.com).

• What if Bull Connor had had skunk water?
  • DICKERSON3870 June 1, 2013 at 7:03 pm

    P.S. ALSO SEE: "IDF Skunk Cannon Odorizes West Bank", by Richard Silverstein, Tikun Olam, 3/06/13
    

    [EXCERPT] The IDF routinely uses a truly disgusting weapon of war to maintain the Occupation: a skunk cannon. To the uninitiated, imagine instead of fire hoses and police dogs, Sheriff Bull Connor used a massive stream of raw sewage mixed with skunk oil and let it fly not just on the civil rights marchers but all the citizens and businesses in town. Then imagine you’re one of the victims and it’s flying at you from a truck the size of a small tank. The ostensible purpose of this vehicle is to disrupt protests on the West Bank. Keep in mind, that these are for the most part totally non-violent incidents in which demonstrators are expressing their legitimate opposition to issues like building the Separation Wall, which in itself is an illegal project under international law. In short, the purpose of the skunk cannon is not to break up violent rallies or protect the IDF from the wrath of Palestinians. It is purely meant to suppress the political will of the Palestinian people.
    Ynet reports (Hebrew) that in addition to spraying protesters, those who operate the vehicles randomly spray residential homes and businesses having nothing to do with the demonstrations. This is collective punishment . . .

    ENTIRE ARTICLE - link to richardsilverstein.com

  • DICKERSON3870 June 1, 2013 at 6:50 pm with 1 replies

    RE: "IOF [Israeli occupying forces] spraying skunk water all over a journalist documenting the demonstration. The IOF specifically targeted photographers and journalists." ~ Schwarczenberg (from Phil's excerpt)

    MY SNARK: Another wonderful Israeli creation. A light blight unto the nations! Coming soon to a community near you, courtesy of the "Start-Up Nation".

    FROM WIKIPEDIA [Skunk (weapon)]:
    

    "Skunk" is a malodorant, non-lethal weapon used for crowd control by the Israeli Defense Forces. Deriving its name from the animal of the same name, "Skunk" is dispersed as a form of mist, fired from a water cannon, which leaves a terrible odor of rot or sewage on whatever it touches. It does not wash off easily and is said to linger on clothes for up to five years.[1] First attempts at developing a scent-based form of crowd control began in Israel in 2004; Skunk was first used for crowd control in September 2008.
    According to David Ben Harosh, head of technological development for the Israeli police, the recipe is based entirely on natural organic ingredients, including yeast and baking powder, does not include any harmful materials, and may even be ingested without causing harm. The inventors plan to market Skunk to other forces worldwide. The development of Skunk followed numerous accusations against Israeli forces that they often employ disproportionate force in clashes with Palestinian protestors (e.g. using rubber bullets or tear gas), which has led them to seek new, non-lethal but effective methods of crowd control.

    ● References
    1.^ "Israel cops try common scents crowd control", Haaretz, 18/9/2004

    ● External links
    • "Israel cops try common scents crowd control" - Daily News (New York) article by BY Matthew Kalman, September 7, 2008
    • "New Israeli weapon kicks up stink" - BBC article by Wyre Davies, 2 October 2008.
    • "Israel Unleashes First 'Skunk Bomb'" - Wired article by David Hambling, September 21, 2008

    SOURCE - link to en.wikipedia.org

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