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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Rowan Berkeley
Published Letters: 176
The question was wrong. and Obama's answer was wrong too. All this talk about 'kishkes' or 'guts' - it isn't about that. That isn't where you feel love for Israel, or for anything or anyone else. It's possible none of these people have ever felt love, but when you do feel it, you feel it in your chest, not your 'gut'. In the area conventionally referred to as the heart, but actually it is in the center of the chest, around the lungs, whereas the heart is off to one side.
Now one could say (the real devious ones, like Phil Weiss, could say) it's because these Palm Beach Jews are hard boiled machers, ashamed of showing their feelings.
Well, when it gets to juggling with nuclear world war, that isn't good enough any more. In fact, probably the thing that has allowed me to get past all the Electro Robots of this world, here, there, in Israel itself,and so on, is that I am really not ashamed to feel it, right in my chest, and bleed about it too, very publicly. So far, no one has had the 'guts' to accuse me of faking this.
I might mention the religious zionist youth groups who give LSD to their followers, as part of their initation into what purports to be Rav Kook's kabbalah.
I shall definitely use it in future if I want to refer back to previous comments here, because when I tried to refer back to two of them yesterday I produced urls so long that it is a matter of chance whether they appear in full on the page or get truncated by an advertisement or something in the right hand column.
By the way, something that is interesting in itself, irrespective of whether or not you believe that there are aspects of the 9-11 events that are suspicious, is the fact that over the last couple of years, the online world of 9-11 speculative writing has been drastically pruned as a result of a campaign run by a whole phalanx of Electro Robot type assaults, on the one hand, and a vast virtual slum full of people who really do use 9-11 as an anti-Semitic hobby-horse, on the other. The legitimate 9-11 campaigners have become much more focused on hardware issues and much less prepared to even tolerate questions of who, or why. The Jerry Mazza article I mentioned stands out as a rare piece of ad hominem, and here I shall try the tinyurl:
http://tinyurl.com/5pwadj
In New York itself, pickets at 'Ground Zero' have become facing off occasions for small factions of hard nosed campaigners from We Are Change versus provocateurs like Nico Haupt, who are sponsored by the Screw Loose Change group of right wing pro war campaigners:
http://tinyurl.com/6quc6o
Confusing, because like most US Jewish communities, the Palm Beach Jews to whom Goldberg appeals are "Democrats except when it comes to Israel." If I had previously described them as GOP voters I would have revealed my ignorance, but this type of Jewish voter could be described as DINO in the making, because more and more issues will be perceived by them as "Israel related". Here is an interesting poll observation:
"Counties using electronic voting machines are shown in red. You can see that Broward and Palm Beach counties (which have very large populations and lean strongly Democratic) swung much more toward Bush than was typical for counties where Republicans won less than 47 or 48 percent of the vote in 2000."
http://tinyurl.com/3w6xuy
To an outside observer, all these cultural signals are baffling at first. Not only do these highly significant Palm Beach Jews vote Democrat on domestic issues, but religiously speaking they are largely liberal : In Palm Beach County, the 2005 Jewish Community Study found that 26 percent identified themselves as Reform, and 34 percent as Conservative, leaving, I suppose, only 30 percent identifying themselves as Orthodox. In many ways, they seem 'progressive', they have a 'socialist heritage' even, from 'the old country'. Yet, they will use their tactical voting power to push the USA into a world war, so it behooves you to understand their idiosyncracies.
Another coded reference in Goldberg is "you don’t feel Jewish worry the way a senator from New York would feel it." Charles Schumer, maybe - another DINO when it comes to foreign policy.
"Issues and Questions In the Historiography of Pre-State Zionism" by Joachim Martillo
http://tinyurl.com/5amlht
Highly recommended though blisteringly anti-zionist. The relevant part says this:
"Yiddishism developed as a particularly Eastern European populist Ashkenazi response to modernization.[25] Yiddishism developed into several distinct movements that sought Yiddish cultural autonomy in various forms. Yiddishism was an expression of the developing Eastern European Ashkenazi ethnic identity that was distinct from Jewish religious identity and unprecedented in the history of Jewish religion since the 10th century. Zionism was primarily an even later development among a very small group of elitist Central and Eastern European Ashkenazi intellectuals that were estranged both from Jewish religion and from Eastern European Ashkenazi culture. Such Ashkenazi intellectuals are typically called non-Jewish Jews, but they are more correctly identified as non-Jewish Ashkenazim. The animosity between Yiddishists and Zionists was immense in practically every way (viz Figure 5)."
They gotta be lying around on somebody's cutting room floor.
p.s. some people deny that reaction shots actually exist in real time, claiming they are faked up afterwards ('noddy shots') so I am open to expert info on this.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
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