The pro-genocide Zionist movement suffered a pair of setbacks today. The first was in the UN, where a non-binding resolution called for an immediate ceasefire in Palestine and a release of “hostages”. That might seem like rather a yawner, except for the fact that the US declined to veto the resolution—which looks very much like the US was attempting to send a message to the ruling clique of the Zionist entity. And, above all, to try to find some way to distance itself from Zionist genocide. It’s hardly a secret that Dems are nearing the full-blown panic stage over their alienation from much of their base, which is turned off by genocide.
I agree with Mark that Israel's actions in the Gaza have both had the effect of uncovering for the previously unaware the largely hidden history of Zionist wrong-doing in 'Palestine' and diminishing for the time being the impact of accusations of antisemitism reflexively hurled at critics of the Israeli regime.
However, I am a bit pessimistic that any real change in the hold of the Jewish Lobby (including not only the lobby's hold over Congress, but also in a broader sense its hold over the Deep State, Wall Street, the Ivy League, Big Law, Hollywood, the MSM, and Big Tech) is going to diminish in any material way anytime soon. They have accumulated too much wealth and power and they do not ever voluntarily relinquish wealth and power. Plus, in their view, their control is existential. I see some dodging and weaving, especially in the run up to the 2024 elections, but only that. I will be surprised if there is real change.
Liberalism = globalism = plurality, multiculturalism = open borders
Perfidy was an interesting book, Rezső Kasztner was assassinated before he could spill the beans. As bad as Zionism is, a lot of regular Jews had no other option.
It’s truly sick that there is a choice there at all, as if that contradiction is somehow not fatal to the Zionist entity from the very beginning. We see now the logical result of such dissonance and rank hypocrisy - a nation so sure of its moral superiority that it now proudly sows the seeds of its own downfall by righteously visiting upon another people that which the entire world condemned in the prior turning.
That even the most craven, warmongering politicians in the US are now trying to distance themselves from these actions speaks volumes about the irreparable damage that has been done to the image of Israel and Zionism. There will be no rehabilitation of that image, no sympathetic face can be conjured from such darkness once it shows itself in the light.
Maybe I am out of touch with most American Jewish thinking. I’m pretty sure the dems are not overly worried about losing the Jewish vote. Nor do I think American liberal Jews lose sleep over Biden’s half-hearted Zionism. What was it.... over 70% of Jews voted for Biden in 2020 even after Trump did the Abraham accords? Vote with conservative evangelicals for Zion Don? Oy vey!
Plus, Many of the Jews of the neo-conservative kind ( RiNOs, IMO) ARE virulent never-Trumpers.
The Politics make strange bed fellows. Israel needs evangelical support more than ever for their survival. Evangelicals overwhelmingly support Trump. Trump has to thread the needle or risk alienating his CUFI evangelical base, but I am sure he is salivating at Michigan. Kagan Kristol and company will continue to oppose Trump. It’s a strange world we live in.
I agree with Mark that Israel's actions in the Gaza have both had the effect of uncovering for the previously unaware the largely hidden history of Zionist wrong-doing in 'Palestine' and diminishing for the time being the impact of accusations of antisemitism reflexively hurled at critics of the Israeli regime.
However, I am a bit pessimistic that any real change in the hold of the Jewish Lobby (including not only the lobby's hold over Congress, but also in a broader sense its hold over the Deep State, Wall Street, the Ivy League, Big Law, Hollywood, the MSM, and Big Tech) is going to diminish in any material way anytime soon. They have accumulated too much wealth and power and they do not ever voluntarily relinquish wealth and power. Plus, in their view, their control is existential. I see some dodging and weaving, especially in the run up to the 2024 elections, but only that. I will be surprised if there is real change.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/03/draft-un-report-finds-israel-has-met-threshold-for-genocide.html
Zionism = nationalism = monolithic ethnos = controlled borders
Liberalism = globalism = plurality, multiculturalism = open borders
Perfidy was an interesting book, Rezső Kasztner was assassinated before he could spill the beans. As bad as Zionism is, a lot of regular Jews had no other option.
Bibi is in a tough bind.
It’s truly sick that there is a choice there at all, as if that contradiction is somehow not fatal to the Zionist entity from the very beginning. We see now the logical result of such dissonance and rank hypocrisy - a nation so sure of its moral superiority that it now proudly sows the seeds of its own downfall by righteously visiting upon another people that which the entire world condemned in the prior turning.
That even the most craven, warmongering politicians in the US are now trying to distance themselves from these actions speaks volumes about the irreparable damage that has been done to the image of Israel and Zionism. There will be no rehabilitation of that image, no sympathetic face can be conjured from such darkness once it shows itself in the light.
what is this genocide you speak of?
Maybe I am out of touch with most American Jewish thinking. I’m pretty sure the dems are not overly worried about losing the Jewish vote. Nor do I think American liberal Jews lose sleep over Biden’s half-hearted Zionism. What was it.... over 70% of Jews voted for Biden in 2020 even after Trump did the Abraham accords? Vote with conservative evangelicals for Zion Don? Oy vey!
Plus, Many of the Jews of the neo-conservative kind ( RiNOs, IMO) ARE virulent never-Trumpers.
The Politics make strange bed fellows. Israel needs evangelical support more than ever for their survival. Evangelicals overwhelmingly support Trump. Trump has to thread the needle or risk alienating his CUFI evangelical base, but I am sure he is salivating at Michigan. Kagan Kristol and company will continue to oppose Trump. It’s a strange world we live in.
At the risk of sounding anti-Semitic, I sure am sick of these Zionist Jews.