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  • 'J Street' to share a temple's stage with militant group, 'StandWithUs'
    • Oscar March 10, 2013 at 9:42 am with 1 replies

      Yawn. The J Street scam is still alive and kicking? Who still donates to this strawman organization of poseurs who pretend to be seeking peace, but inevitably prove to be suck-ups to AIPAC? They spew Press Releases galore about the two state solution and continue to play wannabes in the "peace process," while Palestinians are being systematically slaughtered by the IDF and they remain silent. As Hillary Clinton would say, J Street is "not helpful to the peace process.". They are putrid.

  • Israel lobby doesn't want Al Jazeera coming into 'millions of American homes'
    • Oscar January 5, 2013 at 4:03 pm with 3 replies

      "behaving like Stalinists, or the know-nothings who wanted to keep evolution out of the classroom and fluoride out of the water."

      Wow, Phil, maybe for the first time I disagree with you on something you posted on Mondo. "Fluoride in the water" is a terrible thing, toxic nuclear waste from production of aluminum and ironically, the production of American missiles, and this toxic waste has been dumped in our drinking water for decades.

      Countless studies, including a recent one from Harvard, have proven that fluoride in the drinking water reduces IQ in children, and Alzheimer's in older Americans.

      As passionate as we are about seeing peace and justice in the Middle East, many of us are equally as passionate about getting this poison out of our children's drinking water.

      Aside from that, great post.

  • Watch: California bill equating student activism with anti-Semitism is rubber-stamped with no debate
  • With conventional wisdom solidifying behind Hagel, will Obama finally declare on 'Meet the Press?'
    • Oscar December 30, 2012 at 10:42 am

      Could be Obama is just floating Hagel's name to drive Netanyahu crazy, then he'll pick a committed neo-con, then call netanyahu afterward, laughingly, and jibe, "I was just effing with you, bro."

      But maybe not. There's been a housecleaning of neocon generals in the wake of the Petraeus firing (the scandal was a cover story, folks). Talks of secret discussions with Iran through back channels. What's Obama's payback for Netanyahu trying to sabotage the American presidential election through Adelson in favor of Romney? Does he have the stones? I give it a one in four chance that Hagel won't go the way of chas freeman.

  • Tapper grills Carney on special relationship: 'There’s no consequences. They’ll do whatever and you’ll–'
    • Oscar December 8, 2012 at 10:38 am

      MRW, that's why they each have such great respect and a vast following. Since Iraq Invasion cheerleader Jeffrey Goldberg (who Phil always seemed to most admire as the highest profile analyst on the topic) has a column n Bloomberg that won't permit him to shut down comments, Goldberg is routinely mocked for his childlike anti-Palestinian hasbara. There is a massive, highly intellectual segment of the population who follow this handful of courageous, Jewish writers and their following is orders of magnitude greater than we imagine.

      Thanks again to Phil and Adam and all the staffers who make this such an indispensable platform on the war of ideas in the Middle East.

  • Ridicule of Netanyahu at UNGA won't quit
  • Stoking fear of 'genocide,' an academic pushes Israel to war
    • Oscar September 29, 2012 at 4:16 pm

      @GHStanton: While you state that Iran has exhibited signs of genocide, you are unable to point to a single act of violence on its part as an aggressor against Israel.

      Meanwhile, you -- as an academic who holds himself out as an expert on genocidal tendencies of nation-states -- remain silent on Israel's "Dahiya doctrine," the IDF's publicly-stated, central military strategy to wipe out civilian populations and destroy their infrastructure repeatedly. To paraphrase Wikipedia:

      The Dahiya doctrine is a military strategy put forth by the Israeli general Gadi Eizenkot that pertains to asymmetric warfare in an urban setting, in which the army deliberately targets civilian infrastructure, as a means of inducing suffering for the civilian population.

      General Gadi Eizenkot, commander of the IDF's northern front, in October 2008 said “We will wield disproportionate power against [the civilian population] and cause immense damage and destruction. From our perspective, [the civilian areas] are military bases. [...] This isn't a suggestion. Its a plan that has already been authorized. [...] Harming the population is the only means of restraining Nasrallah." [Emphasis added.]

      Israel implemented such a strategy during Operation Cast Lead. The 2009 Goldstone Report makes several references to the Dahiya doctrine, calling it a concept which requires the application of "widespread destruction as a means of deterrence" and which involves "the application of disproportionate force and the causing of great damage and destruction to civilian property and infrastructure, and suffering to civilian populations." The Fact Finding Mission which submitted the Report concluded that the doctrine had been put into practice during the conflict.

      Richard Falk wrote that under the doctrine, "the civilian infrastructure [is] treated as permissible military targets, which is not only an overt violation of the most elementary norms of the law of war and of universal morality, but an avowal of a doctrine of violence that needs to be called by its proper name: state terrorism."

      - Wikipedia, "The Dahiya Doctrine"

      We were lied to repeatedly by the press, the government and academia to drag us into the disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I hope you'll understand when we are a bit more skeptical when it comes to so-called academic experts pounding the table to dupe Americans into another war. After all, it's unlikely your sons or daughters will be among the "boots on the ground" in the next meat grinder in the Middle East.

  • What Park Slope BDS activists were up against: the full force of the Israel lobby
    • Oscar March 30, 2012 at 8:18 pm

      Here's the thing. . . It doesn't matter whether the vote for a boycott of Israeli goods passed or not. There's already ostensibly a partial boycott of Israeli goods at the co-op -- by the 40% who voted in favor of the boycott. Even if Israeli goods show up on the shelf, 40% of co-op members will steer clear.

      And so it goes for many of the rest of us. We quietly boycott Israeli goods. We will not participate in any cultural events that attempt to whitewash the occupation. The goods may appear on the shelf, but we disregard them.

      I've been doing the same with the New York Times since Judith Miller lied us into permanent war in the Middle East eight years ago. Cancelled my subscription and made certain not a dime went to promote its neo-con agenda since then.

  • 'I didn't say I liked Beinart's book' -- J Street head sells his star guest out to his antagonist, Goldberg
    • Oscar March 25, 2012 at 10:43 am

      Ben-Ami was always a poseur -- his statements are always pathetically weak, and his smug attitude toward Peter shows just how little interest he has in distinguishing himself from the AIPAC crowd. JStreet is disregarded by Congress and now has to suck up to Jeff Goldberg to maintain any shred of relevance. It's now AIPAC-Lite, and why anyone continues to contribute to that enabling organization is beyond rational explanation.

  • Israel Firster
    • Oscar March 8, 2012 at 3:10 pm

      Hahaha. You can bet that the Aipac dude frantically speed-dialed his direct contact at the NYT to get that correction out straightaway! Hilarious. Welcome to the beat, Jodi!

  • 'We are you and you are us,' Netanyahu says-- but Obama thumbs him with talk of Palestinians and diplomacy
    • Oscar March 6, 2012 at 9:45 am

      Phil, I'm not nearly as optimistic. Everything is a charade, a staged performance to confuse and/or manipulate the public. Tony Cartalucci reminds us of the PNAC sequel from the Brookings Institute, "Which Path to Persia?" and quite depressingly, they're following the script to the letter.
      link to infowars.com

  • The NDAA -- we are all Josef K now
    • Oscar March 2, 2012 at 10:45 am

      The NDAA was quietly signed into law on New Years Eve 2011 by robosignature, and marked the stealth destruction of the rule of law in America and the negation of the Constitution. It means at any time, your government might not like a google search you've done and can send jack-booted thugs to your home, put a black bag over your head, and disappear you into a FEMA camp indefinitely.

      If you think this is all just a conspiracy theory, then go back to your Dancing with the Stars, NFL football, World Wrestling Federation. You're part of the problem but you'll never be part of the solution.

      Great article, Peter. Thanks for posting it, Phil and Adam.

  • 'Fast Times in Palestine' to sponsor OccupyAIPAC
  • Journalists Mike Murphy of NBC and Donna Brazile of CNN to speak at conference promoting Iran war
  • Dershowitz wants MJ Rosenberg fired for daring to stop Iran war push
    • Oscar February 28, 2012 at 2:55 pm

      MJR - you're a courageous voice. Greatly appreciate your twitter feeds and MM columns. You have the strong support of the Mondo community and many others who stand with you. Stay strong.

    • Oscar February 28, 2012 at 2:50 pm

      No, "Israel first" is the appropriate term. The interests of the USA are always secondary. That's why the IF crowd came up with the canard that the interests of the usa and israel are always exactly the same, when they're not. IFers often have no problem sending American soldiers off to war to die in the name of wiping out an "existential" threat to Israel, while the IDF focuses its resources on suppressing the Palestinians and stealing their land.

      Many IFers think Americans are generally dumb, and their arrogant mental superiority is always on display when their columns and appearances are all meant to manipulate our Congress and our president into launching a catastrophic war against Iran when there is absolute no clear and present danger to the United States.

      No, Israel-first is an accurate description. Goldberg, Jen Rubin, Kristol, AIPAC, podhertz, the Dersh, adelson.

  • Iran's Oscar win reveals Israeli movie-goers to be brainwashed bumpkins
    • Oscar February 27, 2012 at 3:09 pm with 2 replies

      Nima, amazing summary. The reasoning of these critics is reminiscent of the Jim Corw South, trapped by bigoted views.

      Meanwhile, I loved how our very own USA Today politicized the situation with its award-winning headline, "Iran: Oscar Win Is Victory Over Israel." The biased article included several helpful paragraphs pushing more tension between the two countries, a convenient neocon non-sequitur that minimizes the beautiful speech given by the director, and bangs the war drums for the chickenhawks.

  • Harvard's 'one-state' conference spurs 'National Review Online' to suggest expelling Palestinians from Jewish state
    • Oscar February 27, 2012 at 3:17 pm

      Yes, the Martin Kramer connection at Weatherhead did come to mind. There were at least two senior officials at Weatherhead who stated firmly that Kramer's eugenic statement about eliminating "surplus young men" was odious. Maybe this is how Harvard makes amends.

      By the way, it's infuriating to see this battle raging. What about the Islamophobic conference sponsored by Yale? "Academic freedom" and all that. What's good for the goose . . .

  • Cornell group circulates petition 'refusing to collaborate' on Technion deal
  • Newark mayor and Yale president slam NYPD spying program
    • Oscar February 25, 2012 at 8:40 am with 2 replies

      Mike, I read your blog post and your "it's-fine-by-me" attitude is dangerous. Your perspective is admittedly held by several others (to quote Bill O'Reilly on "The View" -- "The Muslims killed us on 9/11"), so let's suspend the constitution for an entire religious group and conduct intrusive surveillance.

      Hell, let's even have the FBI track them with GPS devices on their cars! link to bitly.com

      Let's take away their First Amendment rights to free speech! link to bit.ly

      Let's have the FBI entrap some dimwitted, mentally challenged Muslims to keep the subject in the public eye! link to bit.ly

      If you, as an American citizen, don't find it chilling that the CIA has teamed up with the NYPD to conduct a secret survelliance program on domestic targets without warrants, without probable cause . . . link to bit.ly . . . then you are contributing to the destruction of the Constitution and you're a pathetic cheerleader for a police state.

      Last month, the FBI released the following as clues that you might be white al Queda domestic homegrown terrorist. Enjoy having the NYPD conduct surveillance on you if you do the following:
      ……. you pay for your coffee with cash
      ……. you use portals or anonymizers to shield your IP address.
      ……. you shave off your beard or otherwise change your appearance before participating in paintball.
      …….. you incorporate hand-to-hand combat into your martial arts training.
      ……. you carry a backpack when you go to the mall, especially in warm weather.
      ……. you own a gas mask or other biologically protective gear.
      ……. you have left the country to perform charity work, particularly if it was religious in nature.
      ……. you rent a boat for an extended period of time.
      ……. you purchase a GPS device and batteries at the same time.
      ……. you behave impatiently at the farm supply store.
      ……. you deposit money orders, third party checks and payroll checks all into the same bank account.
      ……. you purchase firearms and ammunition outside of hunting season.
      ……. you make a large purchase from a retail store using cash.
      ……. you ask for a room in a specific or remote part of a hotel or motel.
      ……. you use a camera or video recorder at a bus, subway or train station.
      ……. you purchase water-proofed match containers.
      ……. you ask about the fuel capacity of a car you intend to rent.
      ……. you pay your rent in cash, especially if you pay it ahead of time.
      ……. you are either late paying the rent for your storage unit or you pay for several months in advance.
      ……. you get a tattoo in a concealed spot on your body, particularly if you pay cash for it.

      Source: link to prisonplanet.com

  • UC Irvine 11 protester is disinvited from 'TED'-linked speaker series
  • Israeli spokesman Mark Regev grilled on CNN International over Khader Adnan
    • Oscar February 20, 2012 at 4:48 pm

      This is a report you will never see on CNN's U.S. telecast. Hala Gorani is a courageous reporter, swatting away Regev's vile brand of hasbara and demanding an answer to her query. This #habarafail was especially egregious, considering a man's life is on the line and Regev quips, "He's no boy scout."

      Charge him or release him.

  • Right wing to Rudoren: Are you now, or have you ever been, a Zionist?
    • Oscar February 17, 2012 at 9:26 am

      The hysterical neo-con attack on Jodi Rudoren before she's written a single piece for the NYT speaks volumes about her predecessor. Obviously, the reporting of Eitan Bronner was perfectly acceptable to the Goldberg crowd -- and it's an indictment of the Times' Bill Keller who actively violated the paper's own ethics and standards repeatedly by defending Bronner's shockingly biased reporting.

      With both Keller and Bronner shifted elsewhere at the NYT, here's hoping the changing of the guard will result in the type of objectivity we all believe Jodi will bring to the most challenging assignment in journalism. . .

      Congrats, Jodi, stay true to your convictions.

  • Organizers say pro-Israel filmmaker with controversial past deceives, disrupts Penn BDS conference (UPDATED)
    • Oscar February 5, 2012 at 11:35 am with 1 replies

      David, thanks for your comment. I agree that it should be a big, inclusive tent for all points of view. Even the attempts to discredit BDS raise its profile and amplifies the need to have civil discourse.

      Himel shouldn't have misrepresented himself and his "producers" should be reported to CBC as imposters, but hopefully, the BDS movement will -- as a general rule -- not seek to stifle any legitimate media in advance of a conference or other newsworthy event. (Not that they did so here.)

    • Oscar February 5, 2012 at 11:09 am

      After reading Ali Abunimah's update on his encounter with Himmel and the misrepresentation that his "crew" was with CBC, I retract my concerns above. It was absolutely the right thing to do to bounce this clown.

    • Oscar February 5, 2012 at 10:07 am with 7 replies

      I've got mixed emotions on this one. Himel may be a despicable hasbarist using nazi imagery in his films, and he clearly has an anti-BDS agenda, but the analogy to the great Max Blumenthal may not be too far afield. If he's harassing attendees, throw the bum out. But if he's filming BDS attendees who wish to go on camera, so be it.

      And yes, he didn't play by the rules by not getting the press credential and that is enough to ban him as a member of the media. But still . . . Would PennBDS have banned him as a member of the press even if he did follow protocol?

      Btw, this conference appears to be the watershed event for BDS to go viral. Well done PennBDS.

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  • Both sides are wrong in the ‘Israel Firsters’ debate
    • Oscar February 4, 2012 at 3:46 pm

      Sean McB -- Netanyahu jumped the shark when he appeared before Congress and had every servile Congressperson tongue-bathing him with a standing ovation. If that wasn't an in-your-face demonstration that our elected officials are in the pocket of a foreign power, nothing is.

    • Oscar February 4, 2012 at 3:40 pm

      It represents a peeling off of Zionism = Judiasm, the "not-in-my-name" phenomenon among Jews of conscience.

      It's also intellectually dishonest to conflate criticism of a nation-state with anti-Semitism. If Adelson says he wishes he served in the IDF rather than the US military, he has every right to say so, but it shouldn't prevent pundits to observe his allegiance is to Israel comes before that of U.S.

    • Oscar February 4, 2012 at 7:15 am

      As Sean McBride points out, "Israel first" is a perfectly acceptable description of those who's monomania is Israel. Not that there's anything wrong with that, until red lines are crossed and America is drawn into futile wars that enrich warmongers and devastate patriotic Americans from the heartland.

      This article was a step backward in the dialogue. Jamie Stern-Weiner appears to all but justify Josh Block's nefarious McCarthyite tactics in this piece.

      A far more thoughtful, cogent and authoritative piece was written by someone who should know . . . former AIPAC employee MJ Rosenberg. Unlike the traitorous CAP, which threw its employees under the bus, MJ doubles down on the term and courageously promises his use of the term will not be curtailed by intimidation tactics of Israel-Firsters. link to huffingtonpost.com

  • Anti-Defamation League reprises debunked quote in attempt to discredit Helena Cobban and Penn BDS conference
  • AIPAC met quietly with Dem thinktank to deplore writings critical of Israel, and took its leaders to Israel
    • Oscar February 2, 2012 at 7:54 am

      Ok, so if "Israel First" is too emotionally charged a description, how about "America Second, But A Very Very Close Second "? Would that do the trick?

  • The Mondo crew hosts WBAI’s 'Beyond the Pale' to discuss Ron Paul, Dennis Ross and the myth of Obama's 'Jewish problem'
    • Oscar January 21, 2012 at 12:03 pm

      You mean the same "young white men" who lifted Obama into office. Sheesh.

      Mondo, conrgrats on the radio show, looking forward to more. But next time, get a Paul advocate like Doug Wead on to explain the other side. Don't fall for neocon talking points.

    • Oscar January 21, 2012 at 11:59 am

      Right again, Shingo. Obama is the Dennis Ross of American presidents . . . His mandate is to run out the clock. Wait until Mondo fans see what happens to the Palestinians in another 4 years of an Obama presidency.

    • Oscar January 21, 2012 at 11:56 am

      Shingo -- exactly right! But praising Ron Paul's end-the-wars-now platform while feeling comfortable rejecting him because other progressive values are not represented by his candidacy is passivity that will tolerate the status quo.

      It amazes me that after all that Obama has done to amplify the wars and the killings, so called progressives will hold their noses and vote en masse for this neocon in sheep's clothing. Like the morons who voted for George W's second term because he had unfinished business.

      Glenn Greenwald would have probably confirmed that Ron Paul as president could end the wars the day after inauguration. Dismantling social and entitlement programs so beloved by liberals would never happen during his presidency -- it would be gridlocked endlessly in congress.

      To be clear, the immediate cessation of permanent war and stopping the draining of our nation's blood and treasure is my only criteria in voting for a candidate this term. Those who vote for Obama again are as ideologically rigid as GWB's second term supporters. And you play sheeplike into the hands of the neocons.

  • Santorum's pulp hasbara
  • Leveretts: False flag in Iranian hit likely disguises U.S.
  • What power will Paul have over Romney? (JJ Goldberg and Krauthammer ask)
    • Oscar January 14, 2012 at 9:41 pm

      O'Donnell is surprisingly biased, worse than Dana Bash. He was mocked by Jon Stewart for that comment lysias noted -- "You take Ron Paul out, and Huntsman actually finished second." LOL!

    • Oscar January 13, 2012 at 1:56 pm with 1 replies

      lysias, can you provide a link to the memo from management? That's an amazing smoking gun.

      By the way, Fox News considers its viewers to be nothing more than sheep that will follow their neocon admonitions. Skeptical? Then click here to see the holiday card Fox News sent around, depicting a cartoon Fox in a sleigh pulled by sheep, pulling ahead of the sheep-drawn sleighs of ABC, CBS and NBC. Last year's card featured timid sheep on the left and the right of the card. link to huffingtonpost.com

      This is what they think of those of you beholden to the left-right paradigm, and that's why they play one side against the other even though there's little difference between the two parties any longer.

    • Oscar January 13, 2012 at 1:48 pm

      Instead, the Krauthammer piece was dripping with condescension. It was a dog-whistle to the rest of the GOP that because of the MSM's attempts to destroy Paul and smear his followers, a very sizable chunk of GOP voters (esp. the youth vote) will sit on their hands in the general election.

      Ron Paul is the only anti-war candidate. link to infowars.com

      Here's 10 reasons why liberals and progressives should retain their ideology, shake off the fictitious "Democrat" label, and seriously consider voting for Ron Paul. link to infowars.com

  • Ron Paul gets respect
    • Oscar January 11, 2012 at 1:03 pm with 11 replies

      Richard Witty, there is rampant inflation. Have you been to the grocery store lately? You consider $3.70 a gallon gas not inflationary? The government stats are intentionally cooked to avoid the COLA adjustments to recipients of government entitlements.

    • Oscar January 11, 2012 at 12:50 pm with 2 replies

      The problem with third party is that there's no funding for such a campaign. There's a strong likelihood you'll be excluded from debates.

      It's an MSM meme meant to discredit Ron Paul as a faux Republican (and a traitorous one at that). Don't buy into the tripe.

    • Oscar January 11, 2012 at 12:47 pm with 1 replies

      Thanks for this post, Phil. The moment last month when Fox News' Bret Baier told Ron Paul he was to the left of Obama on the nation's war policy touched off a firestorm of identity crisis among progressives. Problem is: for all the soul searching of progressives, for all their knee-jerk rejection of RP as crazy on domestic issues, their dilemma is irreconcilable.

      Why is a candidate in the GOP primary more progressive as an anti-war candidate than Obama? Why are liberals mere enablers of Obama's destruction of civil liberties and promotion of endless wars in the middle east?

      Not sure why commenters are focused solely on MSNBC. Yeah, Chris Matthews is horrific when it comes to Ron Paul, as is everyone other than Rachel Maddow. But NPR cuts off his speech last night. CBS' Jan Crawford intentionally omitted him in a poll yesterday in a comical attempt to censor any mention of his name. CNN's Dana Bash admits on air that she's concerned that RP will be in it all the way to a brokered convention (yes, he will, Dana!). Though he is the only real challenger to Romney, Fox News constantly tells their Sheeple he's unelectable. Do not trust these charlatans -- they are all plugged into the military industrial complex.

      And for those of you who won't vote for Ron Paul because of his stance on domestic issues, how has Obama's hope and change worked out for you? Anyone who still supports Obama after he insisted on the indefinite detention of American citizens clause of the NDAA is surely not a progressive. You're a partisan who's been duped into believing in a false left-right paradigm.

  • Ron Paul and the liberal interventionists
    • Oscar January 9, 2012 at 11:54 am

      Terrific insight, Jack. Here's a follow-up piece from Stoller, a bit bemused by the faux outrage of progressives with a neo-con-influenced identity crisis and the hissy fit they're throwing over Ron Paul's message. link to nakedcapitalism.com

  • Ron Paul's foreign policy should be embraced
    • Oscar January 9, 2012 at 8:48 am

      BIoC, you seem to have a monomaniacal obsession with your pet project and you constantly interject non-sequiturs, such as bad-mouthing Ron Paul while demanding everyone floods college campuses with a boycott of Israel.

      You seem to be hijacking this thread with illogical comments. Ron Paul is not a racist, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich certainly are (Michele Bachmann was likewise a racist, but she can now do that from Minnesota rather than New Hampshire, SC and Florida).

      The greatest fear of the military industrial complex is that progressives en masse embrace Ron Paul as the only anti-war candidate in 2012. Which he is. The hand-wringing of progressives that, "um, yeah, but wouldn't I be voting for a racist?" is lame, pathetic, passive and dangerous.

      We live in times that demand we don't permit ourselves to be labeled as red state vs. blue state, conservatives vs. liberals. The label we should care to wear is "anti-war American." Don't worry, the rest will be hashed out by a divided Congress.

  • Is Paul a precursor of a more presentable candidate in 2016?
    • Oscar January 7, 2012 at 5:42 pm with 2 replies

      Phil, this post truly pissed me off. Are you gonna kick the can down the road for another four years? You're talking 2016 now? A Romney presidency backed by Sheldon Adelson will assure that the Palestinians will be fully ethnically cleansed by then.

      Ron Paul supporters realize that anyone who wants to END THE WARS NOW has no other choice but RP. We are not looking to 2016, that's far too late. Resist the neocon propaganda. Ron Paul defies the stupidity of the left-right paradigm. So should we all.

  • Uniformed corporal's criticism of Iran attack breaks off on CNN mid-sentence
    • Oscar January 4, 2012 at 10:58 pm with 1 replies

      Phil, you gotta be kidding. An otherwise flawless night for CNN in technology and the video feed happens to cut out precisely when the uniformed soldier said the words "Israel can take care of itself"? The twittersphere lit up with conspiracy theories immediately thereafter, forcing CNN to acknowledge the suspicious "technical glitch" on air a half hour later. The blatant censorship caused CNN's sister publication TIME to insult the soldier, calling him "stupid" while dismissing the conspiracy theory. This is how stupid they think we are.
      link to battleland.blogs.time.com.

  • Anti-Paulism
    • Oscar January 4, 2012 at 10:31 pm

      The israel-first neocons will demonize Ron Paul because his presidency will mean the end of the $3 billion annual check Uncle Sam cuts to Israel on an annual basis. Ron Paul makes the Zionists nuts, and if you read the comments on the medved article, you'll see how the shrill dog whistle of "anti-semitism" is long in the tooth and no longer effective, having long ago been run into the ground by the neoclowns.

  • Paul's challenge to progressives
    • Oscar January 4, 2012 at 10:49 am

      Great list, Sean McB . . .

      Disappointed that the progressives only see Ron Paul as an MSM talking point with the mere hope that the issues can be "discussed and debated" all the way to the GOP convention, permitting progressives to feel better about casting yet another disastrous vote for passive chickenhawk Obama in November. Yeah, sounds about as fruitful as the "peace process.". Good luck with that.

      Phil, I'd urge you to look more closely at the nationwide support of Dr Paul and not harp on the MSM point of the "whiteness" of his multitude of followers. You might be surprised to find we're not all skinhead supremacists.

      Stop talking about ending the wars and do something about it. RP is the only candidate who will bring troops home. Not Obama, not Romney, Santorum or Gingrich. Full stop.

  • Kampeas: Jewish neocons are more than 2 degrees removed from Bush's decision to invade Iraq
    • Oscar January 2, 2012 at 1:57 pm

      A brave and magnificent essay. Kudos, Phil. Don't let the neocons obscure the history of PNAC and The Office of Special Plans.

  • More responses to Ron Paul's surge
    • Oscar January 1, 2012 at 5:51 pm

      If you continue to have hesitations about Ron Paul because you've been manipulated by the neocons and Fox News into thinking he's a racist, let's put it this way: they have every incentive in the world to stop him from dismantling the military-industrial complex, and will stop at nothing, including smearing his good name in pursuit of this evil objective.

      Judge Ron Paul by his deeds, not the lies from the MSM. He is the only candidate that will achieve the goals of the Mondoweiss faithful. The only one. . .
      link to youtube.com

  • Right-wing attack group caught fabricating quotes in effort to smear critics of Israel
    • Oscar December 24, 2011 at 10:07 pm

      The UPenn BDS conference is the flip side of the August 2011 Yale University three-day hatefest against Islam, which equated criticism of Israel with the "new anti-Semitism." When Yale was criticized for hosting a conference that spewed so much hatred, a spokesman defended it, claiming it was protected under "academic freedom.". link to sabbah.biz

      Of course, several months later, Yale quietly defunded the program, which led to squeals from The Dersh and many many others.

      UPenn can't endorse such a program, nor could they cancel it as SWU so devoutly hoped . . . The academic freedom precedent was establish by Yale last summer and Penn can't shut it down.

      Great post, Alex, and great catch.

  • The Ron Paul moment-- bad and good
    • Oscar December 25, 2011 at 12:20 pm

      Citizen, you're spot-on as always. Ron Paul has the momentum now to go the distance and with a proportional delegate system for the primaries, he's in it for the duration. The MSM intentionally suppresses the depth and breadth of RP's support -- he and Romney have been at it since the 2008, and they have set up a nationwide infrastructure to make a serious run for the presidency. It's why all the other candidates did not qualify for Virginia -- amateur hour for Gingrich, Perry and the rest.

      Unfortunately for the neocons, they dropped this smear too early. Ron Paul is highly likely to win Iowa, will place #1 or #2 in NH. Then Santorum and possibly Bachmann will drop out. Gingrich will continue to plunge. RP will be in a dog fight with Romney, who will be capped out because the GOP voters can't get behind a permanent war neo-con who created RomneyCare. RP will win big states like Texas and California, while Romney will take Florida. But it won't be a winner takes all scenario -- proportional delegates which will benefit Ron Paul.

      It is possible. Don't ever give up the fight. Ron Paul is the ONLY CANDIDATE acceptable to Mondoweiss readers.

    • Oscar December 22, 2011 at 3:56 pm

      Phil, don't let the GOP neocons manipulate you. Ron Paul is the only candidate who conforms with the Mondoweiss worldview. Stay the course.

  • Mainstream press sniggers at Ron Paul's antiwar message
    • Oscar December 17, 2011 at 6:34 pm

      The MSM continues to discredit itself at every twist and turn when it comes to Ron Paul. Andrew Sullivan called for Fox News' Chris Wallace to recuse himself as a moderator from last week's debate when he said that Iowa would discredit itself if Ron Paul won the state's caucus. Does the buffoonery never end?

      It's truly telling that both GOP and Dems badmouth Ron Paul -- but since almost no one of any intelligence relies on Fred hyatt's WaPo or the NY Times or CBS News for what's happening, the RonPaul groundswell continues continues online, on campus and on the late night shows.

  • Ron Paul's stunning antiwar performance: Iran threat recalls Iraq, 'a useless war that killed 1 million Iraqis' and 8000 Americans
    • Oscar December 16, 2011 at 8:32 pm with 8 replies

      Phil, I've greatly admired your journalism for the last two decades and I'm very grateful for this terrific analysis. But isn't your top-of-mind issue the war of ideas in the Middle East? This is the first I'm hearing that the global warming controversy is a political deal breaker for you.

      Mondoweiss has to endorse Dr. Paul. He's the only hope to bring sanity to the region, to our nation. He is brave, patriotic, consistent, sane, intelligent and astute on all issues that those of us in the mondoweiss community are passionate about.

  • #IsraelKills: Activists take to Twitter to protest Tamimi death
    • Oscar December 14, 2011 at 11:25 am with 1 replies

      Allison, great article. You should also credit Ali Abunimah for his promotion of the tags. I think he came up with #IsraelHates and may have been the progenitor of #israelkills. The hashtags are powerful forms of communication, a clarion call for like minded activists and objectors to participate in the global dialogue. The #LowesHatesMuslims hashtag was extremely successful in raising global awareness, and of course, Twitter suppresses such hashtags in its trending lists.

  • Lowe's faces boycott after pulling ads from 'TLC' show on Muslims
  • IDF kills Palestinian protester and tweets '#Fail'
    • Oscar December 10, 2011 at 2:58 pm

      The most moral army in the world . . . holds values exactly like our own American values . . . the IDF conducts itself with the utmost regard for human life . . .

  • The lobby blinks! Democratic insiders throw Josh Block under the bus
    • Oscar December 10, 2011 at 1:44 pm with 6 replies

      Is it just me, or does the great Ali Abunimah seem to be on a phenomenal batting streak here? He seems to win every debate with @RJC, gets racist @HotChulo fired from Telemundo for shockingly bigoted tweets, now the noxious Josh Block gets his nose bloodied for trying to take him down. Abunimah started the #IsraelHates hashtag that became a Twitter phenomenon, now he's leading the #BoycottLowes and #LowesHatesMuslims charge in the blogosphere that has the retail hardware giant knocked back on its heels for its racist, bigoted decision to pull advertising from TLC's "All-American Muslims" reality show. Go, Ali, go.

  • Wolf Blitzer will host surging Paul, but Republican Jewish Coalition won't
    • Oscar December 2, 2011 at 11:25 am

      Agreed. Ron Paul is much stronger in Iowa than the lamestream media will allow you to know. Ron Paul will win Iowa, and Wolf Blitzer will pull a Bob Schieffer.

      Speaking of Schieffer (and Phil's excellent post on the topic), the mighty Glenn Greenwald eviscerated the CBS News host of FTN, as he looked like an angry, grumpy old coot who was badly outmatched by Ron Paul's mastery on the topics thrown his way.

      Here's the MSM's problem . . . they keep using dumbed-down talking points to sell their agenda to the dumbed-down sheeple. So they ask RP stupid questions that make them look like idiots who have a 3rd grade perspective on the world. They're in a box. every time there's a debate, RP wins the post-debate online polls with 70 pct majority. every time they smear him with fictitious news stories, they get flamed with 300 pro Ron Paul comments.

      Newt will implode. Romney is stuck at 20 pct.

  • Evidently Harvard University chose not to acquire this celebrity lawyer's papers?
    • Oscar November 13, 2011 at 7:44 am

      The equivalent of pinkwashing for one of American history's most virulent, smashmouth bigots. Outside of perhaps Marty Peretz and Rachel Abrams, the Dersh has been the most shrill and full throated hater this country has seen since the days of the KKK.

      So, there's another "badge of honor" for you, Dersh.

  • Ross's departure will hurt Obama's reelection hopes, Abrams explains
    • Oscar November 11, 2011 at 10:12 am with 2 replies

      It's all about the donations from the 2%. But I believe Obama's already pumping the well of Wall Street swag, with the implicit promise of TARP II banker bailouts when the Eurozone utterly implodes. Just watch.

  • Bill Kristol: 'We need to hear' that Obama has gone to war on Iran
    • Oscar October 16, 2011 at 7:43 pm with 1 replies

      PNAC, Weekly Standard, Emergency Committee for Israel . . . Kristol will serve up a nice slice of Nigerian yellowcake for any buffoon willing to believe the used-car salesman hoax and bang the war-drum (neo-cons are not eligible for this offer, since they reflexively drink the Kool-Aid -- right, Kenny Pollack?)
      link to landdestroyer.blogspot.com

      Gimme us a break. The FBI has gotten so sloppy in its never-ending, false-flag, Operation Northwoods entrapment schemes, even Judith Miller had to take a step back and say, "Hey, there's something fishy here." Judith Miller!

  • NYT reviewer: Small group of Bush advisers will take real reason for Iraq war to their (restless) graves
    • Oscar October 4, 2011 at 5:25 pm

      Brilliant, Dan C. Thanks for the link and the excerpt.

      Of course, then entire enterprise was propelled by the signatories of PNAC. For God's sake, JEB BUSH was a signatory to the PNAC document.

      Pillar apparently clashed with the nefarious, behind-the-scenes director of the Counterterrorism Center, Cofer Black, in 1999. He seems to be a good guy, but if he's cutting out the stuff in the Salon article, then he's not doing history a favor. I'm getting a copy of his book to see if that's the case.

  • Breaking: 'Irvine 11' found guilty on two charges for protesting Michael Oren
    • Oscar September 23, 2011 at 7:00 pm

      This is a reprehensible decision that needs to be appealed by the ACLU or some other group concerned about American civil liberties. While the Zionists and the neo-cons are clinking champagne glasses over this "victory," that dumbed-down California jury just eroded the First Amendment for Americans everywhere.

      Obviously, the judge recognized the stupidity of the brain-addled and possibly racist jury and gave no jail time to the students. Still . . . Needs to be reversed! Tony Ruckashas should hang his head in shame for bowing to political pressures and bringing this dangerous case forward.

  • Campaign to end military aid to Israel enters NY, underground
  • NYT's Keller implies Iraq War aimed to save Israel from a 'holocaust'
    • Oscar September 7, 2011 at 7:50 am

      Bill Keller is a pompous chucklehead. His navel-gazing columns seem to inadvertently serve as confessions that the NYT is hopelessly compromised as a source of objective facts. The recent coverage of the Libyan invasion by NATO was typically egregious -- they might as well have brought back Judith Miller to lead the falsified coverage of that travesty.

      The Nation Magazine completely shreds this mealy-mouthed fool and his latest "mini-culpa" here: link to thenation.com.

      I, for one, am elated to see him stepping aside, if for no other reason than to see fewer of his spineless neo-con justifications for why his paper slants coverage in favor of permanent war. Does he lay awake at night, knowing that no one believes in the credibility of the NYT reportage any longer? The squandering of what once was a national treasure was completely ethically bankrupted on his watch.

  • Read the post for which Derfner was fired: 'The awful, necessary truth about Palestinian terror'
    • Oscar August 29, 2011 at 6:37 pm

      This was also meant to have a chilling effect on leftist journalists.

    • Oscar August 29, 2011 at 6:34 pm with 1 replies

      Two thoughts come to mind immediately.

      Larry wrote: "I got fired from J Post today. The paper received hundreds of notices of cancellations". Wow. BDS does work, people!

      Also, my take away from The Derf's article was that Israel claims the right to self defense, that right is manifested in aggression against Palestinians, Palestinians seek to invoke their own kind of self defense, this is branded as terrorism, but isn't this cycle of violence predictable and therefore preventable? As a columnist, he was attempting to shake his fellow countrymen out of their bubble. Speaking truth to power, as he has done courageously for so many years, he was immediately executed by firing squad.

      Larry Derfner is a courageous analyst, American-born, made Aliyah and writes honestly about his country. The J Post must have had no further tolerance for LD after he was arrested at Tel Aviv airport during the chaos of the "fly-tilla.". He's received the same treatment as Helen Thomas.

      LD, we salute you for your candor. Freedom of the press, the expression of unpopular ideas -- this is what you learned growing up in America. God bless you for extolling those virtues courageously.

  • 'JPost' fires Derfner for writing that Palestinians have the 'right' to use terrorism, notwithstanding his apology
    • Oscar August 29, 2011 at 10:32 am

      An abomination. It proves the intolerance of Israel -- and you can bet your last nickel that Larry would have been fired as well (with a lot more vitriol) if he were an American columnist and published the same blog post.

      Maybe some of you will recall the dramatic photos in TLV airport with chaos over the "fly-tilla" -- Derfner was right in the middle of the action. He's a man of conviction.

      Someone suggested that Larry should make reverse aliyah and come back to Los Angeles. He's probably thinking the same thing.

  • Carmageddon, Irene-- what will Americans dream up next to make ourselves feel important?
    • Oscar August 28, 2011 at 12:01 pm with 3 replies

      I couldn't agree with you more, Phil. The MSM gets so clogged with useless info. If you watched the local reports last night, the on camera reporters were struggling to make the storm seem like something far worse than it was -- one report actually had the cameraman intentionally juggling his camera to make it seem as if the wind was out of control.

      I don't think I've ever seen state governments declare a "state of emergency" BEFORE a storm.

      And I agree that it's shameful that Americans are so prepossessed with this stuff. The recent East Coast earthquake was another perfect example of overkill, so is any routine sex scandal involving a politician.

      Meanwhile, the US is in innumerable secret wars in the Middle East. With all the celebrity gossip and pro football starting up, who has time to focus on how the country is going down fast?

  • IDF cites int'l law against use of white phosphorus in 'inhabited areas'--then removes the tweet
    • Oscar August 21, 2011 at 10:14 pm

      This is second grade level hasbara, not worthy of the Mondoweiss blog. It was exceptionally well-documented that the IDF illegally used white phosphorus as a weapon to terrorize the civilian population. Dude, have you ever heard of the Dahiya Doctrine? Get smart and look it up.

      On the other hand, you may be a paid hasbarist who gets a check to spew falsehoods on the comments section of websites. If so, thanks -- it provides a opportunity to fact check your spewage. Here's Human Rights Watch on the topic. link to hrw.org

      Asherpat, it was a war crime. Nothing less.

  • Afghanistan helicopter crash fuels antiwar feeling in American military community
    • Oscar August 9, 2011 at 4:25 pm

      DC, you're absolutely on the right track. But open your mind just a bit more . . .
      link to prisonplanet.com

      How do we know these Navy SEALS were NOT the entire team that witnessed or participated in the alleged "raid" of bin Laden? Because your government tells you so? How strange that the "official" story of the "raid" is published in the New Yorker only a few days before. link to newyorker.com

      Schmidle admitted that he didn't speak to a single Navy SEAL in constructing this exciting, ready-for-Hollywood narrative that is now the "official" story. He got it from anonymous military sources, and he's getting roundly criticized from all corners. link to theatlanticwire.com

      If this was the entire Seal Team 6 that were present when bin Laden was allegedly killed, and all of them were herded onto the doomed Chinook, then you could fairly say that there just might possibly be a cover-up that the bin Laden story is actually a fable. (For years, many global intelligence officials believe that bin Laden has been dead from kidney failure since December 2001 and that Obama rolled out a fake narrative to deflect attention from the birth certificate controversy.) link to dailymail.co.uk

      Read Paul Craig Roberts (former Reagan Treasury official and editor of the Wall Street Journal), pull all the pieces together and see if all might not be exactly as it seems. link to lewrockwell.com

  • Bloggers impeach Jennifer Rubin's 'Sabbath' excuse for failing to correct her assertion that Jihadists were behind Norway massacre
    • Oscar August 6, 2011 at 8:11 am

      Shortly after the PNAC manifesto was created, the neocons hijacked the Republican party. Party leaders just let it happen, and conservativism was about going after those who hate us for our freedoms.

      As a gift to humanity, they gave us the unending war on terror.

      I long ago burned my Republican voting card (not that the Dems are any better). But Fred Hiatt's pathetic modern-day version of the WaPo is meant to continue conflating neo-connery with conservativism.

      Hence, a "conservative blogger" like Jennifer Rubin gets paid to spew hateful and bigoted comments against an entire group of people. She seems to have a distaste for actually covering conservative issues -- it's all fluff until she gets to write about Israel.

      Her non-apology shows that she's at Marty Peretz's level in just not getting that she's a vile bigot. Playing the Sabbath card doesn't make her any less of a bigot.

      Way to go, Fred Hiatt! Great hire.

  • The Larry David peace plan
  • Curb your racism
    • Oscar July 31, 2011 at 10:47 am

      Chaos, you may be right. I am a fan of the show, but didn't see the full episode. The two minute clip in the Palestinian chicken restaurant was hilarious -- absurd to the point of clever commentary on the stupidity of the hasbara. The sex scene, however, was indeed grotesque and bizarre. I need to see the entire show to see if Larry David deserves the scorn Eleanor suggests.

      Eleanor, I recommend you swap out the clips on this post -- the sex scene is far more offensive than the restaurant scene.

    • Oscar July 30, 2011 at 7:01 pm

      Me too. I only saw the isolated clip. Must watch the whole episode.

    • Oscar July 29, 2011 at 10:01 am with 25 replies

      Oh, Eleanor, you completely missed the joke. I agree with Ali Abunimah, this was a complete mock of Jewish hasbara. Hilarious in its absurdity, and a brilliant commentary on the situation.

      Perhaps the real-life situation is so raw that to some, Larry David's satire seems petty. I disagree. I think it's groundbreaking in mocking the absurdity of the torrent of hasbara we endure everyday.

      UPDATE: I watched it again to be sure. It's even funnier upon second viewing, if you open up your mind and listen to them spout the mindless catchphrases such as "right to exist" and "that table is planning an intifada.". Great stuff.

  • Are you stupid enough to be a blogger for the Washington Post? Take the Norway test
    • Oscar July 25, 2011 at 8:32 am

      McCants' source was yet another blog-post-for-drooling-Islamophobes from our friends at the SITE Intelligence Group, the thoroughly discredited operation that helpfully provided fake bin Laden tapes and videos all these years to keep the fear alive. Google it.

      Jennifer Rubin is in the same vein as Caroline Glick and Melanie Phillips -- high profile bloggers whose hateful neo-con spewage against Muslims is institutionalized bigotry. Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, Daniel Pipes, David Horowitz and even Marty Peretz (who just came out of bigotry retirement) all provided the type of shrill hatred that was the rocket fuel for the Breivik massacre.

      Rubin is not even intellectually honest enough to apologize. The weasel words in her non-apology were appalling. In yet another outrage, Rubes suggests that the blond-haired, blued-eyed assassin actually proves her contention that the national security budget should remain intact to protect aganist the "threat" of jihad. link to washingtonpost.com

      By contrast, Melanie "Mad Mel" Phillips was finally fired from The Spectator in June after a particularly egregious, high pitched screed against Muslims. Doesn't seem likely that Fred Hiatt will expunge this hateblog from the TrashPo any time soon. It's yet another reason why no one trusts the paper in any way, shape or form.

  • Message to Marty
    • Oscar July 20, 2011 at 6:15 pm

      Marty yaps on and on about anti-semitism, and smears Roger Cohen and David Remnick, while he spews the most hateful bile about Arabs and Muslims. Every time he opens his mouth, a foul stench spews forth. He is so riddled with hatred, he must never sleep at night.

  • Richard Witty's 10,000th comment
    • Oscar July 15, 2011 at 3:15 pm

      And I thought Derek Jeter's 3,000th base hit last weekend was the biggest lifetime achievement of the week. Wow, ten thousand intellectually dishonest, straw man comments from Witty, a large percentage of which included backhanded swipes at Phil for having such a successful blog.

      The next fundraiser should be a effort to raise $5 for every comment Witty has made on Mondoweiss. God knows that Witty won't contribute a red dime to the site; he's too jealous of Phil's accomplishments.

  • Welcome to Israel
    • Oscar July 9, 2011 at 8:01 am

      Great pic by the great Joseph Dana. The Jack Nicholson-looking guy in the middle of the fracas with the grey hair and the sunglasses is JPost columnist Larry Derfner,

  • Congressmen warn Obama of 'revolution' in Democratic Party as he becomes the LBJ of Afghanistan
    • Oscar June 20, 2011 at 12:13 pm

      Not sure about that, Kathleen. Seems as if it might be an intentional leak, to give the American populace a sense that Obama is reducing the presence of American soldiers in Afghanistan. Beware, it's just another head fake. The military will simply be shifting resources to Libya, Syria and Iran. Infowars.com has the details from sources in Fort Hood that the military plans a ground invasion of Libya in October.

      Meanwhile, the USA is technically insolvent, with Japan, China and Russia dumping our debt at an accelerating pace, and Bernanke printing money to buy our own Treasurys. Wake up, everyone --

  • 'Washington Times' yanks Weiner-married-Muslim-agenda piece
  • Our demands (designing placards for a demonstration)
  • Challenging anti-Semitism must be rooted in opposing racism, not defending Israel
    • Oscar June 11, 2011 at 8:44 am

      The Center failed in part because its "study" of anti-Semitism all too often relied on stereotyping "radical Muslims." It's an intellectually flawed premise that foments hatred against Muslims and Arabs, and Yale was right to cease the program.

  • Huh-- Yale to close anti-Semitism shop
    • Oscar June 8, 2011 at 11:19 am

      Outstanding news. The hateful conference last summer held under the auspices of Yale University should have led to the program being shut down much sooner.

  • Hersh says Obama is in a political 'cult' and isolated from folks with independent ideas
    • Oscar June 6, 2011 at 9:58 am

      Yep - spot-on, DG. It's George Soros and the New World Order.
      link to youtube.com

    • Oscar June 6, 2011 at 9:54 am with 7 replies

      Obama has no one but himself to blame for his atrocious state of isolation. He was AIPAC's willing executioner when it came to Chas Freeman -- doing the bidding of Steve Rosen and forced Freeman to step down from consideration for Chairman of the National Intelligence Council. link to salon.com

      It's quite amusing watching the Israel-firsters pound Obama as the worst president Israel's ever had, when Obama has not only bent over backward for Israel, he's bent over forward (while dropping trou and grabbing his ankles). Operation Iron Dome, undercutting Mitchell in favor of Dennis Ross, saber-rattling over Iran . . . the list goes on and on.

      Obama is a fraud of a president -- he's done almost nothing but cause more and more damage to the country that elected him. And yet those who have actually derived a benefit from his ineffectual presidency -- the Israeli's -- despise him. Ron Paul 2012, everyone.

  • George Mitchell says, Well, 10 presidents and 19 secretaries of state also failed
    • Oscar May 31, 2011 at 7:37 pm

      Mitchell was set up to fail. He had no chance of making any meaningful headway. In fact, it almost seemed that they were using the subterfuge of his past accomplishments to broker a peace in Ireland to drag feet in the current situation, stretch it out ever longer, and to accelerate the pace of illegal landgrabs. Mitchell should bury his head in the sand instead of going on Charlie Rose and inducting himself into the Losers' Hall of Fame. What a pathetic joke.

  • Egypt opens Gaza border, and Kadima blames Netanyahu
    • Oscar May 29, 2011 at 3:32 pm

      Thanks, citizen. The black lining in a silver cloud.

    • Oscar May 29, 2011 at 3:10 pm

      Joemowrey, you're absolutely right. It's a ploy to appease the Egyptian people and to discredit the upcoming flotilla. There are some real reports of people passing through the Rafah crossing for the first time in 16 years, but by and large, the bureaucracy remains intact. The fact that no trade can cross through makes it more of a symbolic gesture, which takes the international pressure off Israel.

      Thanks to the Internet, however, we should have an accurate picture of just how free the Rafah crossing is within a few weeks.

  • We can only pray that Congress's supine conduct before a rightwing foreign leader will have political consequences
  • First they came for Norman, then they ate the hummus
    • Oscar May 23, 2011 at 2:11 pm

      Okay, Holtschneider -- offer students an alternative to Sabra. Let the market speak for itself.

  • With one signal -- 1967-- Obama decides to take on Netanyahu on the Arab Spring
    • Oscar May 20, 2011 at 2:41 pm with 2 replies

      The entire exercise was a ruse, intended to bring some measure of artificial credibility to the US in the peace process after Mitchell's disastrous tenure and fresh resignation. Do you believe Dennis Ross would permit Obama to go out there and blow himself up in the run up to fundraising for his second term? NFW. It's a fake fight, like pro wrestling, with Netanyahu pitching and Obama catching.

  • How many years of struggle before Gandhi was mentioned by the State Department-- or Mandela?
    • Oscar May 16, 2011 at 6:56 pm

      I misread Phil's first line. I thought Mark Toner himself had mentioned Mazin Qumsiyeh's name. Instead, he seemed clueless, more about "both sides" showing "restraint" and reiterating Israel's right to secure its borders by killing 14 unarmed protesters . . . during the so-called Arab Spring.

      I can't wait for Obama's follow up speech on the Middle East this Thursday! Change you can believe in! Like changing Mitchell with Ross, that is. . .

  • Yale to stick thumb in Obama administration's eye
    • Oscar May 16, 2011 at 6:59 pm

      Or his 700 days of futility will disappear like ripples in a pond. He was so Chas Freeman'ed, it's despicable.

  • Anti-Muslim bigot Walid Shoebat, brought to you by U.S. taxpayers
  • Lupe Fiasco raps about Gaza, discusses Obama and the War on Terror on the Colbert Report
    • Oscar January 30, 2012 at 11:35 am

      JP, you and I are on the same page, except for one thing.

      Clearly, you've never taken the time to listen to Alex Jones' radio show. As such, you're buying the tripe from the MSM that he's a conspiracy theorist and a fearmongerer. He's not.

      I urge you to consider spending a single hour -- any hour -- to listen to his radio show. He has tripled his audience of listeners from 5 million to 15 million is just over the last year. Why? Because as a student of history, he has the entire enchilada figured out. Give it a try, then tell me if you still feel the same way.

    • Oscar May 12, 2011 at 9:43 am with 2 replies

      J.P., you may be right, but I think Mondo needs to stay focused on its core mission of the I/P situation. Last thing Phil and Adam need are to be broadbrushed as "Truthers" as the critics try to discredit the website.

      But many questions remain about 9/11. buildingwhat.org is a site created by the families of victims of 9/11 asking legitimate questions about how Building 7 fell into its footprint. Alex Jones' infowars.com has a trove of information about 9/11.

      The amazing thing about the internet is that it "crowd-sources" vast amounts of raw information, providing a more complete picture of 9/11 than any "committee" is capable (or willing) to create. The majority of the 9/11 commissioners have distanced themselves from the final report, and the PNAC connections to the event and the subsequent WOT are impossible to easily dismiss. Check out Susan Lindauer on Veterans Today's website: link to veteranstoday.com

  • The community of fear and the community of hope (Choose)
  • Kushner restoration?
    • Oscar May 7, 2011 at 10:23 am

      Assuming the great, talented Tony Kushner is given his honorary degree without an apology from the odious and racist Wiesenfeld, he should decline, and all other recipients should follow suit. Even if that bigot white supremacist Wiesenfeld does provide an insincere apology, Kushner should use it an opportunity to promote Palestinian rights.

      Whatever happens, CUNY should force Wiesenfeld out. He's a racist thug and even The Dershowitz would have trouble spinning his intellectual dishonest sewage in a way to defend this hateful and unrepentant CUNY board member.

  • Zuckerman rag prints bald-faced lies on upcoming flotilla to Gaza
    • Oscar April 28, 2011 at 8:02 pm

      Hey, does anybody even read the NY Daily Snooze anymore? Isn't it hemorrhaging Zuck's family fortune like there's no tomorrow? The editorial page is far right of J-Post, and has no American interest at heart. Seriously, does anyone really take the NYDN seriously? Zuckerman is a buffoon.

  • 'NYT' leaves out the facts on checkpoint shooting
    • Oscar April 27, 2011 at 12:03 pm

      So true, J-Hay, but once the Times comes in digital format, it loses its only useful purposes as fish wrap or bird cage liner. : )

      Not sure if it's a heightened sense of rejecting MSM pablum, or that the NYT has indeed fallen into amateurish gobnment propaganda, but I have zero interest in reading any account from the self-described newspaper of record. Bill Keller has proven time after time that there's no journalistic integrity at the NYT.

    • Oscar April 27, 2011 at 9:41 am with 2 replies

      The same NYT is now trying to get money from its online readers. What for? For reading fact free propaganda?

      Spot on, Annie. The pay wall will prove to be the financial death of the NY Times -- unless the federal government rushes in with a fat juicy bailout, which, of course, will fully convert the Grey Lady into Pravda 2.0.

  • 'Mathilde Redmatn' and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza
  • Report: Israel used white phosphorus in latest Gaza attacks
    • Oscar April 19, 2011 at 7:22 am with 2 replies

      And a big shout-out to Richard Goldstone. Thank you, sir, for your extraordinary and single-handed efforts to change the rules of engagement and to undermine the Geneva Convention.

  • From Arrigoni to Bernadotte to RFK to 9/11-- how much global damage has this conflict produced?
    • Oscar April 17, 2011 at 12:56 am

      Phil, this is your most poignant and important post yet. It sums up everything that Mondoweiss has aspired to be, and ultimately its raison d'être. Don't give up the faith, the deaths of these beautiful people must push us forward to find the solution.

  • Director of Emergency Committee for Israel cackles over Arrigoni and those who mourn him
    • Oscar April 16, 2011 at 10:43 am with 1 replies

      This tragedy struck in the same devastating way as the shocking death of WSJ's Daniel Pearl, a similarly large-hearted and charity-minded man of the world. Imagine if someone tweeted something as dark and hateful about Pearl as Pollak just tweeted about Arrogoni. Sickening.

  • Congressional bill: No money to U.N. till it retracts Goldstone Report
    • Oscar April 14, 2011 at 4:16 pm with 1 replies

      Wow -- this is as brazen as AIPAC can possibly get. In the midst of a near-shutdown of the US Federal government, AIPAC has its stooges in our Congress extorting the UN?

      I actually hope this bill passes so the US is completely delegitimized as an honest broker in the Middle East.

      Let's take up a collection to send copies of Phil, Adam & Lizzy's annotated version of The Goldstone Report to these corrupt imbeciles. Who's with me? Witty?

  • Bias in the 'Times'
    • Oscar April 13, 2011 at 1:12 pm with 1 replies

      Fed up with the Times, I too have been rooting for its economic demise. But watch out what you wish for. The Federal government is seriously considering subsidizing major urban newspapers. Imagine the caliber of journalism you'll get with a bevy of Pravda-like rags if that comes to pass.

      Oh, and yes, Kershner is a hasbara hack. Always has been, always will be.

  • Omar Barghouti: J Street’s Ben Ami has Jews-only policy on BDS debates
    • Oscar April 12, 2011 at 10:37 am with 2 replies

      As time passes, J Street looks more and more like a strawman in the debate, especially since it's been delegitimized by the Knesset. It's time to go the third way and support JVP as the appropriate counterweight to AIPAC.

  • U.S. cable companies aren't budging on Al Jazeera
    • Oscar April 11, 2011 at 9:39 am

      MRW, in 2003, it was certainly the case that Canadian Jewish organizations were fighting to keep al-Jazeera off cable systems up in the great white north. link to forward.com

      Watch out what you wish for. If AJE ever becomes available on American cable systems, it may have to prostitute itself and become the same tapioca bland, Charlie-Sheen obsessed, pseudo-news channel that MSNBC, CNN and Fox have become. I like it the way it is.

    • Oscar April 11, 2011 at 9:25 am

      . . . all of which provide much more freedom of choice than TimeWarner, which charges almost $200 a month for bundled services. Al Jazeera English is available as an app on iPad, which is great (through Microsoft's Livestation platform). If Apple manages to get licenses to broadcast the four networks on Apple TV, or Netflix moves into that arena (it's likely inevitable), then corrupt cable companies are toast.

    • Oscar April 10, 2011 at 11:11 am with 1 replies

      I can't wait to dump my cable company. Hulu Plus, Netflix, red box, amazon instant.

  • Herem
    • Oscar April 7, 2011 at 8:20 am

      Avi, it was one of the most striking lines of hasbara ever constructed: "We can forgive you for killing our sons. But we will never forgive you for making us kill yours."

  • 'Youtube' silences a boycott video
  • Samouni family members respond to Goldstone, say attack was not accidental
    • Oscar April 6, 2011 at 7:44 am with 1 replies

      ". . . having served as an advisor to Katharine Graham on editorial quality at the Washington Post . . . "

      That's all you need to know to realize the poster is a hack.

  • On the vital strategic matter of terrorist chickens
    • Oscar April 5, 2011 at 6:24 pm

      That's right, human rights enthusiasts, move along.  Goldstone himself said that despite the Dahiya Doctrine, Operation Cast Lead was not an intentional act on the part of the most moral army in the world . . . It was the "fog of war" or some miscommunication from a drone that led to the destruction of the chicken farm.  And the flour mill.  And the sewage treatment plant.  And the 100,000 left homeless.   And the 29 members of the Samouni family?  Whoops, it was just a mistake in the fog of war, according to the esteemed jurist Goldstone.  

      Since the massacre "wasn't intentional" no need to apologize, or provide reparations, or rebuild the family compound.  (Click on this must-see Ken O'Keefe report on the family's reaction to Goldstone's 'retraction' of his team's report . . . 
      link to salem-news.com )

      Tragically, Goldstone has goldwashed war crimes using his name.  It's a tragic twist in his storied career, but obviously, he and his family were subjected to enormous cruelty we couldn't even begin to imagine. The WaPo op-Ed was not his voice . . . It was written by someone else for his endorsement.

      I wonder how Goldstone will live with himself once the world's most moral army launches an even more vicious Operation Cast Lead 2 in the coming months and cites his good name as a cover for its in-the-near-future war crimes.

  • We don't have any idea what Palestinians want, and anyway, they're on Prozac, Syracuse is told
  • The documented record still stands: Israel intentionally targets civilians and civilian infrastructure
    • Oscar April 3, 2011 at 1:28 pm

      If Witty thinks this is a free pass for the IDF, he's deluded. If Israel launches Cast Lead 2 and conducts itself in a manner similar to the previous offensive (using white phosphorus, DIME Cubes, killing entire families), it will fully delegitimize itself among the community of nations.

      And if that occurs, it will be a most shameful legacy of Goldstone -- that he "goldwashed" future war crimes in a single WaPo op-ed. Goldstone may have been duped into redefining the rules of engagement to make the Dahiya Doctrine acceptible.

    • Oscar April 3, 2011 at 10:47 am

      And there is, in fact, no documented record that Israel systematically targets civilians.

      Hophmi, your threadbare hasbara might have worked a decade ago, but Mondoweiss readers yawn when they read tripe like this. You're either being intellectually dishonest, or you're shockingly ill-informed. The Dahiya Doctrine is all about targeting a civilian population, intentionally considering civilians to be combatants and attacking them with white phosphorus, DIME cubes, smart bombs and indiscriminate shelling. link to ynet.co.il

      As a human being, Goldstone could no longer take the pressure that had been placed on him and his family. The "reconsideration" was scripted by others, and he put his name on it. I'm certain he's in agony this weekend, knowing that his sterling reputation is now obliterated among all quarters.

      Richard Witty shouldn't be taking a victory lap and shouting "in-your-face!" to other Mondo posters -- nothing has changed, and the world is not now going to consider Israel the most moral army in the world because Goldstone had to write a weak "reconsideration" of the report.

  • What the Goldstone op-ed doesn’t say
    • Oscar April 2, 2011 at 5:19 pm

      Agreed. In trying to appease his blood-thirsty critics with his say-nothing op-ed, he ended up infuriating everyone. Sad.

      BTW, I think the headline was created by Washington Post -- I don't think he ever used the word "reconsider" in the op-ed.

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