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DICKERSON3870

Georgia Tech, B.S. / Mercer U., J.D.

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  • 'J Street' review-- mixed, but positive
    • DICKERSON3870 March 27, 2012 at 11:16 am with 1 replies

      RE: "Jarrett and Blinken are chopped liver next to what AIPAC gets, the president himself and Hillary Clinton, an ambassador or two, and the whole Democratic leadership grinning and kneeling." ~ Weiss

      MY COMMENT: Grinning and kneeling? More like Kowtowing and/or Prostrating themselves!

    • DICKERSON3870 March 27, 2012 at 10:58 am

      RE: "the deciders are not the people in the one state discussion, they are the rabbis and other community elders who still govern the Jewish communal discourse in the U.S. and by extension the larger political discourse on the Middle East. This group is enormously conservative" ~ Weiss

      SEE - Rabbis warn Bush: Annapolis will bring destruction to US, by Neta Sela, Ynet News, 11/06/07
      Group of right-wing rabbis writes open letter to US president demanding he cancel Annapolis summit or risk provoking 'wrath of the almighty.' Rabbis assert Katrina disaster a result of America's support of 2005 disengagement, say California fires a warning

      (excerpt) A fringe group of prominent ultranationalist rabbis issued a harshly-worded letter to United States President George W. Bush earlier this week, warning him that the upcoming Annapolis peace conference would bring destruction upon America.
      The rabbis evoke their previous prediction in 2005, when they published an open letter to Bush in the New York Times, demanding the US rescind its support of the disengagement plan.
      "We wrote to President Bush, a man who believes in the Bible, to warn him against the terrible danger to which he is exposing his country by hosting such a conference," said Rabbi Meir Druckman, one of signatories to the letter.
      "The land of Israel belongs to the people of Israel. God punishes anyone who coerces Israel to give up its land," he said.
      "There is no doubt the New Orleans flood from the Katrina hurricane was God's punishment for evicting the settlements," said Druckman , "with hundreds of thousands left homeless, hundreds killed or wounded and billions of dollars sent down the drain – can we really ignore God's hand collecting an eye for an eye?"
      The disengagement from Gaza and the northern West Bank was completed August 23rd, 2005 – which was also the date Hurricane Katrina formed over the Bahamas.
      "Despite those consequences, yet again we find ourselves facing an initiative to expel Jews from Judea and Samaria and cede their cities to terror organizations. And once again the patrons of the event are President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
      "This time the Almighty is warning the US in advance: if the plague of water was not enough now he shall send flames. While hundreds of thousands of families have already fled the terrible fires in California, and we ask you, will you really forge ahead with this malevolent plan?" added Druckman. . .

      SOURCE - link to ynetnews.com

    • DICKERSON3870 March 27, 2012 at 10:41 am

      RE: "And that's without even going to see Ehud Olmert, the man who launched the Gaza massacre, last night. I couldn't bring myself." ~ Weiss

      MY SNARK: How could you possibly pass up an opportunity to see the man from the "Holy Land"/Holyland?

      SEE: New Olmert indictment keeps focus on political corruption, By Linda Gradstein, JTA, 1/08/12

      [excerpt] JERUSALEM (JTA) -- The indictment of former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and 17 other Israelis on charges related to one of the largest real estate scandals in Israeli history is the latest shoe to drop in a country where political corruption has come to be seen as an epidemic.
      The indictment issued Jan. 4 alleges that Olmert and several other Israeli officials accepted millions of dollars in bribes to promote a series of real estate projects, most prominently Jerusalem’s controversial Holyland development.
      “There are so many ironies in the case,” said Stuart Schoffman      , a fellow at Jerusalem’s Shalom Hartman Institute. “Israel is supposed to be the holy land. This project is called the Holyland, and yet it’s the most unholy business you can imagine. . .

      ENTIRE ARTICLE - link to jta.org

      P.S. I hope Olmert had some constructive things to say about how Israel's descent into madness can be reversed. Needless to say, an indictment is not proof of guilt.

  • 'Be on our side': Bay Area ad campaign features Palestinian and Israeli women calling for U.S. sanctions against Israel
  • The 'clash of civilizations' and the death of an Iraqi mother in San Diego
    • DICKERSON3870 March 26, 2012 at 3:22 pm

      RE: "Alawadi was involved with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)" ~ me, above

      CLARIFICATION/CORRECTION: I thought I had read an article indicating that Alawadi had done some volunteer work for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, but in trying to confirm this using Google, I have been unable to find anything establishing that Alawadi was in fact "involved with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)". It is possible that I simply "misremembered" (to borrow a term from the über-eloquent George W. Bush).

    • DICKERSON3870 March 26, 2012 at 1:30 pm with 3 replies

      RE: "El Cajon police are asking for the public's help in its investigation into the fatal beating of an Iraqi immigrant and have not ruled out the possibility that Shaima Alawadi was the victim of a hate crime." ~ L.A. Times

      MY COMMENT: There is nothing to suggest the involvement of the Jewish Defense League or the Jewish Defense Organization in Alawadi's death, but I can't help but be reminded of the murder of Alex Odah in Santa Ana, CA about 25 years ago. Alawadi was involved with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and Odeh was involved with the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC).

      FROM WIKIPEDIA:

      [excerpts] Alex Odeh (April 4, 1944 – October 11, 1985) was an Arab-American anti-discrimination activist who was killed in a bombing as he opened the door of his office at 1905 East 17th Street, Santa Ana, California. Odeh was west-coast regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC).
      Born into a Palestinian Christian family in Jifna, the West Bank, Odeh immigrated to the US in 1972.[1] He was a lecturer and poet who recently had published a volume of his poetry, Whispers in Exile.[2]...
      ...Irv Rubin, who had become chairman of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) the same year, immediately made several public statements in reaction to the incident. "I have no tears for Mr. Odeh," Rubin said. "He got exactly what he deserved."[7] ...
      ...Four weeks after Odeh's death, FBI spokesperson Lane Bonner stated the FBI attributed the bombing and two others to the JDL...
      ...Immediately after the 1985 assassination the FBI identified three suspects, all of them believed to be affiliated with the JDL, who fled to Israel. In 1987 it was revealed that Israel was hindering the FBI investigation. Floyd Clarke, then assistant director of the FBI, claimed in an internal memo that key suspects had fled to Israel and were living in the West Bank town of Kiryat Arba...
      ...In 2007, the FBI revealed they had received information from a deceased informant, believed to be former Jewish Defense League member Earl Krugel who had been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for 2001 plots to bomb a Southern California mosque and office of an Arab American congressman. It is believed that Irv Rubin, who died in prison while awaiting trial on the same charges, revealed to Krugel the names of those responsible for Odeh’s death and Krugel shared those with the FBI before he, too, died in prison. The bombers are believed to be Manning and two individuals now living in Israel.[14]...

      SOURCE - link to en.wikipedia.org

  • Barghouti and Waskow debate BDS on Democracy Now
    • DICKERSON3870 March 26, 2012 at 2:51 pm

      RE: "Barghouti and Waskow debate BDS on Democracy Now"

      MY COMMENT: I have considerable respect/admiration for Waskow, but we simply disagree on BDS. Consequently, I refuse to buy computers with Intel "blood processors", and instead buy computers with AMD processors. After all, Sponsoring Tomorrow starts Today!™

      SEE: Intel chip plant located on disputed Israeli land, by Henry Norr, San Francisco Chronicle, 7/08/02

      (excerpts) Just how diligent was Intel's due diligence when it chose to build a multibillion-dollar chip plant in Qiryat Gat, Israel? . . .
      ...Intel calls the plant Fab 18 ("fab" being chip-industry jargon for a facility where the silicon wafers that are eventually turned into working chips are fabricated). The fab, which went into production in 1999, was the fruit of a $1 billion investment by the Santa Clara company, supplemented by a $600 million grant from the Israeli government. . .
      …But from a legal and historical point of view, Qiryat Gat happens to be an unusual location: It was not taken over by the Israeli military in 1948. Instead, it was part of a small enclave, known as the Faluja pocket, that the Egyptian army and local Palestinian forces had managed to hold through the end of the war.
      The area was surrounded by Israeli forces, however. When Israel and Egypt signed an armistice agreement in February 1949, the latter agreed to withdraw its soldiers, but it insisted that the agreement explicitly guarantee the safety and property of the 3,100 or so Arab civilians in the area.
      Israel accepted that demand.       In an exchange of letters that were filed with the United Nations and became an annex to the main armistice agreement, the two countries agreed that “those of the civilian population who may wish to remain in Al-Faluja and Iraq al Manshiya (the two villages within the enclave covered by the letters) are to be permitted to do so. . . . All of these civilians shall be fully secure in their persons, abodes, property and personal effects.” ...
      . . . Within days, the security the agreement had promised residents of the Al- Faluja pocket proved an illusion. Within weeks, the entire local population had fled to refugee camps outside of Israel.
      Morris presents ample evidence that the people of the Al-Faluja area left in response to a campaign of intimidation conducted by the Israeli military. He quotes, among other sources, reports filed by Ralph Bunche, the distinguished black American educator and diplomat who was serving as chief U. N. mediator in the region.
      Bunche’s reports include complaints from U.N. observers on the scene that “Arab civilians . . . at Al-Faluja have been beaten and robbed by Israeli soldiers,” that there were attempted rapes and that the Israelis were “firing promiscuously” on the Arab population. . .

      ENTIRE ARTICLE – link to sfgate.com

  • Cultivate Hope - a poem for Hana Shalabi
    • DICKERSON3870 March 26, 2012 at 2:17 pm

      PETITION - The President of the United States: Free Hana Shalabi and End Administrative Detentions

      Hana Shalabi was held for 25 months in Israeli prison under "administrative detention" without charge or trial. She was released in October 2011 as part of a prisoner exchange deal. She was captured by Israeli Forces again on February 16, 2012 and has been on a hunger strike since then. Her condition continues to deteriorate. According to Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem, Israel's abuse of administrative detention violates the rigid parameters placed on it by international law. Administrative detention allows individuals to be held without charge or trial, restricting their rights to due-process. It is something to be used only "in the most exceptional cases" but Israel has used it to detain thousands of Palestinians. Israel's excessive use of administrative detentions is undemocratic. The US should condemn the government of Israel and pressure them to end this practice and free Hana Shalabi as well as others who are currently held in their prisons without charge or trial.

      TO SIGN - link to change.org

  • Israel on human rights: It's accountability for Palestinians but 'diplomatic terror' for Israel
  • Hundreds of soccer fans crowd Jerusalem mall: 'Death to Arabs!'
    • DICKERSON3870 March 25, 2012 at 1:51 am

      P.P.P.S. Thomas Turgoose first audition (VIDEO, 02:05) - link to youtube.com

    • DICKERSON3870 March 24, 2012 at 5:10 pm with 1 replies

      P.S. MEET THE EDL: This Is England, 2006, NR, 100 minutes
      Set in 1983, this semiautobiographical drama from writer-director Shane Meadows follows a lonely 11-year-old boy named Shaun as he grieves over the recent death of his father, who was killed fighting in the Falklands War. When he falls in with a gang of young skinheads, Shaun's pain and anger make him susceptible to carrying out the group's hateful agenda, exposing a dark side of modern Britain not often seen in the movies.
      Cast: Thomas Turgoose, Andrew Shim, Stephen Graham, Kieran Hardcastle, Frank Harper, Jo Hartley, George Newton, Jack O'Connell
      Netflix Availability: Streaming and DVD
      NETFLIX LISTING - link to movies.netflix.com
      This Is England Trailer HQ (VIDEO, 02:28) - link to youtube.com

      P.P.S. MORE OF THAT IRREPRESSIBLE URCHIN, THOMAS TURGOOSE - link to movies.netflix.com
      Somers Town, Movie Trailer (VIDEO, 02:04) - link to youtube.com

    • DICKERSON3870 March 24, 2012 at 4:48 pm with 3 replies

      RE: "One commenter at Haaretz noted 'if it was skinheads beating Jews the whole world would know about this.' "

      MY COMMENT: Some skinheads have become Israel's most fervent supporters!

      SEE: British Anti-Muslim Nativists Riot, Muslim Immigrant Murdered, By Richard Silverstein, Tikun Olam, 09/10/09

      (excerpt)...a Daily Mail story about a race riot in Birmingham featuring rioting drunken anti-Muslim nativists who have appropriated the title of Meir Kahane’s Jewish Defense League in their own group’s name, English Defense League. The coverage features a picture of the lily-white demonstrators [EDL skinheads] proudly waving an Israeli flag. With ‘friends’ like this does Israel need enemies? . . .

      SOURCE (with photo) – link to richardsilverstein.com
      English Defence League – link to en.wikipedia.org

    • DICKERSON3870 March 24, 2012 at 4:32 pm

      P.P.S. FROM WIKIPEDIA:

      (excerpt) Benzion Netanyahu (Hebrew: בנציון נתניהו; born Benzion Mileikowsky; March 25, 1910)[2][3] is an Israeli historian and a professor emeritus at Cornell University. He is a specialist in the golden age of Jewish History in Spain, and is known for his opus, the "Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain". He was secretary to Ze'ev Jabotinsky, "the father of Revisionist Zionism", and was a Revisionist leader of the Zionist Movement in the United States.
      He is the father of current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. . .

      SOURCE - link to en.wikipedia.org

    • DICKERSON3870 March 24, 2012 at 4:23 pm with 1 replies

      RE: "Supporters of the team [Betar] have a more nuanced explanation. They say the ban is bound up with Beitar’s history and with tensions in Jerusalem..." ~ Ephron

      FROM WIKIPEDIA:

      (excerpts) The Betar Movement (בית"ר, also spelled Beitar) is a Revisionist Zionist youth movement founded in 1923 in Riga, Latvia, by Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky. Betar has been traditionally linked to the original Herut and then Likud political parties of Israel, and was closely affiliated with the pre-Israel Revisionist Zionist splinter group Irgun Zevai Leumi. It was one of many movements and youth groups arising at that time out of a worldwide emergence of fascism.[1] Some of the most prominent politicians of Israel were Betarim in their youth, most notably Prime Ministers Yitzhak Shamir and Menachem Begin, the latter of whom idolized Jabotinsky.[2]...
      . . . The group initially praised Mussolini for his anti-communism and fascist principles, leading it to adopt the black uniform shirt of Italian fascism for a short period. Mussolini's invasion of Abyssinia, however, was seen as "cowardly" by Betar and led them to break with him shortly after.[8]...

      SOURCE - link to en.wikipedia.org

      ALSO FROM WIKIPEDIA:

      (excerpt)...In 1930, while [Ze'ev] Jabotinsky was visiting South Africa, he was informed by the British Colonial Office
      that he would not be allowed to return to Palestine...
      ...During his time in exile, Jabotinsky started regarding Benito Mussolini as a potential ally against the British, and contacts were made with Italy. In 1934 Jabotinsky and the Revisionist Zionist movement set up the Betar Naval Academy in Mussolini's Italy, which operated until 1938...

      SOURCE - link to en.wikipedia.org

      P.S. FROM TED RALL, 07/22/10: …Umberto Eco’s 1995 essay Eternal Fascism describes the cult of action for its own sake under fascist regimes and movements: “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”…
      SOURCE – link to commondreams.org

  • Cuba-Gaza parallels explored (by Gaza Center for Political and Developmental Studies)
    • DICKERSON3870 March 24, 2012 at 1:27 pm

      RE: "There are similarities between Latin America and Palestine in terms of suffering from occupation and intervention. The conditions in Cuba over the last 40 years is not so different than the conditions in Palestine." ~ Yousef M. Aljamal

      SEE: Granger Unblocks US Aid to Palestinians; Ros-Lehtinen Expected to Block It Now, by Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com, 3/23/12

      (excerpts) US developmental aid to the Palestinians, blocked since $147 million, could theoretically start flowing again today with the announcement that Rep. Kay Granger (R – TX), head of the House Appropriations Committee’s subcommittee on foreign operations, is ending her “block” on the aid.
      Granger had initially blocked the aid last year to punish the Palestinian Authority for seeking UN recognition, but said today she is ending the block for “humanitarian reasons.” That doesn’t mean the aid is ever actually going to get to Palestine, however.
      That’s because Granger is only one of several Congresswomen in a position to do this.       Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R – FL) is next in line to decide to block aid to the Palestinians and is also expected to do so. Even if she didn’t, Rep. Nita Lowey (D – NY) could try to push for a block as well...

      SOURCE - link to news.antiwar.com

  • Zionism totalled
    • DICKERSON3870 March 25, 2012 at 2:53 am

      P.S. FROM WIKIPEDIA:

      (excerpts) 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' is a 1956 science fiction film based on the novel 'The Body Snatchers' by Jack Finney…
      …In the fictional town of Santa Mira, California, Miles Bennell, a local doctor, has a number of patients accusing their loved ones of being impostors... Dr. Dan Kauffman, a psychiatrist in the town, assures Bennell that the cases are nothing but "epidemic mass hysteria"...
      …That same evening Bennell's friend Jack Belicec finds a body with what appear to be his features, though it's not yet fully developed. The next body found is a copy of Becky in the cellar of her house. When Bennell calls Kauffman to the scene, the bodies have mysteriously disappeared and Kauffman suspects Bennell of falling for the same hysteria. The following night Bennell, Becky, Jack and Jack's wife Teddy again find duplicates of themselves, emerging from giant pods. They conclude that the townspeople are being replaced in their sleep by perfect physical copies…
      …Largely ignored by critics on its initial run[12], Invasion of the Body Snatchers received wide critical acclaim in retrospect and is considered one of the best films of 1956.[24][25][26]...
      . . . Some reviewers found a comment on the dangers faced of America turning a blind eye to McCarthyism,[15] or of bland conformity in postwar Dwight D. Eisenhower-era America. Others have viewed it as an allegory for the loss of personal autonomy in the Soviet Union or communist systems in general.[16] For the BBC, David Wood summarised the circulating popular interpretations of the film as follows: "The sense of post-war, anti-communist paranoia is acute, as is the temptation to view the film as a metaphor for the tyranny of the McCarthy era."[17] . . .

      SOURCE - link to en.wikipedia.org

    • DICKERSON3870 March 25, 2012 at 2:36 am with 1 replies

      The fact that "in several cases they turned out to be communists years later" does not necessarily establish that there was not anti-communist paranoia (or at least hysteria) back the 50s. Even a stopped clock paranoid is right twice a day.

      “They come from another world. Spawned in the light years of space. Unleashed to take over the bodies and souls of the people…”
      "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", Official Trailer [1956] (VIDEO, 02:20) – link to youtube.com

  • On the passing of Novick: the political limitations of 'The Holocaust in American Life'
    • DICKERSON3870 March 25, 2012 at 2:12 am

      P.S. ALSO 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 commondreams.org

    • DICKERSON3870 March 25, 2012 at 2:10 am with 1 replies

      RE: "It is no longer unusual for a Jewish writer to lament the manner in which memory of the Holocaust has been incorporated into Jewish-American identity" ~ Green

      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 [culminating in the Holocaust], 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
      ALSO SEE - Iranophobia: The Panic of the Hegemons, by Ira Chernus, Tikkun Magazine, November/December 2010
      LINK - link to tikkun.org

  • 'Tribefest' excommunicates group of young Jews who dared to speak about ethnic discrimination
    • DICKERSON3870 March 24, 2012 at 1:03 pm

      RE: "It's been over a month since Young Jewish and Proud (YJP), the youth wing of Jewish Voice for Peace, got accepted to have a booth at Tribefest, the Jewish Federations of North America's (JFNA) annual gathering of young people." ~ YJP

      SEE: Houston Jewish Federation, Jewish Agency Fund Im Tirzu’s Assault on Israeli Universities ~ by Richard Silverstein, Tikun Olam, 3/17/10

      (excerpts) What do the Houston Jewish federation, the Jewish Agency, John Hagee, and Im Tirzu have in common? They’re all either directly or indirectly funding a major assault on academic freedom on Israeli campuses. . .
      ...The Israeli finance website, Calcalist, reports (Hebrew) that John Hagee donated $120,000 to Im Tirzu in 2009 through the Jewish Agency. The money had been transferred to the Agency by the Houston Jewish Federation as part of an overall $5-million gift. $3-million of that came from CUFI and went towards its largely pro-settler Israel philanthropy. Hagee passed the gift through the Agency in order to qualify for a U.S. tax deduction. The Israeli site also notes that the Central Fund of Israel, a pro-settler fund supported by American Jews, donated $35,000 as well. I reported some of this earlier in this post. But what I’m trying to discover is whether the funds reported on by the Calcalist are independent of the $200,000 in Hagee gifts I reported earlier. I suspect that they may be since there was no mention concerning the earlier gift that it was a pass-through via the Jewish Agency.
      The Israeli website notes that the Agency is only supposed to act as pass-through for donations to “non-political” Israeli groups. I wonder how they fudge this one concerning one of the most hardline political groups currently functioning in Israel? Further the Agency is only supposed to accept funds for projects that are directly connected to its work. So does this mean that Im Tirzu is a project under the official auspices of the Agency? Or has someone there fudged those inconvenient rules again? Further, the funds provided to the Zionist-Brut group were supposed to be used for “educational” purposes. Instead, they were used to support political activism. They went for salaries and covering other organizational expenses...

      ENTIRE ARTICLE - link to richardsilverstein.com

    • DICKERSON3870 March 24, 2012 at 12:51 pm with 3 replies

      P.S. ALSO SEE - Dear liberal American Jews: Please don’t betray Israel, by Dahlia Scheindlin, +972 Magazine, 2/14/12:

      (excerpts). . . After two weeks in America visiting family and friends, two observations struck me powerfully. First, the understanding that Israel is committing terrible deeds that are destroying itself and its neighbors, has penetrated among you…
      …On this trip, I was stunned to learn that now you don’t even really want to visit Israel because you can’t face what you’re increasingly coming to see as a brutal occupying entity flirting with fascist notions. . .
      …My second observation is that because of your fear – not of the goyim or the anti-Semites, but of yourselves! – you are keeping a low public profile. On this trip, I suddenly realized how naïve it was to imagine that J Street had sufficiently opened the door for anyone who cares critically for Israel to speak out. I underestimated how deep and terrible the intimidation has become and that one political lobby group is far from enough.
      I do understand: those of you who still call the Jewish community home, are afraid of the onslaught that you will receive from your (our) very own people.
      I hold no illusions about how vicious the attacks might be. We Jews, not the goyim, will call you the most painful names, will threaten in various ways to label you as beyond the pale of your people, should you voice your critique.       You might be chastised in your professional community. You will be hit not only by shadowy bloggers but by the very cherished and established groups you have loyally, even automatically, supported over the years. The anger might come from your friends and it might even come from your family...
      . . . Here’s how that made me feel: abandoned, by the liberal Jews of America. You were swept away by Ruth Wisse’s thesis that liberals betrayed the Jewish cause by believing too much in rational universalism [e.g. universal human rights] and failing to acknowledge the unique, everlasting threat of anti-Semitism…

      ENTIRE ARTICLE – link to 972mag.com

    • DICKERSON3870 March 24, 2012 at 12:46 pm with 4 replies

      RE: "We've signed contracts for the booth, sent materials, paid a hefty registration fee, booked our rooms, and planned our flights. And then, with no explanation or apology, we just got a call from Tribefest organizers kicking YJP out!" ~ Young Jewish and Proud

      SEE - Sinning against Zionism: Traitor to Country, by William A. Cook , Dissident Voice, 4/21/11

      "Hell is where many false commitments must be unlearned." — Ricardo J. Quinones, 'Dante Alighieri'

      (excerpt) Richard Goldstone’s journey from Justice to Sinner represents the spiritual act of dying in the Zionist world. By recanting his own report he has attempted to break the bonds that cast him into the sufferings in Caina, Antenora, and Judecca where, in 'Dante’s Inferno', those treacherous to their own, are removed from the light and warmth of their kin, their country, and their masters and suffer eternal damnation in the remorseless dead center of the ice in the most bottomless circle of Hell.
      Fortunately, Goldstone like Dante can learn that he has, in his journey, aligned himself with many false gods and many false attachments ignoring on the way the elementary truths that bind humankind ineluctably in one race in a bond of human grace.
      The Zionist world needs no Hell since it heeds no conscience. It exists on one foundation, a solid block of ice that freezes the soul of all who bear allegiance to its creed of absolute obedience, an ancient form of tribal slavery bound by fear that shackles the soul, by isolation that instills despair, by humiliation that corrodes self, and by victimhood that bonds the tribe in self-perpetuating agony. It is in this sense Medieval, a remnant of the inquisitorial mind that harbored no dissent, gave no credence to personal freedom, and obligated all to one monolithic understanding of commitment to the powers that control...

      ENTIRE COMMENTARY - link to dissidentvoice.org

  • A night raid in Nabi Saleh displays oafishness and contempt
    • DICKERSON3870 March 24, 2012 at 3:49 pm

      RE: "A night raid in Nabi Saleh displays oafishness and contempt... Throughout the raid, Nairman asks questions, but only in one instance does a soldier respond."

      MY COMMENT: "What we've got here is failure to commun'cate." ~ Cool Hand Luke (VIDEO, 00:40)

      FROM 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...

      SOURCE - link to lrb.co.uk
      ALSO SEE: Learned helplessness - link to en.wikipedia.org

  • NYPD: Snoops, spies and ... agent provocateurs?
    • DICKERSON3870 March 24, 2012 at 12:18 pm with 1 replies

      RE: "nom de provocateur" ~ Ratner

      MY COMMENT: Priceless!

      RE: "He [Ferhani] is also a young man with a record of mental illness -- as in, 30 involuntary commitments to psychiatric wards between the ages of 17 and 26." ~ Ratner

      MY COMMENT: The expression "going after the low-hanging fruit" comes to mind. Entrapping people with serious mental problems and putting them in prison has apparently become America's notion of mental health care. How sick is that?
      I wonder if as part of the entrapment, UC242/Ilter encouraged Ferhani to go of his meds?

      RE: "Call it political profiling. Call it thought-policing. Call it all kinds of things, but especially: outrageous." ~ Ratner

      MY COMMENT: If I were a provocateur, I might even call it proto-fascist! So much for life on the American "Heimatland".

  • 'I didn't say I liked Beinart's book' -- J Street head sells his star guest out to his antagonist, Goldberg
    • DICKERSON3870 March 23, 2012 at 3:27 pm

      P.S. RE: "Beinart is getting 'The Goldstone Treatment'!" ~ me, above
      AND RE: "Beinart has been getting hammered by the Jewish right because he's come out, bravely, for a boycott of settlements. The right hates Beinart. They are going wild smearing him." ~ Weiss

      ALSO SEE - Dear liberal American Jews: Please don’t betray Israel, by Dahlia Scheindlin, +972 Magazine, 2/14/12:

      (excerpts). . . After two weeks in America visiting family and friends, two observations struck me powerfully. First, the understanding that Israel is committing terrible deeds that are destroying itself and its neighbors, has penetrated among you…
      …On this trip, I was stunned to learn that now you don’t even really want to visit Israel because you can’t face what you’re increasingly coming to see as a brutal occupying entity flirting with fascist notions. . .
      …My second observation is that because of your fear – not of the goyim or the anti-Semites, but of yourselves! – you are keeping a low public profile. On this trip, I suddenly realized how naïve it was to imagine that J Street had sufficiently opened the door for anyone who cares critically for Israel to speak out. I underestimated how deep and terrible the intimidation has become and that one political lobby group is far from enough.
      I do understand: those of you who still call the Jewish community home, are afraid of the onslaught that you will receive from your (our) very own people.
      I hold no illusions about how vicious the attacks might be. We Jews, not the goyim, will call you the most painful names, will threaten in various ways to label you as beyond the pale of your people, should you voice your critique.       You might be chastised in your professional community. You will be hit not only by shadowy bloggers but by the very cherished and established groups you have loyally, even automatically, supported over the years. The anger might come from your friends and it might even come from your family...
      . . . Here’s how that made me feel: abandoned, by the liberal Jews of America. You were swept away by Ruth Wisse’s thesis that liberals betrayed the Jewish cause by believing too much in rational universalism [e.g. universal human rights] and failing to acknowledge the unique, everlasting threat of anti-Semitism…

      ENTIRE ARTICLE – link to 972mag.com

    • DICKERSON3870 March 23, 2012 at 3:23 pm

      RE: "He [Jeffrey Goldberg] has been trying to eviscerate Beinart in one post after another online, accusing him 'of errors, omissions, bigotry and ignorance' " ~ Weiss

      IN OTHER WORDS: Beinart is getting "The Goldstone Treatment"!

      SEE: Sinning against Zionism: Traitor to Country, by William A. Cook , Dissident Voice, 4/21/11

      Hell is where many false commitments must be unlearned. — Ricardo J. Quinones, Dante Alighieri

      (excerpt) Richard Goldstone’s journey from Justice to Sinner represents the spiritual act of dying in the Zionist world. By recanting his own report he has attempted to break the bonds that cast him into the sufferings in Caina, Antenora, and Judecca where, in Dante’s Inferno, those treacherous to their own, are removed from the light and warmth of their kin, their country, and their masters and suffer eternal damnation in the remorseless dead center of the ice in the most bottomless circle of Hell. Fortunately, Goldstone like Dante can learn that he has, in his journey, aligned himself with many false gods and many false attachments ignoring on the way the elementary truths that bind humankind ineluctably in one race in a bond of human grace.
      The Zionist world needs no Hell since it heeds no conscience. It exists on one foundation, a solid block of ice that freezes the soul of all who bear allegiance to its creed of absolute obedience, an ancient form of tribal slavery bound by fear that shackles the soul, by isolation that instills despair, by humiliation that corrodes self, and by victimhood that bonds the tribe in self-perpetuating agony. It is in this sense Medieval, a remnant of the inquisitorial mind that harbored no dissent, gave no credence to personal freedom, and obligated all to one monolithic understanding of commitment to the powers that control...

      ENTIRE COMMENTARY - link to dissidentvoice.org

  • 'Safe European home'?
    • DICKERSON3870 March 23, 2012 at 3:09 pm

      RE: "...their own propaganda about how people [in Israel] live their daily lives [supposedly] with the constant menace of terrorism!" ~ me, above

      SEE: "Netanyahu: Stupid Like a Fox?", By (Israeli) Uri Avnery, Antiwar.com, 06/13/11

      (excerpt)...Last week, there was a repeat performance. The Palestinians all around Israel have declared June 5 “Naksa” Day, to commemorate the “Setback” of 1967, when Israel spectacularly defeated the armies of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, reinforced by elements from the Iraqi and Saudi armies.
      This time, the Israeli army was prepared. The fence was reinforced and an anti-tank ditch dug in front of it. When the demonstrators tried to reach the fence—again near Majdal Shams—they were shot by sharpshooters. Some 22 were killed, and many dozens were wounded. The Palestinians report that people trying to rescue the wounded and retrieve the dead were also shot and killed.
      No doubt this was a deliberate tactic decided upon in advance by the army command after the Naqba Day fiasco and approved by Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak. As was said quite openly, the Palestinians had to be taught a lesson they would not forget, so as to drive any idea of an unarmed mass action out of their minds.
      It is frighteningly reminiscent of events 10 years ago. After the first Intifada, in which stone-throwing youngsters and children won a moral victory that led to the Oslo agreement, our army conducted exercises in anticipation of a second Intifada. This broke out after the political disaster of Camp David, and the army was ready.
      The new Intifada started with mass demonstrations of unarmed Palestinians. They were met by specially trained sharpshooters. Next to each sharpshooter stood an officer who pointed out the individuals who were to be shot because they looked like ringleaders*: “The guy in the red shirt… Now the boy with the blue trousers…”
      The unarmed uprising broke down and was replaced by suicide bombers, roadside bombs, and other “terrorist” acts.       With those our army was on familiar ground.
      I suspect very much that we are witnessing much the same thing once more. Again, specially trained sharpshooters are at work, directed by officers...

      SOURCE - link to original.antiwar.com

      * TAKE NOTE, OCCUPY WALL STREET "RINGLEADERS"! ! !

    • DICKERSON3870 March 23, 2012 at 2:57 pm with 4 replies

      RE: "Antisemitic attacks like these are presented as evidence that Jews have no place in anywhere but Israel." ~ Mutter

      MY COMMENT: Perhaps they should consider their own propaganda about how people [in Israel] live their daily lives [supposedly] with the constant menace of terrorism!

      LA DOLCE VITA: Israel trip an eye-opening experience for Jefferson chief, By Adina Solomon, onlineathens.com, 07/18/11

      This summer, Jefferson Police Chief Joe Wirthman went on a two-week trip 6,000 miles away, traveling across Israel with a delegation of state law enforcement officers as part of the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange.
      "It was an awesome trip," he said. "A trip of a lifetime."
      GILEE, which partners with Georgia State University, sends a different group of Georgia officers every summer to work with Israeli law enforcement and border control.
      Commerce Police Chief John Gaissert and University of Georgia Police Chief Jimmy Williamson also have gone in past years.
      The object of the program is to learn how Israeli police deal with terrorism every day...
      ...After his trip, Wirthman is trying to think one step ahead with the Jefferson Police Department, preparing for the type of threatening situations Israel faces 24 hours a day, he said.
      "Hopefully it'll never happen, but in this world, 'never' isn't a word," Wirthman said. "We're not invincible here."
      He's also witnessed how people live their daily lives with the constant menace of terrorism, he said.
      Wirthman met one man who sends each of his children on a different bus to school. In case one of the buses is bombed, only one of his three children will be harmed.
      "I don't know if I could raise my family under those conditions," said Wirthman, who has three kids of his own.
      And nobody in Israel grumbles about it, he said. Instead, they have a strong national pride many Americans had only after 9/11, he said..."

      ENTIRE ARTICLE - link to onlineathens.com

  • Holocaust consciousness-raising = harming Palestinians
    • DICKERSON3870 March 23, 2012 at 11:30 am

      RE: "Netanyahu's manipulation of the Holocaust (which is old
      news)" ~ Desch

      MY SNARK: Netanyahu is an extremely cynical demagogue. I suppose we should very reluctantly give him a little credit for being consistent in that he is willing to demagogue everything and anything that will benefit him.

  • 'Washington Post' all but leaves out the fact that scientist caught in 'Mossad' sting is Jewish and Zionist
    • DICKERSON3870 March 23, 2012 at 4:00 pm

      P.S. PHOTOS OF MALAGA, SPAIN (where Smyth applied for Social Security benefits and was arrested by INTERPOL) - link to goo.gl

    • DICKERSON3870 March 23, 2012 at 9:58 am with 1 replies

      RE: "The Washington Post ran two stories the other day on the sentencing of a space scientist, Stewart Nozette, for espionage for turning over government secrets to someone he thought was working for Mossad." ~ Weiss

      DOES ANYONE REMEMBER NEWS COVERAGE OF THIS BACK IN 2001?
      Israel’s Nuclear Triggers, by Grant Smith, Antiwar.com, 3/20/12

      (excerpt) FBI files detailing Israel’s stealth acquisition of U.S. nuclear triggers were declassified and released on Dec. 28, 2011. The FBI’s secret Portland and Los Angeles inter-office communications were originally scheduled for release in the year 2036. Their availability today reveals how Israel’s elite spy networks acquire U.S. nuclear technologies while evading criminal and diplomatic consequences.
      A kryton is a gas-filled tube used as a high-speed switch. U.S. State Department munitions licenses are needed to export krytons because they can be used as triggers for nuclear weapons. California-based MILCO International Inc. shipped 15 orders totaling 800 krytons through an intermediary to the Israeli Ministry of Defense between 1979 and 1983. MILCO obtained the krytons from EG&G Inc. After the U.S. government rejected several requests for kryton export licenses to Israel, Arnon Milchan’s Heli Trading Company brokered the transactions with MILCO. Milchan is an Israeli movie producer who became successful in Hollywood for such movies as Brazil, JFK, and Pretty Woman.
      The FBI file reveals that after the illicit kryton exports were discovered, a U.S. attorney tried to flip MILCO President Richard Kelly Smyth to implicate Milchan during intense plea bargaining. The gambit failed, and in May 1984 Smyth was indicted on 30 counts of smuggling and making false statements. Smyth and his wife promptly fled to Israel and remained at large until captured in Malaga, Spain, in July 2001 after Richard Smyth applied for Social Security benefits. INTERPOL arrested Smyth and extradited him to the United States, where he pleaded guilty to violating the U.S. Arms Export Control Act. In November 2001, Smyth was sentenced to 40 years in prison and fined $20,000, though he was freed within four years because of his advancing age. . .

      ENTIRE ARTICLE – link to original.antiwar.com

  • Gutless Leon Wieseltier
    • DICKERSON3870 March 23, 2012 at 10:56 am

      RE: "You can use that—even if it makes me sound a little bitchy.” ~ Peretz

      MY SNARK: Trust me Marty, sounding "a little bitchy" is the least of your problems! Sounding like the hypocritical demagogue you are is an entirely different matter.

      P.S. How's your IDF beau, Marty?

  • Two substantive critiques of Beinart's boycott call
    • DICKERSON3870 March 23, 2012 at 10:47 am

      RE: "And the Intel Corporation is complicit. That's why I refuse to buy computers with Intel 'blood processors', and instead buy computers with AMD processors." ~ me, above

      ELUCIDATION: After all, Sponsoring Tomorrow Starts Today!™

    • DICKERSON3870 March 23, 2012 at 10:29 am with 1 replies

      RE: "When the Zionist movement became the government of Israel, it emplaced a raft of laws and regulations...to prevent the return of the some 750,000 Palestinians who it had directly or indirectly driven into exile." ~ Robinson

      MY COMMENT: And the Intel Corporation is complicit. That's why I refuse to buy computers with Intel "blood processors", and instead buy computers with AMD processors!

      SEE: Intel chip plant located on disputed Israeli land, by Henry Norr, San Francisco Chronicle, 7/08/02

      (excerpts) Just how diligent was Intel's due diligence when it chose to build a multibillion-dollar chip plant in Qiryat Gat, Israel? . . .
      ...Intel calls the plant Fab 18 ("fab" being chip-industry jargon for a facility where the silicon wafers that are eventually turned into working chips are fabricated). The fab, which went into production in 1999, was the fruit of a $1 billion investment by the Santa Clara company, supplemented by a $600 million grant from the Israeli government. . .
      …But from a legal and historical point of view, Qiryat Gat happens to be an unusual location: It was not taken over by the Israeli military in 1948. Instead, it was part of a small enclave, known as the Faluja pocket, that the Egyptian army and local Palestinian forces had managed to hold through the end of the war.
      The area was surrounded by Israeli forces, however. When Israel and Egypt signed an armistice agreement in February 1949, the latter agreed to withdraw its soldiers, but it insisted that the agreement explicitly guarantee the safety and property of the 3,100 or so Arab civilians in the area.
      Israel accepted that demand.       In an exchange of letters that were filed with the United Nations and became an annex to the main armistice agreement, the two countries agreed that “those of the civilian population who may wish to remain in Al-Faluja and Iraq al Manshiya (the two villages within the enclave covered by the letters) are to be permitted to do so. . . . All of these civilians shall be fully secure in their persons, abodes, property and personal effects.” ...
      . . . Within days, the security the agreement had promised residents of the Al- Faluja pocket proved an illusion. Within weeks, the entire local population had fled to refugee camps outside of Israel.
      Morris presents ample evidence that the people of the Al-Faluja area left in response to a campaign of intimidation conducted by the Israeli military. He quotes, among other sources, reports filed by Ralph Bunche, the distinguished black American educator and diplomat who was serving as chief U. N. mediator in the region.
      Bunche’s reports include complaints from U.N. observers on the scene that “Arab civilians . . . at Al-Faluja have been beaten and robbed by Israeli soldiers,” that there were attempted rapes and that the Israelis were “firing promiscuously” on the Arab population. . .

      ENTIRE ARTICLE – link to sfgate.com

  • Peter King hypes Hezbollah threat to US
  • The video that pushed Peter Beinart to speak out against the occupation
    • DICKERSON3870 March 22, 2012 at 5:15 pm

      RE: "I wonder how Beinart can watch the deluge of news from Israel/Palestine and still consider himself a proud Zionist?" ~ A. Horowitz

      MY COMMENT: Being a "liberal Zionist" is a lot like being a "moderate Republican".

    • DICKERSON3870 March 22, 2012 at 5:10 pm

      RE: "The video that pushed Peter Beinart to speak out against the occupation"

      HERE'S ANOTHER GOLDEN OLDIE!
      A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE (FROM HAARETZ, 11/13/08):

      (excerpt) ...Last week, soldiers from the Golani infantry brigade posted a video on YouTube depicting a blindfolded Palestinian being forced to repeat phrases in Hebrew as the soldiers manning the checkpoint laugh in the background. . .
      One of the lines is: "Golani will bring you a log to stick up your ass." 
      As the detainee repeats the words, the soldiers are heard laughing raucously in the background. . . 

      SOURCE - http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1037217.html
      VIDEO CLIP - link to news.bbc.co.uk

  • Video: Chicago stands with Hana Shalabi
    • DICKERSON3870 March 22, 2012 at 10:32 pm

      PETITION - The President of the United States: Free Hana Shalabi and End Administrative Detentions

      Hana Shalabi was held for 25 months in Israeli prison under "administrative detention" without charge or trial. She was released in October 2011 as part of a prisoner exchange deal. She was captured by Israeli Forces again on February 16, 2012 and has been on a hunger strike since then. Her condition continues to deteriorate. According to Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem, Israel's abuse of administrative detention violates the rigid parameters placed on it by international law. Administrative detention allows individuals to be held without charge or trial, restricting their rights to due-process. It is something to be used only "in the most exceptional cases" but Israel has used it to detain thousands of Palestinians. Israel's excessive use of administrative detentions is undemocratic. The US should condemn the government of Israel and pressure them to end this practice and free Hana Shalabi as well as others who are currently held in their prisons without charge or trial.

      TO SIGN - link to change.org

  • Hana Shalabi 'could have been me, or my sister': Palestinian Canadian student launches solidarity hunger strike with Hana Shalabi
    • DICKERSON3870 March 22, 2012 at 10:38 pm

      PETITION - The President of the United States: Free Hana Shalabi and End Administrative Detentions

      Hana Shalabi was held for 25 months in Israeli prison under "administrative detention" without charge or trial. She was released in October 2011 as part of a prisoner exchange deal. She was captured by Israeli Forces again on February 16, 2012 and has been on a hunger strike since then. Her condition continues to deteriorate. According to Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem, Israel's abuse of administrative detention violates the rigid parameters placed on it by international law. Administrative detention allows individuals to be held without charge or trial, restricting their rights to due-process. It is something to be used only "in the most exceptional cases" but Israel has used it to detain thousands of Palestinians. Israel's excessive use of administrative detentions is undemocratic. The US should condemn the government of Israel and pressure them to end this practice and free Hana Shalabi as well as others who are currently held in their prisons without charge or trial.

      TO SIGN - link to change.org

  • One crazed murderer sparks Zionist calls for European migration to Israel
    • DICKERSON3870 March 23, 2012 at 2:51 pm

      RE: "[Member of Knessed] Ya’akov Katz called Monday for Jews to leave France in the wake of a deadly attack on a Jewish school in Toulouse." ~ Times of Israel

      SEE: Israel trip an eye-opening experience for Jefferson chief, By Adina Solomon, onlineathens.com, 07/18/11

      This summer, Jefferson Police Chief Joe Wirthman went on a two-week trip 6,000 miles away, traveling across Israel with a delegation of state law enforcement officers as part of the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange.
      "It was an awesome trip," he said. "A trip of a lifetime."
      GILEE, which partners with Georgia State University, sends a different group of Georgia officers every summer to work with Israeli law enforcement and border control.
      Commerce Police Chief John Gaissert and University of Georgia Police Chief Jimmy Williamson also have gone in past years.
      The object of the program is to learn how Israeli police deal with terrorism every day...
      ...After his trip, Wirthman is trying to think one step ahead with the Jefferson Police Department, preparing for the type of threatening situations Israel faces 24 hours a day, he said.
      "Hopefully it'll never happen, but in this world, 'never' isn't a word," Wirthman said. "We're not invincible here."
      He's also witnessed how people live their daily lives with the constant menace of terrorism, he said.
      Wirthman met one man who sends each of his children on a different bus to school. In case one of the buses is bombed, only one of his three children will be harmed.
      "I don't know if I could raise my family under those conditions," said Wirthman, who has three kids of his own.
      And nobody in Israel grumbles about it, he said. Instead, they have a strong national pride many Americans had only after 9/11, he said..."

      ENTIRE ARTICLE - link to onlineathens.com

    • DICKERSON3870 March 22, 2012 at 4:51 pm

      P.S. I GUESS MEOTTI WOULD SAY THAT SMYTH IS YET ANOTHER DREYFUS: Israel’s Nuclear Triggers, by Grant Smith, Antiwar.com, 3/20/12

      (excerpt) FBI files detailing Israel’s stealth acquisition of U.S. nuclear triggers were declassified and released on Dec. 28, 2011. The FBI’s secret Portland and Los Angeles inter-office communications were originally scheduled for release in the year 2036. Their availability today reveals how Israel’s elite spy networks acquire U.S. nuclear technologies while evading criminal and diplomatic consequences.
      A kryton is a gas-filled tube used as a high-speed switch. U.S. State Department munitions licenses are needed to export krytons because they can be used as triggers for nuclear weapons. California-based MILCO International Inc. shipped 15 orders totaling 800 krytons through an intermediary to the Israeli Ministry of Defense between 1979 and 1983. MILCO obtained the krytons from EG&G Inc. After the U.S. government rejected several requests for kryton export licenses to Israel, Arnon Milchan’s Heli Trading Company brokered the transactions with MILCO. Milchan is an Israeli movie producer who became successful in Hollywood for such movies as Brazil, JFK, and Pretty Woman.
      The FBI file reveals that after the illicit kryton exports were discovered, a U.S. attorney tried to flip MILCO President Richard Kelly Smyth to implicate Milchan during intense plea bargaining. The gambit failed, and in May 1984 Smyth was indicted on 30 counts of smuggling and making false statements. Smyth and his wife promptly fled to Israel and remained at large until captured in Malaga, Spain, in July 2001 after Richard Smyth applied for Social Security benefits. INTERPOL arrested Smyth and extradited him to the United States, where he pleaded guilty to violating the U.S. Arms Export Control Act. In November 2001, Smyth was sentenced to 40 years in prison and fined $20,000, though he was freed within four years because of his advancing age. . .

      ENTIRE ARTICLE – link to original.antiwar.com

    • DICKERSON3870 March 22, 2012 at 4:44 pm with 2 replies

      P.S. Giulio Meotti, a journalist with Il Foglio, is the author of the book, A New Shoah: The Untold Story of Israel's Victims of Terrorism.

      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`

      Giulio Meotti: J'Accuse on Pollard
      Posted by Israel Insider on August 23, 2011 at 9:21am in General Discussion

      It’s one of the most painful wounds in the Jewish world. All Israeli attempts to obtain leniency for Jonathan Pollard have failed.
      He is a convicted spy. He has an Israeli passport. He is serving a life sentence. He is the only American to receive a life sentence for spying for an ally. It’s one of the most painful wounds in the Jewish world. All Israeli attempts to obtain leniency for Jonathan Pollard have failed.
      Some 113 years after French novelist Emile Zola famously wrote “J’accuse!” charging that an anti-Semitic government had wrongfully convicted a young Jewish captain named Alfred Dreyfus, Pollard’s supporters wonder if history may record his case as America’s Dreyfus affair. The former president of B’nai B’rith International, Tommy Baer, said the Pollard affair was “the closest thing to an American Dreyfuss case.”
      If Pollard’s incomparably harsh sentence is allowed to continue, all but the most naive will have to confront the idea that he is still in prison only because he is a Jew.

      SOURCE - link to israelinsider.net

    • DICKERSON3870 March 22, 2012 at 4:41 pm with 4 replies

      RE: "From YNet, 'A Jew-Free Europe,' by Giulio Meotti."

      MY COMMENT: Giulio Meotti is an Italian Jew who seems to long for the 'good old days' of Il Duce (when Mussolini 'made the trains run on time'). I assume that, like Michael 'Faster, Please' Ledeen, he is a devotee of 'Italian Fascism'.
      PHOTO - link to google.com
      Can you say Italian neocon? Sure you can!

      FROM WIKIPEDIA:

      (excerpt)...In 1930, while [Ze'ev] Jabotinsky was visiting South Africa, he was informed by the British Colonial Office that he would not be allowed to return to Palestine...
      ...During his time in exile, Jabotinsky started regarding Benito Mussolini as a potential ally against the British, and contacts were made with Italy. In 1934 Jabotinsky and the Revisionist Zionist movement set up the Betar Naval Academy in Mussolini's Italy, which operated until 1938...

      SOURCE - link to en.wikipedia.org

  • Public radio station fires editor who dared to speak out about Israel's 'brutal military occupation'
    • DICKERSON3870 March 22, 2012 at 4:21 pm with 1 replies

      P.S. MY COMMENT: I only buy computers with AMD processors (rather than Intel "blood processors")!

      SEE: Intel chip plant located on disputed Israeli land, by Henry Norr, San Francisco Chronicle, 7/08/02

      (excerpts) Just how diligent was Intel's due diligence when it chose to build a multibillion-dollar chip plant in Qiryat Gat, Israel? . . .
      ...Intel calls the plant Fab 18 ("fab" being chip-industry jargon for a facility where the silicon wafers that are eventually turned into working chips are fabricated). The fab, which went into production in 1999, was the fruit of a $1 billion investment by the Santa Clara company, supplemented by a $600 million grant from the Israeli government. . .
      …But from a legal and historical point of view, Qiryat Gat happens to be an unusual location: It was not taken over by the Israeli military in 1948. Instead, it was part of a small enclave, known as the Faluja pocket, that the Egyptian army and local Palestinian forces had managed to hold through the end of the war.
      The area was surrounded by Israeli forces, however. When Israel and Egypt signed an armistice agreement in February 1949, the latter agreed to withdraw its soldiers, but it insisted that the agreement explicitly guarantee the safety and property of the 3,100 or so Arab civilians in the area.
      Israel accepted that demand.       In an exchange of letters that were filed with the United Nations and became an annex to the main armistice agreement, the two countries agreed that “those of the civilian population who may wish to remain in Al-Faluja and Iraq al Manshiya (the two villages within the enclave covered by the letters) are to be permitted to do so. . . . All of these civilians shall be fully secure in their persons, abodes, property and personal effects.” ...
      . . . Within days, the security the agreement had promised residents of the Al- Faluja pocket proved an illusion. Within weeks, the entire local population had fled to refugee camps outside of Israel.
      Morris presents ample evidence that the people of the Al-Faluja area left in response to a campaign of intimidation conducted by the Israeli military. He quotes, among other sources, reports filed by Ralph Bunche, the distinguished black American educator and diplomat who was serving as chief U. N. mediator in the region.
      Bunche’s reports include complaints from U.N. observers on the scene that “Arab civilians . . . at Al-Faluja have been beaten and robbed by Israeli soldiers,” that there were attempted rapes and that the Israelis were “firing promiscuously” on the Arab population. . .

      ENTIRE ARTICLE – link to sfgate.com

    • DICKERSON3870 March 22, 2012 at 4:17 pm with 2 replies

      RE: "A longtime editor at a public radio station in Baltimore has been fired in part because he questioned US pandering to Israel." ~ Weiss

      FROM WIKIPEDIA: (excerpt)

      Henry Norr (born 1946) is an American technology journalist and activist. He was formerly a technology columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle.
      In 2002, Norr wrote in the Chronicle about Intel Corp.'s Fab 18 chip plant in Qiryat Gat, Israel, which was responsible for $1.8 billion in exports. The story was controversial because of the land ownership issues stemming from the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Pro-Israel organizations accused him of being anti-Semitic, which he denies, pointing out that he is Jewish.
      Norr was fired in April 2003. He had been arrested in an anti-war demonstration on March 20, the day after the United States attacked Iraq. The Chronicle suspended him without pay a few days later, then fired him. The Chronicle's employee rules, and California law, permitted workers to attend demonstrations and engage in political activity. The Chronicle told Norr he was fired for falsifying his time card. Others in the newsroom said that he was fired for his political activity, which included involvement in Palestine solidarity work.[1][2]
      In 2004, Norr received a financial settlement with The Chronicle over the firing, which included his retirement, health benefits, and a statement published in the Chronicle. California law prohibits employers from firing employees on the basis of political activities. Norr said the settlement would allow him to continue freelance writing.[3]...

      SOURCE - link to en.wikipedia.org

  • StandWithUs manufactures boycott of Jewish deli in Olympia
    • DICKERSON3870 March 22, 2012 at 4:05 pm

      WHY ON EARTH WOULD ANYONE WANT TO BOYCOTT ISRAEL?

      TAKE A LOOK AT: Israel’s Nuclear Triggers, by Grant Smith, Antiwar.com, 3/20/12

      (excerpt) FBI files detailing Israel’s stealth acquisition of U.S. nuclear triggers were declassified and released on Dec. 28, 2011. The FBI’s secret Portland and Los Angeles inter-office communications were originally scheduled for release in the year 2036. Their availability today reveals how Israel’s elite spy networks acquire U.S. nuclear technologies while evading criminal and diplomatic consequences.
      A kryton is a gas-filled tube used as a high-speed switch. U.S. State Department munitions licenses are needed to export krytons because they can be used as triggers for nuclear weapons. California-based MILCO International Inc. shipped 15 orders totaling 800 krytons through an intermediary to the Israeli Ministry of Defense between 1979 and 1983. MILCO obtained the krytons from EG&G Inc. After the U.S. government rejected several requests for kryton export licenses to Israel, Arnon Milchan’s Heli Trading Company brokered the transactions with MILCO. Milchan is an Israeli movie producer who became successful in Hollywood for such movies as Brazil, JFK, and Pretty Woman.
      The FBI file reveals that after the illicit kryton exports were discovered, a U.S. attorney tried to flip MILCO President Richard Kelly Smyth to implicate Milchan during intense plea bargaining. The gambit failed, and in May 1984 Smyth was indicted on 30 counts of smuggling and making false statements. Smyth and his wife promptly fled to Israel and remained at large until captured in Malaga, Spain, in July 2001 after Richard Smyth applied for Social Security benefits. INTERPOL arrested Smyth and extradited him to the United States, where he pleaded guilty to violating the U.S. Arms Export Control Act. In November 2001, Smyth was sentenced to 40 years in prison and fined $20,000, though he was freed within four years because of his advancing age. . .

      ENTIRE ARTICLE – link to original.antiwar.com

  • The Jewish establishment goes to bat for Ray Kelly and the NYPD
    • DICKERSON3870 March 21, 2012 at 5:50 pm

      P.P.S. LASTLY, SEE: The Dogs of War: The Next Intifada, By Uri Avnery, Counterpunch, 9/03/11

      (excerpt)...The second (“al-Aqsa”) intifada started after the breakdown of the 2000 Camp David conference and Ariel Sharon’s deliberately provocative “visit” to the Temple Mount. The Palestinians held non-violent mass demonstrations. The army responded with selective killings. A sharpshooter accompanied by an officer would take position in the path of the protest, and the officer would point out selected targets – protesters who looked like “ringleaders”. They were killed.*
      This was highly effective. Soon the non-violent demonstrations ceased and were replaced by very violent (“terrorist”) actions. With those the army was back on familiar ground.
      All in all, during the second intifada 4546 Palestinians were killed, of whom 882 were children, as against 1044 Israelis, 716 of them civilians, including 124 children...

      ENTIRE COMMENTARY - link to counterpunch.org

      * TAKE NOTE, OCCUPY WALL STREET "RINGLEADERS"! ! !

    • DICKERSON3870 March 21, 2012 at 5:46 pm

      P.S. ALSO SEE: Sheriff Ortiz goes to Israel, by Eva Ruth Moravec, mysanantonio.com, 07/07/11

      (excerpts)...For one week last month, Bexar County Sheriff Amadeo Ortiz swapped his cowboy hat for a
      yarmulke as he visited Israel on an organized trip with other law enforcement leaders.
      “I’ve always had an interest in Israel,” he said in an interview Tuesday. “It was a great conference.”
      Ortiz joined 16 other sheriffs, police chiefs and organization heads, including Houston Police Chief Charles McClelland, on a week-long trip, courtesy of the Jewish Institute for National Security’s Law Enforcement Exchange Program...
      ...Ortiz said he was impressed by Israel Defense Force soldiers, who he said are trained as soldiers and as police officers.
      “If we ever deploy troops along the Texas border, they should have training in being a soldier and in law enforcement,” he said...
      ...The junket was Ortiz’s second organized trip to Israel: last year, Bexar County footed the bill to send him to an international conference on homeland security, he said...

      SOURCE - link to blog.mysanantonio.com

    • DICKERSON3870 March 21, 2012 at 5:43 pm with 2 replies

      RE: "The press release announcing the honor notes that Galati 'traveled to Israel with other senior police officials from the Northeast to attend a counter-terrorism training seminar sponsored by ADL.' The first AP report on the NYPD spying noted that the program was 'modeled in part on how Israeli authorities operate in the West Bank.' ~ Alex Kane

      SEE: Israel trip an eye-opening experience for Jefferson chief, By Adina Solomon, onlineathens.com, 07/18/11

      This summer, Jefferson Police Chief Joe Wirthman went on a two-week trip 6,000 miles away, traveling across Israel with a delegation of state law enforcement officers as part of the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange.
      "It was an awesome trip," he said. "A trip of a lifetime."
      GILEE, which partners with Georgia State University, sends a different group of Georgia officers every summer to
      work with Israeli law enforcement and border control.
      Commerce Police Chief John Gaissert and University of Georgia Police Chief Jimmy Williamson also have gone in past years.
      The object of the program is to learn how Israeli police deal with terrorism every day...
      ...After his trip, Wirthman is trying to think one step ahead with the Jefferson Police Department, preparing for the type of threatening situations Israel faces 24 hours a day, he said.
      "Hopefully it'll never happen, but in this world, 'never' isn't a word," Wirthman said. "We're not invincible here."
      He's also witnessed how people live their daily lives with the constant menace of terrorism, he said.
      Wirthman met one man who sends each of his children on a different bus to school. In case one of the buses is bombed, only one of his three children will be harmed.
      "I don't know if I could raise my family under those conditions," said Wirthman, who has three kids of his own.
      And nobody in Israel grumbles about it, he said. Instead, they have a strong national pride many Americans had only after 9/11, he said..."

      ENTIRE ARTICLE - link to onlineathens.com

  • Einstein's crime
    • DICKERSON3870 March 21, 2012 at 4:54 pm

      P.P.P.S AUDIO (19:53) - Scott Horton Interviews Gabriel Kolko, Antiwar Radio, 3/20/12

      Gabriel Kolko, historian and author of "World in Crisis: The End of the American Century"; discusses his article “Creating a Warrior State: The Enigma of Israel;” why Zionism and democracy cannot coexist; how Israel’s demographic changes are marginalizing secular Jews; and how the will of the people in Israel is reflected – both in Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination and Bibi Netanyahu’s electoral success.

      LINK - link to antiwar.com

      P.P.P.P.S. ALSO SEE: The Dilemmas of Israeli Power, by Roger Cohen, New York Times Op-Ed, 2/13/12

      (excerpt). . . Some of the most fascinating pages of “The Crisis of Zionism” [by Peter Beinart] trace the ideological backdrop to the bitter clash between Obama and Netanyahu. Beinart demonstrates the strong liberal Zionist influence of Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf on Obama during his Chicago years. Wolf hated the idea of “an Israel besieged by anti-Semites;” his teaching was “interfaith” and “integrationist.” It cleaved to the liberal roots of American Zionism and the ethical teachings of the prophets who, as expressed in Exodus, commanded Jews not to oppress strangers “having yourselves been strangers in the land of Egypt.”
      The contrast with Netanyahu — raised in the Jabotinsky strain of Zionism by a father who viewed Arabs as “semi-barbaric”* and rejected an “emasculating moralism” [e.g. universal human rights] in favor of a new warrior breed of Jew — could scarcely be greater. . .

      ENTIRE OP-ED - link to nytimes.com
      * SEE: Netanyahu Family's Racist History: Like Father, Like Son, by Richard Silverstein - link to richardsilverstein.com

    • DICKERSON3870 March 21, 2012 at 4:41 pm with 1 replies

      RE: "As to Einstein, never forget the 'Einstein letter which warned against Israeli terrorism and fascism. " ~ pabelmont

      ALSO SEE: Creating a Warrior State: The Enigma of Israel ~ by Gabriel Kolko, Counterpunch, 3/16/12

      (excerpt) Zionism was supposed to make Jewish existence “normal;” very different than in a Diaspora peopled by goyim, but there is nothing ”normal” in the life and culture of Israel today —which has not lived in peace with its neighbors, much less let the Palestinians have elementary human rights in the lands in which they have lived for thousands of years. If war is the criteria of “normal” existence, then Zionism has become a failed nightmare. It was, when first conceptualized, not supposed to be this way.
      Instead of the original dream of A. D. Gordon, Nachman Syrkin, Dov Ber Borochov, and those influenced by the anti-industrial scouting “wanderfogel” concept (which also played a role in Nazi ideology) or Tolstoy (who influenced some Zionist theorists), it turned out very differently. Israel today, the realization of the Zionist theory, bears little relationship to the original concept, which was much more attune to the fact that Palestine was peopled by Arabs and they were also human beings who deserved to have rights. In its own way, the original Zionist formulations, ignoring the fact there was also a contradiction in wanting to set up a homeland in an area the Jews had not lived for thousands of years and was scarcely Western—as they were themselves now—was much more realistic and fair about the rights of Arabs who were native to that country.
      Instead, Israel today has become a danger to the region and to itself, so much so that it cannot exist much longer with its own contradictions…
      . . . Netanyahu opposes all Palestinian Arab claims for a state of their own and favors measures to restrict the rights of Arabs, whether within Israel or the West Bank. Jabotinsky was very close to Mussolini’s brand of fascism, and the Revisionist youth movement, Betar, maintained a naval academy in Italy from 1934 to 1938. . .

      ENTIRE COMMENTARY – link to counterpunch.org

      P.S. FROM WIKIPEDIA (Ze'ev Jabotinsky):

      (excerpt)...In 1930, while [Ze'ev] Jabotinsky was visiting South Africa, he was informed by the British Colonial Office that he would not be allowed to return to Palestine...
      ...During his time in exile, Jabotinsky started regarding Benito Mussolini as a potential ally against the British, and contacts were made with Italy. In 1934 Jabotinsky and the Revisionist Zionist movement set up the Betar Naval Academy in Mussolini's Italy, which operated until 1938...

      SOURCE - link to en.wikipedia.org

      P.P.S.

      "...The same biographer, Joseph Schechtman, who was a close personal friend to Jabotinsky, also writes that Jabotinsky was powerfully influenced by Mussolini’s impatient and muscular militarism." ~ teta mother me, 3/18/12

      SOURCE - link to mondoweiss.net

  • First 'J Street,' now Princeton -- man who ordered Gaza onslaught tours U.S.
    • DICKERSON3870 March 21, 2012 at 10:51 am

      RE: "Olmert will be giving the keynote speech at J Street's conference, titled 'Making History,' next week." ~ Weiss

      MY SNARK: I guess Bernie Madoff wasn't available!

      "MAKING HISTORY": New Olmert indictment keeps focus on political corruption, By Linda Gradstein, JTA, 1/08/12

      [excerpt] JERUSALEM (JTA) -- The indictment of former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and 17 other Israelis on charges related to one of the largest real estate scandals in Israeli history is the latest shoe to drop in a country where political corruption has come to be seen as an epidemic.
      The indictment issued Jan. 4 alleges that Olmert and several other Israeli officials accepted millions of dollars in bribes to promote a series of real estate projects, most prominently Jerusalem’s controversial Holyland development.
      “There are so many ironies in the case,” said Stuart Schoffman      , a fellow at Jerusalem’s Shalom Hartman Institute. “Israel is supposed to be the holy land. This project is called the Holyland, and yet it’s the most unholy business you can imagine. . .

      ENTIRE ARTICLE - link to jta.org

      P.S. Nonetheless, I hope Olmert will have some constructive things to say about Israel's descent into madness.

  • 'Anti-Palestinian political groups' (Fletcher on lobby)
    • DICKERSON3870 March 21, 2012 at 10:34 am

      RE: "Rather than advance Palestinian freedom – unacceptable in today’s Washington – the US Congress decided it was permissible to damage UNESCO." ~ Fletcher

      MY COMMENT: Hell hath no fury like like a Batista devotee scorned!

      SEE: Ros-Lehtinen: No help for UNESCO, by Jonathan Allen, Politico, 11/01/11

      (excepts) If the State Department has designs on reversing Monday’s decision to stop funding the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, officials there should forget about it, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) said Tuesday. . .
      ...UNESCO supporters contend that the United States is cutting off its nose to spite its face, voluntarily giving up membership in an organization it supports because of the admission of the Palestinians. Moreover, they say there’s a possibility that the Palestinian Authority will be able to force the United States out of other international agencies by joining them, thus diminishing America’s influence around the globe.
      But Ros-Lehtinen’s view has the backing of a strong contingent in Congress: Pro-Israel lawmakers.
      Reps. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) and Tom Cole (R-Okla.) wrote a letter to colleagues in advance of Monday’s Paris vote emphasizing their belief that Congress should not act to revise the law prohibiting funding for organizations that grant membership status to the Palestinian Authority.
      And despite the potential for pain in the business community, it seems unlikely that major American companies would want to engage in a fight with the pro-Israel lobby. . .

      ENTIRE ARTICLE - link to politico.com

      ALSO SEE: Ackerman, Ros-Lehtinen To Fight UNESCO Funding, by Stewart Ain, The Jewish Week, 2/23/12
      LINK - link to thejewishweek.com

  • Beinart's 'Zionist BDS' will only help entrench the occupation
    • DICKERSON3870 March 21, 2012 at 12:24 pm

      RE: "If I’m not mistaken “The Weight” was the movie’s theme-song, wasn’t it?" ~ Mooser

      NICE TRY, MOOSER. . .
      I pulled into Nazareth, I was feelin' about half past dead;
      I just need some place where I can lay my head.
      "Hey, mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?"
      He just grinned and shook my hand, and "No!", was all he said.
      (Chorus:)
      Take a load off Annie, take a load for free;
      Take a load off Annie, And (and) (and) you can put the load right on me.
      • The Band, The Weight (VIDEO, 04:28) - link to youtube.com

      ...BUT, NO CIGAR!
      • I Put a Spell on You, Natacha Atlas (VIDEO, 03:41) - link to youtube.com
      • LIVE: I Put a Spell On You ♫ Natacha Atlas (VIDEO, 5:00) - link to youtube.com

      P.S. I had no idea "those people" could 'get down' like that. There is no telling what kind of ugly names Rush Limbaugh would call them!

    • DICKERSON3870 March 20, 2012 at 10:34 pm with 2 replies

      RE: "Let’s imagine you’re some left-leaning Christian denomination. You’ve recently sent some of your ministers to the West Bank and they’ve come back appalled because, well, most people who see the occupation up close come back appalled." ~ Beinart

      FILM: Divine Intervention (Yadon Ilaheyya), 2002, NR, 89 minutes
      In this comedy tinged with pathos, love blossoms amid the confusion and despair of Nazareth, a city caught in the crossfire of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Elia Suleiman (who directed the film) stars as E.S., a man who observes the ravages of war alongside his girlfriend (Manal Khader). Surreal vignettes underscore the war's ability to erode this city's sense of community and its residents' ability to coexist.
      Language: Arabic (English subtitles)
      Netflix Availability: Streaming and DVD
      NETFLIX LISTING - link to movies.netflix.com
      Divine Intervention Theatrical Trailer (01:39) - link to youtube.com

    • DICKERSON3870 March 20, 2012 at 10:09 pm

      RE: "boycotting anything inside the green line invites ambiguity about the boycott’s ultimate goal — whether it seeks to end Israel’s occupation or Israel’s existence." ~ Beinart

      MY COMMENT: Nonetheless, I will continue to buy computers with AMD processors rather than Intel processors. AS far as I'm concerned, Intel processors are "blood processors"!

      SEE: Intel chip plant located on disputed Israeli land, by Henry Norr, San Francisco Chronicle, 7/08/02

      (excerpts) Just how diligent was Intel's due diligence when it chose to build a multibillion-dollar chip plant in Qiryat Gat, Israel? . . .
      ...Intel calls the plant Fab 18 ("fab" being chip-industry jargon for a facility where the silicon wafers that are eventually turned into working chips are fabricated). The fab, which went into production in 1999, was the fruit of a $1 billion investment by the Santa Clara company, supplemented by a $600 million grant from the Israeli government. . .
      …But from a legal and historical point of view, Qiryat Gat happens to be an unusual location: It was not taken over by the Israeli military in 1948. Instead, it was part of a small enclave, known as the Faluja pocket, that the Egyptian army and local Palestinian forces had managed to hold through the end of the war.
      The area was surrounded by Israeli forces, however. When Israel and Egypt signed an armistice agreement in February 1949, the latter agreed to withdraw its soldiers, but it insisted that the agreement explicitly guarantee the safety and property of the 3,100 or so Arab civilians in the area.
      Israel accepted that demand.       In an exchange of letters that were filed with the United Nations and became an annex to the main armistice agreement, the two countries agreed that “those of the civilian population who may wish to remain in Al-Faluja and Iraq al Manshiya (the two villages within the enclave covered by the letters) are to be permitted to do so. . . . All of these civilians shall be fully secure in their persons, abodes, property and personal effects.” ...
      . . . Within days, the security the agreement had promised residents of the Al- Faluja pocket proved an illusion.
      Within weeks, the entire local population had fled to refugee camps outside of Israel.
      Morris presents ample evidence that the people of the Al-Faluja area left in response to a campaign of intimidation conducted by the Israeli military. He quotes, among other sources, reports filed by Ralph Bunche, the distinguished black American educator and diplomat who was serving as chief U. N. mediator in the region.
      Bunche’s reports include complaints from U.N. observers on the scene that “Arab civilians . . . at Al-Faluja have been beaten and robbed by Israeli soldiers,” that there were attempted rapes and that the Israelis were “firing promiscuously” on the Arab population. . .

      ENTIRE ARTICLE – link to sfgate.com

  • Pentagon fears Israeli strike on Iran would drag US in
    • DICKERSON3870 March 21, 2012 at 1:07 pm

      RE: "you know the funny thing i noticed about that url? it reads 'pro-israel-groups-differing-approaches-on-iran'. i guess they couldn’t say that in the headline so they changed it to ‘hawks’. " ~ Annie Robbins

      REPLY: Das ist verboten! It would be a "blood libel"! It would be yet another example of "new anti-Semitism"!

      SEE: Israel in the NYT Corrections Box, by Peter Hart, FAIR, 3/10/12 - link to commondreams.org

    • DICKERSON3870 March 20, 2012 at 9:41 pm with 4 replies

      P.S. SEE: Hawks Steering Debate on How to Take on Iran, By Eric Lichtblau and Mark Landler, New York Times, 3/18/12

      (excerpts)WASHINGTON — Even before President Obama declared this month that “I have Israel’s back” in its escalating confrontation with Iran, pro-Israel figures like the evangelical Christian leader Gary L. Bauer and the conservative commentator William Kristol were pushing for more...
      . . . Urging diplomacy are liberal groups like J Street, which is helped by $500,000 a year in contributions from the liberal philanthropist George Soros, and Tikkun, a Jewish journal that has begun running newspaper advertisements here and abroad that urge, “NO War on Iran and NO First Strike!” Tikkun, based in Berkeley, Calif., is hoping to link its antiwar message with the Occupy protests.
      “A lot of people talk about the ‘Israel lobby’ as if it’s a monolithic thing,” said Dylan Williams, head of government affairs for J Street. “It’s a myth. There is a deep division between those who support military action at this point and those who support diplomacy.”
      Clear fissures have developed among pro-Israel groups — not only between hawks and doves over whether to use military force against Iran, but among hard-liners themselves over just how aggressively to confront it.
      Sheldon Adelson, a billionaire casino owner who is a staunch supporter of Israel, was once a major donor to Aipac. But because of Aipac’s support for American aid to the Palestinian Authority, he has broken from the group. This year, Mr. Adelson has given at least $10 million, along with his wife, to support Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign...

      ENTIRE ARTICLE - link to nytimes.com

    • DICKERSON3870 March 20, 2012 at 9:38 pm with 5 replies

      RE: "Pentagon fears Israeli strike on Iran would drag US in"

      MY COMMENT: P.S. Please help Tikkun/NSP run the following ad in major American newspapers.

      No Mr. Netanyahu,
      No President Obama:
      No War on Iran
      and No First Strike

      Some who have signed this ad believe that the best path for homeland security is through rejecting the old-fashioned “domination strategy” to get your way...
      ...Click HERE to see a draft of how this ad would look in the newspaper.

      If you would like to help Tikkun/NSP run this ad, please make a donation.
      TO DONATE -       link to salsa.democracyinaction.org

      TIKKUN WEBSITE - link to tikkun.org
      NETWORK OF SPIRITUAL PROGRESSIVES (NSP) WEBSITE - link to spiritualprogressives.org

  • A Growing Movement: Six days in Canada during Israeli Apartheid Week
    • DICKERSON3870 March 20, 2012 at 4:08 pm

      Thanks. I downloaded the PDF.

    • DICKERSON3870 March 20, 2012 at 3:53 pm

      RE: "As a Canadian, I find Stephen Harper to be the worst thing that has happened to Canada." ~ BradAllen

      MY COMMENT: Rest assured, you are not alone!

      FACEBOOK:
      • Can this Onion Ring get more fans than Stephen Harper? - link to facebook.com
      • Canadians Rallying to Unseat Stephen Harper - link to facebook.com
      • I dont like what Stephen Harper is doing to Canada - link to facebook.com
      • Stephen Harper is secretly a robot - link to facebook.com
      • stephen harper sucks - link to facebook.com
      • F_ck Stephen Harper - link to facebook.com
      • PETITION - Canadian citizens: Psychological Evaluation of Stephen Harper (Unfortunately, the time period for signing this petition has ended.)

      "We the undersigned hereby petition this honourable Federal court to order STEPHEN HARPER Prime Minister of Canada to undergo an immediate 30 day psychological evaluation, to determine if his apparent narcissistic personality disorder has caused him to lose grasp of reality. We make this petition based upon his recent actions concerning the Omnibus Crime Bill, his general style of governing and due to an honest fear that he is a clear danger to Canada, her citizens and the rule of law."

      LINK - link to change.org

      P.S. • We Support Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Stand For Israel - link to facebook.com

  • Establishment Jews attack Beinart over settlement boycott call
    • DICKERSON3870 March 20, 2012 at 2:11 pm

      RE: "...the Jewish establishment, the sedan-chair-carriers of the Israel lobby. " ~ Weiss

      MY COMMENT: OUCH! Good one, Phil. What beautiful imagery!

      RE: "The call for boycotting all products made by Israeli communities outside of Jerusalem and beyond the 1949 Armistice Lines is supported only by a marginal and highly radical fringe...." ~ Israeli ambassador to the U.S., Michael Oren

      MY COMMENT: That just makes me all the more determined to continue to buy computers with AMD processors rather than Intel processors!

      SEE: Intel chip plant located on disputed Israeli land, by Henry Norr, San Francisco Chronicle, 7/08/02

      (excerpts) Just how diligent was Intel's due diligence when it chose to build a multibillion-dollar chip plant in Qiryat Gat, Israel? . . .
      ...Intel calls the plant Fab 18 ("fab" being chip-industry jargon for a facility where the silicon wafers that are eventually turned into working chips are fabricated). The fab, which went into production in 1999, was the fruit of a $1 billion investment by the Santa Clara company, supplemented by a $600 million grant from the Israeli government. . .
      …But from a legal and historical point of view, Qiryat Gat happens to be an unusual location: It was not taken over by the Israeli military in 1948. Instead, it was part of a small enclave, known as the Faluja pocket, that the Egyptian army and local Palestinian forces had managed to hold through the end of the war.
      The area was surrounded by Israeli forces, however. When Israel and Egypt signed an armistice agreement in February 1949, the latter agreed to withdraw its soldiers, but it insisted that the agreement explicitly guarantee the safety and property of the 3,100 or so Arab civilians in the area.
      Israel accepted that demand.       In an exchange of letters that were filed with the United Nations and became an annex to the main armistice agreement, the two countries agreed that “those of the civilian population who may wish to remain in Al-Faluja and Iraq al Manshiya (the two villages within the enclave covered by the letters) are to be permitted to do so. . . . All of these civilians shall be fully secure in their persons, abodes, property and personal effects.” ...
      . . . Within days, the security the agreement had promised residents of the Al- Faluja pocket proved an illusion. Within weeks, the entire local population had fled to refugee camps outside of Israel.
      Morris presents ample evidence that the people of the Al-Faluja area left in response to a campaign of intimidation conducted by the Israeli military. He quotes, among other sources, reports filed by Ralph Bunche, the distinguished black American educator and diplomat who was serving as chief U. N. mediator in the region.
      Bunche’s reports include complaints from U.N. observers on the scene that “Arab civilians . . . at Al-Faluja have been beaten and robbed by Israeli soldiers,” that there were attempted rapes and that the Israelis were “firing promiscuously” on the Arab population. . .

      ENTIRE ARTICLE – link to sfgate.com

  • J Street and Peace Now organize opposition to BDS
    • DICKERSON3870 March 20, 2012 at 1:58 pm

      RE: "J Street and Peace Now organize opposition to BDS" ~ Weiss

      MY COMMENT: Nonetheless, I will continue to buy computers with AMD processors rather than Intel processors!

      SEE: Intel chip plant located on disputed Israeli land, by Henry Norr, San Francisco Chronicle, 7/08/02

      (excerpts) Just how diligent was Intel's due diligence when it chose to build a multibillion-dollar chip plant in Qiryat Gat, Israel? . . .
      ...Intel calls the plant Fab 18 ("fab" being chip-industry jargon for a facility where the silicon wafers that are eventually turned into working chips are fabricated). The fab, which went into production in 1999, was the fruit of a $1 billion investment by the Santa Clara company, supplemented by a $600 million grant from the Israeli government. . .
      …But from a legal and historical point of view, Qiryat Gat happens to be an unusual location: It was not taken over by the Israeli military in 1948. Instead, it was part of a small enclave, known as the Faluja pocket, that the Egyptian army and local Palestinian forces had managed to hold through the end of the war.
      The area was surrounded by Israeli forces, however. When Israel and Egypt signed an armistice agreement in February 1949, the latter agreed to withdraw its soldiers, but it insisted that the agreement explicitly guarantee the safety and property of the 3,100 or so Arab civilians in the area.
      Israel accepted that demand.       In an exchange of letters that were filed with the United Nations and became an annex to the main armistice agreement, the two countries agreed that “those of the civilian population who may wish to remain in Al-Faluja and Iraq al Manshiya (the two villages within the enclave covered by the letters) are to be permitted to do so. . . . All of these civilians shall be fully secure in their persons, abodes, property and personal effects.” ...
      . . . Within days, the security the agreement had promised residents of the Al- Faluja pocket proved an illusion. Within weeks, the entire local population had fled to refugee camps outside of Israel.
      Morris presents ample evidence that the people of the Al-Faluja area left in response to a campaign of intimidation conducted by the Israeli military. He quotes, among other sources, reports filed by Ralph Bunche, the distinguished black American educator and diplomat who was serving as chief U. N. mediator in the region.
      Bunche’s reports include complaints from U.N. observers on the scene that “Arab civilians . . . at Al-Faluja have been beaten and robbed by Israeli soldiers,” that there were attempted rapes and that the Israelis were “firing promiscuously” on the Arab population. . .

      ENTIRE ARTICLE – link to sfgate.com

  • Israeli academics call for massive attack on Gaza to 'mow the lawn' -- before November election ends the 'opportunity'
    • DICKERSON3870 March 21, 2012 at 2:00 pm

      FROM WIKIPEDIA:

      (excerpts) Bar-Ilan University (BIU; Hebrew: אוניברסיטת בר-אילן‎ Universitat Bar-Ilan) is a university in Ramat Gan of the Tel Aviv District, Israel...
      ...The founders of the university hoped to produce alumni committed to Jewish tradition, Zionist ideology and science. In 1965, the professors and lecturers were all religious Jews, as were the majority of students. Yosef Burg, one of the prominent leaders of the religious Zionist movement warned that admission of too many non-religious into the university could undermine its character: "If you spill too much water into a wine bottle, you will have no wine." . . .

      SOURCE - link to en.wikipedia.org

    • DICKERSON3870 March 21, 2012 at 1:43 pm

      RE: "It’s a dirty job, but the nice zio-gardener has to ‘mow the lawn’." ~ Mndwss

      AN EARLY SPRING EVENING'S MUSICAL INTERLUDE, brought to you courtesy of the makers of new Ziocaine Xtreme®: It's guaran-damn-teed to knock you on your butt!™

      "...We care a lot about you people.
      We care alot about your guns.
      We care a lot about the wars we're fighting. Gee that looks like fun!
      ~
      We care a lot about the garbage pail kids, they never lie.
      We care a lot about transformers because theres more than meets the eye.
      We care a lot about the little things, the bigger things we top.
      We care a lot about you people, yeah you bet we care a lot.
      Yeah!
      ~
      Said its a dirty job but someones gotta do it.
      Well its a dirty job but someones gotta do it. . ."

      •We Care A Lot, by Faith No More (VIDEO, 04:05) - link to youtube.com

      P.S.
      • It's a dirty job but somone's got to do it (VIDEO, 00:47) - link to youtube.com
      • Bonnie Tyler, Loving you's a dirty job But somebody's gotta do it (VIDEO, 05:47) - link to youtube.com

    • DICKERSON3870 March 20, 2012 at 1:44 pm

      P.P.P.P.P.S. LASTLY SEE: The Dilemmas of Israeli Power, by Roger Cohen, New York Times Op-Ed, 2/13/12

      (excerpt). . . Some of the most fascinating pages of “The Crisis of Zionism” [by Peter Beinart] trace the ideological backdrop to the bitter clash between Obama and Netanyahu. Beinart demonstrates the strong liberal Zionist influence of Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf on Obama during his Chicago years. Wolf hated the idea of “an Israel besieged by anti-Semites;” his teaching was “interfaith” and “integrationist.” It cleaved to the liberal roots of American Zionism and the ethical teachings of the prophets who, as expressed in Exodus, commanded Jews not to oppress strangers “having yourselves been strangers in the land of Egypt.”
      The contrast with Netanyahu — raised in the Jabotinsky strain of Zionism by a father who viewed Arabs as “semi-barbaric”* and rejected an “emasculating moralism” [e.g. universal human rights] in favor of a new warrior breed of Jew — could scarcely be greater. . .

      ENTIRE OP-ED - link to nytimes.com
      * SEE - Netanyahu Family's Racist History: Like Father, Like Son, by Richard Silverstein - link to richardsilverstein.com

    • DICKERSON3870 March 20, 2012 at 1:29 pm

      P.P.S. ALSO SEE: Creating a Warrior State: The Enigma of Israel ~ by Gabriel Kolko, Counterpunch, 3/16/12

      (excerpt) Zionism was supposed to make Jewish existence “normal;” very different than in a Diaspora peopled by goyim, but there is nothing ”normal” in the life and culture of Israel today —which has not lived in peace with its neighbors, much less let the Palestinians have elementary human rights in the lands in which they have lived for thousands of years. If war is the criteria of “normal” existence, then Zionism has become a failed nightmare. It was, when first conceptualized, not supposed to be this way.
      Instead of the original dream of A. D. Gordon, Nachman Syrkin, Dov Ber Borochov, and those influenced by the anti-industrial scouting “wanderfogel” concept (which also played a role in Nazi ideology) or Tolstoy (who influenced some Zionist theorists), it turned out very differently. Israel today, the realization of the Zionist theory, bears little relationship to the original concept, which was much more attune to the fact that Palestine was peopled by Arabs and they were also human beings who deserved to have rights. In its own way, the original Zionist formulations, ignoring the fact there was also a contradiction in wanting to set up a homeland in an area the Jews had not lived for thousands of years and was scarcely Western—as they were themselves now—was much more realistic and fair about the rights of Arabs who were native to that country.
      Instead, Israel today has become a danger to the region and to itself, so much so that it cannot exist much longer with its own contradictions…
      . . . Netanyahu opposes all Palestinian Arab claims for a state of their own and favors measures to restrict the rights of Arabs, whether within Israel or the West Bank. Jabotinsky was very close to Mussolini’s brand of fascism, and the Revisionist youth movement, Betar, maintained a naval academy in Italy from 1934 to 1938. . .

      ENTIRE COMMENTARY – link to counterpunch.org

      P.P.P.S. FROM WIKIPEDIA (Ze'ev Jabotinsky):

      (excerpt)...In 1930, while [Ze'ev] Jabotinsky was visiting South Africa, he was informed by the British Colonial Office that he would not be allowed to return to Palestine...
      ...During his time in exile, Jabotinsky started regarding Benito Mussolini as a potential ally against the British, and contacts were made with Italy. In 1934 Jabotinsky and the Revisionist Zionist movement set up the Betar Naval Academy in Mussolini's Italy, which operated until 1938...

      SOURCE - link to en.wikipedia.org

      P.P.P.P.S.

      "...The same biographer, Joseph Schechtman, who was a close personal friend to Jabotinsky, also writes that Jabotinsky was powerfully influenced by Mussolini’s impatient and muscular militarism." ~ teta mother me, 3/18/12

      SOURCE - link to mondoweiss.net

    • DICKERSON3870 March 20, 2012 at 1:13 pm with 3 replies

      RE: "Someone should point out to Inbar and Singer than when you repeatedly have to go to war that means deterrence is not working. But they don't seem to care..." ~ Paul Pillar

      FROM TED RALL, 07/22/10: …Umberto Eco’s 1995 essay Eternal Fascism describes the cult of action for its own sake under fascist regimes and movements: “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”…
      SOURCE – link to commondreams.org

      P.S. It appears to me that Israel/Zionism has come to resemble what Umberto Eco referred to as "fascist regimes and movements", and consequently Zionism ascribes to the "cult of action for its own sake" (e.g. Israel's settlement project in the West Bank, Israel's determination to bomb Iran, etc).

  • As I read this, I cringe
    • DICKERSON3870 March 20, 2012 at 12:58 pm with 2 replies

      P.S. AND I WONDER IF WHAT BEINART AND ATZMON ARE SAYING IS REALLY SO VERY DIFFERENT FROM THIS:
      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
      ALSO SEE - Iranophobia: The Panic of the Hegemons, by Ira Chernus, Tikkun Magazine, November/December 2010
      LINK - link to tikkun.org

    • DICKERSON3870 March 20, 2012 at 12:45 pm with 3 replies

      RE: "He [Peter Beinart] presents it as a solution both to Israel's woes
      and to growing disaffection with Israel-centred Jewish life in the US." ~ Shmuel Sermoneta-Gertel

      MY COMMENT: For the life of me, I don't really understand how what Peter Beinart is saying differs significantly from what Gilad Atzmon is saying. Am I missing "the big picture"? Am I just irredeemably dense/clueless? Tell me the truth; I can handle it. Really, I can!
      At least, I think that I can.

      SEE: Granting No Quarter: A Call for the Disavowal of the Racism and Antisemitism of Gilad Atzmon ~ by Palestinian and Palestine-solidarity activists, 3/13/12

      (excerpt)...Atzmon’s politics rest on one main overriding assertion that serves as springboard for vicious attacks on anyone who disagrees with his obsession with “Jewishness”. He claims that all Jewish politics is “tribal,” and essentially, Zionist. Zionism, to Atzmon, is not a settler-colonial project, but a trans-historical “Jewish” one, part and parcel of defining one’s self as a Jew. . .

      SOURCE - link to uspcn.org

  • Inspired by Shalabi, Palestinian prisoners boycott military courts
    • DICKERSON3870 March 20, 2012 at 10:16 pm

      RE: "Detained for over two years without being accused of a crime, then out for four month and arrested again." ~ LeaNder

      SOMEWHAT AKIN TO JOSEF K’s PREDICAMENT IN KAFKA’s “THE TRIAL”:

      …after months of trial postponement, Joseph K goes to court painter Titorelli to ask for advice. He is told to hope for little. He might get definite acquittal, ostensible acquittal, or indefinite postponement. No one is ever really acquitted, but sometimes cases can be extended indefinitely.
      Titorelli: “You see, in definite acquittal, all the documents are annulled. But with ostensible acquittal, your whole dossier continues to circulate. Up to the higher courts, down to the lower ones, up again, down. These oscillations and peregrinations, you just can’t figure ‘em.”
      Joseph K: “No use in trying either, I suppose.”
      Titorelli: “Not a hope. Why, I’ve known cases of an acquitted man coming home from the court and finding the cops waiting there to arrest him all over again. But then, of course, theoretically it’s always possible to get another ostensible acquittal.”
      Joseph K: “The second acquittal wouldn’t be final either.”
      Titorelli: “It’s automatically followed by the third arrest. The third acquittal, by the fourth arrest. The fourth...”

      PARTIAL SOURCE - link to imdb.com

    • DICKERSON3870 March 19, 2012 at 9:12 pm with 2 replies

      RE: "In the negotiations, the PA rejected an offer to deport Shalabi—who is from the West Bank—to Gaza." ~ Deger

      ALSO SEE: PA refuses Israeli offer to deport hunger striker to Gaza ~ by Haggai Matar, +972 Magazine, 3/18/12

      (excerpt) The Palestinian Authority’s Minister of Prisoner Affairs, Issa Qaraqe, says Israel has offered to release hunger striking administrative detainee Hana Shalabi – under the condition that she be deported to Gaza. In a statement to Ma’an news agency, Qaraqe said the Palestinian government refused the offer to ban the West Bank detainee from her home, and is insisting upon the unconditional release of Shalabi, who has not been accused of committing any crime...

      ENTIRE ARTICLE - link to 972mag.com

  • Northwest pinkwashing events cancelled, StandWithUs’s record of queer exploitation exposed
    • DICKERSON3870 March 19, 2012 at 5:18 pm

      RE: "Last year, Rothstein [executive director of Stand With Us] co-authored an op-ed for The Advocate in which she opposed Palestinian statehood on the basis that it would create a state in which gays would be oppressed." ~ Phan Nguyen

      NOT "Israel 101": Israel's Treatment of Gay Palestinian Asylum Seekers ~ by Caroline Esser, The Washington Note, 6/06/11

      (excerpts)...The newest way to sell Israel to Americans: LGBT rights. Search gay rights on the Anti-Defamation League's website and what do you find? A ready-to-print and available for order poster that reads, "Which of the Middle East nations protects the legal rights, safety & freedom of the LGBT communities? Only Israel."...
      . . . In their 2008 study, "Nowhere to Run: Gay Palestinian Asylum-Seekers in Israel," Michael Kagan and Anat Ben-Dor describe in detail Israel's unsympathetic and unbending policy towards gay Palestinians. . .
      ...In pursuit of protection and the ability to openly express their sexuality, there have been at least ten cases in which gay Palestinians have sought refuge in Israel. However, despite their desperation, Israel refuses to even
      review gay Palestinian applications for asylum       (those who have successfully received asylum have had to submit their cases directly to the UNHCR headquarters in Geneva). Moreover, gay Palestinians who have illegally entered Israel have been arrested and promptly deported--returned to the very environments in which their lives were at risk and in which they will now face further danger as they are questioned not only for their sexuality but for their choice to spend time in Israel...

      ENTIRE ARTICLE - link to thewashingtonnote.com

    • DICKERSON3870 March 19, 2012 at 4:56 pm

      RE: "Tel Aviv’s burgeoning gay scene may be the single
      most effective Israel-advocacy instrument in the Zionist
      toolbox..." ~ Haaretz article

      TEL AVIV'S "BURGEONING GAY SCENE" (FROM WIKIPEDIA):

      (excerpts) The 2009 Tel Aviv gay centre shooting resulted in the deaths of two people and injuries to at least fifteen others at the Tel Aviv branch of the Israeli GLBT Association, at the "Bar-Noar" (Hebrew: בר-נוער‎, "Youth Bar"), on Nahmani Street in Tel Aviv, Israel, on 1 August 2009. A 26-year-old man and a 17-year-old girl were killed.[1][2] . . .
      . . . As of February 2012, the crime remains unsolved      … Two people were killed, and fifteen were wounded. The police had launched a search campaign to find the shooter, and in addition immediately closed most of the entertainment places for the gay community that operated during the same time of the shooting event, for fear of additional shooting.
      The gunman entered the building where a weekly event was being held (in the basement), shot in several directions and then fled on foot.[2][5][6] The building was frequented by gay teenagers who engage in social activities and listen to music.[6][11] The centre was small with one terrace; thus preventing anyone from escaping.[6] They instead hid under a bed and tables as shots were fired.[6][11] Israeli television said the crime scene was a “bloodbath”.[7]…
      . . . The shooter was masked, dressed in black and used a pistol to carry out his attack.[2][5][8][11][12] It is not believed his motive was related to nationalist terror but the exact motive is currently unclear.[2] The city’s gay community stated the killer had a homophobic motive while police have cautioned people that the attack may not have been a hate crime and that the motive remains unknown. . .

      SOURCE – link to en.wikipedia.org

  • When good intentions aren't good enough: Liberal Zionists and BDS
    • DICKERSON3870 March 19, 2012 at 1:12 pm

      RE: "In her world, similar to that of a typical Israeli leftist, 'targeting Israel is counter-productive and inflammatory,' while it is meekly suggested that 'Boycotting goods and services coming from the settlements... is another matter' " ~ Branion

      MY COMMENT: Nonetheless, I buy computers with AMD processors rather than Intel processors!

      SEE: Intel chip plant located on disputed Israeli land, by Henry Norr, San Francisco Chronicle, 7/08/02

      (excerpts)...But from a legal and historical point of view, Qiryat Gat happens to be an unusual location: It was not taken over by the Israeli military in 1948. Instead, it was part of a small enclave, known as the Faluja pocket, that the Egyptian army and local Palestinian forces had managed to hold through the end of the war.
      The area was surrounded by Israeli forces, however. When Israel and Egypt signed an armistice agreement in February 1949, the latter agreed to withdraw its soldiers, but it insisted that the agreement explicitly guarantee the safety and property of the 3,100 or so Arab civilians in the area.
      Israel accepted that demand.       In an exchange of letters that were filed with the United Nations and became an annex to the main armistice agreement, the two countries agreed that "those of the civilian population who may wish to remain in Al-Faluja and Iraq al Manshiya (the two villages within the enclave covered by the letters) are to be permitted to do so. . . . All of these civilians shall be fully secure in their persons, abodes, property and personal effects."
      Within days, the security the agreement had promised residents of the Al- Faluja pocket proved an illusion. Within weeks, the entire local population had fled to refugee camps outside of Israel.
      Morris presents ample evidence that the people of the Al-Faluja area left in response to a campaign of intimidation conducted by the Israeli military.       He quotes, among other sources, reports filed by Ralph Bunche, the distinguished black American educator and diplomat who was serving as chief U. N. mediator in the region.
      Bunche's reports include complaints from U.N. observers on the scene that "Arab civilians . . . at Al-Faluja have been beaten and robbed by Israeli soldiers," that there were attempted rapes and that the Israelis were "firing promiscuously" on the Arab population. . .

      ENTIRE ARTICLE – link to sfgate.com

  • Lerner and Gottlieb have dialogue in New York synagogue
    • DICKERSON3870 March 19, 2012 at 9:38 pm

      P.P.S. ALSO SEE: Hawks Steering Debate on How to Take on Iran, By Eric Lichtblau and Mark Landler, New York Times, 3/18/12

      (excerpts)WASHINGTON — Even before President Obama declared this month that “I have Israel’s back” in its escalating confrontation with Iran, pro-Israel figures like the evangelical Christian leader Gary L. Bauer and the conservative commentator William Kristol were pushing for more...
      . . . Urging diplomacy are liberal groups like J Street, which is helped by $500,000 a year in contributions from the liberal philanthropist George Soros, and Tikkun, a Jewish journal that has begun running newspaper advertisements here and abroad that urge, “NO War on Iran and NO First Strike!” Tikkun, based in Berkeley, Calif., is hoping to link its antiwar message with the Occupy protests.
      “A lot of people talk about the ‘Israel lobby’ as if it’s a monolithic thing,” said Dylan Williams, head of government affairs for J Street. “It’s a myth. There is a deep division between those who support military action at this point and those who support diplomacy.”
      Clear fissures have developed among pro-Israel groups — not only between hawks and doves over whether to use military force against Iran, but among hard-liners themselves over just how aggressively to confront it.
      Sheldon Adelson, a billionaire casino owner who is a staunch supporter of Israel, was once a major donor to Aipac. But because of Aipac’s support for American aid to the Palestinian Authority, he has broken from the group. This year, Mr. Adelson has given at least $10 million, along with his wife, to support Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign...

      ENTIRE ARTICLE - link to nytimes.com

    • DICKERSON3870 March 19, 2012 at 9:35 pm

      P.S. Please help Tikkun/NSP run the following ad in major American newspapers.

      No Mr. Netanyahu,
      No President Obama:
      No War on Iran and No First Strike

      Some who have signed this ad believe that the best path for homeland security is through rejecting the old-fashioned “domination strategy” to get your way...
      ...Click HERE to see a draft of how this ad would look in the newspaper.

      If you would like to help Tikkun/NSP run this ad, please make a donation.
      TO DONATE -       link to salsa.democracyinaction.org

      TIKKUN WEBSITE - link to tikkun.org
      NETWORK OF SPIRITUAL PROGRESSIVES (NSP) WEBSITE - link to spiritualprogressives.org

    • DICKERSON3870 March 19, 2012 at 9:27 pm with 2 replies

      RE: "...we have lost this value of non violence. We support militarism in our relationship with Israel." ~ Gottlieb

      MY COMMENT: This is pretty much what I mean when I refer to "the 'dumbing down' of America". Of course, I'm not strictly referring to intellect, it's more of a moral regression.
      I recall reading somewhere that back in the mid-'90s Netanyahu was busy trying to figure out how make Americans less concerned with human rights.

  • NYT buries the lead-- Iranians halted weapons program in '03 and have not restarted it
    • DICKERSON3870 March 27, 2012 at 1:38 am

      RE: "Numerous articles by James Risen over the years in the New York Times have hyped the threat from Iran. This has convinced me that he essentially acts as a propagandist for Israel." ~ me, above

      CORRECTION: Stupid me! I was thinking of David Sanger rather than James Risen. My bad!

    • DICKERSON3870 March 19, 2012 at 12:16 pm

      ALSO:

      What Is a Lede?
      By Allena Tapia, About.com Guide
      Definition: At its simplest, lede can be seen as an odd spelling of "lead"- what is the lead/lede of your story? What is the main (first) paragraph? This is your "lede." The quirky spelling comes from early printers, who needed to distinguish it from other, similar words such as lead (the metal). This word is most common in newspaper publishing, but can also be used in the magazine industry.

      Also Known As: lead
      Alternate Spellings: lead
      Examples: The editor sent my article back and asked me to work on the lede.

      SOURCE - link to freelancewrite.about.com

    • DICKERSON3870 March 19, 2012 at 11:51 am

      Yes, the line must have actually been: "It tends to wreak havoc with my stomach." I hadn't even noticed.
      wreak havoc (with something) - link to idioms.thefreedictionary.com
      Reeking Havoc or Wreaking Havoc - link to english-for-students.com

    • DICKERSON3870 March 19, 2012 at 7:29 am

      P.P.S. SEE: Hawks Steering Debate on How to Take on Iran, By Eric Lichtblau and Mark Landler, New York Times, 3/18/12

      (excerpts)WASHINGTON — Even before President Obama declared this month that “I have Israel’s back” in its escalating confrontation with Iran, pro-Israel figures like the evangelical Christian leader Gary L. Bauer and the conservative commentator William Kristol were pushing for more...
      . . . Urging diplomacy are liberal groups like J Street, which is helped by $500,000 a year in contributions from the liberal philanthropist George Soros, and Tikkun, a Jewish journal that has begun running newspaper advertisements here and abroad that urge, “NO War on Iran and NO First Strike!” Tikkun, based in Berkeley, Calif., is hoping to link its antiwar message with the Occupy protests.
      “A lot of people talk about the ‘Israel lobby’ as if it’s a monolithic thing,” said Dylan Williams, head of government affairs for J Street. “It’s a myth. There is a deep division between those who support military action at this point and those who support diplomacy.”
      Clear fissures have developed among pro-Israel groups — not only between hawks and doves over whether to use military force against Iran, but among hard-liners themselves over just how aggressively to confront it.
      Sheldon Adelson, a billionaire casino owner who is a staunch supporter of Israel, was once a major donor to Aipac. But because of Aipac’s support for American aid to the Palestinian Authority, he has broken from the group. This year, Mr. Adelson has given at least $10 million, along with his wife, to support Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign...

      ENTIRE ARTICLE - link to nytimes.com

    • DICKERSON3870 March 19, 2012 at 7:18 am

      P.S. Please help Tikkun/NSP run the following ad (cosponsored by the Shalom Center under the direction of Rabbi Arthur Wasko) in major American newspapers.

      No Mr. Netanyahu, No President Obama:
      No War on Iran and No First Strike

      Some who have signed this ad believe that the best path for homeland security is through rejecting the old-fashioned “domination strategy” to get your way...
      ...Click HERE to see a draft of how this ad would look in the newspaper.

      If you would like to help Tikkun/NSP run this ad, please make a donation.
      TO DONATE -       link to salsa.democracyinaction.org

      TIKKUN WEBSITE - link to tikkun.org
      NETWORK OF SPIRITUAL PROGRESSIVES (NSP) WEBSITE - link to spiritualprogressives.org

    • DICKERSON3870 March 18, 2012 at 6:53 pm with 3 replies

      FROM MERRIAM-WEBSTER:

      lede noun \ˈlēd\

      Definition of LEDE

      : the introductory section of a news story that is intended to entice the reader to read the full story

      Origin of LEDE

      alteration of lead
      First Known Use: 1976

      SOURCE - link to merriam-webster.com

    • DICKERSON3870 March 18, 2012 at 6:48 pm with 3 replies

      RE: "not where i come from" ~ Weiss

      MY CONTRIBUTION: Where I come from, we don't say “What?” It's proper to say “Pardon?” ~ Simon (Elaine's obnoxious British house guest*)

      * in Seinfeld, Episode 93, The Soup, season 6 (episode 7), originally broadcast on November 10, 1994

      [A daylight shot of a yellow taxi driving down the street, then inside to the back seat of the taxi -- Simon, the Englishman that Elaine met on her trip is riding with her.]
      ELAINE: So the trip was good?
      SIMON: Yes (nice English accent) Apart from that, dreadful airline food. It tends to reek havoc with my stomach.
      ELAINE: You know I, I have to say, I've never admitted this to anyone, but um, I kind of like airline food. (leans in and laughs, flirting with him)
      SIMON: That's probably because of ... [muttering]
      ELAINE: What?
      SIMON: What?
      ELAINE: Yeah, what?
      SIMON: [sighs]
      ELAINE: What?
      SIMON: Where I come from, we don't say “What?” It's proper to say “Pardon?”
      ELAINE: Huh. (muttering) This should be interesting.
      SIMON: Pardon?
      ELAINE: Nothing.

      SOURCE - link to seinology.com

    • DICKERSON3870 March 18, 2012 at 1:41 pm with 3 replies

      RE: "page A1 of the New York Times today graces us with apprehension: U.S. Faces a Tricky Task in Assessment of Data on Iran. But it's a whole whole lot of nothing for two pages..." ~ Annie Robbins

      MY COMMENT: Numerous articles by James Risen over the years in the New York Times have hyped the threat from Iran. This has convinced me that he essentially acts as a propagandist for Israel. The same goes for George Jahn* of The Associated Press (AP).

      * SEE: How Mossad Justified Its Murder of an Innocent Iranian Electrical Engineer, by Gareth Porter, TruthOut.org, 3/17/12

      (excerpts)...The possibility that Mossad killed the wrong Iranian scientist cannot be completely ruled out. But almost immediately after his murder, Israel sought to justify the murder of Rezaeinejad by presenting him as working on the covert nuclear weapons program Israel had been claiming for years. Associated Press correspondent in Vienna George Jahn reported on July 28 that an anonymous official of an anonymous "member state" of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) told him Rezaeinejad had been participating in "developing high voltage switches," which he described as "a key component in setting off the explosives needed to trigger a nuclear warhead.". . .
      ...Two months later, on September 19, Jahn and his anonymous source from the unnamed member state were back at it again, this time with a purported "intelligence summary" claiming to identify the researcher who had allegedly collaborated with Rezaeinejad...
      ...Finally, the intelligence summary claimed that Rezaeinejad was not an electrical engineer at all, but a "physicist" who had worked for the Iranian defense ministry on not only high-voltage switches, but also on other projects linked to nuclear weapons development - which it did not identify.
      But an investigation into the Rezaeinejad case reveals that Israel had used the AP's Jahn to carry out a deliberate disinformation campaign about the victim to justify his murder. Rezaeinejad left a record of published research which makes it very clear that he was indeed an electrical engineer, rather than a physicist, and that he had been working on basic electrical power engineering technologies...

      ENTIRE ARTICLE - link to truth-out.org

  • The Norwegians, the settlers, the zealot, the olive seedlings-- and the Palestinian's suit against 'Nobody'
    • DICKERSON3870 March 20, 2012 at 12:27 am

      P.S. SPEAKING OF "DISSOCIATIVE STATES": Black Swan, 2010, R, 108 minutes
      In director Darren Aronofsky's psychological thriller, ambitious New York City ballet dancer Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman) lands the lead in "Swan Lake" but soon thinks her dreams of stardom are threatened by a rival ballerina (Mila Kunis). As opening night nears and the pressure to be perfect builds, Nina's obsession descends into paranoia and delusion. Portman won an Academy Award for the film, which also nabbed an Oscar nod for Best Picture.
      Netflix Availability: DVD and Blu-ray
      NETFLIX LISTING - link to movies.netflix.com
      BLACK SWAN, Official HD trailer (VIDEO, 02:09) - link to youtube.com

    • DICKERSON3870 March 18, 2012 at 2:29 pm with 1 replies

      RE: "Some of Israeli settlers in this area think they are shepherds. They try to follow the life of prophet Amos..." ~ Joint Advocacy Initiative
      AND RE: "...almost all the Arabs living in Israel or in Judea and Samaria, are not 'native' to the land, but rather immigrants from Syria and Saudi Arabia attracted by the Zionist return and economic development of the Land of Israel..." ~ Nadia Matar of 'Women in Green'

      MY COMMENT: That’s why I sometimes (only half-jokingly) refer to “The Dissociative State of Israel” ! ! !

      FROM WIKIPEDIA:

      (excerpt) Dissociation is an altered state of consciousness characterized by partial or complete disruption of the normal integration of a person’s normal conscious or psychological functioning.[1] Dissociation is most commonly experienced as a subjective perception of one's consciousness being detached from one's emotions, body and/or immediate surroundings.[2] Van der Kolk et al.[3] describe dissociation as a "compartmentalization of experience." Under normal conditions, consciousness, memory, emotions, sensory awareness, affect, etc., are integrated; with dissociation, in contrast, these traits are discretely compartmentalized to greater or lesser degrees.
      Dissociation describes a wide array of experiences that can affect any aspect of a person’s mental functioning.[4][5][6][7] Although some dissociative disruptions involve amnesia, other dissociative events do not.[8] At one end of a continuum, dissociation describes such common events as becoming lost in thought while driving a vehicle and not recalling parts of the journey. At the other end of the continuum are a cluster of dissociative disorders, such as dissociative amnesia, that can occur in response to severe psychological trauma such as rape or military combat. In such cases of abuse or trauma*, dissociation can be regarded as a coping mechanism to help with an overwhelming experience.[9]...

      SOURCE - link to en.wikipedia.org

      * FOR EXAMPLE: “Your grandparents have killed my grandparents in the holocaust and now you are helping the Arabs to steal our land... You are like the Nazis.” Matar shouted at the Norwegian students.

    • DICKERSON3870 March 18, 2012 at 1:58 pm with 3 replies

      RE: “How can they call me a Nazi? My grandparents fought the Nazis during the second world war,” said one of the Norwegian students responding to Matar comments.

      MY COMMENT; That's why I sometimes (only half-jokingly) refer to "The Dissociative State of Israel"!
      Dissociation (psychology) - link to en.wikipedia.org

      FROM A FILM REVIEW BY GILAD ATZMON, 1/15/10:

      (excepts) I urge every person on this planet to watch Yoav Shamir’s "Defamation", a documentary about anti-Semitism. . .
      …He provides us with some intimate footage of Israeli youth being indoctrinated into collective anxiety and total neurosis just before they join the IDF.
      The general image we are left with is no less than grotesque. The film elaborates on the aggressive vulgar orchestrated amplification of fear amongst Israelis and Zionist Jews. “We are raised to believe that we are hated” says an Israeli high school girl on her way to a concentration camp...
      ...Shamir provides us with an opportunity to see how badly young Israelis behave once in Poland. You watch their contempt to the local population and disrespect to Polish people and institutes. You can also watch Israelis project their hatred onto others. For some reason they are convinced that everyone out there is as merciless as they happen to be. The Israeli youngsters are saturated with fear, yet, they are having a good time, you can watch them having a party dancing in a bus all the way to a Auschwitz. . .

      ENTIRE FILM REVIEW – link to gilad.co.uk
      • “Defamation” can be streamed from Netflix (91 minutes) – link to movies.netflix.com
      • “Defamation” is also on YouTube (VIDEO 1:31:18) - link to youtube.com

  • Israel to Europe: Palestinians can't have a state because they can't support themselves
    • DICKERSON3870 March 19, 2012 at 12:42 pm with 1 replies

      P.S. ALSO SEE: IDF and Ros-Lehtinen share goal: kill any chance for Palestinian state, by Alex Kane, Mondoweiss, 7/22/11

      (excerpts) An important report in today’s Haaretz by Akiva Eldar further confirms the Israeli government’s intention to illegally annex strategic parts of the West Bank. Combined with the push by a top House Republican to codify into law President George W. Bush’s 2004 letter to then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, these latest news reports mean that current efforts for the creation of a Palestinian state are futile. . .
      . . . Reports that Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Florida Republican who heads the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is pushing to enshrine Bush’s 2004 letter is just one more indication       that no matter what happens in September at the United Nations, there will be push back from right-wing American politicians. Ros-Lehtinen’s intention is to effectively make any viable Palestinian state an impossibility. Bush’s letter to Sharon reads:
      In light of new realities on the ground, including already existing major Israeli populations centers, it is unrealistic to expect that the outcome of final status negotiations will be a full and complete return to the armistice lines of 1949

      The reference to “major Israeli population centers” is a nod to Israel’s insistence that it annex settlements such as Ariel and Ma’ale Adumim. Documents leaked as part of Al Jazeera‘s publication of the “Palestine Papers” further confirms that the Bush administration pushed Israeli demands regarding these settlements onto Palestinian negotiators...

      SOURCE - link to mondoweiss.net

    • DICKERSON3870 March 18, 2012 at 12:38 pm with 2 replies

      RE: "Israel is expected to emphasize before the donor countries that despite the growth of recent years, the Palestinian Authority still needs foreign aid to survive." ~ Weiss

      FROM ELI CLIFTON AT ThinkProgress.org, 1/24/12:

      (excerpt). . . Since October, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) has held up $190 million in Palestinian aid. The decision to freeze aid came after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas sought U.N. recognition for an independent Palestinian state. “By providing the Palestinians with $2.5 billion over the last 5 years, the U.S. has only rewarded and reinforced their bad behavior,” Ros-Lehtinen said.
      J Street, the “Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace” organization, supports unfreezing Palestinian aid, issued a statement last week calling on Ros-Lehtinen to “Lift the remaining holds on Palestinian aid — don’t punish Palestinian children with political posturing.”

      SOURCE - link to thinkprogress.org
      P.S. I do not know whether Ros-Lehtinen continues to hold up this $190 million in Palestinian aid.

  • Another establishment figure, Will Marshall, calls for containing a nuclear Iran
    • DICKERSON3870 March 18, 2012 at 3:17 pm with 1 replies

      RE: "Another establishment figure, Will Marshall, calls for containing a nuclear Iran" ~ Weiss

      BUT SEE: Are Obama's Efforts to Justify Drone Warfare Aimed at Iran? ~ By Thomas Darnstädt, Marc Hujer and Gregor Peter Schmitz, Der Speigel, 3/15/12

      (excerpts)...In his Chicago speech, Holder addressed the question of when the United States could avail itself of its "inherent right of national self-defense" by using lethal force against individuals. Under international law, an "imminent threat" represents the earliest point at which a country has the right to use such force. According to Holder, "the evaluation of whether an individual presents an 'imminent threat' incorporates considerations of the relevant window of opportunity to act, the possible harm that missing the window would cause to civilians, and the likelihood of heading off future disastrous attacks against the United States."...
      Laying the Legal Groundwork for Iran
      Given these views, experts fear that Holder's argument in support of the war on terror could also serve as a rationale for possible future military strikes ordered by Obama. Claus Kress, a Cologne-based professor of international law and an internationally renowned expert on the US's stance on the laws of war, believes that it is "not inconceivable" that, in justifying the drone war, Obama's top lawyers may have already set their sights on an altogether different target: Iran.

      Legally speaking, a military strike against the mullahs' nuclear program -- which Obama believes is conceivable should it become verifiably clear that there is no other way to stop Iran from building a bomb -- would only be possible with the permission of the United Nations Security Council. But the Russians and the Chinese would probably veto any such consent. As a result, the United States would have to invoke its "inherent" right of self-defense in accordance with Article 51 of the UN Charter. Still, this requires that Iran has essentially raised its weapon against Israel or the United States.
      Indeed, in the conventional sense, a planned or even a completed nuclear bomb alone would not qualify as an imminent attack. But the world of experts on the laws or war could also theoretically accept that a preventive strike against Iran's nuclear facilities is the last option for preventing the uncontrolled spread of nuclear weapons and the imminent destruction of Israel.
      Perhaps that was what Holder was trying to tell the world with his justification of the war on terror.

      ENTIRE ARTICLE - link to spiegel.de

    • DICKERSON3870 March 18, 2012 at 12:11 pm

      RE: "Another establishment figure, Will Marshall, calls for containing a nuclear Iran" ~ Weiss

      MY PURELY RHETORICAL QUESTION: Can it possibly be any more difficult to contain a nuclear Iran than it has been to contain a nuclear Israel? See the excerpt below dealing with Reagan, Begin, "blood libels", and bald faced liars.

      SEE: How Many Violations of US Arms Laws are Too Many? ~ by Franklin Lamb, Counterpunch, 3/16/12

      (excerpt). . . Alarm centered on whether or not Israel had used U.S.-supplied antipersonnel cluster bombs against civilian targets during its carpet bombing West Beirut during the nearly three month siege.
      The House Foreign Affairs Committee held hearings on this issue in July and August 1982. On July 19, 1982, the Reagan Administration announced that it would prohibit new exports of cluster bombs to Israel...
      ...During a late June 1982 meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Begin, Reagan was handed a note from George Shultz. Based on the information he had in hand, Reagan directly told Begin that the US had reliable information than Israel was using American weapons against civilians in Lebanon. At this point according to Reagan, Begin became very agitated. He lowered his glasses and while glaring at Reagan and shaking his index finger said, “Mr. President, Israel has never and would never use American weapons against civilians and to claim otherwise is a blood libel against every Jew, everywhere.” Following their meeting Reagan told Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger, as reported by Weinberger and by various biographers of Reagan that “I did not know what the term “blood libel” meant, but I know that the man looked me straight in the eyes and lied to me.”. . .

      ENTIRE ARTICLE - link to counterpunch.org

  • The Clementi family's compassionate statement
    • DICKERSON3870 March 17, 2012 at 1:57 pm

      RE: "I'm on a misanthropic kick. I think that people are selfish and mean. " ~ Weiss

      MY COMMENT: Our Knight-errant nightmare in shine-less armor! By the way, I wonder whatever happened to Phil's "hobbyhorse".

      A Knight's Tale - My Name is William (VIDEO, 03:38) - link to youtube.com

  • Video: IDF caught in a lie about Tristan Anderson
  • Israeli police use attack dogs on Palestinian protesters in the West Bank
    • DICKERSON3870 March 19, 2012 at 6:34 am

      RE: "The same biographer, Joseph Schechtman, who was a close personal friend to Jabotinsky, also writes that Jabotinsky was powerfully influenced by Mussolini’s impatient and muscular militarism." ~ teta mother me

      FROM TED RALL, 07/22/10: …Umberto Eco’s 1995 essay Eternal Fascism describes the cult of action for its own sake under fascist regimes and movements: “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”…
      SOURCE – link to commondreams.org

      P.S. It appears to me that Zionism has come to resemble what Umberto Eco referred to as "fascist regimes and movements", and consequently Zionism ascribes to the "cult of action for its own sake" (e.g. the settlement project in the West Bank, its determination to bomb Iran, etc).

    • DICKERSON3870 March 16, 2012 at 9:04 pm

      P.S. THIS SHOULD BE INTERESTING: Thompson on Hollywood is reporting that John Turturro has cast Woody Allen in his upcoming film, marking the first time that Allen will act for another director in over a decade.
      The movie follows two down-and-out pals (Turturro and Allen) who decide to become gigolos to make some extra cash, adopting the names "Virgil and Bongo".
      SOURCE - link to blogs.indiewire.com

    • DICKERSON3870 March 16, 2012 at 8:43 pm with 1 replies

      RE: "In a scene reminiscent of the American South of the 1960s, Israeli Border Police turned an army attack dog on a group of the demonstrators today in the West Bank village of Kufer Qaddoum." ~ A. Horowitz

      FILM: The Long Walk Home, 1990, PG, 95 minutes
      Sissy Spacek stars as Miriam Thompson, a Montgomery, Ala., housewife who finds herself in the midst of a civil rights revolution when she helps her black maid, Odessa (Whoopi Goldberg), during the infamous bus boycott of the 1950s. When Miriam discovers Odessa is forced to walk the 9 miles to her house and back, she volunteers to give Odessa a ride -- much to the dismay of Miriam's husband and social circle.
      Netflix Availability: Streaming (DVD availability date unknown)
      NETFLIX LISTING - link to movies.netflix.com
      ALSO ON YouTube (in 11 parts) - link to youtube.com
      The Long Walk Home Trailer (VIDEO, 01:45) - link to youtube.com

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