15-10-2009, 08:55 AM
To Peter Lemkin (and everyone else):
I personally and certainly mean no offense to you, or to any specific person who may happen to be Jewish. I apologize to any who may have been offended. There is a lot for me to learn in terms of the experience of "Jewishness". (People often assume I am Jewish because of my name, but that name derives from the French "jouet" and Henri du Juwatt, and thence into Great Britain, and thence to New England.)
Peter's comments about the hand-in-glove involvement by fundamentalist Christians, right-wingers and other "regressives" is well-taken, and I should have "stipulated" to that earlier or been quick enough to have built it into an introductory statement.
I am speaking -- as is probably obvious-- out of anger and frustration.
Forgive me my trespasses...
What I am trying to get at simply is that Zionism, if that is the proper distinction, is at the root of much of that which has happened to my country -- and thence to the rest of the world by my country -- and it hasn't been a pretty sight, and it is threatening to my country's political balance, and it poses a continued war threat, possibly nuclear. And, over here, we can't get too many people to even acknowledge that there is a problem, let alone discuss it, or address it. Furthermore, it is very obvious that there is a significant number of people who will do whatever they can to distract, disorient and derail (or worse) any attempt to call attention to the matter.
All here at DPF are well-read, astute, discerning ... and I don't mean to preach. It is simply that, inside America as elsewhere, a pre-emptive argument of anti-Semitism has made any attempt to identify or address the issue exceedingly difficult.
There is much I could call on -- given some time -- that would illuminate my POV ... there's lots of information 'out there' about Israeli/Zionist involvement in 9/11, the history of Israeli espionage, the involvement of Jewish money in media, the role of Zionism in the history of the Wall Street/CIA nexus, the brutality of Israeli warfare upon Palestine, the fuzzy history of the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers, the very effective use of propaganda and disinformation techniques run from inside Israel, the use of sayanim, the presence of the son of a noted Zionist terrorist as White House Chief of Staff, etc. My focus is not on the Jewishness per se -- I have often said I'd be equally upset if what has happened had been done by or for the principality of Andorra.
A personal story: As a key staffer for a small multi-state NGO association whose member heath centers were Federally funded, I was involved in the coordination of a lobbying visit by center directors and Board members to educate Congress on the facts as we saw them. We had to pull teeth to get appointments with aides for the small handfuls of volunteers we scraped together to make the trip. We were able to give token gifts as remembrances, but were disallowed from making much of a political statement through campaign contributions by the laws and our limited numbers. When we got there, we were met outside the Capitol office buildings by convoys of buses of people from a Jewish background lobbying for I don't know what. They have a right to lobby, but their power is out of all proportion to their numbers. This is addressed in the forthcoming article.
Here is a short video which features former CIA analyst Ray McGovern and former State Department intelligence staffer Thielmann talking about the potential causes of armed conflict in Iran.
Listen to what they have to say:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/46970
Another article will follow.
I personally and certainly mean no offense to you, or to any specific person who may happen to be Jewish. I apologize to any who may have been offended. There is a lot for me to learn in terms of the experience of "Jewishness". (People often assume I am Jewish because of my name, but that name derives from the French "jouet" and Henri du Juwatt, and thence into Great Britain, and thence to New England.)
Peter's comments about the hand-in-glove involvement by fundamentalist Christians, right-wingers and other "regressives" is well-taken, and I should have "stipulated" to that earlier or been quick enough to have built it into an introductory statement.
I am speaking -- as is probably obvious-- out of anger and frustration.
Forgive me my trespasses...
What I am trying to get at simply is that Zionism, if that is the proper distinction, is at the root of much of that which has happened to my country -- and thence to the rest of the world by my country -- and it hasn't been a pretty sight, and it is threatening to my country's political balance, and it poses a continued war threat, possibly nuclear. And, over here, we can't get too many people to even acknowledge that there is a problem, let alone discuss it, or address it. Furthermore, it is very obvious that there is a significant number of people who will do whatever they can to distract, disorient and derail (or worse) any attempt to call attention to the matter.
All here at DPF are well-read, astute, discerning ... and I don't mean to preach. It is simply that, inside America as elsewhere, a pre-emptive argument of anti-Semitism has made any attempt to identify or address the issue exceedingly difficult.
There is much I could call on -- given some time -- that would illuminate my POV ... there's lots of information 'out there' about Israeli/Zionist involvement in 9/11, the history of Israeli espionage, the involvement of Jewish money in media, the role of Zionism in the history of the Wall Street/CIA nexus, the brutality of Israeli warfare upon Palestine, the fuzzy history of the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers, the very effective use of propaganda and disinformation techniques run from inside Israel, the use of sayanim, the presence of the son of a noted Zionist terrorist as White House Chief of Staff, etc. My focus is not on the Jewishness per se -- I have often said I'd be equally upset if what has happened had been done by or for the principality of Andorra.
A personal story: As a key staffer for a small multi-state NGO association whose member heath centers were Federally funded, I was involved in the coordination of a lobbying visit by center directors and Board members to educate Congress on the facts as we saw them. We had to pull teeth to get appointments with aides for the small handfuls of volunteers we scraped together to make the trip. We were able to give token gifts as remembrances, but were disallowed from making much of a political statement through campaign contributions by the laws and our limited numbers. When we got there, we were met outside the Capitol office buildings by convoys of buses of people from a Jewish background lobbying for I don't know what. They have a right to lobby, but their power is out of all proportion to their numbers. This is addressed in the forthcoming article.
Here is a short video which features former CIA analyst Ray McGovern and former State Department intelligence staffer Thielmann talking about the potential causes of armed conflict in Iran.
Listen to what they have to say:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/46970
Another article will follow.
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"