The Zionist consensus has been breeched in recent weeks as far as the ideological control system in the United States is concerned. For a lifetime the United States has been completely uncritical of anything and everything Israeli. That carte blanch era has ended.
While the Goldstone report has been largely diverted by the Zionist lobby it remains a stunning exposure of the real Israel with its endless reports of civilian slaughter by a religiously motivated army. Somehow the one hundred to one casualty rates in favor of the Israelis has finally started to penetrate into public consciousness.
The apparent murder of a Hamas official in Dubai by the Israeli apartheid state has blown up in the face of Mossad and the Israeli regime. Now Mossad agents and Livni face charges for crimes in various jurisdictions. The era of Israeli impunity is rapidly ending.
While the old line Zionists are playing their same old games and gathering for a reactionary counteroffensive they are actually quite clueless. The era when everyone in the United States is totally for anything Israeli or Zionist is over.
Even more significant is that this change in public policy has been won through the essentially nonviolent and democratic struggle of hundreds of thousands of activists in more than forty lands. Progressive internationalism is possible and the effort to guarantee the rights of the Palestinian people in the face of a colonial settler state could be just the beginning of changing the situation for all oppressed peoples, leading them from oppression to liberation.
Of course the hard core imperialists and subimperialists may or may not like this change. On the one hand Israel may threaten world peace more than any other nation, precisely because it is a strategic nuclear power with a strongly independent government. So the United States, as the recent statement by General Petraeus suggests, is probably in conflict with Israeli maximalists, those who seek to obliterate Palestinian rule anywhere. Of course this is and has been the Israeli policy to somehow dispose of the unwanted non-Jewish population so what does the United States have to do with that kind of apartheid really?
In recent years a strong Zionist movement has sought to place the United States in violent confrontation with the Muslim world. It is a bad idea that has partially succeeded with the wars in Iran, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Of course this Zionism may be more based in the United States than Israel for all I know.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
GAZA FREEDOM MARCH AND VIVA PALESTINA BREAK THRU THE PROPAGANDA WALL
Despite the crackdown against democratic international activists by the Egyptian and Israeli tyrannies the amazing Zionist influence over the United States and Great Britain is beginning to show cracks, serious ones.
For decades the plight of the Palestinians has been hidden and or represented as the "problem of terrorism", one of the great falsifications of history embraced by too many Americans and Israelis alike.
In one of the classic cases of "blaming the victim" the United States Zionist polity and the Israeli settler-state alike have claimed that the only problem with the Middle East is the people who live there! Because the "land without a people", according to the Zionist godfathers, had a people, the Palestinians!
It reminds me of a statement by a terror bomber, a United States Air Force pilot who visited my High School during the Vietnam Holocaust. He was personable and happy to pose as a hero. He got tremendous applause because he was, of course, protecting us from evil communist peasants in the rice paddies of Vietnam! He said something I will never forget, "Vietnam is a beautiful country. The only thing wrong with it is the Vietnamese living there." So there you have it, America then and America now.
Of course, this terrible attitude by the so-called hero was offensive to me and others. It is the same attitude the Zionists have towards the Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims. Look at Mayor Koch's recent comments about hundreds of millions of Muslims wanting to blow themselves up to kill us!
Fortunately the fortress of imperial and colonial lies is collapsing. With so many people able to see the horrible, concentration camp-like treatment of the Palestinians already the jig is up, the story is out and getting out. Thousands of now banned visitors are back in their home countries telling the story about how Israel is murdering the Palestinians and all the other horrors.
It will be harder and harder for those who previously have been sitting back and cultivating their self-righteous "ignorance". It is no longer wrong or unthinkable to call a Zionist a criminal when they commit crimes. Zionist propagandist in the United States used to have absolute and complete immunity from dissent or criticism but with them starving and sieging the Palestinians their criminality is more blatantly clear each and every day.
Educate the ignorant! Expose the Zionists in our nation, the United States of America.
Boycott Israel!
Disinvest in Israeli Businesses!
Sanction Israel!
Break the Siege of Palestine!
For decades the plight of the Palestinians has been hidden and or represented as the "problem of terrorism", one of the great falsifications of history embraced by too many Americans and Israelis alike.
In one of the classic cases of "blaming the victim" the United States Zionist polity and the Israeli settler-state alike have claimed that the only problem with the Middle East is the people who live there! Because the "land without a people", according to the Zionist godfathers, had a people, the Palestinians!
It reminds me of a statement by a terror bomber, a United States Air Force pilot who visited my High School during the Vietnam Holocaust. He was personable and happy to pose as a hero. He got tremendous applause because he was, of course, protecting us from evil communist peasants in the rice paddies of Vietnam! He said something I will never forget, "Vietnam is a beautiful country. The only thing wrong with it is the Vietnamese living there." So there you have it, America then and America now.
Of course, this terrible attitude by the so-called hero was offensive to me and others. It is the same attitude the Zionists have towards the Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims. Look at Mayor Koch's recent comments about hundreds of millions of Muslims wanting to blow themselves up to kill us!
Fortunately the fortress of imperial and colonial lies is collapsing. With so many people able to see the horrible, concentration camp-like treatment of the Palestinians already the jig is up, the story is out and getting out. Thousands of now banned visitors are back in their home countries telling the story about how Israel is murdering the Palestinians and all the other horrors.
It will be harder and harder for those who previously have been sitting back and cultivating their self-righteous "ignorance". It is no longer wrong or unthinkable to call a Zionist a criminal when they commit crimes. Zionist propagandist in the United States used to have absolute and complete immunity from dissent or criticism but with them starving and sieging the Palestinians their criminality is more blatantly clear each and every day.
Educate the ignorant! Expose the Zionists in our nation, the United States of America.
Boycott Israel!
Disinvest in Israeli Businesses!
Sanction Israel!
Break the Siege of Palestine!
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
HISTORIC PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT GROWS DESPITE ISRAELI AND EGYPTIAN REPRESSION
A few years ago the worldwide solidarity movement with the Palestinian people was relatively small. Recently more than three organizations simultaneously sought to break the siege of Palestine as Israel, Egypt and other nations sought to give the Palestinian Solidarity activists a hard time, the run around, arrest and virtual house arrest, beatings and so on and so forth.
The way Jordan, Israel, and Egypt have frustrated the humanitarian and human rights efforts by thousands of Palestine solidarity activists is documented every day by half a dozen or more organizations such as Viva Palestina, the Gaza Freedom March and Code Pink.
Of course some insist that no one complain about Egyptian sabotage of humanitarian efforts. Such fools also insist that human rights activists assent to Egypt building an impenetrable underground wall in order to prevent the flow of necessities that Egypt and
Israel both block under the steely eyed gaze of their masters in Washington. The PLO's reluctant leader has endorsed Egyptian and Israeli actions, seeking to overthrow Hamas by starving 1.2 million Palestinians and turning away as 1300 were murdered a year ago during Hanukkah of all things.
Of course the Zionists have not noticed the way that the Palestinians are now something akin to the slaves of Egypt in the story of Moses. Yes, the Palestinians have been crying out without a Moses for Israel and the United States to let them be free!
You can cut the cynicism and hypocrisy of the imperialists and Zionists with a chain saw.
To be fair, I think it can be said that American police have been more repressive than the Egyptians have been. This was true in Seattle, the recent political conventions of the twin ruling parties, and the recent g20 meeting. In all of these cases the streets of America have looked more and more like Palestine. We truly are all Palestinians.
Palestinian solidarity activists have discovered to their great dismay that the Egyptian police appear to have a "big brother" presence throughout Egypt.
It is, after all, a military dictatorship. They didn't kill any of the solidarity activists despite what appeared to be a false report by Iranian news services. Almost everyone has been shocked and dismayed to find the Egyptian attitude towards the Palestinians to be so harsh and in alignment with Israeli desires. Many have also discovered that the PLO also seeks to strangle Hamas by putting the rope of siege around the necks of 1.2 million Palestinians.
Zionism and imperialism see in the post-Arafat PLO an appropriate partner, to police the devastation and refugee camp that gets labeled a nation but more like an American reservation for Native Americans.
It does appear that Mubarak wants everyone to know he is a dictator and especially to not let the Egyptian people get any idea that they too should determine their own future by engaging in democratic nonviolent action. At the end of the day all of the tyrants of the Middle East agree that the Palestinians must be condemned lest the populations of such places as Saudi or the Gulf emirates demand democracy themselves and overthrow their Washington blessed dictatorships.
And who can forget that the so-called Islamist revolutionaries grew up in the aftermath of the United States and Israel exterminating virtually all secular progressives in the Arab Middle East. Then Washington dreamed up a jihad that was the whole ideological pretense for the war against the USSR in Afghanistan. Al Qaeda was created out of many of these assets but now with Islam used as the reason to attack not the USSR but the USA.
This war by AQ is a peculiar thing and I don't want to comment on that now but does it really add up? Yes, AQ makes war on the United States and others but why? I am quite
skeptical that religious belief is the only thing behind AQ and other "Islamist" groups. They sort of remind me of those revolutions that threw Spain out of South America even though they obviously have an extremely intolerant fundamentalist point of view which is quite strange to most of us in the United States.
Anyway the so called "war on terrorism" has created an atmosphere where it is especially necessary to be resolute and clear thinking
when standing in solidarity with the Palestinians who have been labeled as "terrorists" by Israel and the United States for decades.
Of course the irate citizens of Iran, who have the courage to cry out "death to the tyrant", are encouraged by the United States and the UK to make a revolution in the name of democracy. But the democratic rights of the Palestinians are to be denied for sixty years and they are labeled terrorists if they after decades of quite lobbying and activism finally fight for their national liberation!
Well who are the nuclear terrorists? Certainly not the Palestinians. Only those with nuclear weapons terrorize the rest of us with them? Who is that in the Middle East?
Israel and the United States are the main ones. Somehow that is not a problem! Of course an Arab nuclear weapon would suddenly be cause for the destruction of at least one nation, eh?
Egypt and Israel have great armies but the Palestians are an insignificant military force.
Israel is a strategic nuclear power. They are also persecuting the Palestinians because they can get away with it.
It is especially disconcerting to see the entire world consent to the destruction of the Palestinians.
Still, we must distinguish between the peoples of the world and the governments that rule over them. The peoples of the world want the Palestinians to have full human rights, including the right to return, the right to full compensation and either a place as a citizen in a binational secular state or a truly sovereign contiguous state unhampered and unsupervised by the Israeli apartheid master state.
Whatever the future crimes of Israel or the United States the worldwide anti-apartheid movement is growing at such a rate that Israel is likely to become a secular state in the near future with equal rights for all citizens.
The way Jordan, Israel, and Egypt have frustrated the humanitarian and human rights efforts by thousands of Palestine solidarity activists is documented every day by half a dozen or more organizations such as Viva Palestina, the Gaza Freedom March and Code Pink.
Of course some insist that no one complain about Egyptian sabotage of humanitarian efforts. Such fools also insist that human rights activists assent to Egypt building an impenetrable underground wall in order to prevent the flow of necessities that Egypt and
Israel both block under the steely eyed gaze of their masters in Washington. The PLO's reluctant leader has endorsed Egyptian and Israeli actions, seeking to overthrow Hamas by starving 1.2 million Palestinians and turning away as 1300 were murdered a year ago during Hanukkah of all things.
Of course the Zionists have not noticed the way that the Palestinians are now something akin to the slaves of Egypt in the story of Moses. Yes, the Palestinians have been crying out without a Moses for Israel and the United States to let them be free!
You can cut the cynicism and hypocrisy of the imperialists and Zionists with a chain saw.
To be fair, I think it can be said that American police have been more repressive than the Egyptians have been. This was true in Seattle, the recent political conventions of the twin ruling parties, and the recent g20 meeting. In all of these cases the streets of America have looked more and more like Palestine. We truly are all Palestinians.
Palestinian solidarity activists have discovered to their great dismay that the Egyptian police appear to have a "big brother" presence throughout Egypt.
It is, after all, a military dictatorship. They didn't kill any of the solidarity activists despite what appeared to be a false report by Iranian news services. Almost everyone has been shocked and dismayed to find the Egyptian attitude towards the Palestinians to be so harsh and in alignment with Israeli desires. Many have also discovered that the PLO also seeks to strangle Hamas by putting the rope of siege around the necks of 1.2 million Palestinians.
Zionism and imperialism see in the post-Arafat PLO an appropriate partner, to police the devastation and refugee camp that gets labeled a nation but more like an American reservation for Native Americans.
It does appear that Mubarak wants everyone to know he is a dictator and especially to not let the Egyptian people get any idea that they too should determine their own future by engaging in democratic nonviolent action. At the end of the day all of the tyrants of the Middle East agree that the Palestinians must be condemned lest the populations of such places as Saudi or the Gulf emirates demand democracy themselves and overthrow their Washington blessed dictatorships.
And who can forget that the so-called Islamist revolutionaries grew up in the aftermath of the United States and Israel exterminating virtually all secular progressives in the Arab Middle East. Then Washington dreamed up a jihad that was the whole ideological pretense for the war against the USSR in Afghanistan. Al Qaeda was created out of many of these assets but now with Islam used as the reason to attack not the USSR but the USA.
This war by AQ is a peculiar thing and I don't want to comment on that now but does it really add up? Yes, AQ makes war on the United States and others but why? I am quite
skeptical that religious belief is the only thing behind AQ and other "Islamist" groups. They sort of remind me of those revolutions that threw Spain out of South America even though they obviously have an extremely intolerant fundamentalist point of view which is quite strange to most of us in the United States.
Anyway the so called "war on terrorism" has created an atmosphere where it is especially necessary to be resolute and clear thinking
when standing in solidarity with the Palestinians who have been labeled as "terrorists" by Israel and the United States for decades.
Of course the irate citizens of Iran, who have the courage to cry out "death to the tyrant", are encouraged by the United States and the UK to make a revolution in the name of democracy. But the democratic rights of the Palestinians are to be denied for sixty years and they are labeled terrorists if they after decades of quite lobbying and activism finally fight for their national liberation!
Well who are the nuclear terrorists? Certainly not the Palestinians. Only those with nuclear weapons terrorize the rest of us with them? Who is that in the Middle East?
Israel and the United States are the main ones. Somehow that is not a problem! Of course an Arab nuclear weapon would suddenly be cause for the destruction of at least one nation, eh?
Egypt and Israel have great armies but the Palestians are an insignificant military force.
Israel is a strategic nuclear power. They are also persecuting the Palestinians because they can get away with it.
It is especially disconcerting to see the entire world consent to the destruction of the Palestinians.
Still, we must distinguish between the peoples of the world and the governments that rule over them. The peoples of the world want the Palestinians to have full human rights, including the right to return, the right to full compensation and either a place as a citizen in a binational secular state or a truly sovereign contiguous state unhampered and unsupervised by the Israeli apartheid master state.
Whatever the future crimes of Israel or the United States the worldwide anti-apartheid movement is growing at such a rate that Israel is likely to become a secular state in the near future with equal rights for all citizens.
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