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The War of Ideas in the Middle East
What would be controversial to Congress if those were government employees getting lower salaries rather than spending more money privatizing the Federal Government. More and more expensive contract employees is precisely what small government means to our Congress.
The real fun will be watching how our media in its historic role as Israel's mouthpiece will respond.
Would ending its occupation of Syria's Golan Heights, help Israel's refusnik reputation?
In one of his books about spying, James Bamford warned that Israeli companies were major owners of US telecom pipelines that tapped into everything on the internet. He also wrote that an Israeli company owned the telephone system of the House of Representatives whose members assumed all their calls were being tapped into by Israel so they were careful in how they used those phones. I asked him why they did not do anything, Bambford said the Congressmen did not care. The real point is that Congress bows to the Israel Lobby out of fear rather than do the patriotic thing.
In one of his books about spying, James Bamford warned that Israeli companies were major owners of US telecom pipelines that tapped into everything on the internet. He also wrote that an Israeli company owned the telephone system of the House of Representatives whose members assumed all their calls were being tapped into by Israel so they were careful in how they used those phones. I asked him why they did not do anything, Bambford said the Congressmen did not care. The real point is that Congress bows to the Israel Lobby out of fear rather than do the patriotic thing.
When is the last time, if ever, a student group has been sanctioned for anti-Muslim and/or anti-Arab actions?
“Arabist” is as equally sneering as “Arab lover,” not unlike, “Jew lover.”
Most Americans looked on and did nothing when the rights of Muslims were being trashed by our government which fit perfectly with our media's 24/7 trashing of Arabs, Palestinians, and Muslims. When their rights were lost so too were the rights of the rest of us. Why is this so difficult to understand?
Who says main stream Jews actually believe in freedom of religion? Certainly not for Muslims as renegade Jews are about to discover.
"a pro - settler Government" Add our own pro - settler US Government, and pro - settler media
Calling Jewish opponents, such as Richard Falk, of Israel's ethnic cleansing, anti-Semites demonstrates how zionists have stripped the word of meaningful content.
At both Left Forum sessions in which NSA whistle blower Thomas Drake appeared, he pointed out that had the NSA shared the information it had, 9/11 would not have happened. Drake said it was a very small cell. At least 2 Congressmen had been informed of this by Drake but they did nothing.
High fructose corn syrup is bad for everyone's health. You don't have to be Jewish to appreciate that.
AIPAC's influence pales when compared to that of our big media outlets, private and public, for setting the scene of Israel as victim rather than ethnic cleanser in order to goad the American public and our politicians to flood taxpayer dollars on their foreign ward.
Judge us by what we do, not what we say.
Posted on Monday, June 3, 2013
U.S. publishes details of missile base Israel wanted kept secret
By Sheera Frenkel | McClatchy Foreign Staff
TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel’s military fumed Monday over the discovery that the U.S. government had revealed details of a top-secret Israeli military installation in published bid requests.
The Obama administration had promised to build Israel a state-of-the-art facility to house a new ballistic-missile defense system, the Arrow 3. As with all Defense Department projects, detailed specifications were made public so that contractors could bid on the $25 million project. The specifications included more than 1,000 pages of details on the facility, ranging from the heating and cooling systems to the thickness of the walls
Read more here: link to mcclatchydc.com
Gar's move to Israel from ex-apartheid South Africa to apartheid Israel is supposed to be a model for American ashkenazis. Take notice that NPR considers itself to me a member in good standing of our media that does essentially the same thing going 24/7 promoting Israel's ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. NPR's angry commentators are not considered part of its intended audience.
"Jews of conscience" are never considered the "other" when the big US media choses to give opponents of Israel's wars against its Palestinians and those whose land it occupies. You have to be Palestinian or at least Arab to fill that role. To allow a Jew to play that role would be truly beyond the pale.
Iran is Israel's enemy, not the US' enemy. It's not AIPAC that derserves the credit for demonizing Iran. Our media can take the bow on their success.
And in a neighborhood called home by many NYC "liberal" Jews.
It's not Britain or Blair, but US taxpayers that pay bag lady Abbas his salary for work as a longstanding loyal employee.
I doubt that it's a story Hollywood or HBO are likely to dramatise.
The money we give to the Palestinians to rebuild what we pay Israel to destroy is hardly a tithe on
American taxpayers.
Better late than never. The new arrivals should be welcomed as they come through the doorway no less than those who entered earlier.
Speaking of James Madison, there is this from John Quincy Adams on the dangers of seeking out enemies abroad
Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself, beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force. The frontlet upon her brows would no longer beam with the ineffable splendor of freedom and independence; but in its stead would soon be substituted an imperial diadem, flashing false and tarnished lustre the murky radiance of dominion and power. She might become the dictatress of the world: she would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit . . .
American born Corporal Goldberg's military service as an IDF camp guard over Palestinians, explains whose apologist he is.
She puts "liberal" Democrats to shame who would be the loudest in opposition if Bush were doing what Obama does.
The racialism our media uses to describe Israel versus Palestine slops over. Muslims, Sikhs, whatever, matters not to the racists our media works so hard to indoctrinate.
The only real industry that matters in this case is our big print and broadcast media. Everything else pales in comparison.
Israel Shahak was so stunned to discover the real Ben-Gurion in the archives, that he was compelled to set aside his research in order to adjust to the reality of the person who was once a hero of Shahak.
Way back when I bought Glass' The Photographer based on the LP cover. It was a terrific introduction to his genius.
So that's what Palestinians look like when dressed as "civilians." The most important Jewish institution in the US is our big print and broadcast media outlets. Can you think of any other institution that has done more to racialize Palestine/Israel?
Not being the dark swarthy robe-wearing Arab Palestinians our media prefers, don't look for such accurate images by the NY Times.
Shlomo Sand is adding a new element to the discussion.
The Gospel according to Sand: We are not Jews
In 'How and When I Stopped Being Jewish,' author and professor Shlomo Sand argues that there is no such thing as a secular Jew.
By Ofer Aderet 19.05.
Professor Shlomo Sand opens his new book, "How and When I Stopped Being Jewish," with a warning. “Many readers will see the main point presented in this book as illegitimate and even infuriating. Many of the secular people among them who insist on defining themselves as Jews will reject it out of hand. Others will see me as a vile, self-hating traitor."
link to haaretz.com
Now you are required to be a 100% zionist. 99.4% no longer makes the grade.
We can see with our own eyes that Israel's ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians is proof positive that Jews don't hate Palestinians.
"Exchanging a focus on justice for a focus on Judaism" sums up the problem.
Megaphone journalism.
Nor is Beinart aware of how offense is the notion of the "chosen" to people of any other religon or no religion.
The most important Jewish institution in the US by far is our print and broadcast media, as owners and managers. While Jews are divided about supporting Israel's ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians, our media is 100% supportive of Israel, no matter who's in charge. Will someone please explain this unanimity of opinion.
With a thank you to Noam Chomsky as well.
Noam Chomsky was behind lobby to get Stephen Hawking to boycott Israel conference
By Robert Booth, The Guardian
Friday, May 10, 2013 15:06 EDT
For the full story:
link to rawstory.com
The real news is that Israel has been declared to be a democracy.
Call it the "two water fountains" solution.
One commenter on Common Dreams:
"Hawking is boycotting a nation attempting to assume a position in the Middle East as a superpower and lacking the resources to do so without the active assistance of the United States. The men who control Israel are about as religious as my pet dog. Religion and ethnicity are the tools that they use to promote their nation state and to secure the assistance that they require to survive. Theocracy, by which I believe you to mean religious fundamentalism, is not the cause of problems in the Middle East. Fossil fuel imperialism is."
"Jew lover" was an epithet in Nazi Germany as "self-hating Jew" has become in our time. Leave it to defenders of Israel to turn "anti-Semite" into a mere epithet, used even against fellow Jews.
Miriam is afraid to ask herself why she is opposed to publicity for anyone objecting to Israel's occupation and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. It would be nice if she could name just one person who she believes is not a racist but who supports Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.
"Jew lover" was an epithet in Nazi Germany as "self-hating Jew" has become in our time. Leave it to defenders of Israel to turn "anti-Semite" into a mere epithet, used even against fellow Jews.
Our politics, including the 24-7 racist treatment of Arabs and native Middle Easterners, flows from our media to our politics and politicians, most definitely not the other way round.
This is more than grotesque. But it has been long assumed that Israel and Saudia Arabia worked together against their joint Palestinian and Arab enemies. With friends like these, what must the enemies of the Palestinians be like?
Glenn Greenwald dares to use "tribalism": "No universally applied principle justifies the Israeli attack on Damascus. Only self-flattering tribalism does that"
for more:
link to guardian.co.uk
The US can hardly recognize Palestine while it donates taxpayer dollars to fund each and every one of Israel's crimes against the Palestinians.
How dare Google deny Israel the piece of Palestine it demands on behalf of justice minded zionists!
Keep in mind that the US prevents Lebanon from having modern weapons, lest it be able to resist Israel's land and air invasions. That being the case, in Lebanon the only force able and willing to defend the country against Israel is Hezbollah.
Who would respect Palestinians if they did not resist their ethnic cleansing by Israel?
A variation of what Russia's serfs said, "If only the czar knew."
Be sure to read Dennis Bernstein's piece on Pritzker the sub-prime queen.
link to counterpunch.org
Has the NPR ever examined the dual loyalty of American Jews who enlist in the IDF rather than the US military? Does Corporal Jeffrey Goldberg's experience as an IDF campguard of Palestinians make him a useful Israeli agent wearing the disguise of an American?
If Palestinians did not resist their ethnic cleansing they would be invisible to the world. Google's decision to accept the UN's decision, means Google outpaces our own government.
Our State Department hears, reads, and sees the racist depiction of Palestinians from the same 24-7 source as the rest of us, the US media.
We know the coerced transfer of Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany gave Europe the peace it sought. In any case when the US media talks about peace in Israel/Palestine it actually means getting Israel a bigger piece. How could that be unfair?
If Hollywood is half as Jewish as many claim, some of the writers involved in these productions are probably Jewish. Kudos for their intelligence, bravery, and their ability to entertain at the same time!
Give some credit to the NY Times for making sure its readers, Jewish and non-Jewish, are aware that Israel's Jews are victims of Palestinians and not as the occupiers and ethnic cleansers of the Palestinians.
Ours is a speak no evil media, that is when refusing to discuss what the USA does. We know how vicious was the Boston bombers' decision to kill and maim. How does this compare with the US drone attacks on 16 year old American born Abdulrahman al-Awlaki in Yemen and more recently in the remote village of Wessab in Yemen, where, in both cases, there were no identifiable bodies left and in the latter case left no choice but to bury the human flesh that remained with the flesh of their animals? Think how lucky Boston was not to have been on the receiving end of US diplomacy!
It is not surprising that there was next to no follow up. When it comes to the big players/owners in our print and broadcast media, opposition to Israel's ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians is 0%. Can you think of even one exception?
For her knowledge of both Freud and of Zionist literature, the writings of Professor Jacqueline Rose are highly recommended.
Those who use the epithet "self-hating Jew" censor themselves.
The paper is on sale for £1bn. Perhaps it believes in the nonsense that the few Jewish zillionaires, compared to the vastly more non-Jewish zillionaires, really do have the total wealth our media tells us they do but are committed zionists as well.
The paper is a 24/7 Israel Lobby. Why bother mentioning Davis' puny efforts.
Someone should ask of Congress and the White House why it is that Israel gets to pick America's enemies, i.e., Palestinians, Arabs, Iranians, Muslims.
Odd isn't it that Jewish Federation does not regard Israel's ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in the name of Judaism as ‘alienating and hateful’ to their members.
Another victory for BDS.
Financial Times (online edition)
April 21, 2013
G4S to quit key contracts in Israel
Gill Plimmer
G4S, the world's biggest security company by revenues, has confirmed it is planning to quit key contracts in Israel amid protests against its involvement in settlements within occupied Palestinian territories.
The company employs 6,000 people in Israel, where it provides and maintains screening equipment for several West Bank military checkpoints. It also manages security systems at the controversial Ofer Prison in the Occupied West Bank.
But with sporadic international protests continuing both outside the FTSE 100's headquarters in London and internationally, the company said it would exit the contracts covering Ofer, the checkpoints and the West Bank police headquarters when they terminate in 2015.
"Having conducted a review in 2011, we concluded that, to ensure that G4S Israel business practices remain in line with our own business ethics policy, we would aim to exit the contracts which involve the servicing of security equipment at a small number of barrier checkpoints, a prison and a police station in the West Bank area," G4S told the Financial Times.
The move will nevertheless disappoint protesters, who have called on G4S to end all dealings with the Israeli prison authorities. The security company will continue to service security systems in commercial and government sites inside Israel, including jails housing Palestinian inmates, after 2015.
Analysts have raised the prospect that G4S could be tempted to divest the Israeli business altogether. The company has raised "reputational risk" higher up the list of priorities in the wake of its humiliating failure to provide 10,400 guards contracted for the London Olympics, with the army called in to make up the shortfall.
Kean Marden, analyst at Jefferies, the US investment bank, said in a note: "G4S Israel may be next to be divested? The Israel/Palestine conflict has created reputational issues. In our view the potential disposal of G4S Israel could be announced as soon as the 25 June capital markets day."
G4S has established a risk committee and is conducting more formal reviews of the operational and reputational dangers of contracts worth more than £20m. It has also stated its ambition to offload underperforming parts of the business.
The group earned £100m in sales at its Israeli operations last year. But the division accounts for just 1 per cent of global revenues, and 1 per cent of profits at the global group, which employs 625,000 people in 125 countries.
Last week 19 non-government organisations from Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine called on Arab nations and the European Union to stop dealing with G4S. The Scottish Trades Union Congress also voted on Tuesday to support Palestinian calls for a boycott of the multinational. It has agreed to put pressure on Holyrood to cancel G4S's new £13m contract to carry out the electronic tagging of offenders in Scotland over the next five years.
G4S has said that it has no people working at the prison sites or managing control rooms in jails in Israel or the occupied territories; staff simply fix security equipment such as CCTV and leave.
Earlier this week, Trevor Dighton, finance director, sold 30 per cent of his share holding, or about 400,000 shares, at £2.958 and raised £1.3m. According to the latest report and accounts Mr Dighton held 1.46m shares (including deferred shares) on December 31 2012. His successor, Ashley Almanza, starts on 1 May.
link to lexisnexis.com.central.ezproxy.cuny.edu:2048