Friday, November 09, 2007

Shhhh... Scheuer Calls Israel-Firsters "Anti-American", Mentions "Treason"

My, my, these Israel critics are getting so uppity! Not only did they put "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" on the New York Times best seller list for a few weeks this summer, but now CIA agent Michael Scheuer, on that disreptutable Antiwar.Com
is calling Israel-Firsters... ahem, supporters of brave little Israel... "anti-American" and bandying about the word "treason!" And then a bunch of people went on to BLOG! the disreputable column!
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Philip Weiss on his MondoWeiss blog wonders if "60 Minutes" will ever let it's here to fore "star" Scheuer back on the show! As if such things are censored!
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OK, I'll stop being sarcastic before someone actually thinks I'm outraged. As Antiwar.com news stories and columnists point out everyday, the Israel Lobby is the main group promoting war against Iran, a war that easily could escalate to world nuclear war.
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Gosh, and they wonder why so many people after so many years of being silenced by fears of being called "anti-Semitic" are suddenly yelling "the Israelis are doing it!" Next thing you know they'll be blaming the JFK assassination, the RFK assassination and the planting of the demolition bombs in the World Trade Center on Israel's Mossad.
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What is sad, of course, is that only a small percentage of Jews in American - or even Israel - support the most aggressive acts of the most supremacist Jews who have bullied their way to power in Jewish community life, as well as in American and Israeli political life.
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Yet should Bush bomb Iran -- or follow Israel's lead in bombing it, and gasoline shoot up to $10 a gallon, thousands of American service people be killed within a few weeks, the dollar drop to the cellar and inflation rise to 30%, credit for individuals and business dry up, etc. etc. , you can bet that there will be a growing number of Americans blaming "the Jews" as well as "the Arabs" and/or "the Muslims." (Many doing the blaming will be the same people.) At least the "Israel-Firsters" will have their co-horts new Attorney General Michael Mukasey and Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff to lock up all those protesters holding signs saying "STOP US & ISRAEL WAR ON IRAN!"
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And if there is a nuclear war - most Jews, since they live in Israel or in large target cities - will die immediately. How many will be massacred later by angry survivors looking for someone to blame, time hopefully will NOT tell. Just hope they don't come after people who are only 1/32 Jewish like me and Christopher Hitchens! Even being a little bit Jewish can make one paranoid.

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