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Is it just a coincidence that the headline "Iran has enough uranium for five nuclear weapons, claims US thinktank" fails to note that the thinktank, Institute for Science and International Security is that of David Albright who has a history of peddling anti-Iranian "scientific" information of behalf of Israel?
link to guardian.co.uk
"Both Marcy, here, and b, over at Moon of Alabama, have roundly criticized the cartoon released on Sunday by AP’s George Jahn purporting to depict a chamber at Iran’s Parchin site where various groups accuse Iran of carrying out work aimed at an explosive trigger device for a nuclear weapon. David Albright, working through his Institute for Science and International Security, has been near the forefront in most of these accusations, with one of his accusations coming out in December of 2009 (pdf). As described in his 2009 piece, Albright accuses Iran of attempting to replicate A.Q. Khan’s uranium deuteride (UD3) initiator for a bomb, which “works by the high explosives compressing the nuclear core and the initiator, producing a spurt of neutrons as a result of fusion in D-D reactions. The neutrons flood the core of weapon-grade uranium and initiate the chain reaction.”
Prior to the release of the cartoon, Albright had claimed on May 8 that he had detected activity aimed at “cleansing” the Parchin site. I debunked that claim the next day, by pointing out that all traces of radioactivity cannot be washed away and that Albright’s claims would mean that the waste water carrying the radioactivity was allowed to drain freely onto the grounds surrounding the building, where the radioactivity could be found without much effort. Albright repeats those claims in Jahn’s article accompanying the cartoon, and he brings in another expert to support his claims that residue from testing a trigger device could be scrubbed:"
link to emptywheel.net
A good place for the US to again test our nuclear depleted weapons as we did in Libya, leaving the grateful citizens to clean up the permanent nuclear waste we dumped in order to "liberate" them. Of course most are Muslims, so that's just delivering what we call Judeo-Christianity to the non-Judeo-Christian heretics.
I am still trying to find someone/anyone who is not a racist, who supports Israel's occupation and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. Does anyone imagine the New York Times could provide us with any names?
To prove their genuine support for Israel, a majority of the Congress will have to agree to move to a new and permanent site in Tel Aviv. Nothing less will satisfy!
Provided that Egypt would protect Gaza's borders and skies from Israeli attacks and overflights, and protect Gaza's freedom of the sea at its Mediterranean shores, a temporary separation from the West Bank would put the collaborationist element of the PLO in the spotlight. Finally Gaza could build its part of Palestine as commerce develops and grows from land, sea, and air.
The point being that a non-Arab who doesn't like Arabs calls non-Arabs who don't have that same point of view, Arabists. Jew lover sounds old fashioned today, but it hasn't always been so. There was a time when anti-Semitic non-Jews referred to other non-Jews who did not share their prejudice, Jew-lovers.
Calling someone an Arabist is no different than calling someone a Jew lover.
Unlike the AIPAC crowd, Christian neo-cons have no problem with the low iqs so many of its members share. Indeed, their propaganda relies on it.
Doing intellectual work doesn't make you an intellectual. No one doubts that Hannah Arendt was an intellectual.
Think of such mis-labeled goods as smuggled. Since the Israel label has become meaningless, the sensible thing is to boycott all goods from Israel.
The list of names of AIPAC's friends in Rosenberg's article is stunning.
I shared the spectacular cartoon with the question, what American media outlet would print this cartoon from an Isaeli site? It is wildly outrageous as it confronts the reality we know all to well as propagated by our media and their servile politicians. Philip, this is what makes your site the treasure that it is.
Now when people ask who I will be voting for, I can tell them Dr. Jill Stein. Thank you Matthew for the information which I shall be sharing across cyberspace.
The Pentagon knew well what it was paying for when it ordered this made to order course. Who was their purchasing agent?
By ceding that criticism of occupation and ethnic cleansing by Israel can be interpreted as anti-Semitic, these would be analysts/critics, by default, silently assent to the crime against Palestinians. The criticsm of neo-con thinking by Madow, Berman, and the like, is shallow and vacuous because they choose to practice self-censorship.
Only 20 years? You are very generous to our politicians.
That was too good to keep secret. Thanks for sharing it with us. I have already passed in on.
Israel's supporters can be asked a simple question, can they name anyone who supports the occupation and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians who is not a racist?
That's about as big a shock as reading in today's papers that the US has resumed arms shipments to Bahrain.
Those afraid to speak out include our Jewish media moguls and managers. Surely all do not support occupation and ethnic cleansing.
Oh the temerity to require that NGO's be accountable to those they claim to be helping! It is just like Haiti.
The US media has long been Israel's megaphone. NPR has long been a non-source for news and information on the occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by Israel.
Tor, like the Zionists he represents, is choosing to be on the wrong side of history.
Only if Netanyahu changes his position will the Obama administration change theirs.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us. From what you cite from his autobiography, Miller acknowledged that he was shaped by his Judaism but was not molded by it. The April 29 Cat Radio Cafe program WBAI featured a well done interview with Jerry Stiller who mentioned that being Jewish with a Catholic wife was appreciated by Ed Sullivan who featured Stiller and Meara on many of his tv shows, Sullivan being Catholic with a Jewish wife.
link to archive.wbai.org
M J Rosenberg beautifully summed up the new political union, "Sam's Club Merges with Walmart."
link to mjayrosenberg.com
Don't let your ears deceive you. Both Israel and the US consider this a "piece" process.
A reminder that Israeli born Shamai Lewbowitz is serving a 20 month term in Federal Prison for going public that Harman was sharing classified information with Israel. Leibowitz was working as a translator for the FBI which refused to follow up on his information when he reported it. Harman is free, but she is what passes for a liberal Democrat these days , traitor that she is.
Rolling Stone is giving this more serious and more dramatic coverage than the rest of the media. This is good news. Thanks for sharing.
Published 19:33 04.05.12
Thousands in Jordan call for end of peace treaty with Israel
In series of nationwide protests, leftist and Islamist activists call to cut ties with Israel, burning Israeli flags and chanting 'death, death to Israel.'
By DPA
Thousands of Jordanians took to the streets on Friday demanding an end to the country's 18-year-old Wadi Araba peace treaty with Israel.
In a series of nationwide protests, leftist and Islamist activists urged Amman to cut ties with Israel, burning Israeli flags and chanting "death, death to Israel" and "the people want an end to Wadi Araba."
Protesters rallied in seven cities across the country, urging authorities to expel the Israeli ambassador from Amman, chanting "no to a Zionist embassy on our land."
Protest organizers, including the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood and youth movements, said the demonstrations came as a direct response to King Abdullah's recent nomination of Prime Minister Fayez Tarawneh, who served as a key figure in the 1994 Jordan-Israel peace process.
Various political and social groups have expressed outrage over comments recently made by Tarawneh indicating that, if given a second chance, he would still support the controversial peace treaty.
"This is a person who obviously does not respect the people's will and his words are proof of how out of touch he is with average citizens," Jamil Abu Baker, a spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood, told dpa.
Popular opinion in Jordan is that the 1994 Wadi Araba treaty is a failure, with politicians and officials accusing Israel of not respecting its obligations under the pact, particularly regarding water sharing, Amman's custodianship over holy sites in Jerusalem, and access to the Palestinian territories.
Friday marked a departure from activists' demands for democratic reforms, the focus of the vast majority of the some 1,000 protests that have hit Jordan since the start of the so-called Arab Spring uprisings that were triggered in late 2010.
link to haaretz.com
Once the border with Egypt is open full time, it is the beginning of the geographical separation of Gaza from the still occupied East Jerusalem and West Bank. It will mark the beginning of a Palestinian state.
"Hunger striking by Palestinian prisoners is not a new tactic. According to the Palestine Solidarity Project, the tactic was first used in the Nablus prison in 1968 and has been repeated at least 15 times since, with three men dying over the years.
. . .
With the peace process stalled and internal Palestinian politics adrift, many analysts here see nonviolent resistance as a critical tactic for the Palestinian national movement, and the hunger strike as a potential catalyst to bring an Arab Spring-style uprising to the West Bank.
While the revolutions around the region have helped elevate support for the Palestinian cause, they have also undermined the leadership it has long relied on, and until now the streets here have largely remained quiet."
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While she does mention that hunger strikes are not new, she fails to mention that they have remained unknown to Americans thanks to the silence of reporters working for the US media.
By failing to mention that it is Israel (as always, abetted by the US) which is the party responsible for the stalled talks and then, in the same sentence, declaring internal Palestinian politics to be "adrift," what are people supposed to conclude other than it is the Palestinians who are responsible for the stalled talks.
Referring to nonviolent resistance as a "catalyst" implies it is something new added to the mix. Does she not mention that nonviolent resistance has always been a Palestinian tactic to oppose their occupation and ethnic cleansing, because she is unaware of that fact?
What planet has Rudoren been living on that she can seriously write that "until now the streets here have largely remained quiet."
If a reporter only implies, he or she are freed from the nasty charge that they are lying. Note takers will agree that this is effective propaganda.
Jodi Rudoren sent to Tel Aviv to recycle Ethan Bronner -- Palestinians just now turning to nonviolent resistance, just now, that is.
Palestinian Resistance Shifts to Hunger Strikes
By JODI RUDOREN 40 minutes ago
Khader Adnan, left, a senior member of Islamic Jihad, had been on hunger strike for 66 days before his release from an Israeli prison last month.
With the peace process stalled, analysts see nonviolent resistance as a critical tactic for the Palestinian national movement.
link to nytimes.com
7:40 PM
"Interfaith" actually means "Judeo-Christian" sometimes with an added sprinkling of minor religions but always with a fastidious regard to which particular "Muslims" are found to be acceptable by the gate keepers.
40% was also the result of the initial attempt by the Park Slope Co-op.
When they were campaigning in the Democratic Party Presidential primary, both Senator Edwards and Senator Clinton made clear they wanted US taxpayers to continue to fund the occupation and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians by Israel. Both were Methodists.
Part of the problem is that Remnick is so very late in joining Israel's critics. Better late than never, all the same.
Co-op boycotts exports from Israel's West Bank settlements
UK's largest mutual takes lead among European supermarkets
Tracy McVeigh and Harriet Sherwood
The Observer, Saturday 28 April 2012
The Co-operative Group has become the first major European supermarket group to end trade with companies that export produce from illegal Israeli settlements.
The UK's fifth biggest food retailer and its largest mutual business, the Co-op took the step as an extension of its existing policy which had been not to source produce from illegal settlements that have been built on Palestinian territories in the West bank.
Now the retail and insurance giant has taken it one step further by "no longer engaging with any supplier of produce known to be sourcing from the Israeli settlements".
The decision will hit four companies and contracts worth some £350,000. But the Co-op stresses this is not an Israeli boycott and that its contracts will go to other companies inside Israel that can guarantee they don't export from illegal settlements.
Welcoming the move, Palestinian human rights campaigners said it was the first time a supermarket anywhere in the west had taken such a position.
The Co-op's decision will immediately affect four suppliers, Agrexco, Arava Export Growers, Adafresh and Mehadrin, Israel's largest agricultural export company. Other companies may be affected by the policy.
Hilary Smith, Co-op member and Boycott Israel Network (BIN) agricultural trade campaign co-ordinator, said the Co-op "has taken the lead internationally in this historic decision to hold corporations to account for complicity in Israel's violations of Palestinian human rights We strongly urge other retailers to take similar action."
A spokesperson for the Palestinian Union of Agricultural Work Committees, which works to improve the conditions of Palestinian agricultural communities, said: "Israeli agricultural export companies like Mehadrin profit from and are directly involved in the ongoing colonisation of occupied Palestinian land and theft of our water. Trade with such companies constitutes a major form of support for Israel's apartheid regime over the Palestinian people, so we warmly welcome this principled decision by the Co-operative. The movement for boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel until it complies with international law is proving to be a truly effective form of action in support of Palestinian rights."
Boycott campaigns against Israel are routinely denounced by Israeli officials as part of a drive to "delegitimise" the Jewish state. A law, passed last July, allows those that call for economic, cultural or academic boycotts against Israel, its institutions or areas under its control to be sued.
link to guardian.co.uk
US taxpayer dollars make the desert bloom.
Stop and Frisk. By racists and for racists.
Is it possible for a Zionist to be anti-Palestinian but not a racist?
When Christian white racists feel the need to learn more about being an effective racists, there is no end to the numbers of Jewish Zionists like Ozick who volunteer their services.
Lewis' correction of his bad judgement about the invasion of Iraq is what the rest of us call hindsight.
Occupation is good for business. End of discussion.
I was wrong about who got the money in this case. Christian Zionists are drawn from what used to be called white racists. I don't believe serious numbers of those congregants would knowingly donate serious money on their own to benefit Jews. Anti-Semitism is still a form of racism whether directed against Jews (including those who are not Semites) or Arabs or Iranians.
It is important to keep in mind that the leadership of Christian Zionist organizations is funded by Jewish Zionists. For example, Elie Wiesel $500,000 to John Hagee.
link to mondoweiss.net
We know about the Jewish Council for Public Affairs from their effort to organize opposition against the Park Slope Coop divestment resolution. Just whose rubber stamp is this "umbrella" group?
When Egypt stops selling natural resources at a discount to Israel, it should indeed help ordinary Egyptians.
Apparently Egypt will no longer continue to contribute part of the foreign subsidy.
Egypt cancels deal to supply natural gas to Israel
By Agence France-Presse
Sunday, April 22, 2012
link to rawstory.com
A great comment made a minute ago on WBAI's Off the Hook program. RT's coverage of Occupy Wall Street is good as is the New York Times coverage of protests in Russia. What a great thing it would be if Russians could have the Times coverage of their protests substituted for what they get now and if Americans could have the RT coverage of Occupy Wall Street substituted for what we get now.
The Times was hoping Ethan Bronner, who is transitioning from his full time job with the paper and his part time job doing pr for Israel's Zionists, might be interviewed and thus deserve a more positive story. The Times seems to have turned its television "news" to purely opinion.
Was Leuchter actually doing what his local branch of the AAUP asked him to do or was this his own doing?
When the Nazis invaded Norway in 1940, the head of Norway's Parliament fled to Sweden. Lucky for him Sweden remained neutral since he was Jewish. I suspect Nadia Matar knows next to nothing about the Nazis other than the fate of Jews which is why she robotically calls the Norwegians Nazis.
This duality recalls the commemorative coin Goebbels had minted to celebrate Nazi and Zionist collaboration, with the swastika on one side and the star of David on the other.
link to jewssansfrontieres.blogspot.com
This is utterly revealing and both the article and the comments are informative in the best sense of education. Thanks Mondoweiss for making this possible.
I shared the article and the comments with the subject line:
What happens to the minds of Zionists who justify their brutality by labeling their opponents as anti-Semites
Insecure Jews express their whiteness in peculiar ways, in this case she makes clear he is nothing but white trash.
I'd like to know if she was a member of the Park Slope Co-op and how she voted.
If Akiva Tor is an American who has obtained Israel citizenship without renouncing his US citizenship, this is a more serious issue than being an Israeli agent who betrays the interests of the US.
If he had the nerve to run for office Abbas could not even be elected dog catcher.
Killing Palestinians meanwhile goes unnoticed by our media.
This is amazingly juvenile behavior for people who claim to be adults. It's like a claque hired by one diva to hoot down a competitor. It is illustrative as well as how juvenile American journalism has sunk to, thanks to its own doing.
Shadid did not grow up speaking or writing Arabic. He was an adult before he learned the language of his parents and ancestors.
This is a reminder that to this day the West Wall of Israel's Gaza Concentration Camp is guarded by Egypt. Israel could never carryout the occupation and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians without such obvious support by Europe as well as the US.
The problem in Germany is not only with the German government. Lufthansa Airlines, which at least used to be a German company, at Israel's demand/request, has canceled tickets for Israel's list of "flytilla" passengers.
When Corporal Goldberg returned to the US from Israel where he not only served in their military rather than in the US military and where he attained citizenship for his allegiance to Israel, in recognition of his changed status, Goldberg's US citizenship should have been replaced with a green card granted to other such foreigners.
I read a long time ago that he had Iraqi roots. Whoever wrote that was wrong unless I confused Wallace with a someone else in the same business. In any case, I stand corrected. Thanks.
Easily the most important Jewish institution in the US is our media, from CNN to the New York Times and NPR. Had there never been an Israel, our media would still be just as Jewish. The obvious problem is that its present day owners and managers support Israel's occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. However well paid and however important in the public eye, Mike Wallace did not qualify as an owner or a manager. Since his family background was Iraqi, he likely brought a different perspective on the world than fellow Jews in the business.
Once upon a time Newsday had great reporters like Leonard Levitt, Gail Collins, and Laurie Garrett. Now their news is all local including, I presume, those reporters who get a buyline in lieu of pay. Actual paid staffers do puff pieces that promote Cuomo and promote the notion that overpaid public employees, especially educators, are the cause of New York State's pension problems and the explanation for high real estate taxes in Long Island. It is telling that Bloomberg's and Kelly's chosen Muslim hunter, David Cohen, was sigged on Zuckerman's presumed enemies.
How soon before NPR, the NY Times, and the Washington Post spread the lie?
Both Israeli agents. Are they under orders not to officially join AIPAC?
He was born here but I read a long time ago that Wallace was an Iraqi Jew.
The origins of this are in Bamford's earlier writings about Israel taping into US communication pipelines some time ago at a time when the House phone system was owned by an Israel owned company and members of Congress assumed all their calls were being listened to by Israel. Congress did nothing to stop this then, they are as unlikely as ever to care now. How many of these people, who claim that the security of the US is a major priority, have signed on to have Jonathan Pollard spring from prison?
Corporal Goldberg's infatuation with himself is as unbecoming as it is obvious.
Annie,
The 10284 respondents you note are evidence that the poem is as important as you suggest.
Almost over night the attention that was focused on Iran has instead shifted to Israel and in a very deep and meaningful away that warns of the danger of Israel's nuclear arsenal which is as real as Iran's is theoretical.
Saturday's US edition of the Financial Times discussed the poem with an emphasis on its critics in Germany and Israel. It went out of its way to avoid mention of Germans who agreed with the content of the Grass poem.
NPR is a critical part of the Israel Lobby. It would weaken them to openly join AIPAC just as much as it would the New York Times, etc. Let us hope that his report is not taken to be a letter of resignation by NPR.
What is there about "material support" that lawyers Obama, Holder, and Clinton do not understand?
Speaking of hasbara, take note of the Guardian's perverse translation.
April 06, 2012
The Guardian Is Misleading With Its Translation of Grass
MoA provided a translation of Günter Grass' poem "What has to be said". The original poem was published in German by Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Part of Grass' poetry expression is through is the use of line breaks and punctuation. I believe it is important to replicate them in a translation even when it may make the text at first a more awkward reading.
The Guardian has now provided a translation that not only does not stick to the punctuation, verse setting and even tenses of the original but severely distorts the central point of the poem in the fifth stanza.
Here the fifth stanza in the Guardian translation:
But now that my own country,
brought in time after time
for questioning about its own crimes,
profound and beyond compare,
is said to be the departure point,
(on what is merely business,
though easily declared an act of reparation)
for yet another submarine equipped
to transport nuclear warheads
to Israel, where not a single atom bomb
has yet been proved to exist, with fear alone
the only evidence, I'll say what must be said.
Whereto are the nuclear warheads transported in the Guardian's version of the poem? Where, in the Guardian's translation, has "no single atom bomb yet been proven to exists"?
From reading the Guardian's translation a reader would for both questions give "Israel" as the answer. But that is totally wrong.
The same sequence from my translation:
...
another submarine to Israel
shall be delivered, whose specialty
consists of, steering all-annihilating warheads
whereto, the existence
of a single bomb is unproven,
but as a fear shall be conclusiveness,
The German version:
ein weiteres U-Boot nach Israel
geliefert werden soll, dessen Spezialität
darin besteht, allesvernichtende Sprengköpfe
dorthin lenken zu können, wo die Existenz
einer einzigen Atombombe unbewiesen ist,
doch als Befürchtung von Beweiskraft sein will,
In my surely correct translation the submarine goes to Israel while the warheads go whereto (dorthin) the existence of of even one bomb is unproven which clearly implies not Israel but Iran.
I do not know if the Guardian's translation is intentional misleading. Their translator Breon Mitchel, who also translated Grass' Tin Drum, seems not to be a native German speaker and maybe just didn't get it.
Whatever the reason for that misleading translation is, it is embarrassing for Mitchel and the Guardian to provide such a lousy one.
link to moonofalabama.org
Another breakthrough?
Connecticut Democrat candidate calls another a ‘whore’ for AIPAC during live debate
link to rawstory.com
US drones kill even younger Muslim terrorists.
This is great for sharing with wonderful opportunities to use "wrong key," "false notes," etc., in the subject line. Please share your suggestions.
"Closet dissidents" grabs me the way "closet anti-Zionists" does.
Compare the Süddeutsche Zeitung with our dreadful media.
April 05, 2012
The NYT - A U.S. Government Propaganda Outlet
U.S. Sees Iran in Bid to Stir Unrest in Afghanistan
... according to American officials. ... American officials have closely studied the episodes ... according to interviews with more than a dozen government officials ... One United States government official described ... American officials say ... Afghan and American officials said ... but American officials see a pattern ... American officials say ... one United States official said. Intelligence analysts emphasize ... prompted American and other intelligence agencies to renew ... American officials say ... according to American officials ... One American intelligence analyst noted ...
There is not a word in the piece on why the U.S. government may have an interest in badmouthing Iran or on how these allegations fit the facts. Obviously the piece was simply dictated by officials and written down by some lobotomized robots.
How those writers are still able to look into a mirror and to call themselves "journalists" is beyond me.
link to moonofalabama.org
I had a cousin on the front lines in Germany at the end of the war where he shot from his foxhole at Germans in theirs. He never really talked about the war but did mention that one German woman who was shot to pieces couldn't have been more than 17 years old. What he did not know was that at this stage of the war she was much more likely to have been nearer 13.
It's thoughtful of you to put this on your site.
Here's a little more information.
link to commondreams.org
This is a reminder that Zionism did a 180 degree turn from Jewish support for justice for all.
I repeat myself about Zionism doing a 180 degree turn from justice for all.
These are definitely not Schwartze Jews!
How is it that Gitlin has transformed his personal Jewishness into heavy baggage that gives him the nobility he craves?
Silly me, I always understood Remnick's slurs against Arabs and Muslims to be those of a bigot.
The day Remnick reverses course and comes out against Israel's occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, is the day he will be fired. He knows who owns the New Yorker and what is expected of him for his generous salary to give direction to this important Israel Lobby outlet.
Before Zionism, Jewish leaders unsurprisingly promoted justice and equality for all for eons of time, knowing full well that Jews were a minority people. The 180 degree turn from justice came with Zionism which by its nature is antithetical to both equality and justice.
"If we wait for the American President, we will have to wait for the Messiah." Now there's a message to Americans waiting and waiting and waiting for Obama to take the leadership on anything.
There is nothing unique about Dennis Ross. Israel has a history of having its agents in Federal positions which are hardly secret to whomever the President happens to be.
Consider:
Dr. Lani Kass -- US Air Force
Stuart Levey -- US Treasury
US Congresswoman Jane Harman versus Shamai Leibowitz
Here's another interesting battle coming up in Minnesota where there is a lawsuit against state funds being invested in Israel bonds.
link to consortiumnews.com
Is it being too provincial to ask why are Israeli citizens, with or without US citizenship, making US policy towards Israel and the Middle East? Do citizens of China, with or without US citizenship, set US policy towards China and Asia? Americans surely have the right to have US foreign policy set for and by the US and not used as just another tool of foreign governments and their US based agents.
Jeff Halper's fellow Minnesotan, seaman Robert Burton Eisenberg was killed on June 8, 1967, a victim of Israel's attack on the USS Liberty, and now lies buried in a Jewish cemetery east of St. Paul.
Noah Pollak's comment indicates what has become kosher in today's world.
Americans need to be reminded that they are the ones paying at the gas pump for Obama's capitulation to the Israel Lobby for the sanctions, the lobby, not we, called for.
"a Jewish state on only part of the land is not the end but the beginning" tells you all you need to know.
I apologize for my fuzzy math.
More than 50% support the boycott! That is a huge step forward and those who made the effort deserve our thanks for making so many more people aware of the continuing ethnic cleansing supported by our dollars. We thank you for your great work.
The open mayoral seat attracts candidates like rotten fruit attracts fruit flies, candidates who have about as much diversity as fruit flies.
An otherwise nonentity umbrella organization gets its name in the news for endorsing the Bloomberg-Kelly hunter for Muslims a few days ago and now this demand that everyone support Israel's occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Quinn, who helped Bloomberg get the law changed so he could run a third time, along with the usual suspects Stringer and Del Blasio, are examples of how pathetic New York City's political "leaders" actually are.
Apparently there are theologians who believe in collective Judaism.
How about Debbie Wasserman Schultz as Secretary of State?
During the debate Waskow said he supported a boycott against products from the settlements but not against those produced within Israel. He should share with the Park Slope Co-Op how he personally was able to outwit Israel's efforts to make sure that no one can distinguish between the two. If he is getting his information from God, or any other source for that matter, Waskow should let those who support his position know where he is getting his inside information.
Is this a put up or shut up moment for people like Arthur Waskow?
Ashkenazis are white. No wonder that settlers from the US in the early days of Israel referred to the native born Jews as Schwarze Jews.
Zionism considers itself to be the White Power branch of Judaism.
Until media mavens like the New Yorker's David Remnick and the New York Review of Books' Robert Silvers can identity Jewish McCarthys in our midst, both will first have to recognize that they exist.
Thanks to Mondoweiss we came to be informed that the orginal Zionists from Austria and Germany rounded up the sickly settlers in Palestine and sent them back home. It is the task of historians to look at origins to let us appreciate our not so nice roots that led to what and where we are now.
Thanks for the link to a terrific article. It accepts some of Noam Chomsky's position insofar that Israel is doing what the US wants because there are not differences. Green points out what are side show issues that have gotten in the way to which I would add the debate about the one state versus two state issue which is all about American supporters of Palestinians with virtually no input from Palestinians whose ongoing tragedy continues while supporters are pre-occupied with that particular side show debate.
I would like to learn more about David Cohen who is in charge of the NYPD's hunt for Muslims.
Our tax dollars support our foreign policy to the rest of the world.
Who's the biggest racist, King or those who vote for him?
I am so glad to see the reference to anti-Arab racism. Does anyone imagine that our media will comprehend what this means?
I don't see how an umbrella group like the innocuous sounding Jewish Community Relations Council of New York can be representative of anything. It's one of those Jobs R us outfits which functions for the benefits of the paid staffers who know they are obliged to do the bidding of the paid officers. Those officers may use their organization to rubber stamp Islamophobia but should we take it seriously that the Workmen's Circle and the Union for Reform Judaism has officially endorsed Islamophobia?
Is Ron Paul the only candidate for President, including Obama, who is man enough to say no to Israel and to the Israel Lobby? How is is possible that a person who quails before both the Israel Lobby here and the pipsqueak Netanyahu abroad, dares to claim that she or he is qualified to be in charge of what is supposed to be the only super power?
In today's Democracy Now, James Bamford barely touched on his prior reporting about Israel owned US communications pipelines and Israel owned software to store and analyze the voice and email traffic. At the time of that reporting, the House of Representatives was well aware that its phone system was Israel owned so members knew that all their phone conversations were being listened to by Israeli "allies" of the US just to be sure which members of Congress were or were not toeing the line as promised to AIPAC.
In spite of what preceeds, notice that these two final paragraph attempt to cede the argument to Israel -- the Times just cannot help itself from promoting whatever the rest of the Israel Lobby is pushing at the moment.
"Israeli intelligence estimates, backed by academic studies, have cast doubt on the widespread assumption that a military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities would set off a catastrophic set of events like a regional conflagration, widespread acts of terrorism and sky-high oil prices.
“A war is no picnic,” Defense Minister Ehud Barak told Israel Radio in November. But if Israel feels itself forced into action, the retaliation would be bearable, he said. “There will not be 100,000 dead or 10,000 dead or 1,000 dead. The state of Israel will not be destroyed.”
Corporal Goldberg's loyalty is to the country where he chose to do his military service, Israel. This hardly makes him American.
This reminds me of Graham Greene's Quiet American in which a middle ground is conjured up where none exists and then disastrous policies are made based upon this wholly imaginary creation.
The bright light of the sun is a great sanitizer.
"Genuine" democracy complete with occupation and ethnic cleansing and without justice.
This is not satire but worth noting. Gareth Porter writes that Israel is killing the wrong Iranian scientists.
link to consortiumnews.com
Israel is run by and for Ashkenazis. Remember these are the people who keep Ethiopian Jews out of their schools, who search for the "Jewish" gene by testing white Europeans, whose native Jews were called "Schwarze Jews by American settlers, etc.
Remember that the Ashkenazi are white, Palestinians, since they are Arabs, are not.
Remarkable that this is coming from a media so nearly completely under the aegis of the Israel Lobby.
It was never a problem for Israeli agent posing as American journalist, Corporal Jeffrey Goldberg.