There is no point in worrying about accusations (always one sided) of anti-Semitism. If you say you are not, then you go down the Jeremey Corbyn path of never ending apologies. The accusations are themselves a weapon and a smear, not to say an insult. Best answer, in my opinion, is to ignore it. If you have to answer, the best is to ask why, or ask what the term means. An effective reply is "you are confusing ant-Zionism with anti-Semitism".
Unfortunately, Bill, that would first require exposing the corruption that exists on Capitol Hill from the recycling of that Israeli aid back to the Congress. And that would begin with the reclassification of AIPAC as the foreign agent it is. Genocide is occurring in Gaza and neither party is interested beyond "thoughts and prayers" and the usual prattle.
The further right-wing and homicidal a government is, the more likely the US is to support it militarily. This happened all throughout the world in the name of stopping communism and socialism anywhere. So, the far-right, homicidal Israeli government is at the top of the support list, and that is never going to change as long as The Blob has its way, or until the Israeli government suddenly goes too socialist for The Blob's liking (not going to happen).
I agree that Miko is a treasure. He is courageous and speaks with integrity. Miko provides a very rational description and understanding of the Palestinian plight and the zionist state of Israel. I have intended to read The General's Son for some time. At your urging, Bill, I will purchase it this weekend.
You never know until you try, but hopefully this tweet to Biden's National Security Advisor will have some effect?
@JakeSullivan46
POWER CORRUPTS. In your POWER bubble you think the people are stupid! From what I saw and heard in the SOTU Biden has prepared the way for Trump. Building a pier to Gaza is BS when Biden can stop the Gaza genocide immediately. Stop the weapons and cash to Israel
Could not agree more with your take here, Bill. "Stop all aid"---it's verbatim what I've been saying on various forums for months. The latest response was, "But Biden's doing his best." Ummm....no. Not when the U.S. vetoed two U.N. ceasefire resolutions (for what they're worth).
I was encouraged, though, by reading several NY Times comments to the effect that Biden's remarks re Israel in the SOTU were, "completely mealy-mouthed." I think there are more U.S.ians who agree with you than MSM might lead us to think.
With virtually no healthcare left, no medications, and infectious diseases spreading especially among infants, children, the infirm, and the elderly, can anybody believe that the fatalities have just gone over 30,000?
Since the Hamas raid penetrated the multi-tiered Israeli border security on October 7, 2023 (an unexplained collapse of Israel’s defensive capabilities), 2.3 million utterly defenseless Palestinians in the tiny crowded Gaza enclave have been on the receiving end of over 65,000 bombs and missiles plus non-stop tank shelling and snipers.
The extreme right-wing Netanyahu regime has enforced its declared siege of, in its genocidal words, “no food, no water, no electricity, no fuel, no medicine.”
The relentless bombing has destroyed apartment buildings, marketplaces, refugee camps, hospitals, clinics, ambulances, bakeries, schools, mosques, churches, roads, electricity networks, critical water mains—just about everything.
It matters greatly whether the aggregate toll so far, and counting, is three, four, five, six times more than the Health Ministry’s undercount.
The U.S.-equipped Israeli war machine has even uprooted agricultural fields, including thousands of olive trees on one farm; bulldozed many cemeteries; and bombed civilians fleeing on Israeli orders, while obstructing the few trucks carrying humanitarian aid from Egypt.
With virtually no healthcare left, no medications, and infectious diseases spreading especially among infants, children, the infirm, and the elderly, can anybody believe that the fatalities have just gone over 30,000? With 5,000 babies born every month into the rubble, their mothers wounded and without food, healthcare, medicine, and clean water for any of their children, severe skepticism about the Hamas Health Ministry’s official count is warranted..........................................................................................
There is a bully in the neighborhood. You go up and offer him a baseball bat and brass knuckles that you have made yourself. You then give him a handout so that he can afford to pay you for the baseball bat and the brass knuckles. Of course he takes you up on your offers.
What do you think these actions would do to his behavior?
You would be turning a bully into a monster and that's what we have done. We have rewarded arrogance not with needed restraint but with impunity. We've reached an astounding low in two ways, first that we have become a victim of the bully and two, that we expect mere words to have an impact on the bully.
All this in full view of the entire world, yet we expect respect. Can we still dare speak of liberty and justice for all, of a new way in the political world represented by the American Revolution? There is no greater hypocrisy that that of the US as it kow-tows to a tiny colony. A colony! The very thing that we once refused to be and that later we denounced when colonization was European common practice, Zionism the last one to the party.
Talk about scoring an "own goal", and the man who didn't hesitate a second before jumping into this mess expects to be re-elected. He thinks he is in a position to warn us about what might happen to us under Trump.
We've arrived at a point where we can go no lower. We are groping around at the bottom of the barrel.
One thing to remember about all this is that ~ since its post-Holocaust conception, inception, and implementation ~ Israel was intended and designed to be, has been, and is a critical tactical and strategic Forward Operating Base for American foreign policy and military means, methods, and mechanisms in that part of the world, with all its fossil fuel and other wealth.
And Israel has done a Great job of meeting that purpose and of fulfilling that function. To say nothing of its contribution to the well-being of America's MICC.
It’s a shame Donald Trump wasn’t on the ballot for the Nevada Republican Primary held last month.
But it’s not hard to figure out Why. He would have had to compete with “None Of These Candidates” and very probably would have got his ass kicked, just like Nikki Haley did… :
NIKKI HALEY IS TROUNCED BY THE ‘NONE OF THESE CANDIDATES’ OPTION IN NEVADA’S REPUBLICAN PRIMARY by Michelle L. Price, Jonathan J. Cooper and Gabe Stern / Associated Press 7 Feb 24
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nikki Haley was swamped in Nevada’s symbolic Republican presidential primary as GOP voters resoundingly picked the “none of these candidates” option on the ballot in a repudiation of the former U.N. ambassador who is the last remaining major rival to front-runner Donald Trump.
Trump didn’t compete in Tuesday’s primary, which doesn’t award any delegates needed to win the GOP nomination. The former president is instead focused on caucuses that will be held Thursday and will help him move closer to becoming the Republican standard-bearer.
That leaves the results Tuesday as technically meaningless in the Republican race. But they still amount to an embarrassment for Haley, who has sought to position herself as a candidate who can genuinely compete against Trump. Instead, SHE BECAME THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FROM EITHER PARTY TO LOSE A RACE TO “NONE OF THESE CANDIDATES” SINCE THAT OPTION WAS INTRODUCED IN NEVADA IN 1975.
Tonight is the Academy Awards and during the historic 1976 Awards, as a Canadian, I was very close to Hollywood washing dishes in Suzanne's Kitchen on the Boardwalk in Venice Beach watching the Oscars on the TV she brought into the restaurant that night.
As an unexpected surprise, a stranger came into the restaurant and gave me an award much more valuable than that Golden Idol.
What needs to be remembered is that 90% of that Military Aid to Israel will ultimately end up in the pockets of the workers, supervisors, managers, executives, and shareholders of America's MICC. And simply added to the National Debt.
And that the remaining 10% goes into the pockets of Vested Special Interests in the government and among the Peoples of Israel.
There is no point in worrying about accusations (always one sided) of anti-Semitism. If you say you are not, then you go down the Jeremey Corbyn path of never ending apologies. The accusations are themselves a weapon and a smear, not to say an insult. Best answer, in my opinion, is to ignore it. If you have to answer, the best is to ask why, or ask what the term means. An effective reply is "you are confusing ant-Zionism with anti-Semitism".
The US should stop all Military Aid to Ukraine, as well. And to the members of NATO. And to any and every Nation getting that kind of Aid.
In short: The US should stop funding War and the preparation for War everyplace on the Planet,
Starting with the Military Industrial Congressional Complex and the Secrecy Security Surveillance Censorship Propaganda Panopticon, or S3CP2.
Unfortunately, Bill, that would first require exposing the corruption that exists on Capitol Hill from the recycling of that Israeli aid back to the Congress. And that would begin with the reclassification of AIPAC as the foreign agent it is. Genocide is occurring in Gaza and neither party is interested beyond "thoughts and prayers" and the usual prattle.
The further right-wing and homicidal a government is, the more likely the US is to support it militarily. This happened all throughout the world in the name of stopping communism and socialism anywhere. So, the far-right, homicidal Israeli government is at the top of the support list, and that is never going to change as long as The Blob has its way, or until the Israeli government suddenly goes too socialist for The Blob's liking (not going to happen).
I agree that Miko is a treasure. He is courageous and speaks with integrity. Miko provides a very rational description and understanding of the Palestinian plight and the zionist state of Israel. I have intended to read The General's Son for some time. At your urging, Bill, I will purchase it this weekend.
You never know until you try, but hopefully this tweet to Biden's National Security Advisor will have some effect?
@JakeSullivan46
POWER CORRUPTS. In your POWER bubble you think the people are stupid! From what I saw and heard in the SOTU Biden has prepared the way for Trump. Building a pier to Gaza is BS when Biden can stop the Gaza genocide immediately. Stop the weapons and cash to Israel
Could not agree more with your take here, Bill. "Stop all aid"---it's verbatim what I've been saying on various forums for months. The latest response was, "But Biden's doing his best." Ummm....no. Not when the U.S. vetoed two U.N. ceasefire resolutions (for what they're worth).
I was encouraged, though, by reading several NY Times comments to the effect that Biden's remarks re Israel in the SOTU were, "completely mealy-mouthed." I think there are more U.S.ians who agree with you than MSM might lead us to think.
The World Must Calculate the Real Gaza Death Toll
With virtually no healthcare left, no medications, and infectious diseases spreading especially among infants, children, the infirm, and the elderly, can anybody believe that the fatalities have just gone over 30,000?
Since the Hamas raid penetrated the multi-tiered Israeli border security on October 7, 2023 (an unexplained collapse of Israel’s defensive capabilities), 2.3 million utterly defenseless Palestinians in the tiny crowded Gaza enclave have been on the receiving end of over 65,000 bombs and missiles plus non-stop tank shelling and snipers.
The extreme right-wing Netanyahu regime has enforced its declared siege of, in its genocidal words, “no food, no water, no electricity, no fuel, no medicine.”
The relentless bombing has destroyed apartment buildings, marketplaces, refugee camps, hospitals, clinics, ambulances, bakeries, schools, mosques, churches, roads, electricity networks, critical water mains—just about everything.
It matters greatly whether the aggregate toll so far, and counting, is three, four, five, six times more than the Health Ministry’s undercount.
The U.S.-equipped Israeli war machine has even uprooted agricultural fields, including thousands of olive trees on one farm; bulldozed many cemeteries; and bombed civilians fleeing on Israeli orders, while obstructing the few trucks carrying humanitarian aid from Egypt.
With virtually no healthcare left, no medications, and infectious diseases spreading especially among infants, children, the infirm, and the elderly, can anybody believe that the fatalities have just gone over 30,000? With 5,000 babies born every month into the rubble, their mothers wounded and without food, healthcare, medicine, and clean water for any of their children, severe skepticism about the Hamas Health Ministry’s official count is warranted..........................................................................................
https://portside.org/2024-03-06/world-must-calculate-real-gaza-death-toll
Anyone with eyes to see can see Israel is perpetuating a genocide in Gaza and the US is complicit!
There is a bully in the neighborhood. You go up and offer him a baseball bat and brass knuckles that you have made yourself. You then give him a handout so that he can afford to pay you for the baseball bat and the brass knuckles. Of course he takes you up on your offers.
What do you think these actions would do to his behavior?
You would be turning a bully into a monster and that's what we have done. We have rewarded arrogance not with needed restraint but with impunity. We've reached an astounding low in two ways, first that we have become a victim of the bully and two, that we expect mere words to have an impact on the bully.
All this in full view of the entire world, yet we expect respect. Can we still dare speak of liberty and justice for all, of a new way in the political world represented by the American Revolution? There is no greater hypocrisy that that of the US as it kow-tows to a tiny colony. A colony! The very thing that we once refused to be and that later we denounced when colonization was European common practice, Zionism the last one to the party.
Talk about scoring an "own goal", and the man who didn't hesitate a second before jumping into this mess expects to be re-elected. He thinks he is in a position to warn us about what might happen to us under Trump.
We've arrived at a point where we can go no lower. We are groping around at the bottom of the barrel.
Caitlin Johnstone’s State of The Union address: I DON'T NEED GUNS I NEED FIRE EXTINGUISHERS
Pointing pistols as the man burns,
as Gaza burns,
as civilization burns,
as the planet burns.
I don’t need guns
I need fire extinguishers.
Raytheon racketeers and Pentagon pimps
swollen fat from the blood of unnamed victims
glossed over in headlines by The New York Times
while National Guard troops patrol the New York subways
and babies with legs like toothpicks fill our screens.
Pouring arms into Israel
while humanitarian-LARPing aid airdrops. ***↓
Waving around armageddon weapons
while accusing peacemongers of treason.
Well sure I’d ask for seconds mister president sir,
but see I don’t need guns
I need fire extinguishers.
I need someone to put some fat back on those babies.
I need someone to get the plastic out of the oceans.
I need the bombs to stop and the siege to lift
and a healthy planet for the kids to play in.
I need kids to stop getting their limbs blown off
so they can run and play in that healthy world.
Can you drone strike me a thriving biosphere?
Can you ICBM those Gazans some food?
Can you extinguish this fire with your weapons and wars?
No?
Then get outta the way man.
We don’t need guns
we need fire extinguishers.
“Free Palestine,” the man on fire said.
“FREE PALESTINE!” he screamed.
And then the cops showed up with their guns and their bullets,
because of course they fucking did.
And Gaza still burns,
and the world still burns,
and our eyes still burn,
and our lungs still burn,
and our hearts still burn,
and our rage still burns,
and they promise us the burning will stop
if we just add in a few more guns.
We don’t need guns you stupid cop.
We need this burning world to heal.
Source: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/i-dont-need-guns-i-need-fire-extinguishers
*** https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/LARP
One thing to remember about all this is that ~ since its post-Holocaust conception, inception, and implementation ~ Israel was intended and designed to be, has been, and is a critical tactical and strategic Forward Operating Base for American foreign policy and military means, methods, and mechanisms in that part of the world, with all its fossil fuel and other wealth.
And Israel has done a Great job of meeting that purpose and of fulfilling that function. To say nothing of its contribution to the well-being of America's MICC.
It’s a shame Donald Trump wasn’t on the ballot for the Nevada Republican Primary held last month.
But it’s not hard to figure out Why. He would have had to compete with “None Of These Candidates” and very probably would have got his ass kicked, just like Nikki Haley did… :
NIKKI HALEY IS TROUNCED BY THE ‘NONE OF THESE CANDIDATES’ OPTION IN NEVADA’S REPUBLICAN PRIMARY by Michelle L. Price, Jonathan J. Cooper and Gabe Stern / Associated Press 7 Feb 24
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nikki Haley was swamped in Nevada’s symbolic Republican presidential primary as GOP voters resoundingly picked the “none of these candidates” option on the ballot in a repudiation of the former U.N. ambassador who is the last remaining major rival to front-runner Donald Trump.
Trump didn’t compete in Tuesday’s primary, which doesn’t award any delegates needed to win the GOP nomination. The former president is instead focused on caucuses that will be held Thursday and will help him move closer to becoming the Republican standard-bearer.
That leaves the results Tuesday as technically meaningless in the Republican race. But they still amount to an embarrassment for Haley, who has sought to position herself as a candidate who can genuinely compete against Trump. Instead, SHE BECAME THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FROM EITHER PARTY TO LOSE A RACE TO “NONE OF THESE CANDIDATES” SINCE THAT OPTION WAS INTRODUCED IN NEVADA IN 1975.
Continued at https://apnews.com/article/nevada-2024-presidential-primary-biden-trump-haley-d731bf8ab1e7d4a7379c07d3a37b581b ; EMPHASIS added.
Vote NONE OF THESE CANDIDATES in 2024: “The Best Man Or Woman For The Job.”
NOTC: The Alternative To and Antidote For the “choices” America’s Ruling Political Class will give Voters on Election Day 2024
Off Topic but current.
Tonight is the Academy Awards and during the historic 1976 Awards, as a Canadian, I was very close to Hollywood washing dishes in Suzanne's Kitchen on the Boardwalk in Venice Beach watching the Oscars on the TV she brought into the restaurant that night.
As an unexpected surprise, a stranger came into the restaurant and gave me an award much more valuable than that Golden Idol.
https://rayjc.com/2011/02/28/oscar-and-the-idols-of-the-people/
This is sick! sick! sick! An Israeli Rabbi teaching it's in the Torah to kill all Palestinians including children and pregnant women.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1766757419231609031
I forgot one of my articles was a re-post of your November 16, 2021 article, The Pentagon as Pentagod
I posted it as https://rayjc.com/2021/12/13/americas-business-is-war/
What needs to be remembered is that 90% of that Military Aid to Israel will ultimately end up in the pockets of the workers, supervisors, managers, executives, and shareholders of America's MICC. And simply added to the National Debt.
And that the remaining 10% goes into the pockets of Vested Special Interests in the government and among the Peoples of Israel.