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fredblogs,
It don't matter one iota what congress thinks about Palestinian refugees. Sooner than later, within and without, occupied Palestine will be liberated and the pressing question will be: how many zionists returning to their US and European homelands can you fit on a 707?
And them euro zionists who falsely claim a hereditary refugeedom as old as 2000 years?! When are we gonna 'expose' their vast real estate swindle?
We all know that to be Palestinian is to be part of a global affluent elite - explains why so many millions of people are now Palestinian imposters eh!
And while congress are at it, would they mind awfully if they reclassified and recounted the victims of Darfur, Rowanda, the holocaust etc.
"Did I mention that Long Island is shaped like a phallus?"
Awh now you're being dicky!
"... cherrypicked".
You mean cherry-tomato picked, right?
Oh boy what a mess the zioz are in: so anxious, so angry, so frustrated with our generous help - for them, never enough help we give israel - NEVER! So I encourage you zionists out there to kick up a real big fuss 'bout this. Get yerselves some bigass megaphones and tell Americans what a buncha meanies to israel they're being. I beg all you zionists please DO MAKE israel an election issue oh please just carry on with your israel-first ungrateful bigotry - go tell everyone about it - let it be filmed - let it go viral on steriods man!
The real joke though, is that whether it's Barak or Romney in the WH, American zionism is fucked anyway - thank you internet and regrettably, a salty thank you to a bad USA economy. Listen, if we go to war with Iran, israeli-firsters are gonna create millions of anti-israel Americans overnight. And if we don't go to war, they're gonna be eating Iranian shorts. Whoah - talk about being stuck between a rock and a stink-bomb!
I love it!
Everything is perfect and right on time.
American,
What else do you expect from a buncha lying, thieving, racist ingrates?!
A clear zionist trait: biting, chewing then spitting out every hands that feeds it.
braciole,
Woohoo I lurv Beigal Bake! Used to go there after nightclubbing for hot-off-the-tray cup cakes at 3am - and that was twenty years ago! Always always a long line of hungry customers waiting outside the cute little 'byegal shop' (as everyone pronounced it).
In 2010 I took a cab ride in London and soon as the white, middle-aged cockney cab driver found out I was American he said, without prompting: "why does your country support that horrible country, israel? I said:"I hear you bro, don't start me up on the subject". He said: "zionists are the worst people on the planet". "I agree", I said, "lets go have a beer and talk about it". He laughed and politely declined as he was on driving duty, but finished with:"Some people just never learn, do they?".
You'd be surprised at how many 'regular' British folk support the Palestinians - especially after the massacres of Gaza. Gaza was a real eye-opener for millions of people around the planet who'd never really paid attention to the I/P conflict and now see israelis through that horrible prism.
For generations now, the 1967 borders was as far back as the world's memory of the I/P conflict would go.
My how the discourse has now changed. Thank you inventors of the internet - and a million thanks and more to all the informed bloggers who worked selflessly and tirelessly against a dark tsunami of ziobot propaganda especially in the early days, bringing the random and discerning reader, truth and documented facts of the original crime and instigator of the I/P conflict: the Nakba.
A widening spotlight is now finally being shed on a hidden crime committed against a whole innocent nation, perpetrated and executed by zionist real estate swindlers and violent fakesters. We anticipate that justice will be served within our lifetime, and the guilty party will be made accountable for its wanton and ongoing acts of terrortism, murder and thievery.
In the meantime, R.I.P. to all Palestinian victims of this heinous cruelty - you will never be forgotten.
Terry,
you could start by packing your suitcase and going the hell back to your european country.
Cloaks,
The global geo-political grounds have only recently shifted, notably over the battlefields in Libya, and have actually cemented a couple of weeks ago by the re-election of Putin and Hollande of France - not to mention the Fed's approval of the first government-owned Chinese company takeover of the first USA bank: link to abs-cbnnews.com
Having been the only super power in the world for the past two decades (a role we weren't quite ready for when the USSR collapsed thus enabling our superpowedom), we've had plenty of time on our hands to play with and we chose to give this extra time to geo-political isreali concerns. But now that clock has run out and now the growing influence of the emerging powers are demanding much of our time and focused strategy. In other words, we got sudden bigger fish to fry on our own behalf, and much less time for our so-called bff, israel. It's a brand new world order where israel is being forced, by circumstance, into the back burner.
I still maintain, regardless of what the media and our whoring congresspeople say, there ain't gonna be a war against Iran over it's nuclear energy program.
Israel has lost this issue. Their strategists know this but would want the whole world to believe otherwise, hence the ongoing charade of warmongering and banshee-ing.
Cloaky,
There's no chance in hell the likudists here in USA and in isreal are gonna be able to take the American people to another mideastern war on behalf of Apartheid israel. The current consensus and the economic-political environment is simply nowhere near available or ripe like it was in 2003 and the build-up to the Iraq invasion. Even the likudists on Capitol Hill know this, but they're just mouthing off too cuz they're on the grand zionist payroll and must look like at least they're working it, 'doing' what they're being paid for, regardless of the results of their efforts.
Not forgetting here that American hegemony in the ME is hemorrhaging as well, while simultaneously, Russia and China are now in our faces (read Syria and Iran), asking for a power-share in the ME and across the globe too. This declared double-challenge has, since the recent Libya Assault, made the USA on the global stage, strategically less israel-centric and more American-centric. Behind closed doors in the pentagon, our global strategy is being re-ordered to catch-up with the new emerging order of powers: China, Russia, India, Brazil and South Africa.
Simply put: there ain't gonna be a war on Iran, it ain't worth it for us and Apartheid israel has no more cards to play on that front. A bigger looming problem for the zionists is actually the highly plausible re-election of Obama. Israel is currently more petrified of an Obama second term than they are of an Iran with nukes.
And even if Romney wins, there's no guarantee that the USA will strike Iran on behalf of israel and win flat out, considering Russia and China's vocal objection and rising global influence.
A disastrous USA military adventure in Iran will also create an American backlash against American jews and all things israeli and zionist. This is something that even the arrogant likudists are desperate to avoid.
In the meantime, the Palestinian struggle is gaining global popularity while Apartheid israel is losing the narrative and the popularity.
Who knows, cloaky, Aprtheid israel might actually end with a whimper and not with a bang.
No, not "angry", oleg, but "something"... like give us a belly of laughs at the stupidity of the idf and its racist deluded supporters and propagandists.
A mere 3000 hizbollah fighters modestly armed kicking the pantaloons off 35,000 hi-tec idf-ers is a fact worthy of a museum or two.
Who you tryana kid?! ALL jewish-related museums I've ever been to have been as depressing as f*ck - and Mleeta is one heck of a fun-fun-fun museum, even for a foreign visitors like me. Truth is, I so profoundly enjoyed visiting it that I can hardly wait for the next opportunity to go again. And again and again and again.
I laugh at EVERY article on Israel's so-called 'plans' to attack Iran. Why? Cuz in reality they can't attack Iran cuz they lost their military deterrence back in 2006 against hizbollah and they been nothing but getting weaker and weaker ever since, both regionally and globally.
My dear Mondeez, long gone are the days when israel could strike without fear of being struck back. The reality is that now its opponents can strike back and strike back hard and fatal too.
All this zionist iran-bravado is naught but governmental ape-show designed to delude israeli citizens and overseas money enablers into thinking that strategically, militarily, israel still rules the middle east with a mighty unstoppable fist. They're even scamming their own citizenry by not preparing them, not telling them it's already game over for the zionist state - that each israeli offensive from here on will in reality be met with an equally deadly response, devastating israeli lives and (stolen) properties across the israeli (swindled) land.
Long gone are the days where israel strikes at it's neighbors willy-nilly and with a smirk, knowing no one can touch it. And be assured, folks, them isreali-thug days ain't coming back any time soon in our lifetime either.
A-ba-bye them days!
The desperate zionist ruling elites at this stage can do zilch about this reality except to create the ILLUSION of continuing military might in an attempt to hide their hemorrhaging powers, and the utter failure and cowardice of all zionist principles.
Israelis are so brainwashed, so easy to brainwash after 64 years of willful living with their constant politics-of-fear, that they absorb without question, all that supremist shit their leaders throw at them and remain therefore, like sheep led to the slaughterhouse.
Behind the curtains of the holyland, there's a jewish Nero playing the violin to the deluded ears of adoring citizens.
Engaging the world with 'talk' about shooting up Iran, is that curtain.
oleg,
Your markava is laying dead on its side in a markava cemetry in south Lebanon - been there abandoned since August 2006.
R.I.W. (Rest In War) markava dearest.
(p.s. I don't believe for a second you're Russian, more like a UK paid hasbarado).
oleg,
Occupation and oppression are the antithesis of "sexy" - just ask any holocaust survivor if the SSS are sexy.
And because I know you won't, I gotta tell you that you're a miserable and vain colonialist who has no charm, no charisma and most certainly no mojo.
EVERYTHING in Apartheid israel is stolen by foreigners like you and will one day be returned to it's rightful native owners - including all the freebie whorehouses in the Palestinian desert.
To say you utterly disgust me is to put it mildly.
No deary, you didn't "visit" the tents, you OCCUPIED them with brute base force.
The image of orgiastic zionist youths in action does not appeal in the slightest - neither erotically nor politically.
The above article is proof positive that zionists are dumb f*cks for falling for the proverbial and primordial 'honey-trap'.
Aaaaah the sweet sound of violins played to sooth a hapless war criminal.
Thank you, Phillip Harris.
You have the steady hand of a surgeon-writer.
oleg,
And ever since the "Golf War" (yeah right golf and golfing!), you've been living on stolen property and off the backs of Palestinians young and old. What an honorable 'jew' you are. How do you sleep at night? With your boots on I hope. Colonialists like you are gonna wake up one morning with two choices: "the suitcase or the coffin/la valise ou le cercueil".
Mmmmmm I love my Shmuely.
Jeez American, don't go sending more despicable foreigners to the middle east to live. Don't you think there's enough of them out there? Shouldn't we perhaps be sending American zionists to USA Constitution classes?
LOL Citizen : "Hollywood drives the wish for nose jobs around the world".
It's like what my Brit friend quizzed when visiting a Beverly Hills restaurant for the first time: " Why do all the button-nosed women here look so surprised?"
I think Beverly Hills has the most cosmetic surgeons per square mile in the whole world. And you gotta consider 'Hollywood' in this case as being much larger than the map would indicate: you gotta add Bel Air, Brentwood, Santa Monica, Palisades, Malibu, and a host of all kindsa affluent AND average neighborhoods too, if you're talking nose jobs. Hacking off one's beak is so prevalent why even your humble new-age yoga teacher is nose-jobed in LA!
(To be considerate and inclusive here, we gotta also give a shoutout salutation to the most hacked at smallest nose in the universe: Michael Jackson's.)
Course I've never been to Iran or even looked at their nose job stats, I just thought I'd stick my nose in the conversation anywayz and being an LA gal and a sniffer of the human condition, thought I'd add a snort or two at my narcissist city folk.
And the ultimate epic nose? It's gotta be a toss-up between Cyrano de Bergerac versus Pinocchio - a contest of honkers between a horny Frenchman and a skinny Italian. Yes we can look to these two countries too for a diverse and impressive sampling of hooty shnozzles.
Okay here's a video on the problem with big noses:
link to youtube.com
The biggest (if you'll pardon the pun) nose job business in the world is in Hollywood.
Dickerz,
I love that movie, 'Johnny Got His Gun'. You forgot to mention that it was the last day of the war when Johnny got blown up and left with only a limbless torso, a face with no mouth or eyes, and a soulful memory of home and sweetheart.
The nazis used to say that EVERYTHING is the fault of the jews.
Now the jews say that EVERYTHING is the fault of the Arabs.
Rightow!
Sean,
Big fan here of your list-skills hahhahahaha!
Another cool list, Sean, LOL!
Actually Sabra & Shatila DID have something to do with America cuz the Americans gave the green light to the israelis to invade Lebanon in the first place - then they 'allowed' Sharon to go rogue on them without punishment or accountability. Not to mention of course that the weapons that were used in this massacre of innocent women, children and the elderly, were made in the USA.
Did your parents not teach you how to play 'connect the dots' when you were a kid? Are you just plain dumb or are you simply a pathological apologist for criminals who enable/commit crimes against humanity?
Elliot I wish you were here.
I'm on the edge of a moslem village, and accounting for its four sides within a mile or two radius, its neighboring villages are: 3 moslem villages, two christian villages and two villages with a mix of both moslem and christian. All are sprinkled on an uneven necklace of perfectly rounded petite mountains that link green ankles making for narrow wild ravines where jackals live and have lived way before the days of Abraham - with your eye you can follow the ravine's trail thinning downwards into a hairline that pricks the blue sea. All these neighboring villages grow olive, fig, citrus and grapevine in their gardens. Driving through them, you can see their different characters: one village is sleepier than the other, prettier, poorer, etc.. But they all evidently share the same political affiliations: all have portraits of both moslem Nasrallah and christian General Aoun proudly displayed next to each other in their cute little village squares and old world thoroughfares. As you can imagine, I'm an object of curiosity around here with my western look and pidgin Arabic, but I'm warmly welcomed everywhere I go. The Lebanese, it seems, hate America but love Americans.
As to Beirut: energetic, heady, architecturally Ottomanesque and Francophile and shoulder to shoulder with ghettos stridently squatting on prime real estate - everywhere trilingual good-looking people: rich and poor, busy and fussy and dirty here and classy there all mixed up contradictions under the sun and oh so many tight old streets and heavy traffic to boot and a lotta lotta small restaurants.
Beirut? Just as well I avoid it eh.
"I’ve already related the tale of how I stumbled on the real story about Israel and Palestine and the US..."
So give us a link to your story buddy - I for one missed it and would lurrrrrrrv to read it.
Moi? I was a five year old tourist with my family in Jerusalem in June 1967. I lived through the Six Day War mostly in the basement of a hotel with rationed room-service. I also lived in Beirut: we moved there cuz of my dad's job and lived there from 1969 to 1974 - relocated to London a few months before the civil war broke out.
Last October I left my beach home in LA and headed out to visit a few dear old friends in several Arab countries that I hadn't seen for years. Originally, I only intended to hit the road for six months but I'm still here LOL! For the last four months I've been living in a remote house on a hill in a small village in southern Lebanon and I love it! Throughout winter I had the view of the blue mediterranean before me and the snowy Levant peaks behind me and my toes were toasting by the fireplace. Now it's spring and the diversity of fauna and flora is breathtaking everyday, plus I'm eating organic straight from the orchard and garden. I'm also tingling with delight to hear the cinematic howling of jackals at night and the sweetest mating birdsong in the morning and yes approx twice a week I hear the israeli F-16's doing their song and dance over my head! Funny thing, the natives don't even flinch when the fighter jets thug-strut circles in their sky - they just carry on with their stuff without even blinking or looking up - but them F-16's sure as hell make the house dog mad as fuck, frantically barking at the sky and baring her fierce Doberman teeth till the very last bit of F-16 echo vanishes - then she yawns, flops on the grass and licks herself LOL it's the exact same routine with her time and time again. Now I'm thinking maybe of staying the whole summer too to check out the beach vibe. I'm improving my Arabic, listening to locals tell their life stories and taking regular road trips around the country, visiting ancient sites older than judaism and exploring the Lebanon's amazing landscape drenched in beauty and history - also learning more about local and regional politics.
I've been a committed urbanite all my life and I'm surprising myself how much I'm enjoying a bit of real countrylife in a foreign country.
Sean,
As usual, you're organized, smart and oh so smooth.
If I ever grow up, I wanna be just like you.
:)
Piotr,
The House of Saud were Arabian jews who converted to islam. Books in Arabic have been written about them, shedding light on their jewish roots and basically saying that they converted not out of faith, but to sabotage islam. A friend of mine is reading one of them books in Arabic - I just tried to call him to get the name of the book and its author but I couldn't reach him. Soon as I make contact with him, I will post the book's details. I'm told that the author, a saudi academic, was ambushed in his bed, taken for a plane ride and while still alive, thrown from a great height straight into the middle of the desert. This happened in the 1950's.
Alphabetical!!!!
LOL sean!
It used to be that an antisemite is a goy who don't like jews.
Now, an antisemite is a goy that jews don't like.
‘People think the Holocaust ended,’ said Benzion Netanyahu in 2009 to Channel 2’s political correspondent Amit Segal. ‘The Holocaust didn’t end. It continues all the time.’
link to haaretz.com
Oh yes we understand Benjamin Natanyahu's pathology only too well.
There is nowhere more beautiful, not a place on the planet more sweet smelling than the huddled feminine hills of Galilee. A single springtime visit to this land will haunt the visitor for a lifetime - impossible for a stranger to forget such unique, spiritualized and humble beauty, let alone for a refugeed native to abandon such a blessed terra firma, or even the diaphanous memory of it.
And that the zionists would think that by ethnically cleansing villages there and setting fire to every single village house would actually blight the natives with collective amnesia, is a sign of the utter stupidity of their evil. That the zionists actually think that their victims would simply FORGET their injuries with the short or long passing of time is a clear sign of their brute, regressive bully-brains.
Since 1948, the zionist bastards have succeeded in burying their crimes ESPECIALLY against christians Arabs, but now is the time for these silenced victims to put collective and constant pen to paper and tell their tragic stories of ethnic cleansing to the world, tell their grandfather's story, their grandmother's story - even their sheep and dog story.
I applaud Fida and I salute and weep for the martyrs of Iqrit and every other single Palestinian community scorched willfully, criminally, by the zionist colonial enterprise. Take heart, Fida, that millions of outsiders are carrying the weight of your burden with you, barefooted all the way to the doors of justice.
And thank you for including such beautiful paintings that speak volumes of the humble lovefullness and sorrows of the Palestinians, both christian and moslem. I'm especially moved by the memorial stone with the Arabic heading: "We remember and we will never forget".
Yes, my friends, memory lasts longer than stone.
Well you "sprayed 'n' prayed" then ran away from Hizbollah.
American,
Here's some info on another cool women's activism from UK - back in the day:
link to en.wikipedia.org
How many in the audience knows even a single name and age of a USA Drone victim?
A gargantuan BRAVO (with honey and cinnamon) to Medea!
What impeccable timing!
What clarity of thought!
What astounding calm focus alchemized by fearlessness.
This is no ordinary protest. This is Political Performance Art at its highest level of expression.
Millions of people thank you, citizen Medea.
A rogue military Apartheid state like israel, as well as all militant imperialists, counting here their supporters and enablers too: my (un)dear proudzionist777, this morally unkempt mishmash of criminals are the REAL cowards in this picture: picking on unarmed civilians, their women and their innocent children as state policy - heck that's gotta be the epitome of outrageous cowardice!
You know I'd love to be a fly on the wall with you and Medea stuck in a lift.
I pay no respect, in life or in death, to any man who changes his name to suit his colonial ambitions.
I bet' Natanyahu' senior's last words were: Pass the bucket, son.
Oh my effing creator of atheism god! Dear Mondeez you must read the talkback on Haaretz about all this Co-op and BDS uplift. They're like FLOODED with anti Apartheid customers: succinct, informed and oh so very cool-headed, with seriously high-ranking thumbs up! It seems like overnight, something clicked and changed-up. There's more of us out there that we'd thought yesterday!
link to haaretz.com
I especially noted the numerous posts that shared the common declaration of: 'I will start shopping at Co-op because of their stand against Apartheid in israel'. And so the Co-op can expect no financial setback from taking a stand against israel's illegal settlements - on the contrary, it stands to gain far more customers than it may lose. Hahahaha how the tables have suddenly turned! This magnanimous decision by the Co-op will indeed encourage other businesses to voice their moral objection to israeli land and resource-theft, by joining the 21st century's anti Apartheid BDS movement.
This is not the slower 1980's where stories from Soweto dripped in over time - this is the age of the internet and you can expect things to happen big quiet suddenly, in growing pockets of the populace here and there around the world, even here in America. Yes it's dimmer here but shit like the 'billboard wars' in Denver, the fact that they're happening, is actually astounding by American standards.
Uhuh, boycotting Apartheid products can now become good for business. Outch israel!
Natanyahu should be foning De Klerk and asking him for advice.
But, alas, there are no safe political parachutes on the planet, De Klerk will respond.
LOL Bumbleboo!
The co-op supermarket was my supermarket of choice when I lived in London as a student - cuz it was nice and cheap and basically for low-income people, single mothers and students. It's always had a reputation for 'fairness' - though back in the day they had a limited number of brands on their shelves and their veggie stacks were a tad sad looking.
But heyhoe just look at them now!
p.s. I'm a card-holding member of the Santa Monica Co-op supermarket - plenty of organics and ethical-trade products there. Why not check out your local co-ops mondofolks?
playforisrael!
You can't even spell Mandela's name correctly let alone know what he REALLY thinks about israel. Here's a letter he wrote to the dastardly Thomas Friedman way back in 2001 describing israelis as racist and israel as an Apartheid system- it should shut your denialism up FOR GOOD:
link to bintjbeil.com
"Why can’t one support Zionism while opposing settler activities or anti-Palestinian actions by the IDF in the OPT?"
Cuz zionism is a stinking racist supremist 19th century political movement.
So yeah wear your 'zionist' badge with pride mister - but don't be surprised at the hostility you'll be receiving.
Uprooting the symbol of peace is not a surprise but always a heartbreaker.
Are the israelis gonna line up Palestinian doves against the wall and shoot them in the back too?
Well that wouldn't surprise me either.
And then they tell us that they're hated cuz they're jewish and only cuz they're jewish - yeah right.
Where's the outrage of the global Green Parties?! This isn't just a Palestine/israel issue you know!
playforpalestine,
Just stop it with your slimy arrogance! Who cares about your interpretation of zionism?! We're looking here at zionist action and it's 64 years of action is loaded with ethnic-cleansing, mass infanticide (read Gaza), and the continuing land theft and emotional blackmail they dump of the WHOLE world of goy.
Why don't you just buzz off with your smartypants justifications for zionist war crimes. Or else stick around and tell us how you personally are gonna pay full reparations to the Palestinians whose homes you've stolen and bones you've broken.
Thanks Hughsansom.
Move it people - cut paste write share yell it out like a town-crier if you wanu. But do it. I know it's in bad taste but let's inundate and bombast like the zioz do. And for Pete's sakes enjoy it too!
She looks like a thin-lipped librarian looking for love on e-harmony. Goebbel and her would have made a perfect love-match. And their children? Oren and Regev, of course.
Is it possible for a zionist to be pro-Palestinian?
If Palestinians are semites then surely "anti-Palestinian racism" = antisemitism.
Therefore the vile Cynthia Ozick is............., uhuh, you guessed it.
I see no cure either. The shit's seeped down deep. Surgery may help, but the odds are stacked against it. Even if israel was dismantled (for the right reasons and in the best possible way), the many, many jews who are stuck in their victimhood will just interpret it as another example of how 'all goy are born antisemites' - and so it keeps perpetuating. Very self-defeating and debilitating - for a people who've been deeply dreaming of discarding their bondage for the past several millenniums. Politics aside, I guess it's sad to watch a group of humans, because of a common attachment to an old misunderstanding, commit slow suicide simultaneously.
Are they mixing MDMA with ziocaine now?
I'm saddened... and smitten. R.I.P. Adrienne, you lovely poet. R.I.P. Lavon, you sweatheart musicman.
And thank you Phil for bringing the memory and humble genius of these two artists to the forefront of mondo.
I am gutted especially that Adrienne has passed away - a prolific poet and life essayist I grew up on. The poem above is astounding. There's no need to further make either literary or political commentary on it, the words present on her page say it all - or as she would probably say: the absent words say it all.
Oh dear I'm so sad.
LOL Pamela! But they actually intend to show their um... nazi thang! In fact it's a competition to see who's got the biggest naziooka on the planet.
Imagine the outrage of Americans if during our Iraq occupation, two of the ugliest looking members of our congress posed with sadistic glee, sitting in a 'confiscated' Iraqi couch.
Cloaks,
Why d'ya have to be so civilized and reasonable?! Me? I've seen with my own eyes too much zio murder and mayhem to ever think of drinking my precious champagnenium in the scummy company of zionists. But you're invited to my 'Israel Is Toast' party - and here be assured it'll be zio-free with beefy Palestinian bouncers at the door sniffing them out and KEEPING THEM OUT. You never know, if I let them in, they might steal my favorite sofa.
Honest to god now mondiez, don't the sofa look more honest, more humble and better looking than the two homo sapiens sitting in it?
Clearly, some members of our species are so deplorable that even a piece of furniture's got more soul than they do.
What an astounding and symbolic fotograph you got us, Alison. I really think that it should be made into a poster with your very headline as caption - should be plastered all over USA bus stations and urban metros. I mean all of us, rich or poor, man or woman, young or old, black or white, gay or straight, religious or not: we all have a very special relationship with our couch. We love our couches. Everyone relates to cozy, warm couch-love, right? Our couch gives us something almost like mother's love. Major item of personal creature-comfort. Great place of daily refuge and meditation, especially if you're like me: rarely sit on my couch cuz I prefer total horizontal languid R&R on my couch. And so for all of us out there, who dearly love our couches, to see some scummy couch thieves posing on it and tramping up on a sidewalk - well that just wigs out all the wiggles in your heart and brain and so deeply offended at the celebrated injustice, that you feel you's about to morph into a freaking fireball! Yes we all despise comfort-thieves with a passion. It's primordial.
Take a look at the foto again: the ironic beauty of this sad looking couch, the way it looks like it's leaning back in silent pain, polite rejection of her two dastardly 'acquirers', quietly despairing at her future, helpless hostage, sudden war trophy to warmongers.
(Yap, that couch's really got me!)
I'm thinking here that due to lack of readily available information and insidious zio propaganda, etc., Joe and Jane (as our good Citizen likes to call the average folk) probably understand the trauma of couch-loss more immediately than the complex trauma of a third party in a faraway land being ethnically cleansed. Here simplicity is power - and the power of this foto indeed is that it inspires universal disgust.
Careful Cloaky, you might get sanctioned for possession of a large stock of depleted winerium.
And did ya have to invite the frigging ziobots to the party?! You blew it! Dis-invite them or I ain't coming with my stock of ready for depletion expensivo champaignia!
Call me goofy but I just had a cool fantasy where I manage to farcically kidnap the sofa out of israel and ingeniously, lovingly, leave it on the White House lawn with a message taped to it that says: Ethnically Dry Cleansed.
(Okay mondofolk, perhaps my message is a little chop-suey but do feel free to tape up your own message there too hahahaha heck let's fill it up!)
(Activism as performance political art in cyberspace - yeeehaaaaw and ooolahlah!)
I have more respect for that sofa than for the two ugly men squatting it.
They will pay through the nose for this plain theft.
Woohoo yourstruly!
If only zionists spent their time on active peace instead of active mass deception.
The Kairos report will become a household name by next christmas. Kudos to the Atlantic for linking it to it's vast readership. Chapeau to Mondoweiss and other publications that cite it too.
There's now a visible ozone hole in the giant hasbara muzzle.
hops,
Stuff it with your "antisemitic" fixation! Sean Mcbride and PeaceThroughJustice have more honor, truth and integrity in their fingernails than you and your zionist banshees can ever dream of.
You ever counted how many times per day you say the word "antisemitic"? Seriously! Do you mumble the word "antisemitic" in your sleep?
So like the jews are paying for Jesus' ticket back to earth?
On the money, Pixel.
How To Alienate The World In Under Ten Years.
I submit the above title for Mooser's next Book. May it be more succinct and more successful than wotshisface Beinhart(?).
Very few people alive today know what the heck was going on in europe during the tenth century:
"The Khazars had, for years, been venturing forth southward, in their marauding raids on the Muslim countries south of the Caucasus.
"Islamic armies conquered part of Persia, Syria, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Armenia, and what is now the modern-day post-Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan and surrounded the Byzantine heartland (present-day Turkey) in a pincer movement which extended from the Mediterranean to the Caucasus and the southern shores of the Caspian. This was the time when the long series of wars called the Khazar-Arab wars began. These wars largely ended with Arab defeats, with a fairly well-known commander, Abd ar-Rahman ibn Rabiah, perishing in one instance. The Arab armies' inability to traverse the Caucasus played a role in preventing them from succeeding in their siege of the Byzantine capital, Constantinople. Coupled with the military barrier presented by the Khazars themselves, this prevented Europe from more direct and intensive assaults by the forces of Islam, arguably keeping it from falling to the Muslim armies.
"After fighting the Arabs to a standstill in the North Caucasus, Khazars became increasingly interested in replacing their Tengriism with a state religion that would give them equal religious standing with their Abrahamic neighbors. During the 8th century, the Khazar royalty and much of the aristocracy converted to a form of Judaism.[17]Yitzhak ha-Sangari is the name of the rabbi who converted Khazars to Judaism according to Jewish sources."
link to en.wikipedia.org
Sumud,
Yay for the Democratic Republic of Jerusalem! DRJ! DRJ! HIPHIPHOORAY YAY DRJ!
(Health Warning: zionists must NOT chant above slogan - will cause sobriety and severe realism in the utterer).
Yap. Arab christians REALLY love zionism and Apartheid. We all believe you. Mission accomplished for you. So now you can eff back to Odessa/Brooklyn/GoldersGreen you miserable amateur propagandist!
LOL I love this story!
Since 9/11, I've been saying that Christian Palestinians are the ultimate key in exposing years of murderous hasbara lies. They're like the Queen on the I/P chessboard, till recently, cornered into silent immobility by the idf Knights and the zionist media pawn monsters. That's how powerful Palestinian christians are despite their dwindling numbers and this 60 Minutes piece gives their Queen some elbow room to maneuver out of her purgatory.
Bob shoulda mentioned that some 3000 Palestinian catholics are living under siege in Gaza - he shoulda added that these catholic Gazeans were nowhere even near Nazi German in 1940's, either in ideology or geography - so why are they being collectively punished in the name of the so-called 'jewish state security'? Oh yeah - and one more question: why are catholic Palestinians living on the same street as moslem Hamas?! LOL I'd love to have mister Oren answer THAT question with a straight face!
All in all, 15 minutes ain't enough to give a COMPLETE picture of the plight of Palestinian christians - but it sure is enough to open the investigative doors of a chunk of the American christian community's minds where they would flock (pardon the pun) to the internet to do their own reading on a subject that has been willfully well hidden from them by the diabolical zionist arm of the American media.
What else are the zionists hiding? Would be the logical question of a newly enlightened christian.
Another week is upon us and Apartheid israel has already lost more customers - two weeks ago it was 'cultured' people (Gunter Grass's global followers and German youth), last week it was the peace-loving Danes who saw footage of their own citizen being given an 'israeli facial' - and this week it is a segment of American christians who are now soberly questioning israeli policies.
Who will Apartheid israel alienate next week? Oooooooh I can hardly wait!
Eljay,
Arabs making reference to their "Abrahamic" faith is the norm in Arab countries - it's no "PR" spin my dear. Abraham, after all, IS their grandfather.
Islam embraces both judaism and christianity. Moses is a most beloved prophet to them - which is why many Arabs name their sons, Mousa (Moses in Arabic). They also recognize jesus as a most lofty prophet - yes they reject the idea that he is the 'son of god' cuz they don't believe god is inclined to procreating through a human womb - but they do actually pay serious homage to him and to his mother, Mary, often calling their sons 'Eessa' (Eessa is Arabic for Jesus) and Mariam (Mariam is Arabic for Mary). In fact many Lebanese moslems carry the surname Issa too. I've actually met a guy called Mohammad Issa - that would be: Mohammad Jesus, in English.
“most of the threads on Mondoweiss are crap”
And you're just the fly who like a good old fashioned landing, right?
Beady eyes. Like sharks.
Shmuel,
I'd rather get mass acupuncture in the eyeball than watch the vile porno of hate on israeli TV.
"color-coded revenge fantasies" = psychotic projections.
LOL israel is so effed and some of us are really enjoying it.
For the right reasons, of course.
They must be so self-hating to be so incapable of making any new friends, while fast losing old ones - especially here in the USA. I mean them israelis don't make enemies of just one person here, one person there - noooooooo, they pride themselves on making enemies of whole nations overnight.
So I encourage all racist israelis to keep up the good work of rotting out their (stolen) country right from within.
What a despicable pit of ingrates full of hate and darkest arrogant narcissism. But of course, it was always forever thus in israel, it's just that now, thanks to the internet, it's caught on camera and broadcast to the world - bypassing the msm's zion-muzzle.
We shouldn't be sending them 2 billion in aid - we should be sending them 6 million psychiatrists - one per israeli citizen.
It took place in his racist little lalaland, annie.
And I guess we can refer to riffle butts in the face from here on as 'israeli facials'.
But you only "thrash" unarmed civilians.
On the battlefield, with real fighters, like Hizbollah, you go crying to your mama's in mid battle.
Benny Morris: the historian that history will forget.
For all the goddam lies he sold the world.
So can we now stop talking about him - what a bore!
Wiseman's got a touch of the Werdine about him - no?
Took the same hasbara disguise classes - no?
LOL seafoid!
Oh come on fredly - so why don't your guys quote word for word? Why don't your lying criminal leaders say Iran ACTUALLY said that "israel is a cancerous tumor that should be removed from the middle east"?
Is it because they're a buncha lying scum land thieves and slo-mo ethnic cleansers who need to start another war over there in iran while they continue, without a spotlight, to kill, main and imprison Palestinians young and old in the holy land?
If I'm wrong then why don't you tell me why are israelis choosing willfully to misquote and dramatize? Help us understand would ya.
From Wikipedia:
"Lowell was a conscientious objector during World War II and served several months at the federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut. He explained his decision not to serve in World War II in a letter addressed to President Franklin Roosevelt on September 7, 1943, stating, "Dear Mr President: I very much regret that I must refuse the opportunity you offer me in your communication of August 6, 1943 for service in the Armed Force." In the letter, he goes on to explain that after the bombing at Pearl Harbor, he was prepared to fight in the war until he read about the United States' terms of unconditional surrender which he feared would lead to the "permanent destruction of Germany and Japan." Before Lowell was transferred to the prison in Connecticut, he was held in a prison in New York City which he later wrote about in the poem "Memories of West Street and Lepke" from his book Life Studies."
But describing Nasser as "Mussolini" shows Lowell as politically misinformed/uninformed. The sad and beautiful Egyptians he's empathizing with would take great and deep offense at his description, considering they affectionately regarded Nasser, as they still do, as a revolutionary and national hero - and for good reason.
How dare them goy bike tires roll over roads for jews only?!
The shit-scared Natanyahu knows that this is the incident and film that people, especially the internet savvy youth, will remember for a long long time: kippa, riffle, peaceful blond going down fast and sudden. Natanyahu knows how every time from here on, whenever he says the phrase" israel is the ONLY democracy in the middle east", the listener will immediately remember the Danish unarmed protestor banged by 'Shalom' in the face with the length of a riffle, just for cycling on a road for jews only.
We can say it's now become official: israel IS an Apartheid state. And no amount of spin will change this growing perception of it, pole to pole around the world.
With every new (avoidable) international 'incident' they create, israelis fall harder, uglier, from grace.
I bet my farm that Natanyahu's DNA doesn't have a drop of "semite" in it.
Some people are born semites, others self-appoint it - just ask any Russian israeli or that Peruvian Indian family that were converted by some Rabbi in the jungles of Peru, brought back to Palestine and were anointed semetic by some mystical israeli oil and given more rights than native semetic Palestinians.
Hahahahaha I'm laughing my head off at Apartheid israel's puerile desperation!
The activists should respond to Natanyahu's letter with the following tweet: WE LOOKED EVERYWHERE AND FOUND THAT YOU ARE THE FRIGGING PROBLEM EMEFER!
And one more thing, what's up with this "centrist" bs? So like the zio libs wanna call themselves "centrists" now? So now even "centrists" wanna milk the nuclear fantasy?
So now we got centrist neocons and centrist extremists?!
"... to win the war on ideas".
War on Palestine, war on Egypt, war on Lebanon, war on Syria, war on Iran, war on Goldstone, war on islam, war on Arabs, war on the UN, even war on poetry - and now ladies and gentlemen: "war on ideas"!
Yeah sure, you go right ahead, Sharone Levinson, you go right ahead and wage your war "on ideas" hahahaha!
'Somebody' out there is desperate eh. Flummoxed fools!
Primordial desire for everlasting love, acceptance, security, in a tumultuous and unpredictable world, is what taught us to think.
Thanks for your perspective, Sin Nombre.
"“It is the alleged entitlement for a first strike,
which could extinguish the Iranian people….”"
You do know he's using the word "alleged", open to several interpretations here, right? And you do know that Iran's nuclear plants are "alleged" to be installed at over fifty locations, right? Well you do the maths Sin: that's a heckalotta places they're 'allegedly entitled' to bomb in a first strike etc - and if Iran was getting superpower USA to help it bomb 50+ locations in israel, well then that would sure look like Iran wants to annihilate the israelis too.
We also look at Sharon and other israeli leaders and know that they always advance their military missions to the extreme and some more: back in 1982 we gave them the greenlight to go as far as Sidon/Lebanon and they just rolled their tanks past Sidon and occupied Beirut, therefore the whole country, against even our wishes and our interests - causing the deaths of some 23,000 people, mostly Lebanese civilians, in that summer alone. There are many more examples of israel's willful intent on destroying civilians - you should be concerned about this israeli trait like Gunter is, like billions of people around the planet are.
Moreover, the world having seen only recently how israel intentionally bombed the civilians of Gaza and Lebanon - images of wanton destruction upon civilian populations still fresh in their memories - well.... need I spell out that the likelihood that the world at large, not just Gunter, would start to think of Apartheid 'greater israel' as possibly genocidal towards ALL it's neighbors, near and far, including Iran. And where there is the 'possibility' of genocide, the moral people on this planet have a duty to speak out BEFORE it's active occurrence - and NOT in it's aftermath.
My friend, you cannot prove that israel has ANY good will towards ANY of its non-jewish neighbors - and this is very worrisome to the world at large due to israel's own long history of willful violent rhetoric AND offensive deadly action. Gunter's estimation is not slander, but based solely on israel's excessively violent past and present.
And regarding the German submarine issue, I see it like this: since the end of WW2, several innocent generations of Germans have had to (unfairly?) carry the burden and dark guilt of their grandparents, convicted collectively for genocide - and Gunter sees any German hand in a nuclear fallout, directly or indirectly, as an even worse atrocity than the holocaust cuz next time round, the blue-eyed German people cannot look at images of charred brown-skinned corpses and say: "we didn't know". This is a legitimate concern of every patriotic German: they need to keep the blood off their hands for centuries to come before the demons of the holocaust can depart their collective psyches.
I'm sure you won't find my arguments convincing, like I am not in the slightest convinced by yours. I have a feeling that you're more emotionally attached to the state of israel than I could ever be - I do care about the jewish people, in the same measure that I care about Buddhists, atheists, et all, but I honestly don't care about the 'state of israel' - I believe the holy land is Arab land and no european colonizer 'greenifying' the desert would ever change my mind about that.
Forgive me for saying this but I think you're a little naive to think that israel does not intend to strike iran with all the deathly power and force it can muster. All indications of israel's past behavior in the region and its ongoing warmongering would reasonably suggest otherwise.
That's why Gunter is completely justified in writing his 'poem'.
And to me, iran's cultural heritage, older than judaism, should be respected by european jews, not threatened by force of destruction just because Iranians are a majority moslem for this span of contemporary time.
correction: "collection national psyche" should read: collective national psyche.
Sin,
Why don't you tell us which part of the poem you find untruthful? If Gunter was Palestinian would his words effect you differently? If you were Iranian reading Gunter's poem, would you object to it?
Why so upset over the necessary breaking of a German taboo?
And you honestly think that Yaoz-kest's sentiment is that of a lone wolf and not an example of a collection national psyche?
In your attempt at 'centerism', your argument, which is based on subjective emotion, has become as much of a cliche as you allude to mine and Cloak's posts.
'I think people are failing to put this Grass poem in relative perspective."
No they most certainly ain't!
You just don't get the evident hatred and racism that zionists feel and exercise against Arabs, moslems and christian europeans. So what, like you need a 'statement' of annihilation from the zionist regime? Don't you know they prefer to work in the silent shadows on their 'clash of civilization' plan? Don't you know that in order for zionism to be a majority in the world they gotta get rid of, well, the majority opposition? Don't you know that they've already decided on the 'Samson Option" if the plan fails?
I know you've heard of 'poetic justice', so now you're learning about 'poetic truth'. There is NOTHING untrue in Gunter's poem. Truth is NOT slander.
Here's what Israel National News published the other day by Itamar Yaoz-Kest in response to Gunter's poem:
"For it is the right of the Nation of Israel to finally shut the gates to the world after it leaves this place (not of its free will!), and we have the right to say, at the price of the 3,000 year old fear: “If you force us yet again to descend from the face of the Earth to the depths of the Earth – let the Earth roll toward the Nothingness.”
Here's Yaoz-kest's poem to Gunter that accompanied his statement above:
"Danger,
I want to be a danger,
I want to be a danger to the world,
so that after my destruction, not a single blade of grass will remain on the face of the Earth,
or a single blade of grass for Gunther Grass’s pipe,
upon the Earth where, since I was born, I pose a danger to the world.
Because it is my right!
It is my right to live or die while annihilating my annihilators, without riding again as a crying-boy in a transport train,
Into the world-vacuum, while placing my head in the lap of a mother who is disappearing into the fresh air of the Land of Wotan,
and the urine tin darts dark-yellow specks onto the walls of the cabin – like gunshots that spray
a yellowish-reddish liquid from besides the train guards, and among them – maybe – the soldier G.G., also, wearing a steel helmet."
Dude, don't you know how fatally outta control a traumatized child becomes if they're 'indulged' instead of given therapy and reality-checks?
The other day on another Gunter Grass thread, I wrote ponderingly whether Gunter had started a German Spring to free the German youth from the dictatorship of the holocaust. Perhaps I wasn't too far off the mark.
So many chains, so little time - ultimately, this is the universalist message of Gunter's poem.
Link please to your "90+%". Or just stop throwing around assumptions.
Or else say: '90+% of jews I've met are zionists' - cuz clearly you don't know what you're talking about.
p.s. you don't have to be an American jew to be an israeli firster, but you do have to be corrupt - just look at our frigging congress!
Likudism's PR is outta touch with American jews. Looks like they only speak on their minority's behalf hah!
Or maybe perhaps perchance American jews are WAKING UP mister Western Sky!
And what makes the arrogant israelis think that Gunter wants to spend a relaxing vacation on a stolen Apartheid beach in the first place?! I bet he wouldn't want to go anyway for all the gold in frigging China!
I'm just glad this story's got legs cuz israel showed it's ugly fascist face and lost a whole buncha cultured customers this week. It's just been great reading the global blogs' reaction to this archetypal battle between a moral individual and an immoral nation. It is sooooo clear by now that the majority of the people on this planet, including a sizable chunk of Americans, are not aligned with israel due to it's Apartheid and ethnic-cleansing practices, which are now common knowledge - thanks to the internet.
It is clear that israelis have squandered, almost to the last few drops, all the empathy and goodwill that humanity's bestowed upon them since the holocaust. They have grimly betrayed and offended the memory of their grandfathers and grandmothers immeasurable suffering for what exactly? So that they can steal property and sneak nukes into the holy lands to annihilate neighbors with?
Blows my mind with bafflement why euro jews had to go the criminal racist zionist way.
Mashallah mashallah! Goodness I just love Falastine! Please please oh please can I be an honorary Palestinian? Can a true blooded Palestinian bestow this honor on me?
I want to be Palestinian and do the dabke under an old olive tree in Palestine - woohoohoo rock-out!
Coooooooh I've been loving so many mondo stories lately!
Terrific job modo guys and girls!
What a cool motley crew of town-criers you got yourselves there, Phil and Adam.
Eljay,
I like you and still do. I wasn't "attacking" you, just critiquing your critique of poetry, your sweeping generalization.
You shoulda really said 'most of the poetry I've read is pretentious and crap', not "most poetry is pretentious and crap". See what I mean my friend?
I really like you, really really really do, but I just had to put the record straight here cuz you were damning a muse you've never met.
Poetry is everywhere, it doesn't have to be written to exist.
Eljay,
There are good poems and bad poems but only good POETRY - what 'looks' like a poem on the page isn't necessarily 'poetry'. A lover of poetry will understand this and clearly, you are no poetry lover.
A beautiful line in a poem can easily be taken out of a poem and it would be a poem in and of itself for it's power and resonance, hence Lorca's line.
I don't expect you to understand any of the above, after all you did say: "I find most poetry to be (pretentious and/or self-indulgent) crap". I mean your use of the word "most" is clearly philistine and "subjective". You appear to hardly know what poetry is - and you have NOT read every single poem on earth to make THAT assertion.
If I were you, I wouldn't discuss topics I didn't understand or throw around sweeping statements on unstudied subjects.
But you are permitted to have an opinion, as uninformed as it maybe. And it's worth? Not much if you come across like a "pretentious and/or self-indulgent crap" merchant.