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Jaffr

Retired machinist, trade union president, active for years on behalf of justice for Palestinians

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  • Yale conference on anti-Semitism targets Palestinian identity, 'self-hating' Jews, and anyone who criticizes Israel
    • Jaffr August 25, 2010 at 10:35 am

      The propaganda focus on Arab/Palestinian "anti-Semitism" is a response to the growing knowledge about Zionist history and the Nakba among educated and liberal Americans. Israel defenders understand that people of good will, who deplore anti-Semitism and racism of all kinds, are asking the logical question: Why did the Palestinians have to pay the price for European persecution of the Jews?

      So we see more hysteria about "the Nazi Mufti" and Jewish persecution in the Arab world, as well as attacks on the idea of a historic tolerant Islamic rule in Spain, etc. Look for much more of this from the usual Hasbara suspects. . .

    • Jaffr August 25, 2010 at 8:47 am

      Martin Kramer, Harvard and the Eugenics of Zion
      link to counterpunch.org

  • Islamophobia in New York, Redux: We should have seen the 'ground zero' furor coming
    • Jaffr August 17, 2010 at 4:11 pm

      Obama's equivocation is a disgrace -- typically. And although the furor by right-wing "grassroots" may be an expression of misguided ignorance, it is stoked by truly despicable, racist politicians like Gingrich, who are consciously lying about the issue. Ironically, the "Islamist" school from which Almontasar was forced to resign was named after the Christian Arab-American Khalil Gibran. Of course, the existence of Christian Arabs is an inconvenient fact that Zionist terror warriors would like to erase as it does not fit with the paradigm they are promoting on behalf of Israel.

  • Mezvinsky's choice (and the existential threat!)
    • Jaffr August 7, 2010 at 7:09 pm

      Joke going around:

      Overheard at the big wedding last weekend:

      Hillary wanted to play the perfect Mom, so she asked Chelsea... "Have you had sex with Marc?"

      Chelsea said.... "Not according to Dad"

  • That tree was in Israel territory
    • Jaffr August 4, 2010 at 12:18 pm with 1 replies

      There is more to this than the simple question of whether the tree was technically on "Israel's side" of the demarcation line.
      Reports I have read state that Lebanese Army personnel first shouted for the Israeli soldiers to stop their border violation, then fired warning shots in the air. This was met with Israeli artillery and attack helicopter assaults on Lebanese positions, which set off a general fire fight.
      Frankly, this account seems plausible to me in the light of Israeli policy to use overwhelming and disproportionate force to maintain their "deterrence." The report in the Israeli papers that the Lebanese army first opened up with "sniper fire" seems patently false and within the usual Israeli pattern of claiming "self-defense" when they attack.

  • Let the apologies to Goldstone begin
  • Service with meaning-- the IDF
    • Jaffr July 25, 2010 at 3:33 pm with 2 replies

      Interestingly, language at the link given by Citizen says that "when someone has been recruited or hired in the United States, a violation may have occurred. The prosecution of persons who have violated 18 U.S.C. 958-960 is the responsibility of the Department of Justice."

      Are the US "volunteers" for the Israeli army recruited through some program based in the US? I note that branches of"Friends of the IDF" are active in various locations here and might be instrumental in this. Legal?

    • Jaffr July 25, 2010 at 1:45 pm with 9 replies

      Actually, US citizens serving in foreign armies is not that unusual. Many people with dual citizenship in European countries that have universal military service must do military time if they return to reside in the "home country" during military age. Greek-Americans, for example. The same for Israeli-Americans. The courts have ruled that they keep their US citizenship under those circumstances. Whether that makes sense or not is another question. And the practice of US-born Americans without Israeli citizenship serving voluntarily in the Israeli army would seem to be a different case and in my opinion should require giving up US nationality.

  • Did State Department official get his Zionist swill about Lincoln from mytho-historian Michael Oren?
    • Jaffr July 23, 2010 at 12:36 pm with 2 replies

      What is more interesting -- assuming it likely that Steele did not get his citation from reading Oren's book -- is that the common source for both of quotes was probably one of those Hasbara emails circulating endlessly around the Web. What does that say about the bona fides (not to say intellectual honesty) of Shapiro, a purported employee of the US State Department?

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