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The U.S. is Israel's Puppet
The days when the chief Israeli puppeteer comes to the United States and meets with the puppet in the White House and then proceeds to Capitol Hill, where he meets with hundreds of other puppets, should be replaced.

There is far more freedom in the media, in town squares and among citizens, soldiers, elected representatives and academicians in Israel to debate and discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than there is in the United States.
-- Ralph Nader

posted by LoZo 11:26 AM

 

Positions of the Movement for One Democratic Secular State
We view all forms of ethnic, racial, or religious intolerance as being fundamentally incompatible with any progressive one state advocacy. Progressive one state advocacy that seeks a mutually acceptable one state resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is based upon the premise that members of diverse ethnic and religious communities can, and should, coexist within the same state and polity. Therefore any one state advocacy based upon ethnocentric and/or religious exclusivist principles is manifestly unacceptable. . . . We reject stagist scenarios that are based upon the idea of an ethnic separatist two state solution as a prerequisite for the creation of an acceptable one state scenario. . . . Recognizing the role that religion plays as a complicating factor, while rejecting the proposition that the issue is fundamentally religious in nature, as is indicated in the Movement’s name, we reject the prospect of a religiously based one state scenario. Without prejudice to the suggestion that religious parties and institutions as other social, cultural, and political associations and organizations may play a role in the democratic states, the state itself must be secular. . . . Regarding populations, all scenarios must take into account the entire body of citizens. For the Palestinians, this includes both residents of the Occupied Palestinian Territories as well as the external refugees (and their descendents) expelled in 1948 and 1967 without prejudice to the refugees inalienable rights as defined in UN Resolution 194. The Israeli population includes all Jewish and non-Jewish citizens, including the more than 700,000 Israeli citizens that reside outside of Israel/Palestine. Any one state scenario that does not take into account the entire body of citizens of either population is incomplete and therefore unacceptable. . . . We absolutely reject any one state scenario predicated on integrating neighboring states into the process as it encourages ethnic separatist agendas and threatens the sovereignty of neighboring states. . . . Any attempt to engage neighboring states in the process before peace effectively presents both Israelis and Palestinians with alternatives not currently available is likely to be based on thnic separatist ideas. In particular bringing in neighboring states strengthens the Zionist ethnic cleansing position by opening one of the neighboring states to pressure tactics to accept unwanted Palestinians. . . . The above represent the core positions of the Movement for One Democratic Secular State. Any one state position, scenario, or strategy that works within these perimeters is more than welcome here. Do keep in mind that this entire initiative is designed for, and limited to, people that have already adopted a one state perspective. We have no intention of allowing this project to be mired in the never-ending one state/two state debate. This community is appropriate for people that have already adopted a one state perspective.

posted by LoZo 10:11 AM

 

KERRY, Israel, Jews, and the Middle East
(Mark Bruzonsky, 3 August 2004)
ohn Kerry's Middle East policies have already been heavily mortgaged, if not downright sold, to those who have the greatest interest and power in controlling what the U.S. does in the crucial Middle East region and in determining where American arms, monies, and covert actions flow in the future -- powerful American Jews closely associated with Israel. . . . Today's Democratic party is similarly mortgaged but to competing groups comprised of Jewish Zionist 'liberals' long associated with the Israeli Labor party and what use to be seriously called 'the peace process'. To name a few names: Ross, Indyk, Berger, Spielberg, Saban, Albright, Rubin, Grossman, Laipson, Lieberman, Streisand, Miller and many others. . . . The Washington game being played today is among many of the same operatives who have been around for decades now, and they all know instinctively at this point how the game of political musical power chairs is played when the other party comes to power. Those who have been waiting in the wings at various holding operations including foundations, think-tanks, universities, and law firms simply exchange places with those who in effect then form another new shadow government when out of power politely awaiting again their next turn. . . . With the various right and left arms of the Israeli-Jewish lobby firmly in control of both political parties in the U.S. when it comes to Middle East policies, the lobby is assured that the key positions at the White House, Congress, the Pentagon, Foggy Bottom, and CIA will always be held by approved members of their club, albeit some more 'liberal' (Democrats) and some more 'conservative' (Republicans). Maybe even more importantly to the Israelis, no one unacceptable to them can ever get a top policy job in today's Washington the way things have been arranged and organized by the big money men coupled to their large assortment of policy professionals and de facto as well as de jure lobbyists and 'journalists'. . . . In the case of Kerry, fully a third at least of his top funders (the so-called 'vice-chairs') and well over half of his top Middle East policy advisers (the officials-in-waiting) are Jewish and all are closely connected with the Israelis and acceptible to them. . . . Add to this sordid Washington brew additional American society realities with regard to the extraordinary concentration of media ownership and information control in what now has to be thought of as a carefully managed pseudo-democracy nearly totally dominated by big money and pressure groups. Here too powerful wealthy American Jews and those they can hire to work for them -- nearly all with long and close associations with Israel -- predominant in an overwhelming manner. To name a few names: Zuckerman, Bronfman, Sultzberger, Redstone, Levin, Koppel, King, Blitzer, Kondrache, Kristol, Crystal, Peretz, Eisner, Chernin, and many others. . . . The reality is that the much-touted American 'two-party system' is in actuality closer to a single large corporate establishment party with two intermingling branches . . . To sum up... At this point in history one can think of the basic political alignment in the U.S. and the Middle East as follows: . . . Republicans - tied to the Likud in Israel, the evangelical right and the neocons at home, the super ealthy 'client regimes' in the region, and now masquerading with the 'democracy' theme that hardly anyone beyond American shores takes seriously. . . . Democrats - tied to the Labor party and remnants in Israel, the pro-Israel labor movement and Jewish 'liberals' at home (small in numbers but extremely important in the media, money, and power circles), many of the 'client regimes' in the region (even if now trying to find alternative strongman regimes), and masquerading with the 'peace process' theme that hardly anyone anymore really finds credible beyond American and some European shores.

posted by LoZo 2:19 PM