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gmeyers

Since Gaza and until further notice my blog is dedicated to the Palestinian people's struggle for statehood

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  • Blair says Israelis were in on pre-war planning
    • gmeyers February 6, 2010 at 2:35 pm

      It's a mystery indeed. I can only attribute it too Blair's 'charisma' [coughing fit follows] and the disarray the Tories were still in at that time...

  • Jews are rich elitists, 'Commentary' says
    • gmeyers February 6, 2010 at 2:29 pm with 1 replies

      I will be hitting these points often in weeks to come, even though they are uncomfortable-making, because I heard so many Palestinians making these points in the Middle East, more crudely, even anti-Semitically, and I think the answer to intellectual crudeness on important questions is to try and be honest and precise.

      So if Palestinians make those points they're antisemitic, but Phillip can make them? That's dangerously inconsistent, if you ask me...

  • George Galloway interviewed on Viva Palestina, the blockade of Gaza and the US role
    • gmeyers January 7, 2010 at 11:44 am

      Finally also a bit of attention for the VP! convoy. They deserve it.

      In Paris there was a demo on front of the Egyptian Embassy, apparently or ganised by those brave Frenchmen who didn't make it into Gaza...

  • Israeli television confrontation is 'a metaphor of the moral crisis in which Zionism is found today'
    • gmeyers January 6, 2010 at 12:26 pm

      Forget the 'breathtaking disregard for historical fact'. Anyone who, like the author of the Ynet piece of drivel, still wants to base the argument on 'we were here first' just doesn't get it.

      The right of return of Palestinians isn't predicated on them being 'an old and extant People' (as Zionists are so fond of pointing out about the Jews) but merely on the fact that they were driven from where they lived at that time by means of Zionist ethnic cleansing

      Ynet news is gefundenes fressen for the imbecilic racists that subscribe to FrontPage mag.

  • Udi Aloni to Israelis: BDS is a movement for 'justice, peace and equality'
    • gmeyers January 5, 2010 at 5:24 pm

      WJ:

      I would be interested in hearing predictions from Udi Alon how future Israeli governments will interact with the reality that Udi hopes to see developing in the BDS movement.

      Oh, at first they will try and call it antisemitic. Then they will try and ignore it and claim it has no effects, ostrich style. Then they will probably harden their stance some more, in a 'up yours too' and 'never again' kind of way. Meanwhile more valuable time will be lost in which Israel could simply do the right thing. Then they will probably find themselves very isolated and cave in?

      That seems the most likely scenario. A rational response from The Bunker isn't to be expected though...

    • gmeyers January 5, 2010 at 12:13 pm with 2 replies

      From the Coteret link:

      Baroness Scotland arrived in Israel for a private pilgrimage with her family and she will take part in the “Israel and International Law” conference that is being held by the law faculty of Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

      Aha! This is undoubtedly where the implementation of UN Res 242 will be discussed, no?

      Probably not. Israel is a law unto itself...

    • gmeyers January 5, 2010 at 12:07 pm with 1 replies

      Israeli Arab Jews Nazi saluting (I kid you not!) the Ashkenazi Israelis protesting against evictions of Palestinian families in Jerusalem:

      link to youtube.com

  • Deconstructing Simon Wiesenthal
    • gmeyers January 4, 2010 at 3:48 pm with 2 replies

      It is only to be expected that holocaust denialists will seize on this for their own purposes [...]

      Those holocaust deniers that would do that must be of particularly dumb variety, as critiquing Wiesenthal in no way endorses Holocaust denial.

    • gmeyers January 4, 2010 at 3:41 pm with 18 replies

      If it is true, and Norman Finkelstein is, too, then the whole Holocaust Myth is going to start crumbling and then come crashing down.

      ... is a very dangerous formulation: the Holocaust is not a myth.

      Wiesenthal made up mytsh regarding his own experience with the Holocaust, as well as myths regarding his own role in bringing Holocaust perpetrators to book, but the Holocaust is not a myth, it is an all too real event.

  • From the pyramids to the checkpoints, we have had many victories in Egypt
    • gmeyers January 3, 2010 at 1:47 pm

      …but will give endless coverage to the teabaggers and Iranian protesters.

      Shit, Kathleen, that's so unfair of you! I mean, what's more important than a crowd of faux-righteous 'patridiots', looking for fake 'socialist' bogeymen under their beds, huh?

  • A slice of life in Sheikh Jarrah
    • gmeyers January 2, 2010 at 4:53 pm

      Racism of the most extreme kind, exacerbated by religious doughnuttery of the most mind-numbing variety...

      Galileo (allegedly): "if G-d gave us a brain, why aren't we allowed to use it?"

  • the reluctant radical
    • gmeyers January 2, 2010 at 4:06 pm with 3 replies

      Last night's Press TV: Israeli attacks on Rafah, Gaza City and Khan Younis:

      link to presstv.ir

    • gmeyers January 2, 2010 at 4:01 pm

      The truth lies somewhere in between “Zionism is racism” and “Anti-Zionism is racism”. Liberal.
      And, the best proposal that optimizes democracy in fact, is the two-state model. Liberal.

      Another whopper...

      How is anti-Zionism racism? How do you define anti-Zionism?

      The two state model calls for a double whammy of ethno-states: How can an ethno-state (well, two) be 'liberal'? That must make the US one of the most illiberal Nations on Earth. True as that may be on another level, it clearly isn't the case in this context.

    • gmeyers January 2, 2010 at 3:54 pm

      The reason is the strange bedfellows of the pro-Palestinian movement, that includes fascists that blame all of the world’s ills on Jews, and on those that rationalize that anti-semitism is inconsequential and permanently immaterial.

      Richard, I've come to believe you suffer too much ad hom here but then you come up with crackers like the one above...

      The pro-Palestinian movement has no 'strange bedfellows': the fascists and antisemites you're referring to get expelled, excoriated and spewed out from the movement, which, let me remind you, was born from anti-racist and anti-fascist movements. This is in rather stark contrast to Zionism that has no qualms about convenience marriages between it and openly antisemitic movements. How much money does Zionism receive for instance (tip of the iceberg, BTW) from Loon par excellence John Hagee and his CUFIs? The IDF's tragic alliance with the Phalange in Lebanon? Zionism's embrace of antisemites like the Polish Kaminsky? The list goes on and on...

      As regards 'antisemitism being inconsequential', all we demand is that antisemitism doesn't get treated any different from other forms of racism, which is exactly what Zionism does: racism against Jews is always worse than racism against 'them' (whoever 'they' are), is that not so? Hence a whole raft of 'new new new antisemitisms', all in fact no more than legitimate criticism of the racist ideology that is Zionism. Arch-Zionists also believe antisemitism is innate to all Goyim. Yoohoo, can you trolls hear yourselves think, out there in Zionland?

  • Update from Cairo: Gaza Freedom March rejects Egyptian offer to allow only 100 protesters into Gaza
    • gmeyers December 30, 2009 at 2:27 pm

      Meanwhile Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) is looking into 'reports about the [Viva Palestina!] convoy’s links to Hamas':

      A U.S. congressman is the latest to call for a Justice Department investigation into whether a pro-Palestinian group has been raising money on college campuses for Hamas.

      In a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) urged a probe into Viva Palestina USA, a humanitarian aid convoy led by British lawmaker George Galloway that brought medical supplies to Gaza last July.

      Both the Zionist Organization of America and the Anti-Defamation League in recent months have urged Holder to investigate reports about the convoy’s links to Hamas.

      link to hurryupharry.org

  • Gaza, a year later
    • gmeyers December 28, 2009 at 11:15 am

      Witty:

      While I really don't condone some of the ad hom you suffer here, you do really seem to come from the risible perspective that the Israelis and Palestinians are equal partners who should simply resolve their differences non-violently.

      But both sides aren't even remotely equal, this isn't a case of 'two people that can't live together': one side has a modern, rich state, with an army ranked 5th (or so) in the world (and equipped with every modern gizmo imaginable), the other side is a stateless, now often homeless people, with a ragtag militia armed with light weapons, some bottle rockets and homemade explosives, no air defence, no Navy, no nuttin'.

      Israel is backed by just about every racist Western state, Hamas is shunned and isolated by same said racists.

      Unless someone steps up to the plate and replenishes the Palestinians' power deficiency, negotiating with Israel would be a bit like playing heads up Texas Hold'em with a high roller: Israel comes to the table with a stack of chips it can hardly look over (and behind it stands a tall guy with some more bags of chips, just in case). The Palestinians come to the table with a minimal stack. Now Palestine calls the Big Blind, say at $10,000, and Israel raises with $10,000,000. Palestine predictably folds, being unable to call.

      Why do you think that Israel has been able to continue unabatedly to colonise the WB?

  • Gaza's children remember the first day of attacks a year ago
    • gmeyers December 27, 2009 at 7:08 pm

      Hey HB,

      Fancy seeing you here!

    • gmeyers December 27, 2009 at 7:07 pm with 3 replies

      Richard,

      Trying to create equivalence between the children of Sderot and the children of Gaza doesn't work: the numbers simply don't allow it. On a one-to-one basis, yes, the tragedy of a Sderot victim matches that of a Gazan victim but that's where the equivalence stops. Gazan victims aren't just far more numerous, Sderotians have far more choices than Gazans.

  • EU's foreign minister says E. Jerusalem is occupied territory
    • gmeyers December 18, 2009 at 1:48 pm with 1 replies

      Chaos wrote:

      Unlike in the United States, honest Jewish voices aren’t suppressed and disenfranchised in Europe.

      Wow, wow, wow, Chaos, not so fast!

      The difference is rather a matter of degree, considerable degree perhaps but degree only.

      Here we have the British Zionist Federation and their clowns trying to stifle, silence and disrupt any serious debate on I/P. But the difference is that the BZF and the rest of the Israel Lobby here in Old Bligthty are a bunch of incompetent hacks compared to the well-oiled machine of AIPAC, The Israel Project and the rest of the villains...

  • 'Shemesh, your family': Jewish Israelis struggle with the Nakba
  • The world the Jews made, in the Naqab
  • Report from Goucher: the campus as microcosm of the conflict
  • In a NY synagogue, Roger Cohen demolishes neoconservative Bret Stephens
    • gmeyers November 19, 2009 at 11:55 am with 3 replies

      Phil:

      You write:

      Roger Cohen has not done that work, he has avoided it, he has respected the orthodoxies. His latest piece on Israel/Palestine forcibly refuses to look at the situation through the eyes of a humiliated, dispossessed people whom he might also find noble if he only extended himself.

      Should that not have been:

      Bret Stephens has not done that work, he has avoided it, he has respected the orthodoxies. His latest piece on Israel/Palestine forcibly refuses to look at the situation through the eyes of a humiliated, dispossessed people whom he might also find noble if he only extended himself.

  • There is an old American proverb: Put your money where your mouth is
  • Goldstone member: Israel's toxic munitions could leave Gaza uninhabitable
    • gmeyers November 2, 2009 at 12:35 pm

      Yes, Mooser, in your attempt at being sharp you come across rather blunt on this occasion.

      I challenge anyone to provide conclusive proof that these substances are either toxic or innocuous, you probably won't find it because the necessary research hasn't been (and won't be anytime soon) conducted yet.

      But in the absence of such results most of us (chemists included or perhaps even more so) will continue to take precautions to prevent contact, inhalation and possible transfer into soil or food of such materials. I manipulate vanadium based compounds regularly in my potting-shed lab and am very careful around them, even though they're not known for their high toxicity.

      Not so some armies in the world that use this kind or related substances on civilian populations without consideration for any yet unknown health problems their residues may cause in the medium-long term...

    • gmeyers November 2, 2009 at 10:09 am

      As a chemist I'm a bit skeptical about the toxicity of residues of phosporus and vanadium. In large part because the producers, procurers and users of these weapons won't in a million years pay for the highly expensive research needed to establish the toxicity/teratogenicity of their gadgets and without such research any assumptions remain inconclusive.

      But equally as a chemist I won't hide the fact that I feel rather pleased that my family can comfortably live in an area of the world where such residues aren't present.

      It's rather typical of Western mentality that the merest whiff of lead in the paint of a child's toy 'Made in China' can cause a panic but that we think nothing of spraying an entire (brownish) people with white phosphorus, vanadium shrapnel and DEU (in the case of Iraq).

  • Israel—casting out its own children
  • J Street leader compares Walt and Mearsheimer to 'Protocols'
    • gmeyers October 23, 2009 at 2:49 pm

      Wow! Are the wheels coming off this J Street already? W&M and Protocols in one sentence: a note of thanks from the ADL must be on its way as I write this. If Ben-Ami can't handle fuzzbrain Goldberg then that doesn't bode too well...

  • Now 'J Street' is incorrect on... intermarriage!
    • gmeyers October 23, 2009 at 10:59 am

      Slightly O/T:

      From a JTA email alert:

      President Barack Obama is speaking next month to the General Assembly of UJC/Jewish Federations of North America.

      The speech, set to take place on Nov. 9, will be his first as president to a broad Jewish audience. Some Israeli figures and some leaders of the organized Jewish community have complained that Obama has not done enough to explain his positions on Middle East peacemaking.

      Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will also announce this weekend that he is attending in person, sources said.

  • J Street smearers are 'desperate to see it fail'
    • gmeyers October 23, 2009 at 11:10 am

      That would be in line with the new working definition of the EU which considers anti-Zionism as depriving Jews of their right to self-determination and thus anti-Semitic. Numpties like Jonathan Hoffman, co-chair of the Zionist Federation of Britain, are already smugly using the new 'definition'...

  • In boycotting J Street, Oren's role model is Soviet Union
  • Amira Hass: NYT runs Israeli propaganda, and U.S. is blindered to absence of Palestinians' rights
    • gmeyers October 22, 2009 at 11:17 am

      Madcap Zionists love nothing better than to boast the 'liberal democratic' values of Israel, especially when compared to their 'third world' neighbours (We Rock! They Suck!). But mention Amira Hass and they're pretty unanimous in their condemnation of Hass as a 'traitor': seems to me these people don't cherish their free press too much. From the (admittedly extremist) Masada S.H.I.T. list on Hass, a bit of 'fun':

      Among the writers for Haaretz and one of the most extremist is Amira Hass. She began working for Haaretz in 1989. The newspaper has gone steadily downhill ever since. Hass has come out openly in favor of the replacement of Israel by a single "Palestinian" Arab/Jewish state that stretches from the Mediterranean to the Jordan.
      Hass moved to Gaza after the signing of the Israeli-Palestinian "Oslo" peace agreement in December 1993 and then settled in Ramallah ("Home of Allah") in 1997. As they say, "Birds of a feather flock together..."
      "To most Israelis, my move seemed outlandish, even crazy, for they believed I was surely putting my life at risk." Believe us, Ms. Hass, to most normal Israelis your not outlandish or crazy. You're simply a dirty judenrat traitor! Nobody really gives a damn if you put your worthless life at risk!
      Note: "Hass" means "hate " in German. How appropriate!

  • Israeli refusers follow South African footsteps in the struggle against apartheid
  • Under strong attack, J Street accommodates its critics, but does it alienate its supporters?
    • gmeyers October 20, 2009 at 3:07 pm

      That piece in Peejays Media (by Lenny Ben-David) is well worth a (quick) gander. Even better are some of the commenters:

      Elyahu
      Lenny, good article. But I don’t think that you mentioned the most damning fact about George Soros. During the Holocaust, he was living in Budapest and helped the Nazis find Jews who were in hiding. He was a Nazi collaborator. That should disqualify from any role in American or Israeli politics.

      But Soros is very rich, unfortunately. And money talks loudly. Especially in the of J Street.

      J Street hasn't received a cent from Soros, I believe.

      But even at Peejays Media the resistance is making itself felt...

  • Mondoweiss in 'The Nation' - American Jews Rethink Israel
  • Ehud Olmert struggles to give Univ. of Chicago lecture amid protests
    • gmeyers October 18, 2009 at 2:48 pm

      Donald:

      The Abunimeh's of the world (and many of us with them) should give the same treatment to Bush, Blair and many of the other war criminals at large. Problem is: the West divides the world into 'our war criminals' and 'their war criminals'...

    • gmeyers October 18, 2009 at 2:43 pm

      C'mon, Cit. This guy makes an anti-Semitic remark and America Fust-Cless Kvetch claims there's "still no free speech for the goyim".

      Mooser's right.

    • gmeyers October 18, 2009 at 2:35 pm

      And he launched this 'war' against Gaza partly to secure his legacy. Leb II having been a disaster, Big Ehud needed redress and Israel needed to reassert its deterrency. Little Ehud was all for it too... All planned moths in advance, cyber-army of 101 Keyboard Hasbarists prepared and ready.

    • gmeyers October 18, 2009 at 12:44 pm

      Richard:

      Adam obviously thinks it was a good thing that Olmert’s speech was disrupted. Ali Abunimeh huh?

      Most here think that. Would you have been more pleased if the protesters had made their points in a Q&A session (assuming one was scheduled)? Is it not so you object their message more than their delivery?

      Thanks to this heckling Olmert's performance will now go viral. That's a good thing.

      For years Zionists have tried to shut us up. But silent no more. That must worry you a lot. It would me if I was in your place...

  • Joel Beinin, smeared by the right
    • gmeyers October 17, 2009 at 3:52 pm

      Dear G-d, how the most imbecilic of rightwing bloggers (FP fans) will lap this up, possibly without understanding it all too well...

      Horriblewitz to Plaut: 'Good dog, have a bicuit..'

  • Treatment is sought in U.S. for 3-year-old victim of white phosphorus attack in Gaza
    • gmeyers October 17, 2009 at 12:06 pm

      Sorry, but anyone who doesn't get Mooser's satire here should go to an all-American pie, Joe Sixpack pro-Israul blog and see what kind of sympathy this poor little girl would get by comment linking to this story. The very best you'd get would be a No4 (Everything sucks!), the worst elements would blame UNWRA 'for not putting the Pseudostinians out of their misery!' No kiddin'.

      Mark 'Iffie Ozzie' Regev will probably claim the wounds were caused by white icing sugar...

  • BBC on Gazan Children: Better than US news, but balance is deceptive
    • gmeyers October 16, 2009 at 9:45 am

      The BBC's coverage of I-P is nothing like it used to be anymore. I hardly watch it nowadays. Back then the Beeb still showed interesting documentaries on the history of the conflict, now all that's too much of a hot potato to handle for the new administration. Hell, they even refused to broadcast the Gaza Emergency Appeal advert, on the grounds that broadcasting it would 'undermine impartiality'. S*ckers...

  • Hope in Obama is 'evaporating' in the Middle East as the peace process goes nowhere
    • gmeyers October 14, 2009 at 1:28 pm with 1 replies

      I’m curious of what specific leverage people sincerely believe might be used.

      C'mon, Witty. Once the US becomes serious about pressurising Israel, European governments will follow suit very quickly. Israel would find itself isolated internationally very quickly and very completely. Even the most rugged, independence minded Zionist would dread that scenario.

    • gmeyers October 14, 2009 at 12:38 pm

      Are they ever going to show us they mean it?

      Not until the shells fall off more American eyes and the electorate starts kicking ass with the Ziocongress and Ziosenate.

      Obama lacks balls, simply put. Even on healthcare he's threading softly, instead of just governing, never mind on a 'contentious' issue like Holy Land I.

      And in this respect the Nobel Peace Prize 'winner' may yet become responsible for WW III, if the wheels ever really do come off the ME on I-P...

  • NPR's 'Morning Edition' Joins Vigilantes
  • Some stuff is so crazy it's fun to read!
    • gmeyers October 12, 2009 at 2:22 pm

      David:

      It's been around on the Internets for some months now.

      Cracking good read, eh?

    • gmeyers October 12, 2009 at 1:06 pm

      US_Objector:

      spread it far and wide, bro!

      And can you please take Frank Luntz back? We've had thoroughly enough of the dial fiddling troll...

    • gmeyers October 12, 2009 at 11:09 am

      Ah, yes, good old Phyllis Chestnut.

      Her whole 'argument' boils down to Gabriel's (JSF) 'We Rock! They suck!' guide to Hasbara.

      Of course this mix of 'anti-Jihadism' and red-baiting will go down a storm with Conservatives at Piyamas Media. Also, you have to love this Conservative faux-concern for women's rights: if it wasn't for past European progressive emancipation movements women would still be walking six feet behind their menfolk... One of Phyllis' books is titled: 'The death of feminism'!

      The comment section to Phyllis' ruminations is well worth reading for a few belly laughs... This one by 'Lynn' for instance:

      "I also thought your analogy between modern Israel and the Nazi enforced Jewish ghettos you wrote about in a past article was spot on. The world seems to be fooled that Israeli is blocking people from entering, but the true fact is that Israel is being fenced in by those who believe in a god that calls for their annihilation."

  • Univ. of Buffalo student forces Tony Blair to respond to (and dodge) the Goldstone report
  • Oh Bomber Sullies Peace Prize (I know it's already sullied)
    • gmeyers October 10, 2009 at 8:57 am with 1 replies

      Illan Pappe in a forum discussion on Press TV stated quite clearly that he didn't expect a solution to the I-P conflict under Obama. The man has at least one hand tied behind his back by the Lobby. Netanyahu and assorted gangsters know this and exploit it ruthlessly.

      No, because only the US can eventually solve this by bringing real pressure to bear on Zionism, only an increased US grassroots groundswell of support for the Palestinians can ultimately make the difference. With 80 - 90% of US Congressmen and Senators pro-Israel and under the spell of the Lobby, no President can ever be an effective counterweight to Israeli power.

      It's time for the American people to see the truth and to vote in people with a more even-handed view of the Israeli Palestinian question.

  • Where was Huffpo when they were trying to rebrand Jim Crow?
  • Orentalism
    • gmeyers October 9, 2009 at 9:58 am with 1 replies

      Netanyahoo and the V2s/Qassams...

      Oren and the Barbary pirates/Jihadists (read Palestinians)...

      These people have no shame.

      Isn't Oren supposed to be a historian? Not some two-bit third rate blogger who nicked something off a kid on the Interwebs whose nephew's best friend is a rightwing hack for 'The Whatever Sun' in Dodge City?

  • Gazans paint stripes on donkeys so kids can still go to zoo
    • gmeyers October 9, 2009 at 9:49 am

      Chris Berel is back: he now calls himself Yonira.

    • gmeyers October 8, 2009 at 11:23 am

      Unfortunately some American arch-Zionists residing in the cesspit/open sewers of the 'conservative' 'blogosphere' will have a field day with this: talk of 'pseudo-zebras' for 'pseudostinians' will probably spread like wildfire.

      That's if they're not too busy lighting their own farts, that is...

  • a third intifadah?
  • Disagreement over Iran's threat
    • gmeyers October 1, 2009 at 12:53 pm with 1 replies

      Does anyone believe neocons care about 'women's rights' or 'Persian gays'?

    • gmeyers October 1, 2009 at 12:51 pm with 3 replies

      At then end of the day this is about the power balance in the region: Iran wants to project power in the region (with or without nuclear weapons and the West doesn't want to yield any (when's the last time the West relinquished any power willingly, anywhere?)

      It's an interesting case demonstrating the US - Israeli symbiotic relationship: Israel plays 'damsel in distress' and the US her 'protector/rescuer' (who on earth believes Israel cannot fend for herself? Even Ehud Barak is candid about that!)

      This way the US gets to bludgeon the potential usurper Iran, while Israel gets to keep the Palestinian question out of the spotlight as much as possible. Pure genius, really...

      Rewind to 1953 and press 'Play'...

  • No statute of limitations on using the Holocaust
    • gmeyers October 1, 2009 at 1:27 pm with 1 replies

      Call me Ishmael:

      Well, I'm no expert on Atzmon but perhaps you should read what leading Jewish British anti-Zionist Tony Greenstein has to say about Atzmon?

    • gmeyers October 1, 2009 at 10:50 am

      I was specifically referring to the links in Comment #3 (by Rehmat) in this thread.

    • gmeyers October 1, 2009 at 10:47 am with 1 replies

      Rehmat is suspect IMHO. The post written by himself and promoted above contains a link to 'Burn in hell you deniers of Holocausts!' by Nobody. While the latter may be an elaborate piece of satire, Nobody's insistence that there were two Holocausts one in WWI (??) and one in WWII and that denying the first is equivalent to denying the second is pushing the boundaries to a point where his piece get lauded by some genuine Holocaust deniers. It's in seriously bad taste, IMHO.

      And Rehmat's invocation of Gilad Atzmon, a Jewish anti-Semite (yes, a rare occurrence of a real 'self-hating Jew') who's been excoriated by the British anti-Zionist movement (for anti-Semitism), may not be a coincidence either...

      To allow Rehmat to make arguments in favour of the genuine viewpoint that there is such a thing as a Holocaust Industry (or 'Shoa business', to put it less tastefully) is to reduce its value.

  • Celebrate 'Times' photographer Rina Castelnuovo
  • Netanyahu likens Hamas to Nazis attacking England
    • gmeyers September 24, 2009 at 4:00 pm

      This isn't the first time he's tried that analogy. He tried it on a visit to Britain because he knows damn well that mentioning missiles when addressing a London-based audience will at least get you the attention you seek (but not deserve).

      And he's right of course with his analogy: Lebanon II and WW II are perfectly analogous. Under cover of a couple of V2s, the Germans snatched a few British soldiers, Britain then declared war on Germany and the cowardly barstewards started raining missiles on Albion... Okay?

      G-d, that man is a reprehensible oaf...

  • the deal
    • gmeyers September 24, 2009 at 10:02 am

      Interesting analysis. Correct? That remains to be seen...

      "So: Will Obama come to the J Street conference next month?"

      That would make serious waves. Please do report on this...

  • The third rail shrugs (Washington Post publishes Walt on Israel lobby)
    • gmeyers September 20, 2009 at 11:27 am with 3 replies

      It's still gratifying to see how an author, so vilified in the US for saying what in Europe was simply common knowledge [the existence of powerful lobbies, commonly referred to as 'the Israel Lobby'] now gets published in WaPo and even refers somewhat weakly to the 'A-word'.

      This at least is a battle American Zionists lost big time...

  • Time to hit the books - check out 'Republican Gomorrah' & 'My Israel Question'
  • note new hasbara push: You did it to the Native Americans
    • gmeyers September 3, 2009 at 12:23 pm with 1 replies

      And yes, we're definitely talking about a 'final push'. It manifests itself on many levels, including the stepping up of Hasbara efforts in many guises (see also Israel's 'Cultural offensive') and the ridiculous attempts at stalling the inevitable (talks about 'settlement freezes', 'Pharaos', 'natural growth' and 'kintergartens'...)

    • gmeyers September 3, 2009 at 12:15 pm

      Just as bad as trying to justify Israeli colonialism by means of past European Imperialism, is the European Zionists' newfound zeal to connect all things Arab with Nazism, a trend possibly started by Jerkowitz.

      This way they can oppose the 'ceding of land' (who wants to 'cede' land to Nazis?) without even mentioning settlements.

      Witty: "Hasbara" will do just fine for me, thanks...

  • Anthony Weiner goes from right-wing stiff to brilliant populist in a New York second (guess the issues!)
  • 'Surfing on Islamophobia' (Idrees Ahmad responds to McConnell)
    • gmeyers September 1, 2009 at 11:19 am

      Rod Liddle is an intellectual midget. He once made a documentary that concluded that Atheism is a faith too: it has temples (where Big Science is conducted!) and a Bible (Darwin's Origins of Species!). A simpleton, really...

      It should come as no surprise to find Liddle dabbling in bizarre theories about Islam.

  • A western Zionist's slogans remind me of a racist joke of my youth
    • gmeyers September 1, 2009 at 11:57 am with 2 replies

      It was all merely the result of a determined and heroic people with no help from the goyhim at all.

      Look, they made the desert bloom, okay? Get over it!

    • gmeyers September 1, 2009 at 11:05 am

      Israel invokes the 'because of the Holocaust' or the 'we have a birthright to Palestine' at will and according to political expediency.

      Critics of Israel often get called anti-Semites because it reminds the critic he might be entering hot Holocaust waters ('Remember what your ancestors and brethren did? Can you hear what you sound like?')

      Nowhere does this tactic pay off more than in post-war Germany of course... it would take a real brave German to mutter 'Holocaust industry' there...

  • Now he tells us: Bill Kristol says Obama-McCain election was about Israel
    • gmeyers August 31, 2009 at 9:49 am

      Kristol's attitude reminds me of a comment I found once of a site called MoonBattery (dot com). It went like this:

      Tell your people [American Jews] to pull their heads out of their asses. What is it with jews and leftwing politics? They've been leftwing for the entirety of the modern era. It has nothing to do with the holocaust and hitler being perceived as rightwing, either. Jews were leftist well before that. Enough. They're like mexicans and blacks now in my book. They'll never be friends of America or of American values. Fuck'um!!

      (link provided on request)

  • Gamechanger? Jeff Skoll, Richard Branson show up in Bi'lin
    • gmeyers August 30, 2009 at 9:19 am with 4 replies

      Witty:

      Even BDS, especially if there is ANY overtone of anti-semitism, or denial of others' form of self-governance.

      In the eyes of boycotted Israel there will always be 'overtones of anti-semitism', it's what the Zionist crowd (e.g. in Britain) are constantly screaming about: 'Pogroms! It's Weimar all over again! They're boycotting Jewish businesses (like back then Jewish shops)!' Nonsense...

      You'd have to state the racist concept that "there is no Jewish people" to accomplish that. Its a ludicrous assertion.

      Yes, it is but who is making that assertion the BDS context? No one. Please explain.

      As regards that it's better to use 'persuasion' than 'coercion' (a bit of a false dichotomy to start with), on MARS perhaps, on Earth it doesn't work that way. Israel has for over 40 years disregarded (and is bracing herself to try and continue doing the same for some more) any attempts at 'persuading' to change its behaviour in the OTs. The result is a country that behaves like the spoiled kid on the block: with complete impunity and disbelieving that any other kid will seriously oppose it.

      In the end, if Israel really doesn't want to 'listen' and assuming the US is serious about its stated intentions, Israel will have to 'feel' (i.e. suffer, be coerced).

    • gmeyers August 29, 2009 at 11:32 am with 5 replies

      Readers of this site know that I grasp at straws.

      I think you might be doing that here.

      When it comes to Richard Branson e.g., he may well have his heart in the right place but I hardly expect him to take a stand that might result in angry Zionists calling for a boycott of Virgin companies...

  • An arrest on the West Bank
    • gmeyers August 21, 2009 at 10:42 am

      Hard to see also how the Israelis can't understand what kind deep hatred against themselves they're sowing with such actions.

      Israel is sleep walking into an abyss. Only anti-Zionism can save it from itself...

  • Hoyer Junket Upsets Palestinians, Undermines Obama
    • gmeyers August 18, 2009 at 10:47 am

      Aaaahh, Israel's lovely, lovely friends... Like a junkie looking for a fix, anything on two legs and breathing that supports the Usurpers gets a pat on the back and a tour of Yad Vashem.

  • Huckabee defies Obama
    • gmeyers August 17, 2009 at 11:25 am

      He has consistently backed settlement construction and said that the Palestinians should create their own country “elsewhere.”

      Perhaps Huckie would be happy to reserve a piece of Holy Land II for the New Palestine? No, thought not...

    • gmeyers August 17, 2009 at 9:54 am

      Oh boy.

      Think positive though: the Huckster could have been president!

      The frightening thought is that he could still become that.

  • Obama has fallen into Israel's trap
    • gmeyers August 16, 2009 at 3:36 pm with 5 replies

      That is a different argument than the intentional annexation argument, but the defense of flank argument is used routinely by those that quietly harbor the intention to annex.

      To me its very hard to believe that Israel's intentions aren't to play for keeps. Less that 5 years ago I'd still have bought into the 'flank' or 'bargaining chips' theories. No more. Sorry, Witty.

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