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  • If only it was just one tweet: One activist's experience in the 'Our Land' Facebook group
    • You cannot support the Palestinians, just as you cannot support slaves, just as you cannot support the oppressed. What you can support is the resistance to oppression, slavery etc.

      Manners is a concept invented by the oppressor, to regulate the oppressed. It is used to regulate the tone of any objection to oppression.

      That way, if the oppressed got too emotional or uppity about his circumstance, the oppressor could indignantly protest the unmannerly and disgusting behavior of the uppity n***er/Sand N****r/moon worshiper or ... whatever! People only tut tut when the oppressor is merely impolite. He really has to get seriously murderous before the slightest possibility exists for voices to be raised in protest.

      It is instructive that people who successfully throw off their chains, are always the really, really impolite ones ; bombers, killers, really rude people
      The revolutionary black rebellion in in South Africa rejected the participation of white revolutionaries, despite the ANC policy of Inclusion. The ANC Failed in their efforts, ongoing over a period of some 70 Years, even though they became the mainstream inheritors of the leadership of the transition of power, and gained great legitimacy amongst all population groups.

      It is also instructive that the most successful resistance movement in the ARAB world, is Hezbollah, who have no Jewish Solidarity movement!!

      This movement needs a little less guidance from the rebellious offspring of the Zionist movement giving Instructions. Abunimah should go on practicing his PC Chic, he may inherit the earth, but he is absolutely useless as a revolutionary. Revolutions eat their young. He is too sensitive to be one.

      A Luta Continua!!!

  • What's the difference between South Africa and Israel?
    • [White South Africans, however they might fear black people, could not have such a worldview because they had no historical experience of genocide]

      This is not correct on two levels. The Boer underwent the first documented concentration camp genocide of the 20th century during the Anglo/Boer war.

      "Swart Gevaar" or 'Black threat' was a pillar of the the separation or "apartheid" policy. That Whites people could not risk living on an equal footing with Black People because Black people would slaughter the Whites and drive them into the sea.

  • US demands Palestinians drop statehood bid as Israel does a mad dash to build support at the UN
    • I think the difference is that they all visited Gaza, and shunned HAMAS. Not sure if Erdogan is doing the same.

  • Will Libya victory feed western hubris?
    • Aye, Aye!
      Horse manure is putting it lightly.

      A cruise missile liberal mind all works the same - some atrocity agitprop, and add water.

      The reality is that they did not attack Libya because of Ghadaffi, they attacked Ghadaffi because of Libya. Now they have to kill him. They were quite upset that his daughter and wife "got away" - according to Anthony Lowenstein.

      Don't forget that Mondoweiss endorsed the military intervention - can't trust a liberal. Neo-connism always lurks just below the surface.

      They wouldn't mind Israel Bombing Gaza, if only Israel could construct a narrative that said Hamas was attacking and killing its own people. That Philip Weiss could easily endorse.

  • South African airport put on lockdown for Israeli delegation's arrival
  • Be careful when you play that Jewish card
    • It's really simple, being Jewish is like Israels borders - undefined. There is a reason it is so; it is useful to beat everyone around the head with, for breaking rules that are impossible to understand. One can then be confirmed as an anti-Semite, without understanding how on earth you ever became one, or what exactly it was that made you one.

      Under these Kafkaesque parameters, the only alternative is to proclaim that being an Anti-Semite is a moral imperative. Otherwise we are playing by impossible rules, and the Palestinian will find it impossible achieve any degree of fairness. The game is stacked against them. Palestinians will always be on the Hitler continuum. How on earth can one not be anti such a mindf*ck?

    • OK, so how is this any different from a non-European person with a fair complexion playing white?
      Is it more serious? The same? Irrelevant?

      Are you as upset as a White Afrikaner was, with someone contaminating the gene pool? Are you upset that he has misrepresented himself? Would you be upset that a non-European misrepresented himself as being a white European? How would you feel about a White person being upset about someone playing White? How should we feel about you being upset about someone playing at being Jewish?

      What is the beef here? He said he was Jewish ... so what? He obviously feels that there is something beneficial about being Jewish ... a superior state of being. That probably makes you feel uncomfortable, ... as it should. There is nothing superior, or better, or special about you at all, except perhaps some personal characteristics that has absolutely nothing to do with you being Jewish at all.

      But don't let me talk for you; does being Jewish make you feel special? Better than others who are not Jewish? Is that why you are upset? Perhaps you realize that you are just proud of the fact that you are Jewish ... you know as in "Jewish Supremacist" ... not because you hate others, but because that makes you feel you are better than others. Not saying this is the case; I don't really know. It does seem that way though.

  • It's apartheid-- Desmond Tutu endorses TIAA-CREF divestment project in N.C. newspaper
    • There were no racially or 'citizenship' separated roads in South Africa; so it is not a distinction without a difference, it is a totally irrelevant red herring.

  • Stolen Beauty boycott culture jam turns Ahava’s online marketing contest into a social media #FAIL
  • Arab uprisings, Angry Birds style
    • sorry that should be
      "Tribal Royalist from Benghazi and environs, against Libyans in the West."

      Surely it can't be that hard to provide a 'preview' button?

    • This is a nightmare - deja Vu all over again.

      Who can remember Iraq in 2003? Everybody opposed was called a Saddam lover. But a million were arguably killed for that Humanitarian Intervention. Kuwait - Million subsequently died on the back of "babies in Incubators slaughtered" atrocity propaganda. Now we have the Ghadaffi is a mad rapist propaganda.

      One thing I believe is evident from events - this rebellion is hardly a popular uprising. It is a sectarian putch. Rayalist.Tribalist from Benghazi and environs against Libyans in the East.

      Perhaps they have genuine grievances, but they hardly articulate them in a manner that allows us to understand, beyond crude political caricature - "Ghadaffi Bad - we good guys, because we want democracy." snorrrt! The certainly have you figured out.

      This is how I see them

      link to img69.imageshack.us

      Racist arseholes that have slaughtered, who knows how many, African Workers and black economic refugees; and raped, who knows how many, African women.

      Racist Arab arseholes who are a blight on Arab society, and a reminder that it is not only Racist Jewish supremacist we need to watch out for.

      That, combined with the obviously value added Libyan exports with fine Yankee accents who infest of media we watch and hear. tells me that this rebellion stinks, and is a counter revolution - no revolution at all.

      Give me one scenario that is not disgustingly horrible!

      If Ghadaffi has less than 50% support, even if it is mostly passive support, then a 'successful' rebellion means years if not decades of insurgent activity against the nascent post rebellion society.

      There seems to be absolutely no way any rebellion could garner more than an optimistic small majority of Libyan support. It will take a nanosecond, post revolution, for the rebel faction to splinter.

      So what has to happen in this 'democracy' is for one factional ideology and creed to be 'banned', as was ba'athism in Iraq. Banned, because they would automatically be the most organized and cohesive in any democratic election. This democracy will have to be gerrymandered to provide the 'rebels' with a victory.

      This the 'spring revolution' celebrated by the Arab liberals here, including Seham and Ahmed Moor. - Clueless, even if they believe they know better because we speak no Arabic beyond words that have vaulted the language barrier.

      This is a universal play, beyond cultural and language barriers - Opportunist taking advantage of public sentiment to skip one past everybody.

      And no, I don't believe that this is an Imperialist play either - even though the Imperialist are responding, as are the mainstream Liberals, like the reactionaries they are.

      They and their ilk have once again jumped the wrong express train - condemning the Libyan people to decades of purgatory ... and devaluing the very real and significant Egyptian revolution along the way, and enabling the hijacking of an important Arab renaissance their ridiculous sentimentality.

      I get the same sense from the Syrian 'Revolution'. Their are genuine grievances, but this rebellion is driven by sectarian Sunni interest. What happens in a democracy where everyone/most people will vote according to their sectarian interest?

  • Moor: it's not a war of western imperialism
    • "as an African" BS.

      The truth is that we have arbitrarily decided to support one faction of people against another from the same country on the basis of atrocity propaganda.

      This propaganda was disseminated from the United States Mainland in a continuous stream since the beginning of the Arab peoples intifadas. Almost always by Libyans with clear and strong American accents. No interpreters needed here.

      I don't trust it one little and am sorry to say that Gadaffis propaganda, albeit coming from the "savage" that he is, is way more credible than the propaganda against him.

      It is quite clear that the "anti-Regime" rebels are infested with an Arab supremacist worldview, and quite clearly anti-Black.

      So, 'as an African', I say; "f*ck them", clearly and loudly.

      Ahmed should remember that Libya, Tunisia, Egypt are in Africa, not the Middle East. Africa stands with the Libyan people and against racist Arab Supremacist Islamist and Libya nRoyalist Tribes with strong American accents.

  • 'It's an oil grab'
    • ah ... Human Rights Interventions - My Human Rights has to be enforced, but definitely not by me, someone else abrogates the right to enforce my Human Rights for themselves.
      This means that they assume the right to enforce others rights; which morphs into the right to bomb Human Rights abusers ... and the right to cause collateral damage.

      Human Rights therefore becomes a tool to create more mayhem and carnage that would arguably have been the case in the first instance.

  • What is the left's answer to military intervention in Libya?
    • Why would the 'West' or the Security Council Intervene? Because Gadaffi is killing his own people? Because he is using aircraft to kill them? What exactly would be their beef?

      Let's not be silly, the 'West', or even the Security Council has no problem with either of those things - Killing your own people, or using aircraft to do it. Just witness Gaza; if you ignore the legal fiction that they are not 'your own people'.

  • Let the tribute fit the crime
  • How the world can jolt Israel from its moral collapse
    • Then how do you explain the campaign to prevent that Palestinian American from holding the controlling shares in the Israeli Settlement property Development Company?

      It would be simple and less expensive, buy every Settlement Development Company, liquidate them and pass the land back to the Palestinian Authorities.

      All you do is throw bulldust in the eyes.

  • Ahmed Moor: The people are utterly undaunted, they have held Tahrir, anything less than Mubarak's ouster means nighttime arrests by secret police
    • Is there something wrong with the formatting? The archives for feb seem to have dissapeared, and this is the only post appearing on the homepage.

  • Neocons to lecture Obama on Monday
  • Goldberg-Ibish (and Malley-Agha) counsel Palestinians to give up their bargaining tools
    • I thought that Ibish was Lebanese not Palestinian. perhaps he is 50% Palestinian, 50% Lebanese 100% Puppet

  • IDF pushes claim that 'Palestinians lied' about Jawaher Abu Rahma's killing
    • I found the post by Ahmed Moor.
      [http://mondoweiss.net/2011/01/report-from-bilin-and-meeting-jawaher-abu-rahmah.html]
      One of the pictures he puports to be of her saying:

      ["We exchanged a few words of encouragement before I snapped her picture, when she was still someone’s mother.
      I wish I knew how distressed she was"]

    • I am certain I saw a photo published on mondoweiss of Jawaher taken on the day. It can't be that far back.

      From what I read, the Israelis are claiming no photo of her at the protest exists.

  • Aubrey Chernick and the nexus of Islamophobia
    • [Why is the AJC accepting any money at all from Aubrey and Joyce Chernick? Is that “clean” money by any reasonable standard?]

      hophmi
      [I fail to see what is dirty about it.]

      reprise ...
      [Have the AJC, ADL, AIPAC and Simon Wiesenthal Center taken a strong public stand against the kind of anti-Muslim hate speech being promoted by Aubrey Chernick, ... ...]

      hophmi
      [The AJC and ADL have taken strong stands against anti-Muslim hate speech. Those are the biggest and most important civil rights organizations in the Jewish community.]

      [Why is the AJC accepting any money at all from Aubrey and Joyce Chernick? Is that “clean” money by any reasonable standard?]

      hophmi
      [I fail to see what is dirty about it.]

      *7^#@$$$4!!! .... tingtingtingtingting !^%$@^() ...... TILT

  • Report from ground zero
    • While the opposition to these mosques are reflexive and bigotted, it is curious that the one in New York is supported by the resident Zionist in that city.

      The angry Arab points to the New york article about the Imam Rauf that is indicative of the level of suspicion of about him.

      Elsewhere Ikras are scathing about Imam Rauf and other becuase of the zionist nature of many of his public statements.

  • Why 'hafrada' shouldn't replace apartheid in our discussions about Israel/Palestine
  • People Are Talking About BDS
    • It does not claim that Israel is the only country perpetuating these types of violations and crimes, but it is calling Israel’s bluff – if you purport to adhere to the standards of a healthy western democracy, then you cannot benefit from the justification that your circumstances warrant an exemption, or that in your neighboring countries far worse atrocities take place. And its message is that once you become what you preach, normalized relations will resume.

      Here’s my problem with a statement like this; it is a dodge. It purports to cast aspersions on Israeli hasbara, but is itself a hasbara construct.
      One would have to cast a broad geographical, historical and categorical net to construct a similitude of the image the statement is trying to convey; that there are many despicable regimes that commit atrocities on the scale that is the Israel practice. One would have to gather a Hama from way back, assemble it with the Iran/Iraq war, stir in the Lebanese Civil war, with a beheading or two from Saudi Arabia, add a splash of Taliban crimes, and mix in a generous dose of Jewish Islamophobia, then pretend that this concoction matches, or exceeds, the atrocities that Israel commits routinely and consistently over decades.

      There is no Normalising Israel; for Israel, this is normal ... and routine ... and inbred.

  • 'New School' convenes legalistic panel to bash Goldstone with no advocate for the other side
    • David Kretzmer, Fred Abrahams, Rudi Teitel. Are these people all Jewish? At this rate it seems to be a moral imperative to be anti-Semitic. I just can't help but be bombarded with a sense of just how completely Jewish this blog is. Are the non-Jews tolerated as pets?

      What's the deal, do you at least acknowledge that this is not entirely a Jewish issue, and that at best the Jewish angle is marginal? Yes, it is entirely irrelevant that Jews are involved except to note the Jewish characteristic claims of the entire criminal endeavor. Other than that it is entirely irrelevant.

      You need to get over yourselves.

  • Sri Lanka/Gaza
    • Anthony may believe that these crimes outweigh the Gaza crimes, but no government anywhere consistently and continuously conducts air raids and guided missile attacks against its own captive population for more than half a century. You may well find instances of more abhorrent atrocities, but Israel takes some beating in the evil empire stakes.
      This post is pregnant with the reflexive Hasbara that emits from the Zionist superlight dialogue you engage in, as you try to tippy toe your way through the hideous reality maze that is the Jewish occupied discourse you inhabit.

  • One-state solution is debated in California congressional race
    • For one thing 40 years is not tomorrow. For another thing the Palestinian Israelis have lived under democracy even though it is second class, they have lived in a democracy for quite a while, 60 years or 44 years since the end of military government, so there is less risk involved in evolving from a Jewish state to a state for all its citizens.
      Living as a second class citizen in a democracy is an oxymoron.

  • History and Hebron
    • The Nazi treatment of Germany's Jewish Population was a horrific crime against humanity. The loathsome nature of the targeted harassment of the Jewish population in episodes such as Kristillnacht is almost unimaginable. The terror, the fear, and the stupefying helplessness.

      To get an idea of what it was like; look to the current treatment of the Palestinian population in Hebron by the Jewish Settlers, with the complicity of the occupying Israeli Government.

  • Israeli annexation of Old City has led to bigoted spitting (and the AJC knows about it)
  • Will a Israel-Hamas prisoner swap mark the end of the PA?
    • "A lot of noise. Not much reading.

      Ok, I'll bite.

      On the subject of Institution Building, I have been wondering:

      Over the past 42-43 Years that Israel has been in charge of the West Bank, or even the 26 years prior to the Oslo accords, How many hospitals has Israel built in the West Bank or Gaza? Schools? Any infrastructure for the use of the population whatsoever? Roads? Bridges?

      I thank you in advance for this information.

  • More neocon-symp stuff from the 'Forward'
    • Islam ist vorbotten!!!

      The issue is not that this is an attack on Ramadan. The goal is to discourage the idea that anyone would proudly proclaim themseleves to be a Muslim, and by implication a believer in the Quran, Muhammed or Shariah.

      The idea is to challenge any such public proclaimations.

      As perverse as it sounds, it is this persecution that will be the undoing of the Islamophobes.

  • Why we write
    • I watched the video on Jahan Hari posted on Lowenstein's blog. I am sorry, this guy cannot say the word Islam without also talking aboutkilling Apostates, gays and non-believers. He is a unrepentant Islamophobe. He wouldn't even allow the other bloke to talk without constantly interjecting "kill gays:, "murder apostates" etc. etc. ad infinitum.

      Please don't insult our intelligence with this drivel about "reformed Islamists". Is that like "reformed Jews", or "Reformed Zionist"?

  • a new reality is dawning on world leaders
    • "Israelis and Palestinians are not separated by boundaries (US/Mexico/Canada/etc. all irrelevant). They are separated by occupation and a political-legal system that does not recognise their equality."

      They are separated by a legal fiction.

  • Squaring the circle and erasing the margins
    • J Street reminds me about what someone once said about washing clothes in cold water; you only end up with cleaner germs. J Street is merely J wash. This is not "unprecedented", it is routine for the "Jewish Community" to "reform" itself. It is survival 101.

  • Amira Hass: NYT runs Israeli propaganda, and U.S. is blindered to absence of Palestinians' rights
    • She is saying that the situation is a totalitarian nightmare and that Bernstein’s remarks are another indication of this. His remarks bear no relation to the reality.
      If you did not assert that you were being serious, your arguments could easily be mistaken for parody. Unfortunately they are pseudo arguments, and an embarrassment to anybody reading them. Obviously, embarrassment is not an issue for you.

  • At last, Arab pressure on Obama to cut off US funding for West Bank colonies
  • At NYU, devilish Shlomo Sand predicts the Jewish past and pastes the Zionists
    • It is disappointing that people have little time to debunk the misuse of this study of Y-chromosome Biallelic Haplotypes amongst semitic peoples. The study itself was not peer reviewed, but what is alarming is the racist misuse of the data, which at its core does not suggest what people assert it does: that Jewish people around the world have similar genes and DNA. The reality is that Ashkenazi Jews do have similarities with Arab Jews, because they spring from a similar gene pool centered around the central Asian region. The similarities are hundreds of centuries old, not a few humdered or thousand years.

      What was not not studied was the similarities they have with Turkic people, with whom they probably have even more direct and recent similarities.

      link to insideassyria.com

      Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh had a lot to say about the politicization of Gene Pool Studies which he likens to the practice of Eugenics in the United States in the Early 20th century. I also read somewhere of the embarrassment experienced by the professional scientific community of the misuse of scientific study due to the influence of politically motivated funding. But embarrassment is not an issue for some here - its similarity to Nazi scientific studies notwithstanding.

    • There seems to be some proof that there is a high percentage of DNA that Jews have in common with Palestinians. I am not a biologist; but this is what I’ve heard.

      You need to simply abandon this line of thinking. What you heard is wrong, there is no study that proves Jewish common DNA with Palestinians. Someone did a study that Zionist twisted to mean what it did not mean; much to the embarrassment of professional Jewish DNA Scientist. I am no Scientist but even I could see they were talking in terms of eons - tens of thousands of years, not hundreds or thousands of years.

      The study came out about ten years ago and Zionist jumped on it to 'prove' their assertions, but even the Venda people of the northern Transvaal in South Africa had more of that DNA in their little finger than all the Jews of Europe had in their entire family chain. Ridiculous nonsense.

    • He's not a racist neo-Nazi, he is a Zionist. Neo-Nazis are well known for their Miscegenation - having created entire new categories of race classifications, as is well known. No, Zionist practice crypto racism; casting the blame of their hate onto others they also hate.

  • Jeffrey Goldberg says 'nakba' never happened
    • So what is the purpose of memorializing the Armenian genocide MRW? What is the purpose of memorializing any genocide, except to provide a podium to launch the next war?

  • Shlomo Sand's 'The Invention of the Jewish People,' reviewed by Jack Ross
    • It is very difficult to read the primary literature for those without some basic training is genetics — all of these summaries I just mentioned are based on statistical analysis of gene frequencies, linkage groups, haplotypes, and other technical terms. They are based on analyzing hundreds of thousands of polymorphisms and indentifying a few thousand that support one hypothesis or another.

      Not to mention that these studies posit theories that extrapolate data with frequencies over tens of thousands of years. We are nor talking about common haplotypes over generations, but eons. Transposing the data top represent "common Markers" overs generations is voodoo science and these studies severely embarrassed serious scientist in Israel and elsewhere. Even the Venda tribes of South Africa had these "common Markers"

    • Phil calls himself a Jew. I call myself a Jew. Mooser calls himself a Jew.Naomi Klein calls herself a Jew. My chabad rabbi neighbor calls himself a Jew. My wife’s cousin in Toronto calls herself a Jew. My Hungarian speaking mother-in-law calls herself a Jew. Falashas call themselves Jews.

      Yes, but have of these people had any personal experience of anti-semitism? Not a measly 'unfriendliness', but actual fair-dinkum anti-semitism. Please, only first-person experiences.

  • Goldstone forgot his loyalty oath
    • Sorry, my html is horrible

      the link is <a href=http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7q9gQnnZKIglZwUFHJVMiFcmUvMxXz0xdPsWtygpuhGqL41vvlMBoXn1DbkRtDb39ZkftJqhasuZY9ALgjPtvPUSbUvu8U3EAadz5JLk%2bIEw%3d title=Abbas Perfidy

      Why no preview function?

    • More Important is the breaking news that Israel had a meeting with the PA Reps and an Israeli delegation in Washington prior to the Human Rights Council vote in which damning video evidence was presented showing Abbas urging Barak to continue the attack on Gaza. A Taped telephobe conversation between Dov Weinglass and Abbas aide Tayib Abdekrahim where Tayib urges Weinglass to invade Jabaliya and al-Shati Refugee camps.

      The detail is staggering
      (blockquote>The source told Shihab that the PA officials initially rejected the Israeli request, until Israeli officer Eli Ofarham showed up and displayed on his laptop a videotaped file showing Mahmoud Abbas urging Israel war minister Ehud Barak to continue the war on Gaza.

      The sources also revealed that the PA official also listened to a recorded telephone conversation between director of the general staff office Dov Weissglas and Abbas’s aide Tayeb Abdelrahim in which the latter called on Israel to invade the refugee camps of Jabaliya and Al-Shati and said that the fall of those camps would end the rule of Hamas.
      Abbas urged Barak to continue the war on Gaza and Abelrahim called on the Israelis to invade Jabalya and Shati refugee camps to finish off Hamas.

      Weissglas, according to the record, said that this would lead to thousands of casualties among citizens, but Abdelrahim stressed that they all elected Hamas and chose their own destiny.(/blockquote>

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