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since Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:04:17.
That comment, by Ann Lewis, one of Hillary Clinton's most trusted aides and the other comments recorded in Dana Milbank's enlightening article "The Audacity of Chutzpah," referred to by Mondo above, prove the current treasonous extreme of America's pro-Israeli lobby -- the lobby many say is the most powerful in America -- the lobby that many believe almost single-handedly pushed America into its ill-considered and ill-fated war in Iraq.
This lobby has now become so hyper-arrogant that they claim it is the "duty" of the President of the United States to support the will of the electorate of a foreign state no matter how much it might conflict with the interests of America. They are, in effect, demanding that any candidate for President must surrender America's sovereignty to Israel, a state founded for the purpose of discriminating against people based on whether or not they are Jewish.
My family was in the media. We repeatedly received letters from Rabbis, co-signed by all our Jewish sponsors, threatening to put us out of business unless we carried pro-Israeli or pro-Jewish propaganda, which we did. If you understand the power of the pro-Israeli lobby, not only in Washington, but also in the news media, the article "The Audacity of Chutzpah" explains why Barak Obama is being smeared by certain loud voices in our media. Consider Saturday Night Live's claim the press was "in the tank" for Obama -- when the real problem is that Obama is not 100% "in the tank" for Israel. Obama's relationship with his single sleazy money man, Rezko, has received much more publicity than the Clintons' more questionable relationships with hundreds of sleazy money men, including a handful that were channeling money from the Chinese Communists to the Clinton's in return for the dangerous sale to the Chinese of important U.S. military assets. The media has virtually refused to remind America of just how much evidence there is of just how many serious crimes the Clintons appear to have committed. Most of the right-wing voices on talk radio and cable news, who are currently fanning the anti-Obama movement and encouraging Republicans to vote for Hillary, have been constant supporters of the Zionist-racist end of the pro-Israeli lobby.
The media uproar about Rev. Jeremiah Wright is not really about his anti-white racism. Many black leaders, including Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have said things just anti-white as Rev. Wright -- but no prominent leaders of the Democratic party have ever been forced to disown them. Instead it is all about Israel, and the Zionist-racists' fear Obama cannot be trusted to commit the treason of putting the interests of Israel before those of America.
To understand the ugly power of the pro-Israeli lobby, just look at the vicious smear job it did on Jimmy Carter, who has done more to help Israel in real terms than any U.S. President since Truman. He was repeatedly smeared as anti-Semitic when he dared write in his book "Peace Not Apartheid" statements about Israel's unfairness to the Palestinians that are commonly discussed within the Israeli media, itself. Even American Jews who have dared to make similar statements in this country have been attacked by the Zionist-racists as aiding anti-Semitism.
ZIONISM AND ANTI-SEMITISM ARE EVIL TWINS. THEY ARE BOTH IDEOLOGIES FOUNDED ON DISCRIMINATING AGAINST PEOPLE BASED ON WHETHER OR NOT THEY ARE JEWISH. IT IS HYPOCRITICAL TO ATTACK ONE WITHOUT ATTACKING THE OTHER.
Racial discrimination practiced by Jews is just as ugly as a similar degree of racial discrimination practiced against Jews, and vice versa. Anything else would be a racist double standard on its face. And since, as is shown in Jimmy Carter's book, the current racial discrimination practiced by Israel is more ugly and extreme than the anti-Semitic discrimination practiced by any but an extremely small, nut-case fringe in America, the vast majority of charges of anti-Semitism made by the powerful pro-Israeli Jewish groups in this country are nothing but pure hypocrisy.
It is time that all fair-minded Americans, including all fair-minded Jews, condemn the offensive discrimination, censorship, McCarthy-like smear campaigns, and treason of the Zionist-racists who force our politicians to subject the sovereignty of America to the will of Israeli voters and who seek to prevent American gentiles and Jews from having the same freedom to criticize Israel as the Jews of Israel, themselves. It is time America have the freedom to honestly and openly consider the costs, as well as the benefits, of continuing to be the world's major funder, supplier of arms, and supplier of diplomatic support for Israel's anti-Arab racism.
That the American media is spending so much time focusing on Rev. Wright's mere ugly words, and virtually no time on the pro-Israeli lobby's treasonous, ugly requirement that American presidents put the interests of Israel before those of America, is proof of just how dominated by Zionist-racism the American media is.
It is ridiculous that Obama is being pressured to distance himself from Rev. Wright's ugly words, when nobody is ever forced to distance themselves from Israel's much, much, much uglier deeds.
In a cycle of violence that started when the Zionists moved into Palestine and made clear they wanted to drive the Palestinians out of their own land -- much as Hitler originally wanted to drive the Jews out of Germany -- the Zionist have killed many more Palestinians than Palestinians have Jews. In response to almost every tit for tat in this cycle of violence the Zionist-racists started, they have killed many more Arabs than Arabs have Jews. The fact that one side's bombs are now delivered by human suicide bombers while the other side's are delivered by American-made mechanical bombers does not make one side's violence worse than the other. People who have been robbed have more right to use force to get their stolen property back than the robbers have to steal it. Why is there a racist double standard that says Zionists are allowed to kill and commit acts of terror to steal, keep, and steal even more stolen land, but Palestinians are not allowed to kill and commit acts of terror to get back the land that has been stolen from them, or to fight to prevent even more land from being taken from them. Why is there always a (usually unspoken) racist double standard in the American public forum, which accords more rights to Jews than gentiles.
When will the Jewish people as a whole ever be satisfied with equality, rather than continuing to have powerful elements within their population that constantly demands racial superiority, including the right to have a nation state that discriminates against the racial and ethnic background of 97% of Americans and 99.5% of all of humanity. When will the Jews stop having powerful groups within their population that demand to be the pigs of "Animal Farm", the animals that are "more equal" than all the others.
The answer is that it would happen within a decade or two after America was free to honestly discuss Israel and Zionism. It would because Jews are basically just as decent as the rest of America, and if there could only be honest discussion of how ugly Israel's racism is, and how ugly the claims of Zionists to special privilege are, most Jews would come to understand that Zionism and certain strands of racism in the Torah and the Talmud are ugly and outdated, just as most American whites took a decade or two to understand how ugly and outdated the racism against Afro-Americans -- that was so deeply ingrained in many of white America's sacred institutions -- was.
The Zionist-racists of the pro-Israeli lobby know this. They know that most American Jews are fair minded enough that if there could be an open and honest discussion of Israeli and Zionist racism, and how offensive many people consider it to be, the large majority of American Jews would distance themselves from both these ugly institutions. That is why they work so hard to seek total censorship of all things that relate to Israel and Zionism. That is why they feel such a need to smear Obama, because, God forbid, since he had an Islamic father, he might just spread the idea that Arabs are human beings of equal intrinsic worth as Jews, and without the implicit assumption that Jews are somehow superior to Palestinians and entitled to special rights the justification for Israel brutal treatment of the Palestinians disappears. So that cannot be allowed. That is why the Zionists fight in such an ugly and underhanded manner to prevent any honest discussions on the subject, because they know that Americans and American Jews are basically decent people, and, thus, they cannot be allowed to have free and open discussions of the ugly racism and discrimination that is the very essence of both Zionism and Israel.
Third Comment
Reading the comments on this list [Mondoweiss] I am happy to hear that so many oppose Israel, the pro-Israeli lobby, and Zionism. But I am not happy to see that some remarks in this list appear to be anti-Semitic, even to me.
By "anti-Semitic" I am not referring to the propagandistic use of the term as a cheap smear commonly made by Zionist-racist organizations like the Anti-Defamation League, which means virtually any criticism of Israel, Zionism, or discrimination by Jewish individuals, groups, and institutions against gentiles, no matter how fair that criticism might be, and no matter how extreme the discrimination criticized might be. I totally oppose such an unfair use of the term. Gentiles should have exactly the same rights to criticize the behavior of Jews without being smeared as Jews do to criticize the behavior of gentiles without being smeared. Equality between Jews and Gentiles should be the desired norm.
Instead I mean that some of the comments on this list imply that virtually all Jews are racist or traitorous or unethical, or that a majority of the success that Jews have achieved in America is a result of some sort of conspiracy. I know a lot of Jewish people whom I respect. Unfortunately a majority of them have some Zionist racist beliefs, which I view as a fault. But I am old enough to remember the 1960's when I and almost all the white people I knew had racist beliefs against blacks. Yet despite that fault I think I and most of the white people I knew then were basically decent people. I think the same can be said of many Jews who unfortunately have been brainwashed by their upbringing to have racist Zionist views, but who are not hatefully extreme in such racism. The majority of gentiles in this country have been brainwashed by Zionist propaganda to support Israel, so we should show some understanding, if not approval, for Jews who have been similarly brainwashed, but even more so.
I was raised as a Christian, but my favorite parts of the Bible were almost all from the Old Testament. I was always much more taken with the notion of God than of Jesus. Although I think Judaism has many flaws and although I think it has many parts which are, or could be interpreted, as racist, I think all major religions have flaws, I think Judaism has many virtues. And I think it is possible for a religious Jew to interpret the notion of the Jews being the "chosen people" in a manner that is not racist. I think there are many religious Jews who feel compelled by their religion to show compassion to all of humanity, not just to Jews, and who are made more decent by their faith.
Furthermore, perhaps because I have a lot of relatively deep intellectual interests, I find a high percent of the people whom I personally admire are Jewish. I admire Jewish intelligence, energy, hard work, learning, and humor. Jews probably have a higher percent of their population that are total shits than the rest of humanity, but they also have a higher percent who are truly admirable. No group has contributed as much, on a per capita basis to the advance of human science, medicine, commerce, education, and art during the last century than Jews. I think some Jews do discriminate in favor of each other in business and professions, and much of that should be stopped, but I think the majority of Jewish success in America has been fairly earned, and has benefited the whole country. Except for the Zionist-racism many Jews share to various degrees, I think Jews should be emulated and admired rather than hated and resented. Just as I think it is ugly for Jews to say they do not want to be assimilated with gentiles, I think it is offensive for gentiles to say they do not want to be assimilated with Jews.
So let us fight Zionist-racism, and let us fight the racism of the state of Israel, and let us fight the discrimination by Jews against gentiles – but let us not fight or insult one's being Jewish or any but the truly racists aspects of the religion of Judaism.
As I said before: ZIONISM AND ANTI-SEMITISM ARE EVIL TWINS. THEY ARE BOTH IDEOLOGIES FOUNDED ON DISCRIMINATING AGAINST PEOPLE BASED ON WHETHER OR NOT THEY ARE JEWISH. IT IS HYPOCRITICAL TO ATTACK ONE WITHOUT ATTACKING THE OTHER.