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Title: Who are the friends of Israel?
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The Globe and Mail
URL Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news ... ends-of-israel/article1591587/
Published: Jun 4, 2010
Author: Rick Salutin
Post Date: 2010-06-04 19:45:34 by X-15
Keywords: Israel, thugs
Views: 200
Comments: 9
Israel’s claim this week that its soldiers killed nine civilians in self-defence on an aid-to-Gaza flotilla it had boarded is at best tone deaf. It strains credibility. You attack unarmed ships at sea and when people resist, shoot them and then blame them. It’s beyond Orwellian. The analogies occur to anyone: Home invaders kill residents who try to stop an assault, etc. At least there, no one would assert self-defence. I know elaborate arguments have been unfurled to justify the claim but that’s not my point. Whether the claim is right or wrong isn’t even the point. It just won’t fly with most people. To them, it’s implausible on its face. That’s where tone deafness comes in. Whence this tone deafness? It seems to me that Israel’s leaders have grown mindlessly, habitually dependent on asserting their own victimization. This was often effective, based largely on sympathies rooted in revulsion at the Holocaust and the history of Western anti-Semitism. But this has gradually changed, due partly to the arrival of generations who, as it were, knew not Hitler and aren’t inclined to feel even indirectly guilty for him. The shift became evident during the 2008 Gaza invasion and perhaps even more this week. Yet Israel’s leaders still automatically assume the victim position. It’s like the boy who cried victim. Asserting big historical attitude swings is risky, so let me exemplify this by way of Margaret Atwood. Last month, she went to Israel to receive a large arts award from a private foundation. Beforehand, she was besieged by pro-Palestinian groups urging her to boycott the event. She refused, on the grounds that cultural boycotts are counterproductive and contrary to free speech. On her return, she wrote a piece about the experience for the Israeli daily Haaretz. She said she’d largely ignored the issue for years, feeling all sides were behaving badly and hoping for a good ending. But she’d had a quick course now and it was “like learning about cooking by being thrown into the soup pot.” Everywhere in Israel, she sensed a shadow. “The Shadow is not the Palestinians” but “Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians.” It seems to me this is the key to what has changed and poses a new problem for Israel. The core for anyone examining the situation with a fresh eye, isn’t what “they” – Palestinians – are doing to Israelis; it’s what Israel is doing to them. “Having strayed into the Middle-eastern neighbourhood with a mind as open as it could be without being totally vacant, I’ve come out altered,” she wrote. Israel no longer gets a pass, based on the past. It is remarkable how Israeli leaders and their backers have managed to squander so much sympathy and goodwill in so short a time – but I digress. The question for Israeli society now is whether it will double down, in effect, on the victim position, or adopt a new stance. Israel has always had public voices who believed the consequence of a past of persecution was not impunity but responsibility. Their views were often reflected in movements and parties. But those currents have become rarer, or less vocal. They grow silent, or acquiesce, or emigrate. Societies that lose their internal dissent and self-criticism have a sad and scary record, especially when combined with a sense of victimization. There’s a unique wrinkle in the case of “the Jewish state,” which involves the role of Jews elsewhere. Will they contribute to the isolation, via uncritical support from abroad, or assist in some kind of renewal, and help undo the isolation and descent toward disaster? And in this situation, who is a real “friend of Israel” – as they say. Is it Margaret Atwood, who raises questions and doubts, or Stephen Harper, who encourages Israel along the same perilous route that brought it to this point?
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
Not me !
"Rebellion is natural when governments become "revolting". YOU only count when it's census or TAX time" ... bend over and lick the hand that beats you !
Reverend John Hagee will pray for your wandering, heathen Judeo- Christian soul. For a small donation to his Israeli-outreach ministry program.
_________________________________________________________________________ The zio-whores in deecee are their only friends that I know of.
Sweathogs? Ooh, ooh, Mr Kotter...Tell us again how the National Socialists oppressed the International Socialists. Please? It makes such a fine narrative.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S. Thompson
It makes such a fine narrative. Alert!! Campus security is on the way to escort the disrupter from the classroom, teams of counselors from the local synagogue are on the way to soothe the frightened, fragile minds of once peacefully slumbering students....
_________________________________________________________________________ Can we work in the word "eggshell" there somehow? stiff green gallop? :)
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S. Thompson
Whores is the perfect description, Lod. Purchased friends aren't worth the paper that bought em !
"Rebellion is natural when governments become "revolting". YOU only count when it's census or TAX time" ... bend over and lick the hand that beats you !
Excerpt from: Doubts Grow Over Israel's Value as U.S. Ally By Jim Lobe June 04, 2010 -- WASHINGTON, Jun 3, 2010 (IPS) - "It is time Israel realised that it has obligations to the United States, as well as the United States to Israel, and that it (has to) become far more careful about the extent to which it test(s) the limits of U.S. patience and exploits the support of Americans Jews" Continue
------- "They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
Note to Glenn Beck Mr. Beck (or whomever reads his mail for him), The lies and distortions that you have published on your radio program this past week related to the "SO-CALLED" Jews and their total mistreatment is actually tantamount to what the Pope has done in hiding faggots and paedophiles only you are protecting murdering, thieving scum. Oh, you're not alone in your deception, Medved, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity, et al., ... "ALL" of you double talking bullshit artists have determined to become accomplices to genocide. What exactly are these parasitic murderers using to blackmail you or is it simply greed that causes you to assist shit eating mass murderers like Netanyahu ? If you were the thinker that you claim to be you might see the resemblance in names that are shared between former cheka (KGB) murderers and modern day infiltrators that are (along with a-holes like yourself) undermining America. Like Elena Kagan, a communist/marxist "SO-CALLED" JEWESS. Her ancestors were named Kaganovich, like Lazar Kaganovich. He was a mass murdering SO-CALLED JEW that operated within the Bolshevik Revolution. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazar _Kaganovich Or, how about Michael Medved, another transplanted SO-CALLED JEW subversive ? Is it possible that he is a descendant of Pavel Medvedev, a man that helped his JEW COMRADES murder the Romanovs ? The Romanovs were awakened in the middle of the night, taken to a basement and slaughtered. First they were shot at close range and when they didn't die immediately they were stabbed to death with bayonets. www.eyewitnesstohistory.c om/nicholas.htm The world is awakening to these propagandist SO-CALLED JEWS. Mankind is sick of their blood-lust, manipulations, scheming and treachery. So why taint yourself with these disgusting butchers ? Is it blackmail or bribery ? Have they threatened your children ? Read "Under the Sign of the Scorpion," Mr. Beck. These soul snatchers that you worship will be your undoing. They eat their own when their usefulness declines. I'm too disgusted by you and your treason to comment further because I know you aren't so ignorant as to believe the crap oozing out of your foul mouth. Go to hell, Beck, it's where you belong.
"Rebellion is natural when governments become "revolting". YOU only count when it's census or TAX time" ... bend over and lick the hand that beats you !
Who are the friends of Israel?
#2. To: noone222 (#1)
Obama is the miscegenated bastard of a white communist whore. True story.
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#3. To: noone222, X-15 (#1)
#4. To: noone222 (#1)
#5. To: Dakmar (#4)
Tell us again how the National Socialists oppressed the International Socialists. Please?
Obama is the miscegenated bastard of a white communist whore. True story.
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#6. To: X-15 (#5)
fragile minds
#7. To: Lod (#3)
The zio-whores in deecee are their only friends that I know of.
#8. To: X-15 (#0)
#9. To: X-15 (#0)
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