Condoleezza Rice's Comedy Routine

There is really nothing to add to this Greenwald piece except that back when Condi was a Sovietologist, her academic achievements were meager, and she was in the process of moving out of the scholar track before the fall of the Soviet Union. To put it another way, if she were a great scholar, it would have been a waste of her time to serve as Stanford Provost. Her Wikipedia page states,

According to R. Nicholas Burns, President [George H. W.] Bush was "captivated" by Rice, and relied heavily on her advice in his dealings with Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin.

In other words, no one deserves the Caucasus mess more than she does. We can wish her success in her new career as a stand-up comedienne once she and George W. Bush leave their respective offices.

Rice: Military power is "not the way to deal in the 21st century"

It's hardly news that the U.S., like many countries, espouses standards that it routinely violates, but still, even in light of such routine hypocrisy, wouldn't you think that this, from Condoleezza Rice today, on an airplane to U.S. reporters while traveling to a NATO meeting, would be too brazen to utter:

Russia is a state that is unfortunately using the one tool that it has always used whenever it wishes to deliver a message and that's its military power. That's not the way to deal in the 21st century.

Whatever one's views are on the justifiability of each isolated instance, it's simply a fact that the U.S. invades, bombs, occupies, and interferes in the internal affairs of other countries far more than any other country on the planet. It's not even a close competition.

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Whence comes Jewish Rage?

Hint: Not Gamma Radiation
Followup: Arun Gandhi and Sholem Aleichem
Followup: The Lies of Yiddish Studies

In the nineteenth century, Jewish anger in Central and Eastern Europe resulted mostly from the breakdown of the traditional Jewish community, the disappearance of the traditional Jewish economic sector, and a sense of thwarted entitlement.

Many Jews became highly disaffected and took part in violent revolutionary activities, terrorism and assassination or simply engaged in exploitive and ethically questionable business practices toward their non-Jewish (and sometimes their Jewish) neighbors.

The Holocaust might explain some aspects of Jewish confrontational behavior, but Jewish Holocaust fixation for the most part starts in the aftermath of the 1967 Israeli War of Aggression and has steadily increased ever since. Holocaust obsession is probably a consequence of increasing Jewish confrontationalism, and, in any case, a large proportion of Russian Ashkenazim were up to their eyeballs in mass murder, ethnic cleansing, and genocide on behalf of the Bolshevik Revolution or the Soviet Union long before the mass killing of Jews started in 1941 during World War 2.

Nowadays, the older generation of Jews seems to live in dread that younger Jews will realize how evil Zionism and the State of Israel really are while younger Jews often educated in Hebrew school on stories of positive Jewish achievements and the greatness of Israel suffer severe cognitive dissonance whenever confronted with the reality of increasing legitimate hostility towards Jews because of the crimes of Zionism and of the State of Israel.

To the left and above is a great cartoon on Jewish rage from Jewcy.com (Eli Valley's The Incredible Hulk). It depicts by analogy the heavy-handed and legally questionable means that American Jews use in their never-ending quest to control discourse about the State of Israel and to prevent any public questioning of the US-Israel alliance.

 

The loss of power experienced by the Hulk when he thinks about allying with Christian evangelical fundamentalists is a good metaphor for the paralysis that besets the organized Jewish community whenever a proposal is made to give some sort of official status to Christian Zionists in Jewish pro-Israel activities.

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