Two fresh examples of the media hiding the Israel agenda in our politics.
The New Yorker ran a very long piece on Obama’s difficulties in cultivating billionaires, titled “Schmooze or Lose,” and didn’t once mention Obama’s troubles on the Israel issue, though many of the names mentioned in the piece have a dog in that fight (and even the NYT has reported that this is a problem).
Sheldon Adelson is the bete noire of the piece; and why is he spending millions and millions to elect Romney?
“’He’s got billions he could get back on the overseas-investment tax and the estate tax,’ [says one observer] both of which Romney has pledged to abolish. Moreover, Adelson’s company, Las Vegas Sands Corporation, is currently the focus of two Justice Department investigations.”
Without two states, Jews are a minority between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. No number of fences or barriers will cancel that demographic fact. To remain a Jewish state, will Israel wall itself into a
ghetto, one large gated community? Will Israel then sacrifice its democratic character to retain permanent control over the Palestinians?
Two other New Yorker namechecks: Penny Pritzker,whose family has always been a big supporter of Israel, and David Geffen, associated with Oslo. I guess it’s verboten.
Meantime, in the same vein, the NYT op-ed page has run a piece making light of Kansas congressman Kevin Yoder’s Israel-lobby-sponsored nude swim in the Galilee last year. Writes a friend: “Feeble whimsy all for this sentence: ‘Jesus and his disciples also bathed in the lake in the nude.’ The author is “an environmental lawyer who has also worked as a tour guide in Israel” (=Israeli tour guide?). Congressman Yoder as blood-brother of Jesus embracing the life of the senses. As if if Jesus was a Roman running for re-election as tribune, and took money from the rabbis to advance his fortunes back home.”
Although the newspapers may cover for Israel until the end, the informed public understands what is happening. This is the top reader pick from NYTimes Rachel Corrie article:
-“I wonder how many other foreign governments could murder a young American girl in cold blood and get away with it without a peep from the U.S. government. The open cynicism of the judge’s ruling, along with the recent murder of a random Palestinian by a mob of hate-crazed Israeli teenagers, tells us all we need to know about the current state of their society. Israel has been slowly poisoned by its original sin: violently displacing an indigenous Palestinian population in and then telling itself a thousand lies to justify this fact. More than a half-century of brutality and moral evasion have produced a breakdown in even the most basic standards of human decency that I as an American Jew find unbearable to witness.”
other comments.
-This is why we should stop sending so much money to this lawless country!
-Even the tank in Tiananmen Square stopped.
What is the meaning of using the German “verboten” for “forbidden”? For most Americans or Brits it is one of the few German words they have picked up from war movies and is clearly associated with Nazism. Leaving aside for once the pros and cons of routinely associating Israel and Zionism with Nazism, this usage also firmly associates Nazism with the German language, Germany and Germans. I have recently come to realize that contemporary Germans, who except for an elderly minority were born after 1945 into societies far removed from Nazism, find this association grossly unfair and offensive, and I think they have every right to do so. Can we stop doing it?
Sheldon Adelson loves Israel. He acted to kill the peace process, stated that a two state solution is the death of Israel, founded a group called One Jerusalem
he also stated israel was his ‘number one issue’. i know i’ve heard that, perhaps in his speech carriedon the chris hayes show or a clip i heard on the real news segment w/max blumenthal.
Did anyone notice how the “Ideas” section of the “Boston Globe” last Sunday was dancing around the elite issue by talking about who was missing from being represented in Washington? No mention of the Zionist Hydra and its stranglehold on our politics. Surprise suprise.
I’ve just been reading the Gospel of John, and at one point in it one of the apostles (Peter, I think) actually puts on clothes before going into the water to meet Jesus.