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The War of Ideas in the Middle East
“They had small children coming to my house and spitting on me and on my children and wife.”
What's with the spitting?
link to csmonitor.com
link to 972mag.com
The star of Girls is Zosia Mamet, daughter of David Mamet:
link to letmypeoplegrow.org
David Mamet's sly Tea Party schtick:
link to motherjones.com
Follow @MaattMusleh the guy in red at the top of the page.
Maat's blog link to
Christ at the Checkpoint
link to christatthecheckpoint.com
Christ at the Checkpoint by Latma
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Belgian Congo Hatikvah
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Rubber and murder, slavery in its worst form.
Under terms of the General Act of the Berlin Conference, Leopold pledged to suppress the East African slave trade; promote humanitarian policies; guarantee free trade within the colony; impose no import duties for twenty years; and encourage philanthropic and scientific enterprises. Contrary to his pledge, beginning in the mid-1880s Leopold issued a series of decrees that eventually violated these conditions.
link to yale.edu
ok not auspicious... worse, the house Ali Abunimah says Rudoren will live in:
link to electronicintifada.net
Auspicious tweet from @rudoren Jodi Rudoren:
Fascinating piece re West Bank documentarian. NYTimes: From Unyielding Cameraman, an Acclaimed Film link to nytimes.com
Anonymous Message To The State of Israel
link to youtube.com
Text posted under video.
Israeli fans beg Bibi not to bomb Iran until after Madonna launches her world tour in Israel
link to haaretz.com
Moby and others playing Israel
link to hollywoodreporter.com
& link to shuki.co.il
Netanyahu will never be forgiven for putting Obama in his place by timing Op Cast Lead to the election and inauguration. Never.
link to blognovic.files.wordpress.com
Are Freedom House and Freedom Watch the same org?
link to en.wikipedia.org
Prince of Darkness Denies Own Existence
link to washingtonpost.com
Vanessa Redgrave 1978 Academy Awards
"Hoodlums" remark at 2:53
link to youtube.com
HuffPost France not a threat
link to observer.com
"Death of real news source of non-partisan sadness" for Ted Koppel
link to washingtonpost.com
L.A. Times apologizes for calling Ben Hur a Palestinian (September 28, 2011)
The Los Angeles Times corrected an item about an anniversary release of a “Ben Hur” DVD that called the title character a Palestinian.
The correction came following complaints from readers and the staff of CAMERA: Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America of a Calendar item published Monday.
“A Sept. 26 Calendar section article about a new DVD and Blu-ray release of the 1959 film ‘Ben-Hur’ described the title character, played by Charlton Heston, as a Palestinian nobleman,” the correction said. “The character Ben-Hur was a Jew from Judea who lived long before the place now known as Palestine was given that name.”
The original item had said, “Based on the novel by Lew Wallace, the period drama revolves around Judah Ben-Hur (Heston), a Palestinian nobleman who is enslaved by the Romans, engages in one of the most thrilling chariot races ever captured on screen, and even encounters Jesus Christ.”
link to jewishjournal.com
CAMERA link to blog.camera.org
"Sundance" will generate new commenters because zionists are fanatically obsessed with anything the least bit zeitgeisty, particularly with regard to film and tv and Sundance owner Redford has very strong credentials on the environment, Native Americans, animals. Not good.
CNN's Dana Loesch Cheers Soldiers Who Urinated On Corpses, Says She Would "Drop Trou" And Do It Herself:
CNN "political analyst" Dana Loesch, on the other hand, apparently doesn't care if these actions were directly working against the mission of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan; instead, she cheered for it in order to fuel the unhinged Muslim hatred that has become a staple of modern day right-wing media. On her show, she gave the marines in question "one million cool points" and said that she would "drop trou" and "do it too." She ended by saying: "Do I have a problem with that as a citizen of the United States? No, I don't."
Audio: link to stlactivisthub.blogspot.com
Jonathan Alter (msnbc dailybeast @jonathanalter):
"Isikoff just made good point: Casino union buster Adelson putting $5m into ad featuring union guys bashing Mitt. He's suddenly powerbroker."
Oh and Charles Schultz... Joel Stein also overlooks Aaron Spelling, Sol Saks, Sherwood Schwartz, Jerry Springer...
Forget about Chuck Jones, Dr Seuss, Jim Henson, Walt Disney, "Davey and Goliath" is the hallmark goy cartoon.
If you like Latma you'll love "The Dictator" (posted down thread but as Philip says, I'm 'scratching an itch' wrt to Larry Seinfeld Charles and SBCohen).
link to youtube.com
new trailer from Sacha Baron Cohen and Larry Charles (Seinfeld)
link to youtube.com
The Santa Fe audience I saw this trailer with was audibly disgusted. One cowboy looking guy said "That looks pretty racist."
Thanks Walid.
Lebanese friends of mine insist that Henry Kissinger made an offer to transfer the Maronites to Nevada. Have you heard of this?
Some info here but I can't vouch for it
link to hk-elie-hobeika.blogspot.com
One in 10 Norwegian women over the age of 15 has been raped, according to the country’s largest shelter organization, the Secretariat of the Shelter Movement. But at least 80 percent of these cases are never brought to official attention and only 10 percent of those that are end in a conviction, the Justice Ministry says.
Nowhere is this taboo more stubborn than in the family home, long considered off-limits for law enforcement and the state.
“The statistics tell us that the safest place for women is outside, on the street — most rapes happen at home,” said Tove Smaadahl, general manager of the Shelter Movement. In a 2005 survey by the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, 9 percent of female respondents in a relationship reported experiencing sexual assault.
link to nytimes.com
Emily K Schrader is from Palos Verdes Calif link to twitpic.com
Malaga Cove, Palos Verdes:
link to books.google.com
Annie... you're in LA right? Are you going to see Omar Barghouti at USC tomorrow? link to usacbi.org
I understand the emotions problem. It's a tough one.
oh and éthérée needs two ees at the end. what I get for being a polyglot.
Well I thought éthérée captured her pretty well, searching too as I was. Anyway, this site could use a little more of that.
link to youtube.com
wiki: Delphine Seyrig used her celebrity status to promote women's rights. The most important of the three films she directed was the 1977 Sois belle et tais-toi (Be Pretty and Shut up) that included actresses Shirley MacLaine, Maria Schneider, and Jane Fonda, speaking frankly about the level of sexism they had to deal with in film industry. In 1982 Seyrig was the key member of the group that established the Paris-based "Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir", which maintains a large archive of women's filmed and recorded work and produces work by and about women. In 1989, Seyrig was given a festival tribute at Créteil International Women's Film Festival, France.
Way OT but thank you for the photo of éthérée Delphine Seyrig (born in Beirut Lebanon).
link to youtube.com
I think this is the only film with wardrobe, coiffure & maquillage actually by Coco Chanel herself. A nice break from I/P horrors.
Ron Paul was one of five Republicans to vote for a House defense bill amendment that would begin the process of repealing "don't ask, don't tell". His reason?
"I have received several calls and visits from constituents who, in spite of the heavy investment in their training, have been forced out of the military simply because they were discovered to be homosexual," Paul told The Washington Post Friday.
"To me, this seems like an awful waste. Personal behavior that is disruptive should be subject to military discipline regardless of whether the individual is heterosexual or homosexual. But to discharge an otherwise well-trained, professional, and highly skilled member of the military for these reasons is unfortunate and makes no financial sense," Paul said."
link to advocate.com
Should be "rode... to power". Cringe.
It's like eye-for-an-eye in reverse - Adelson & Geller cancel out Goodman & Schwerner. How ironic is it that people who road enlightened ideals and the civil rights movement to power have locked arms with racist, misogynistic, homophobic religious fanatics to re-seed the ground, relentlessly and strategically, with vicious, jingoistic gutter racism? Gee, it's not like America had any problems with that before or paid a very big price to heal from it. On the brighter side, Hophmi and eee can rejoice.
It would be anathema to my New England Unitarian ancestors to even consider itemizing their influence on abolition, literature, academia, etc., while others financed the slave trade, the Confederacy, Big Cotton, several market bubbles, and both the north and the south in the Civil War, but this post calls for it. Tribal hubris is toxic, degrades everyone.
CA Sen. Ted Lieu calls on CEO of Lowe's home-improvement chain to apologize to American Muslims for 'bigoted, shameful' actions (scroll for Lieu's letter)
link to sd28.senate.ca.gov
Support Ted on Twitter @tedlieu
The Source of America’s Wars
Maidhc Ó Cathail
In order to understand what motivates Bill Kristol’s professed hyper-patriotism, with its consistently disastrous prescriptions, it’s worth recalling how his father, Irving Kristol, reacted to Vietnam War critic Senator George McGovern. The presidential contender’s proposed cut in U.S. military expenditure would, according to the “godfather” of neoconservatism, “drive a knife in the heart of Israel.”
“Jews don’t like big military budgets,” the elder Kristol explained in a Jewish publication in 1973. “But it is now an interest of the Jews to have a large and powerful military establishment in the United States … American Jews who care about the survival of the state of Israel have to say, no, we don’t want to cut the military budget, it is important to keep that military budget big, so that we can defend Israel.”
more at link to maidhcocathail.wordpress.com
Bellow era anti-Semitism
In a 1967 letter to Evelyn Waugh’s biographer, Christopher Sykes, Graham Greene tells how he once reproached Waugh for his “anti-Semitic rudeness” to Alexander Korda at a dinner party. Waugh said “He had no right to bring his mistress to Carol Reed’s house”, to which Greene said, “But I had my mistress with me”. Waugh’s casuistic reply, “That is quite different. She is a married woman”.
Check out Carlos Latuff one of the star cartoonists of Tahrir
link to twitpic.com
link to latuff2.deviantart.com
twitter @CarlosLatuff
Andrew Sullivan - @sullydish - recent posts
Israel's decision to release a thousand criminals and terrorists
link to andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com
The core test of a civilization: how well does it treat its prisoners of war? Sam Roggeveen:
The images of a gaunt and weak Shalit, reportedly suffering from malnutrition and lack of exposure to natural light, contrast with images of the first group of Palestinian prisoners released in exchange for the Israeli soldier's freedom.
link to andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com
Squeezing Shalit For One More Ounce Of Propaganda
Marc Tracy is infuriated by Egyptian TV's interview with Gilad Shalit before his return to Israel. It was, in my view, disgusting:
link to andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com
"You doubt they will dare risk global nuclear holocaust in their fanatical zeal to do what they perceive as God’s bidding?"
I've often wondered, if Thomas Friedman's infamous clique can launch the Iraq war - effects of: link to brussellstribunal.org
- what won't they do? I would think monitoring mondoweiss posters would be low on the list. Hope we're on a secure server... Phil? Adam?
@MJayRosenberg: Washington Post columnist @JRubinBlogger retweets best friend Rachel Abrams' screed urging GENOCIDE
link to twitter.com
No Palestinian kids aren't drawing transformers, they're drawing themselves cowering in terror of IDF brownshirts:
link to muzzlewatch.com
who's the smarmy lisping narrator, Omer Gershon?
link to electronicintifada.net
Carlos Latuff cartoon
link to twitpic.com
"And Kristol got his way":
The thought of five million orphans in a nation of 26 million people is simply too appalling to fully comprehend. An equivalent number in the United States would be 57 million orphans.
Video taping torture, the destruction of evidence, and the exact role of the White House in the entire affair are indicative and emblematic of the larger problems. These acts represent a gruesome metaphor. But it's just more of the same outrageous behavior we've seen for years.
The overriding crime is over a million deaths plus the suffering and abandonment of millions more, all due to a foreign policy based on lies and deception. This was done against the prevailing views of the military and the people of the United States.
Millions of Iraqi civilians are dead, suffering and abandoned.
link to atlanticfreepress.com
Humanitarian crisis caused by the War and Occupation of Iraq
Red Cross report shows that the US-UK invasion of Iraq caused 1.2 million deaths, including, 2,000 doctors, created 4.7 million refugees and resulted in the assassination or imprisonment of 5,500 academics and intellectuals.
The medical profession in particular has been hollowed out. Iraq's health-care system used to be the envy of the Arab world. But after the U.S. invasion, doctors became targets for ransom kidnappings and assassination. Upwards of 120 physicians were killed. Some were gunned down in their own clinics. Things got worse than ever after 2005, when loyalists of the radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr gained control of the Health Ministry. Hospitals turned into Shiite militia bases where Sunnis could be killed on sight. The Sadrists are in retreat now, but the doctors are still missing. The current health minister, Salih Hasnawi, estimates that roughly half the country's doctors have fled, from a prewar total of as many as 30,000 or more.
More with many important links: link to brussellstribunal.org
scarf designed by Sigmund descendant Bella Freud. Never hurts to have bleeding heart MOT window dressing.
Energy Committee for Israel wants you
Sara doesn't look very coerced to me:
link to blog.panorama.it
J'aime la Sara courageuse.
Arbabsiar tried to recruit a Mexican drug cartel gunman for the assassination. The gunman was an FBI informant. This happens as Atty Genl Eric Holder awaits a subpoena in the Fast and Furious gunwalking scandal in which the ATF allegedly allowed thousands of assault rifles and other weapons into the hands of suspected traffickers for Mexican drug cartels in order to track them.
link to cbsnews.com
"neocons’ obsession with defending Israel." Not about defending. It's about crushing obstacles to domination and expansion.
Helen Thomas: Why Iraq War?
link to youtube.com
Egyptian Activists' Action Plan: Translated
link to theatlantic.com
Adbusters has been so good on Palestine I wondered how they kept their Whole Foods account. That they're associated with Occupy WS is an auspicious sign.
Link to Mondoweiss on Adbusters
link to adbusters.org
Andrea Dworkin covered the same terrain in Ms Magazine 1990 (Phil, link may interest you)
link to nostatusquo.com
Cast Lead began on US election day Nov 4 2008 and ended on Jan 21 2009 the day after Obama's Inauguration - I think to show the schw---za who wears the pants. Now the Lobby pushes Perry (advisor Feith), Bachmann (advisor Gaffney), Palin (advisor Kristol), Marco Rubio (first trip the day after becoming FL senator - not to Latin America - but to Israel). Does the Lobby really believe the Israel connection will be forgotten when an EPA/Social Security/Medicare/Worker's Rights/Civil Liberties/Climate Science/DOE destroying Evangelical fascist wins the White House (again) because of hardline Israel credentials?
grunfeld's public statement
link to gawker.com
letters some support student
link to fullcomment.nationalpost.com
The lobby wants this fight because they know that, at this point in time, they will win. The brainwashing is too strong. I hope the Democrats don't take the bait because a Perry Supreme Court is the likely outcome.
Today Christian extremists are being cultivated in the US for similar reasons.
Iran - another impediment to control and expansion of the OT - not a nuke threat, etc.
Judith Miller following in footsteps of her theatrical precursor Leni Riefenstahl.
Looking forward to her review of My Name is Rachel Corrie.
link to rachelcorriefoundation.org
I saw recently, can't recall where maybe on mondoweiss, that Wolfowitz said the Iraq war was necessary to remove support for Palestinian independence in the OT – not for judith miller's WMD, to bring democracy or even to avenge Saddam's payments to families of suicide bombers. The Iraq War was all about holding on to the Occupied Territories.
Would like a link if anyone knows where this was posted.
Hollywood and Arabs link to reelbadarabs.com
"Crazed theory of importing democracy to the Middle East" is the stated goal. The real goal is to demolish threats to Israeli supremacy.
steve jobs arab-american
link to yalibnan.com
"I disagree that Sleep deprivation is torture."
and ok to use on these children?
link to 2.bp.blogspot.com
Rachel Maddow: Gaza Cast Lead
link to youtube.com
“Respect for the Victims of the Armenian Genocide” exhibition in Lebanon
photostream: link to flickr.com
Dimadok - You accuse others of 'not having a clue' but know zero about the sacrifices made by the Lebanese (mainly Maronites in demographically fragile mountain enclaves ) to welcome thousands of Armenian refugees after the genocide - similar actions took place in Iran, Syria, and Jordan.
Armenian Genocide Memorial in Bikfaya Lebanon
link to en.wikipedia.org
95th Anniversary Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide Lebanon
link to flickr.com
Recognition of Armenian Genocide by Lebanon
Lebanese Parliament Passes Genocide Resolution
BEIRUT-The Lebanese Parliament unanimously approved a resolution Thursday, calling for the commemoration of the 82nd anniversary of the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Turkish government at the beginning of the century.
The resolution is the first step toward a complete recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the Lebanese government, and the subsequent condemnation of relentless Turkish denial tactics.
The resolution, presented by the parliament executive, calls on all Lebanese citizens to unite with the Armenian people on April 24” in commemorating the atrocities of 1915-1923.
Mary Robinson War Criminal by Michael Rubin
link to old.nationalreview.com
Mary Robinson
link to en.wikipedia.org
not just vets... settlers, idf debasing grandmothers and arresting kids puts all US military in Muslim countries at risk.
"treating ‘rebel jews’ like Adam and Phil just like the nazis used to treat the german jews"
Slavoj Žižek:
"Zionism itself has paradoxically come to adopt some antisemitic logic in its hatred of Jews who do not fully identify with the politics of the state of Israel. Their target, the figure of the Jew who doubts the Zionist project, is constructed in the same way as the European antisemites constructed the figures of the Jew – he is dangerous because he lives among us, but is not really one of us."
more: link to guardian.co.uk
The data released by Clinton shows the total payload dropped (on Cambodia) during these years to be nearly five times greater than the generally accepted figure. To put the revised total of 2,756,941 tons into perspective, the Allies dropped just over 2 million tons of bombs during all of World War II, including the bombs that struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 15,000 and 20,000 tons, respectively. Cambodia may well be the most heavily bombed country in history.
link to zcommunications.org
If only there were more Jane Fondas today.
Calvin Trillin was always a racist. Once saw him on a circle jerk panel with Mel Brooks, Sid Caesar and Carl Reiner. More odious than Pamela Geller because less honest.
"Congratulations, Israel. You have made the world less safe for Jews."
What about the safety of US servicemen in Muslim countries (at neocon's behest) as Israelis brazenly kill, maim, dispossess and humiliate Muslims with our money, weapons and slavish diplomatic support?
Zogby Press Conference livestream link to aaiusa.org
A Norman Bates Knesset ruling Settler Zombies link to mondoweiss.net
"look at how Hillary bends over for them"
@grassfed
Hillary Clinton: Toys to Gaza Bad, Cluster Bombs that look like Toys Good. link to alternet.org
link to berkeleydailyplanet.com
#flotilla2 @mondoweiss
Is that Sara Netanyahu's Louis XV fauteuil? The urban activist bulletin board is really persuasive.
see comments at link to youtube.com
example:
"Obviously, the Israelis know the gay issue is a 'conflict area' between the secular west and Arabs, so they 'Hasbara' up this staged crap to re-invigorate the conflict. Individual states have every ethical right to legislate their choice of religious law—provided it’s the whole religious law, rather than a piece intended to enflame a particular group. We don’t do that in the US. In the US we demonize specific groups for public gain while we rely on their members for personal gain.
The obscene calculation that gay rights offsets the Lobby's hopes for homophobes like Bachmann and keeps American Liberals in check (@maddow) exhibits a depth of contempt for gays that defies description. At least Bachmann doesn't play both sides of the fence.
US Aid to Israel ESF Cash Transfers: The US provides all ESF funds directly to the Israeli government without asking Israel to account for how the funds will be used. Some other aid recipients receive part of their ESF as cash transfers, but not under such flexible, unmonitored conditions. Much of the US Aid circulates back to the US to lobby Congress via AIPAC and non-profits like Hagee's CUFI Citizen's United for Israel, etc.
Bankrupting Terrorism - One Lawsuit at a Time
Shurat HaDin - Israel Law Center is an Israeli based civil right organization and world leader in combating the terrorist organizations and the regimes that support them through lawsuits litigated in courtrooms around the world. Fighting for the rights of hundreds of terror victims, Shurat HaDin seeks to bankrupt the terror groups and grind their criminal activities to a halt - one lawsuit at a time.
link to israellawcenter.org