Posted on 04/12/2002 5:40:49 AM PDT by mrustow
Article shows how Adam Shapiro, heralded by the media as a "hero," a "pacifist," and a "humanitarian worker," is in reality anything but. Shapiro is a rabid supporter of "Palestinian" terrorism, who sees nothing wrong in the butchering of women, children, and old men. The International Solidarity Movement, which he and his fiance co-founded, is itself a newfangled kind of terrorist front.
The hard Left always has a drift towards anti-Semitism anyway. Why do you suppose Jose Bove (I don't vouch for the spelling) is/was camping in Ramallah to protect Arafat from Jews rather than in Paris to protect Jews from Frenchmen? Because deep down he sees the Jew as the enemy, the symbol of global capitalism - those sinister Jewish international bankers were anti-globalist symbols before anti-globalism had the name.
The Left and Right anti-globalists often converge at this point, of course, as they do at so many others.
Shapiro should not have been let out of the country if it was known what his intent was. If he wants to demonstrate against Israel, he can do it on this soil and sadly to say he will have plenty of company.
Americans do not have the same rights to exercise political expression outside this country as they do in it. Bill Clinton had no right to demonstrate against our nation when it was at war and he was at Oxford. These political agitators should either have their passport and visa revoked, or not let back in.
"The Man in the Glass Booth" was a play written by Robert Shaw (yes, the guy that got eaten by the shark), which was turned into a movie directed by Arthur Hiller that got Maximilian Schell an Oscar nomination. Amazingly, both the text of the play and tapes of the movie are very hard to find.
Although it has obvious similarities to the Eichmann events, it is a totally different story, almost a kind of "Dr. Strangelove" kind of thing, but played very straight. It (well, the play and/or the movie) is one of the BEST creations of any kind of art I've ever seen. I can't recommend the play or the movie enough. Great stuff.
Mark W.
The hard Left always has a drift towards anti-Semitism anyway. Why do you suppose Jose Bove (I don't vouch for the spelling) is/was camping in Ramallah to protect Arafat from Jews rather than in Paris to protect Jews from Frenchmen? Because deep down he sees the Jew as the enemy, the symbol of global capitalism - those sinister Jewish international bankers were anti-globalist symbols before anti-globalism had the name.
The Left and Right anti-globalists often converge at this point, of course, as they do at so many others.
Thanks for the observations. I'll have to look further into this Jose Bove character. But your historical remark is dead on, and reminds me of debates from before, and especially between the world wars. Communists and fascists both met -- though for much different reasons -- when it came to their anti-bourgeois positions. And the Jew, of course, was the carrier of capitalism. (Although for some, he morphed into the carrier of communism.)
I'm sure you're right. You can't do what he does for long, without getting your butt shot off, and this guy doesn't look like a heroic type to me.
Shapiro should not have been let out of the country if it was known what his intent was. If he wants to demonstrate against Israel, he can do it on this soil and sadly to say he will have plenty of company.
Americans do not have the same rights to exercise political expression outside this country as they do in it. Bill Clinton had no right to demonstrate against our nation when it was at war and he was at Oxford. These political agitators should either have their passport and visa revoked, or not let back in.
Agreed. I used to live abroad, and it drove me nuts, seeing American classmates running around to demonstrations -- all against their own nation, natch.
Had it not been for the Kapos, the Nazi death camps would not have processed near the numbers they did. May Kapo Shapiro and his ilk die an ignomous death and face eternal damnation.
Karen
Jose Bove: Vandal par excellence
A Google search will provide many links to those who like him (Indymedia, etc.).
I am not an unqualified fan of David Brooks, but this is an interesting analysis:
Notice in the second article the reason Bove gave for taking sides against Israel: The Israelis are "putting in place -- with the support of the World Bank -- a series of neoliberal measures intended to integrate the Middle East into globalized production circuits, through the exploitation of cheap Palestinian labour."
Those Rothschilds, at it again.
Karen AKA KLT
The term you are looking for is Kapo
Had it not been for the Kapos, the Nazi death camps would not have processed near the numbers they did. May Kapo Shapiro and his ilk die an ignomous death and face eternal damnation.
I was thinking, simply, of the term "Nazi," but "Kapo" will do just fine, thank you.
Thanks for drawing attention to the photography. Another PLO trick (that I'd forgotten about). I wonder, if Arafat's people trained the ISMers in agitation and propaganda.
"The Man in the Glass Booth" was a play written by Robert Shaw (yes, the guy that got eaten by the shark), which was turned into a movie directed by Arthur Hiller that got Maximilian Schell an Oscar nomination. Amazingly, both the text of the play and tapes of the movie are very hard to find.
Although it has obvious similarities to the Eichmann events, it is a totally different story, almost a kind of "Dr. Strangelove" kind of thing, but played very straight. It (well, the play and/or the movie) is one of the BEST creations of any kind of art I've ever seen. I can't recommend the play or the movie enough. Great stuff.
Mark W.
I was amazed, after Shaw's demise, to find that he was also an accomplished writer. But it made sense, considering that he had worked on the riveting monologue about the sinking of the USS Annapolis, and the shark attack on its men, at the end of WWII, that he gave as "Quint," in Jaws.
I'll have to read the play. I recall when it came outr, it was part of a series by an outfit called, I think, American Film Theater. One of their movies had Lee Marvin playing Hickey (sounds like inspired casting) in The Iceman Cometh. None of the filmed plays did all that well, critically or commercially, but all assmebled such great material and talent, that I hope eventually, to take them all in.
Max Schell is an amazing talent. When I lived in West Germany, I saw him in a Swiss movie as a young man -- with hair! Circa 1986, he made a slyly clever documentary, Marlene, I think, was the title, about Dietrich. He interviewed the cantankerous Dietrich in her Paris (?) apartment throughout the movie, but she refused to be photgraphed. I think she said she was too old to be photographed. She was impossible, and he kept egging her on, in his own charming fashion, to the point where she would be threatening to end the whole thing. I'm sure she wanted the attention, but she was also irascible enough to shut down the thing, too, if only to spite herself.
I couldn't believe, that after Dietrich's death, her daughter was able to contravene the explicit instructions in her will that she be buried in Paris, and NOT in Germany, and move her corpse to Germany (Berlin, I believe).
When I read your observations, I immediately thought of Werner Sombart, but didn't mention him, because I only knew of him second-hand as someone who wrote of the rise of capitalism and the Jews, and didn't know he was a rabid anti-Semite. I mentioned instead Carl Schmitt (1888-1985), the most influential 20th century, German-language political thinker, who was a fascist anti-bourgeois, and who exerted a powerful influence on leftist thinkers during the Weimar Republic (most notably Walter Benjamin). However, I cut the Schmitt references, because he wasn't an anti-Semite at heart, but only feigned hatred of the Jews to try and endear himself to the Nazis (it didn't work, ha ha).
I'm sure David Brooks didn't read Werner Sombart, either. He read the Arthur Herman book he mentioned, which is where he got his material.
Brooks is right about the Arabs, and dead-on about the Europeans. I lived over there for years, and heard so many lectures from classmates whose ignorance and intellectual incompetence were exceeded only by their arrogance, that finally I turned around, and started lecturing them.
But Brooks is -- as you suggested -- himself a problematic character. While he does a good job of raking America's critics over the coals, he does a poor job of defending us. What is this "bourgeois heroism" he vaguely speaks of? He suggests that being anti-bourgeois (and, reading between the lines, anti-neo-con) means you are either a fascist or a communist. Nonsense. And while he portrays himself as a man of the people, I doubt he would act that way, were he to brush up against an educated man with no stock portfolio. I've dealt with several of his neo-con cronies, and they all pulled that patronizing, ersatz eurotrash, "I'm cultured, and you're not," routine, even though their scholarly background was dubious, at best. (And we don't even want to talk about their "journalistic" background.) They talk about merit, but they're a bunch of alumni brats, who only understand pedigrees that are bought and paid for. If only their "culture" matched their pretenses! Those characters could drive a man to Marxism!
Brooks also idealizes America: where are affirmative action, multiculturalism, and racial and sexual apartheid in his airbrushed picture?
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