The U.S. Circus Comes To Town Yet Again!
The Israeli flag dwarfs the American one! Coincidence?
Where is the Palestinian flag?
Friends, the ritual meeting between America and its ugly child, Israel is in progress yet again. Joe Biden, Vice-President, has arrived in Israel to talk the talk (but not to walk the walk) and express the usual meaningless platitudes and make the usual empty promises to the Palestinians.
For decades, the charade has continued: America pretending to be the honest broker that, cross your heart, really, truly wants to see the creation of a Palestinian State while Israel pretends it is busting a gut to give the Palestinians their own State while it steals more and more of what little is left of their land and builds even more settlements with lightening speed.
The whole circus is deeply ironic and profoundly boring. Joe, in the deeply symbolic photograph, is not wearing his skullcap yet but he will. He and Benny will swear eternal friendship once again and Joe will swear fealty to Israel no matter what it does to the Palestinians or any of its neighbours. And Israel will thank America for its continuing support via endless armaments and money and its continual blocking of U.N. Resolutions and Reports critical of Israel.
And while they pretend to be talking about the Road Map (for a road that goes nowhere) they, Joe and Benny, will discuss how the attacking of Iran with nukes can be best achieved and how it can be best justified and what lies need to be told or what false flag operations should be carried out to give the whole tawdry thing some respectability.
And while they discuss the coming war, the Gazans will continue to starve in their giant cage in the Gaza Strip and Abbas will continue to collaborate with his peoples’ oppressors and Mossad will continue to assassinate Palestinian leaders and the IDF will continue to bomb Gaza and stop it rebuilding and the rest of the world will allow the imperial farce and genocide to continue without comment or criticism.
Surely, the situation involving the Palestinians is a microcosm of what is wrong with our world. The bullies and the wealthy run the world. Human rights are expendable. The law of the jungle applies. The worship of power and money is paramount. War we are told is a virtue. Compassion and caring and honesty are dirty words.
A pox on Joe and Benny and their whole sickening, empty, dishonest charade, I say.
Metaphorically, I spit on them both, them and their many amoral, malignant clones who infest our world.
P.S. Photograph thanks to Reuters.
UPDATE: 10/3/2010. To celebrate the arrival of Biden, 1,600 Israeli Ultra-Orthodox (the Bobbing Black Hats) Settler homes are approved to be built in East Jerusalem while several Muslim Mosques in the West Bank have been designated as Israeli heritage items.
The farce goes on and on! When are Jews going to be put back in their musty box where they belong?
Well, here we go. Israel, the United States’ snot-nosed kid brother, welcomes Joe Biden, there to remind us Americans that we’ll never pop our tongues out of their Tora-reading asses. Same old, same old. Meanwhile, just up the road, a Palestinian family is having their door kicked in. All this we know, but honestly, if you think about it…Have those of us who basically agree with the sane assessment that the Israelis are an evil little mini-empire become as closed-minded as those we admonish? What I’m saying, in a nutshell, is: They’re all nuts. I mean, seriously, if the Palestinians were in the Israelis position of power, would they not be brutally persecuting their yamulke-wearing neighbors even more harshly than they themselves are being? If we get over ourselves a bit here, we have to admit: Of course they would. Because they’re all nuts. I’m not speaking of the general population necessarily, here; what these basically innocent people have been through at the hands of their Israeli oppressors is truly horrific (and children are always true victims). But as I said, which side is worse, truly? We’re talking about people who base (and waste) their entire existences on religious hatred…the Jews and the Muslims both. How long can we weep for people who won’t help themselves by dealing in the world of reason, I ask?
Just today, the spiritual leader of the Palestinian Authority issued a fatwah on all Muslims who are currently employed constructing buildings in Israel. Really?? These people deserve to die? Their lives ended? For trying to make a living in a part of the world where starvation is looming over every peasant’s head? Ahmadinejad—who we know is basically an asshole—recently made outright threats to destroy Israel, and so did the Foreign Minister of Syria. You know, these Arab people sure aren’t helping their own cause, and certainly not doing a good job selling themselves as any form of “good guys.” Now I’m not saying that I want Israel to flourish and continue their bullying dominance over the region (and continuing to ensure that nuclear destruction is always a possible threat), but I just can’t support a bunch of whack-jobs that continue to cling to an ancient religion loaded with retribution for all those who don’t practice it and constant in-fighting between those who do. It’s ridiculous. I mean, Christianity may be an oppressive force throughout the world as well, but I don’t have to worry about Father O’Hanrahan down the street blowing up my apartment building because I don’t attend his friggin’ church.
Don’t get me wrong; we live in a world full of grey areas. There are many good and decent Islamic people all over. But much like westerners, the people at the top, and those who are easily coerced by those at the top, are n-u-t-s. Period. So let’s just settle on this: Until this demonstrably monstrous religion known as Islam ceases to have a stranglehold on the moment-to-moment thoughts and actions of so many millions of people, there isn’t a hell of a lot that sane, rational people across the globe are going to be able to do for these people.
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Israel is not the child of the USA, it is the sovereign. Jewish Americans are the most dangerous mortals in the world. You need to do more research, DG.
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Late Revolution, you mightn’t have to worry about Father O’Hanrahan blowing up your apartment building but would you let him mind your kids?
And speaking about the stranglehold of Islam, have you ever met any evangelical Christians perchance? I used to hang out with some Baptists and they take some beating for extremism. And let’s face it, Americans embrace Christianity with great fervor. They are always smiting their enemies and coveting their women and resources!
Therese, you may be correct. If so, God help us all!
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More from the most evil people in the world:
1) “Sheikh Jarrah Jews Praise Baruck Goldstein on Purim”, 3/7/10, http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.blogspot.com;
2) “Fyodor Dostoevsky on the Jews”, http://www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com.
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Late Revolution has a very good point. May I suggest the movie Lemon Tree (http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/04/17/movies/17lemo.html?partner=rss&emc=rss) for a beautiful rendering of the complexities concerning the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. And, to further support Late Revolution’s point, let’s not forget that the many of the Israelis were descendants of the victims of the Holocaust….only to become like their abusers. Or, how about the comments of the alleged Rainbow Warrior on the other thread. He/she is a racist eugenicist…..and somehow we’re to embrace that? This is why I underscore the importance of principles over players. Nothing can be accomplished if those seeking to accomplish an evolution are not guided by the same principles. It should be sovereignty of the individual before sovereignty of the tribe or nation. If it’s the other way around, then the nation/tribe dictates the actions of the individual through coercion, and religion is the glue that helps hold that tyranny together.
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David G Reply:
March 10th, 2010 at 9:25 am
It’s a dilemma, Morocco, whether the sovereignty of the individual should take precedence over the sovereignty of the tribe or majority. Many of the problems in the world today are caused by the collective actions of individuals, each one trying to grab as much as they can while they social climb over others.
In other long-surviving species, it’s the survival of the group that is the most important not the wishes and desires of each individual member.
Food for thought!
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The trailer for Etz Limon.
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2374304537/
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I appreciate the support, Morocco. And yes, David, I get the point about the priest and the children. And yes, there are Christian fundamentalists out there (you certainly wouldn’t want to be a black person in the American south just thirty years ago). But the vast majority of Christian people across the planet aren’t blowing up hospitals and shopping centers. If you walk down the street to the local parish and saw a pastor trying to exhort his fellow worshippers into strapping bombs to their chests and heading for the nearest Wal-Mart, you’d have an empty church pretty quick. The point is, sane, rational people can protect themselves—in most instances—from religious zealots of the western variety by simply ignoring them or answering their ridiculous rhetoric with cool logic and reason. But these Middle Eastern folks definitely skew more aggressive than that. They just blow themselves and anybody around them for three city blocks up, and ask questions when they get to Allah. This is called a scourge. Christians and even Jews may have a great deal of contempt for us secular folks, but in this day and age they do acknowledge that we have a right to exist. I can visit Vatican City and not worry about having my head sawed off and rolled down the street because I don’t subscribe to the Jesus thing. The Christians and Baptists and Catholics of the world have at least reached Step One: Civility.
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David G Reply:
March 10th, 2010 at 3:35 pm
I don’t quite see the situation like you, Late Revolution. That highly Christian country called America has, since Vietnam, charged around the world killing other people, hundreds of thousand of them.
Sure, they don’t strap on suicide belts but when you have the latest fighter jets and missile technology that can target a fly on the enemy’s nose you don’t need to. You just press the button from above and watch the destruction, like it’s a video. With drones now, Christians in America can blow up their perceived enemies from thousands of miles away.
And all these Christian people support this killing and they buy shares in companies that make weapons of death and also companies which go around the world exploiting the poor and underprivileged.
Killing is killing and it is wrong. How it is done is immaterial!
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dg,
no decent man could’ve let this pass….
Morocco Bama
**Here is an excellent article by Naomi Klein on the partnering that’s going on between Chinese and U.S. interests. They have very similar goals….and those goals are driven by unadulterated greed and power.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/20797485/chinas_allseeing_eye
American commentators like CNN’s Jack Cafferty dismiss the Chinese as “the same bunch of goons and thugs they’ve been for the last 50 years.” **
say who ?
http://tinyurl.com/yacxfl8
and coming from the cnn, that epitome of fair jornalism, no less
http://tinyurl.com/6dbkvf
** It turns out that the most efficient delivery system for capitalism is actually a communist-style police state, fortressed with American “homeland security” technologies, pumped up with “war on terror” rhetoric. **
i wish ms klein has the gut to back up her claim, i dare her to tell the relatives of these victims, of which 99% are hans, face to face, that its all just ABOUT RHETORIC !!
http://tinyurl.com/ykmqc4j
xin foto
http://tinyurl.com/l3up99
5 burned
and moroco, do you know who was behind these riots ?
you claim that china is amerikka’s partner, so this is how the amerikkans treat their “partners” eh, what kind of low life is that ?
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dg,
somehow the china thread no longer accept my post,
so i submit it here,
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Late Revolution you say “Ahmadinejad recently made outright threats to destroy Israe”l, I missed that, could you point me as to where and when he said that?
The “christian” IRA didn’t kill any innocents did they, or the Israelis were careful not to in Gaza?
“Christians and even Jews may have a great deal of contempt for us secular folks, but in this day and age they do acknowledge that we have a right to exist”, but WE doesn’t include the Palestinian (Muslims) right.
Robbo
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Late Revolution, when I said good point, that doesn’t mean I support your post in its entirety, just the part about people becoming what they supposedly oppose when given the opportunity. As the poster above mentioned, Ahmadinejad didn’t say what you, and the MSM, claimed he said about Israel….however, he did coddle the likes of David Duke…an avowed racist. I don’t think Ahmadinejad’s a good guy….but I’m not going to perpetuate lies about him to prove my point. Clerical rule in Iran is not in the best interests of the majority of Iranians anymore than Corporatist rule in the West is in the best interests of the majority of Westerners. Both forms of power are coercive, oppressive, totalitarian and tyrannical. When you stick to the principles, not the actors, you can arrive at no other conclusion.
Christianity is just as insidious as Islam in its ultimate effect….and, if you look at the history, Christianity is responsible for much more bloodshed than Islam. My point being that they are both religion, and as we all know, religion is the glue that allows all of this destruction to perpetuate. If we are to evolve, we must rid ourselves of the scourge that is religion.
David, I have said on another thread that it sovereignty of the individual so long as that sovereignty doesn’t preclude the sovereignty of other individuals. I’m not concerned with what history has to say about this because I don’t believe in “as before, is now, and ever shall be.” I that’s the attitude, why are we even having this conversation? There would be no point. I’m no Kennedy fan boy but I like what Ted Kennedy said in his eulogy to his brother Bobby:
There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
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Denk, it must have to do with the number of links! I can think of no other reason.
John, in most cases, religion is the poison that turns us into barbarians.
Morocco, I’m sure we both sing from the same song sheet. I would agree with your last sentence fully. That is what motivates me to keep blogging, the hope that, one day, we silly humans can reach our potential rather than continue to wallow in the primeval swamp.
Cheers.
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