FORGET DEMS AND GOP'S FOR A MINUTE ------ DO YOU VOTE FOR WAR MONGERS???
http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2013/12/forget-democrats-and-republicans-for.html
By Down With Tyranny, Dec 3, 2013.
I recollect, in fact, that his pops was a rabbi. Nether of us is anti-semitic or right-wing, unless you define the words to mean "not automatically following Israel's far right government". I remember once being in Morocco, in the wilds of the Rif Mountains, when we picked up a couple of America hitchhikers. They were loaded with kif (the local hashish) and we all got stoned out of our gourds.
They proceeded to tell one racist joke after another. It made my girlfriend very uptight. I knew how to shut them up. I told a "Jewish" joke. They didn't get it. They were incapable of getting it because they are Jewish and laughing at other ethnic groups is fine-- but not at Jews. They asked to be let out of the car. The deranged Jewess from the other day said she was unsubscribing from my Facebook page. Good and good!
Israel was once a force for progressivism and I was a huge Israel booster. My parents hid my passport in 1967 because they were afraid I was going to go join the Israeli Army. Israel has changed a lot from the days when an enlightened Labor Party built the country. It's now an apartheid state and everything it was founded to escape from. Feh!
When Roland somehow persuaded me to go there from Egypt a few years ago, I was miserable, only really enjoyed the West Bank, and couldn't wait to fly out of there and get to Istanbul. Racism, especially institutional, brutal, state-sponsored racism, is intolerable-- whether in Mississippi or Israel.
I think my friend Norman Solomon is Jewish. We never discussed it but the last name is a giveaway. I suspect the woman who unsubscribed from my Facebook page might be upset with an OpEd he wrote for the Daily Star this week. Pointing out that Israel is trying to sabotage peace talks with Iran is not popular in Israel-centric circles.
"More than ever, Israel is isolated from world opinion and the squishy entity known as “the international community.” The Israeli government keeps condemning the Iran nuclear deal, by any rational standard a positive step away from the threat of catastrophic war. In the short run, the belligerent responses from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are bound to play badly in most U.S. media. But Netanyahu and the forces he represents have only begun to fight. They want war on Iran and are determined to exercise their political muscle that has long extended through most of the Washington establishment.
While it’s unlikely that such muscle can undo the initial six-month nuclear deal just reached with Iran, efforts are already underway to damage and destroy the negotiations down the road. On Capitol Hill, the attacks are most intense from Republicans, and some leading Democrats have also sniped at the agreement reached in Geneva.
A widespread fear is that some political precedent might be set, undercutting “pro-Israel” leverage over U.S. government decisions. Such dread is inherent in the negative reactions from Netanyahu (“a historic mistake”), Republican lawmakers such as House Intelligence Committee chair Mike Rogers (“a permission slip to continue enrichment”) and Senator Saxby Chambliss (“we’ve let them out of the trap”), and Democratic lawmakers like Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair Robert Menendez (“this agreement did not proportionately reduce Iran’s nuclear program”) and Senator Charles Schumer (“it does not seem proportional”). (VN: Well, those who are to be kicked out of congress, have just identified themselves for us. No amount of bogus election counting will overcome the "kick all encumbants out of the Senate/House".)
Netanyahu and many other Israelis-- as well as the powerhouse U.S. lobbying group AIPAC and many with similar outlooks in U.S. media and politics-- fear that Israel’s capacity to hold sway over Washington policymakers has begun to slip away. “Our job is to be the ones to warn,” Israel’s powerful finance minister, Yair Lapid, told Israeli Army Radio Sunday. “We need to make the Americans to listen to us like they have listened in the past." (VN: so what do you intend to do? Blow up more of our ships and kill more of our sailors? USS Liberty ring a bell? USS Cole? 9-11? Sure, we always do as you say right after you kill off a bunch of us. NOT THIS TIME AROUND. History is being written and recorded this time around so our children will never forget. )
This winter and spring, the Israeli government and its allies are sure to strafe U.S. media and political realms with intense barrages of messaging. “Israel will supplement its public and private diplomacy with other tools,” the New York Times reported Monday from Jerusalem. “Several officials and analysts here said Israel would unleash its intelligence industry to highlight anticipated violations of the interim agreement.” Translation: Israel will do everything it can to undermine the next stage of negotiations and prevent a peaceful resolution of the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program.
Mr. Stone,







