Anyone recall Sarkozy being grilled in the US media for calling N-yahoo a liar in an open mike moment whilst meeting Obama at a summit? I think we should believe Sarkozy now. Everything NYahoo says about Iran and Palestinians is a lie.
Israel owes Palestinians about $1 trillion in reparations for the land and housing stolen since 1948. See Michael R. Fischbach, Records of Dispossession (2003).
My country fought a great war (WWII) against the idea of ethnic based nation states. And today we enthusiastically support one in the Middle East. Ironic to say the least.
Since when has Israel ever been afraid of Arab uprisings? They have their own way of suppressing intifadas, much like other ME tyrannies put down dissent. The big example now is Assad. Very rough neighborhood.
NSA officials routinely lie to Congress, and there is no penalty. US spy agencies record every electronic communication on the planet, and now we learn they have access to all commercially available encryption apps. Juan is correct: smart people are going back to the traditional method of communication, which is face to face. But if your colleague is wired, or the place is on CCTV or wired, then you are out of luck.
This rectum and vagina search procedure is bogus. How many people upon their arrest are hiding drugs or knives in their rectum or vagina? American police assume that someone stopped for DUI has also got a weapon shoved up their rectum or vagina. Are we the most paranoid nation or what?
It's very easy for Israeli Jews, but not Arabs, to secure a green card in the US, or acquire citizenship, whilst retaining their foreign passports. In fairness, why shouldn't the US increase the quota for Palestinian immigration to about 5,000,000 as compensation for US support of ethnic cleansing by the Israeli?
It seems Zionism cannot sustain itself without a new plan for ethnic cleansing every year. They have to show the neighbors how tough they are. Compensating for centuries of male submission to the Gentile by acting macho. It's so obvious.
Isn't it only a matter of time before another strongman seizes power in Libya. The country is a joke, its borders hacked together by colonialists, and now ruled by petty warlords.
The problem is not EU failure to accept all people who want to live there, the problem is poverty in Africa. Solve that and there will be no more suicide missions by desperate people.
More aid for Somalia? Do Gooders have been spending money on Africa for at least 50 years with public and private funds, with meager results, and much aid has found its way into Swiss bank accounts. Until societies change their mores and ethics, nobody can help them. From Libya to Zimbabwe, nothing but chaos, mass rape, and plunder.
RE: Egyptian people, "...most of them from all accounts have turned on the Muslim Brotherhood." Their party got a majority in recent elections. They have enough support out in the villages, and cannot be dismissed so easily. What the minority secular types have witnessed is a couple of coups d'etat by the military. Egypt is status quo ante, ruled by the junta of military families as it was three years ago, with the MB an underground proscribed "incorrect" organization. Nothing has changed. The new constitution will mean the same as the last two or three: nothing. Sisi has simply taken Mubarak's place.
This is not 19th C Europe. There is only one empire left, the USA. Obama did not back down due to great power politics, he backed down because there was no support in Congress or among the People for even limited attacks on Syria. But the US looks very weak in international affairs right now.
US apathy will guarantee a long life for the Assad dictatorship, and his heirs, a dynasty of petty tyrants. Why bother with death squads and shelling, when nerve gas is readily available and a proven winner with impunity from foreign action? Ethnic cleansing of Sunnis from Syria would be so much easier and efficient.
The really sad thing is how uninterested the American public seems to be about these revelations. Since the Bush II regime I have assumed the US spy apparat suctions every email and browser action of everyone on the internet. And strange people like Toobin want Snowdon executed as a traitor for alerting the US public that they are being spied on by their own government. My respect for Toobin evaporated over his Snowdon fixation and totalitarian mindset.
The other solution of the Palestinian problem (for Zionists) is to finally get it over with and ethnically cleanse Arabs from Eretz Yisroel. They are willing to get some bad PR for a few months, but know that all around the world people would forget in 30 years.
As usual, when the foreigner stops bribing Pashtuns, alliances will shift immediately. When the Karzai gang loses their foreign subsidy, I wonder what will happen to them.
Staged events for propaganda purposes do not impress me. Why can't people wash their own feet? Muslims do this quit a lot by themselves. They don't need a Pope to do it for them. The message infers that feet are inherently dirty, and an important man like the Pope shows humility when he washes dirt from feet. I'll never understand this as long as I live, seeing as how God made feet.
Glad to see the mention of Jabotinsky, the 1930s Jewish fascist from Poland who belonged to Betar, a paramilitary Jewish nationalist org much like the Brownshirts in Germany or the Blackshirts in Italy during the same era. His view is still current in today's Israel, i.e., the natives will eventually have no choice but to accept Zionism if an absolutist line is taken against them. The Arabs will eventually see that struggle is useless and accept Israel as the Jewish state.
"admiration for Petraeus" Juan, you are joking right? His triumph in Iraq was the result of bribing the locals not to kill the Ameriki. All in support of empire building for Bush II and his Big Oil patrons.
"... I think we can safely pronounce the policy a failure." The US has a way of letting special interests fossilize failed policy, e.g., the permanent blockade of Cuba, which is always just about to topple Castro, but never does.
"...the theologically correct proposition that Christians, Jews, and Muslims all worship the same God..." LOL. Name one Rabbi who says Jesus is Messiah, let alone God himself. And Muslims believe there are no partners of Allah, hence Jesus was a prophet, not God. As for Mormons, they say they worship Jesus, but that Jesus is but one god of many spawned by Elohim. Willard Romney will be a god eventually, etc.
Is Maher that far off? Zoroastrians were not responsible for killing 4,000 Americans on 9-11. Just go to Pakistan and stand on a street corner of Karachi and denounce Mahomet. See how long you live.
Well, O is a good moderate Republican. What did you expect? He still wants to please the conservatives, and shall never accept that they hate him as only racists and snobby rich people can.
Egypt is not USA in 1789: Egypt is not having a federal vs confederal policy issue. Egypt is having a military dictatorship wearing a costume of democracy. In 1789, USA was not a junta dicatatorship controlling the economy.
I hope Juan's assessment gets wider play in the media, but sadly, the GOP will continue to tell lies about Libya through the current prez campaign. Is the MSM responsible enough to tell the people the difference?
The Agreement does not specify a dollar amount. Where did you get the $4 billion figure? I also note that the bribery provision says half of the financial support will be administered by Afghanistan entities. This is a guarantee for the Karzai corruption and bribery regime. So figure about $2 billion annually siphoned to Swiss bank accounts until 2024. Way to go Obama.
It is not yet certain that the murder victim was in fact killed by an unknown assailant. Is the husband a person of interest to the police? A note left by a killer to explain his/her crime is rare, but not if it was to deflect suspicions.
The pro-AIPAC media is worried about what is good for Israel, and assumes Islamic parties ruling Islamic countries will be very bad for Israel. But this is democracy in action, e.g., Hamas in Gaza. Most Arabs view Zionism with disdain, and it will be interesting to see how democratic Muslim nations will deal with Israeli aggression against their Arab subjects.
I'm sorry, but it is even worse than you describe. Both the military and government clans who control their separate spheres play both sides, always. One member of a clan has a "friend" of the US, while his cousin is quite active supporting the Taliban. The British got around this annoying problem by direct control of the military and by bribing the most powerful clan chiefs. The US has only done half of this technique (bribery), with poor results.
"...Obama, who is an Eisenhower Republican..." More like Nelson Rockefeller I think. But Obama does take after his white grandpa, a Kansas man, like Ike. I came to this realization about Obama's GOPism when he made the sordid deal with Pharma in his first year in office.
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Anyone recall Sarkozy being grilled in the US media for calling N-yahoo a liar in an open mike moment whilst meeting Obama at a summit? I think we should believe Sarkozy now. Everything NYahoo says about Iran and Palestinians is a lie.
Israel owes Palestinians about $1 trillion in reparations for the land and housing stolen since 1948. See Michael R. Fischbach, Records of Dispossession (2003).
My country fought a great war (WWII) against the idea of ethnic based nation states. And today we enthusiastically support one in the Middle East. Ironic to say the least.
I wonder how you would argue with Hitler about how wonderful nationalism is.
Since when has Israel ever been afraid of Arab uprisings? They have their own way of suppressing intifadas, much like other ME tyrannies put down dissent. The big example now is Assad. Very rough neighborhood.
NSA officials routinely lie to Congress, and there is no penalty. US spy agencies record every electronic communication on the planet, and now we learn they have access to all commercially available encryption apps. Juan is correct: smart people are going back to the traditional method of communication, which is face to face. But if your colleague is wired, or the place is on CCTV or wired, then you are out of luck.
No face veils. Interesting non-Wahabist costume.
Obviously a person who short changes an employee should be strip searched and detained for questioning mixed in with career criminals. LOL.
This rectum and vagina search procedure is bogus. How many people upon their arrest are hiding drugs or knives in their rectum or vagina? American police assume that someone stopped for DUI has also got a weapon shoved up their rectum or vagina. Are we the most paranoid nation or what?
I never thought I'd see the day when American academics stood up to AIPAC and Dershowitz. Bravo.
It's very easy for Israeli Jews, but not Arabs, to secure a green card in the US, or acquire citizenship, whilst retaining their foreign passports. In fairness, why shouldn't the US increase the quota for Palestinian immigration to about 5,000,000 as compensation for US support of ethnic cleansing by the Israeli?
It seems Zionism cannot sustain itself without a new plan for ethnic cleansing every year. They have to show the neighbors how tough they are. Compensating for centuries of male submission to the Gentile by acting macho. It's so obvious.
Isn't it only a matter of time before another strongman seizes power in Libya. The country is a joke, its borders hacked together by colonialists, and now ruled by petty warlords.
The problem is not EU failure to accept all people who want to live there, the problem is poverty in Africa. Solve that and there will be no more suicide missions by desperate people.
More aid for Somalia? Do Gooders have been spending money on Africa for at least 50 years with public and private funds, with meager results, and much aid has found its way into Swiss bank accounts. Until societies change their mores and ethics, nobody can help them. From Libya to Zimbabwe, nothing but chaos, mass rape, and plunder.
RE: Egyptian people, "...most of them from all accounts have turned on the Muslim Brotherhood." Their party got a majority in recent elections. They have enough support out in the villages, and cannot be dismissed so easily. What the minority secular types have witnessed is a couple of coups d'etat by the military. Egypt is status quo ante, ruled by the junta of military families as it was three years ago, with the MB an underground proscribed "incorrect" organization. Nothing has changed. The new constitution will mean the same as the last two or three: nothing. Sisi has simply taken Mubarak's place.
This is not 19th C Europe. There is only one empire left, the USA. Obama did not back down due to great power politics, he backed down because there was no support in Congress or among the People for even limited attacks on Syria. But the US looks very weak in international affairs right now.
I don't understand the left's support for the tyrant Assad. Seems like the left's support for Stalin before WWII.
LOL: "the Damascus government", i.e., the petty tyrant Assad, president for life, and famous mass murderer.
These Christian officials speak not from the Bible but from tribal association and patronage. Assad keeps them safe from Sunni fanaticism.
US apathy will guarantee a long life for the Assad dictatorship, and his heirs, a dynasty of petty tyrants. Why bother with death squads and shelling, when nerve gas is readily available and a proven winner with impunity from foreign action? Ethnic cleansing of Sunnis from Syria would be so much easier and efficient.
Boycott Home Depot.
The really sad thing is how uninterested the American public seems to be about these revelations. Since the Bush II regime I have assumed the US spy apparat suctions every email and browser action of everyone on the internet. And strange people like Toobin want Snowdon executed as a traitor for alerting the US public that they are being spied on by their own government. My respect for Toobin evaporated over his Snowdon fixation and totalitarian mindset.
The other solution of the Palestinian problem (for Zionists) is to finally get it over with and ethnically cleanse Arabs from Eretz Yisroel. They are willing to get some bad PR for a few months, but know that all around the world people would forget in 30 years.
With a $14 billion debt, the future is obviously not in Detroit. Cities come and go: e.g., why isn't Petra Arabis still successful? It's the economy.
Your solution is to talk? How has talk prevented the bloodthirsty tyrant from murdering almost 100,000 Syrians?
Obama is so much about law and order, but no prosecution of the Bush II war criminals. Epic hypocrisy.
As usual, when the foreigner stops bribing Pashtuns, alliances will shift immediately. When the Karzai gang loses their foreign subsidy, I wonder what will happen to them.
Russia arming Assad is not hawkish? And yet, it's wrong for the US to be hawkish.
Which is more corrupt, the garbage hauling trade, or construction?
C'mon Juan, you know Muslims have coerced infidels into the true religion many times over the centuries. And even Shat'an can quote scripture.
Staged events for propaganda purposes do not impress me. Why can't people wash their own feet? Muslims do this quit a lot by themselves. They don't need a Pope to do it for them. The message infers that feet are inherently dirty, and an important man like the Pope shows humility when he washes dirt from feet. I'll never understand this as long as I live, seeing as how God made feet.
Glad to see the mention of Jabotinsky, the 1930s Jewish fascist from Poland who belonged to Betar, a paramilitary Jewish nationalist org much like the Brownshirts in Germany or the Blackshirts in Italy during the same era. His view is still current in today's Israel, i.e., the natives will eventually have no choice but to accept Zionism if an absolutist line is taken against them. The Arabs will eventually see that struggle is useless and accept Israel as the Jewish state.
"admiration for Petraeus" Juan, you are joking right? His triumph in Iraq was the result of bribing the locals not to kill the Ameriki. All in support of empire building for Bush II and his Big Oil patrons.
And yet, Jimmy Carter has been ostracized for years as an anti-semite for saying the same thing. How interesting.
"... I think we can safely pronounce the policy a failure." The US has a way of letting special interests fossilize failed policy, e.g., the permanent blockade of Cuba, which is always just about to topple Castro, but never does.
"...the theologically correct proposition that Christians, Jews, and Muslims all worship the same God..." LOL. Name one Rabbi who says Jesus is Messiah, let alone God himself. And Muslims believe there are no partners of Allah, hence Jesus was a prophet, not God. As for Mormons, they say they worship Jesus, but that Jesus is but one god of many spawned by Elohim. Willard Romney will be a god eventually, etc.
Is Maher that far off? Zoroastrians were not responsible for killing 4,000 Americans on 9-11. Just go to Pakistan and stand on a street corner of Karachi and denounce Mahomet. See how long you live.
Thing is, Romney could still win, and we would have a guy in the WH who basically hates half of America.
Well, O is a good moderate Republican. What did you expect? He still wants to please the conservatives, and shall never accept that they hate him as only racists and snobby rich people can.
Religion has never done any harm? Ever hear of the Crusades?
Do Israeli armored bulldozers have brakes?
Egypt is not USA in 1789: Egypt is not having a federal vs confederal policy issue. Egypt is having a military dictatorship wearing a costume of democracy. In 1789, USA was not a junta dicatatorship controlling the economy.
I hope Juan's assessment gets wider play in the media, but sadly, the GOP will continue to tell lies about Libya through the current prez campaign. Is the MSM responsible enough to tell the people the difference?
The Agreement does not specify a dollar amount. Where did you get the $4 billion figure? I also note that the bribery provision says half of the financial support will be administered by Afghanistan entities. This is a guarantee for the Karzai corruption and bribery regime. So figure about $2 billion annually siphoned to Swiss bank accounts until 2024. Way to go Obama.
Maliki is against against foreign interference, except when the Ameriki interfered in Iraq and set him on the throne.
It is not yet certain that the murder victim was in fact killed by an unknown assailant. Is the husband a person of interest to the police? A note left by a killer to explain his/her crime is rare, but not if it was to deflect suspicions.
The pro-AIPAC media is worried about what is good for Israel, and assumes Islamic parties ruling Islamic countries will be very bad for Israel. But this is democracy in action, e.g., Hamas in Gaza. Most Arabs view Zionism with disdain, and it will be interesting to see how democratic Muslim nations will deal with Israeli aggression against their Arab subjects.
I'm sorry, but it is even worse than you describe. Both the military and government clans who control their separate spheres play both sides, always. One member of a clan has a "friend" of the US, while his cousin is quite active supporting the Taliban. The British got around this annoying problem by direct control of the military and by bribing the most powerful clan chiefs. The US has only done half of this technique (bribery), with poor results.
"...Obama, who is an Eisenhower Republican..." More like Nelson Rockefeller I think. But Obama does take after his white grandpa, a Kansas man, like Ike. I came to this realization about Obama's GOPism when he made the sordid deal with Pharma in his first year in office.