Comments on: Biden late for dinner http://warincontext.org/2010/03/10/biden-late-for-dinner/ ... with attention to the unseen Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:44:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: David R. Evans http://warincontext.org/2010/03/10/biden-late-for-dinner/comment-page-1/#comment-8057 David R. Evans Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:20:26 +0000 http://warincontext.org/?p=3876#comment-8057 The US values regional hegemonic status quo more than it fears increasingly becoming a pariah for its continuing support of Israel's crimes, otherwise the "unbreakable bond" vomit would quit flowing from the mouths of our leaders. Israel gets to continue expanding onto stolen lands while the US has instability as excuse for military presence next to the oil sumps, so Palestinians will continue to be starved and moved out of the way until the rest of the world says. "ENOUGH!" and changes the UN Security Council rules that will limit US veto power and allow more than 100 UN Resolutions against Israel that have been blocked by our government that is complicit in Israel's war crimes and crimes against humanity. It is my hope that failing US capitalism will bring this necessary change so that Palestinians will eventually find justice in ONE STATE , a land once again free of Zionist apartheid racism. Please see: http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=88491&sectionid=351020202 The US values regional hegemonic status quo more than it fears increasingly becoming a pariah for its continuing support of Israel’s crimes, otherwise the “unbreakable bond” vomit would quit flowing from the mouths of our leaders. Israel gets to continue expanding onto stolen lands while the US has instability as excuse for military presence next to the oil sumps, so Palestinians will continue to be starved and moved out of the way until the rest of the world says. “ENOUGH!” and changes the UN Security Council rules that will limit US veto power and allow more than 100 UN Resolutions against Israel that have been blocked by our government that is complicit in Israel’s war crimes and crimes against humanity. It is my hope that failing US capitalism will bring this necessary change so that Palestinians will eventually find justice in ONE STATE , a land once again free of Zionist apartheid racism. Please see:
http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=88491&sectionid=351020202

]]> By: DE Teodoru http://warincontext.org/2010/03/10/biden-late-for-dinner/comment-page-1/#comment-7998 DE Teodoru Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:33:17 +0000 http://warincontext.org/?p=3876#comment-7998 Here we go again, the never ending assumption by a "kept" government that it is dealing with a "dumb goyim" Democrat who will lick anything for Jewish votes....Expect surprises from now on. Bernie Madoff will not have been Israel's worst nightmare! Here we go again, the never ending assumption by a “kept” government that it is dealing with a “dumb goyim” Democrat who will lick anything for Jewish votes….Expect surprises from now on. Bernie Madoff will not have been Israel’s worst nightmare!

]]> By: Strelnikov http://warincontext.org/2010/03/10/biden-late-for-dinner/comment-page-1/#comment-7986 Strelnikov Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:48:27 +0000 http://warincontext.org/?p=3876#comment-7986 I think the White House is afraid of any true popular reaction from Israelis if we "cancelled the check" as Rick puts it - I hope we haven't already forgotten Max Blumenthal's street interviews of the Taglit fratboys and PO'ed young Sephardics in Jerusalem last summer: all of them felt snubbed that Obama didn't come to Israel first, and they were willing to use racist language not far removed from the KKK or any skinhead group, including assasination talk. Recently at the University of Irvine in California, Israeli Ambassador Oren was repeatedly heckled by Muslim students, who then individually left after disrupting his speech. Even though the protesters left peacefully, after the first heckle, some apparatchik from the university took the lectern and had campus police arrest hecklers from that point on, resulting in many students being forced out of the room in handcuffs. Oren was speaking not only to an audience of interested students but also any pro-Israel Jews as a form of "propaganda boost" following the Gaza slaughter, so the stage was decked in American and Israeli flags, and the lectern had the state seal of Israel as well. Despite the arrests and the university flunkie proclaiming that the protestors would be expelled from the school for breaking some speech code (which like the protests, was captured on video and put on YouTube), the Zionist Organization of America began boycotting the University the next day, and every Jewish/Israeli funder was told by the ZOA to stop any support of the University of Irvine, which I think is a campus of the University of California system. This was only one evening at one college; can you imagine the "wailing and knashing of teeth" if the US stopped funding the Israeli military? The right-wing pundits, the arms manufacturers, the GOP, the Zionist Democrats, the pro-military Democrats, the Pentagon, the Anti-Defamation League, AIPAC, and possibly Jon Stewart (definitely for Stephen Colbert) would hit the airwaves, the fax machines, the papers, and the Intertubes with a such a horrendous screech the order would be recinded after a few hours. Thus we will have to suffer a crushing Soviet-style collapse as a country to cut our ties with Israel, but then we would also lose some sort of "contact/control" over Turkey, Egypt (Hosni Mubarak or his successor would be a dead man), Saudi Arabia (all their aristos would be in Zurich within a hour), and Iraq (only the Kurds would be crying), and I know there are many other petro-states in the region we do business with but don't supply weapons to, or we may only sell them simple stuff like rifles or military trucks. So these simple snubs like Biden being late or the State Department sending a "strongly-worded letter" to the Knesset (which is roundfiled after being read into the record) might be as far as the present administration dares to go, unless the Israelis go for the stupidity trifecta and bomb Iranian nuclear sites. Then all bets are off. The Blumenthal video is at www.maxblumenthal.com/feeling-the-hate-in-jerusalem/ The video was kicked off Mondoweiss, Vimeo, the Huffington Post, maybe YouTube. There are now multiple copies of the Michael Oren heckling video (cut down to five minutes) on YouTube; the original poster has the video in two 9-minute chunks (under the title "Uncivilized Tactics at UC Irvine") at http://www.youtube.com/StandWithUs I think the White House is afraid of any true popular reaction from Israelis if we “cancelled the check” as Rick puts it – I hope we haven’t already forgotten Max Blumenthal’s street interviews of the Taglit fratboys and PO’ed young Sephardics in Jerusalem last summer: all of them felt snubbed that Obama didn’t come to Israel first, and they were willing to use racist language not far removed from the KKK or any skinhead group, including assasination talk. Recently at the University of Irvine in California, Israeli Ambassador Oren was repeatedly heckled by Muslim students, who then individually left after disrupting his speech. Even though the protesters left peacefully, after the first heckle, some apparatchik from the university took the lectern and had campus police arrest hecklers from that point on, resulting in many students being forced out of the room in handcuffs. Oren was speaking not only to an audience of interested students but also any pro-Israel Jews as a form of “propaganda boost” following the Gaza slaughter, so the stage was decked in American and Israeli flags, and the lectern had the state seal of Israel as well. Despite the arrests and the university flunkie proclaiming that the protestors would be expelled from the school for breaking some speech code (which like the protests, was captured on video and put on YouTube), the Zionist Organization of America began boycotting the University the next day, and every Jewish/Israeli funder was told by the ZOA to stop any support of the University of Irvine, which I think is a campus of the University of California system. This was only one evening at one college; can you imagine the “wailing and knashing of teeth” if the US stopped funding the Israeli military? The right-wing pundits, the arms manufacturers, the GOP, the Zionist Democrats, the pro-military Democrats, the Pentagon, the Anti-Defamation League, AIPAC, and possibly Jon Stewart (definitely for Stephen Colbert) would hit the airwaves, the fax machines, the papers, and the Intertubes with a such a horrendous screech the order would be recinded after a few hours. Thus we will have to suffer a crushing Soviet-style collapse as a country to cut our ties with Israel, but then we would also lose some sort of “contact/control” over Turkey, Egypt (Hosni Mubarak or his successor would be a dead man), Saudi Arabia (all their aristos would be in Zurich within a hour), and Iraq (only the Kurds would be crying), and I know there are many other petro-states in the region we do business with but don’t supply weapons to, or we may only sell them simple stuff like rifles or military trucks. So these simple snubs like Biden being late or the State Department sending a “strongly-worded letter” to the Knesset (which is roundfiled after being read into the record) might be as far as the present administration dares to go, unless the Israelis go for the stupidity trifecta and bomb Iranian nuclear sites. Then all bets are off.

The Blumenthal video is at http://www.maxblumenthal.com/feeling-the-hate-in-jerusalem/
The video was kicked off Mondoweiss, Vimeo, the Huffington Post, maybe YouTube.

There are now multiple copies of the Michael Oren heckling video (cut down to five minutes) on YouTube; the original poster has the video in two 9-minute chunks (under the title “Uncivilized Tactics at UC Irvine”) at
http://www.youtube.com/StandWithUs

]]> By: Rick http://warincontext.org/2010/03/10/biden-late-for-dinner/comment-page-1/#comment-7968 Rick Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:10:15 +0000 http://warincontext.org/?p=3876#comment-7968 Joe, you should have just come home and brought the most recent dollars for Isreal ack with you. Leat wise stop payment on the check! Joe, you should have just come home and brought the most recent dollars for Isreal ack with you. Leat wise stop payment on the check!

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