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New "Pro Israel, Pro Peace" Political Group Launches: J Street Hopes to Prod Washington MidEast Policy Towards Center

For years, it’s been commonplace for Washington policy observers to shrug over the power of the pro-Israel lobby group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). On questions of Congressional legislation and appropriations involving U.S. defense sales to the Middle East, the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, and policy towards Iran and Syria, AIPAC’s influence is an acknowledged fact of life on the Hill, similar to death and taxes, second in power as a Washington lobby group only to the National Rifle Association.

But though its power in Congress is broad and bipartisan, and with some 100,000 members it ostensibly represents an American Jewish community that skews overwhelmingly Democratic, some in Washington’s policy community have as long been concerned by what they see as a sharp rightward tilt in AIPAC over the years, in particular as some of its funders and leadership have aligned themselves with hawkish policy positions on issues involving national security, the Arab Israeli conflict, and how to deal with Iran.

So began the motivation for the creation of J Street and JStreetPAC, a new nonprofit lobby group and affiliated political action committee being launched today in Washington, whose leadership describes the new organizations as "pro Israel, pro peace." And unlike most other smaller Washington Mid-East oriented policy shops that primarily issue position papers and opeds, J Street was designed to be distinctly political.

"It’s the first time that there has been a political arm for those of us who are pro Israel but pro peace, and who believe that reaching a negotiated settlement in the Middle East is absolutely essential for the security of both Israel and the United States," Jeremy Ben-Ami, the executive director of J Street and JStreetPAC told me. "That is the reason for this effort. We believe the majority of American Jews and many other Americans friendly and supportive to Israel really do recognize that a policy both here and there that would be geared towards really pushing for a two state solution is in Israel’s and the U.S.’s best interests."

"What has happened in the political world is that the people both elected [to Congress] and candidates and the folks around them have come to believe that the only way to speak to the Jewish community is to take the most right-wing position," Ben-Ami said. "There is no political benefit to be at the center."

"We would like to create a political mechanism, a political benefit to being at the center," Ben-Ami continued. "Perhaps there should be a dialogue between the U.S. and Syria. Perhaps the U.S. should pursue an alternative route to Iran. Let’s get serious about a two-state solution, and stop the settlements and stop the occupation and get a two state solution. That is currently not being said."

Among J Street’s leadership: Ben-Ami, a former senior domestic policy advisor to President Bill Clinton and former policy advisor to Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean; Alan Solomont, a former finance director to the Democratic National Committee; Hannah Rosenthal, former Executive Director to the Jewish Council on Public Affairs; Victor Kovner, former New York City Corporation Counsel; and Samuel Lewis, former U.S. ambassador to Israel under Presidents Carter and Reagan. The new group has an advisory counsel of 100 American members and has gathered letters of support from twenty some former Israeli security and diplomatic officials, including the former Israeli Defense Forces chief of staff Maj. Gen. Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, the former Israeli Air Force commander Maj. Gen. Amos Lapidot, former Israeli foreign minister Shlomo Ben Ami, two former director generals of the Israeli foreign ministry David Kimche and Alon Liel, former Knesset speaker Avram Burg, and Dalia Rabin, daughter of former Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and a former member of the Israeli Knesset and deputy defense minister.

"It's time for members of Congress in particular and the administration to hear much more loudly from those of us in the American Jewish community that the only way to protect Israel’s security and for that matter American security interests as well is to support relentlessly a negotiated settlement to the Israeli Palestinian conflict," Solomont, a member of J Street's advisory counsel, and a former chairman of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies in Boston, said Tuesday. "Unfortunately other voices are often heard more loudly and I think that distracts members of Congress and the administration from pursuing what I think everyone recognizes as the solution to this conflict."

One of J Street’s Israeli supporters in Washington, former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy, says Israeli leaders need encouragement from Washington to make concessions that could contribute to the peace process. "I think there comes a point when, if the Israeli leadership actually wants to see this thing resolved, it’s clearly easier to say yes to the president of the United States, rather than to the [Palestinian Liberation Organization]," Levy says. "You need to have the president of the United States to help carry you there."

For now, Ben-Ami tells me he is working out of his basement, the organization has no headquarters and doesn’t plan for one, and plans to operate heavily in the online world. "We’re following the MoveOn model, of being virtual, and heavily online," he says. "Part of our goal and plan in the coming year is to develop an online presence in the way that Obama and Dean and MoveOn have done … and to tap into that and have a large base of small donors."

MoveOn financier George Soros, an initial backer of the concept for the group, pulled out of it, Ben Ami explains, because he thought his presence might ultimately be unhelpful, given his reputation as a bankroller for liberal groups.

J Street has raised half of the $1.5 million it hopes to collect from donors over 2008. That still makes it a tiny David in the shadow of AIPAC’s Goliath, which reportedly has an endowment of $100 million, and 18 offices around the country, including a new Washington headquarters funded, sources say, by Las Vegas Casino mogul and conservative philanthropist Sheldon Adelson.

Online fundraising innovations aside, some veteran Middle East hands expressed skepticism that the new organization can do much to transform the domestic political forces that guide Washington's approach to the Israeli-Palestinian dispute-- including strong right wing American Christian evangelical opposition to any U.S. pressure on Israel to stop expanding settlements. J Street "has a very steep hill to climb because peacemaking has acquired a bad reputation over the years in the Jewish community," former U.S. ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk told the Washington Post. "And there is a widespread fear that U.S. intervention on behalf of peace will lead to pressure on Israel."

But even just with its launch, J Street has perhaps managed to prod some of those same weary Middle East hands and Washington policy observers to talk about such thorny issues with a bit less ideological constraint -- a small feat in and of itself.






Comments

Thank you Mr Ben Ami and to those who could make this possible. As he mentioned in his statement "It’s the first time that there has been a political arm for those of us who are pro Israel but pro peace, and who believe that reaching a negotiated settlement in the Middle East is absolutely essential for the security of both Israel and the United States,”
I totally agree that the majority of American Jews and many other Americans friendly and supportive to Israel really do recognize that a policy both here and there that would be geared towards really pushing for a two state solution is in Israel’s and the U.S.’s best interests. Good luck to you and God bless you

Posted by: N. A. Ali on 04/15/08 at 6:37 AM  Respond

I think if people really have a common commitment to Global Whirled Peas, then it's time to talk about MONEY. As in 'large sums of money, that get siphoned out of the US Treasury on an annual basis, or, so-called 'oopsie' spending'. Oopsie. 3 trillion DOLLAR 'oopsie'. As in, 'impeachment-grade oopsie'. Let's get energy-independent, here, grind the faux environmentalism and other posturing right down to the bare metal, establish the facts of the matter in all aspects of foreign aid and 'defense' spending, broom it all out, and bleach-mop, corner-to-corner-to-corner-to-corner, that way, at least OUR position in all of these Human Events will be pretty clear, and they can go ahead and hang a big NO PAN-HANDLING sign out in front of Lady Liberty, while they're at it. Other countries, Israel included, really need to start pulling their socks up, and dealing with their own domestic problems, and not looking to the United States for a bailout or other Nightingale-esque behavior every time they botch up their countries. Help is one thing, but some of this stuff has gone on for DECADES, now, and represents an undue burden on the People, in my estimation. Don't slap people around, necessarily, but DO offer Strong Words Of Encouragement in their valiant struggle for Independence. That way, we don't end up losing ours. That's my view.

Posted by: Bert on 04/15/08 at 9:53 AM  Respond

I'm delighted to learn about this new organization. For too many years now, the neocons and the leaders of AIPAC and other segments of the organized Jewish community have hijacked the discussion of Middle East policy and positioned themselves as the authentic voices of American Jewry. In fact, most American Jews reject the right-wing agenda of the neocons and most are both pro-Israel AND pro-peace. Thanks to AIPAC and a cooperative mass media, it has gotten so that either you're an anti-Zionist, self-hating traitor to your people (a la Noam Chomsky) or you're a war-mongering, uncompromising right-wing thug (a la Joe Lieberman). There is a vital center, which the majority of American Jews occupy, which is proudly and unapologetically Jewish and Zionist, but which also seeks justice and nationhood for the Palestinians and human rights for all.

Posted by: Hollie on 04/15/08 at 11:30 AM  Respond

I would gladly contribute to helping J-street establish their offices in S'derot. They might get a different perspective of their goals for Israel.

Michal R.
S'derot, Israel

“[AIPAC]. . .second in power as a Washington lobby group only to that of the National Rifle Association. . . “
At least this point is made clearly. Ironically, roughly half the people who are highly critical of the USA / Israel relationship are also members of the NRA. The other half are typically ‘Paul Wellstone’ leftists. Literally the only thing they have in common is there shared resentment of the Jewish Nation.
“ . . . the only way to protect Israel’s security and for that matter American security interests as well is to support relentlessly a negotiated settlement to the Israeli Palestinian conflict,"
Lets all take a shared breath of reality.
In 2,000, Israel (and the world) offered Mr. Arafat the following ‘vigorously negotiated’ settlement:
1. Ownership of most of the disputed land--comprised of those territories captured by Israel in 1967. Mind you, these territories WERE NOT captured from “Palestine”. They were captured from Jordan, who had no legal title themselves. Plus, Israel already had a peace treaty with Jordan, which was subsidized by US Taxpayer money (billions per year in aid to Jordan). In all, the land being offered by Barak in 2,000 would have (together with that land already given over to Egypt) added up to 95% of all the ground Israel captured in 1967.
2. 30-Billion dollars in cash, to help settle those Palestinian-Arabs who remained displaced.
To this offer, Mr. Arafat was profoundly insulted and ‘relentlessly’ stormed out of the peace negotiations and started the 2nd ‘intafata’. Eleven months later 9-11-01 occurred.
Bear in mind the following equitable considerations:
a) Roughly equal numbers of Palestinian-Arabs were displaced in 1947/8 as were Hebrews from regional Mid East countries. No consideration was made to how the Jews were to be compensated for their lost properties--in countries such as Iraq, Jordan, Egypt Yemen and elsewhere.
b) For the first and only time in the history of the world, “refugees” were given legal permission to pass their “refugee” status down to successive generations. Thus, the 750,000 original displaced persons in 1947, became 5-million by 2,000, when their children and grandchildren were counted.
c) For the first and only time in the history of the world, the UNHCR (refugee section of the United Nations) was politically blocked from resettling these Arab populations into permanent and habitable quarters. While some 20-million Arabs and Muslims were welcomed into Western (Euro) nations as immigrants in the past 25 years, very few were Palestinian. This was far from accidental.
As we now stand, the Arab peace initiative being put forth by the Saudis, calls for all 5-million (now 5.5 million) so called “refugees” to become Israel citizens.
Exactly what sort of “two state” solution is that??
Also, as we now stand, Hamas and Hezbollah have committed themselves to the total destruction of Israel, not the negotiation with Israel. They have been supported and armed by Iran, who is of the same political position.
I am all for peace. I simply believe that the public at large has their facts mangled and as a result, their conclusions can not be relied on. Anyone who actually believes that my points-of-fact are factual, can not agree with the substance of the above article or the stated aims of “J street”, which are therefore a daydream.
What exactly is left to “negotiate”? Surrender.

Posted by: Trollstein on 04/15/08 at 4:40 PM  Respond

Trollstein, we have heard enough of your lies. You are just another Christ hater.

Posted by: Peter the Great on 04/15/08 at 6:01 PM  Respond

Peter the Great:
Who else other then you and your assorted alias' personalities constitute "we"?
What exactly do you contest?
I neither love or dislike "Christ". I simply know history.
History is a science. It utilizes standards, same as other sciences.
However, when it comes to religious history, accommodations (known as "indulgences" in the Roman parlance) are made to satisfy those who's personal beliefs exceed their desire for true-facts.
The only statement carved on the Roslyn Chapel (in Scotland) built by the Knights Templar and in Latin:
"Wine is strong, a king stronger, women even stronger but truth conquers all."

Posted by: Trollstein on 04/15/08 at 7:01 PM  Respond

At a time when AIPAC continues to move further and further to the right of center, an organization like JStreet is LONG overdue. I look forward to seeing this group grow and anticipate seeing great things in the near future...

Posted by: Sunny in SoCal on 04/15/08 at 7:44 PM  Respond

The primary violation of the human rights of the Palestinian-Arab populations is NOT the result of the actions of the Israelis. The Israelis merely wish to have secure borders, free from attack and terrorism.
The primary violation is the direct and consummate result of the actions of the various “host” countries, who house (collectively) about 3-million mainly descendants of the original displaced Palestinian-Arabs. They are kept in concentration camps, nation less, like animals in several countries, including Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and elsewhere. Though 85% of these people never set foot inside Israel and were born on the soil in which they now reside, they are being denied basic human rights by their various “hosts”. In Lebanon for example, the Palestinian-Arabs are even prohibited from having full-time jobs. It is these same ‘host’ countries (and their sympathizers) who continue to foment the conflict against Israel, in hopes that some day soon, they can ship out their Palestinian-Arab populations to what would then be re-named “Palestine”.
Such events do not happen by coincidence.
This is a war against the Jews, that just has not worked very effectively (for the past 65 years).

Posted by: Trollstein on 04/15/08 at 8:25 PM  Respond

I am a practising moderate Jew and longtime Zionist. But I also believe we must pursue an honorable peace in spite of all obstacles. Unfortunately, I see a lack of vision among Israeli leaders today. For us to give Palestinian Arabs what they want, we need to understand what Israelis and Jews need and want both now and in the future.

"Honorable" applies to both Jews and Arabs. Although we must listen to respectful Arab positions on a peace settlement, we should not accept everything they demand especially demands that would harm Israel's long term viability or be disrespectful toward Jews and Judaism. I believe Jews and Arabs must agree on a set of reciprocal principles that would create a structure for Israel and Palestine coexisting within some form of loose federation.

All agreements between the parties must demonstrate respect for each other and complete reciprocity regarding property, population settlement, public services, education, and other matter of social importance. This a far cry from contemporary Isalamic and Arab thinking but we must be adamant about reciprocity of principles.

Reciprocity would allow Jews to live in Palestine just as Arabs live in Israel but in a manner that Jews and Arabs do not interfere with the social, cultural, and religious institutions of one another. Ethnic cleansing of Jews from a Palestinian state is simply unacceptable. Any talk of Arab refugees must also consider Jewish refugees. Any talk of Arab resettlement in Israel must also consider earlier expulsion and exclusion of Jews from the West Bank (pre-1948), Hebron(1929 and 1936), East Bank (creation of Jordan), and Gaza (1935). Historical expulsion of Jews from so called "Arab Lands" contributed much more to the creation of Israel than immigration of Holocaust survivors to Israel as claimed by Arabs.

So far, I do not see that Arabs understand the destructive nature of their own prior acts and they must not ever be left in the position to behave similarly in the future. Therefore, Israel must have absolute territorial integrity. Furthermore, Jews, Judaism, and Hebrew must be explicitely recognized as indigenous to both Israel and Palestine, settlement issues aside.

For an effective Pro-Peace, Pro-Israel lobby to be credible and effective, it must advance a Zionist Vision based on clear, honorable, and recipricol principles.

I would like to know how I might contact those who are founding this new lobby.

Posted by: Bob Baird on 04/15/08 at 8:25 PM  Respond

Where in the Constitution does it state that the US is obligated to support the outlaw, terrorist, Apartheid regime in Israel? Israel is no friend of this or any other country. By law, AIPAC and other pro-Israel groups are supposed to register as agents of a foreign power. Our "special relationship" with that wretched little country has given us nothing but trouble.

Posted by: chatsworth 69 on 04/15/08 at 8:41 PM  Respond

Bob, you can find contact details for the organization at its website
http://jstreet.org/

Posted by: writer on 04/15/08 at 8:44 PM  Respond

Bravo, Chatsworth 69!

Posted by: Ronnie Reeferseed on 04/15/08 at 10:13 PM  Respond

Trollestein, you need to give all that the J-Street lobby are trying to come up with a try. you should remember that the Arafat years are gone and the palestines might have learnt thier lesssions.

Posted by: okanokodi emma on 04/16/08 at 2:00 AM  Respond

Mother USA created daughter Israel.What should the mother do when the child cheats,steals and beats her?
New lobby-please it's like a wolf changing a new sheep's clothing.
One of many big lies--the gun lobby is number 1 in USA. Zionk Bovine piles!

Posted by: george in toronto on 04/16/08 at 3:28 AM  Respond

being for a two-state solution is yet another zionist ruse/deception. it is easy to be for two-state 'solution' when there is no second state.
there is only one state in expalestine.
zionists must think that the goyim are retards and would not espy yet another zionist/US 'promise'?
do US and israel think that we have forgotten the three invasions of lebanon and in 1967 aggression against egypt, iraq, jordan, and syria. and after 60 years of crimes against palestinians, some of which are unprecendented, US/IOF will allow a second state?
zionists will never be at peace until, with permission of US, they obtain thru wars parts of lebanon, syria, and jordan; thus fulfilling one of the dreams of the mad hebrew priests.

Posted by: bozhidar balkas on 04/16/08 at 4:27 AM  Respond

Let's defend the rights of Palestinians to return to their homeland and to stop Zionist aggression

Posted by: Dr. Bilal Robinson on 04/16/08 at 5:11 AM  Respond

I wonder if the new group is a creation of Aipac to divert increasing critism from the organization. It provides a perfect foil against the pro-u.s. faction who aver that u.s. jews are monolithic in their support of the jewish state to the detriment of u.s. interests.

Posted by: Jadk on 04/16/08 at 5:30 AM  Respond

Looks like Trollstein needs to do a bit more inquiry into the history of the creation of the "state" of Israel. Specifically the founding days, and, past and present treatment of Christians, Muslims, Arabs, and others driven from their houses at gunpoint and with tanks. However, while T's a member of the "revisionist" school of thought, it is no small task to change the mind of a true believer. One question: just how is it that a "state" based upon racial and religious discrimination, which has a history of violence toward "minority groups" (the protected under democracy) is "democratic." Another Israelism, I imagine.

Posted by: optimist on 04/16/08 at 5:44 AM  Respond

Tired old lies.

Posted by: Joey Gee on 04/16/08 at 5:46 AM  Respond

Although Jews make up only about 2 percent of the U.S. population, they provide up to 40 percent of total campaign contributions for Democratic candidates and up to 20 percent for Republican candidates.

Now any question who is in control. Through is nuts like Hagee. Oh boy.

Posted by: Joey Gee on 04/16/08 at 5:49 AM  Respond

Obviously the formation of this new PAC is a welcome development. But at the same time we are reading of this development there is a far more disturbing development taking place in Israel.

Even though polls in Israel indicate that a solid majority of Israelis favor negotiations with Hamas, not a single Israeli politician agreed to meet with Carter, other than Shimon Peres, who took the opportunity to scold Carter. Not a single member of the Labor Party, or any Israeli politician who purports to favor engaging with Hamas, was willing to meet with Jimmy Çarter.

As with U.S. politicians on the issue of Iraq, Israeli politicians are utterly indifferent to polls indicating that Israelis favor engaging with Hamas. The right wing in Israel, as in the U.S., feels free to espouse maximilist positions while the left wing fears to forcefully argue for the position held by a clear majority.

Carter is getting savaged by the press here in the U.S. Haaretz, however, published a most eloquent editorial reminding us that Carter is only man to have brought any kind of lasting peace between Israel and any of its neighbors, and that this fact alone merits his treatment as "royalty." This is an opinion sadly absent in the editorial pages here in the U.S.

Until Israeli politicians, U.S. newspaper editors and political organizations in both countries are willing to embrace efforts like Carter's, we will continue to see majorities in both countries favor engagement and negotiation in the region while their respective governments resort to the same failed rejectionist policies that have brought us the current catastrophe in the region.

Posted by: thomas c on 04/16/08 at 6:01 AM  Respond

From basic talmud/torah: two wrongs do not make a right. Palestinian Arabs (the Palestinian mandate pre-existed the "state" of Israel) are the "victims of victims" (Israeli Jews). Why should Palestinian arabs be made to pay for the tribulations of the Israeli (and by extension, jewish) people by beiing placed under a brutal military occupation for sixty full years? Does this not stand Israeli (jewish) claims of "victimhood" on its' head?

Secondly, the "ethnic cleansing" has already been done--by Israelis to the Palestinian people (largely arabs) driven from their homes at gunpoint and by tanks over the past sixty years--although largely whitewashed in "academic" literature. What gives Israelis a greater claim to the Levant?

Sparta indeed.

The reason that accomodation is compelling is that compromise avoids mutually assured destruction.

Posted by: optimist on 04/16/08 at 6:03 AM  Respond

PS101: In a pluralist society groups gather to influence national policy. With an historical memory fresh from WWII, and, the widespread success of jewish business(wo)men in America ever since (my own jewish ancestors arrived in the 1800's), why not contribute large sums to political campaigns? Groups that fail to organize have forever been left in the dark.

What needs attention is the blemish thrust upon jewishness by the Israel-right-or-wrong crowd, the misuse of Israel as a landing groud for American military adventures, and, the severe consequences that continue to arise due to the brutality of the occupation and detention of Palestinian Arabs.

Posted by: optimist on 04/16/08 at 6:18 AM  Respond

It is to be hoped that the new Israel for peace movement
becomes a reality and I fully agree with N.A.Ali.
As for comments espoused by Trollstein may I suggest you
do some earnest research in matters Israel and Semitic people.
The recent article in the Haaretz newspaper discussing a
book titled “When and how the Jewish people was invented”
by the TelAviv University historian Prof. Shlomo Sand, should
give you some idea about reality. For instance he answered
this question as follows :

Why do you think the idea of the Khazar origins is so threatening?

"It is clear that the fear is of an undermining of the historic right to the land. The revelation that the Jews are not from Judea would ostensibly knock the legitimacy for our being here out from under us. Since the beginning of the period of decolonization, settlers have no longer been able to say simply: 'We came, we won and now we are here' the way the Americans, the whites in South Africa and the Australians said. There is a very deep fear that doubt will be cast on our right to exist."

You may also ask yourself why the orthodox Torah Jews in the
U.S.A never recognized Israel, and furthermore you might want
to re-read Benjamin H. Freedman’s speech of 1961, in which
he warned America.
Israeli mythology is no different from the old Greek or Teutonic
Tribes in Germany.
As Freedman said, today’s Jews have as much right to be called
Semitic people as the fifty odd million Chinese Muslims have a right to be called Arabs.
For all the historic facts which surround the state of Israel it is
My hope that the new movement for peace is successful.

Posted by: gary ludwig on 04/16/08 at 6:24 AM  Respond

chatsworth 69:
Ronnie Reeferseed:
Jew-bashers

Posted by: Trollstein on 04/16/08 at 7:12 AM  Respond

okanokodi emma:
You wrote:
"Trollestein, you need to give all that the J-Street lobby are trying to come up with a try. you should remember that the Arafat years are gone and the palestines might have learnt thier lesssions."
Chairman Arafat and his split personality has been replaced by two separate Palestinian-Arab factions, who are themselves at war with one another. Why am I not surprised??
Arafat used to make speeches of peace and reconciliation in English and the very next day, be preaching Jihad in Arabic before school children.
Of course he is gone, thank Allah.
I have nothing against the notion of Peace in Israel, quite the contrary. Therefore, I do not have objection to the concept. I just think it is kinda like Larry Flint trying to mix religion and porno, as he did just before being shot. The fact is that there is not a solution for every problem in this world. Not because I say so and not because I wish it so. Because that is the obvious reality. What people don't realize about me is that half the time, I would prefer to be wrong. I don't have that luxury

Posted by: Trollstein on 04/16/08 at 7:13 AM  Respond

george in toronto:
You wrote:
"Mother USA created daughter Israel.What should the mother do when the child cheats,steals and beats her?"
Inaccurate on multiple fronts.
Israel was first created by international treaty law following WW1. See: http://english.katif.net/index.php?sub=2&id=1824
While do not agree that these treaties envisaged all of Palestine, as asserted in the above referenced essay, it certainly envisaged a substantial part. 2008 Israel is 1/5th of pre-WW1 "Palestine" and it contains 1.5 million Arab citizens who vote and hold seats in Parliament.
Of course, these post WW1 international laws failed to implement with respect to Israel and Kurdistan, although the same set of treaties did implement with respect to Christian Armenia and all the various Arab/Muslim oil producers, such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, UAE and all others in the region.
The second set of Internal laws which mandated Israeli independence took place in August, 1948, U.N.G.A. #181:
The 33 countries (58%) that voted in favour of the partition were: Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Byelorussian SSR, Canada, Costa Rica, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Guatemala, Haiti, Iceland, Liberia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Sweden, South Africa, Ukrainian SSR, United States of America, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Uruguay, Venezuela.
The 13 countries (23%) that voted against resolution were: Afghanistan, Cuba, Egypt, Greece, India, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Yemen.
The 10 countries (17%) that abstained were: Argentina, Chile, Republic of China, Colombia, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Honduras, Mexico, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia.
One state (2%) was absent: Thailand (wikipedia. com)
You will note that Canada voted to affirm. The only difference from then to today is the price of a barrel of oil.

Posted by: Trollstein on 04/16/08 at 7:14 AM  Respond

bozhidar balkas:
One might think that the various Popes might work on the Catholic population of Lebanon to stop their ongoing brutality against Palestinian-Arabs, whom they consider "refugees" but who were mainly born in Lebanon. Of course, no such words have been uttered. Gross hypocrisy.

Posted by: Trollstein on 04/16/08 at 7:16 AM  Respond

optimist:
(Sounds like even your name is a fib).
You wrote:
" . . . Arabs, and others driven from their houses at gunpoint and with tanks. . . "
Yet, no newsprint can be located originating from anywhere in the entire world, alleging that there were any forced expulsions of Arabs by Jews. The British press was all over Israeli independence and nonetheless, no newsprint of any kind from any newspaper in the UK or elsewhere mentions any forced expulsions. And people like yourself don't find that strange. Why am I not surprised.
Here is your reading list, if you wish to play nice with the adults:
Start with: "Jews, God and History" by Max Dimant
"Semites and Anti-Semites" by Prof. Bernard Lewis (Princeton)
"From Time Immemorial" by Joan Peters
"The fight for Jerusalem" by Dore Gold.
" . . . "revisionist" school of thought"
I submit you have it backwards.
" . . .One question: just how is it that a "state" based upon racial and religious discrimination . . "
How is Mecca reserved for Muslims (no Jews permitted).
How is the Vatican a Catholic Nation?
At least in Israel, non-Jews are supposed to have equal rights, although I admit that in practice this is not always the case.
If people funneled their energy expended bashing Jews unfairly, towards constructive goals, the Jews would be better of and the world would also be better off.

Posted by: Trollstein on 04/16/08 at 7:17 AM  Respond

Joey Gee:
You wrote:
" . . . Although Jews make up only about 2 percent of the U.S. population, they provide up to 40 percent of total campaign contributions for Democratic candidates . . "
Tell that to Sen Obama, who has something like 1.35 MILLION individual $$ donors. Since the individual donation limit for the primaries is $2,000.00, your math can not make sense. (I think you get your statistics off of Aryan Nations web pages)(???)

Posted by: Trollstein on 04/16/08 at 7:30 AM  Respond

thomas c:
the fact that a lefty like Perez has unwelcome words for Carter, should tell you something about Carter, more so then Perez. Perez is the guy who met with the Nazi Grand Mufti al-Husseini in 1947 and offered him a viable two state solution.

Posted by: Trollstein on 04/16/08 at 7:31 AM  Respond

To everyone:
The Israeli war-hawks can be controlled. But only when the Islamic war-lords have been disempowered. Should these factions succeed in their goal of destroying Israel, the joke will be on you, because we in the "West" will be next. Israel has the profound misfortune of being on the front-line of this revolution. For that they should be pitied, not condemned.

Posted by: Trollstein on 04/16/08 at 7:32 AM  Respond

Another zion play that would not work(Think 'A' communities).

Join Umar Empire for safe jew end under Quran commands.

Posted by: IP Khalifah on 04/16/08 at 7:41 AM  Respond

i am amazed that zionists still do not see the obvious: 'yahweh' is still doing all the promising and jews much of the bleeding thru ages and killing of pals.
they also do no espy that yahweh has given them all of tiny palestine; an impoverished land; surrounded by (eternal?) enemies. and zionists think of this as gift and not as punishment?

Posted by: bozhidar balkas on 04/16/08 at 9:06 AM  Respond

i am very much at sea when people say they are proisrael and for peace.
what's proisrael mean? does it mean abrogation of our second-dearest panhuman right, that of the return to one's HHH (habitat, home, hearth) regardless why one left it? does proisrael mean that a land or a people (such as khazaro-slav-jews) have a right to attack another land or people? or does it mean that of-necessary-truth principle, that no land has the right to attack another under no known circustance, is meaningless/undesirable?
proisreal stance may even mean that israel has the right to punish millions for crimes of one, two, or several individuals?.
if the principle of nonaggression had been honnored, people who did crime in iraq, only do the time and not millions of children, women, and civilians? and US wouldn't be in iraq today.
so, if my analyses is even partly correct, then i would evaluate the label "propeace" as a ruse. which is easily discovered. PS. my appology for messing up my posting

Posted by: bozhidar bob balkas on 04/16/08 at 9:47 AM  Respond

bozhidar balkas:
Technically, the Hebrew Scriptures prohibit the return to Israel unless and until the "Messiah" arrives and leads this movement.
Since no "Messianic figure" has emerged, Israel is not therefore sanctioned by the Jewish religion.
Ironically, it IS sanctioned by Surah 17 of the Muslim Qur'an.
Whether God reserved Israel for Jews is irrelevant. Israel exists as a legal and sovereign entity and you should therefore address the facts on the ground, not the mystic elements which you have identified specifically for ridicule.
(PS} repeat the above 2 more times)

Posted by: Trollstein on 04/16/08 at 9:52 AM  Respond

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To me this issue has reached a new level of danger for Jews the world over—because Jews are playing the “militant card”, which given their numbers (in population) and in truth the shakiness of their 'real' power in a regional and global sense, it strikes me as rather unwise—to the point of almost being absurd.

I do not think that in 1918 there were many Germans who really thought about Jews, simply because Jews had proven in WWI their valor and their loyalty to the German state—in the sense of becoming assimilated into the German state as Germans and not remaining on the society's periphery as Jews—thus it was their German-ness and not their Jewishness that was starting to become the defining notion ethnically. Germans Jews in WW1 were by their percent of the population the most decorated soldiers in Germany, receiving their honored Iron Cross in the sense that it was given (for valor in service and defense of the nation) and not as some symbol of the Hun or some other derogatory concept that would be attached to it by 1933 when the anti-Jew party officially took power and the symbolisms of Nazis took over all of Germany in a rather unbelievable frenzy of mass insanity.

Still it is perhaps worth while to attempt to comprehend how this sort of phenomenon could be possible, because it is a mistake to say that the anti-Jew aspect of what occurred in Germany under the Nazis is anything particular to Germans as a group but is rather a wide spread phenomenon throughout Europe and of course beyond—Jews had flocked to Germany in the course of European history for a reason (that reason is not of course because of its Antisemitism but rather because the opposite was the case—Jews fled to that place which offered the highest degree of liberalism), and we might duly note Jews have flocked to the US for a similar reason—its religious tolerance and its sense of being the land of opportunity, i.e. it's liberalism.

So if one reflects on the consequences of the first World War on Germany it would be the utter depression that ensued upon the entire nation caused by the demand of the allied forces that Germany pay for the debt of the war—thus the utter poverty that engulfed the nation was all the fuel necessary to pin it on the Jews and on communists (the purge of communists by the Nazis is rather bizarre because by 1935 both Stalin and Hitler would be saying of each others ideology that it was the logical stepping stone to their own respective ideologies—thus from Stalin's point of view fascism was a natural stepping stone to communism and vice verse for Hitler. (they'd become political and military chums)

Still what is important isn't the “ideologies” of fascism or communism but rather the brutal reality of what wide spread poverty can create psychologically when the the leadership that commands the nation state is itself in a rather anti-humanist state of consciousness. That is the case today in the US. We have created in the Red Republican Party (Red is for Red State) an almost unbelievable anti-humanist stance. We live in a nation where the leadership of the nation have planned and organized in systematic fashion the torture, the kidnapping and in general the inhuman acts that confront us daily on our TV screens and on the front pages of our newspapers. We have gone to war built on a pack of lies, while at the same time our country has made the false claim that the reason for its actions are “national security”. National Security in the US does not build on its military might but rather on its ability to control the world via its economy (the reason for our forward deployment of the military the world over is to ensure that we do not get cut off from markets just in case some particular region of the world becomes unstable—thus the grounds are defensive in nature and grounded in economical reasoning—it's the economy stupid!). The world is priced in dollars not Yen or Euro, but once that faith in the buck ends we will sit with multi-trillion dollar debt and it will be expected of us to pay it off! At this juncture in time we see not just the housing market collapsing but rather the effect is spreading—like a cancer and it will infect each and every aspect of the economy—oil is at 114 dollars a barrel, the dollar has slid by 30 cents to a Euro in less than six months and yet we hear John McCain talking about “winning the war”--the guy is nuts and imagine how he sounds to the rest of the world? (what McCain's statements signal to world is, “It's time to dumb the Greenback” and he's said to be “Strong on National Security”)) Unless we remove our forces from Iraq, Afghanistan and probably from the entire world and cut our military spending by more than 50% we will know what the Germans of the 1920's knew—the harsh and cruel meaning of wide-spread national poverty and out of the poverty will come the BLAME.

It is my contention that the blame will placed on not just the Jewish lobby and on Israeli leadership but on Jews in general. That is the stupid game the fanatical Jewish leadership in the Israeli state are playing (don't get me wrong Jews and Israelis in general are not fanatics but tend to be warm hearted humanitarians but this Jewish lobby and the hawks in the conservative party of Israel are fanatical lunatics)—they are engaged in a strategy that will bring upon them and their people a total disaster unless Jews and Israelis wake up and act now.

Posted by: Kirilovslogic on 04/16/08 at 11:22 AM  Respond

I am glad that this organization is forming and hopefully gaining strength. While I would prefer stronger commitment to the human rights issues that are faced in the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, I believe this is a true start to moving towards a more humane and informative conversation about the conflict. I strongly believe that we Jews from all over the world, need to stop reacting from fear of anti-semitism, and stop and look at the part that we ourselves are playing in the conflict. While i believe the Palestinians have also fallen into the war-hate trap laid out by the powers that be, the Israeli government has played an enormous role in abusing its powers and are buying into the U.S. imperialistic goals that are seriously damaging the peace process and the well being of Israelis and Palestinians alike. The human rights violations that this nation that we longed for is doing, is inexcusable, and unless we look at it and learn new and more humane and authentic ways to care for ourselves, we
will be lost in a souless, escalating, ongoing and disastrous cycle of violence and hatred.


HOW THE JEWS HAVE BEEN USED AND AllOWED THEMSELVES TO BE USED FOR BENEFIT OF PARAISITC ANGLOSAXON RACE.


very true -in fact so called jewish's lobby" power is a propaganda done by the english race to hide thier nefarious iterference in the american ploicy to uinflunce american domestic and foreing policy for the benefit of england.

1999.

how england has used jews for the benfit of english race only and for deliberatily creating disruption in Europe.

England had threatened israel in 1948 during israeli war of indepdence that england would use atom bomb agaisnt israel unless israel stop ddrowning royal air foarce palnes and pilots who were helping Jordan against israel.
the same england was in upsroar in july 1981 when isrea;l attakced iraq's nuclear reactor-just check out theier papers of the time
the same ngland was leading charge agasint isreal in june 82 when isreal attacked palestinain terrorists inside lebanon-that was at t time when england was in illegal occupation for malvinas island.
that is short glimpse of how much england and anglosaxon race care about jews and israel.
look at editorails of the times, the newsweek during those crucial perios of june 82 and see how they(the TImes, the gaurdian, BBC, ITV) were suggesting that israel or atleast tel aviv should be bombed.-just chek the british papers and bbc clips from april 82 to august 82.Also check those british bastrds joutrnlism hist in the month of summer 1981 when iraqi nuclear planty was bombed by the isralis and the british were the first-along with iraq -to protest agasint the israeli action.


It is very interesting that the same type of english people(who are anti-communists, anti-blacks, anti-muslims, anti-catolics) started the same sort of propaganda(like used against russians and communists) against The Germans.the Frenchs and Europeans in general. First England did not want germany united(though during cold war it suggested that only Russians are against it). soon after German reunification and even before disintegration of Soviet union ,England changed the lie-tactics(through media and government) against Europe. There is one more thing. nato was supposed to counter warsaw pact, with the latter gone there was no discussion as to nato should be wound uop or not. Europe does not need nato. Europe can have and should have her own defence system as is the Germo-Franco_Italian_Spanish collaboration. that European defence pact must be stengthened rather than germany supporting nato. Actually england needs nato to prop up its nasty influence in military matters. With the help of usa and nato has england been able to prop up her influence. In fact england is ant-Europe and through nato it wants to keep a tab on european affairs and not let Europe get strong on her own. As england can not do this own her own it has let America involved in it(during empire days england hardly shared power with America but it needs America now). Germany or Europe does not need nato. In fact nato is the greatest enemy(through england)of germany and europe. How can england be so much anti-Germany,working dso much against German interests and be a major parterner in common defence pact?It is a ludicrous situation. England manipulates financial market(in last8 years through recession and what not london market has risen 3 fold while far Eastern markets-who are the main producers of consumer goods-has fallen drastically.). That is why it pumped up the value of pound before joing european sustem-ofcourse it was unsustainable but for devaluation of pounds the Germans and some jews(as said by bbc) were blamed. As england does not want German or any other European country to get economically strong and be financially independent of london market, it opposed Single currency vehemently.Even a so called left-paper like Guardian was suggesting that if Shroeder(of german spd party) were the chancellor than he would give more say(than others in europe) to England-so it would have been good. In other word they want special treatment for themselves. Why? When they talk of sovereignity is england not the main country pushing, threatning and cajoling the thirld world to accept World bank and IMF(created by america for englands interest) so called structral reform regardless of people's wishes. If other countries's destiny can be controlled by bureacrats in IMF. then why not England's by European's bureacrats? England is the most bureactic and centralised country in europe with all the regional making machinery smashed by the government with the help of bbc and all other propaganda machinery. And that England talks of local development and burocracy of European commission.Single european currency is a must for Europe not only for european economic advantage and stability but also because it will smash england's power of financial market manipulation. In Fact the rest of Europe should actively discourage england to join Euro, because then englnd@s financial power will be smashed and it will be good news for Europe and the rest of the world. Not only England want to eat rotten, viral infected meat but also wants to force feed the the rotten thing to the Europeans. When germany resists this nasty move on part of england to take rotten meat ,then germany-already a villain in their eyes -becomes a super villain. As soon as the news leaked out of viral infevted meats, the first reaction of bbc was not as to why it happened but ''Can Europe ban the xport legally?-has it got the right?''. there was never a hue and cry about cruel treatment of cows who were forced fed on infected animal meats(cows are vegetarian). This sort of so called commercial farming is the thing which has been pushed down the through of rest of world through GAT. which was made to suit anglo00saxons' interest.France was right to oppose gat in this form. If the similar thing happened in any other country in the world then this the same british media including bbc would hape said a cruel, primitive practice for rotten meat with no regard for peoples health or animals@ welfare. In fact for showing so much cruelty to animals in this case it is not the animals which should be killed but the peoples(british farmers and their media propagandists). There was and is always a support for such disgusting affairs by the british peoples and it shows what sort of people they are. we will british meat even if it is rotten. in fact there was hardly a influx of foreign meats followinf disclosure. This phenomenan of using rotten british product is not confined to beaf-it extends to everything . in fact protectionism at home and forced infiltration abroad is the name of game in england. And this is the country talking about liberalization. That is why british products,thogh rotten in quality are high in price. All this because of underlying protectionism. That is also why you will not only not get fresh ,healthy products but also you do not find variety in british life. In the name of traditional(to prect the internal market) britain sells to own people and a few foreign stooges, the same rotten cheese, the same low quality high priced car and same rotten but high price arms(Saudis and others are fed with it). Actually this clone like cancerous feature is very much english way of life. the english live in ame only 4 or 5 varieties of house, their furniture is the same 4 to five varietis their cothes are they same rotten unsmart types and their food is the sme rotten type with rotten ingediants. Then why do the englisjh live? for extacting money for money sake. this ia feature of parasitic and cancerous race. the same thing they have exported to where they went. that is why all anglo saxons countries show lack of variety.and it is the engl;ish who accused Russians of imposing their culture destroying variety in soviet union. As to talk of this supporting own rotten meat and drug industry(tobacco) for the sake of jobs, why can not the thirld world support her own industry for their jobs and prosperity. atlest thirld world still produces better quality food and clothes and even car than the general british joe is used to. When agitation was going on in South Africa in '86 against apartheid, the bbc reprted in support of apartheid that otherwise in case of sanctions against s.africa it would be british profits and jobs which would be lost.Such peoples who benefit by others misery should be made jobless. In fact capitalism and so called freedom for them means freedom to exploit other nations and give them misery. For themselves english never practice free market-it is for foreign suckers. England is a protected and market for themselves and their rotten products. For example, Honda(which rescued b.l.) and rovers are the same cars but rovers cost more because it is british car and because they sometimes put a thin veneer of wood in it. Bearing in mind the british homes have hardly got a furniture of solid good wood, the english are selling their cars not on engineering but on carpentry and tatty presentation. And as these shopkeepers never have class, they make a lot of noise about class too. in fact what british media says and what truth is 180 degreee apart.For foregn goods(car, consumer items etc) the english would be very fussy and wanrt to get at least price abut for british goods they would create all lies and excuses to pump up the price and sell. That ids why the advanced countries in Europe and far east are in recession and britain and other anglo-saxon countries (which except america is only primary producers of land-oil.timbers. etc-land stolen from others in last 250 years)are in boom. It is not even alive and let live. english like to wreck others ' prospect of prosperity or happiness. For example.england knew that it had no outside chance of staging soccer world cup.but it put forward proposal nevertheless at last minute at a time when Germany was well favourite for that. Why?-to wreck chances for GERmany to stage one.So Germany lost not only that glory but also a lot of money to immense satisfaction of english press and people. unemployment in Germany could have eased up if it had got the ofeerr to stage world cup, but no. And it is this Germany who agreed to british request to delay monetary union for 2 years (When britain is not going to be part of it even) . Had that monetary union come about earlier, German chancellor would not have been facing this problem as nhe is now. But then england has always survived on folly of these suckers who do not know who thier real friend or enemy are.nato which ia realyy an agent for english interest(and broadly anglosaxon interest) should have been rejected by Germany and also euro-fighter in place of truelly european (excluding britain ofcourse)military alliance. but Germany lost that chance and new cold war(egland has always done cold wars,it is too coward to enter in direct confontration without firsat weakening enemy with lies and propaganda machinery likebbc and others)has begun. For those who do not belive this let me give an example. Soon after fall of Berlin war, the editor of Sunday times(who is reknowned racist, anti communist and anti poor,pro capitalist and later came out to be anti Germans and antiFrench aswell) said on bbc that to protect nato and english interests ineurope ,may be americans should get out of germany and than british garrison can stay there because americans would be resented as occupying foreign forces while britain can simply say that they are european aswell and so stay. This from a man who is European hater and is one of leading propagandists against Germany (as he was against russia).So there you are-cat is out. The english are a foreign intusive element in europe through nato. In fact england should not have been allowed in european community ,barring this england must not be allowed to join european single currency if one wants to insure stability and cohesive stength of Euro.It is very interesting that the same editor of sundays times who rave about like a mad dog against germans ,French, Europe in general and ofcourse against blacks and socialists was also a sort of adviser to lady diana. That lady diana@s most of the friends during her fame have been what can be described, for lack of better word, a representative of greedy '80s is significant. Diana was a representative of that greedy shomful period called 80s and her main freinds were the same exploters which made 80s'climate of greed and shelfishness possible. Diana was minly liked by lower class shopkeepers and plumbers class -in other word whose forefatehrs were lumpen proletariat only a generation or two. She was neither aristocratic in taste nor her freinds were. but the same diana -a darling of greedy exploters with no class_ is being pumpep up by british people as some angel. This is all to give themselves importance. While bbc and british media always ignore others countries'important and good news, the other countries should also ignore british media and operate the same volantary blanket on british news(which in reality are not important anyway). Therew is no point in giving exposure and importance to the very propaganda machinery(british media) which though belonging to not even a 4th leage in military is a dangerous adeversary for spreading lies and demoralisation (they call it cold war-the only war they are effective at).Even you see what happened after cold war then you realize that what a shame the cold war was adn only for the benefit of britain. Since then soviet empire is gone but britain still boasts of evil empire called british empire which existed before soviet empire. If it was all right for russins (as was advisedby britain ) to exchange pltanks for tracters, to exchange empire for so called freedom the why did not britain disban empire in 1880(the same level of power as enjoyed by Russia in 1970): why britain not stop forcefully imposing a sell of arms on saudi arabia?propaganda was that soveit union was governed by a select few without any say of parliament. Who were those western media peoples advising Yelstin to storm the parliaments and if possible kill the parlimentarians if they do not approve of yelstil plan to sell Russia to English tobacco and liquers interests and english pimps? Ofcoursre it were mainly english and anglosaxons who were advising jelstin to take all the measures to be sell Russia cheap. soon after storming of parliament yelstin,with the support of anglosaxon media brought a constitutional changeds to give himself a dictatorial power. But then he is a western(read anglosaxon stooge) therefore he was hailed for that in western media. The result. There is only one thing selling in all earst while communist country-Anglo-american tobaccos@ product(drug), british and anglosaxon@whisky and liquers and prostitution. English never was, is or will be a language of culture but certainly it has become a language of prostitution and drugS(cigarettes) advertisement. Therfore through that mad, weak, ill man Yelstin these anglosaxons have made prostitutesof women, wifes and girlfriends; have left the helpless children on the cold, cruel streets and left the olds(who worked hard for their pensionable life) pauperforced to beg on the street. Even full war does not do that. Soviet union had better droppeped hundred hydrogen bombs on England and then gone pauper at least it would have satisfaction of having levelled with the enemy. (In fact in cold war russsiac did not need to target anywhre, if britain had the first possibility of being annhilated then war(because it was controlled by british and pro-british elements in states) would never have arisen.Cold war against Russia was started for the asame reason as cold war against Germany has started. TO keep britain in picture as it gives them a sense of false position, to harass other country and wreck others economy. IN august90, the soviets had captured some persons with british passports who were pumping up False notes of Roubles in russia. IN other words they were british agents who ,by putting illegal tenders were making rouble go down in value and ultimatily wrecking russian economy. THe english arew very careful of their savings and pension and economy. their deeds in other countries must be remembered to get even. Therfore english nature is to be cancerous like low form of lifes'like spread and to be vey intusive,and to pass as parasite srom one host to another(they call it cold war). Oher country have no choice to to neuatralize this cancer and remove it forcefully and bodily because otherwise the same game would be going on for ever.The main aim of england in europe is(and has been( to create a rift between germany and France or Russia or whosoever is strong so that england can play her intussive role in europe and bullying role in world. Having failed in creating this rift, the same english propagidists are saying that Europe should not become strong because it will create a rift and possible war between Europe and America. Why? When according to the same english propagandists american cultutre is(or should remain) predominantly european then why should be such a rift. Gradually with europe getting powerfull, this idea of rift will be instilled into americans just as a cold war was started between earstwhile allies by the english agents in media in britain and america. But why should america be influenced-it should not but it is : so let us examine the role of english propagandists in shaping up american foreign and domestic policy.
This all started soon after Nepoleanic war when in 1816 to 1817 The english again attacked america in her southern flanks and the day was saved only because of some French navy mercinaries and French speaking population of lousiana and such states along with non-english origin americans. But the english invaders infiltrated among that population of Sothern america which today calls itselvesves bible belt (whose god has always been english royalty and who worship only stolen money).By 1850 to 1860 England attacked earswhile friend (in Nepoleanic war) Russia in crimea along with earstwhile foe(now controlled by unpopular english sooge) France.-how the same pattern is so predictable in case of this intusive,cancerous exploitative race called english and anglosaxons. At that very time England was activelly supporting the slave exploitation,in fact all the big plantation owners were english derived and they owned loyalty not to flag of Unitated states of america but to England. -in other words they were agents of foreign country who wnted to keep south america occupy as foreign power again. The civil war in america was not only supported with money and arms by england but rather england was the instigater of american civil war in order to keep whole of america enslaved and if not possible atleast those parts (South) where it could call upon fillial loyalty. It was trully a war of race-not against whites and blacks but against anglosaxons versus blacks, Irish, other european peoples .THe same would be repeated in future. The confederacy was a traitor to america-a british agents;but ironically that same confedercy flag today is being propaganised by thier descendents as symbol of american independence and patriotism.Having lost the proxy war england resorted to the one thing it specialises-terrorism and misinformation. Abraham lincon was murdered by the person very sympathatic to britsh cause.(against Nepolean england had sent several terrorist squads-that is why Nepolean had to declare Himself an Emperor to maintain the clear line of successecion to protect glorious French Revolution). It is very interesting that most of the american presidents assasinated were those whom England did not want being elected. By the end of civil war ,instead of disinfranchasising the british supporters(of southern states) and taking away their land or atleast redistributing evenly the stolen land,the american govt. was pursuaded by britain to spare them and let those southern traitors keep all the stolen land so that drug(tobacco) and cotton would be of assured supply to england. Ofcourse by that time because of fall of Nepolean(brought about not by military might but by conspiracy to embroile the Europeans among each other( conspiracy hatched in london-that was the only english contribution to nepoleans' fall-forget waterloo whereAustrians and prussians had contributed most militarily):consequently england got free reign to exploit the rest of the world and amassed wealth.With that new loot the english shopkeepers started not only factory but also bought titles(Always a purchagable item in englad) and started giving themselves high sounding titles and names. With that they started the rumour that english people had class and aristocracy and america could rub some off it if it was willing to ply right and play right. During that period england started propaganda of herself being friend of america though in britain news it hardly gave any importance to americans except with contempt. When the first world war came, england had already infiltrated in the american decision making process.(Thogh some of southern traitors had fled to Canada, most had remained to slowly spread their cancerous tantackles tn American govt.The first world war had been started by england to destroy Germany and Russia at the same time. ENgland had got envious of german prosperity (by 1870 Germany without an empire had taken over england in industrial).Encyclopaedia brittanica writes(anyone can verify that) about Bismarck that Bismarck was aggresive in domestic policy but very very peacefull in foreign policy because he did not interfere with Others' empire making process.Try telling that to the then French and Austrian peoples. This only shows how the mind of england and anglosaxon race works even today. The same encyclopaedia hardly gives any cridit of roman empire to romans or Italians saying it was an world empire so Italians ((even of Rome) had little to do with with. Take all the credit for a bandit cum shopkeeper's empire(britishwhich lasted 100 to 150 yers but no credit to Romans for an empire of much better quality and longer duration.anyway during 1st world war the slogan of england was freedom for world from german aggraessin who wanted to take away world. This was from a shopkeeper's country who had imposed devastating assault on the whole world not only economically and poltically but also environmentally. The evil was giving a slogan to be spared!Thogh the main intentoion of Germans was against Russia(to which england had secretly given support) on england@s backstabbing Germans took decision to sort out the English aswell. With all the resources of empire(men and arms not to speak of money) England could not do anything against Germans who had been embroiled(as was planned by englad-Belgium's souverneighty was an excuse)on two fronts. This shows the inferiority of English military power at the height of her power(but then it never won war on stength but through indescrept looking spys.What hitler said of Jews was all wrong,it never applied to jews.Hitler was barking at wrong tree. What hitler said of jews aplleis only to english race and not anybodyselse. The jews in freemasonery are english agents-in freemasonery are many peoples other than jews. in fact freemasonary is shopkeeper@s race(english) spy machinary as are all the british jornalists who are still working-after clearance from brtitish spy service-mm5-as british spy.The jews got all the blame because their very small fish-main mastermind of international ring to take over world for its own gedy use has been england and no one else. Anyway ,English army and navy were so ineffective against German might that by 1917 england was loosing the war.Then come the immense pressure to declare war against germany by america. -in name of democracy.before that democracy word had not been used to defend anything. Now facing defeat england started talking of democracy just as it started talking of democratic reform 99 years after ruling Hongkong-an year before departure.Democracy from then will mean not what it is supposed to mean in dictionary meaning-but a special kind of system anywhere in the world which protects english interest and which allows england to exploit others race. A very famous news moghul (jewish) had been stopped from running american presidency because he might not have been inclined to rescue england in the 1st world war. Anywhay, the southern constitiuency was pressing hard for america to come to rescue englad who was staring defeat and thus loosing the prospect of enslaved nations who would have been feed from defeat of england. America did come to aid of england and it was called end of isolationalism. But this end of isolationalism would be tolerated only when it suits english interest against others and not in case of others like freedom for Irish people in northern Ireland(an occupied part of Ireland). But american intervention was not decisive-Russian winter wasAs it would be another war 20 years later. But the pattern had been setup for america to make her polices to suit english interest not only in domestic policy but also in foreign affairs. IN fact in pursuing such policy America is acting against the home countries of majority of her citizens. But who says in democracy majority rules . Who says in democracy peoples have choice. Democracy as practised and efined by the british media propagandists is any system of government -even by a pschotic like Jelstin in russia-which benefits british business and gives jobs to british people at the same time making pauper and slave ,stooge of english interest. Between the 2 world war,even before the rise of Hitler in germany the british agents and british sympathisers(who used to keep a photo of quun victoria in '20s as object of worship)started a terror of murder, killings and what not against not only the blacks but also catholics. This is how british always operate. first let be it white versus blacks. then whites versus jews. all one at time otherwise victims will be forwarned and retaliate . then white versus white catholics. then whites vesus white Germans. They do like that in nations they do ti peoples. only if the people realize that and finish these parasites off once for all! Those very confederecy flag bearers had recruited a lot af other whites to theuir cause and later on they would attck those whites also whose origin did not look like from england-one by one. Those same racists were the first to pressurise america to join 2nd world war for saving britain. so their racism was and is not for whote rasc but for a shopkeepers'race derived from Phoneacians(noneuropean) and who the world knows by the name of English and anglosaxonrace. From the 1st day of 2nd world war America secretly supplied arms and suppleis.british spitfire and other british arms were low quality useless junks-american plane along with Japenese Mitsubity and German planes were the real weopons of 2nd world war-but then british and anglosaxon media would like you to belive othewise. Reast we know. With 80 % of German's forces on winter Russian soil, even then germans were more superior in might and valour then the english who simply were conniving how to embroil others in the war rather than fight themseselves. Isrealies in last 50 years have won morw spectacular victories (without assistance of uno unlike som(in 48 war \isrealis Massesmitchs plane destroyed raf plane flowen by english(fighter) pilots who dared raid against Israel).But Isrealis do not celebrate so much (even 30 anniversary of taking of Western Wall in 67) with military band and show and do the english with their tarty shows of crap british war machine. But main point is why should american sources and effort be directed solely against others for the benefit of England(nor=t even scotland_in recent scotland limited freedom refredom bBc was vehemently opposed to giving any power other than a tocken on to install own bus survice or erect toilets). Afterall the population (legal) of united states constitutes more than 69 5 of those who did not come from Britain let alone england.In fact those who are noe-englang derived are the main people who made america graet otherwise america would have remained like canada-the largest country in the world with stole land of immense proportion ad thus benfiting from what comes out of stolen land-oil,timber,grain. Canada constituting mainly of(not french canda)those peoples who fled states after theirforfather's failed coup ateempt to take over united states(and thus relation of low brained confederacy's descendendents)are birish agents and also primary producers of the land(stolen). canada gross product constitutes very little of what man produces by brain or talent. The same way is of australia and newzealand. thes non-american anglosaxon countries arte thirld world-in fact their brain power is less than that of thirld world people. But then as west,as understood by English is realyy England and her descendents(anglosaxons) these backward countries-culturally and by crititarai iof per squre kilometer product . And this is exactly what united states was untill influx of immigratns from central and southern europe(who incidently came to america with mor money than the british. By the way canada is among the most 4th debted nation in the world but no body likes to expose and discuss it.It is the German scientists(till 1930 language of science was German and not english,it was after german speaking scientists came to america that grdually english(broken) became the language of high scince. IT is because of effort of these non-english immigrants that america acquired power of which she is so boastfull and which made her powerfull. As that intellectual property right of foreign country (rocket making,atomic bomb making ,china crockery,tea even gunpoweder from china) was stolen by both america and britain ,without paying royalty(how much british wedgewood or royal doulton or lipton tea has paid to china for having stolen china's product and reverse ingeneering?; it is why this so called called GAT pact must be scraped (as it produces rotten british beef in agriculture for once)and other countries should qcuire whatever arms they want want without giving a damn about anglosaxon world who incidently dropeed one and only one atomic bomb witout their security having been jeaporized(that is why they did it-if they know that they will also be annihilatted then there will a peace-borne out of fear.the only language anglosaxons understand.Anyway what these non-english immigrats got out of all these contribution? denigrating remarks, patronizing talk, and deliberete attempt to annihilate their identity-they call it mixed bowl. \even Einstein has not got a stream in the university town of pricton.\\they are called ethnic americans-Italian,greek,lithuvanian(Who incidently are the only aryan race speaker apart from latin in whole of European peoples and in america).Jewish ,Spanish etc.Implication being they are not really americans but only anglosaxons are ,. Even the Hispanic have been made villain as non americans. AS spanish were the first to discover america and stay)one third of america is stolen from spanish mexicans) and hispanic are sapanish and some are even halh spanish and half original americans(Called Indains),thoe hispanoic are the one who have got most right to stay in united states. But they are being labelled black as a sort of derogratory undesirable way. Blacks are the one who contributed most to what is any culture in america.129 years after slavery abolishion and 220 years ibndeop[endence, the blacks are not even third class citizen. It is this same america who .in order to harrass othr nation on one pretext or other ask third world country to improve human right situation,IN fact america nad engladn combined should be prosecuted in a war crime tribunal for crime commited against her citezens(non-england deriverd) and culprits 'property and all assents confiscated with capital punishments for many of tobacco barons and others pushers of alcohol,cigaterttes and what not.Main point is this england through her control of english propreitership, and through ufo-seeing morons(english gene plays a role here)have completellty cmanipulated most of not-brtish-derived that there is acoomon cause with those parasites first in name of black again white,having won that then they attack whit catholica, jews,spanish, germans and so on but not all at the same time-the game then will be revealed.Most of the english derived peoples are making money in jobs which does not require brain but are primary producers-of land(stolen from others)-timber.forestry,prairy agriculture,oilextraction etc. in other words anybody can do that if they also had that land.it is parastic living. Unfortunatelly these land produced goods are what makes most profit(unless it happens to other countries ; product then price will be manipulated to go down to lowest possible level).Because of that parasitic illgotten money-which remined in the hand of traitotrs to united states(because after civil war their land was not confiscatedas it should have been)these southern village idiots (bible belt dewelleres-eumpherically called middle america)got rich and had undue influence on american polcy(as anglosaxons are low bred phonecian derived shopkeepers race,it is not surprising that money is their god and exploitatin and hatred their motto, and cowardice is their prudence and spying their only means of fighting for a such a coward weaklings. But majority of americans are long that because they do not belong to anglosaxon race. IN fact they are more intelligent and capable than all the anglosaxon morons af the world put together. They must make a think tank to root this evil out.They demand that there is enough talent in america itselves to make hollywood film and stop the british actor getting any job-the jobs which would have gone to americans. They should give less value to media pumpep up british pop musician whose song look like coming from badly split bamboo.ANd it is through brtish control media and hollywood that a positive pictuter is sought to be given of english shopkeepers(saying that they somehowcome from cally background-in fact every inadin and asian and german who went america came from much superior background -economically, sociaally, breeding and educatio than these english lowlifes who end up in hollywood only because they can speak(they can not write correctly-word processor comes to heir aid)in a low accent-more like fishmonger and most like a corner shopowner. DO we want these low lifes from britain?THeir visa should be confiscated and they need to apply the for visa the same way as any other people do. and selection criteria should be as stringent as asfor those from other country. In other words they not only have to pass stingent professional exam but also prove without reasanble doubt that they will be of PH.d. material. as for visa casual servants works like au-pair must be stopped.there aa lot of better americans who can do do it without killing babies.
ALl the non-english derived(i.e. nonanglosaxon race)race has to come together on this agenda to remove this english race's cancerous infiltration in america and it will be done bacase that disease does not let you leave in peopce and happiness.It feeds on others misery. athis awareness can comltely remove this englnd parasite from american scene and only then will america be free atlas.
It is the same class of british loving american traitors who hunted down all free thinking director, producers, actors and artists from hollywood. They hunted the jews so much that though hollywood had been started by the jews ,the jews never dared put in hollywood films anything other than glorifying those southern and western bandits who were of english extraction. the hollywood became a propaganda and fictional plot to further english interest. The hunting of artistd had been going on before war but after hitler it intensified. And these same racists did to jews and other minorities in hollywood worse than hitler could do to german film industry. since then hollywood has become an easy employment place for all sorts of rubbish british star who would get the jobs to the detriment of real american subjects.british are not even gratefull to the americans for that.They would propaganda for british films which are equally bad. failing their attempt to pump up british films, they would infiltrate american filmsincluding even the alien films where their low accent has no relevance. Then the british propaganda against hollywood that it is rubbish(though when French will like more european fims then they would protest). Hollywood is rubbish not inspite of but because of the presence of british(english) actors and so called british artists. Also hollywood;s agenda is determined by the british agents for england's interest. That is why is the hollywood rubbish-because of english stars' presence.and americaqns must wrest away this control for themselves rather than leaving hollywood as means of propaganda and employment for english foreigners.

Posted by: avatar singh on 04/16/08 at 12:21 PM  Respond


american foreing and military policy is dictated soley and only by england and english spies in usa.

year--1997
Irak is right in demanding ouster of anglo-saxon spies from hollowed Iraki's soil.In name of uno, and before that leage of friends ,and now Amnesty International, this heyena country called england has installed a lot bof speis all over World and has virtually hijacked Americans to do their domestic and foreign policies for furtherance of british (england's ) interest than even American 's interest.

These days for last few years a lot of Kurdish refugees(who by the way are more aryans than all the europeans combined-though it is irrelevant here)are escaping from Turkey because of Turkish pressure. But nobody has ever stopped Turkey from having her air space nor has anyone bobed them. and why should anyone?Who has given right to a handfull of countries to be a policeman? Could they dare demand such thing at time of so called cold war? Every december,ever since gulf war there is a show of bullying tactics by anglo-saxons in middle east. There is really no ground but excuse is created because this race feels uplifted when others are insultated. Also there is a low cost exercise in bullying any other nation by military postures. Why should Iraq not have weapons as he desires?in 1981, when the israelis had bombed the iraqui nuclear reacto(a few days before going critical) it was britain)govt, and british media) who had vwhemently opposed Israeli daring action and did a lot of anti-jewish propaganda. Atleast Begin had a reason to fear from the arab enemy of israel. even in '82 Lebanon war it was britain which was most vociferous in criticizing Isreali militay action at the same time minimizing the Isreali Airforce's achievement in destroying Bacca's valley missiles through high tech method.In fact What americans did in gulf war was what Isreali had achieved way back in '82 in Lebanon war and America obtained that military know-how from Israelis after Lebanon war. But gulf war is justifiable on basis of military superirity but not Lebanon war. In fact when an american general said that america learned a lot from Israelis' achievement then the american defense minister Winnberg said that itAmerica learned not from Israeli but from British. Ofcourse we all know that Wnnberg was (awarded sir) more of anbritish defense minister than american one. He was pro-british and anti-jewish (and antirussian and all others aswell). In fact in lebanon war the american foreign secratary was changed because the british did not like Hague's attitude. This much britain exercises influence in american affairs. Now having installed all the stooges in Arab world britain has discarded her sham veil of Arabists and openly insults(through america ofcouse because on own britain is not even a fourh grade power)the arab world.Talking about the stooge, have you wondered why these days even Yeltsin's bad health no longer makes any headline news in anglosaxon world?Before any cold that Yeltsin had was niticed and still before that any peon from Russia had a headline news ' material. The reaon is simple. Britain has installed in Russia not only a mad man likes yelstin but also a second line of stooge successor to him. After Yelstin usefullness is over then he will be replaced by those second line of british stooge who at the moment are already controlling Russia and destroying her everyday. Democracy ,as understood today, basically means any system which gives free hand to britain to exploit other races. If their is one example of what an evil this so called capitalism is and what a saviour communism(britain does not dislike communism, she dislikes other's prosperity and independence whether it comes from communism, nationalism or what ever)is: this ruinous example of Russia is the real lesson. China is right to hold on to her nationalistic pursuit. It really is a war between anglo-saxons and the rest of the world. It is a race war.Sooner the rest of the world realizes that better it would be and this danger would be sorted out.

You remember that at the height of cold war in mid 80's there was a lot of activities of C.N.D. You would expect that with so called cold war finished, this C.N.D. would be asking to the british peoples to leave the nuclear weopons given to her,out of pity and filiaty, by the United states. But exactly opposite happened. C.N.D. has been defunct since than. It is as if that was a front of the british govt. to show by way of propaganda that that country had some moral voice.In other words, C.N.D. was a sham created by the british to give them respectability. Ofcourse when a non-anglosaxon country aould perfect their nuclear weopon,as France rightly did, then there would be a lot of hue and cry by the anglo-saxons' media. France and china are right in strenghtening their independent military power. The real danger to world comes from england and her anglosaxons agents. France understand that and Germany was a fool in not supporting France in Nato meeting this Summer. Just as Cnd has been proved a sham of british propaganda, more so is the sham which goes by the name of amnesty international. It is interesting that as soon falkland war started, within a few weeks this amnesty international presented a dozier on Argentina. In the same way as soon gulf war started(soon after Iraqui's intervention in kuwait) the same amnesty international presented a dozier and report on Iraqui's atrocities. an fact many of the amnesty allegations were just a copy of what british media was saying and which later on proved to be fabrication and great big lies. But bthis did not dent the reputation of amnesty international. british propaganda ensured that. IN '88 when Dalia lama,at the height of Tibetan disturbances, visited west, the then british prime minister refused to meet Him. Later on with the demise of Russia and usefullness of China gone and with manipulation to keep power in Hongkong somehow intact, the same british media and government ,like dog, started barking at China. It is interesting that amnesty international selectively targets those very countries(as it did china after cold war) who are out of faviour(because they would not be a brtish sttoge)of the british media and govt. This is not surprizing as amnesty international is the creation of british govt, and british media. england with the most appaling record of human rights in last 200 years of her evil rule, needed some organisation to keep the others from chrging england off her past and current evil practices. In other words it went for aggresive posture in propaganda war so that others can be demoralized and stopped from ponting out the real evil which is england. That is why amnesty international is one armour of the british lies to exploit the rest of the world. Amnesty international must be ignored and an independent human watchdog (which england will simply ignore) created. One purpose of amnesty international is to create an atmosphere for hatred towards the would be vitims of british exploitation so that a victim could be blamed to have deserved the consequences. That is why ,now amnesty international sometimes threatens China, sometimes India and etc. India because india needs to be cowed down and also so that India does not make nuclear wepon and thus feel free from future american(read english and anglosaxon)aggression. This is all to create an atmoshphere of mis information. The other countries are also responsible(out of sheer inferority complex) for giving these instuments of british propaganda so much imporatance. If they simply ignore and then the british lies and then themselves go in offensive(they can do it-no problem)against british exploitation and propaganda then tose countries would not in such dire strait as they are now. Think, this deteriration has happened in only last 20 years(thogh the british have been at this game for a long time but they were not always succesful when others have been vigilant).Ignoring and fighting all this anglosaxons propaganda, the other races(yes it comes to that) must unite and support each other against this common enemy england. The other nations should also go nuclear and assemble as much arm as possible ,collaborate on it and ignoring this anglosaxon race they must be prepared for war which tjhen would be prevented otherwise it would come inevitably. The other nations need to arm themselves to protect themselves from anglo saxon race. Thinking any other way is simply kidding oneself. And it can be done and will be done.


WE throw a challenge to these low lifes-if the English feel themselves
ao powerful them let them attack and win even Irak(already weaken by u.n.sanctions)without the help of u.n.sanctioins(that means Irak would have same freedom to acquire arms and means and Arabs and Israeli had in thier war)
and with out u.s.a. England is neither Isreal of today nor Sparta of yesterday.Let them be reminded that at height of thier empire in 1917, England was almost defeated
by Germans when German army's 3/4 th division was concentrated on Eastern front. These english are that weak and coward people.But thir mouth will have to shut for ever
when all the whites ,European and Thirld world unite against this english disese.
There is no point in telling them truth, they understand only one thing which they will soon get-tatal beating physically-the only language these animals understand. Hitler,who these worship
was wrong about the jews who were only british agents-what Hitler said about jews applied not to jews but to the english(anglo-saxons).race-pity he did not do the the british what should have been done instead. Well It is never too late.


For all those who talk of globalization and protection of intellectual property right, a small news which was never in prominent place in any of english speaking papers or news but was very much reported in French media. In the last weeks of October 98 was reported in French papers that 4 different French members of European Parliament were going to raise the question of industrial espionage of some 100 each of French and German companies by england in collaboration with u.s.a. and other anglo-saxon countries like Autralia and new zealand. In other words they same countries who made a lot of hue and cry over Indias nuclear test and who are the ones pushing for intellectual property rights and globalization. Thier modus operandi? Checking all satellite bases communication(telephone, fax, internet,etc)with help of klistening devices in anglosaxon countries and spying ao all the talks and messages all over world.This illegal activity is cordinated in england. European countries are loosins billions of dollars each years through leak of confidential techiqe and discovery. Apart form the fact that for tea,china, spices and plants this thief country england never paid anything for others' intellectual property right(why does royal doulton or british tea company not pay royalty to China?) this thief country england has done theft of German technology like urea making ang consequently ammunition making. In fact Standarsd oil company of america made a lot of theft of BAAs. a Germany company and many of the bombs which fell on Germany came from german tech. stolen by anglosaxon thieves england and america. That is not counting stolen from germans the tech. to make nuclear bomb and rockets. With these stolen technology has this anglo-american race been able to bully the rest of the world. And it wants to freeze the DIFFERENCE between it and other races in stone-for ever so that it can rule others unhindered. By the same mechanism it destroyed japanes and other Asian econmis. That is why India and others need very badly neclear deterence against enemies of the rest of the world.And the rest of world wants to break from ythier cluthes but has no courage because most of thirld world is governed by the likes of traitors like manmohan singh and Ahulliavala and spineless people like Jaswant Singh and Gujral and Atal bihari Vajpaye types

Posted by: avatar singh on 04/16/08 at 12:22 PM  Respond

trollstein makes many points; too many to comment on all of them.
1)750000 pals 'displaced' not expelled. but even if we would accept "displaced" how/when/whereto/why is lacking.
2) 700000 jews were also displaced. we need once again when/why/how/whereto as well as UN confirmation.
3) pals were offered about 48% of their land accodrding to finkelstein. the new state would have gathered about 95% of pals. that's why the map was never published.
4)the newest map i saw recently shows a fragmented statelet of about 50% or less of WB.
5) pals don't want money; they want back their HHH (home,hearth,habitat)
1)if slavo-khazaro-jewish people can 'return' to palestine from all over the world and pals can't return to their homes just miles away, then one can just about justify any anomaly.
6) there was no palestine. there was no israel for 2800 years and judea for 1900.
7) there was no slovenia, slovakia, syria, lebanon, chechnya, germany (at one time), latvia, burundi and numerous other countries but there weere people in each of these lands and they are still there; exception being palestinians, with half of them expelled.

Posted by: bozhidar bob balkas on 04/16/08 at 1:28 PM  Respond

Trollstein is a Zionist Shrill that spouts too many lies to reply to. Don't feed the troll.

Posted by: Troll patrol on 04/16/08 at 1:42 PM  Respond

trollstein asserts that lebanese are mistreating palestinian refugees, now living in lebanon. if that be true, why do zionists assiduously assert that arabs have so much land and israel so little?
by this, alluding/demanding that other arab lands accept them? they were not wanted in jordan in '70s either; they may not be wanted in large numbers in any theocratic land.
palestinians don't fit in saudi arabia but then who does. their HHH is in palestine; all the terror against them hasn't to date achieved zionist aim to get rid of pals. they are not leaving even tho they are getting a sledge hammer hint they better leave.
for jews, solution is to drive these people out but US is frightened to give the IOF the nod to proceed at this time. that's why so many jews are mad at US; their by far best friend.

Posted by: bozhidar bob balkas on 04/16/08 at 2:51 PM  Respond

Hopeful and certainly encouraging. The problem is that those that make up the Israeli government, and which by the way — though the J Street folks seem to ignore this, were put in power by a majority of Israelis — are an amoral gang of thugs that would be more than delighted to slaughter every Palestinian man, woman and child. Let's remember that Sharon won in a landslide. The good people of Israel knew they were electing a proven war criminal who opposed any peace process, and did so on the hope that he would crush the Palestinians and enlarge the settlements. So far, so good. And Netanyahu is waiting in the wings, promising to be even more uncompromising and brutal.

While this new lobby appears to offer a glimmer of reason (and maybe even something akin to compassion), nothing will change unless and until those in power in Israel change. Well meaning American Jews banding together to address a decades-old injustice and to battle universally condemned (daily) crimes against humanity is a start, but I will need to see action to believe anything will improve. As long as most American Jews are content to remain silent to the atrocities committed by "their" country so as to avoid speaking ill of Israel, this will be more of a feel-good gesture (and possibly improved PR) than anything else.

What will give this new PAC teeth, and legitimacy, will be its membership. If prominent American Jews in government, or especially those in entertainment, should lend their names to this organization, the results could be of some real impact. But we must remember that time is not on the Palestinians' side. While people with good intentions talk and plan, their home is disappearing, their children are dying and their society deteriorating at an alarming rate. Israel will not stop expanding, killing and stealing resources. Hopefully there will be something left to create a Palestinian state out of.

Posted by: opeluboy on 04/16/08 at 3:04 PM  Respond

The US has sponsored plenty of negotiated settlements.

Remember Camp David, Wye River, Tabas, Oslo ?

No one takes these seriously because US continues to cut checks to Israel; reinforcing the occupation.

Posted by: no$4israel on 04/16/08 at 3:51 PM  Respond

Wow! Judging by the blogs of
biblical proportion following
blogs questioning Israel, I'd
say National intelligence has
a hand in these responses.
I mean really, who else could
garner up the time,effort and
blog expertise to post such
responses?
Besides, American Taxpayers<