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• Tuesday, May 13, 2008 09:45 PM

  there's more coded subtext in goldberg than anyone has mentioned yet

  The reference to Palm Beach is already code, and unless I am deceiving myself, it refers to people who would not be expected to be Democrat voters anyhow, but the most interesting thing to me is the yiddishism "kishke." I am sure most of you know that yiddish is NOT spoken in Israel except by the anti-zionist ultra-orthodox. I have felt for quite a few years that the peculiar alliance that formed in the 1970s between pro-settler groups in Israel, or in the occupied territories, and various orthodox factions in the USA was not 'zionist' at all. The semantics of this are complex, but one could describe it as a deliberate attempt to inflate 'zionism' like a balloon until it bursts. Obama is not going to comprehend this - few do.

  Now to this "David Larry D" who says : "Discussions of the minutiae surrounding US-Israeli relations are irrelevent. As Chomsky pointed out, the simplest equation seems to explain a lot of the sanctimony surrounding the conflict in Palestine: The Pentagon + The Israeli right wingers = unlimited corporate welfare for the US Defense industry. I haven't seen any credible arguments to the contrary..."

  I want to draw his attention to the rather complex discussion of Chomsky and the critique of Chomsky by Jeff Blankfort that I brought up on a previous thread. I shall try to find the link, but juggling too many tabs at once usually just ends up with me losing all the text I already have.

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