A few items for your weekend blood pressure, in case it’s currently low:
Pro-Israel, Neo-Con Magazine: Let’s Kill Some Journalists!
Israeli-American fascism is alive and well. The Likudnik Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), which has boasted supporters such as Dick Cheney, John Bolton, Douglas Feith and Richard Perle, ran an article suggesting that in future wars the media could be justifiable targets of military operations. The author, a former US army officer (surprise!), wrote:
Although it seems unthinkable now, future wars may require censorship, news blackouts and, ultimately, military attacks on the partisan media. Perceiving themselves as superior beings, journalists have positioned themselves as protected-species combatants. But freedom of the press stops when its abuse kills our soldiers and strengthens our enemies.
Um, no, it is not unthinkable. The US and Israeli armies already censor, blackout and attack ‘partisan media.’ What is unthinkable is such open discussion of inherently criminal logic. He is calling for attacks against civilians.
He does not just mean “journalists” who use blind hatred towards incitement, but those whose reporting makes unpopular wars fought abroad. The article, then, really suggests that censoring or killing those in the public sphere whose ideas challenge a belligerent’s war aims is justified. This is disgusting and should be condemned in the strongest terms.
Major Breakthough in Electoral Desperation Tactics.
You ever get the feeling the UN investigation into the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese PM Rafik Al-Hariri is a political light saber, a weapon flipped on when needed? When the United States needed to reign in Syria, it was the leading culprit in the investigation. Well now, ‘inside sources’ are suggesting major new evidence that implicates, guess who, Hizbollah. And guess when, two weeks before parliamentary elections. Guess what? The party of God and its allies are expected to finish strong in them.
And the narrative of this “leak” hinges on an Iranian-trained, Hizbollah ringleader who used a cell phone reserved for the operation to call his love-interest. Right.
These accusations will be met with utter skepticism, I am sure, especially since the tribunal overseeing the investigation released four prime suspects after holding them for years. Makes one wonder about its integrity.
Also, I doubt this would be as big of a bombshell as it seems even if true. While many would care and geo-political pressures may come to bear, would it be enough to significantly shift the polls or seriously weaken Hizb? Probably not, but someone is trying to put the heat on. Too bad it reeks of desperation and only further politicizes an overly-politicized investigation, one that at best may prove inconclusive.
With all this electoral manipulation going on, it’s a relief the master manipulator is staying clear. The VP of the United States personally reassured the Lebanese during a special trip there that America will not interfere in the Lebanese elections — except that they will probably cut aid if the wrong party (of God) wins. An this was hinted at during the special trip the Vice-President made to the small country to remind them the United States will not interfere.
Cheney: Please Go Back to the Undisclosed Location You Crawled Out From.
“Obama, I’m coming for you!”
I’m all for respecting my elders, except for the war criminals.
Will someone make Dick Cheney shut the FUCK up?! His no-good scheming ass barely saw the sun for years when he was running the country as Vice-President. He was busy sending his monkey boy-President to make a fool of himself for the cameras.
Now, he’s trying to clean up the scene of the crime by hitting the public stage and putting together a lucrative book deal (which I doubt will contain one revelatory insight not designed for some strategic communication effect).
True, some Republicans wants him to shut up before he creeps out what few sane partisans they have left in the tent. Of course, the creepiest are welcoming back their old leader as the only non-Rush light of the party.
Some say he rattled President Obama, forcing the President on the defensive. I welcome that. And I laugh at Cheney’s attempt to upstage Obama with his simultaneous speech on national security. How silly.
This is the price for Democratic wimpiness. Instead of pushing for investigations into and serious prosecutions of the countless legal transgressions at the highest echelons of the previous administration, they gave Cheney the opportunity to come out swinging, and now they got them a pebble in the shoe, and its a crusty, fleshy, glowy white pebble.
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That is simply terrifying. Thanks for the post, Will.
Posted by SanaKF | May 24, 2009, 4:00 amYes, it is terrifying. Let us run and hide, and never ask for boycott again.
Posted by Join the Boycott | May 24, 2009, 3:23 pmSo much bellyaching, so few calls for action against Israel: why? Do you believe the Zionists are all-powerful, and will crush you if say "boycott"? Or are you are really not bothered enough to actually go demand boycott against them?
Posted by All bellyache. | May 24, 2009, 6:40 pmI think it's just the realization that all the boycotts that have already been demanded have accomplished nothing.
Or it's just that we've all accepted that when faced with Israel as an adversary, nothing we do makes a difference. Heartbreaking, but true.
Posted by Aisha | May 24, 2009, 8:23 pmThank goodness for honesty. Now we can talk about whether boycott really is futile. See how the Israeli media panics, whenever some tiny boycott event happens, on some little campus? If the Zionists are panicking, even though they have hundreds of atom bombs, ask yourself why. Demand boycott on your campus, and then watch the Zionists panic. Again, why are they so worried, if they are so powerful?
Posted by All bellyache. | May 24, 2009, 8:28 pmHmm..the BDS Movement (BDSM…awkward?) is actually pretty decent in terms of boycotts – it's actually sustainable. Unlike previous attempts to BDS from Israel, this one is picking up speed at the institutional level just more so than at the individual level – ya3ni, it's getting support from some major groups associated with some of the most important sectors of our society i.e. labour unions! That's where the revolution be at.
Posted by SanaKF | May 24, 2009, 9:09 pmit's pretty hypocritical to call the Israelis fascist when they are dealing with Islamofascist enemies. lol @ military attacks on the partisan media. Maybe they should start with those morons over at MSNBC.
Posted by eagle007blogger | May 25, 2009, 12:49 amThose boycotting may not have enough economic power to hurt Israel, but it's good that people are thinking in this way: voting with their money, and turning to political and economic ideas instead of violence. As far as being faced with Israel as an adversary, hopefully the times are approaching when relations with Israel need not be adversarial – working together in other words, to accomplish goals. The whole idea of being enemies with Israel and of defeating them, it's all been tried and it failed every time. Better to negotiate and find shared aims.
Posted by chris | May 25, 2009, 4:56 amwait, non-partisan media still exists? holy shit!
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