Old Right and New Left: United Against Jews

Israel National News (Arutz 7) ^ | May 16, 2005 | Steven Zak

[Alouette]

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[PowerAmp]

Thanks for a great post. This had not occurred to me, but it makes sense.

[JZelle]

I'm still trying to figure out anti-Israel Jews.

[aynrandfreak]

I had David Duke on my old radio show & asked him that very question about whether there was any real difference between the far left & far right. He tried saying that they're completely different, but he wasn't very convincing.

[redgolum]

Is it me or has the Far Right and Left been using the same playbook lately?

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Huh? Iraq had nothing to do with Israel. Why do they get blamed for everything?

[familyop]

"They've moved so far around the political circle that they've met on the other side,..."

And majority submission to their philosophy requires their own kind of radical socialist tyranny.

[familyop]

"NOTICE

According to an article in the August 7, 1997, issue of The Toledo Blade, an organization called "The New Order" has been distributing a 1980 article about the USS Liberty attack along with pamphlets calling for an investigation of the attack and others calling for an end to aid for Israel and articles in praise of Adolf Hitler.

The article quotes an Anti-Defamation League spokesman as calling The New Order "the oldest neo-Nazi group in the United States" and says it is a successor to the American Nazi Party founded by George Lincoln Rockwell.

Neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups frequently try to adopt the Liberty issue as their own.

This is an embarrassment to us, but one over which will have little control.

We wish to make it clear that we do not support their views and do not welcome or encourage their support."

        --former Lt. James Ennes, Jr., USS Liberty survivor

[rdb3]

Does your link make this article right or wrong?

[anticom6]

Far Right and Far Left reactions to Arafat's death were eerily, disgustingly similar.

(See "Leftists, neo-Nazis unite in mourning Arafat," posted on this website a few months ago.)

[redgolum]

Remember, the Nazi's were National SOCIALISTS! That is left wing. They rejected Marxism as a form of "failed" socialism.

[TNinga]

That link is James Ennes' website.

[SJackson]

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[atomic_dog]

This analysis fails because it assumes Pat Buchanan is a Conservative. He is not. He is in a class by himself. He would not make a pimple on Barry Goldwater's ass.

[A. Pole]

There were no WMDs. There was no connection to 9/11.

Hmm, are the facts that there were no WMDs in Iraq and that 9/11 bombers were Saudies a form of antisemitism? This is rich.

[MsJefferson]

The allegiance is not hatred of the Jews -- the allegiance is because both groups are alienated by the authoritarian rule of the GOP. The Democrats want their own authoritarianism to be the order of the day, and Pat Buchanan wants his stateless fascism to be the order of the day. Problem is, right now the GOP is the authoritarians ruler, holding the ever-expanding reigns of the state.

Rockwell has the most logical and consistent argument -- I do believe that the American Enterprise Institute, and the group of people that are called the "neoconservatives," have had significant intellectual influence on this administration's policies. I know that your average Republican might find it hard to believe -- but the right has its own ivory tower -- all political movments do, and it has often been said that the conflicts within a society are actually on behalf of opposing intellectual forces.

"Neoconservatives" advocated for increased authoritarianism and large-scale military endeavors -- and are not necessarily against the welfare state --- which Rockwell is against, on all counts.

Rockwell IS a Libertarian, Pat Buchanan IS a paleoconservative and Michael Moore is a liberal leftist (though, contrary to popular vision -- not the extreme left. Moore is neither an anarchist, nor a socialist.)

Buchanan certainly has a history for Jewish defamation, but it's not this which aligns him with the liberals and the libertarians -- it's the fact that right-wing authoritarianism OR neoconservatism butts up against parts of their respective ideologies -- making them turn, mostly in toward Rockwell's position.

It's textbook.

[MsJefferson]

ooops, sorry -- the "textbook" part is the classic "the enemy of my enemy is my friend," condition.