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bring rationality to the discussion of US foreign policy as well as
document the threat of Zionist terrorism, subversion, and ethnonational financial warfare
while I finish The Israel Lobby and American Society.
For more info click here or here!
In addition, I am liquidating my extensive comic book collection to support my pro-Palestinian anti-Israel projects. Some go back to the 1960s, but most go back to the 80s when I was working on digital special effects software and script doctoring.
Many like Nexus (optioned by Disney) have relevance to pop culture views of Jews, Palestinians, the Holocaust, terrorism, and Islam. If you have any special interests, let me know at ThorsProvoni@aol.com.
I can be inspired to add blog entries relating comic books, pop culture, and US foreign policy. I am gradually listing all my comic books at Joachim's comic collection.
wa-laqad katabnaa fi-l-zabur min ba`di-l-dhikri anna-l-arda yarithuha `ibadiya-l-salihuna We have decreed in the Psalms, from beside (in addition to) the reminder, that the land shall be inherited by My righteous (pious — salihuna) servants.
The Promise: Peshitta Matthew 5:5
ܛܽܘܒ݂ܰܝܗܽܘܢ ܠܡܰܟ݁ܺܝܟ݂ܶܐ ܕ݁ܗܶܢܽܘܢ ܢܺܐܪܬ݂ܽܘܢ ܠܰܐܪܥܳܐ tubihun limkika dehenun ni'rtun le'ar`a To the meek their happiness as they will inherit the land.
The Promise: Greek New Testament Matthew 5:5
Makarioi hoi praeis hoti autoi kleronomesousin ten gen Fortunate are the humble, because they will themselves inherit the land.
The Promise: Biblia Vulgata Matthew 5:4
Beati mites: quoniam ipsi possidebunt terram. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the land.
But the humble shall inherit the land (i.e. Palestine),and delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
Key Principle
Tip O'Neill said: "All politics is local."
Martillo's globalization extension: "All local politics is global and all global politics is local." (See Mondoweiss comment.)
Acting with justice: Sayings of the Fathers 1:14
[Hillel] was accustomed to say: If I am not for myself, who is for me? And when I am for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?
Ode to Cholent by Heinrich Heine
Holy cholent, dish celestial, Daughter of Elysium: If he'd only tasted cholent, Schiller would have changed his hymn. God devised and God delivered Unto Moses from on high, And commanded us to savor Cholent for eternity.
Heine's Original German from Prinzessin Sabbat
Schalet, schöner Götterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium! Also klänge Schillers Hochlied, Hätt er Schalet je gekostet.
Schalet ist die Himmelspeise, Die der liebe Herrgott selber Einst den Moses kochen lehrte Auf dem Berge Sinai,
Wo der Allerhöchste gleichfalls All die guten Glaubenslehren Und die heil'gen Zehn Gebote Wetterleuchtend offenbarte.
I run a hi-tech company. I am an inventor and created a key technology that makes it extremely hard for governments and mega-corporations to control the Internet (see Routing in a Bridged Network). Americans can probably thank me that they have any access over the Internet to news reports that have not been sanitized by US corporate media.
Because of my business in the Middle East, I have become concerned about US Israel policy and have begun to apply my background in Eastern European and Jewish studies on behalf of pro-Palestinian anti-Israel and anti-Zionist activism.
Not only do The Heartbreak Kid (1972) and Legally Blonde (2001) paired together look like the beginning screenwriter exercise of rewriting a screenplay from the stand point of different characters, but they also show the transition from the America of the old WASP elite to the America of the new Jewish elite.
In The Heartbreak Kid Jewish Lenny Cantrow (Charles Grodin) dumps brunette Jewish wife Lila Kolodny (Jennie Berlin) over dinner at 58' 28" -- while they are on their honeymoon -- so that he can pursue the desirable blonde gentile goddess college student Kelly Corcoran (Cybil Shepherd) back to Minnesota. This scene is the turning point of the movie.
Legally Blonde has the essentially the same scene as inciting incident at 6'00". (See trailer below.) Gentile Warner Huntington III* (Matthew Davis) dumps blond gentile Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) for fellow Harvard Law School student and brunette Jewish preppette Vivienne Kensington** (Selma Blair), whose name would certainly have indicated Jewish arriviste background back in the 70s but today indicates membership in the new Jewish elite. Warner has already given Vivienne an engagement ring.
At the first turning point, Elle unlike Lila decides to get her man back by pursuing him to Harvard Law School.
In a sense Legally Blonde is Lila's revenge especially -- even if Lila is now a gentile -- because in the end she (i.e. Elle) finds Mr. Right and realizes that Warner (Lenny reincarnated) doesn't deserve her.
The thirty year gap between the two films provides a window on social changes between the 1970s and the 2000s. Lenny and Lila forego pre-marital sex despite Lenny's wishes while Warner and Elle have been in a long term sexual relationship. In The Heartbreak Kid, the blonde gentile wife is the trophy while in Legally Blonde the brunnette preppette professional Jewish wife represents high status and is the appropriate wife for the senator to be.
As Patterns of Boston Jewish Powerpoints out, 1990 seems to be the year when elite status shifted to Jews in the Boston area and probably throughout the country. The George H. W. Bush presidency was unmade by conflict with the Israel Lobby. His son President George W. Bush groveled to Jewish Zionist power as does Barack Obama. Legally Blonde in general reflects the Jewish-non-Jewish power relations and optimistically expresses the hope that gentiles can win even though the social deck of cards is now stacked against them.
For further discussion of The Heartbreak Kid and gentile-Jewish relations see the following blog entries:
I tried my hand at depicting gentile-Jewish relations in my own version of The Heartbreak Kid, but the protagonist gentiles in Devorah's Two Weddings are Muslims, Arabs, and Palestinians. Because my Heartbreak Kid is female and a harsh break-up did not really work, Devorah Goren dumps her husband Martin Mordkhe Dressler over the course of several scenes from the honeyman through the final confronation at the Harvard Hillel (script pp. 21 - 61, Adobe pp. 22-62).
Notes * Warner mentioned that 5 members of his family had been senators. There are a few gentile but no Jewish families that can make such a claim. The agnomen III is practically impossible for most American Jews, who have a custom of not naming a child after a living relative. To do so would express the wish for that relative to die.
** Vivienne Kensington would be recognized as Jewish in NY, NJ, CT prep schools because Vivienne is used by Jews and practically no one else. It substitutes for the Hebrew name Chaya. Kensington would be identified as the Jewish name Keningsburg (Koeningsburg) with -burg translated as -ton and the s moved forward to create a WASPish sounding name. The mothers association at my prep school in the 70s used to spend hours in name-analysis to determine which students came from Jewish families trying to pass as WASPs in order to make sure that the crypto-Jews were not invited to affairs at the WASPs-only country clubs. They invariably invited poor gentiles in order to make the crypto-Jews understand that wealth and social quality were completely independent. Of course, nowadays with Jews on top, the situation is totallydifferent, and the non-Jews often affect Yiddishisms and some sort of Jewish connection in order to be part of the elite crowd.
Trailers
Note that The Heartbreak Kid trailer does not even include an excerpt from the breakup scene.
Below is the breakup scene from the musical version of Legally Blonde.