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Menachem, how far do you think israel has to go before the parallels become glaringly obvious to them????????????? they are obvious to most everyone else...
bizarre social experiment that israel is engaging in towards another culture... if someone did this towards israel, aside from the anti-semite rhetoric that would flow would they stand for it? the answer is no, so why do they continue to erode their image in the global community in such a direct and open manner like this? people aren't fooled by any of it..
israel as resident dictator to the people of gaza.. sounds about right...
how many gofers does israel hire for itself?
yes ditto james comment phil - thanks from another james...
i would have thought the usa would be down near the bottom too, or to proxy wars not count????????
it sure seems that is where this is headed walid.. lets hope israels actions don't reflect judiasm... religion is getting a bad name regardless of which world religion nowadays it seems..
kudos to those folks in the picture.. one small step at a time is the way to go.
that is why we hear his voice... it gives the appearance of some freakin alternative to everything else, according to these same numb nut media crazies who try to pedal this crap on us..
what about the running over of a palestinian mother of 9 children???????? maybe christopher hitchens can say something stupid and trivial to say about that too? maybe you can pitch hit for him here on this..
i think i can see christopher hitchens in the pic... he has that deranged look about him...
i never cared for frum and his axis of evil bullshit, but i suppose that is just me........ and i am a canuck!!! why did he have to go and give us a bad name? lol
tema - thanks for taking a position that considers others well being regardless of nationality or race.. your approach is what the world needs more of.....
any chance phil or adam are going? either way, this is good news.. wish they had have been the first boat to go.. the pressure must continue to be put on israel to end it's prison camp mentality and ongoing descent into apartheid..
gibbs "We are--we believe that a credible and transparent investigation has to look into the facts. "
oh bullshit... look what happened with goldstones report... it was trashed, and the same thing would, or will happen here... lying freaks..
thanks for the map avi..
it will be some harbara bullshit response for sure......... that is what israel has descended into 24/7.
yes to your last question...
regarding the dissemination of news, i was reading glenn greewalds post where he quoted thomas jefferson "Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues of truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is freedom of the press. It is therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions."
i would like to highlight the last sentence ...""It is therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions.""
this defines modern day israel at present.. as for drudge - more cheap fluff - washington post lite -
here is greenwalds post
What does Israel fear from media coverage?
link to salon.com
this is like a rachel corrie moment... i am very sorry to hear of this and my wish is that israel will stop it's bullshit while the world community will say enough is enough to israel as well.. unfortunately a number of politicians don't get involved unless they are directly involved in this kind of thing thru a family member, or close friend.. i truly wish more politicians grew a backbone and if any out their are reading this, learn how to be independent and a voice for change instead of this bs...
i don't think prostitutes are being treated fairly, lowering them to comparisons with politicians..
re headline - ain't that the truth! mossad is a burden too for that matter... many folks think they turned a blind eye on 9-11...
yer part of the propaganda, so it is much harder for you to see..
don't want to bite the hand that feeds them????????????
it's a full throttled propaganda outlet... most folks know this...
i think the battles within the state dept ended during bushs tenure and they have not been resurrected during obamas...
quit referencing the washington post as any kind of credible news source.. it isn't... they may succeed in propagandizing some, but thinking, curious people go elsewhere..
based off some of what you say, i think you're nuts...
i think you need to be banned from phil and adams site... this is the 2nd post i have read from you that is off the map in terms of ignorance...
who exactly is ramping up the tension? for most i think it is obvious that is all that israel ever does.......
the big cheese amerika will have nothing to do with it... it's a zionist controlled country... same bs with the goldstone report... i guess we have to wait til israel drops a nuke, in self defense of course, before the incredible stupidity stops...
kudos to all of these people signing onto this... they are a breathe of fresh air in an otherwise polluted 'israel-centric atmosphere....
hey, where have i heard that label applied here???
fortunately for israel they've imposed a media blackout in the area which translates this way : israel will get it's own version out and everyone else can fuck themselves.... not everyone is stupid...
israels excuse? self defense... lol
i guess murders have to keep on coming up with different story lines...
those who are silent on this and all other horrific actions taken by the israel gov't are complicit...
the jewish attachment to victim status explains much of the reason behind there consistently inhuman actions....
israel is now a pariah nation in the eyes of many.. this response here will only reinforce it more strongly...
they run prisons the same way zamaaz.... these parallels are valid.. israel is an apartheid state increasingly at odds with the world community...
institutionalized norms for murdering people... what does that remind me of? geez zamaaz, you are making some very bad parallels here..
i'm sure the nazi's had a similar outlook... look where your folks have fallen to...
witty we see who is showing fear and resistance - the zionists as per usual... that is why they kill and murder - they are becoming more inhuman by the day being driven by it...
the distinction between islamic fanaticism and zionist fanaticism is become less distinct by the moment... is what the jewish community wants the world to acknowledge???
ain't gonna happen without a lot of work... part of the usa is zionist without having the slightest idea of the impact of their ideology on those that have to live in israel... being a zionist now equates with being a racist supporting apartheid israel.. this is what these zionists are supporting regardless of there liberal pretensions otherwise..
don't point out double standards to witty... they interfere with his zionist ideals...
i think walt is pushing beinart to be more forthright in answering some of the questions he's left unanswered in his article, while also asking him some very pointed questions on the conflict that seems to plague more then a few hardcore zionists - to what extent will you sacrifice your liberal views to continue to support an increasingly intolerant zionist one? walt has also taken the opportunity to point out what must be obvious to anyone: he and mearsheimer were trailblazers... good for him for asking these questions... answers from the zionists are long overdue and have never been forthcoming... beinart while acknowledging the obvious conflict has avoided being direct in stating where his allegiance lies - liberalism, or zionism... one can't have both as they are clearly moving in opposite directions....
folks here are on to this... only a fool would take silence as an effective cover for buffoonery...
rachel,
the coincidences don't go unnoticed... you can be forgiven for exchanging joooos with israel.... there are a number of jooos that seem to identify so closely with 'the motherland' that i think they exchange these 2 terms quite regularly.. perhaps these same folks think they are one and the same... perhaps this suits some as well...
you can't expect the man to make a complete idiot of himself by answering this question tgia... after that, it becomes embarrassing for even him!
many feel israel actively wanted the usa to go to war in iraq.... i don't think calling someone racist for expressing this viewpoint furthers your position any...
"Furthermore, as an American, you don’t get to decide shit "
annie - just remember to keep all the financial and military support to israel in place, but other then that.... "you don't get to decide shit, lol"...
good one rachel...
i'm with annie....
i think he got sidetracked by what to me are very positive posts and developments as well... this post is very positive, as are the comment section on the evolution of the bds movement...
turn another blind eye mr zionist here at mondo... how many have you got??
acting like a true democracy, lol...
reminds me of the saying 'a pickpocket only sees your pockets.'
a violent person/country can only see violence...
it is provocative to draw attention to the plight of the palestinians and gaza... indeed if you're wanting to enforce silence on this issue, anyone raising it will be considered 'provocative' by these demented zionists, not to mention the ones who don't think they're racist...
zionism is racism.....
it gets expressed as an unhealthy extreme form of nationalism as well...
nationalism- not racism... there is a difference... as we see in israel it is racism, not nationalism, thus it's apartheid state..
my comment was in relation to the thread the absence of any acknowledgment on your part.. it may seem strange, but in all the threads that could bring a tear to any persons eye, instead it is used by once again as an opportunity for to generalize/trivialize....
is it small minded of you to not openly acknowledge the plight of those in this article which are a direct result of the cult of zionism you so cherish????
entirely appropriate actually...
ditto big time...
"""intellectual terrorist""... cute...who is saltof to know anyway??? is this what so many of those wanting to support apartheid israel are too? aside from being morally depraved, we could throw this term for them out there too...
mooser, yer killin me!~ but witty is fairing much worse!
lol - too true!
rachel comment "He is not making excuses nor pushing any propaganda points." i want what you're smoking! if you can't see what hophmi is intentionally leaving out in an attempt to maintain a lopsided position, then their is no hope for you either.... if that is what your and hophmi's position relies on, it is very tenuous at best and tedious for the rest of us to put up with either of you...
"And this is why Israelis are reticent about negotiating – they do not believe the other side is sincere"
could it be that palestinians and increasingly the rest of the world don't believe that israel is sincere hophmi? israels actions display a lack of sincerity and have for a very long time... i think you are very out of touch, but i doubt you will honestly ask the question i put to you as you are too busy making all the right talking points, convincing yourself in your moral superiority... too many of your comments can be directly challenged for what they don't say, more then what they do say... this one i point to is just one of many examples from reading your comments here this morning..
i didn't realize the nyt or the wapo was serious!
indeed.. zionists support jewish superiority not democracy... they can't do both!
your comments will do much to further the opposite result that you're probably hoping for.... kkk's last stand is '''jewish'' race purity??? go for it bigballs..
good point! israel would like to make the cake, but have others eat it.. the problem becomes one for the jewish people of the world... devotion to zionism does not equate with liberalism, quite the opposite...
ditto colins response here - excellent point james... the same situation exists in canada, perhaps more so...
the saban and zuckermans of the media realm don't help israel or the jewish people any with their slanted coverage... like a dam that is close to overflowing, many more people will continue to get greater exposure on issues from a more neutral position thanks to the w&m's, phil weiss's and etc. etc. of the internet world.... the tide is rising and these folks days of having influence in a propaganda kind of way, are numbered...
thanks for this post phil which also highlights your own personal pathway.. w&m certainly opened a door that wasn't opened before in a major way and i am grateful to them for that... say what one wants about what they wrote about, they got a conversation going that was sorely needed... thanks for your continuation in the process...
the choices are pretty pathetic aren't they? all the while israel claims itself a democracy... it's a good catchphrase but nothing more... 'apartheid' is much more applicable then 'democracy'.... neither of these 2 have the guts to address that, while talking all the talking points...
richard - good point... you are never open but rather opaque on moments like this where you could say something in opposition to the zionist bullshit you support, these men holding to the same set of values no doubt... you move around here like a jellyfish about to be swallowed by a predator.... keep it up as it suits you swimming in waters where you're out of your 'league'...
witty, not to pick on you but it would seem that all the platitudes in the world will not change the moral depravity expressed by some... in this example a person was evicted from her home... you can side with the zionists and call yourself a liberal all you want... your support for the men in this picture tells the truth to what your ideological position and liberal values amount to, which is to say, less then a hill of beans my friend...
based on your words and actions here witty i would say you are still a zionist thru and thru....
those 2 pics together sums it up well.... too bad some folks are so slow to see how ugly their own behavior is and intentionally or otherwise makes others life one of suffering as is the case with this lady displaced from her home...we know who richard witty identifies with in the picture...
right wing nut stew sells well here via the propaganda press in canuckland... apparently we're striving to be as dumbed down with harper as the usa got with bush... so far it's working....
huff post is a bullshit site, with financing from the usual suspects.... i never go their, and i have no idea why anyone else does either...
phil quote to which i heartily agree with.... "I am saying that all the f—ing excuses that the two Catholic writers made for their beloved church are being made all the time for the Jewish state by our journalists; it is in the culture of our journalism; and meanwhile there is no Moss-Coane to jump on them and keep them honest. I wonder if she’s ever covered the Israel/Palestine situation with half the honesty she covered the Catholic scandal, let alone the question of how it is corrupting our politics. I bet she hasn’t. Has she ever had on Palestinians to talk about the separate roadways in the West Bank, and then asked why Americans are supporting Jim Crow conditions? "
countries are allowed to kick people out who represent countries and doctrines that don't give a shit about basic things like falsifying passports, etc, or worse....
glad you agree with bds.. now tell your zionist friends to adopt it and quit acting like chicken shits..
mondoweiss going to cover this any time soon?
UC Berkeley student senate votes in favor of divestment
link to uruknet.com
morgan - thanks for writing your story here... i appreciate your sharing.... friends come and go and the ones that stick around longer are often the ones that are capable of appreciating you in all your wobbles.... i would willing let go of any friend i had if they weren't able to accept the growing pains and curves that life generally brings all people... maybe later these same folks will view you in a different light, but for the time being accept the ones that appreciate your openness and curiosity and don't worry about the ones that don't... they will eventually come around, after you have made many more!!
the diversity of opinion on this latest fall out or not, reflects an ongoing non event.... this has been repeated endless times and if one isn't already disillusioned by a brief study of the history on us/israel politics, a few more years will surely fix it....
ditto joseph.... these folks can't stand the light, or heat... the resentment from the local zionists here at mondoweiss tells you when you're getting thru, in spite of their attempts to blow any view off that hasn't been fabricated in zionistland...
confusing hey, when it is a jew and they aren't offering the typical hasbara....
i like your thinking and get from it the idea that perhaps the label zionist is more connected to communist then anti-zionist... also, i agree with your last sentence... unless it happens soon, zionism is dead in the water... the tide looks irreversible and it is going in the wrong direction for zionism...
"Should tragedy ensue, what would those who actively aided and abetted Israeli conduct offer by way of an excuse?"
it is happening in regular doses already and we see how these same people aid and abet israel.... nothing will change if it is just a continuation of the same.... something extreme would have to happen to wake these same people up.... apparently it hasn't been extreme enough for them, as they are not the palestinians living it daily..
philip, i am delighted you are focusing on some of the dynamics here in canada... more is needed and this is helpful... thanks...
ditto the letter shmuel.. thanks... bruce - those are good ideas too... i hope someone follows thru with them...
harper was doing a similar ploy for the zionists a few months ago... unfortunately it is tit for tat in politics here in canada as well so i guess iggy felt he had to jump in.... one of them wants to be a bonehead leader and the other follows in like fashion... it's the way of politicians, especially if there is a possibility of increasing your election, or election payroll chances... who cares about principles? these 2 don't... principles are just a passing afterthought...
lets not call rabble.ca progressive... regressive wanting to be progressive might be a better description...
i think so.... funny!
those are all good reasons and i think it is a good idea....
ot - juan cole has an interesting article from today some here would find thought provoking...
link to juancole.com
denial isn't a specialty of any particular race, but more a reflection on a certain un-evolved part of human nature....
i agree with your conclusions... using guilt to inflict pain on others doesn't seem all that kosher...
Michael - thanks for sharing your perspective here with us... i hope more open minded people like yourself get a chance to experience the i/p issue first hand with the thought that this awareness would be expressed politically in the usa at some point in the future, sooner then later hopefully...
more of a sense of humour might change your view!
one wonders how much they are told, especially knowing how hostile their leadership was towards the goldstone report... i think the idea of many of them knowing of there countries use of white phosphorus, let alone the infinite number of other examples of their countries hostility expressed regularly thru a special brand of racism is unlikely, or nil in the case with this women... yonira, tell me it ain't you!!!
change his name to bozo...