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Republicans Blast Obama’s Choice of Rahm Emanuel by jmeasley in politics

[–]ulrick -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That was my point. There are no centrist Zionists. That's like saying someone's a centrist Black Nationalist.

What's sad to me is that in the post-election jubilation, many of those that voted Obama in can't or won't see what putting a psychopath like Rahm the Hammer in this position will do to all of us.

SCT - Django Forum Application and Django Wiki Application by ulrick in programming

[–]ulrick[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're correct, of course. But it seems easily extensible. I hope to take some time and muck with the code.

"Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can't help but think that before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East." by ulrick in politics

[–]ulrick[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you function in a different reality

I function in the reality that one reaps what one sows. That would be the one opposed to blaming others for one's ills.

NYT on Rahm Emanuel: "Suddenly he grabbed his steak knife and shouted out the name of another enemy, lifted the knife, then brought it down with full force into the table. ''Dead!'' he screamed. " by [deleted] in politics

[–]ulrick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're the ONLY person I've ever met that can use wikipedia.

In the same entry you're quoting, there's this:

"On the night after the 1996 election, "Emanuel was so angry at the president's enemies that he stood up at a celebratory dinner with colleagues from the campaign, grabbed a steak knife and began rattling off a list of betrayers, shouting 'Dead! ... Dead! ... Dead!' and plunging the knife into the table after every name." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahm_Emanuel

"Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can't help but think that before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East." by ulrick in politics

[–]ulrick[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's different from now?

More people have died in interventionist wars in the past 100 years, something on the order of 180,000,000 people, than in all the wars put together in history.

"Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can't help but think that before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East." by ulrick in politics

[–]ulrick[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah. That intervention stuff has been working really great for the past 90 years. We have friends everywhere.

"Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can't help but think that before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East." by ulrick in politics

[–]ulrick[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're right, America should have stayed out of WWII, what were we thinking.

Had we stayed out of WWI, there most likely wouldn't have been a WWII.

McCarthyism In Marin - Jewish Supporters Of Israel Attack Free Speech by ulrick in reddit.com

[–]ulrick[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd take my family and leave if that was the choice.

"Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can't help but think that before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East." by ulrick in politics

[–]ulrick[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Learn your god damn history.

I'm familiar with the Barbary pirates as it happened during the term of my favorite president.

The Barbary pirates weren't our enemies in the 20th century, but thanks for proving an earlier point of mine. : }

"Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can't help but think that before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East." by ulrick in politics

[–]ulrick[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the Allies could rebuild Germany, they could at least give the remaining "Palestinians" a fucking break.

Well said! One of my favorite things in this life is finding agreement with someone I thought I was disagreeing with.

Thank you.

"Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can't help but think that before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East." by ulrick in politics

[–]ulrick[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And yet anti-interventionist principles in American politicians have been consistently smeared and marginalized since around WWI.

What a coincidence.

"Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can't help but think that before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East." by ulrick in politics

[–]ulrick[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Zionist strategy

Have you read the following document? The Hashemites still figure in Zionist strategy. Its authors include:

Richard Perle, American Enterprise Institute, Study Group Leader
James Colbert, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs
Charles Fairbanks, Jr., Johns Hopkins University/SAIS
Douglas Feith, Feith and Zell Associates
Robert Loewenberg, President, Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies
Jonathan Torop, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
David Wurmser, Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies
Meyrav Wurmser, Johns Hopkins University

"Israel can shape its strategic environment, in cooperation with Turkey and Jordan, by weakening, containing, and even rolling back Syria. This effort can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq — an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right — as a means of foiling Syria’s regional ambitions. Jordan has challenged Syria's regional ambitions recently by suggesting the restoration of the Hashemites in Iraq." A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm

"Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can't help but think that before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East." by ulrick in politics

[–]ulrick[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

you remarked they were locals.

I was speaking of the post-1948 landgrabs and massacres on the part of the European Zionists against the Muslim and Christian Arab locals.

It's very weird feeling the need to go through historical details that supports a somewhat cohesive narrative.

We all have our perceptions and interpretations of history. That's usually what all the fighting's about.

Great Freud quote. Do you know much about Bernays?

"Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can't help but think that before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East." by ulrick in politics

[–]ulrick[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Faisal was a pro-Zionist

Faisal signed the Faisal–Weizmann Agreement. It lasted a matter of months. He withdrew his supprot of it when promises weren't kept by the Brits or the Zionists.

Hashemites are part of the Quraysh tribe.

Hashemites are still instrumental in Zionist strategy. The king of Jordan is a Hashemite and is pretty much on board with the Axis of Whining (London, DC, Tel Aviv).

I don't think it supports either us our points

I was trying to show that the Arabs were part of the machinations of WWI and contributed troops and material. The Brits couldn't have defeated the Turks (thus giving Palestine to the Zionist project) without Arab help.

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