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The day Chris Matthews starts putting enough informational 'dots' up on the board so people can actually start connecting the dots is the day I will have more than the iota of respect for him.
Matthews needs to nail the connections between the Israeli Lobby/the Neocons/Israel between the war in Iraq they hoaxed us into, the war in Iran they are TRYING to hoax us into, and the this whole charade with Syria.
Matthews needs to have guests on like Glenn Greenwald and Jerome Scahill together with a THIRD lonely Neocon like William Kristol or McCain or Graham and let the bloodbath begin
It is the Chris Matthews and Mike Russells/David Gregorys and Rachel Maddows who have failed this country - they are the REASON Americans are so ignorant about what is going on in our names
Fair's fair - I'll take a look at some of the abstracts of his work.
The part of Max's references to him that caught my eye was this;
'With Sunstein by his side, Obama reversed his initial objections to the NSA’s domestic spying operations, voting as a Senator for retroactive immunity”'
Here's the question I would most like to ask Snowden (are you listening Greenwald?-haha):
'Are you aware of Israeli penetration of the NSA and it's programs and what are your thoughts about it'
Hmmm - how come a nameless fear immediately surfaces that I think that Snowden might not live to answer that question or that that answer would never openly reach the public?
If/or once Greenwald goes into THIS LAYER of the 'scandal' - that is when a whole new level of Armageddon starts, if in fact Snowden really knows/understands the Israeli angle
I think Israel/the Neocons are at the ROOT of the whole Clean Break/War on Terror - and that their control of the NSA and American Security State is an important part (currently and going forward into the future) of how they exercise and continue a full spectrum dominance of the American 'security'/military/political/foreign policy/media spheres
from your link:
'“The fact of the vulnerability of our telecom backbone (re: Israel) is indisputable,” says a high level U.S. intelligence officer who has monitored the fears among federal agents. “How it came to pass, why nothing has been done, who has done what – these are the INCENDIARY QUESTIONS (re: Israel) ”
1- I am watching the Israeli Lobby line up to make sure these ' incendiary questions' of complete 'full spectrum dominance' Israeli penetration of the US population itself as far as knowing everything the NSA knows about individual Americans
2 - let alone the 'Israeli/Neocon/AIPAC full spectrum dominance' of 99-0 Pro-Israel Senate Votes
3- let alone the 'Israeli/Neocon/AIPAC full spectrum dominance' of the American Media that will even INFORM the American people that this is the current reality
Just watch the Diane Feinsteins, Jeffrey Toobins, John McCains, Joe Liebermans, Chuck Schumers, Peter Kings, Lindsey Grahams, TOM FRIEDMANS, Roger Cohens and EVERY OTHER ISRAELI LOBBY/NEOCON shill ALL line up to say that there's nothing to be worried about with the NSA or the Israeli/Neocons up to the NSA's eyeballs right underneath the NSA, as soon as you scratch the surface
Israelis and Neocons WANT Israel to have this penetration of America - these are THEIR PEOPLE and they will defend Israel, at American expense and disadvantage, before they give a hoot about America
I am not an 'nationalist for America' or anything like that - I do object to the destruction of America and being used as Israel's b***h, however
NOTE: Cass Sunstein (raised by Jewish parents though I don't know his political leanings towards Neocon-ism or Israel, or if he is himself religious or Zionist) is married to teary-eyed Samantha Power, our new UN Ambassador
Max writes:
"Cass Sunstein, an informal advisor to Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign who now heads the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, and who has urged federal law enforcement to “cognitively infiltrate” anti-government groups, was an outspoken supporter of the retroactive immunity bill. With Sunstein by his side, Obama reversed his initial objections to the NSA’s domestic spying operations, voting as a Senator for retroactive immunity"
Let's all watch the Israeli Lobby-shills Diane Feinstein, John McCain, Lindsey Grahman and Rep Peter King, David Brooks, Richard Cohen, Tom Friedman all try to move heaven and earth to shield Israel from being outed in these NSA revelations.
It's all Israel all the time - we have become a surveillance-police state/warfare state FOR Israel
1- Provocation of 911 with decades of ‘Pro-Israeli’ policy
2- Immediate 'Shock Doctrine-style' Post-911 dovetail of American Foreign Policy into the Neocon/Israeli Clean Break Plan
3- Creation of the Police State for Israel (Patriot Act, TSA, NSA-metastasis (using Israeli companies), Dept of Homeland Sec, etc )
4- Hoax of US into Iraq by the Neocons (Michael Ledeen/Mossad, Doug Feith, Wolfowitz) for the Neocons/Israel
5- Complete co-opt of Congress with 99-0 votes for Israel and FOR EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING ISRAEL WANTS - like 'Homeland Securtiy', the NSA-expansions, etc
6- Attempts to criminalize criticism and BDS of Israel with lawfare
7- Hoax of US into Lybia, Syria. Media hiding of Israeli/Neocon pressures
8- Ongoing Neocon/Israeli attempts to either hoax or mousetrap the US into a war with Iran
9- Defense of NSA by the Neocons/Israeli Lobby after Snowden’s revelations
We are completely sewn up by Israel and her Neocons - this will not end until Apartheid Israel is dismantled and the Israeli Lobby running the US are overthrown
The solution is not MORE security - the solution is to stop acting in thrall to Israel which only guarantees MORE 911-style blowback and MORE 'security state' farce to try to control the expected blowback from such insanity
The solution is not participating in further Neocon 'Clean Break Plans' against Syria or Iran - the solution is dismantling Israeli Apartheid and overthrowing US Neocons and AIPAC
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Here are my Links to the Israeli connection so far - many from Haaretz:
‘Shady Companies With Ties to Israel Wiretap the U.S. for the NSA’
link to wired.com
‘DID YOU KNOW?: Two Secretive Israeli Companies Reportedly Bugged The US Telecommunications Grid For The NSA’
link to businessinsider.com
Haaretz article:
‘What was the Israeli involvement in collecting U.S. communications intel for NSA?’
link to haaretz.com
Democracy Now! - James Bamford on the NSA
‘Exposed: Inside the NSA’s Largest and Most Expansive Secret Domestic Spy Center in Bluffdale, Utah’
link to democracynow.org
This is the Goldmine article below
'In U.S. snooping affair, Israeli firms at risk'
from Haaretz early on
link to 74.6.116.71;.intl=us&sig=rxkQ_x2RiIEhpPwh7yO5VQ--
This is the Israeli/Neocon Agenda: Constant Warfare
Really brilliant thesis -
'Of course in order for this alliance to work-- in order for our issues to become mainstreamed and the left and right to cease to be marginalized-- the two sides have to forge a working agreement. ....
These are issues of political culture, and we need a new one for the exciting work that lies ahead: nothing less than ending the misbegotten warmaking US policy in the Middle East. Together we can be enormously powerful in the American discourse, and gain an echo chamber from the international discourse (Turkey, Egypt, Palestine!), too, if we can overcome our differences"
Kopty is so refreshing - I so much look forward to the day when a whole younger generation of Palestinians gets rid of the constipated Abbas-like cronies that are basically Israel's boys in Ramallah
I've had this sense for quite a while that there will be a critical number of great men' career's destroyed before Israel at it now exists as Apartheid/Likud-Zionist/and the Israel Lobby is overthrown.
There will be Norman Finklesteins, Chas Freemans, Falks and many others who really helped as icebreakers to really put a crack or fracture in the monolith the Israel Lobby has created.
5 or 10 or 15 or 20 careers will be destroyed by the Lobby's defenders before the walls are completely breached. That is the strength of the Lobby.
It is a long struggle and there will be many dead heroes. Finklestein has been one of the heroes. He wasn't perfect and he hasn't always been right but he is one of them
OT:
Dear Mondoweiss - are you guys interested in the involvement of Israeli Tech companies in the NSA/Edward Snowden stories that are breaking?
This in my opinion is a HUGE story and even bigger than the AIPAC/Rosen-Weissman spying scandal. Haaretz has been running DAILY ARTICLES regarding the 'Israeli backdoor' and red-handed involvement in spying on the US - citing James Bamford's 'Wired' expose and others
Today's Haaretz has a choice article summing up Israeli concerns in this area - essentially about Israeli firms being outed and for Americans to realize that Israeli has been spying on them
There’s an GOLDMINE article in today’s Haaretz that lays it all out:
‘In U.S. snooping affair, Israeli firms at risk’
link to haaretz.com
or cached copy:
link to 74.6.116.71;.intl=us&sig=rxkQ_x2RiIEhpPwh7yO5VQ--
Here's yesterday's Haaretz on the NSA Spying Story and a couple of other links referred to in this Haaretz Article:
Haaretz article:
‘What was the Israeli involvement in collecting U.S. communications intel for NSA?’
link to haaretz.com
Here are the other Links:
‘Shady Companies With Ties to Israel Wiretap the U.S. for the NSA’
link to wired.com
‘DID YOU KNOW?: Two Secretive Israeli Companies Reportedly Bugged The US Telecommunications Grid For The NSA’
link to businessinsider.com
Danon reminds me of Dubya saying 'Bring it On'
These Israelis are now laughing and spitting in the face of America and the cynically ridiculous peace process with which they have strung along the Palestinians, world and America for years now
They're all dressed up and ready to switch gears now to the fight against dismantling Apartheid and they THINK THEY ARE GOING TO WIN
Pardon me while I throw up in my mouth a little bit...
' Tears streamed down her cheeks and I think it fair to say that there was no one in the room who wasn’t deeply moved by this incredible display of pain and emotion'
How come I read this as Samantha basically saying she very cynically but with true fear realized what a brush with death to her career she had had as a result of her heresy towards Israel - but how she has now seen the light and like Patty Hearst, has decided to join the Symbionese Liberation Army-Lobby, if only they will believe she is now a true convert and spare her life and career
And there's Dersh in the backgrounding singing 'Under My Thumb' by the Rolling Stones
What's the difference between William Kristol grooming a Sarah Palin and Dersh grooming a Samantha Power?
Ans: Red Hair
Kerry is desperate to staave off the Palestinian moves to the ICC after the 2-week deadline Abbas has just given him and his client, Israel. Kerry is too dumb to realize that it already IS too late and the Israelis are already playing the 'Defend Apartheid Until Death' - or else he is just going thru the motions and trying to appear enthusiastic.
Kerry has been there for all the Senate's despicable years of support for Apartheid over the last decades but here's betting he will be 'SHOCKED SHOCKED' to discover the Occupation he helped create is Apartheid
Here's Haaretz today:
"If Israel stands alone in the world, even the support of America will not be enough"
'Why U.S. Jews must embrace Kerry's appeal to put pressure on Netanyahu'
Stunned by Israel’s shrug-your-shoulders, everything-will-be-fine approach to peace negotiations, the U.S. administration is saying with impressive clarity: If Israel stands alone in the world, even the support of America will not be enough"
Kerry won't even be able to convince Gangsta Israel to put on a suit when they get dragged before the ICC
Israel needs to be hit from every side and every direction at once:
1- No war on Iran
2- Cutting off of US Aid
3- Cutting off of US diplomatic cover at the UN, including sabotage of Palestine
4- Heavy sustained pressure directly from the US as well as internationally - pressurizing Israel to the MAX
Allowing Zionists to fight on their agenda, to play their game, has been the disaster for the world and victory for Zionism for decades now. Zionists slow everything down so it can be comfortably masticated by it's Israel Lobby and it's own machinations
It is the synergetic blows to Israel that will really topple Israel without her ability to address and overcome each 'threat' one by one
Screw this trading Iran for any pressure on Israel - although even THAT is a disaster for Apartheid Israel
UPDATE:
John McCain, Max Boot, and all the Neocons seem to be on board for the Power nomination
McCain: "He called her "well-qualified for this important position," and said the Senate should "move forward on her nomination as soon as possible."
"Neocons praise Samantha Power pick" - at ForeignPolicy.com
link to thecable.foreignpolicy.com
I've been having a recurring thought (uh oh) over the last year or so -
For all the enablers if not actual members of the Israel Lobby - all the David Gregorys and Andrea Mitchells and Rachel Maddows and all the rest - how STUPID they have to pretend to be to leave Israel out of the story, to not see the reins of power for what they are and to even try to pretend they do not exist. How craven does one have to be, while pretending to present a coherent rationale for what's happening in the US and the world, and NOT identify, discuss and educate about this 'Israeli elephant in the room ' level of reality?
Gee - everything happens by magic AND ISRAEL AND HER LOBBY AREN'T INVOLVED.
Not understanding the influence of the Israeli Lobby just leaves an enormous vacuum that these idiots just have to dance around and pretend doesn't exist.
It's like being a Biology professor pretending evolution doesn't exist - or a car mechanic pretending there's not a motor to drive the car.
Gee - I guess everything just happens by magic in this world - it's the ultimate deus ex machina (no, no, no - never let it be identified as the criminal state of Israel) solution for every crappy story they try to spin.
How about some refreshing Non-AIPAC vetted explanations of reality - like we were lied into the Iraq war by the Israel Lobby and Israel - and that now the Israel Lobby and Israel are trying to lie us into Iran. How can you even discuss these matters without understanding or explaining that?
Here's Ray McGovern and Phil Giraldi discussing Israeli Lobby influence on US appointments - it centers around what the Lobby did to the Chas Freeman appointment.
link to youtube.com
It was hosted on Press TV and it's just so refreshing to hear people talking about the realities of the Lobby and it's influence. The other side of the coin is what seems to be happening with the Power appointment - and how the real Neocons like Dershowitz are 'PERMITTING' this appointment - brought it up for me.
The Lobby not only can destroy appointments - it also can PERMIT them - like at the moment seems likely might happen with Samantha
nice background and analysis - thanks
Dershowitz is sure excited about her alright - looks like the fix must be already be in
"Samantha Power Will Wow Them at the United Nations" - he's basically singing her praises thru the whole article. He seems to feel sure he has her locked up
'I have discussed the Israeli-Arab and Israeli-Palestinian conflict with Samantha on many occasions. As a strong supporter of Israel's security, I have a high level of confidence that she will do and say the right things."
Here's Abe Foxman on Power:
"What may come as a surprise, though, is that Foxman, at least, was also quick to welcome the appointment of Samantha Power to replace Rice. Foxman described the former journalist and Pulitzer-prize winning author as “a true champion of human rights” who “engaged in an all-hands-on-deck U.S. campaign against Palestinian unilateral efforts in the UN to circumvent peace negotiations.”
Hmmmm....
from Haaretz
What if Power talked about the atrocity of decades of US support and cover for setting up Israeli Apartheid in Palestine - with the kind of language she used for her support of the 'no fly zone' over Libya?
“extremely chilling, deadly and indeed a stain on our collective conscience”
Will Power gleefully cast UN Vetoes and thereby deny Palestine UN membership at the Sec Council or in condemnation of further Israeli annexation of the West Bank - like Susan Rice actually seemed to relish doing?
"Stain on our collective conscience” - indeed
I was pretty intrigued by Power during the Obama 2008 election campaign - I was really hoping she could be a real independent thinker-type breakthrough appointment for a high level policy position or even Sec of State and really turn Israel upside down. Unfortunately she made that 'monster' remark about Hillary and had to resign from the election campaign.
Her support of the Libya campaign sure was disappointing to me - and with the exception of not being actively engaged in a shooting war with Iran - I have been enormously disappointed with Obama's foreign policy decisions - which she apparently has been involved with.
I'm going to have to finally take a look at more of her background and writing and it sure will be interesting to watch to see her performance at the UN. It seems to me that UN Ambassadors are usually just the messengers of the administration, though I would guess they are in on the policy decisions as well. I've sure hated Big Mouth Bolton and Rice
She is married to Cass Sunstein (an Ivy League legal scholar) - he was raised in a Jewish family - don't know if he considers himself religious or actively Pro-Israel
Dear Mondoweiss/Phil:
I'm sure you've seen this already regarding German labeling of Israeli products in today's Haaretz - if not - enjoy:
Germany's gift to BDS: The slippery slope of labeling Israeli products
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has given in to pressure to adopt provocative labeling for products made in Israeli settlements. Next stop: a full boycott of Israeli goods?
The left-liberal German Green party finally forced the hand of the conservative Merkel administration to explicitly declare—what before had been an open secret—its support for product labels covering export goods from the occupied territories in the West Bank and Golan Heights.
link to haaretz.com
(cached)
FINALLY !!!!!!!
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — With no signs of progress in U.S attempts to restart peace talks with Israel, the chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat
said Tuesday that the West Bank government is ready to resume its campaign to join U.N. and other international bodies in order to prosecute Israel.
Looks like Kerry couldn't buy the Palestinians off (and I'm speaking here mostly of Captain Kangaroo-Abbas)
A main Israeli concern is that the Palestinians will seek membership in the International Criminal Court, where they will press war crimes charges against Israel.
link to news.yahoo.com
The Palestinians gave Israel/Kerry TWO MONTHS at the beginning of April to put up or shut up or they said they would go to the ICC. Time's UP (this first week of June)
5 yrs from NOW, June 2018, Palestine needs to have 5 yrs of ICC rulings against Apartheid Israel under it's belt
Any Palestinian leader who did not MAKE SURE this happened was an Israeli Quisling placed to make sure this didn't happen
Israelis do not understand words -
They understand s-300s, stoppage of 'Israeli aid'(kickbacks from AIPAC-elected politicians) and ICC rulings
More s300s, stoppage of aid, and ICC - LESS KERRY
'We are all citizens of a Banana Republic now'
Is it just my imagination or are things just getting more and more bizarre the older I get?
The hole America has dug for herself just gets deeper and deeper. The list of what needs to be changed - and will only probably be able to be changed - with a 2nd American Revolution just gets longer and longer. I'm not holding my breath
Mr Obama - I say go ahead and live as if there's no tomorrow - that's your damn JOB
I just can't wait till I hear Obama or another president say he actually fears for his life because of the ISRAELI LOBBY
Kerry's just got to find the right Indian wanting to sell Manhattan - whoops - there he is!
JPost reporting today that 'Israel to build over 1000 East Jerusalem homes'.
Israel issued a tender for 300 housing units beyond the green line in the Ramot neighborhood in east Jerusalem - this as part of Bibi's punishment of Palestine for upgrading status at the UN last year
I'm sure Mr Kerry will call Amb Oren up immediately, summon him to the White House, and threaten our aid to Israel.
Israel is forcing Abbas to go ahead and take them to the ICC.
Abbas has tried to sell Palestine down the river every way he could imagine and still failed? - and now is discouraged that he wasn't able to pull it off? GOOD...!
Time for popular leadership that demands pan-diaspora Palestinian elections INSTEAD OF standing in the way of them
Time to take Israel to the ICC and begin the long multi-year process of getting ICC judgement after ICC judgement against Israel - while Apartheid Israel tries to spin out her last few years on planet earth
Abbas said he was giving a 2mo moratorium on taking Israel to the ICC to allow the Kerry charade to run it's course - that 2 mo period is up NEXT WEEK
PS - the Polonium poisoning case with Arafat should have CONCLUDED all the testing phases this week (the Swiss labs doing the testing, after several months of delays, said the tests would be complete 'the end of May') - then it's a matter of writing up the reports. I can't help but think these reports are incoming any day now
OT: This kind of seems like 'war' to me
The last we heard about the polonium poisoning of Arafat was last March - at that time the Swiss labs said the investigation had been delayed for several months but would be finished by the 'end of May'.
Hey - it's the 'end of May' - the report or news of the investigation should be incoming anytime now
The only question for me is what Israel will try to do to cover up the PR disaster when the report is released. War in Syria, anyone?
Crippling sanctions first, then a No Fly Zone over 1967 borders in order to let the Palestinian rebels have a safe haven
Well, I'm disappointed in Steves over this - I felt he really did a much better job with 'de-demonizing' the Iranians for America when he did his program on Iran, and was hoping he would make more headway with Palestine.
I would have loved for him to posit the 'Palestinian Terrorist' meme that Israel has spent it's life creating and then just proceed to tear down that strawman 'on the fly' as if there were not a Jew in America that would complain.
He could have also brought up Rachel Corrie or the reasons probably most young Americans go to visit or work in Palestine these days - to fight against the Apartheid
Of course then he would have to go warn Google that he was expecting 50 million computer generated hate-mails to be arriving in his inbox.
'Memo to the world: Israel is never leaving the West Bank'
Sometimes I get paranoid and think that one day Netanyahu and Livni are going to just say, 'OK Great - PRESTO - you've got your Palestinian state, Abbas!. Sign here' - but it will be the bantustans Abbas was willing to accept with Livni, with the 'biggest Jerusalem possible', and with 'no right of return'
It would really be the consummate Israeli best deal ever - achieved by years of arrests or assassinations of any real Palestinians leaders, ethnic cleansing, psychological battering, and essentially Israeli-picked agents like Abbas or Fayyad.
But then the paranoia passes and I just say naaahhhh - they want it ALL
That Israel could have had a deal that ripped Palestine off blind and STILL passed it up. Talk about missed opportunities - they had that in the palm of their hand
This is good news - Palestinians say that Kerry's bribes are not going to do it for them
'RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories: The Palestinian presidency said on Monday that it would not make "political concessions in exchange for economic benefits" announced the day before by US Secretary of State John Kerry.
"The Palestinian leadership will not offer political concessions in exchange for economic benefits," read a statement from Mohammad Mustafa, president of the Palestine Investment Fund and economic adviser to Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.'
(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb)
There is something about Freeman's intellect and style that is just so accessible to me - he just really coordinates the key surrounding issues to create such brilliant fresh understanding of the central concepts.
"The power and influence of the United States, while still great, are declining at least as rapidly as American enthusiasm for following Israel into the endless warfare it sees as necessary to sustain a Jewish state in the Middle East."
Without continuous warfare instigated by the Neocons and Israelis, without the 'Clean Break Plan' actively in motion, Israeli Apartheid is OVER.
It can't happen soon enough
Great artwork on the Kerry poster
Kerry is Obama's new 'Dennis Ross' - his main job is to prevent Palestine from dragging Israel to the ICC and taking the matter out of American hands entirely.
2 months ago in early April, Abbas said that Palestine would DELAY taking Israel to the ICC for 2 months - well that time-limit is expiring the first week of June
So my question is - how much did Kerry offer to pay Abbas to delay the ICC for another Friedman Unit or two. Or three.
And when is Abbas finally going to get kicked out?
Paul Jay, anchor of TheRealNews - gives a brilliant statement on Ms Benjamin's effect on Obama and then goes on to have a great interview with Michael Ratner regarding Obama's speech and American policy in the Middle East
They hit on all the problems with the Pro-Israel 'War Against Islam for Israel' throughout the Middle East ...
Very well done
'Yes Mr President, This Is Who We Are'
link to therealnews.com
Medea Benjamin makes me proud to be a human being.
During the campaign Michelle Obama said: "for the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback"
Now that Barak has been president for 5 yrs - I think he and Michelle have a lot to learn from Medea. Obama needs to 'Be the Change' for something positive for America - instead of getting in the way.
Kerry had one job and one job only - to begin reinventing the phony ' peace process' wheel in order to staave off the Palestinian momentum to take Israel to the ICC
Kerry has FAILED and now we'll see if Abbas the Quisling literally has no recourse left in the universe but to take Israel to the ICC - that once again he is FORCED to act because he cannot avoid the consquences of not acting.
He gave his masters Kerry/and Israel a 2-month time limit and that period expires the 1st week of June
When is Palestine going to take Israel to the ICC!
No more Friedman Units!
Courage is contagious - wow! She just kept it up the whole way out and I was hanging on every word
MP George Galloway comes out swinging and is blaming UK/Western foreign policy for radicalizing 10's or 100's of million Islamists - for creating the culture clash against Islam of which this is the backlash.
He also compares the UK/Western-supported cannibals in Syria to this incident and asks Cameron - 'what's the difference'
Here's the video - very interesting:
link to dailymotion.com
(There's also an transcript of the video up at RT)
Haaretz comes out today with a powerful article that gets to the strategic heart of the Dura story - in terms of Dura vs Apartheid (rather than focusing on the malevolent Israeli hasbara)
'The Second Battle of Mohammed al-Dura is a lost cause - just like the first'
"Israel did not lose the First Battle of Mohammed al-Dura, on September 30, 2000, when millions of people around the world saw the footage filmed by Talal Abu Rahma and were convinced that Israeli soldiers had deliberately targeted and killed a 12-year-old boy......The First Battle of Mohammed al-Dura was lost nearly five years later, on August 22, 2005, when 521 Israeli citizens were evicted from Netzarim, the last Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip to be dismantled. "
It's a poignant article - very well said
link to haaretz.com
'If I've told you once I've told you a thousand times - those damn Iranians are just this close to crossing my RED LINE where you must attack'
ha! beat me to it!
The Israeli report is starting to come apart at the seams - see Haaretz front page story
'Man behind Israeli report on infamous killing of Mohammed al-Dura has right-wing ties" - 'worked with the notorious Shurat HaDin lawfare office'
link to haaretz.com
'The man (Kuperwasser) behind a recent government report calling into question Israel’s responsibility for the iconic death of a Palestinian boy at the start of the second intifada worked for a right-wing group that sought to prevent the reporter who broke the story from continuing to work in Israel.
Brig. Gen. Yossi Kuperwasser, the director general of the Strategic Affairs Ministry, was employed by Shurat HaDin – Israel Law Center, which has pressed the Supreme Court to revoke the press passes of French journalist Charles Enderlin and his employer, the France 2 television network, for alleged ethical violations in reporting the incident. The report does not fully disclose this information, despite mentioning Enderlin. Further, it does not include the testimony of the only Israeli official to say the army fired on the boy and is unclear about the nature of the committee that wrote it.'
Al Jazeera writers can criticize Qatari monarch BUT NOT THE ZIONISTS (at least when they are trying to operate within America)
The raw power of Israeli Lobby intimidation is without precedent in the history of the human race.
'NO HYPERBOLE ALERT'
This is terrific Al Jazeera finally managed to stand up to the Lobby - this is what it is going to take and there will be many careers destroyed before William Kristol is asked the two 'golden BB' followup questions on Meet the Press or a US president stands up and cuts off Israeli aid
Is it actually possible that Israel has forgotten how to lie?
Perhaps there is some divine limit on how much lying a nation might do before they actually cannot come up with a credible lie anymore
Israel focused so much on standing the world on it's head that they actually forgot that there was this problem of 'where is Dura' if anyone was to actually believe their cock and bull story - are they really that dumb?
Is Kershner that dumb?
Laughing only makes us stronger and is so refreshing - excellent job!
Kershner needs to be humiliated and laughed at most of all - if only we could just laugh William Kristol, Netanyahu or John McCain/Lindsey Graham off the stage then 1/2 the battle would be over.
SNL did that with the John McCain/Lindsey Graham fellate-a-donkey-for-Israel skit
Fascinating!
Massad's article is BACK UP on the site at Al Jazeera and Massad is coming out both guns blazing at Al Jazeera for having taken it down in the first place - and at American Zionists for their pressuring of Al Jazeera
Massad claims Al Jazeera is being disingenuous with the reasons they succumbed to pressure in the first place.
Massad has a full comment at the end, including his chronicling of his discussions with Al Jazeera management:
Massad;
"It seems to me that the attempt to censor my article is the price that Al Jazeera, or at least Ehab Al Shihabi and other upper management executives, are willing to pay in order to enter the US media market. This means that Al Shihabi and other executives at Al Jazeera see no problem in sacrificing Al Jazeera’s freedom of expression and subjecting it to the severe restrictions of the American mainstream media on the question of US foreign policy in the Middle East and on the question of Israel, thus eliminating in the process Al Jazeera’s critical coverage of both. Clearly, American Zionist pressure, placed on Al Shihabi and on Al Jazeera, is intended to impart to Al Jazeera the mediocre standards of mainstream American journalism and its commitment to severe censorship of views critical of US policy and of Israeli colonialism."
Here's more:
Massad:
"At any rate, Mr. Musa (the editor who took it down) never called back today, though he issued a statement on the Al Jazeera website this afternoon which does not contain an apology to the readers or to me. There are no expressions of regret either, or any acknowledgment of the motivations for the censorship. Musa repeats the shameful excuse that the reason why the article was pulled was due to it alleged similarity with the December article. I find this to be a damage control move that refuses to take responsibility for Al Jazeera’s submission to American Zionist dictate"
The entire Israeli/Neocon hasbara industry - as well as their machinations with US foreign policy - all comes down to one simple principle -
It's the 'Endless Bites at the Apple Principle' - backed up by a carte blanche 'You're an Anti-Semite'/Blood Libel/'Quit Holocausting me Bro' charge ready to stab anyone who tries to stop them
Same with the Israeli/Neocon hoax over Iran, the same with a William Kristol or a Kershner - because of 'prepared echo chamber' with an Andrea Mitchell, David Gregory or Tom Friedman providing the chamber walls, they have their ocean to swim in, and they are free, over and over again, to swindle the goys in the name of Eretz Israel. And to think themselves bright and wonderful and righteous as they fight for 'mommy, Israel, and apple pie' as they do it
They aren't just irresponsible or deluded - they ENJOY doing it in addition to being deluded.
'Endless Bites at the Apple' until they get the right combination that allows them to play the game and win it. Nice job if you can get it
Netanyahu and William Kristol and Kershner should have had their apple taken away from them long ago. Anything else is just plain dangerous
I wish Isabel Kershner could be humiliated professionally for this just as Israel is already being humiliated for this as just another example of it's well-known and criminal institutionalized habit of lying.
Like Bronner she has just fixed herself at her post - like sludge in a sewer pipe - and she might as well be an IDF reservist running an Israeli hasbara operation.
Can't wait to see Kershner's 'expose of Israel' once this Israeli report has been utterly debunked internationally - or if there ever is DNA testing, etc. I'm sure she'll be 'shocked, shocked' to discover there's been gambling at Ricks in the article she writes but will never file for publication.
This is really one of the best articles I have ever seen on the realities of the entire sack of **** that is the Israeli/Zionist narrative about the birth of Israel
It reminds me of the speeches Miko Peled (The General's Son) does - I bet he's going to have a field day with this trove of documents - it really is a vindication for him.
Israel is a house of cards, a Ponzi Scheme, the Big Lie - what consumate, fervent con-artists to make shouting everybody down an art form.
Palestinians should hold them to their right of return PLUS 60 yrs of reparations - and use this material at the ICC or wherever they seek redress
Now there's another great article at Haaretz arguing that the report is not credible, a disaster, and 'surreal' as to it's Israeli mendacity
"Report on IDF shooting of Palestinian boy during intifada may cause Israel more damage than good'
link to haaretz.com
For the down and out in Paris, London, and Tel Aviv, you can read the terrific Haaretz by doing the following;
1- go to the Haaretz site and 'select' and 'copy' the main title of the article you want to read
2- go to the 'Yahoo search page' at this link link to everything.yahoo.com
3- paste in your copied article title into the search box. Hit ENTER (or the 'search' tab)
4- you will see a list of articles displayed - just find the Haaretz article title you're trying to get (almost always the one at the very top), and look for the words 'Cached' following the end of the article. This is a 'hyperlink'. Click on the 'Cached' hyperlink
5- presto - you're reading a 'photo' of the article you wanted, a 'cached copy'
(6- NOTE: the only issue is that the article will have a few highlighted words displayed in your article - the words which you used to do your 'search'. It's a minor thing and it's not nearly as bad as reading a 'kidnappers ransom note' - haha)
The whole process takes me about 10 seconds, but then I do it a lot
Good thing Israel has built such an extensive prison system for the Palestinians, because once there is One State those cellblocks are going to fill up fast with Jewish Settlers who can't get it thru their thick heads that all of a sudden they're going to have to do time for any crime they commit against Palestinians
Here's a good example of racism in the media - reported on Ynet today:
Gene Simmons calls Muslims 'vile'
Legendary rock legend Gene Simmons sparked outrage in Australia earlier this month when he made anti-Muslim comments on a Melbourne radio station.
"This is a vile culture and if you think for a second that it's willing to just live in the sands of God's armpit, you've got another thing coming," the Israeli-born musician said on Melbourne’s 3AW radio.
The whole Israeli Lobby/AIPAC agenda for the last 11 yrs has been to create the most virulent racist Islamophobia imaginable - and they have succeeded, as every poll demonstrates
Arabs/Muslims/Iranians are thoroughly demonized at this point - every Hollywood film from Iron Man to Homeland has the evil Muslim terrorists as the pivot of their plots
All Americans agree - the Muslim must be hated as much as the Israelis hate the Palestinians.
Mission Accomplished [...]
The Israelification of American foreign policy, military action, and 'Homeland Security' is complete at this point. We are Israel and Israel is us and there is no daylight between us. We are all Israelis now, and Sen Joe Lieberman wouldn't have it any other way
The Israelis/Neocons lying us into attacking Iraq was all about teaching Americans how to kill Arabs - as a cover and adjunct to making it alright for Israelis to kill Palestinians
'By the time I left I didn't want a memory of this place' - wow...
There's a fascinating article up at Haaretz regarding Ben Gurion's attempts to disguise the Nakba because he knew it was catastrophic to the Jewish narrative.
'Catastrophic Thinking - did Ben Gurion try to Rewrite History?'
"By the end of the 1950s, Ben-Gurion had reached the conclusion that the events of 1948 would be at the forefront of Israel’s diplomatic struggle, in particular the struggle against the Palestinian national movement. If the Palestinians had been expelled from their land, as they had maintained already in 1948, the international community would view their claim to return to their homeland as justified. However, Ben-Gurion believed, if it turned out that they had left “by choice,” having been persuaded by their leaders that it was best to depart temporarily and return after the Arab victory, the world community would be less supportive of their claim"
link to haaretz.com
The Pro-Apartheid Israeli groups on campus remind me of the Israeli threats to Syria -
'If you fight back we will really hurt you'
I'm always surprised how the Zionists think they are so clever to turn things on their head - and then only fight the fights they have framed that way. It's a tired old racket
Dear Mondoweiss - did you guys see this yet?- if not you might be interested:
Senior Fatah officials call for single democratic state, not two-state solution
New initiative would allow Palestinian refugees the right of return to ‘a state of all its citizens.’
link to haaretz.com
OT:
Rick Steves just posted yesterday on Huffington Post from his show currently being filmed in the West Bank
'My Tasty First Hour in Palestine' - Posted May 15, 2013
There is a short video that will be part of his show at a future date
link to huffingtonpost.com
Steves courageously filmed a show in Iran during the height of the Cheney/Neocon push for war on Iran, and did much to de-demonize/humanize Iranians for the US public
Did Russia just checkmate the Israelis and Neocons?
This Israeli threat placed in the NYTimes comes in directly on cue and on the heels of the reportedly FAILED Netanyahu trip to Moscow to try to pressure or persuade Putin NOT to fulfill the Syrian deal for the s300s. (Putin didn't listen to Netanyahu - and likely threatened Bibi not to attack before Bibi opened his mouth)
If Russians technicians/trainers are manning the s300s then an Israeli attack on them is pretty much out of the question, I would think
The s300s could reportedly target and engage Israelis planes as they took off from Israeli airfields - let alone before they even crossed over the Lebanese borders
It would be the end of Israeli impunity over Lebanon. Who needs to ship weapons to Hezbollah when Hezbollah in Syria can engage Israeli planes from Syrian positions?
I think Russia has checkmated the Israelis, not only on Syria but also on Iran (how far behind is a renewed s300s for Iran if the Israelis/US/Nato attacks Syria?) - and the Israelis are enraged
This explains the bizarre tone of the Israeli threat - they are enraged at having been stuffed by Russia
Someday over the rainbow these Senators voting the AIPAC-line will be subjected to the enormous heat the Senators who scuttled gun control legislation are currently getting - and they will be exposed for all to see, then voted or drummed out of office
Gosh, I'd love to see that day and the smug Dershowitz smile wiped off his face.
Engel is a reliably Pro-Israel shill - he is constantly referencing 'Iranian nuclear weapons' and always is deftly presenting the Neocon propaganda-angle.
Like Andrea Mitchell and David Gregory - he is all about the manufacturing of American opinion for Neocon interests, whether he is in Egypt, Syria, or anywhere else in the Middle East
I can't stand the guy
The Palestinian Diaspora really needs a voice in Palestinian government - this ridiculous farce of Abbas representing the 'recipients of hushmoney from the US/Israel as the only group of Palestinians that count' is ridiculous
Does a comet have to show in the sky before the next 'Presidential Elections' to overthrow Abbas?
“Why are you focusing on me? There are plenty of other liars out there whose lies are worse than mine, but you’re only attacking my lies because I’m Jewish and a supporter of Israel.”
Hilarious!!!
Like the San Diego Water Authority, Derschowitz would have 'closed the loop' at that point
An 'Israel'/Palestine that is post-Apartheid and democratic is unimaginable for Beinart - I think it is probably so far removed and inferior to the Israel he loves in his heart that it would be unrecognizable for him.
I think something along these lines is why a Beinart or Uri Avnery hang on to the 2 state solution - they simply cannot imagine an Israel with dismantled Apartheid because it is such a deep dismantling of the liberal Zionist dream that they just recoil from the thought of it.
I actually think they (and many other Israelis) wouldn't like the character of a Post-Apartheid Israeli state - it would no longer be the 'dream Israel' that is so important to them.
Finally - I think Beinart wouldn't get to be a good Jewish boy any more if he actually didn't support the phony 2ss either. He would be about as welcome to debate a Dershowitz as a Norman Finkelstein at that point. Is he the type of guy who can take being shunned, ostracized, and excommunicated by tribe, friends and family - 'Goldstoned'? - I don't think so. This is why Beinart is appearing more and more limited, in my view
The stickers are very practical and consistent with the logic of Apartheid - how can you run a good Apartheid if you can't tell the abusers from the abusees?
Because so many Jews look like Arabs, or have Arab-Semitic ancestry, the whole thing would collapse if you don't have means of identifying the untermenschen and tagging them for discrimination
The more virulent Zionists are kicking in with comments dripping with all the usual venom...
Andrew Sullivan links to the Greenwald vs Maher TKO and posts some interesting links to pushback from David Atkins (who says they're 'both wrong') as well as Digby (??) who pushes back against David Atkins and says no, it's Greenwald who's right
Digby
"I don't think it's surprising in the least that when people find themselves on the receiving end of massive technology and military might, they become angry and violent. Sure, they might turn to their God and religion for justification, but the truth is far more prosaic --- we dominate and kill them and they want revenge. It's the oldest story in the book.
The birth of widespread Muslim fundamentalist hatred for America stemmed from covert and overt support for dictatorships in the middle east, military interference in Afghanistan, Israel, the corruption of the oil patch states and their relationship to the richest most profligate nation in the world (us) and a desire for independence and self-rule. God's edicts fall far down the list of reasons."
Maybe this is why Maher gave up on his cognitive processes - her name is Coco Johnsen and he 'dated her' for 17 months. Imagine the 'discussions' he had with her - no wonder he flails trying to hold a conversation with Glenn
Coco's on the left in the red stripper dress
link to google.com
Like Sen Chuck Shumer - Maher is a self appointed (or compulsive, at least) Guardian of Israel
Maher sure doesn't like being made to look like the fool he is - it's oh so obvious that he was boiling and then going for the ad hominem in a desperate last lunge. The audience saw it as well and it only made Greenwald look that much more brilliant
He is one arrogant SOB and he didn't get away with his Islamophobia-ProIsrael 'secular Zionism' masquarading as atheism this time. He doesn't even know he DOES have a religion
Not that Greenwald didn't have to chase him back down three of his rabbit holes in order to catch him before he almost got away with it. Greenwald is as quick as lightning and but I think was also was ready for his tricks
Maher should get out of the way of the blast furnace if he can't take the heat. I can only wonder if he ever has Greenwald back on his show ever again - I don't think I've ever seen someone go after Maher and just stomp out the embers of his fire like that ever before. Bill is going to have to call in and schedule some extra time on his usual therapy sessions this week after that whomping
Maher is a 'secular Zionist' though I don't even think he himself really knows it or would admit it (because then he wouldn't be cool anymore) - it's like it's subconscious for him and perhaps a 'replacement religion' for him in a way. Mommy and Israel mushed up together somehow as an organizing principle of his personality.
Would America have gone to war in Iraq (or nearly in Iran, or perhaps in Syria) if Maher, Jon Stewart, and others were ridiculing the Neocons on a nightly basis - showing America what dangerous men they were and what disasters they were lying us into? - helping create the space where it made it not a career death sentence for others to just laugh in the faces of Kristol and the other Neocons on our real news shows? - like the recent SNL Fellate a Donkey for Israel skit does?
I hold Maher, Stewart, and all the rest of them as complicit as the NYTimes or Washington Post as giving the Neocons the ocean they swim in. They are part of the Israel Lobby. We need our court jesters (like Colbert) ON OUR SIDE rather on the Lobby's.
PS - Joy Reid was terrific as well
@FreddyV
I watched that Guardian Poll closely - it dove from nearly 68% to 62% in the last 8 hrs or so it was up - I was just waiting for it to happen
I know it was a coordinated Zio effort.
These guys are just so damn good at organizing and fixing the numbers
Looks like the academic boycott of Israeli Apartheid is much more broadly based than first realized
Noam Chomsky was among 20 academics who privately lobbied Professor Stephen Hawking to boycott a major Israeli conference, it has emerged.
Norman Chomsky joined British academics from the Universities of Cambridge, London, Leeds, Southampton, Warwick, Newcastle, York and the Open University to tell Hawking they were "surprised and deeply disappointed" that he had accepted the invitation to speak at next month's presidential conference in Jerusalem, which will chaired by Shimon Peres and attended by Tony Blair and Bill Clinton.
Currently being reported at the Guardian
link to guardian.co.uk
'Where to begin to sum up the nausea' -
Obviously you have missed the little gem of 'Vomit Performance Art' - it's up on the Mondoweiss header.
This artistic performance is evocative of our needs as humans to simply fully experience the very natural physical sensations we nearly all experience and which arise in our throats when faced with arguments from Dershowitz or his Pro-Apartheid buddies
Somethings are just simply left better unsaid and are more richly communicated with body language
The thing that bothers me about Peter Beinart is that he's so young that if he becomes a new 'Dershowitz Equivalent' he's going to be around forever
In 2050 will Beinart be claiming the One State Solution should never have been attempted because there never was an Apartheid to begin with?
Is Beinart the 'J Street Cop' to the Dershowitz 'AIPAC Cop'?
Dershowitz is 'Anti-Goy' more than anything else - he just disguises it as being Pro-Israel
Dershowitz himself is therefore a racist bigoted hypocrite, for not calling Netanyahu out for barring Rivka Feldhay from a conference last December because Feldhay signed a petition in 2008 that supported Israeli soldiers who refused to serve in Palestinian territories
Can Dershowitz even remember things that happened 6 months ago these days? It's pretty doubtful
'Israeli academic banned from German conference by Netanyahu'
Rivka Feldhay barred from scientists' meeting because of her criticism of the Israeli government
link to guardian.co.uk
Can I be president of Harvard Law now, please? Ridiculous...
Dersch throws up anything on the wall he thinks might stick. That ain't a sign of brilliance more than a sign of what a sloppy slobbering tribal sociopath he is
kudos - my sentiments exactly...
It's unbelievable to me that Palestinians still allow this Israeli puppet to 'represent them'.
It actually makes me mad at the Palestinians - though I know this is the whole point from the Israeli/Neocon side
The Palestinians should have announced the Kerry farce over and proceeded to the ICC not only before the new settlement announcement yesterday, but before Kerry even won his latest 'get out of jail free card stall for Israel'
Palestine needs to take Israel to the ICC now and leave whatever Israel chooses to do or not do up to Israel while Palestine racks up judgement after judgement against Israel and gets them on the books. Duh
Abbas is the consummate Charlie Brown listening to the eternal Lucy saying she won't yank the ball away 'this 2,947th time'
Fool me once shame on you, fool me 2,947 times, uh, duh, how does the rest of it go?
Now this is totally wild - the UK Sunday Times is saying 'Israel is expected to start negotiations this week to base strategic assault aircraft IN TURKEY, ahead of any potential showdown with Iran over its nuclear ambitions'
“Until the recent crisis, Turkey was our biggest aircraft carrier,” observed an Israeli military source. “Using the Turkish airbases could make the difference between success and failure once a showdown with Iran gets under way.”
link to thesundaytimes.co.uk
That's unbelievable - this sounds more like Debkafile
American said - " my guess is Saudi, like Israel is trying to maneuver the US with their own think tank version of US PNAC-Project for the New American Century…. call it “PNEC”- Project for the New Mid East Century."
So this is the ‘Reworked Grand Clean Break Neocon Plan’, finally taking shape? – this is the New Wet Dream Middle East of Neocons, Apartheid Israel, and Saudis?
A ‘Sunni Anti-Arab Spring Crescent, plus Apartheid Israel’ – with a neutered Syria, Iran/Iraq, and Lebanon - to rule the Middle East for the next 20 yrs?
Here’s a link to a small map of the players – just colorcode (in your mind)Turkey, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and UAE as ONE BLOCK – The Core of the New Middle East as envisioned by Israel/Neocons
link to en.ammonnews.net
“PNEC”- Project for the New Mid East Century" – Great name
I think 'Libya' and 'Syria' were/are all about destroying the Arab Spring before it reached into Jordan, Syria, Bahrain, and eventually Saudi Arabia
The US/Israel/Neocons seem to have co-opted it fairly well at this point
The best thing in my view, long term, would be to get rid of the Jordanian king Abdullah, Assad (by Arab Spring rather than Neocons/Israel) as well as the other monarchs/dictators in the area by the natural processes of the peoples in these lands doing what they did in Egypt. That's my fantasy
I think Israel and the US/Neocons want exactly the reverse. For Daniel Pipes it is just playing Sunnis off against Shia forever - Arabs killing Arabs - just propping up whoever is losing so the game keeps going. Like the Iran/Iraq War, like Hamas vs Fatah
Israel is desperate to bring about conflagration before dismantling of Apartheid gets any further along.
It's such a zoo out there right now - Israel benefiting from/contributing to the chaos because it is in her Apartheid interests to have it that way.
Boo hoo - Isabel Kershner of NYTimes just called me 'anti-Israeli' instead of 'anti-Apartheid'
"The academic and cultural boycott, organized by international activists to protest Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians, is a heated and contentious issue; having Dr. Hawking join it is likely to help the anti-Israel campaigners significantly.
“Never has a scientist of this stature boycotted Israel,” said Yigal Palmor, the spokesman for Israel’s Foreign Ministry.
I knew there would just have to be a little bit of venom coming out of Isabel over this - I mean, after all, she just couldn't LIE about the whole thing. I'm sure she feels a little calmer now that she's gotten her little bit of 'payback'.
These guys are sick. She HAD to do that - as in 'compulsive'
Israel is going nuts - they know this is 'A Big One' if not 'The Big One'
'Cut it out - you're only making things worse with your condemnations of Hawkings', say the official pros - but the Hasbara teams have their blood up for being suckered at the first clumsy attempts of their disinformation campaigns....
'Stephen Hawking is now the academic boycott movement’s unlikely poster boy'
'The more Hawking is condemned, the more severe the repercussions will be'
"The decision of world-renowned astro-physicist Stephen Hawking to cancel his participation in the upcoming President Conference could be a breakthrough moment for the anti-Israel boycott movement.
The recruitment of such a universally respected and admired international figure to the cause of BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) clearly overshadows other significant gains that boycott advocates have made recently with groups such as the Irish Teachers Union or the American Association for Asian Academic Studies.
With Hawking, the Palestinian-inspired BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement now has a powerful symbol and an unlikely poster boy at its disposal in its increasingly successful drive."
from Haaretz...
This is blaring front page over at Huff Post World
This is a very beautiful development ... so many people love Stephen Hawkings that this will generate fresh interest in BDS-ing Israel
He's even got Carlo Strenger over at Haaretz in a twist - this is entirely out of bounds for Jewish policing and framing of the argument and Carlo regresses to the familiar 'Israel is being singled out' song and dance
I've been noticing that lots of liberal Zionists are having their own personal red lines crossed as they start to lose control of the situation and Palestine is getting taken out of their hands. I think it's partly that this has gone on for so long they actually became convinced they had forever to play at being liberal Zionists as long as it was just play
The solution to Palestine needs to be taken OUT of Israeli hands completely - dismantling of Apartheid must be forced upon them by BDS.
Apartheid in Israel is characterized by obsessive control - control, control, control of everything. Now Israel begins to lose all control...
What is Israel getting out of throwing all this gas on Syria/Iran? - this is a gem from today's therealnews regarding Israeli short and long term strategy -
'Israel's Syria Strategy to Weaken Hezbollah and Profit from Chaos' - it's a great 19 minute video from Shir Hever/Paul Jay
link to therealnews.com
Very well done in exposing short- and long term-Israeli strategy in regards to destroying John Kerry's CPR attempts to restart the 'peace process' and eliminating that threat to continued Apartheid (remember those, like from last week?), the Israeli/Neocon sport of touching off Arabs killing Arabs (honorable mention for Daniel Pipes), and the value of war as far as selling Israeli-built munitions
'Apartheid Israel cannot exist without chaos in the Middle East' - it's like Rahm Emannuel says, that's where the opportunities are
UPDATE: Another popular Repub talking head comes out against Syrian involvement
On today's May 7th 'Morning Joe' - Scarborough coming out against adding Syria to the list of 'American quagmires' since WWII
link to nbcnews.com
see remarks particularly at around minute 14:50
At least the lemmings are not all juiced up and cheering for a war this time around.
It's been surprising to see Chris Matthews and Rachel 'Never Seen a Neocon' Maddow actually expressing distaste for another Middle East war
No one is really fingering Israel and her Neocons yet - really tying this all up in a neat little package for the American public yet - conditioned as they have been for years to know nothing about the Middle East
This is the problem - how does anyone understand what is going on without connecting all these points and fingering Israel and the Neocons directly and specifically - exactly the thing the 'Holocaust Industry' and constant ADL-/Dershowitz-style 'anti-Semitism slurs' were invented for. Can't be done. Israel MUST be identified in all of this for ANY of this to make sense.
Israel MUST be outed...
Who is going to do it and explain how it has been Israel and her Neocons who lied us into Iraq, tried everything under the sun to hoax us into Iran, and are now trying to lie and trap us into Syria, and how that all ties in with Israeli Apartheid?
WHO IS GONNA' DO IT?
Who is doing it is Mondoweiss
"because only a freier wouldn’t"
- exactly - it's their own permanently glued on pair of little red dancing shoes
Zionists just have no shame whatsoever, but I find one of the things they hate most is just laughing at them for the ridiculous if toxic buffoons they are.
Somehow it all makes sense - they LIKE getting away with it but their feelings sure get hurt when people are laughing at them for being the suckers they actually are
Israel and the Neocon geopolitical calculation is to co-opt the Arab Spring, turn into bloody armed conflicts, and avoid a Palestinian Spring
Israel will do everything it can to instigate (by hoaxing the US or by setting it off itself) a major Middle East WWIII to further throttle the Arab Spring - in Jordan, Bahrain, and especially, in Palestine
Keller's comments coming as they do as contemporaneous with revelations about the Israeli/Neocon False Flag-style attack against the US, with Israel and her Neocons now being caught having lied to the US about Sarin gas use by the Syrian government, is just priceless
It reminds me of Bernard Henri Levi's article in Israeli papers about the most moral army in the world being up on websites the same morning when it was revealed the Israelis had just attacked the Mavi Marmara.
"U.N. Has Gathered Testimony Indicating That Syrian Rebels Have Used Sarin Gas, Says Investigator"
Israeli False Flag operation using the Rebels, like Col Lawerence Wilkerson hinted at earlier this week?
link to huffingtonpost.com
GENEVA, May 5 (Reuters) - U.N. human rights investigators have gathered testimony from casualties of Syria's civil war and medical staff indicating that REBEL FORCES have used the nerve agent sarin, one of the lead investigators said on Sunday.
Israel always benefits by chaos because it has so many Neocon supporters in the US that will help her exploit it to the maximum.
For the same reason Israel wants a WWIII style war fought by the US/Britain against Iran, Israel wants to set a match to the Middle East by using Syria
Anything to forestall the dismantling of Apartheid if the world has to burn down to do it - ANYTHING