When You’ve Lost Commentary . . .
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The ADL has apparently made its final lurch into the same level of disrepute and ridiculousness as the Southern Poverty Law Center. After publishing a report seemingly attacking all criticism of Obama as “hate speech”, Commentary goes the extra mile in attacking them, and we should expect nothing less from this paragon of the paranoid style in American politics.
For the ADL, this appears to reflect the same desperation to get into Obama’s good graces as with the appointment of old Chicago money hands to the presidencies of both AIPAC and the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, and is sure to fall equally flat.
But I must say this should also warn against David’s paranoid style, however true his facts, the Israel Lobby today is in desperate straits, and this incident tells us that in fact they’re eating each other alive.
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I hope that you are right, and if you are, then you are very lucky. Over here, it is now a matter of record that Gordon Brown’s chief election fundraiser is a very hardline Likudnik while EIGHTY PER CENT of sitting Tory MPs are members of Conservative Friends of Israel, which is entirely the organization that you would expect it to be. Out of office and therefore driven back to their rural, almost exclusively English redoubts, the Tories are thus representing their voters how, exactly?
The average Briton may not be altogether comfortable voting for a candidate endorsed by those dedicated to the overriding interest of a foreign state in general and of that state’s violently anti-British minority in particular. Nor for a party, such as the Tories now are, eighty per cent of whose sitting MPs are so endorsed, which is to say bought and paid for. How is that not treason?
The Tories have not always been the party of national sovereignty; in office, they never have been since the War. But they certainly see themselves as such now. Even before Blair, Labour’s record as the party of peace was patchy in practise; the Tories’ was at least as good. But it certainly sees itself as such in principle.
However, the truth is that if we want a body of parliamentarians who will moderate the whole process as much in the cause of national sovereignty as in those such as family values, and as much in the cause of peace as in those such as social justice, then we are going to have to contrive and confect those parliamentarians for ourselves. The existing parties are worse than a waste of time.
On the one hand, I commend the fact attention is being paid to why “progressive” Europe is compromised by world-wide Zionism in ways all its own, though it seems to me even more for deeper political-cultural reasons beyond the Lobby than in America.
At the end of the day though, 70 Senators signing a napkin is just 70 Senators signing a napkin. If Obama was to be believed on the campaign trail, he would be threatening military action against Iran, sticking by the snake Saakashvili, and moving the embassy to Jerusalem. And so I imagine is the case with Cameron.
You both are fine gentlemen. I find it bizarre that your relegated to post-right, when we have who knows what blogging @tac.
When Israel launches a full-scale assault against civilian targets in Lebanon (where the official army stands down in cowardice) or Gaza (fighting aimless rockets), and the Congress votes almost unanimously to support Israel with no conditions (and those opposed vote present), then don’t tell me that a couple years later the AIPAC crowd is desperate and on the ropes!
And don’t attack people as paranoid for only emphasising what we all know, namely, that no matter what Israel does, its political support in the US and from certain quarters of Europe is monolithic. And when confronted with this uniform backing, don’t be so naif as to claim it doesn’t matter because the leader could reverse course at any time.
It would be paranoid to claim that “the Zionists” run everything or are invincible, but it is simple fact that they have huge amounts of money funneling around that they won’t hesitate to direct at their enemies, intimidating many to fall in line. The Rahm Emmanuel-run White House won’t change that.
And the ADL is not entering the same level of disrepute as the SPLC, the two organisations are virtually twins, both involved in gathering intelligence on groups they don’t like. The SPLC does not contradict the ADL and they are working together to pass the hate-speech laws, which you know will be applied selectively. I would guess the SPLC could not fund its apparent intelligence operations if not for the support of the ADL and its friends (or for their sharing of data).