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israel never ever does what we want and often does things that harm us (Pollard, USS Liberty, selling our secrets to China, etc etc) then wants more money in hand-outs ... the only way we will get them to do what we want in this budding Iran debacle is to sternly tell them we will, in fact, shoot down their planes if they send them to attack Iran before we give a green light ... our policy is clearly yellow/red light right now ... israel never faces consequences for their repeated abuse of America and they need to know we mean business this time
now can we say it?
israel is a state-sponsor of terrorism
and doesn't allowing israelis, israeli jews no less, to continue to conduct trade with Iran for profit, undermine every principle of isolating and weakening the "existential threat" that is Iran ???? Yet, israel winks and nods and allows its people to continue to business with Iran while manipulating the world into a needless conflict with Iran to serve its regional superpower ambitions ... Iran is the big bogeyman, but israel will still take its money
the relentless, at times slow, inexorable land-grab by the zionists goes on - sanctioned at every level by the "democratic" "state" of israel
Jodi is not even finished with her first piece on I/P as the new bureau chief for NYT and the zio-crazies are already beating her with the loyalty sticks "stop resisting!"
it's always about manipulation and control for zionists, never, it seems, about earning respect and earning loyalists based upon the merits of positions
welcome to the madhouse, Jodi - the Loyalty Police are already closely watching you
anyone know if the recent Anonymous declaration to wage a campaign against israel is a hoax or real?
israeli war crime #78,231
there should be two new versions:
Sh*t Zionists Say in front of Goy Money-Givers
and
Sh*t Zionists Say Around the Dinner Table
Bahrain is the new Guam - all your base are belong to us
I hope these settler-terrorists keep it up and continue to show their true face to the world ... they are so insufferably arrogant and zealous that they resist the instinct to finesse and message and instead lash out like the animals that they are now that they think they've won and can commit any and all atrocity upon those who are not settler-extremists ... their ugliness will be exposed far and wide and they will thus defeat themselves
the term "israel-firster" is not meant to be innocuous ... it is thankfully being used now by the mainstream media, and it is a shot across the bow to Fifth Columnists who have for too long totally dominated the policies of the United States in service to and for the benefit of a foreign power
we are smart enough today - and we have the data to back it up - to say some jews pushed for war with Iraq and now want war with Iran, and we can name the people and the organizations and follow the money ... anyone interested in actual facts knows this does not tar-and-feather all American jews ... there are clearly agents and operatives for a foreign power at work on our soil and in our halls of power and they must be called out
and when are at least 30 neocon traitors going to prison???
war is a racket and those who make their money off of this evil enterprise are still pushing for it - the regional superpower goals of zionist israel have not abated, reality has merely intervened (or been imposed) for a while ... before too long israel will agitate again for this war ... no doubt the atomic inspectors will come back from Iran and report again that the nuclear program there is civilian in nature and no active efforts are underway to weaponize, but israel and its agents and operatives will throw dirt at the new report and claim some new threat or increased threat all over again ... America let itself be used by the zionists and their agents and operatives here in the US in the Iraq campaign and now the generals and intelligence community have finally spoken out forcefully that the US will not be forced into an Iran debacle ... sorry, Blackwater (or whatever you call yourselves these days) - no lucrative contracts this round
What a banner announcement, New York Times, to declare that indeed you have sold your soul
Most of us knew it already, but now everyone does
What, Judith Miller wasn't enough embarrassment?
The New York Times will henceforth be referred to in two historical parts: pre-9/11 and post 9/11 - because it has clearly become an overt tool of the Likkudniks since then
any resolution to the argument will come about with a meeting of minds of the majority of American jews, however ... it is long past time that the American jews take control of the politics of I/P in the national interests of the United States - you cannot be an American jew and an israel-firster - they are mutually exclusive ... thus, American jews must have that hard conversion and divorce themselves form the policies of the Likkud and ongoing warcrimes and occupation and this means they have to stop the flow of money to settler groups and the israeli right-wing and demand of israel that they finally make the peace/land deal that has been on the table for years and begin to dismantle the bunker state and create a secular, pluralistic society with equal rights for all ... it is only in this form that israel as a nation will survive and thrive and that a new round of anti-jew feeling is kept from manifesting into actions against jews directly as a result of zionism and the policies of israel
and this battle is all in service to the profits of the fossil fuel industries - the entire conflict can be avoided by the US immediately ... corporate greed which can and has co-opted governments is responsible for the suffering and death caused by these conflicts
America can reduce its energy demand by up to 30% in the space of ONE WEEK - we need simply cut out the energy we waste (vampire electronics, turning off lights we don't need, driving less, reduce temp settings on thermostat, use passive-solar for warmth ... literally a thousand small steps) ... and we can have the US gov't engage in a massive campaign to shift us to clean-energy (it doesn't happen because until Monsanto, Exxon, BP, etc can sell you their solar panels and fuel cells maintaining their profits and market share - you won't see them in meaningful numbers)
yes, it's a bit of a wide-band label, but it fits and does not exclude other factors - it clearly asks someone specific with whom you are debating an issue where is your priority - the USA or israel? ... if they are an American citizen there can only be one answer: America first ... we all know the Elliot Abrams view and hence he is suspected to be an agent for a foreign power
anti-semite is the only tried-and-true word weapon the zionists have in their grab-bag, and even it is losing its effectiveness to freeze discussion and end debate ... it is too late to police and control any other words and phrases after the zionists got the US into the Iraq war and their ongoing decades of crimes against the Palestinians ... the feeble attempts to ban the phrase "israel-firster" only disseminates it far-and-wide and it has true words that have that magical ring of truth so no chance of shutting it down
this is less about getting out from Washington's control than it is getting away from the control of the "New York money men" as General Wesley Clark called them ... it is good, ultimately, for America because it takes away israeli/zio-control little by little ... and *news flash* Iran is not developing a nuclear weapon and has not started a war in centuries
standard use of stretching propaganda: you have a propagandist advocate a position far outside the rational range of debate to stretch the boundaries of what is acceptable - suddenly what seemed at the outside periphery of what could be considered is now within bounds
politics is about owing favors - who knows what favors Reich owes to the israeli lobby in some way?
he is a nice man, he is quite intelligent and often correct in his economic assessments, he is a good talk show/news show guest
he also did little but espouse rhetoric while Clinton's labor secretary to stop the corporatization and free trade and outsourcing or checking the tech bubble that went on under Clinton
the ridiculous level of contortions the israeli supreme court puts itself through these days to maintain an illegal system was inevitable given how israel was founded - over 20 years ago a former israeli boyfried and I discussed the occupation and israel and he (being a leftist) admitted this, "we put our boot on the neck of the Palestinians long ago, and we can never take it off" ... israelis fear ever releasing their iron grip and this fear paralyzes them - despite the fact that again and again Palestinians have made clear they're ready to live side-by-side in peace if the garrison state would just evaporate and equal treatment under the law was allowed to grow and take hold
Adler should have to undergo a thorough Secret Service investigation and public humiliation that comes with it, then have charges brought against him to make an example of him, and he should serve time ... none of which will happen - zionist exceptionalism indeed
more to come ... in an increasing wave - the neocons and zio-fascists are all about "creating facts on the ground" and don't care if those include ruined lives, terrible crimes and dead bodies of the innocent if they've made strategic gains by doing so
Gingrich a political whore for money? say it ain't so
worth repeating: Adelson is m-a-f-i-a
talk about worshiping a false idol
and we should give israel 12-hour notice before we cut off all of their US funds ... and 12 minutes before we shoot down their planes engaged in the attack that will harm US interests
the "unbreakable bond" is the shackles israel has around the wrists and ankles of all US presidents
the more outlets for the correct message(s) the better - kudos
as for Ron Paul - he was useful in getting a much-needed audit of the Fed and he can be useful if he can awaken the neanderthal chest-thumpers on the right that real conservatives favor non-intervention not endless war (ultimately for israel's regional super-power goal) - but on the latter his message seems to fall on deaf ears on the right and only embolden the left
If you want to contact the people at that paper, as I did to tell Adler he needs to turn himself into the Secret Service and the staff that they must resign or are complicit, here are their emails:
aadler@atljewishtimes.com,
jfarkas@atljewishtimes.com,
jramirez@atljewishtimes.com,
rcantu@atljewishtimes.com,
awhitney@atljewishtimes.com,
jmccurdy@atljewishtimes.com
perception is power in politics and while questions remained in even the most informed minds about what exactly was going on the news cycle played out for days with America canceling the joint drill and now, later, israel says they did - the damage is done - the appearance was that America properly slapped down israel for its bullying the US into another war for them ... it does not serve US interests in any way to have israel engage in military attacks on Iran and Russia has rightfully and forcefully said it is a big mistake if it happens - there is zero upside for the US if israel is allowed to compel this to happen ... and as for Iran seeking nuclear weapons, there is no evidence for this - in fact, the evidence runs counter: Iran is a member of the IAEA and has allowed inspections and signed on to the agreement whereas israel has not and won't even acknowledge its own stockpile of 175+ nukes; Iran has not started a war in centuries; Iran would not actually use the weapons if they developed them and they only need to go 90% of the way to production to get 90% of the benefit politically in having them; the intelligence assessment of the USA and others is that Iran is not developing nuclear weapons - only israel and the "think tanks" they control say this; lastly, so what if Iran gets nukes? South Africa had them, Pakistan has them ... no one will use them unless they want to insure the destruction of their own people.
fait accompli ... the subject is finally out in the open and there is no going back - israel-firsters are now exposed and loyal Americans have the right to ask why anyone would put another country ahead of their own
and don't be surprised if israeli drones are spying on the Kurds for the Turks too ... the long, sordid history of israel making money off of war, death and suffering all around the world as they sell arms to any and every scum dictator is sad story all on its own - just look at their influence and profiteering in various African countries ... and let us not forget our "great friend" and "only democracy in the Middle East" stole and sold our military secrets to our potential enemies USSR and China
What nerve indeed ... and Donald Johnson misses the point of how the internet works: it is a self-organizing structure that exists in real time and is fluid and dynamic
No censorship is good censorship - that is the motto on 4chan/b and their overall site - and sometimes anarchy, nihilism, and the disgusting reigns - but nobody asked anybody to go there - can't take it or don't want it, don't enter the Dragon
Low to moderate censorship is acceptable to most and most sites have some kind of filters at least in terms of their editorial content and comments policies to marginalize or simply omit the crackpots and those who like to yell "fire"
Any censorship above that level is anathema to the notion of how the internet should work ... especially on such a critical subject as I/P
DJ, the ebb and flow of those who visit and their input is a living thing constantly transforming and those who don't want it/can't take it will move on, as they should ... we don't need your rules, however well-intentioned they may be to promote civil discourse
you reap what you sow ... finally America is stepping out of the way from shielding israel and letting israel get the full spotlight treatment for its actions
y'all forgot another one - Witty's longterm occupation of this site's comments section
ha-ha israel ... Obama and the US generals called your bluff ... your days of lording over us (in a punishingly obnoxious way no less) are over ... and when we do go forward with the "drill" later in the year, don't forget we'll be bringing in tens of thousands of US troops (and more later, probably) ... we will turn the tables and impose our will upon you, israel, and you will make peace with your neighbors and stop harming the United States with your outlandish perpetual crimes
... however
this time, in real time, we are getting an honest accounting of what is taking place even in the mainstream media and from government leaders:
Hillary stated categorically that the US had no part - Russia's head of national security said plainly that israel is trying to compel the US into a war with Iran - Chris Matthews on Hardball openly discussed the israel-first aspect to this ( link to msnbc.msn.com ) - and the US intelligence world allowed the release of the information that it was Mossad posing as CIA that worked with internal Iranian opposition
Geller is the perfect spokesperson for today's israel - a talentless harpy spewing venom and bile in defense of serial war crimes
this is it - the moment in history when israel set its own self-destruct date
this legal decision is of oourse morally and legally indefensible, and nakedly exposes that the zionist enterprise was from the beginning a racist, supremacist land-grab using ethnic-cleansing
this decision is the herald, israel and zionists, you will evolve into a pluralistic secular state with equal rights for all, or you will evaporate into the ash heap of history and no one will miss you
good in that it shows how mainstream the perception of zionist power in America has become
bad in that it belittles the issue that it is introduced to the mainstream via a tired sketch-comedy program
sobering to think yeah, we all know it, and now can talk about it but still we can't seem to do anything about it
yes, Dersh began the transition to buffoonery with his participation in the OJ trial - anything for publicity for that media whore ... when it comes to US policy vis-a-vis israel he's been beyond ridiculous to the point of tinfoil hat delusion for years - but in a calculated way: to get the strategic rhetoric he wants in play
very colorful, very personal
... hunters scare me - why do you want to kill a living animal? ... the store is just down the road for most of us (including those Makaw Native Americans in Washington state who want, after 80 years without, to whale hunt again??!!?!!?) ... food is plentiful, packaged, sliced and ready ... unless there is necessary cull of overpopulated deer or diseased animals no need to kill any ... don't care if your daddy took you hunting - no one should want to do it (you listening Mark Zuckerberg?) ... if there ever is a great calamity and we have to hunt for food again we'll figure it out ... Phil, your hunter neighbor worries me (wear ORANGE when you walk on his property)
despite the facts being against them and finally the facts getting out there, israel continues to believe in the delusion that they can spin their way out of negative perceptions
israel's image has completely tanked because they can't hide the truth of their endless crimes anymore and the world has had it with militant, racist, apartheid, land-grabbing zionism
it is only right that young people, being generally idealistic, who are seeking an education would consider the facts and come to the conclusion that israel is the aggressor, the criminal, the problem
oh that's rich ...
if he and others want to attack those destroying isreal's image they need look no further than the israeli government, the IDF, and zionism
now that's a blood libel
Kristol knows no shame
zionist arrogance is so thorough that they don't see for a moment how they are sealing themselves physically now into a bunker - what a way to live
... the alternative: be a good neighbor and then you will have good neighbors
the long con is regional superpowerhood for israel - using the blood and treasure of the United States to achieve it ... the neocon zio-mafia have been at this goal for a long time and the fixing of the 2000 election to put Bush/Cheney in place got the ball rolling ... and it's still rolling forward despite every claim and argument of the neocons being utterly discredited - they have their fingers on the levers of power still and their goal still in their sights ... if Iran or every other country in the region gets nukes or gets rid of them (talkin' to you Pakistan) really doesn't matter - it is a distraction from the real game: israel kicking out ever more indigenous people, claiming land, completely controlling water resources and airspace and extending its influence ever eastward ... the corrupt 1% of israeli cartels and families that control the economy there are in total cahoots with their military-industrial complex and related zio-mafia ... shameless greed and lust for power
yeah, it must be hard to answer for serial war-crimes, apartheid, state racism, oppression and removal of indigenous people, sanctioning of religious extremism, institutional corruption and so on
Adelson is mafia and sells out the US when he can't manipulate it ... he should be deported or arrested
the headline and the quote are correct
if "israel" is to survive as any kind of state the jews there need to learn to live as good neighbors in this region long a home to many different peoples you have to be a good neighbor to have good neighbors ... they wouldn't need all the armaments, all the oppressive militarism, the state terror tactics ... if zionists could just give up their fantasy vision of a "greater israel" by and for only jews then israel could survive and thrive as a place jews can call home and love ... but they need to learn to share
the fact that israel will release multiples of prisoners they hold in their "swaps" with Palestinian leaders shows the truth of long-held view that many of these people never should have been detained or held in prison in the first place - the state terror, racism and fascism of the zionists is revealed a little more each day
tribalism is, by definition, primitive
we now have lasers and rockets ... we have the Code of Hammurabi, the Magna Carta, the U.S. Constitution ... we have smart-phones, we have probes on other planets ... we've had the writings of Jung, Freud, Joseph Campbell, Orwell, Aristotle, Einstein ...
to quote a brilliant line I saw on another site somewhere:
"we're going to rely on the wisdom of goat-herders from the Levant 4000 years ago?"
re; Gates and Zuckerberg, the ancient adage still holds true:
behind every great fortune lies a great crime
... as for any possible anti-jewish vibe in Social Network, ponder what actor Eisenberg himself had to say (he being a person who is jewish) about taking meetings prior to filming Social Network - paraphrasing [since I can't seem to find the actual quote]: "I found myself sitting with a bunch of powerful jews"
If El Foldo Obama is par-for-the-course, he'll cave
... he could do a pocket veto and just let it languish without his signature - but the amped-up israeli lobby is in full campaign attack-mode, so that's not likely to happen
I hate to throw cold water on the enthusiasm over the israeli lobby's influence finally reaching mainstream status, but I fear it is too late - entrenched interests and a growing sense of desperation now grip those in charge (Likkudniks, settlers)
... it exactly parallels what I went through in fighting the environmental battle - the outlines of the problem have been clear forever, and the solution(s) known - but the powerful, entrenched interests (fossil fuel industries and related groups) want to extract as much profit from their dirty fuels which they essentially monopolize through a global cartel until they introduce their own clean energy products to market (thus keeping market share) ... and as the growing violence of the settlers and more extreme policy statements of the Netanyahu gang reveal - there is an escalation of the concern and the danger, not a lessening due to the open discussion and frank assessment of issues
... recent Russian studies show that the methane monster may already be unleashed - vast sinks of methane are trapped in tundra and in the ocean, kept in check by ice sheets and the cold ... with huge numbers of new upwellings of methane being found - in volumes beyond what models predicted ... and methane is over 20 times more volatile than CO2
... the same is going on is israel: rather than rational minds, voices and leaders brushing aside the extremists and imposing a peace deal all know the contours of, a retrograde militarism is manifesting and making the problem worse ... outside forces (American Jews) don't seem to have the power or willingness to intervene and create a better leadership that can reach a solution in time before a new round of needless violence and conflict explodes just as the environmental movement and its supporters could never muster the needed political influence to counter the control of the fossil fuel industries
We humans so often see a problem, see it manifesting, see it approaching, make calculations for how to deal with it, plan for it, budget for it, put the pieces into place ... then do nothing out of disbelief, procrastination, lack of leadership, or simply being mesmerized by the catastrophe to come
sad
israel the MONSTER ... reveling in its inhumanity and cruelty ... zionism and israel will become the textbook example for future generations how not to found and run a state
and these tactics we've imported from our "friend" and "ally" israel ... just another day at the office over there, where violence and racism and ethnic-cleansing are celebrated (as are the efforts of a spy who did more harm to America than any other person)
I've thought all along that it will take American Jews to bring out-of-control israel to heel, but I sincerely doubt there is the will to do it - American Jews get hit with the "you're not a real Jew" "You're undermining our security" "Know where your priorities are!" "How could you do this to your own?" etc etc ... it has taken decades of war crimes and an immoral occupation and severe oppression of an ethnically-cleansed indigenous population before the tide finally shifted due to the gross excesses of Netanyahu, Lieberman, et al and newly powerful settlers for the self-reflection ... now, to manifest to action
Hillary has always blown hot and cold on israel
She's an intellectual and her core values are liberal and feminist, yet she's a politician
Hence, she can occasionally say what she really thinks but most of the time must kow-tow to israel because she needs US jewish money and political machine behind her to even hold any power
She mentioned "Rosa Parks" for a specific reason - to tie directly to the Palestinian protests on buses recently - nailing two targets with one statement
Israel itself has given the Obama administration their long-sought opening to divide israeli zionists from US jews - the ad campaign recently suspended calling US jews not real jews, and indeed they've fired shots across the bow to israel - Obama is now not afraid of losing jewish money for his 2012 re-election
William Kristol is a hideous creature and nearly everyone sees him for what he is - an agent for a foreign government and traitor to American interests ... if only we could deport these israeli spies and operatives at the pinnacle of power in our politics/media/etc
Neyanyahu and Barak are strongly pushing for an Iran attack this time because it is personal: they are trying to save their own political asses and enhance their own power through war - the needless murders of innocents via trumped-up allegations
Iran is not a threat. They are more contained than Iraq was before the neocons pushed us into that war. Iran has not started a war in centuries ... they only have to go 90% of the way to getting nukes to have 90% of the benefit - that is the new geopolitical paradigm for nuclear weapons
Let us all remember the Balkans - hundreds of thousands dead and endless destruction that reverberates to this day so a few political leaders could trade on old ethnic conflicts to enhance their own personal power - ambition, greed and just pure evil
it's a thug life in israel now - zionism has reaped what it has sown ... and at long last American jews are starting to seize the reins from the noxious extremists who now rule in israel
Cops aren't generally the highest IQ bunch - they seek out those with IQs from 90 to 110 for beat cops
If they were a little smarter they might compute that, hey, we're union and the Wall Street/bankster fraud hurt my pension and destroyed my housing values too!
Smart cops march with the 99% and don't get paid to be mercenary thugs for banksters
from the moment Bibi went on live US television on 9/11 as the buildings were still smoldering to shamelessly attempt to propagandize the attacks and tie them to the zionists' struggle with the Palestinians I have deeply resented the israelification of America ... it started in that moment, and almost every single law (Patriot Act, etc.) and every security "enhancement" (TSA, groping at airports) has had the stench of israel on it ... it's as if we must go through checkpoints to get on a plane now ... the now ubiquitous electronic surveillance in America is pure israeli (remember the Carl Cameron Amdocs reports on FOX News right after 9/11?) and profits israeli companies ... our terror experts train in israel ... a huge explosion of private security firms has arisen, many with ties to israel
israel is the LAST country on Earth the United States should emulate with its racism, apartheid, systematic child-murders, religious arrogance, anti-woman policies, spy operation against us, etc etc etc
great exchange seafoid, charon and and chaos4700 - y'all nailed it
israel is imploding from the corruption and hypocrisy and the israelis themselves don't seem to notice
The "uprising" against the UK embassy in Iran was a weird one indeed - just look at the middle-aged men of military comportment that make up the bulk of the "protesters" ... and look at the bad acting - the lackadaisical energy to their "protest" ... what was the Iranian leadership thinking when they set this up? Were they after some "smoking gun" document to prove British complicity in an unnecessary attack on Iran? (as if that would matter - Niger "yellowcake" was totally discredited and the Iraq war went ahead anyway). Did they just intend to make a mockery of the whole run-up to war (I doubt they lack that subtlety)? What was the goal of that?
"It is very important to be active against Zionist actions, because they are harming both Jews and the rest of the world. So it is important to maintain vocal opposition, to dispute the Zionist agenda and make it understood that the Zionists are not really the Jewish voice."
yes, zionism is a poison, and it harms jews most of all
the simple slogan in this age of media overload needs to be: Jews Yes Zionism No
yes, facts are facts and good journalists report facts:
the israeli lobby has a near-stranglehold over the mainstream media in the United States and much of the world
the israeli lobby has a firm stranglehold over the U.S. Congress
the israeli lobby provides well over 50% of the money that goes to U.S. political candidates of both major parties, collectively
the israeli lobby is tied very strongly to the Likud policies of right-wing israeli leaders
American jews are pressured in many ways to support israel in all things
... none of this is new information, but add it up and spells real trouble for the United States
gutsy guy ... nice to see the owner of a major journalistic enterprise, anywhere, still committed to the truth as based upon the facts
I've contacted the Occupy "leaders" many times to urge them to greatly improve their messaging - which is terrible.
They obviously should shift entirely to the 99% name and come up with a coherent agenda and plan-of-action, but their commitment to "decentralized, non-hierarchical" mumbo-jumbo-nonsense has really hampered them from evolving this public anger into anything meaningful - the hippy-weirdos took it over and responsible adults with some political acumen need to assert themselves to broaden the movement with their first agenda item to win over the union cops who are currently busting their heads as mercenaries for the bankers
the racist, anti-muslim purge begun in 1947 goes on ... ethnic-cleansing aided and abetted in every way by America - shameful
I wonder how well AIPAC vetted this group of actors, or were they so desperate they took any with even a modest profile that they could get ... I know at least a couple of those actors have progressive politics and are well-aware of what a menace israel has become ... the gambit could backfire royally on AIPAC and the hasbarists if there are a couple or more actors in that group with an entirely different agenda than what is expected of them by AIPAC
Too many redundancies - I'll see the same headline in 3 places - a waste of space and visual clutter
We don't need "Most Shared" etc - we readers and posters on Mondoweiss know what we want to read (we search and find) and don't follow trends
Take out the "Most Shared, etc." box at the right and move the categories over there and take them out from under the Mondoweiss header/title ... they are essentially archives and should not lead
Take out "Recent Comments" - we see those when we read the entries and do our posting
Take out "Don't Miss" - we readers know what not to miss and the volume of comments speaks to that
It feels like some designer/programmer(s) talked you into a bunch of bells and whistles which DETRACT from the site ... you motto is The War of Ideas in the Middle East and I think the new format veers from that claim
Privately I will send you an image of how the site could be better (I've designed several)
And, please, take out the pictures of the authors - I DON'T CARE
I don't like it.
It wasn't broke and didn't need fixing.
Now it looks like a news site with a focus that is too broad (the category links at top).
What made Mondoweiss great was the discussion. Now we only see headlines, with no lead paragraph even.
Please rethink this change, eat the money you spent, and go back to the old format (or do what Gawker did with their sites after they made totally unnecessary changes and provide an option to view the site in the old format)
the fact that two major candidates echoed the "zero-out" talking point without a caveat for israel may be a message to israel - the money-train is coming to an end one way or another
the tiny parasite already controls the gargantuan host, so why would it want to change the arrangement?
if the zionist traitors manage to push the U.S. into war with Iran - even if it is passive support for an israeli attack then they deserve to be rounded up as seditious criminals - clearly agents for a foreign government ... but in this day and age the Koch/corporate funded Tea Party can openly espouse racist and hate-filled ideology and nary police baton cracks a skull, but Occupy Wall Street peaceful protests on the Berkeley campus and everywhere else have been maced, beaten, shot with rubber bullets and worse ... zionists are deeply enmeshed in our banking and political power structure and isn't it interesting who gets beat and who doesn't?
the breadth and depth of the israeli lobby's reach is such that you can openly call for genocide and espouse vulgar racist views and it is allowed - disgusting and another shameful page in this awful chapter that is israel Likkudnik control of our political process
journalists and truth-lovers everywhere do so love moments of candor from our political class and other powerful people ... because they are so rare ... we've all grown to expect and have become inured to the pre-packaged spin
... as for Netanyahu, it is no secret that he is one noxious human being
The hard-line zionists don't get it: the "right to exist" propaganda no longer works - it is a non-starter these days - and their push for war with Iran and retreat into ever-more extreme positions that call for violence only serves to throw into dramatic relief the vast power and influence they wield - making a mockery of their claim that their very right to exist is somehow under assault ... the rest of the world - which lives outside the bunker - gets it: zionists want what they want the way they want it and damn anything and anybody who gets in their way - it is this mindset that allows them to rationalize their racism, militarism, serial war-crimes, extortion of their main benefactor (the U.S.), and on and on it goes ... only by finally pulling their heads out of the bunker (and other places) will the zionists see that they've grossly overplayed their hand and it is time to enjoy their current gains and make peace with the world and, most importantly, their neighbors in Palestine
if it weren't for the infernal, insidious parasite known as the israeli lobby firmly choking our country about its neck, we would think clearly and act in our own self-interest and favor freedom and democracy ... our reaction to the UNESCO vote is yet another travesty of US actions in support of the awful creature that is israel
nothing screams you're pathetic like the USA's capitulation to israel:
USA
We're So Lame
We Know No Shame
Hoo-Ra!
this is so important - the myth of the "world's official victims" must be debunked to expose the racism of these jews toward arabs and hatred toward all muslims ... bad thinking and behavior are endemic among all humans and the victimhood card (mostly) zionist jews have played since WWII can no longer give them cover for their serial crimes in Palestine
oh please, if the typical israeli found out there were roots of Reform Judaism growing anywhere near them they would stomp them, poison them, cut them out - who who within israel would nurture Reform Judaism
Custer's last stand for the neocons but they don't seem to know it
my sources tell me the "Occupy" movement is getting smarter and will go with the name the 99% in future and drop the occupy moniker - better and more inclusive
people will say "remember Oakland" in the future - it is the Stonewall of the 99% movement ... and anyone who reads and has an awareness of the world absolutely makes the connection between rubber bullets and/or teargas canister fired at the head of a non-violent protester here in America and in israel
first schmooze and charm
then cajole
then pressure
then bribe
then extort and threaten
... busy little zio bees indeed
why does the US bother to say anything about israel anymore? - we should just refer all questions regarding US policy in the region to the israeli embassy or to AIPAC - the charade that the US can make any decision counter to what israel wants is an ongoing humiliation ... the only good to come out of the situation is to watch the emboldened reporters at State Dept. briefings who now regularly grill the US spokespeople on their endless capitulations to israel
the (calculated?) obsequious bending over by Obama, et al on all subjects israel and zionist these days has perhaps emboldened the neocon crowd to get a little too big for their britches and they can't help themselves but smugly thump their chests in vulgar machismo about their control - Bronner is a symptom: they feel untouchable
an open discussion is helpful and certainly warranted - but in this age of spin and strategic, repetitive rhetoric it is how the discussion is spun that affects outcomes - and there is indeed a growing underbelly of "blame of the jews" that is ever so slowly slithering out from under a rock into the light of day because it is an easy out and has historic precedent ... that is why people here are so passionate - we progressives and anti-zionists understand the danger is real to all jews from the misadventures and outright serial criminality committed by the neocons and ultra-rightists and settlers ... the crazies among the group have put the whole group in danger ... that is why it is such a pity to see tribal thinking and closing ranks emerging more and more in response to pressure - bad choices get made rather than thoughtful, open reflection and admissions of some misguided behavior (jews juicing jews ahead financially to super-elite status, blind allegiance to zionism) and changes to that behavior to insure longterm survival and avoid short-term attacks: American jews stepping forward forcefully to renounce the militarism and racism of zionist policies and cutting off much of the money to insure American jews drive the policy would make such a difference
and nearly all the cops in all the cities busting heads on behalf of the banksters are UNION - once again conservative Americans (most cops are conservative) act against their self-interest (just as for 30 years Republicans between the coasts have voted on 'God, guns and gays' and supported candidates who closed down their factories, shipped their jobs overseas and basically destroyed them) ... these cops need to wake up the reality that THEIR housing values were hit by the banksters that the protesters shout about ... that their pensions were hit by the fraud that these protesters shout about ... wake up and quit being dumb, cops
“I am the law. I am God”
when delusion overtakes a society because they have an inflated sense of pride, vastly puffed-up sense of self-importance and have been enabled by a powerful partner (the U.S.) ... how can the outcome be good?
pride goeth before the fall
at first you are ridiculed
then you are opposed
then you are accepted as having stated the obvious
patience and perseverance friends
israel always plays at least a double-game, sometimes triple and quadruple ... most of these 1000 were being held for bogus or no charges as a way to intimidate the larger Palestinian populace and were let go because they didn't do anything wrong in the first place ... and, since israel is gearing up for more attacks on Gaza and other Palestinian places and backs up the settler-monsters at every turn they figure they'll get these released prisoners one way or the other in the future
If Abrams had been Egyptian, or *gasp* Palestinian when he was busted for Iran-Contra and made into a felon he'd still be in prison ... and if his awful racist wife were Arab she too would be at least out of a job
interesting ... and I thought the settler wing was wielding its israeli clout over here in the good ole US of A and the divide was being actively sought - with the neocon/settler wing the new thing
- the joint ADL statement really is a surprise then ... someone did the calculation that the attacks on Dems for not being pro-israel enough lifted up the carpet on the muck that's under there in the relationship