Friday, June 05, 2009

Barack Obama Has A Special Relationship With Israel

White man's burden

By Ari Shavit

"In the course of the past year, a new belief has emerged in [Washington]: the belief in war against Iraq. That ardent faith was disseminated by a small group of 25 or 30 neoconservatives, almost all of them Jewish, almost all of them intellectuals (a partial list: Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, William Kristol, Eliot Abrams, Charles Krauthammer), people who are mutual friends and cultivate one another and are convinced that political ideas are a major driving force of history."


11 comments:

Big Man said...

It's always interesting how some folks can view your behavior as catering and others can view it as a slap in the face.

Perspective is a mother...

SimonGreedwell said...

Wow.

Talk about perspectives, Big Man.

It's crazy how different individual perspectives can cause people to make wildly different arguments. For example, in this country, we have a vocal contingent of all sorts of people who think that our policy in that area is pro-Israel to a fault. But here you have these drunk college-age Israeli kids suggesting Obama is somehow not pro-Israel and "fuck Obama".

SimonGreedwell said...

So I just saw Obama in the press being asked about the propriety of Holocaust denial. He said he has no patience for those who deny history. He says something about making sure "this type of atrocity never happens again."

Question: do we ever talk about the possibility of slavery happening again in America to black people in the same way that we speak about preventing another Holocaust against Jewish folk?

Nobody has a monopoly on suffering.

Whatever.

Also, some of the comments on that vid are pretty raw:

"malletdive02: When did Israel become such a country that needed a handout from the United States? Are the Jews the only Semites how need our help no?

Does ole' boy screaming White Power realize that White hate groups in America support Hamas and would skin his ass like a pig?

I am laughing at these people to keep form shaking my head.

They are screaming "the land is our's" but forgot the addition to not mistreat the foreigner in the land "
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"quetou: This is why people embraced Hitler and wish he succeeded. the Holy Bible teaches us that these people are from the synagogue of satan. They are wolves in sheeps clothing. They are why I support palestine, they have just as much hate in their hearts as conservative Southern white Americans. racist devils! Christ killers!"

Isn't it fucking crazy how the ideas of certain sects of white racists in America have views that align perfectly with so-called radical Muslim groups like Hamas and Hellz-bow-lah?

I agree with "seanmg" though: "I'm sure that these kids don't reflect the breadth and depth of Jewish Israel's feelings about our president, however; when a Jewish Israeli say the phrase "White power, f*** the n*****s!" you kind of understand how the occupation of Palestine has become the Israeli inflicted holocaust. I know that these kids are drunk but some say a drunk word is a sober thought and as long as Israel treats Palestinians like "n*****s"--similar to how Germany viewed their grandparents--there will never be peace. "

The internet is unhinged y'all. This is raw free speech right here.

Constructive Feedback said...

Brother Vesey:

Do you see the irony that a Jew in Israel said "White Power" in his attack against Obama yet......last night the History Channel played an episode of "Gangland" in which a new Klan faction is growing in the USA and they have a flag of Israel outside of their meeting hall, being used as a DOOR MAT.

Unknown said...

DV Where is the picture of the olmec from the back (the cornrows) someone please get that to me or send me a link. My credibility as well as this blog's is at stake.

Denmark Vesey said...

LOL.


That's funny Ill.

It's on here somewhere. Search the archives for "Moors" or "Native Americans". I think you can find it like that.

uglyblackjohn said...

They make as much sense as SOME Black Republicans.

IWonderAsIWander said...

Man, the uniformity of language used by Israelis can only be the result of terribly effective brainwashing.

The Doc said...

Anyone else find striking how much the culture in the young people there seems to match almost exactly that of young white kids you might find over here. No accents, no discernible difference in clothing (for the most part) I mean, if you didn't know in most places, would you be able to tell that those were people in Israel and not over here in America. Yet another example of how mass media culture (tv, "teh internetz", etc.) becomes everybody's culture.

And also an example ("White power, f*** the n*****s!") of how history isn't based on real knowledge, but a loose, oft-times willfully ignorant perception of how things really were.

Big Man said...

The White Power stuff was a trip.

It's a crazy world, man.

Anonymous said...

"Anyone else find striking how much the culture in the young people there seems to match almost exactly that of young white kids you might find over here."

Actually, it's the other way around. We match them because they own our media and dictate our pop culture. We are the puppets, they the puppetmasters.

We give them billions in foreign aid, they funnel some of it back to guide our policies via lobbying and mass media at no cost to themselves.