“Based on every statement out of any Republican in the last two years,” Bill Maher said on HBO’s Real Time on Friday night, “the Israelis are controlling our government.” It’s not the first time the formerly-funny-jester-dwarf-turned-partisan-hack has gone off the deep end on Israel. It’s just the most obvious anti-Semitic canard to emerge from his potty-mouth.
Maher was referring, of course, to the political story that has brought all the leftist anti-Semites rushing from the woodwork: the hold-up of Barack Obama’s Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel, he of the “Jewish lobby” hatred and the anti-Israel isolationism. Said Maher: What is it about him that’s suspicious? He voted for the Iraq war, he voted for the Afghanistan war, he voted for the Patriot Act, he voted for Homeland Security, Star Wars, he’s a right-wing Republican and that’s not good enough? Sitting by and watching this ridiculous charade was Vice Chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. Brazile interjected: “Bill, what they’re doing is going after every speech.” When Jamie Weinstein of The Daily Caller explained that one of those speeches may have contained Hagel ripping the State Department as a wing of the Israeli Foreign ministry, Maher dropped the “Israel-controls-our-government” bombshell. Brazile sat there and said nothing. In fact, her next remarks were in defense of Hagel: “They keep changing the goalposts, Bill.” To oppose certain policies of the State of Israel is not anti-Semitic. Everyone has done it based on the administration in Israel, which changes, as it does in every democracy. But to suggest moral equivalence between the democratic, casualty-minimizing Israelis, and the fascistic, terrorizing Palestinians is anti-Semitic. To suggest that Israel controls American foreign policy is conspiratorial anti- Semitic nonsense. And it’s dangerous nonsense at that. Maher doesn’t have a consistent pattern of this kind of messaging. His message varies with his audience – in an interview with the Los Angeles Jewish Journal in November, he defended Israel’s rights to defend itself against Hamas rockets … although one suspects that that defense has more to do with Barack Obama’s tepid support for Israel’s Gaza action than Maher’s own inherent sympathy for Israel. And that’s the danger. The left now follows President Obama’s lead with the devotion of a pack of well-trained hound dogs. If he is anti-Israel, they are anti- Israel. If he is not, they are not. (He is never pro-Israel, so that point of view is obviated.) Thus Brazile’s tolerance for Maher’s anti-Semitic diatribe. President Obama has nominated a Secretary of Defense who clearly is an anti- Semite, and Brazile defends that pick because it’s Obama’s pick. And Hollywood, which has a higher-than-average representation of Jews, remains silent. Imagine if Maher had made this comment about the gay lobby in Washington – the Hollywood crowd would have gone berserk. But when he suggests that the Elders of Zion run the American government, it’s treated as normal not just by Brazile, but by the Hollywood Jewish left, which values its leftism over its Judaism. Because leftism is the true Hollywood religion, the number of self- hating Jews or atheists of Jewish origin here is skyrocketing. Jewishness is now seen as a charming rite of passage or a way to identify as non-white, a moral shield against charges of being part of the dominant demographic strain in America. But Judaism as a coherent religion and philosophy is seen as a mockery, a joke, the basis for intolerance and inhumanity. Which is why, at root, leftism must reject Judaism, and thus the legitimacy of the State of Israel. With his re-election won, Barack Obama is doing just that. He’s being followed by the typical left, and the Hollywood left. And the Hollywood Jewish left is saying nothing. As usual. On Feb 20, 10:58 am, plainolamerican <[email protected]> wrote: > Chuck Hagel, President Obama’s Secretary of Defense nominee, is in > trouble. Why? Because he famously said: “The Jewish lobby intimidates > a lot of people up here… I’m not an Israeli senator. I’m a United > States senator.” > > On Friday, forty allegedly American Senators blocked Hagel’s > nomination with a filibuster. Their message was loud and clear: “We > are not United States Senators. We are Israeli Senators.” > > Alan Hart, former lead BBC Mideast correspondent, expressed his > disgust at the Israeli Senators’ vote on my radio show, Truth Jihad > Radio, this Friday: “This is treason. Serving a foreign nation, rather > than one’s own, is not just wrong - it is treasonous.” > > One of the traitors, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Israel), mentioned Israel > sixteen times while grilling Hagel. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Israel) mentioned > Israel ten times. Altogether, Republican Senators mentioned Israel 64 > times during their hostile cross-examination of Hagel. The war in > Afghanistan - supposedly America’s most pressing military issue - was > only mentioned four times. > > Those forty Senators don’t care about US troops stuck in the Afghan > quagmire, the place empires go to die. They don’t care about the US > economy - which, like the US troops sent to Middle Eastern quagmires, > is bleeding and dying in wars dictated by Israel, imposed on America > by Israel… wars whose only purpose is to serve the interests of > Israel, at the expense of the interests of the United States. > > Chuck Hagel has pointed out that US interests and Israeli interests > don’t always coincide. That is a massive understatement. The truth is > that in today’s world, US interests and Israeli interests are in stark > opposition to each other. > > The US, as Zbigniew Brzezinski suggests in his book The Grand > Chessboard, competes with Russia for influence in central Eurasia; and > it competes with the rising Asian powers, China and India, for energy > and mineral resources. The natural US allies in this part of the world > are the Muslim nations. And the most important potential US ally in > the region is Iran. According to Brzezinski, the US ought to do > everything possible to establish good relations with Iran. His > implication is that the US ought to apologize for its terrible past > behavior towards Iran, stop bullying the Iranians over Iran’s peaceful > nuclear power program, end all sanctions, and give Iran most favored > nation status. > > But that won’t happen - even though US geopolitical interests dictate > that it must. > > Why not? Because Iran will never stop supporting the Palestinians in > their struggle against genocide in Occupied Palestine. And that isn’t > acceptable to Israel - which owns and runs the US government. > > The US is bullying Iran on behalf of Israel. In doing so, it is > undermining itself. > > But nobody in the US is allowed to mention this. Expressing even the > slightest discomfort with Israeli ownership of America, as Chuck Hagel > has, is just not kosher. > > US hostility towards Iran is only one example of a self-destructive > policy imposed on America by Israel. In fact, the whole “war on > terror” - in reality, a war on Islam - is an Israeli fabrication. > > Benjamin Netanyahu created the “war on terror” in 1979 at the > Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism (JCIT). As scholar > Nafeez Ahmed writes, the JCIT “established the ideological foundations > for the ‘War on Terror.’” Participants at the conference included > George H.W. Bush, Richard Pipes, Sen. Henry M. Jackson, Shimon Peres, > and many other high-level Israeli and US military, intelligence, and > political personalities. Netanyahu’s JCIT proposed to deceive the > American public, and the world, by wildly exaggerating the dangers of > “international terrorism” and even manufacturing a nonexistent > “terrorist threat” to mobilize Western populations behind aggressive > policies. > > In 1996, Netanyahu, as Prime Minister of Israel, commissioned a paper > entitled “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm.” The > paper’s lead author was neoconservative Zionist extremist Richard > Perle. Co-authors included such neocon Israel-first fanatics as > Douglas Feith and David Wurmser - the same folks who would lead the > War on Terror propaganda campaign after 9/11. > > The “Clean Break” document proposed redrawing the map of the Middle > East on behalf of Israel. Iraq would be invaded and shattered into > pieces, in accordance with Israel’s Oded Yinon plan to balkanize the > Middle East. Other Middle Eastern countries would follow. And though > the “realm” that needed to be “secured” was Israel, it would obviously > be American troops who would be bleeding and dying. > > The same neocons who wrote the 1996 “Clean Break” paper for Netanyahu > produced an even more damning document in September 2000: The infamous > “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” paper published by The Project for a > New American Century (PNAC), which openly called for a “New Pearl > Harbor.” Exactly one year later, PNAC’s avidly-desired “New Pearl > Harbor” arrived in the form of the 9/11 false-flag attack. The war on > Islam for Israel went into high gear. > > Today, more and more Americans are agreeing with Chuck Hagel: It’s > time for the US to stop being Israel’s slave. The 9/11-triggered wars- > for-Israel are massively unpopular. Voters sent powerful antiwar > messages in the 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2012 elections. Mitt Romney, > Netanyahu’s hand-picked candidate, was soundly defeated, despite the > overwhelming support he received from Israel and its Zionist Power > Configuration. > > The Israelis correctly see that their ownership of the US government > is in jeopardy. Their hysterical opposition to Hagel is a sign of > desperation. > > When another Hagel vote happens next week, will the treasonous > Senators from Israel win again? Or will the Senators from America > prevail? > > Regardless of whether Hagel is ultimately confirmed, the battle > between the Senators from Israel and the Senators from America is > educating the American people about who really runs their country. -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. 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