Posted on 03/20/2006 10:40:47 AM PST by Alouette
A new anti-Israel screed, posing as a serious academic “study”, is causing a stir in the United States, accusing the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC of essentially dictating American foreign policy in the Middle East.
Authored by two prominent professors, the document goes so far as to claim that it was supporters of Israel who pushed America into the Iraq war, and who regularly compel the US to act against its own national interests.
In other words, like anti-Semites have done throughout the centuries, they are blaming all of their country’s troubles on… the Jews.
Sadly, this wretched bit of propaganda will undoubtedly garner a great deal of attention, if only because its authors teach at Harvard University and the University of Chicago, two of the nation’s premier institutions.
The Palestinians are already using the document to score political points, distributing it as widely as they can.
But perhaps the most upsetting part of this sorry tale is to be found in the following line of the Ha’aretz story on the study, which describes the sources used by the authors of the report: “They rely mainly on an analysis of Israeli and American newspaper reports and studies, along with the findings of the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem” (emphasis added).
So there you have it – Israel’s foes relying on material provided to them by an Israeli organization in order to besmirch the Jewish state.
It’s about time that groups such as B’Tselem stop playing into the hands of those who hate us.
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Of course, when President Summers of Harvard tries to say something about the differences between male and female (and violates the PC code), he gets fired.
But updating the Protocols of the Elders of Zion will probably get you published by the intellectual elite
at Harvard.
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I never really knew that about their culture but am starting to realize it.
Read Robert Spencer's "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)." Very enlightening indeed. Easy reading and full of info about the Religion of Hate.
Who actually speaks for the Jews in America? The Rabbinic Associations? The Jewish Federations? AIPAC? The Synagogue organizations?
Used to be, Jewish people were pretty much of one mind on most issues, but that's no longer the case. We've been assimilated into the mainstream and, like other U.S. citizens, our opinions on many issues are diverse. Even nuanced.
On many issues, the Jewish people as an organized group do not take a formal position. On many of the issues AIPAC tackles, there is no "official" American Jewish community line of thought. Same thing for the Peace Lobby.
Just wanted to make that clear.
Stephen Walt's War with Israel
Point by point rip into the "opinion" piece by Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer.
Never!
I sometimes argue with myself just for the hell of it.
Spencer's book is great! I haven't read all of it yet, but what I have read, it's a winner!
(sarcasm on)
GASP! OH NO.....not.......the JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ again...........AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG! Hide the women, hide the children, call the UN, call Reverend Jessie, call Willie Klinton, call the Coast Guard, call the FBI, call Bugs Bunny, hell - call me a taxi!
(sarcasm off)
If even a tenth of the bull-@*$! the Jews were accused of was remotely true, Israel would not only be the biggest and most powerful nation on earth, but would rule all the land between Morocco and Pakistan, oil fields and all.
G-d to Abraham, Genesis 12:3
'Nuff said.
I'd agree that this is not true. Jews didn't even agree on the creation of Israel in 1948. The old joke is that if 3 Jews were stranded on a desert island, there'd be 4 shuls (synogogues).
That's like the Jew in Berlin in 1938 who's walking in the park, and sees one of his friends sitting on a park bench. He sits next to him, but then notices that the friend is reading Der Sturmer. He asks why, and the buddie says, "You read the Jewish paper, and it tells about anti-Semitism, rioting, looting, people who disappear, etc. On the other hand, this paper says that we Jews control the banks, the media, the foreign ministries of several countries, and things of that sort. Which one would you rather read?
G-d gave the Jews the Ten Commandments but Madison gave them the 2nd amendment. I would advise close attention to both in the coming difficulties.
Alouette, isn't it enough to have all the non-Jewish anti-semites? Why are all the Jewish anti-semites necessary? What is it? Is there a shortage of anti-semites in the world, and Jews are volunteering to take up the slack?
Oy, it's enough to drive a simple Christian insane. Whoever said Jews are smart obviously didn't know very many.
Ain't that the truth!
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