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The problem with intellectually insecure whites
By Kevin MacDonald
January 19, 2009

America will soon have a white minority. This is a much desired state of affairs for \
the hostile elites who hold political power and shape public opinion. But it \
certainly creates some management issues — at least in the long run. After all, it’s \
difficult to come up with an historical example of a nation with a solid ethnic \
majority (90% white in 1950) that has voluntarily decided to cede political and \
cultural power. Such transformations are typically accomplished by military \
invasions, great battles, and untold suffering.

And it’s not as if everyone is doing it. Only Western nations view their own \
demographic and cultural eclipse as a moral imperative. Indeed, as I have noted \
previously, it is striking that racial nationalism has triumphed in Israel at the \
same time that the Jewish intellectual and political movements and the organized \
Jewish community have been the most active and effective force for a non-white \
America. Indeed, a poll in 2008 found that Avigdor Lieberman was the second most \
popular politician in Israel. Lieberman has advocated expulsion of Arabs from Israel \
and has declared himself a follower of Vladimir Jabotinsky, the leading pioneer of \
racial Zionism. The most popular politician in the poll was Benjamin Netanyahu — \
another admirer of Jabotinsky. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Foreign Minister Tzipi \
Livni are also Jabotinskyists.

The racial Zionists are now carrying out yet another orgy of mass murder after a \
starvation-inducing blockade and the usual triggering assault designed to provoke \
Palestinian retaliation — which then becomes the cover for claims that Israel is \
merely defending itself against terrorism. This monstrosity was approved by \
overwhelming majorities of both Houses of Congress. The craven Bush administration \
did its part by abstaining from a UN resolution designed by the US Secretary of State \
as a result of a personal appeal by the Israeli Prime Minister. This is yet another \
accomplishment of the Israel Lobby, but one they would rather not have discussed in \
public. People might get the impression that the Lobby really does dictate US foreign \
policy in the Mideast. Obviously, such thoughts are only entertained by anti-Semites.

But I digress.

In managing the eclipse of white America, one strategy of the mainstream media is to \
simply ignore the issue. Christopher Donovan  (“For the media, the less whites think \
about their coming minority status, the better”) has noted that the media, and in \
particular, the New York Times, are quite uninterested in doing stories that discuss \
what white people think about this state of affairs.

It’s not surprising that the New York Times — the Jewish-owned flagship of \
anti-white, pro-multicultural media — ignores the issue. The issue is also missing \
from so-called conservative media even though one would think that conservatives \
would find the eclipse of white America to be an important issue. Certainly, their \
audiences would find it interesting.

Now we have an article “The End of White America” written by Hua Hsu, an Assistant \
Professor of English at Vassar College. The article is a rather depressing display of \
what passes for intellectual discourse on the most important question confronting \
white people in America.

Hsu begins by quoting a passage in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby in which a \
character, Tom Buchanan, states: “Have you read The Rise of the Colored Empires by \
this man Goddard?” … Well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. The idea \
is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. It’s all \
scientific stuff; it’s been proved.”

Buchanan’s comment is a thinly veiled reference to Lothrop Stoddard’s The Rising Tide \
of Color which Hsu describes as “rationalized hatred” presented in a scholarly, \
gentlemanly, and scientific tone. (This wording that will certainly help him when he \
comes up for tenure.) As Hsu notes, Stoddard had a doctorate from Harvard and was a \
member of many academic associations. His book was published by a major publisher. It \
was therefore “precisely the kind of book that a 1920s man of Buchanan’s profile — \
wealthy, Ivy League–educated, at once pretentious and intellectually insecure — might \
have been expected to bring up in casual conversation.”

Let’s ponder that a bit. The simple reality is that in the year 2009 an Ivy \
League-educated person, "at once pretentious and intellectually insecure,"  would \
just as glibly assert the same sort of nonsense as Hsu. To wit:

The coming white minority does not mean that the racial hierarchy of American culture \
will suddenly become inverted, as in 1995’s White Man’s Burden, an awful thought \
experiment of a film, starring John Travolta, that envisions an upside-down world in \
which whites are subjugated to their high-class black oppressors. There will be \
dislocations and resentments along the way, but the demographic shifts of the next 40 \
years are likely to reduce the power of racial hierarchies over everyone’s lives, \
producing a culture that’s more likely than any before to treat its inhabitants as \
individuals, rather than members of a caste or identity group.

The fact is that no one can say for certain what multicultural America without a \
white majority will be like. There is no scientific or historical basis for claims \
like “the demographic shifts of the next 40 years are likely to reduce the power of \
racial hierarchies over everyone’s lives, producing a culture that’s more likely than \
any before to treat its inhabitants as individuals, rather than members of a caste or \
identity group.”

Indeed, there is no evidence at all that we are proceeding to a color blind future. \
The election results continue to show that white people are coalescing in the \
Republican Party, while the Democrats are increasingly the party of a non-white \
soon-to-be majority.

Is it so hard to believe that when this coalition achieves a majority that it will \
further compromise the interests of whites far beyond contemporary concerns such as \
immigration policy and affirmative action? Hsu anticipates a colorblind world, but \
affirmative action means that blacks and other minorities are certainly not treated \
as individuals. And it means that whites — especially white males — are losing out on \
opportunities they would have had without these policies and without the massive \
non-white immigration of the last few decades.

Given the intractability of changing intelligence and other traits required for \
success in the contemporary economy, it is unlikely that 40 more years of affirmative \
action will attain the outcomes desired by the minority lobbies. Indeed, in Obama's \
America, blacks are rioting in Oakland over perceived racial injustices, and from \
2002 –2007, black juvenile homicide victims increased 31%, while black juvenile \
perpetrators increased 43%. Hence,  the reasonable outlook is for a continuing need \
for affirmative action and for racial activism in these groups, even after whites \
become a minority.

Whites will also lose out because of large-scale importation of relatively talented \
immigrants from East Asia. Indeed, as I noted over a decade ago, "The United States \
is well on the road to being dominated by an Asian technocratic elite and a Jewish \
business, professional, and media elite."

Hsu shows that there already is considerable anxiety among whites about the future. \
An advertizing executive says, “I think white people feel like they’re under siege \
right now — like it’s not okay to be white right now, especially if you’re a white \
male. ... People are stressed out about it. ‘We used to be in control! We’re losing \
control’” Another says, "There’s a lot of fear and a lot of resentment."

It's hard to see why these feelings won't increase in the future.

A huge problem for white people is lack of intellectual and cultural confidence. Hsu \
quotes Christian (Stuff White People Like) Lander saying, "I get it: as a straight \
white male, I’m the worst thing on Earth." A professor comments that for his students \
"to be white is to be culturally broke. The classic thing white students say when you \
ask them to talk about who they are is, ‘I don’t have a culture.’ They might be \
privileged, they might be loaded socioeconomically, but they feel bankrupt when it \
comes to culture … They feel disadvantaged, and they feel marginalized."

This lack of cultural confidence is no accident. For nearly 100 years whites have \
been subjected to a culture of critique emanating from the most prestigious academic \
and media institutions. And, as Hsu points out, the most vibrant and influential \
aspect of American popular culture is hip-hop—a product of the African American urban \
culture.

The only significant group of white people with any cultural confidence centers \
itself around country music, NASCAR, and the small town values of traditional white \
America. For this group of whites — and only this group — there is  "a racial pride \
that dares not speak its name, and that defines itself through cultural cues \
instead—a suspicion of intellectual elites and city dwellers, a preference for \
folksiness and plainness of speech (whether real or feigned), and the association of \
a working-class white minority with 'the real America.'”

This is what I term implicit whiteness — implicit because explicit assertions of \
white identity have been banned by the anti-white elites that dominate our politics \
and culture. It is a culture that, as Hsu notes, "cannot speak its name."

But that implies that the submerged white identity of the white working class and the \
lack of cultural confidence exhibited by the rest of white America are imposed from \
outside. Although there may well be characteristics of whites that facilitate this \
process, this suppression of white identity and interests is certainly not the \
natural outcome of modernization or any other force internal to whites as a people. \
In my opinion, they are the result of the successful erection of a culture of \
critique in the West dominated by Jewish intellectual and political movements.

The result is that educated, intellectually insecure white people these days are far \
more likely to believe in the utopian future described by Hsu than in hard and \
cautious thinking about what the future might have in store for them.

It's worth dwelling a bit on the intellectual insecurity of the whites who mindlessly \
utter the mantras of multiculturalism that they have soaked up from the school system \
and from the media. Most people do not have much confidence in their intellectual \
ability and look to elite opinion to shape their beliefs. As I noted elsewhere,

A critical component of the success of the culture of critique is that it achieved \
control of the most prestigious and influential institutions of the West, and it \
became a consensus among the elites, Jewish and non-Jewish alike. Once this happened, \
it is not surprising that this culture became widely accepted among people of very \
different levels of education and among people of different social classes.

Most people are quite insecure about their intellectual ability. But they know that \
the professors at Harvard, and the editorial page of the New York Times and the \
Washington Post, and even conservative commentators like Rush Limbaugh and Sean \
Hannity are all on page when it comes to racial and ethnic issues. This is a \
formidable array, to the point that you almost have to be a crank to dissent from \
this consensus.

I think one of the greatest triumphs of the left has been to get people to believe \
that people who assert white identity and interests or who make unflattering \
portrayals of organized Jewish movements are morally degenerate, stupid, and perhaps \
psychiatrically disturbed. Obviously, all of these adjectives designate low status.

The reality is that the multicultural emperor has no clothes and, because of its \
support for racial Zionism and the racialism of ethnic minorities in America, it is \
massively hypocritical to boot. The New York Times, the academic left, and the faux \
conservatives that dominate elite discourse on race and ethnicity are intellectually \
bankrupt and can only remain in power by ruthlessly suppressing or ignoring the \
scientific findings.

This is particularly a problem for college-educated whites. Like Fitzgerald's Tom \
Buchanan, such people have a strong need to feel that their ideas are respectable and \
part of the mainstream. But the respectable mainstream gives them absolutely nothing \
with which to validate themselves except perhaps the idea that the world will be a \
better place when people like them no longer have power. Hsu quotes the pathetic \
Christian Lander: "“Like, I’m aware of all the horrible crimes that my demographic \
has done in the world. ... And there’s a bunch of white people who are desperate — \
desperate — to say, ‘You know what? My skin’s white, but I’m not one of the white \
people who’s destroying the world.’”

As a zombie leftist during the 1960s and 1970s, I know what that feeling of \
desperation is like — what it's like to be a self-hating white. We must get to the \
point where college-educated whites proudly and confidently say they are white and \
that they do not want to become a minority in America.

This reminds me of the recent docudrama Milk, which depicts the life of gay activist \
Harvey Milk. Milk is sure be nominated for an Oscar as Best Picture because it \
lovingly illustrates a triumph of the cultural left. But is has an important message \
that should resonate with the millions of whites who have been deprived of their \
confidence and their culture: Be explicit. Just as Harvey Milk advocated being openly \
gay even in the face of dire consequences, whites need to tell their family and their \
friends that they have an identity as a white person and believe that whites have \
legitimate interests as white people. They must accept the consequences when they are \
harassed, fired from their jobs, or put in prison for such beliefs. They must run for \
political office as openly pro-white.

Milk shows that homosexuals were fired from their jobs and arrested for congregating \
in public. Now it's the Southern Poverty Law Center and the rest of the leftist \
intellectual and political establishment that harasses and attempts to get people \
fired. But it's the same situation with the roles reversed. No revolution was ever \
accomplished without some martyrs. The revolution that restores the legitimacy of \
white identity and the legitimacy of white interests will be no exception.

But it is a revolution that is absolutely necessary. The white majority is foolish \
indeed to entrust its future to a utopian hope that racial and ethnic identifications \
will disappear and that they won’t continue to influence public policy in ways that \
compromise the interests of whites.

It does not take an overactive imagination to see that coalitions of minority groups \
could compromise the interests of formerly dominant whites. We already see numerous \
examples in which coalitions of minority groups attempt to influence public policy, \
including immigration policy, against the interests of the whites. Placing ourselves \
in a position of vulnerability would be extremely risky, given the deep sense of \
historical grievance harbored by many ethnic activists and organized ethnic lobbies.

This is especially the case with Jews. Jewish organisations have been unanimous in \
condemning Western societies, Western traditions, and Christianity, for past crimes \
against Jews. Similar sentiments are typical of a great many African Americans and \
Latinos, and especially among the ethnic activists from these groups. The “God damn \
America” sermon by President Obama's pastor comes to mind as a recent notorious \
example.

The precedent of the early decades of the Soviet Union should give pause to anyone \
who believes that surrendering ethnic hegemony does not carry risks. The Bolshevik \
revolution had a pronounced ethnic angle: To a very great extent, Jews and other \
non-Russians ruled over the Russian people, with disastrous consequences for the \
Russians and other ethnic groups that were not able to become part of the power \
structure. Jews formed a hostile elite within this power structure — as they will in \
the future white-minority America; Jews were “Stalin’s willing executioners.”

Two passages from my review of Yuri Slezkine's The Jewish Century seem particularly \
appropriate here. The first passage reminds me of the many American Jews who adopt a \
veneer of support for causes of leftist versions of social justice and racial \
tolerance while nevertheless managing to support racial Zionism and the mass murder, \
torture, and incarceration of the Palestinians. Such people may be very different \
when they become a hostile elite in a white-minority America.

Many of the commentators on Jewish Bolsheviks noted the “transformation” of Jews \
[after the Bolshevik Revolution]. In the words of [a] Jewish commentator, G. A. \
Landau, “cruelty, sadism, and violence had seemed alien to a nation so far removed \
from physical activity.” And another Jewish commentator, Ia. A. Bromberg, noted that:

the formerly oppressed lover of liberty had turned into a tyrant of  \
“unheard-of-despotic arbitrariness”…. The convinced and unconditional opponent of the \
death penalty not just for political crimes but for the most heinous offenses, who \
could not, as it were, watch a chicken being killed, has been transformed outwardly \
into a leather-clad person with a revolver and, in fact, lost all human likeness. ...

After the Revolution, ... there was active suppression of any remnants of the older \
order and their descendants. ... The mass murder of peasants and nationalists was \
combined with the systematic exclusion of the previously existing non-Jewish middle \
class. The wife of a Leningrad University professor noted, “in all the institutions, \
only workers and Israelites are admitted; the life of the intelligentsia is very \
hard” (p. 243). Even at the end of the 1930s, prior to the Russification that \
accompanied World War II, “the Russian Federation…was still doing penance for its \
imperial past while also serving as an example of an ethnicity-free society” (p. \
276). While all other nationalities, including Jews, were allowed and encouraged to \
keep their ethnic identities, the revolution remained an anti-majoritarian movement.

The difference from the Soviet Union may well be that in white-minority America it \
will not be workers and Israelites who are favored, but non-whites and Israelites. \
Whites may dream that they are entering the post-racial utopia imagined by their \
erstwhile intellectual superiors. But it is quite possible that they are entering \
into a racial dystopia of unimaginable cruelty in which whites will be systematically \
excluded in favor of the new elites recruited from the soon-to-be majority. It's \
happened before.

Kevin MacDonald is a professor of psychology at California State University–Long \
Beach.

URL with hyperlink sources:

 http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/articles/MacDonald-Hsu.html


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Jewish extremist power once again raises its head in Eric Holder hearings
1/18/2009

Preface commentary by David Duke — The following article just appeared in Salon \
Magazine and it shows the real reason why Obama’s Attorney General designate, Eric \
Holder,  approved the unprecedented pardon of a fugitive from Justice, the Zionist \
big shot Marc Rich (shown at left). Once again, America is shown how Jewish \
extremists and the interests of Israel are treated in “chosen manner” over ordinary \
Americans. Barack Obama of course is just like Eric Holder, he has long put the \
powerful interests of Jews and Israel first and has a Jewish extremist chief of \
staff, Rahm Emmanuel, to prove it. As the article shows, the Israeli cover up \
continues with the confirmation hearings of Eric Holder.

The real reason Bill Clinton pardoned Marc Rich

During Eric Holder’s confirmation hearing, Arlen Specter scolded the attorney \
general-designate, but no one mentioned Israeli pressure. By Joe Conason

Eric Holder is sworn in at his confirmation hearing Thursday before the Senate \
Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill.

> Jan. 16, 2009 | From beginning to end, the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on \
> Eric Holder's nomination as attorney general observed the ban on candid discussion \
> of the main objection to confirming him. The forbidden topic: the real reason \
> behind the pardon of Marc Rich eight years ago, a controversial action that Holder
reviewed as deputy attorney general -- and that he failed to oppose for reasons he \
did not mention.

In an editorial that appeared on the morning of the hearings, the Washington Post \
urged the Senate to question Holder "closely" on the Rich matter. But it is difficult \
for senators (and editorial writers) to ask pertinent questions when they are \
completely ignorant of the real background and motivations of the players in the \
case. Even now, the true machinations behind the Rich pardon cannot be discussed \
honestly -- perhaps because they implicate the government and the security services \
of the state of Israel.

Sitting quiet and grave before the committee, Holder listened as Sen. Arlen Specter, \
R-Pa., one of the leading windbags of our time, held forth on how dreadful Rich is \
and how awful the pardon was. The fugitive trader, who still lives in Switzerland, \
had "a reprehensible record," Specter said -- alluding to reports that Rich did \
business in Iraq and Iran. The Pennsylvania Republican demanded to know how Holder \
could possibly have recommended a pardon for such an odious figure.

No doubt Holder was advised by the president-elect's transition team not to argue \
with Specter or anyone else about Rich. He must have been told not to talk about the \
foreign-policy issues that heavily influenced his view of the Rich decision. So he \
offered a meek mea culpa, took his lumps from Specter, and promised that his mistakes \
had made him a better man. Considering that his objective is to get through the \
hearings without undue stress, that was probably the wisest course. Telling the truth \
would only have inflamed the Republicans and the press, while creating unwanted drama \
for Obama.

Still, it would have been a refreshing change from the usual confirmation minuet if \
instead of humbly apologizing, Holder had tartly instructed the buffoonish Specter, \
his fellow senators, the press, and the public about the actual circumstances of the \
Rich affair. He might have started with the fact that continuous lobbying on Rich's \
behalf from the highest Israeli leaders and their American friends -- among whom \
Specter no doubt counts himself -- became even more intense in the days before \
Clinton left office. He could have noted that such pressures coincided with Clinton's \
efforts to conclude a peace agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians. And he \
could have explained to Specter that Rich's deals in Iran and Iraq were often related \
to his other role -- as an asset of the Mossad who gathered intelligence and helped \
to rescue endangered Jews from those regimes.

It is clear that Holder and his colleagues in the Justice Department had ample reason \
for concern over the proposed pardon, in part because pardoning a fugitive violated \
precedent. But for the Post to call him "the pardoner" in a front-page headline \
directing readers to the editorial was grossly unfair. Clinton had sole \
constitutional discretion to grant the pardon, and he would have done so whether \
Holder liked it or not.

But Holder understood that there were deeper reasons why the pardon was likely to be \
approved, which had nothing to do with the political and charitable contributions of \
Rich's ex-wife, the Manhattan socialite Denise Rich. The New York Times offered just \
a hint in a front-page story that appeared shortly after the Holder nomination was \
announced. Only at the very end did the Times mention the pressure from "the \
Israelis" that had persuaded Holder not to oppose the pardon -- as he told Beth \
Nolan, then the White House counsel.

Placed in its international context, that remark puts an entirely different \
coloration on Clinton's decision and on Holder's forbearance.

As the president mulled Rich's application, he was preoccupied with his final and \
most ambitious efforts to revive the Mideast peace talks that had imploded at Camp \
David during the summer of 2000. He was talking virtually every day with Ehud Barak, \
then Israel's prime minister, trying to persuade the Jewish state's leader to approve \
concessions to the Palestinians. That was only weeks before national elections were \
to take place in Israel, with Barak trailing in polls and heading toward defeat.

Echoing Barak's pleas on behalf of Rich were Clinton's old friend Shimon Peres, \
former Mossad director general Shabtai Shavit, and a host of other important figures \
in Israel and the American Jewish community. Winning the pardon was a top priority \
for Israeli officials because Rich had long been a financial and intelligence asset \
of the Jewish state, carrying out missions in many hostile countries where he did \
business. Although commentators in the mainstream and right-wing media have \
discounted this aspect of the controversy, they often seem as unfamiliar with \
critical facts as the average senator.

Following weeks of preparation by Clinton, the last round of serious peace talks \
opened in Taba, Egypt, on Jan. 21, 2001, the day after he signed the Rich pardon. \
Those negotiations eventually failed, yet they came closer to achieving a workable \
settlement than any before or since.

Meanwhile the fugitive financier, as he is still known, has never returned from his \
lair in Zug, Switzerland, to the United States. (The mainstream press never mentions \
that, either.) In other words, he has never used the pardon -- perhaps because he \
would first have to pay up tens of millions of dollars he owes in back taxes, a \
condition set by Clinton.

Clinton's decision is subject to harsh criticism in both substance and appearance, \
even by smart people who know the truth. But the pardon power exists so that \
presidents will be free to make such hard choices for reasons of state. As a lame \
duck, Clinton had no other means to induce his Israeli partner to take any risk for \
peace. All of this has been ignored ever since by the likes of Arlen Specter and the \
Washington Post -- and was obscured once more because Holder didn't want to start an \
argument with the Washington establishment, which forgets nothing and, even more \
reliably, learns nothing.

HTML source with hyperlinks:
 http://www.davidduke.com/general/7175_7175.html


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 The Israel Lobby Takes Off the Gloves
Posted by Taki Theodoracopulos

So what’s a few hundred dead Palestinian children when Tzipi and Ehud have gained \
eight to ten points in the polls? They were terrorist babies, anyway. So what if the \
Egyptians and Saudis are ignoring them while spending millions on hookers, palaces \
and yachts? The Gazans don’t deserve such goodies, certainly not palaces on the \
Riviera. My favourite is Yigal Palmor, an Israeli spokesman, who took umbrage when \
Cardinal Renato Martino, a high-ranking Vatican official, compared Gaza to a \
concentration camp. The Israeli whined that World War II imagery was below the belt. \
I suppose the Cardinal should have called it a beach resort. Oy veh, one can’t trust \
these Wops, they’re all a bunch of anti-Semites!

The best is Tony Blair. The great peacemaker demanded that the West bomb the Kosovo \
Serbs in order to save the lives of innocent Muslim women and children back in 1999. \
Now he’s busy collecting medals for having killed thousands of Iraqis: 900 Gazan dead \
and close to 4,000 wounded are small change to the great Middle East negotiator.

Uri Avnery, an Israeli so-called ‘peacenik’, calls his country a “blood-stained \
monster.” The dreadful self-publicist Alan Dershowitz uses that old canard of Hamas \
using Gazans as human shields ad nauseam, which is like saying that Churchill used \
Londoners as shields against the Blitz in order to rally the West and his people. \
Better yet, the grotesque Dershowitz invokes Article 51 of the United Nations charter \
to stop armed attacks against civilians. In Israel’s favour. What in God’s name has \
happened to decency? To truth?

I’ll tell you. The rows of boys and girls in white shrouds, the blinded children and \
babies, the white phosphorus bombs, the killing of medics and UN drivers trying to \
help innocent civilians, the 110 people forced into a house that Israel shelled the \
next day, the 12 corpses of the Samouni household which four tiny children cowered \
next to, that’s what happened to decency and to truth.

And where’s Obama while this is going on? Listening to Rahm Emanuel, his chief of \
staff and son of an Irgun terrorist, that’s where. Obama promised “change.” He is a \
man of his word. Here is his new line-up for the Middle East: Dennis Ross, of Clinton \
infamy, Jim Steinberg, Dan Kurtzer (former U.S. ambassador to Israel), Dan Shapiro \
and Martin Indyk, another former ambassador to the moral insanity that is Israel \
today. If you thought black humour was dead, just look at this list. What is an Arab, \
especially a Palestinian, supposed to think when Obama comes up with five men, all \
with close ties to Israel, to advise him on the Middle East? Mind you, there’s always \
Hillary. We can count on her to ignore political expediency and to play with a full \
deck.

And it gets better. Only an American Congress could declare that Israel is defending \
itself against terror while slaughtering hundreds of Palestinian children. American \
politicians know the score. Fail to back Israel and AIPAC will target you out in the \
next election by pouring funds to your opponent.

Obama is not yet in office and he’s already changing his tune. “An unwavering \
pro-Likud approach to Israel can’t be the measure of our friendship with Israel.” \
That was then. Now it’s the economy, and that of course comes before the killing of \
civilians.

Beware of answered prayers, I believe, is a mordant ancient Greek proverb. Bush \
insisted on elections in Gaza and he got them. Yet the slaughterhouse that is Gaza is \
still a sideshow, however senseless. It does not deal with the fundamental cause of \
the conflict, which is Israel’s continuing occupation of Palestinian lands. When will \
the US and Israel figure out that it’s not Hamas ideology that keeps the Palestinian \
group in power, but Hamas’s resistance to the cruelty of the occupiers. Why is Fatah \
a laughing stock among all Palestinians not in the pay of the US or the EU? Give \
Palestinians their 1967 borders with land swaps and equitable treatment of refugees \
and I will show you who will be the first to be denounced and renounced by the \
Palestinian people. The hard men of today. Hamas and Hezbollah will be irrelevant \
almost immediately.

And who are the Israelis who are blind to this? That’s an easy one: 500,000 settlers, \
many of them Americans, the followers of a small number of right-wing zealots, and, \
of course, the Likudists. Israelis are supposed to be an intelligent people but I \
have yet to see dumber moves than theirs since 1967. The West keeps harping on about \
Syria and Iran. I don’t think half of the American Congress even knows where these \
countries are. But neither Syria nor Iran created the violence, racism and \
colonisation that have been the hallmarks of Israeli policies since day one. Syria \
and Iran did not create the policies of resistance. Israel did. After 60 years of \
bombs and violence that have only brought more bombs and violence, surely it’s time \
to change a losing game. Personally, I blame America more than I blame Israel. All it \
needs to do is to halt military and economic aid until Israel returns to its 1967 \
borders, and to hell with AIPAC and the political blackmail on Congress. Obama can do \
it in a jiffy. But that’s like expecting to read the obituary of an African leader \
without ‘whose years in power left his nation mired in poverty and corruption’ \
following his name.  \
http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_israel_lobby_takes_off_the_gloves/

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