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I Killed Rachel Corrie

by Anonymous

Source: http://othersite.org/anonymous-i-killed-rachel-corrie/

I killed Rachel Corrie.

I never heard of her

but I paid my taxes,

so I killed Rachel Corrie.

I built the bulldozer

and trained the driver

and gave the orders

that took her life,

so I killed Rachel Corrie.

I went to watch my team play a big game

and to have a few drinks with them afterwards

instead of reading what Rachel wrote

and hearing what she said,

so I killed Rachel Corrie.

I go to church on Sunday

and attend Friday prayers

and keep Shabbat holy

but mustn’t upset my community

with painful questions,

so I killed Rachel Corrie.

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Carlos Latuff sums up the verdict in the Rachel Corrie case

Did America Say NO to Israel?

by Gilad Atzmon

In the last few hours we have learned that the US had made massive reductions to joint military exercise with Israel.  Originally slated to include 5,000 US troops, Washington will now only send 1,500 to participate in Austere Challenge 12 with Israel.  Apparently, the American administration is concerned with a possible Israeli strike on Iran.

Some Israelis seem unhappy with the American decision. The Times quoted a senior Israeli military official as speculating, "Basically what the Americans are saying is, ‘We don’t trust you.’” Well, America has good reason not to trust Israel. The only question here is why did it take America so long to move in the right direction?

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Anthony Lawson: The Israeli Judge Lied!!!

Gilad Atzmon: Rachel Corrie and the Kosher Legal Stamp

Judge Oded Gershon’s ruling earlier this week that the state of Israel is not to blame for the death of Rachel Corrie, came as no surprise. In fact it reaffirms everything we know about the Jewish state - its politics, legal system and spirit. Israel is surely a most peculiar state - it is impervious to ethical thinking and humanist thought. Accordingly, Judge Gershon gave this week a kosher stamp to a cold-blooded murder and by so doing, he proved, once again, that Israeli criminal actions are consistent with the most vile interpretations of Old Testament and Talmudic Goy-hating.

As one would predict, Judge Gershon, restricted himself to legalism and litigation as opposed to ethical thinking - he actually blamed Corrie for not ‘behaving reasonably’. Yet, one may wonder what is this ‘reason’ or more precisely, what does an Israeli mean when he or she refers to ‘reason’.

Rachel Corrie was bulldozed to death by an Israeli military D9 Caterpillar on 16 March 2003. She was part of ISM (International Solidarity Movement), a non-violent pro-Palestinian peace activist group. Being an American youngster, Corrie mistakenly believed that Israeli soldiers were humanly driven. Being a reasonable person she must have believed that an Israeli bulldozer driver would never drive over her body. She was wrong. Corrie clearly failed to grasp that Israeli ‘reasoning’ was lethally fuelled by psychosis and fantasies of destruction.  

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The Kindness of Banks

By Barb Weir

Penin Diaz, an American friend of mine, sent me this distressing report that I felt I had to share.  Some of the details are uniquely American, but the experience is not  – Barb Weir

Our family is going through hard times, and we’re trying to cut expenses, so I asked my bank about mortgage loan modification.

“We’re here to help you, Mr. Diaz,” said the loan officer.  “How far behind are you in your mortgage payments?  You don’t qualify unless you’re pretty destitute.”

“We’re not behind yet,” I said, “but I lost my job.  In order to keep up the payments, we had to shut down the heating and air conditioning and eat peanut butter sandwiches.  My son is wearing my daughter’s hand-me-downs, which she got at the thrift store.  My wife sold all her jewelry, and is getting additional income from what she calls ‘the kindness of strangers.’”

“That’s terrible, Mr. Diaz, but I can’t help unless your payments are at least two months behind. Stop paying and come back in two months.”

So we did and I returned after two months.

“Good job,” said the loan officer.  “Fill out these forms, and mail them in, along with proof of how poor you now are, compared to when you took out the loan.”

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Chocolate, America, John Cleese & a Kosher Armageddon

Chocolate, America and a Kosher Armageddon

 In this new Israeli advert for Chocolate Spread you can learn what it takes to drag America into a Kosher war.

I guess that in reality it takes slightly more than just chocolate spread, but, seemingly, not much more than that.

p.s. It looks as if John Cleese doesn't take BDS seriously

Rinaldo Francesca interviews Gilad Atzmon

Hello everybody, I was away for a month.

I will try to catch up.

Here is a very interesting film made by Rinaldo Francesca:

http://youtu.be/StE10uIwtL0

The Wandering Who? A Study Of Jewish Identity Politics, Jewish political interest, Jewish Lobby and beyond..

The book can be  ordered  on Amazon.com  or Amazon.co.uk

David Mamet Vs. Gilad Atzmon

Introduction by Gilad Atzmon: Yesterday I came across this very interesting piece by James Warner. It is far from being surprising that intellectual and ideological criticism is taking place out of the solidarity movement.  This is probably a price we are paying for three decades of Left and AZZ indoctrination. Warner's reading of my work is pretty astute. He doesn't take my words out of context and his criticism is also valid. Those who enjoyed The Wandering Who may find this piece interesting.

David Mamet, Gilad Atzmon and identity politics

By James Warner

There are unexpected similarities between two writers usually thought of as polar opposites. The author ends up wishing that each of them would write their version of an imagined encounter with the other.

Reading Gilad Atzmon's The Wandering Who? [5] immediately after David Mamet's The Secret Knowledge [6], I was surprised to find the two books, written from vehemently opposed political viewpoints, nonetheless reminded me of each other. Does Mamet's need to see the Israelis only as scapegoats grow from the same root as Atzmon's need to see them only as perpetrators? An underlying emotional argument of Mamet's The Secret Knowledge [6] could be glossed as “I used to be a poster child for liberalism, so all the more reason to believe me now I reject everything about liberalism.” For an underlying emotional argument of Atzmon's The Wandering Who? [5] substitute “Zionism” for “liberalism.” But even if this were a compelling line of argument, each book contains plenty of evidence Mamet and Atzmon were never exactly poster children.

Mamet's plays and other writings celebrate individual courage, discipline, and commitment. While he has only recently started identifying as a conservative, his long-term distrust of academia and high estimation of street smarts, his generally low opinion of human nature and belief that playing the victim card is a more contemptible route to power than is straightforward self-interested chicanery – while arguably bipartisan attitudes -- in the contemporary U.S. tend to be more associated with the right. It's not surprising if a man whose plays observe the Aristotelian unities of Time, Place and Action leans conservative, while when it comes to Israel – more likely the driving factor behind Mamet's political conversion – he has for some time been on the right of Israel's foreign policy spectrum. According to The Secret Knowledge [6], he now desires a Republican victory in the U.S. in 2012 and the repeal of health care reform, Israel's infallibility apparently not extending to its system of socialized medicine. Mamet loves America and Israel for their entrepreneurialism, and tends toward the neocon line that Israel is the front line in the “War Against Terrorism,” and that anyone criticizing the Israeli government's treatment of the Palestinians must be an anti-Semite. Mamet reports he is now ashamed not to have fought in Vietnam, a lack for which his more recent hawkishness could be seen as a bid to compensate.

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