We Are All Palestinians
Posted on November 1st, 2008
by Philip Giraldi |
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One of the truly awful things about the Bush years is the pathologies that have been unleashed by 9/11. The vilification of Muslims often directly but more often by implication has been a persistent feature of political discourse, embraced by Republicans primarily but also by many Democrats like Joe Lieberman. If any single reason were needed to vote for anyone but John McCain it would, in my opinion, be the recent attacks on highly respected Professor Rashid Khalidi, whose only crime appears to be that he is Palestinian. It is time that we the people repudiate this particular type of poison and banish it from our political discourse.
Michael Brandon Dougherty has already posted on the TAC blog the interview with McCain campaign official Michael Goldfarb in which Goldfarb calls Khalidi an anti-semite “friend” of Obama, though he demurs at naming the other anti-semites that he knows to be associates of the Senator from Illinois.
I also call our reader’s attention to an article by Glenn Greenwald in Salon that appeared yesterday http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/10/31/neocons/index.html and a superb piece by Juan Cole that appeared on Thursday http://www.juancole.com/2008/10/mccain-racism-hypocrisy-on-khalidi.html
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Very well said.
I was directed towards this site by John Cole as evidence that sane right-wingers do still exist, and though I might disagree with your ideas about how the world should and does work, it’s nice - very, very nice - to meet you.
I fear for this country’s freedoms when our leaders are subject to loyalty oaths to foreign powers before they are deemed fit to govern.
Until foreign influence is purged from our government our future as a free nation will continue to be mortgaged and subject to foreclosure.
It is not un-American to sympathize with an occupied people struggling for self determination if not self preservation.
These are American ideals.
The problem is that the mainstream left and right both agree that we ought to have a foreign policy of intervention, and it’s impossible not to distinguish between foreign nations politically when that’s your framework.
If it weren’t for the US military’s overseas presence, our heavy-handed diplomatic style, and the mountains of inequitably dispersed foreign aid we offer the world, it would be totally irrelevant what national loyalties public figures carry. It would be reduced to the level of personal opinion, and loyalty wouldn’t even be on the table.
[...] then there are times when I start to think maybe they’re just doing the opposite of whatever the neoconservatives are [...]