What use is it if every few months the state of Israel commits another barbaric act and we circulate a gamut of articles about how the Jewish conscience in America or Canada is beginning to have twitches here and there and having minor fits of conscience?
What use is it if the US as a nation and that includes its squabbling mildly liberal press finds obscure reasons to write about upholding balance and even handededness and essentially demonstrating nothing but scorn for those with a ""chaotic and pre-capitalist, "Asiatic" and activist state of mind? ""
What use is it if the entire American nation, if put to the vote would still stand by Israel, never mind what it does? It is not Congress or Senate alone or AIPAC money and lobbying that does it.... For the sake of Vanunu and Rachel Corrie, it is foolish to conclude that Jewish money controls the American mind. In a way that is just inverted racist doggerel. Americans will vote for Israel, not because Jewish money makes them do it. The American mindset (yes I am collectivising majority opinion and not having sympathy for the poor dissenting minority of Americans who care for the rest of the world) embraces formations who use irrational force, who display hatred for non judeo-christian entities, who love to massage the long barrel of gun-culture based rough justice, who love to "pioneer" and settle and occupy and displace. This is the reason why America has also declared India (yesterday) as its strongest partner worldwide at the present time.
What use is it to continuously highlight the fact that Obama's little black balls are tied up in a knot when it comes to Israel, as if in ALL OTHER AREAS he has been such a raging revolutionary? On Homeland Security? On Guantanamo? On Cuba? On Latin America? On snooping on its citizens?
Lets cut to the chase: Americans have a populist/wagon circling/ grapes of wrath/ depression remembering /street justice sense of sympathy for the less fortunate within its own territory. So the so-called änti-wealthy mindset does work at times for the Democrats and all those who take shelter under its wiings. But when it comes to Israel-- it is such a lovable, lone cowboy state, full of essentially white people, with white tastes and white prerogatives in the middle of a sea of AYRABS...which includes the pre-barbaric state of Saudi Arabia...Which is also America's best friend when it comes to its oily needs. So here we go...lets get on with the next act of barbarism by Israel and then lets have another dose of Jews who have been unqualified supporters of the racist state admonish its Sabras for breaking with the "socialist zionism"that they all dreamt about in the 50s... On to the next act of barbarism..!
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Thanks for this piece - unfortunately so true.. highlights the hypocrisy of the US' so-called 'spirit of independence'
"For the sake of Vanunu and Rachel Corrie, it is foolish to conclude that Jewish money controls the American mind."
I understand that you have affection and admiration for both Corrie and Vanunu. These sentiments are directed towards two persons you believe to be Jewish and therefore by their very presence in Jewery cleanse the entire clan from the taint of money-grabbing, world-controling perfidy.
That would be a nice theory in and of itself, a kind of anti-antisemitism card to be woven about with pride at the self-sacrifice it entails: look how noble-minded I am! I am actually willing to exonerate the whole collectivity just because among their many numbers there are these two righteous Jews!
I'm here to relieve you of the need to sacrifice so much for the sake of so few.
Neither Corrie nor Vanunu are Jewish. Corrie never was. Vanunu converted to Christianity many years ago.
There, now, you are free to fulminate to your heart's delight about perfidious Jews and their global mind-control over governments and peoples.
BTW, I notice that you openly admit that the magnanimous instinct that you boast of does not apply to Americans:
"(yes I am collectivising majority opinion and not having sympathy for the poor dissenting minority of Americans who care for the rest of the world)".
Somehow you couldn't find among Americans two righteous souls, like Corrie and Vanunu, who would redeem their corrupt and evil society from its many monstrosities.
The wonder is, that an author such as yourself, who actually possesses an imagination, can actually write so much straightforward drivel without a hint of self-awareness or irony!
To The Contentious Centrist
I dont know what you are getting at. Rather convoluted and twisted and typical of the well-organized Israel-no-matter-what conglomeration that has decended on the web. You concoct and construct an affiliation for anti-semitism for all those who oppose zionism, just as the Canadian Parliament recently attempted to in a failed attempt. It does not take a noble-mind to designate Israel as a pariah state, cruel and thuggish and perhaps the foremost perpetrators of anti-semitism in the long run and of course in direct collaboration with life long anti-semites like the Christian zionists...As far as America goes, that country has the largest body of well-meaning progressives, including a significant and increasing number of progressive Jews who are disgusted with the filth that Israel spews out..So I dont know what is your problem with that..the only problem is that they cannot control the hegemony of mainstream speak....
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