Total number of comments: 41 (since 2011-10-19 21:05:59)
Tristan
I became acquainted with the Israel/Palestine issue during Operation Cast Lead in 2008/2009. Since then, I've wanted to help the people of Palestine by speaking out on this subject, and--in the process--sharpening my own understanding of it.
Happy New Year, dimadok!
That's a very lucid comparison, Stogumber, thank you.
i cannot hear discussion of his sane foreign policy, if lizzy keeps posting about an issue we all will be utterly *saturated* with.
This is my problem with the article. The Corporate Press have covered this subject exhaustively. I come to MondoWeiss to read about things which are verboten by the New York Times, etc.
The Gaza Massacre is the most horrible event that happened during my lifetime. I hope it remains that way, but I'm afraid Israel will do something much, much worse on the way down.
One wonders why they bother opening their mouths. They never back their words with financial or diplomatic action. We know it. Israel knows it. Why indeed would Israel do anything, knowing it's just empty talk? So, this isn't a rhetorical question, why keep asking Israel to behave? Who do they think they're placating?
Hopefully, they'll use a skin tone chart to make sure no one too dark gets on campus. The real fun will begin when the frats start doing price tag attacks.
Wonderful. So now the Israelis are building settlements in the US. Let me guess... campus security will consist of IDF and Mossad.
Looks like he's going with the "I'm just a musician, man" defense. See also Jello Biafra and Paul McCartney.
to annihilate the embryonic Jewish state
Can't Zionists ever dispense with the hyperbole? I understand that internet Hasbarists are there to spread the hysteria, but can't government officials speak like adults? Annihilate? There's something so childish about the Israeli Establishment.
I have to wonder if he was really unaware of the situation. But entertainers tend to be politically vapid (or at least present themselves that way). That's why you'll see them taking on such career killing subjects as Japanese whaling.
The portrait of Zuckerberg in the movie is repulsive
I find Jesse Eisenberg repulsive, and I wonder if it was the portrait of Zuckerberg, or the portrayal by Eisenberg that colored your distaste for the film. I saw an interview with Eisenberg, and he came across as such a pompous, arrogant -- yet strangely sullen -- prick that I can't even stand the sight of him. (Zombieland was okay, though)
Lipstadt has made a career of accusing people of Holocaust Denial. She called Jimmy Carter a Holocaust Denier! Norman Finkelstein doesn't seem very fond of her, calling her a "know-nothing" and "thick-headed".
That was a really touching story, Phil. Thanks for posting.
Romney's line about getting permission from Nets to speak is well and truly cringe inducing.
This election is strange. Candidates used to pander to the Israeli Establishment. Now they're going straight over their heads and pandering to the settlers. Judging by the chastisement of Newt and the sidelining of Bach and Perry, the approach doesn't seem to be working.
That professor is a funny man. He says something that amounts to: Newt is right. There are no Palestinians. And if the Palestinians don't like that sentiment, too bad!
If the WHO, "Professor"?
Otherwise, I've been amazed by the reaction of neocons over the Gingrich remark. On a fox news round table this morning, they all agreed it was a stupid remark. Also, Jennifer F. Rubin of all people has an op in the WaPo right now ripping into Gingrich.
I suppose belief in the existence of Palestinians is the dividing line between settlers and their neocon assistants.
That reminds me of an article in The Onion, called "Israel Intercepts Massive Palestinian Rock Shipment". My favorite line: "According to munitions expert James Wolk, if thrown with enough force and accuracy, the seized rocks 'could create permanent scuff marks in an Israeli tank, and possibly even make a small dent.'"
link to theonion.com
Thanks for the article, Ira. You have a very readable, mellow writing style, and I found this window into Syracuse Jewish life fascinating.
Great reporting, Alex. This is truly vile. It brings to mind so many parallels, like the one Potsherd made above about the Saudis. Or, if the employee was black, would the hotel be so smug and glib as to say the lawsuit was, “all sizzle and no steak”? That's what really infuriates me. In this hyper-sensitive country of ours, Muslims are the last frontier of acceptable bigotry. And why? Because some mass murdering war criminal doesn't want to see a dark-skinned man? Maybe he needs to go back to Israel and cower behind his ten foot concrete walls. This is supposed to be our country.
Thank you. It could well be the Samson Threat at play here. Imagine: starting WW3 (war with Iran) to... avoid WW3.
Wow.
100% of the vote.
100 out of 100.
That should be impossible... Right? I mean, even with the Lobby, that should be impossible. Where's the law of averages?
Zionism commanded "double patriotism."
That's truly quaint. And Herman Cain didn't have an extra-marital affair, he exhibited "double fidelity".
It's like talking to a magic 8-ball.
Super Congrats, Annie.
First they exclude him. Then they have to explain themselves. Now the only thing of note about the RJC "Debate" is Ron Paul's exclusion. Even the comments on Commentary are largely pro-Paul. Here's one, before it gets scrubbed:
What a load of misinformation...how is trade and friendship with all nations isolationism? How is being the ONLY candidate that honestly stands for Israel's sovereignty anti Semitic? This is just more Zionist Neo conservative pandering for US blood and US welfare.
Oh, and I can't resist this treasure from an anti-Paul post:
We don't provide Israel with any 'welfare' money. We give them about three billion dollars a year for military spending (they receive no economic aid) and we receive in return fifty to sixty billion dollars worth of military aid and intelligence.
Sixty billion in military aid and intelligence! It's really a pretty good deal when you think about it. I mean, really, Israel is getting shafted. It's a 57 billion dollar gain for the US!
This piece has the same problem as the Foxman piece. They both begin with the premise that Israel was founded, and maintained, as a liberal utopia. Liberal Zionists like to blame Netanyahu and Likud for everything. As though Israel's barbarism were a new development. And if we could just get that Peace Flower, Cipora Livni, into the Prime Minister's office, everything would be fine.
Thanks for the information, Lysias. I had thought that Gravel had been kicked out because at the previous debate he had outed Hillary as being the only candidate to vote in favor of labeling the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization. Hillary, famously, cackled in response.
his misguided and extreme views
The guy who doesn't want to bomb Iran is extreme. Strange times.
Thank you, Sarah Schulman, for a deeply informative yet concisely written article. Excellent work.
It's encouraging that the Pro-Palestine movement is gaining a lexicon with which we can dismantle the hasbara. The term 'pinkwashing'. Hasbarists have been doing it for years, but now we can put a name to it.
Schieffer also got absurdly emotional, back in 2008, when Wesley Clark said of McCain, “Well, I don’t think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president.”
Hence, we need to reconcile the disgusting behavior of Zionism and it’s adherents with Jewish identity.
This is an important point. As the late, great Tony Judt said,
When Israel breaks international law in the occupied territories, when Israel publicly humiliates the subject populations whose land it has seized – but then responds to its critics with loud cries of “anti-Semitism” – it is in effect saying that these acts are not Israeli acts, they are Jewish acts: The occupation is not an Israeli occupation, it is a Jewish occupation, and if you don’t like these things it is because you don’t like Jews.
The Israelis still manage to surprise me sometimes. They seem to delight in thinking up new forms of cruelty.
"Is the Times’ new op-ed editor, a former fashion and culture maven, that dim on Middle East politics?"
Of course. If you're not pro-Israel, then you're simply too stupid to understand the Middle East and it's mind-boggling complexities.
I mean, we're white, they're brown. They have to die to make way for our Tanakh Disneyland.
Stop me if you've heard this one:
So George from Seinfeld, Barbra Streisand, and the producer of The Power Rangers go to an IDF fundraiser...
Thanks, Dickerson. That's what immediately sprang to my mind as well.
Netanyahu spends more time in the US than in Israel. Did he even go home after his joint session appearance?
"Om nom bagels!" -- Lauren Pierce, Proud Zionist
After all the effort she's put into laying the groundwork for a political career, she goes and shoots herself in the foot.
In a few years, we'll be calling her Congresswoman Pierce.
Zionist. And democratic. And Jewish. If Ehud insists that the State be characterized by a single political philosophy, then how can it still be a democracy? The competition of ideologies is inherent to a democracy.
Hello, New Mondoweiss.