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Zionism is Racism. The UN had it right years ago...
As I have said many times, Israel has been a huge disaster for both the USA and for itself. How long can one say black is white or white is black? Which leads me to this observation - while I was watching the PBS documentary "Muhammad Ali: Made in Miami" I could not help thinking of how the view of the South in the late 1950s and early 1960s for African-Americans - the "Whites Only" mentality of segregated restaurants, bathrooms, neighborhoods, the back of the bus, the lack of or suppressed voting rights, the arrests and beatings and use of police dogs by the police for wanting the simple freedom to live their lives with dignity - all reminded me of the Palestinians living right now in both Israel and the "Occupied Territories." So why is the former African-American resistance heroic - and the contemporary Palestinian resistance to Israel's racist policies "acts of terrorism" by an "invented people" as the great humanitarians Gingrich and Adelson call them?
Lowe's IS sponsoring the 18 part series : The Life of Anne Frank - starring Rob Schneider as Anne Frank..
Israel is a failed state and as such deserves trillions...
This is the same strategy that Norman Finkelstein talks about when discussing the Zionist claim of "the new anti-semitism" - simply a strategy to distract US public opinion from what the Israeli government does on a daily basis to the Palestinians.
Kristol whines and cries and pouts from his safe, insider postion in Washington.
This is both a distraction and specifically a warning to Obama about his re-election.
Kristol is disgusting.
Like Shakira singing for Hamas. What would happen to her career in the US?....
"While we recognize Israel's need to ensure its security"...???
Really? If sad, impoverished Gaza is a threat to Israel's massive military and nuclear weapons, how pathetic and weak is Israel?
This is what happens when - as I said before - you have a faux country like Israel, totally dependent on the USA.
..and who will replace the precious Dennis "The Menace" Ross?
Perhaps the delightful Jennifer Rubin?...
The Arab Spring is just fine since the US had no real power to stop it anyway. Egypt is after all a real country - unlike Israel which is a construct of the US government and the American tax-payers.
The "Palestinian Spring" will never happen if the US has its usual, cynical Jewish Lobby-driven way. Obama is a cynical, little man whose number one interest - like all politicians - is getting re-elected. Look at his recent cowardly decision on the tar sands bill.
The twisted, corrupt US political system insures that the Palestinians will never receive real help, support, compassion or honest brokering from the US government. It is an impossibility for any politician who wants to be president or even in Congress. Yes, just ask John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt - or 99% of this planet...
When doesn't Netanyahu lie?....
Obama, Clinton, other murderers...
Yes - held to a different standard - No consequences for their murderous actions...
..."if we can actually resolve the Palestinian-Israeli crisis..."
How? Through "negotiations" with Israel?
Does Obama believe a word of what comes out of his own mouth?
Does he realize how much of a prostitute he is?
I watched the entire video (which is excellent - thank you) and the only thing that amazes me is how all this information is still either unknown or dismissed by most Americans as the ravings of crazies and Charlie Sheen. Based on the evidence presented here - and the fact I watched the WTC collapse right in front of my own eyes that day in New York - it seems we are indeed "sheeple" and truly can't handle the truth.
I never believed in the 9/11 story or fairy tale based on my simple observation and later conversations with two FDNY firemen friends who were there that day.
Yes, " lies by ommission are the most effective kind. "
We still as a nation can't handle the truth - especially when it emanates from the Middle East as Egyptian democracy.
Helen Thomas. Enough said...
Maybe The Forward should be called The Backward now.
Think of Havana, Cuba before and after the Cuban Revolution - the same ignorant tourist lament.
Quote: U.S. Ambassador Joseph Lebaron arranged a meeting with al-Jazeera’s director general, Wadah Khanfar, to express concern that the network’s reporting from Gaza was harming the U.S. image “in the Arab street.”
Someone should tell Ambassador Lebanon or Lebaron or whatever his name is not to worry. Nothing could harm the US's image in the "Arab street."
There are zero degrees in weather only - not unpopularity.
Some people on this site act like Israel has EVER accepted the Palestinian right to even exist - except as slaves.
It is always about Israel. What Israel wants. What Israel "fears."
Quite sickening to see so many millions of people in the Middle East crushed by US policy because of poor little Israel.
As I tell reactionaries who cry "The Palestinians want to destroy Israel!"
"If that is so, then you must accept equally that Israel is dedicated to the complete destruction of anything Palestinian.
Good job Obama you coward..
Just read some of the comments on Phillip Weiss's piece 'Why is America so afraid?' on Salon. Boy, oh boy the right-wingers are mad at ole Phil.
The funniest is the complaint in regard to Egypt: "What has any of this got to do with the Jews"
And others to the effect: "that's right - blame the Jews!"
Rummy's "Democracy is messy" should be changed to "Democracy is very scary...
New Vice President of what exactly?
It is like being appointed vice president of the Titanic...
Let this corrupt ship of thieves sink ASAP - and take Chris Matthews and all the American journalistic Mubaraks with him.
America - your pants are down and you can't pull them up again...
This is why Julian Assange is in such danger. The USA and the PA are revealed for what they are - the USA an enemy of democracy around the world and the PA a quisling . I expect this behavior from the USA, but the PA is truly repulsive.
Have you read "The stubborn innocence of the cultural void" at all? I am referring to the compartmentalization present in the examples given above. Hipster at home and military occupier in the West Bank/Gaza/"Occupied Territories" during the mandatory one month's military reserve duty. The ability of being able to effectively ignore what one's government is doing on a daily basis and go about an ordinary (moral) life.
It is happening in the USA as well as Israel, though one could also argue in Israel at least there is a mandatory military service - something nonexistent in the USA. Look what happened to Charlie Rangel for daring to say we need a draft in this country to stop the endless US wars.
Yes, the Afghanistan War - 2001 on and counting.
Sure is plenty of opposition. I see people marching in the streets every day.
Same damn thing. Same indifference.
Isn't this the same as life in the USA? The same indifference to what the US military does around the world on a larger scale? I'm surprised there is no cultural boycott of the United States, though of course, since the Capitalist Empire is ground zero for $$$$$$$, it probably won't happen.
I suggest Obama send his daughters to Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia the same way the Israelis send their children to occupy and humiliate the Palestinians on their own land. Then the Israeli hipsters can return to their apartheid apartments in Tel Aviv and rock out...
"Guess he always had his priorities straight, huh? " Well said.
Having grown up in Cambridge near Harvard and later moving to New York for 25 years, I understand this Peretz social scene well. I have seen it reproduced in the various worlds - art, poetry, dance, politics, etc. In New York I can't count how many times loud mouths uttering backward opinions got prominence because they had financial access to "free speech" - a free speech that is bought or sold according to income.
There's no Helen Thomas rule for Beinart - or Peretz, after reading the New York Magazine article. I didn't know Peretz married money. This knowledge makes him even more pathetic than I thought. No wonder he ended up a loud mouth in New York - a city full of and made for rich kids to play while everyone else goes to work.
Well a banana split has been ruled a multi-use weapon that could be used against Israel.
As some one who grew up practically next door to Harvard, I can tell you that Harvard has always been this way. So this comes as no surprise.
"Harvard University - Training the World's War Criminals for Over 350 Years"
There is just too much money to be made in promoting hate in America.
This Pamela Geller would have pleased Joseph Goebbels. Is the irony lost on her?
King Abdullah is not known as King PlayStation among many Arabs for nothing...
The very term "ground zero" points to the massive historical myopia of the average American. The entire planet is covered with "ground zeros" where innocent people have died, but because of the vanity and stupidity of my fellows, the death of 3000 people supersedes the millions of deaths perpetrated by the US government around the world and the deaths by the world wars fought in Europe during the 20th century alone. People claim this isn't representative of America, but George Bush was "re-elected" to a second term by the American sheep who baa in agreement to continue Bush tax cuts for the richest Americans who for some reason they identify with.
Cohen calls him a Jewish Frankenstein?
Couldn't it at least be a Jewish Finkelstein?
Loved the review. Pure bullshit - but what does anyone expect?
I am waiting for a second review from Dershowitz coming up soon in The Forward. This whole gang loves to beat up on one guy.
Sorry, I can't respond to this, but I'm too busy watching "The Diary of Anne Frank" on Masterpiece Theater on PBS.
Must remained brain-washed that ONLY Jews feel pain.
This is exactly right and why it continues.
The US puppet government (of Israeli ownership) now - on cue - issues a statement declaring this new Israeli military order "unhelpful."
Then back to the regularly scheduled ethnic cleansing...
"Fortunately for her Israel doesn’t have a death penalty for treason."
Just a permanent death penalty for being Palestinian.
Apartheid South African justice. As the song went then "The White man's Heaven is the Black Man's Hell."
The myth of poor little helpless Israel that made the desert bloom is kaput.
The myth of Israel as a democracy is kaput.
The myth that Israel wants peace.
And on and on...
That's what I mean.
"...exposing the dark underbelly of a nation that has worshipped for decades at the altar of a security state." Israel is all underbelly.
Let's add to that "Police smash Israeli organ-trafficking ring " from the BBC today and we have quite a picture of the modern state of Israel. The news keeps getting worse as the state system implodes as it meets the real world - not the faux one presented by the New York Times.
And what does George Packer's claim have to do with Israel and the Palestinians in 2010?
Nothing of course. Just a smear tactic by an opportunuist who hopes to rake in the bucks bending over for the NeoCons and AIPAC. There's more money in that..
Sorry to keep harping on the same note - but, again, do you really expect otherwise from so-called mainstream TV? It's why most people under 50 get their preferred news from the internet.
The lack of real depth and intellectual honesty is one of the reasons I do not have cable television and never will. It is a complete waste of time and money. As Ted Turner said one time in an interview about when he owned CNN: never step on the toes of Rupert Murdoch ( AIPAC - same thing).
By the way, Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower is a fascinating book. I read it twice since it was written like a suspense novel.
The very fact that The Human Scam, I mean The Human Scale ran for four nights in New York is very proof of the worthlessness of the play (sight unseen). If it had any teeth, it would not have played one night in New York. The descriptions you give of scenes in it are hollow. But then what can one expect? The New Yorker is the magazine of the generic, politically-correct species of Liberal.
I still remember Joseph Papp and his disgusting censorship of the Palestinian production of The Story of Kufur Shamma at The Pubic Theater over 20 years ago.
And then there is My Name is Rachel Corrie.
New York is sadly a glorified hick town...
Speaking from experience as of August 1981, I would have to say no.
I liked David Dinkins because after the race baiting of Koch, he calmed things down.
Then Crown Heights happened and it opened the door to Rudy "Mr. 9/11" Giuliani..
So that's a double no...
Sounds just like him. That's all "Ed Crotch," as I used to refer to him, has to offer - the dead six million Jews who died so Israel could bomb cheese factories. He was a lousy, racist mayor whom the New York Times always supported - especially when David Dinkins ran against him. Ed Koch, Gary Ackerman, the New York Times, etc. All rotten to the cheesy core....
Phil,
You answer your own questions in this piece as you write it. My late uncle talking about the Jewish Lobby in the late 1970s used to tell me that it practiced the most sophisticated form of book-burning: books critical of Israel were never allowed to be published.
Now since technology and the internet have made that impossible, the lobby and its protectors use the dwindling resources of the New York Times and NBC, among others, to perpetuate this fraud of Joan Peters proportions. The good news is that less and less people use either the New York Times or NBC or CBS ( where Larry Tisch as I remembered never wanted stories critical of Israel to be aired ) and those that do are literally dying out.
Thank you for pointing out that video to me. My comment stands - the Warsaw ghetto..
I was in Cambridge, Massachusetts during the summer of 1982 while on summer break from attending graduate school Columbia University. At Columbia I was fighting the whole Zionist mentality I have written elsewhere on this site about, while in Cambridge/Boston I was dealing with mostly non-Jews who swallowed the whole "making the desert bloom" narrative. One woman who was Irish-American literally screamed at me after I defended the Palestinians. It tuned out she spent a summer working on a kibbutz. When I mentioned it odd that a Christian woman could go from Virginia Beach (where she was originally from) to Israel and spend the summer there, while the very people who were born on the land were living in refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan and forbidden to return, she went nuts. Her sister had to stop her from hitting me.
This reaction was typical of that time.
Again it is remarkable that all these years later, the views of all these writers on this site have been vindicated.
I must admit the book made me very angry. It is bad enough to kill people by accident, but the whole history laid out by Finkelstein reminded me of everything I knew to be true from my own careful reading. I was screamed at and rejected by almost everyone I talked to about this — including people I considered good friends. In 1982 during the bombing of Beirut I mailed requests for money and medical supplies to most people I knew and found out the results of doing this - further rejection and ostracism. Finkelstein confirmed everything I found to be true in my own research.
Absolutely amazing to think some people consider Israel a democracy. I always wondered what kind of heartless bastards attend an AIPAC conference — aside from the US government heartless bastards like Hillary Clinton and Dennis Ross.
Having finished reading Norman Finkelstein's THIS TIME WE WENT TOO FAR, I am even more horrified at what Israel is and has been for almost its entire existence.
And I am happy that for the last 28 years I have spoken out and against this example of man's inhumanity to man. This really is the Warsaw ghetto...
Taxi,
This is all very interesting to read about you and your parents.
I think we could both write quite a bit on post September 11, 2001 in New York.
Witnessing it live in New York that terrible day, boy, did I get an ear-full!
When Kinky Friedman was voted "Jew of the Year" (as he referred to the award) by some American Jewish organization a few years ago, he was moderately pleased until he found out the previous year's recipient was Alan Dershowitz. As Kinky said: "If you made a pie chart of Dershowitz's brain, you would have 1% legal ethics and 99% Larry King Live."
Concerning [Paragraphs 1112-26] - all this will make interesting reading for future historians. Israel continues to be is its own worst enemy.
p.s.
I think I saw Bibi today in the Mitzvah tank parade down Fifth....
Since you mention it, NPR = National Puerile Radio as far as I am concerned. The great protector of the status quo as well as everything Israeli. I never listened to the worthless NPR in New York until I spent 2008-09 in Berlin, Germany and found only two radio stations broadcasting in English. Listening to NPR and the cowardly BBC during the murderous Israeli assault on Gaza, I disgusted me how they protected Israel - both pretending that this horrific assault was a war between equals. NR is good Zionist fare.
Pure Bushisms for a subject too hot for any mainstream discussion.
Maybe I'm wrong after all these years, but I seem to remember David Axelrod as a Henry "Scoop" Jackson kind of Democrat - an early lobbyist type for Israel and an activist against the sale of AWACs to Saudi Arabia in the early 1980's.
Maybe it was another Axelrod.
The more the Lobby smears people, the more it frees people who always knew the truth but were afraid to speak it. Now add Sullivan. It was always an amazing sight to see and hear people who should know better spouting lies. I feel like I'm seeing one a sand castles (AIPAC) built near the shore slowly falling apart (by the truth).
Really? Well the whole US "coalition against Iran" is for Israel and Israel's sake alone.
So how does that figure?
If Hillary Clinton whom I have always detested as a total liar and enabler - wanted to delivered "a stinging rebuke" to Netanyahu - she could have recommended and indeed cut Israel's billions down to size. But she, Congress and Obama would never allow this to happen to our "special friend" and "the only democracy in the middle east."
It is what is allowed and not allowed in the American for profit mass media. For example, it is allowed for celebrities to support and respect Nelson Mandela and speak about him on television - as long as his support for the Palestinians and a Palestinian state is not mentioned.
The same applies to Israel as a country. Only one view is allowed in the American mass media.
I have said for years that New York is just a glorified hick town. And getting more so every day. It will be in the "unimportant" small towns and cities across America where the Israel Lobby and BDS will be confronted - which is no disrespect to the brave people out last night. And what is the New York Times really? Just a large Arts & Leisure rag.
With 1600 you get a free egg roll.
But Bibi explains "these new settlements have been long in the planning" - i.e. forever and always..
In reality BDS is a way to insure Israel's survival, to make it a part of the world, not an isolated fortress state. A Brooklyn Jewish friend of mine named Marvin - a pretty tough guy by the way — once said to me out of the blue: "Israel just can't admit it made a mistake." Meaning you just can't take someone else's land and pretend it is all right.
This was from 1981 to 1983. Ironically there was one young woman who understood. She was German Jewish born in South Africa. Her grandparents had died in the Holocaust and her mother as an orphan had been sent to South Africa after WW II. She also studied with Edward Said at that time at Columbia as well.
The photo of Arafat in my studio pissed off a lot of Jewish students. One woman screamed about how corrupt Arafat and the PLO were. I remember thinking to myself "And how does this change the situation vis-à-vis the plight of the Palestinians?" It was a total "Hillel" response to reality.
At Columbia University in the early eighties I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by Zionism, etc....
It seems like nothing has changed at Columbia since I was at graduate school there. The same self-congratulatory Zionist bullshit. I still remember the hate I received for having Yasser Arafat's photo on the wall of my studio, especially since 65% of the students in the program were Jewish.
Hillel has always been a brainwashing unit of Zionism.
The creation of Israel has led to really dumbing down of Jewish thought in the USA.
Could the Helen Suzman exhibition be any more hypocritical?
I have had poor treatment as a potential "terrorist" here in the good 'ole USA - in both NY and North Carolina. I still remember the chemically treated swabs used to poke through my suitcase to find traces of bomb-making materials on my way back and forth from NY.
In Rome, Italy a security woman demanded to know where my grandparents where born after she looked at my "Semitic" features and decided I was a risk. She didn't like my previous answer that I was born in the USA. She had then asked "where were your parents born?" After hearing Boston, she was really pissed.
And in Vancouver, B.C I was isolated in a holding area. My elderly friend was told "stay back!" when she tried to approach me to see what the trouble was. I was "suspicious."
The in LaGuardia Airport in NY I was surrounded by a gang of immigration police and told not to move. They searched my bags and then one took my passport and disappeared with it for 25 minutes while I was stared at by everyone in the airport as a potential terrorist. I was told not to even move.
So my point is that it is not just Israel. It's right here in the USA.
Bill Keller as you suggest is in way over his head. He inherited the job by accident from Howell Raines (a real editor actually) by being the good company boy who doesn't ask questions. He follows orders and acts less like an editor than a delivery boy for among others AIPAC and the NeoCons (same thing). We know this of course, but it serves as a reminder not to expect responsible, intelligent or even, forbid, courageous behavior from Keller.
The endless drumbeat for war with Iran doesn't seem to bother the readers of the Times much. It' s what they go to the Times for. Their writers are primed for it like they were for Iraq. Bob Herbert is the lone exception to their array of right-winger columnists.
As for Efraim Karsh, he is the perfect choice for this mission and by going to him you know what you are going to get: a pro-war, pro-Israel view tailored for the Times.
How about a front page article by Amira Hass? Or Naomi Klein? Of course not. When you hear these names you are reminded of how far right the Times really is and how much American domestic and foreign policy is "manufactured consent."
"In a statement e-mailed to The Crimson, Weatherhead Center officials stated that Kramer’s comments fell within the realm of academic speech, which embraces controversy."
Like my alma mater Columbia, except when the speech is directed AGAINST Israel.
I didn't know that Fouad Ajami had a baby brother named Kamal....
If Martin Kramer keeps this up, he will be rewarded with a regular New York Times column. A nice book end for David Brooks.
An Inconvenient Truth.
Canadian minister: attack on Israel is an attack on Boca...
Having just read the January 28th story from palestinesolidarityproject.org that the "Israeli Military Announces Plan to Uproot New Trees in Saffa" (area of Beit Ommar) proves to me the utter falseness of the "Israel must learn the international language of human rights" article. The Israeli government is as cruel and determined as ever. The writer Gilad Heiman sounds unconvincing, as if the he might change his mind about this obscure idea of human rights even as he writes it.
The article sounds meant for an international online audience that Israel is trying to change its ways.
I expect to see more Mort Schmuckerman types to run for office as misguided attempts to prevent the news stories and opinion pieces presented on sites like this (and Jewish Voice for Peace among others) to have any negative impact on American foreign policy regarding Israel and the Middle East..
They as yet have little to worry about: Pantsuit Hillary said today that the US would protect its allies in the gulf from Iranian aggression with a “security umbrella” meant most likely to protect Israel. What Hillary and Mort never get is the fact that such actions only have the reverse effect.
I expect to see more Mort Schmuckerman types to run for office as misguided attempts to prevent the news stories and opinion pieces presented on sites like this (and Jewish Voice for Peace among others) to have any negative impact on American foreign policy regarding Israel and the Midle East..
They as yet have little to worry about: Pantsuit Hillary said today that the US would protect its allies in the gulf from Iranian aggression with a “security umbrella” meant most likely to protect Israel. What Hillary and Mort never get is the fact that such actions only have the revere effect.
Did anyone read the comment below on the KCJW site (with the word propaganda misspelled)? Says it all..
"written by Rowland N Tumblin, February 12, 2010
What an unmitigated load of lies and propoganda. I don't even know where to begin. This organization is nothing more than a front for anti-Israel Hamas, Iran, Syria and so many others. To believe them is to be held up through the mail."
Again - where is the surprise? This has been the NYTimes way since the so-called "Six Day War" in 1967.
The Times is a business and business is the bottom line.
Reporters like Judith Miller enjoyed the powerful positions they found themselves in and she used hers to advance herself and her selfish causes - not the truth or even plain decency.
So she helped start a war.
The Times is a mirror of Miller. Opportunistic and completely full of shit.
You can run, but you can't hide (anymore)...
An example of bullshit and double speak by Keller:
Keller said that if Israel launched a new assault into Gaza and Bronner’s son were a foot soldier, “I don’t think I’d have any problem with Ethan covering the conflict.” It would be a tougher call if the son rose to a commanding role, he said, and if the son’s unit were accused of wrongdoing, Keller said he thought he would assign another reporter.
I don't believe a word of it.
Can anyone name a New York Times Jerusalem correspondent who was "fair" or
"balanced?"
This discussion about Bronner and the New York Times reminds me of another topic - the Ethan Bronners of television. Try watching television one night without an Arab/Muslim villain. From "24" to "Numbers" to "Criminal Minds." There seem to be many Bronners at work on tv as well. And I notice no bad guys on tv are ever Jewish.
When I saw Mitchell on Charlie Rose recently I realized how completely out of touch with reality he is - the reality of Middle East politics. He has no idea that he is battling AIPAC and not simply a regional problem that in ordinary circumstances could be worked out. In Northern Ireland the various parties were left alone to deal with their problems with the US as a relatively fair broker. Here the US is sitting side by side with Israel. In dealing with Israel Mitchell is like David fighting Goliath without even a pebble.
And since Mitchell is Irish-Lebanese American, I knew he would never be able to push Israel into anything meaningful since he would be called "pro-Arab" because of his background.
By the way, how do you spell Kissinger?
"I base this opinion on my years at Columbia University where the Zionists students were out in full force with tables set up in front of the Low Library to stop the proposed sale of AWAC planes to Saudi Arabia and I would cross paths literally with Edward Said equally disgusted at the one-sided pre-internet monopoly the Zionists had on American public opinion."
Yes that's a long sentence. ...
I am looking forward to 2011 when the NYTimes is supposed to go to a mostly pay-per-view type format. It will shrink the Times already shrinking opinion base to Upper Westsiders who do not wish to be troubled while shopping at Zabars. I base this opinion on my years at Columbia University where the Zionists students were out in full force with tables set up in front of the Low Library to stop the proposed sale of AWAC planes to Saudi Arabia and I would cross paths literally with Edward Said equally disgusted at the one-sided pre-internet monopoly the Zionists had on American public opinion. The NYTimes is one of the last vestiges of that monopoly (I hope).
Here in Cambridge MA, when I saw Obama appear at a rally with Martha Coakley, I realized how rapidly Obama had reached "Dubya" Bush's poisonous last year in office radioactive aura. Seeing them together I realized Coakley would lose. Obama really comes across now as an empty suit and it seems all we get today in politics are either Democratic or Republican ( Scott Brown) empty suits. How many times during the Bush era did I tell friends that I can admire ONE thing about the Republicans and that is they know how to fight to the end for their beliefs no, matter how stupid or selfish.
Imagine if the Democrats did that starting last January?
Bono is the Elie Wiesel of political celebrity . To Bono only certain groups are deserving of support or sympathy. He's sort of like Madonna with her Kabbalah classes - not a deep thinker, but wanting to appear one.
Funny (not so really) that to my knowledge Obama's proxy stooge Mubarak has not gotten a telephone call from said Obama in Hawaii saying simply to said stooge "Let them march."
Obama seems deaf to anything Palestinian.
Israel is not even a democracy for certain Jews as my personal experience with Israelis shows me. My friends were driven out of Israel about fifteen years ago for the crime of inviting Palestinians into their homes for peaceful discussions. The father's actions resulted in his being fired and unable to find work anymore. So they came to New York where I met them. The same applied to my Israeli artist friend who left Israel and said he would "kill himself" if he ever had to go back because of the social pressure he felt. He wanted nothing to do with the rampant militarism of Israel he told me.
The monstrous Hillary Clinton is truly a Secretary of Permanent War and a Zionist by convenience because of her basic need to sustain her power base and disregard reality. In that she is like that horror Madeleine Albright who never saw an Iraqi child she didn't want to starve.