threaten and throw stuff at police, shouting “Allahu akbar,” as well as, “Run, you f***ing cowards/poufs/swine.”
Juan Cole has a typically conspiratorial theory for explaining why congressmen have ignored the pro-Palestinian marches that occurred in a handful of American cities this past weekend:
The US Senate and the US House of Representatives are not afraid of street protests in San Francisco. And why should they be? What sort of threat is it to them, that we say if they don’t change their legislation we will . . . walk in the street? Their response would be, ‘Make sure you have comfortable shoes; now, I have to see this nice lobbyist in my office in a thousand dollar suit and alligator shoes who has an enormous check for my current political campaign.’
Well, I have an alternative to Cole’s thesis: maybe it’s not the slimy pro-Israel lobbyists – who are so rich that they practically wear money – that pro-Palestinian activists should blame for not being heard. Rather, maybe the problem is the pro-Palestinian activists themselves.
Indeed, maybe congressmen ignore pro-Palestinian rallies because the ANSWER Coalition – an offshoot of the communist World Workers Party (WWP) – organizes them. Maybe congressmen know that the WWP – a longtime supporter of Fidel Castro and Kim Jong-Il – actively protested Slobodan Milosevic’s war crimes tribunal, and therefore feel uncomfortable associating with it.
Or, maybe congressmen stay away because these rallies are just as anti-American as they are pro-Palestinian, with banners declaring the U.S. “racist†and “terrorist.†Or maybe it’s because congressmen don’t want to march with protesters who cover their faces, which is something that only truly nefarious groups do in this country. Or maybe it’s because congressmen don’t want to be around people who burn flags; haul mock coffins; splatter clotheslines of baby t-shirts with fake blood; and never – never – advocate for Israeli-Palestinian peace.
Oh, c’mon! Everyone knows it’s the Jooooooos and their moneymen.
On a more serious note, I wouldn’t wear a moneysuit into a congresscritter’s office unless I brought a change of clothing.
The depth of anti-Semitic propaganda in Palestinian and other Muslim societies is one of the most underreported facts about the Middle East. It is this anti-Semitism that predisposes Muslims in Europe to attack Jews and fuels the Mideast conflict. The hatred predates Israel’s creation. To illustrate this point: The Palestinian leader during World War II, Hajj Amin al Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, conspired with Hitler to bring the Holocaust to Palestine. Luckily, the British stopped the German troops in Africa. The Mufti spent the war years in Berlin and was later indicted for war crimes but with the help of the Muslim Brotherhood escaped to Egypt. Hamas is the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Hamas and other Islamists continue what the Mufti had helped to start: a blend of European anti-Semitism and Islam-inspired Jew hatred. The rejection of Israel’s right to exist is what drives their attacks. The media, though, largely ignores Hamas’s ideology and its crimes of hiding its leaders and weapons among its own civilian population, and demonizes Israel’s attempt to protect its citizens.
Hamas and other Islamists are not even trying to hide their ideology. Just read the Hamas charter or check out Hamas TV, including children’s programs, for a nauseating dose of murderous anti-Semitism. Last week, the French broadcasting authorities banned Hamas TV for inciting violence and hatred. Unfortunately, just like Hezbollah TV, which is also banned in Europe for its anti-Semitic and jihadi content, audiences here can still receive these programs due to Saudi Arabia’s Arabsat and Egyptian satellite provider Nilesat.
The Islamist variation of Jew hatred is now being reimported to Europe.
Meanwhile, the strange and ever-evolving co-dependency of Hill and Bill makes the news:
These columns have long believed that a President deserves the cabinet members he wants, barring some major dereliction. So if Barack Obama wants to make Hillary and Bill Clinton part of his governing team, that’s his business. We can only hope he understands the Clinton family business he’s taking on.
Take Mr. Clinton’s post-Presidential fund-raising, the scope of which he finally disclosed in late December after years of refusing and under pressure from the Obama transition. Amid the holidays and economic news, this window on the Clinton political method has received less attention than it deserves. Here is the spectacle of a former President circling the globe to raise at least $492 million over 10 years for his foundation — much of it from assorted rogues, dictators and favor-seekers. We are supposed to believe that none of this — and none of his future fund-raising — will have any influence on Mrs. Clinton’s conduct as Secretary of State.
The silence over this is itself remarkable. When Henry Kissinger was invited merely to co-chair the 9/11 Commission, the political left went bonkers about his foreign clients. In this case we have a Secretary of State nominee whose husband may have raised more than $60 million from various Middle East grandees, and Washington reacts with a yawn. Maybe someone will even ask about it at her nomination hearing today.
Read against this:
Secretary of State appointee Hillary Rodham Clinton intervened at least six times in government issues directly affecting companies and others that later contributed to her husband’s foundation, an Associated Press review of her official correspondence found.
The overlap of names on former President Bill Clinton’s foundation donor list and business interests whose issues she championed raises new questions about potential ethics conflicts between her official actions and her husband’s fundraising. The AP obtained three of the senator’s government letters under the Freedom of Information Act.
Clinton was to begin her confirmation hearing Tuesday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
And this:
In remarks prepared for delivery at the opening of the hearing, the nominee for secretary of state said the United States cannot solve the world’s most pressing problems on its own, but that the world cannot solve them without U.S. participation. She said America must use what she called “smart power,” placing diplomacy ahead of military action as a tool of foreign policy.
If the Clintons had any shame, they’d stop horning in on Jhimmi’s action.
Why am I reminded of the episode of Futurama where Bender and Elzo get into an Iron Chef contest, and Elzo presents his final dish “garnished with $100 bills”.
“Their response would be, ‘Make sure you have comfortable shoes; now, I have to see this nice lobbyist in my office in a thousand dollar suit and alligator shoes who has an enormous check for my current political campaign.’”
Did he forget the “hooked nose” descriptor?
You wouldn’t want to offend Rangel’s constituents with cheap shoes, would you?
“Is you or is you ain’t my constituency?”
well, the pro-Israel lobby does exist and is rich and well-appointed. I know, I’ve dealt with them.
they are also sane and broadly correct on the merits of the argument.
We already use smart power – JDAMs and other guided munitions.
“Is that a $1000 suit?”
“Well, yeah, I thought I should dress down so as not to offend.”
Fine, however the velvet glove only works if the other side knows that it is covering an iron fist. If she is true to her husband’s way in this it will be carrot, carrot, carrot, carrot, small twig, more carrots this time with a fine glaze and an apology for what the bad twig did all on it’s own.
Where were the Israeli protesters in the streets marching on the Jordanian, Iranian, Saudi, Egyptian, Syrian Embassies when Hamas cowards fire rockets into southern Israel? Why are Israel sympathizers, like me, not asked to protest the constant harrassment, and terrorism, by these Hamas animals?
All of the above on top of a report that Hamas hijacked several aid trucks and sold the contents to the highest bidder.
Of course, I may just be an extreme right winger curled up in his ultra conservative cocoon.
“Why are Israel sympathizers, like me, not asked to protest the constant harrassment, and terrorism, by these Hamas animals?”
Because conservatives have jobs.
How is this any different?
False statements like this one by the author of the piece tend to discredit the rest of his report for starters.
Well, for one thing they’re not threatening the AlterNet dude who can’t see the problem with Hamas’ using schools, hospitals and human shields for protection.
And mosques for weapons depots.
That’s a great link, AJB. Can you also provide footage of the Jewish terror groups that kidnap and behead Americans? How about the European Jews that bomb subways and call for the destruction of those nations?
Maybe even a little quote of Rabbis caling for the imposition of Mosaic law here in the US?
Also, see if you can drum up pics of Israelis dancing and cheering when the planes hit on 9/11. I have lots of the Palistinians doing it.
Until then, guess which side I am on?
Why, Log Cabin, it appears that you have come up with several answers to AJB’s drive by “how is that different(?)”
Without even breaking a sweat, I might add, answering moral equivalency guy.
Log Cabin,
“see if you can drum up pics of Israelis dancing and cheering when the planes hit on 9/11. I have lots of the Palistinians doing it.”
Awhile back I found myself reading a blog devoted to debunking inside-job conspiracy theories on how the Twin Towers fell. You can imagine, such a site–written by sober, calm folks with engineering expertise–attracts some really delightful commenters. Out of morbid curiosity I waded into the comments to see how deranged they’d get. Sure enough: It was Jews, cleverly dressed up as Palestinians to stir up anger at them, dancing in the streets!
So be careful with challenges like that. If your interlocutor is deranged enough–not saying AJB is–he will throw something like that back at you, and leave it up to you to disprove it.
AJB doesn’t rebut. It just shits and leaves.
Does AJB stand for “Always Jew Bashing”?
I think RTO decided it’s “Anti-Jew Bastard”
Actually, AJB, the single most important reason why your hopeless link is not equivalent to the demonstrations that have been covered here: When hothead young Jews chant “Wipe Palestinians from the Earth” those sentiments are theirs alone not representing then policy of the Israeli government.
When Palestinians make similar claims, they echo both Hezbollah’s copious statements to that result as well as the language written in Hama’s own charter. That sorta makes the claims less hotheads and more institutionalized, doncha think?
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