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"The Power of Israel in the United States"

 
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regicide



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 12:35 am    Post subject: "The Power of Israel in the United States" Reply with quote

There was the paper by the two professors from Harvard and the University of Chicago last year. The debate goes on.

Michael Parenti, author of The Culture Struggle and Superpatriotism
"This is an eye-opening, must-read book for every advocate of democracy and every opponent of imperialism"

This book by a left-of-center author analyzes and documents of the power of Israel via the Israeli, Jewish and Pro-Zionist Lobbies on US Middle East policy. It questions the primary beneficiary of US policy, and its destructive results for the United States. It explores the extraordinary extent of US political, economic, military and diplomatic support for the state of Israel, along with the means whereby such support is generated and consolidated. Zionist power in America ensures unconditional US backing for Israeli colonization of Palestine and its massive uprooting of Palestinians. It contends that the interests of Israel rather than those of Big Oil are the primary cause of the disastrous US wars against Iraq and threats of war against Iran and Syria. It also explores the AIPAC spying scandal and other Israeli espionage against America. It questions the inability in America to sustain or even formulate a discourse related to the subject of Israeli influence on the United States. Finally, it calls for a review of American Mid East policy with a view to reclaiming US independence of action based upon enlightened self-interest and progressive principles.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 1:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looks like another anti-Semetic troll is cruising by!
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 2:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

contrarian wrote:
Looks like another anti-Sem[e]tic troll is cruising by!


You might learn how to spell it right. It's anti-Semitic

And according to the following excerpt from Wikipedia, you are using that term ( which I am not one , thank you) to stifle the debate about (Israel, a country last I heard) and it's ( Israel's ) influence on the policies of another country ( The US) It has nothing to do with Jewish people or their religion. Israel happens to be a Jewish state and we have to deal with them.

antisemitism

In recent years some scholars have advanced the concept of New antisemitism, coming simultaneously from the left, the far right, and radical Islam, which tends to focus on opposition to the emergence of a Jewish homeland in the State of Israel,[2][3][4][5][6] and argue that the language of Anti-Zionism and criticism of Israel are used to attack the Jews more broadly. In this view, the proponents of the new concept believe that criticisms of Israel and Zionism are often disproportionate in degree and unique in kind, and attribute this to antisemitism. The concept has been criticized by those who argue it is used to stifle debate and deflect attention from legitimate criticism of the State of Israel, and, by associating anti-Zionism with antisemitism, is intended to taint anyone opposed to Israeli actions and policies.[7][8].

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Semitism
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ho Hum! Same old, same old.

Where do you get your cr@p? Zundel or Rense?
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 4:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

contrarian wrote:
Ho Hum! Same old, same old.

Where do you get your cr@p? Zundel or Rense?


Talk show hosts? Try University of Chicago and Harvard Professors Mearsheimer and Walt's March 2006 paper. I read it a year ago when it first came out. Where have you been?

http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/Research/wpaper.nsf/rwp/RWP06-011/$File/rwp_06_011_walt.pdf

You just want to stifle debate and deflect attention from legitimate criticism of the State of Israel, and, by associating anti-Zionism with antisemitism, your intention is to taint anyone opposed to Israeli actions and policies.


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PostPosted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 4:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

contrarian wrote:
Looks like another anti-Semetic troll is cruising by!


At least he didn't say this:

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In historical reality the original crusades were a counterattack against a rapant, barbaric Judaism. This set could have been the same thing.
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Axl Rose



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 6:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

presumably "the two professors [who wrote the article in the OP] from Harvard and the University of Chicago last year" are also Daves trolls, eh Contrarian?

in fact, you've pretty much proved the point the thread intends to make. Thanks for reinforcing it.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Recently, a Jewish lobby was formed to counteract the lobby that the original poster formed. I consider the mainstream right wing lobbies to be representing values anti-thetical to universal Jewish values of working for the larger good of people, promoting understand, equality, and fighting injustice just like those Jews who died fighting for civil rights in the South. I believe Bronfman was trying to set up a counter group.
There can be no denying of Jewish power. Bronfman a book he wrote talked about how the WJC was instrumental in encouraging Reagan to have the Jewish Russians go to Israel instead of the U.S. where they really wanted to go because Israel needed more citizens. It is understandable, Reagan was helping an ally, it didn't have to take in those Russians, but it does show Israel does carry favour with the U.S. and will listen, but it has the choice to listen or not to a large extent.

Some of the big whigs are definitely opposite, in spirit, of the Jews who fought for the unions, African Americans, including those who helped build the NAACP, helped build the U.N. etc.... There are good and bad organizations. I think many Israelis consider some of the lobby groups to be interfering in an adverse way in simply just apologizing for whatever Israeli government is in power i.e. to keep the dirty laundry away from the public, and they will attack those in the community who don't agree with them. AIPAC is definitely one of the more powerful organizations like the NRA. Yes, the Arab Gulf states do have their lobbying power as well, and it is influential somewhat, but they are not in the same good graces as the Jews for many reasons including an image problem, a long history of Jews and Christians living together etc...

Some people who attack Jewish power wielded by some segments of Jewry are in fact anti-Semitic but some are not and some of them are Jews who want a different voice representing them. The ones who strongly associate with AIPAC will, of course, be quite upset with any criticism and try to use the race card. That is not a way for dialogue, but they are not interested in dialogue with their adversaries be the Jews or non-Jews. It is that simple.

If you blame the lobby for a lack of peace and say America is not responsible because of the Jews, if that is what you mean OP than that would be anti-Semitism.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think Israel is in good hands......I give you proof, Mr. Peretz the Min. of Defense himself who repeatedly said, "Yes, Yes, Yes, " nodding and putting his binoculars back up, as his chief of staff told him what was in the distance beyond the Golan Heights.




It is all about posturing and profit, nothing about vision, peace and horizon/future. America or in Israel. Both led by corrupt politicians who just feed at the trough.

DD
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 12:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ddeubel wrote:
I think Israel is in good hands......I give you proof, Mr. Peretz the Min. of Defense himself who repeatedly said, "Yes, Yes, Yes, " nodding and putting his binoculars back up, as his chief of staff told him what was in the distance beyond the Golan Heights.




It is all about posturing and profit, nothing about vision, peace and horizon/future. America or in Israel. Both led by corrupt politicians who just feed at the trough.

DD


Oh my Christ, another post in quasi-English intended to mean something deep by way of childishly simplistic posturing. A bad man who nods and smiles becomes emblematic of every Israeli politician and, by extension every Israeli, and, by extension, every Jew in the world who believes Jews have a right to have a nation in the Levant.

Tarring Izthak Rabin, Shimon Perez and even Menachem Begin with the brush of this minister of defense is at best disingenuous. It is the same as saying that the current moron president of the US is directly equatable to FDR, JFK and WJC.

Are there elements of the Israeli establishment and populace whose ideas are antithetical to peace in the Middle East and in the World? Yes. Does the Israeli populace have justifiable concerns about its security? Yes.

But ddeubel would rather have us think of all Israelis in terms of the idiot politician caught on camera pretending to care, even though the lens caps of his binoculars told a different tale.

In ddeubelspeak, there are good Arabs and misunderstood Arabs, but there are only bad Israelis. Please take note.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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In ddeubelspeak, there are good Arabs and misunderstood Arabs, but there are only bad Israelis. Please take note.


The Arab world has more than its share of BAD arabs. My list would be long.

I find certain actions, symbolic. We reveal ourself in them and by default, many leaders, reveal the underlying strengths and weaknesses of their nation. In this photo I simply saw a very apt metaphor for the current Israeli "no idea of peace" , "see only black" militancy. Which has transformed even politics into a mindless and rabid defensiveness and without any vision into the future for her children, peace and dialogue.

DD
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 3:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ddeubel wrote:
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In ddeubelspeak, there are good Arabs and misunderstood Arabs, but there are only bad Israelis. Please take note.


The Arab world has more than its share of BAD arabs. My list would be long.

I find certain actions, symbolic. We reveal ourself in them and by default, many leaders, reveal the underlying strengths and weaknesses of their nation. In this photo I simply saw a very apt metaphor for the current Israeli "no idea of peace" , "see only black" militancy. Which has transformed even politics into a mindless and rabid defensiveness and without any vision into the future for her children, peace and dialogue.

DD




If you are saying that the Israeli government seems to have a lack of vision, many Israelis would agree with that Ddeubel. As far as peace, that is hard when Hezbollah started a war with Israel not long ago which Olmert conducted badly. Iran is acting in a menacing way, though it is not really a serious threat at the moment and it was Hezbollah's backer and that is one reason the Israeli government really hates Ahmedinejad. Not only did he sponsor some odious conference, he backs Hezbollah which kidnapped soldiers and ended up being stronger than was thought.
Of course, it is not Iran's fault that the government in question didn't prepare itself for its tasks anymore than it is Olmert's fault that Ahmedinejad is incompetent on the global and domestic fronts.

If Syria can back off Lebanon and Lebanon is kind of taken out of the equation of confrontation, that would give the idea of peace more maneuvering room. Syria can talk about peace, but it can be tied even indirectly to death squads in Lebanon. Certainly, they are responsible for the death of a former prime minister there. Both the Arabs and Israelis believe in saving face and after the war that has been important for Olmert. Syria has tried to save face after it's so called exit from Lebanon.
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