maddave | MondoweissMondoweiss

Retired from USN as senior officer and from business. I served in Vietnam for parts of all five declared Campaigns, none of which I can look back upon with anything resembling pride. Through my recollectioins and reflections, it has become clear that our self-appointed status of "Exceptional" does not equate to a liense for unrestrained, unilateral foreign intervention and meddling. I am a Recovering Republican. I have been clean for 28 elections

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As a Vietnam Veteran Against War (medals for five campaigns) ; a Quaker; and a 1st generation American . . .born to a German Father of Jewish extraction ... I lost relatives in the Holocaust and feel strongly that Jewish people need-and-deserve a "safe place". In fact, literally everyone needs a safe place, but absolutely NOBODY should be allowed to create such a sanctuary for themselves by force of arms and at the expense of people who lived more-or-less at peace and in the same area for over two-thousand years. Man's inhumanity toward his fellow man is nowhere more pronounced than by Jewish armed forces and settlers on the illegally occupied West Bank and Gaza. Peace will never be achieved in Palestine and the Middle East through ethnic cleansing and force of arms. Regardless of race, creed, color, etc, People Of Good Will manage to get along just fine, until politicians and preachers get involved and take over.

On UN office: Israeli settler hate crimes against Palestinians rose 69% in 2018

Marc Hill was NOT fired because of what he said; he was fired over what CNN's advertisers and and Editorial Board said . . . probably at the behest of the Owners' Board of Directors. This notion that Israel, is "our friend and ally" is a flagrant lie: nations do not have friends: they have interests . . . and their current interest is propagandizing the USA into believing Israel's basic problem is still in the "simply survive" mode of early Zionism. Their aims today are to ethnically cleanse Israel (neo-apartheid!) and expand their tender mercies across as much land as they can possibly grab . . . at our expense. As "Exhibit A" I give you Iran, the last and greatest obstacle between the current status quo and Israel's final implementation of their Greater Israel Plan (GIP) . If you, gentle reader, are not familiar w/GIP, Google it at this instant!. In short, it entails the Balkanization of the entire Arab-Iranian Middle East with Israel’s wresting control of all land (and natural resources) between the Nile Valley and the Euphrates River and south into Somalia and the Sudan. They will do this, too. . . regardless of how many American lives and how much American treasure it costs. Note: Our invading Iran will require the commitment of upwards toward 1,000,000 troops; a surge of our nation al debt into bankruptcy ranges; and twenty-or-more years of fighting . . . with absolutely no assurances of winning anything but grief and still more grief! Exhibit B: Vietnam; Exhibit C: Iraq Exhibit C; Iraq.

On The tragedy of Marc Lamont Hill’s firing

For well in excess of one thousand years, Jews were subjects of persecution and pogroms all across Europe. They were abused and unwelcome. The Holocaust was Hitler’s Final Solution to what he saw as Germany’s Jewish problem. In turn the partitioning of Palestine was the rest of Europe’s Final Solution to their Jewish problem. “Ship ‘em all off to Palestine and forget about them! Let the Arabs sort it out. “ The rest is tragic history. Surely the world’s Jews deserve a “safe place”, but did they need to destroy the Palestinian’s’ pre-existing “sage place” to achieve it? Was co-existence such an anethema? IMHO: In 1948. the International Zionists who had been been supporting active Terrorism in Palestine for decades saw the involuntary partitioning by Imperialistic foreign powers as a license to increase their scope of anti-Palestinian terrorism and initiate ethnic cleansing throughout the land. Granted, this is a simplification, but the tragic consequences have been the destruction of thePalestinian state and the resurgence of anti-sematism worldwide. Que lastima!

On Twitter closes down my account for ‘hateful conduct’

Zionists and blinded Israel supporters of all stripes and nationalities can drag out all of the Biblical facts and fairy tales that exist throughout the world, but none of them justifies the unfair, illegal and immoral apartheid that the Israelis are visiting upon the unwanted Arabs, Africans and even (to a somewhat lesser extent) members of Jewish sects not sanctioned by hard-core right wing "real" Jews. Since the invasion of Palestine by Zionists began near the turn of the 20th Century, the primarily-Russian-refugee Zionists' -- many of whom had no historical or genetic connection with Biblical Israel or the Diaspora -- proceeded by invoking their "God Given Right" to enter and co-opt the area, all others be damned. Their recorded conduct has (almost) always run counter to any notions of co-existance with the Arabs. The case has been made that the ensuing terrorism which spread between Arabs and Jews did not need to evolve as it did. Had the zionists arrived, hat in hand, seeking good will and cooperation. . , but they didn't, so who knows? I

On Israel’s expulsion of African refugees – betrayal with a kiss

This is the most enlightened piece (re: Israel) that I have ever read. As the Holocaust was Hitler's "final solution" to the Jewish Problem, so the partition of Palestine is "the rest of Europe's" final solution. Ship'em out and forget them . . . But it ain't that easy.