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Obama’s Zionist Wannabe Veep
"If I were a Jew, I would be a Zionist. I am a Zionist. You don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist."- Senator Joseph Biden
Considering the last eight years and the current (viable) options, I'll admit to wanting Barak Obama in the White House in January. Undoubtedly, more people around the world will have a better chance of surviving the next four years with his finger on-or rather off-the button. However . . .
For
all of Obama's campaign promises of "change," his choice of Joseph
Biden as his running mate sends a clear signal to Israel's lobby in
Washington and its right-wing government in Jerusalem that for the next
four years there will be no change in the United States' unconditional
support or its annual $6 billion in direct and indirect aid.
Predictably,
neither will there be a change in the hopelessness and the impotent
rage of the Arabs suffering under a U.S.-supported Zionist ideology in
Palestine.
Senator Biden is the ardently pro-Israel chair of the Foreign Relations Committee. He is a 36-year veteran politician whose specialty is foreign policy. When he told a reporter from the Jewish cable network, Shalom TV, that he is a Zionist, he knew the implications of that admission for the Palestinians, the entirety of the Arab world, and America's global "war on terror."
Matt Dorf, the Jewish outreach coordinator for the Democratic National Committee, said that "Israel would have no better friend in the vice president's office than Joe Biden." Dorf might just as easily-and as honestly-have said, "Palestinians would have no greater foe in the vice president's office than Joe Biden."
Commenting on the unrest in Palestine in 2007, Biden planted his flag deep in Israel's camp: "The responsibility rests on those who will not acknowledge the right of Israel to exist, will not play fair, will not deal, will not renounce terror."
Obama's running mate has chosen his side. He cannot be a neutral American statesman brokering a Middle East peace or he cannot be a Zionist.
One cannot be a Zionist and place the suffering of Palestinians on the same moral plane as that of Israeli Jews.
One cannot be a Zionist and demand that Israel dismantle its illegal settlements that co-opt nearly half the land in the Gaza Strip and Occupied West Bank.
One cannot be a Zionist and place the blame for sixty years of violence and the deaths of innocent thousands-both Palestinian and Israeli-on the cold-blooded determination with which the Zionist cadre executed the ethnic cleansing of 800,000 Palestinians from the land they had inhabited for untold generations.
One cannot be a Zionist and contemplate the return of Palestinians to their homes that are now occupied by Israeli Jews or the rebuilding of the 500 Palestinian villages destroyed during the great Nakba (catastrophe) of 1948.
One cannot be a Zionist and abandon the dream of Eretz Israel in order to live as equals with an Arab neighbor in a truly democratic Palestine-Israel.
One cannot be a Zionist and demand that Israel's apartheid wall be torn down.
One can be a Jew. One can be an Israeli. But one cannot be a Zionist.
Joseph Biden is neither a Jew nor an Israeli. He is the Democratic vice presidential candidate who unabashedly declared, "The Democrats' support for Israel comes from our gut . . . and ends up in our heads." Sound familiar? Haven't we already had eight years of a president who "thinks" with his gut and expects the rest of us to behave like dung beetle larvae? Speaking strictly for myself, I'm tired of their balls of poo.
Could it be there is no difference, no possibility of change as Obama promises, between the Democratic and Republican parties' subservience to Israel's shadow government on K Street or their tacit support of Israel's internationally condemned policies toward the Palestinians?
Could it be that the two parties' overt support for Israel's regional aggression exacerbates the "war on terror" and makes the people their candidates swear to God to protect and defend less safe?
Could it be that the "ball of dung" being fed to the American people by both parties conceals the obvious truth that there is no strategic value in our irrational alliance with Israel?
Commenting on the unrest in Palestine in 1921, Winston Churchill, one of the architects of the modern Middle East, told the House of Commons: "The cause of unrest in Palestine, and the only cause, arises from the Zionist movement, and from our promises and pledges in regard to it."
Joseph Biden's self-professed Zionism plays well on Shalom TV, but it is a liability for the United States in the global "war on terror" and a death warrant for Palestinian and Israeli innocents.
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20 Comments so far
Show AllBullet proof vest. I've said it before about v.p.'s, I'll say it again. I'm not the only person to point it out either. Neither is he the first person to be used in that manner. Dan Quail, is the perfect example of a vest; the last person you want to see as your country's leader. Sometimes it doesn't work, Egypt's leader today was seen (in his own country and by some outsiders at least) as the bullet proof vest for Sadat; that didn't work so well for him. Or Egypt for that matter.
In some ways palin is intended to be mcsame's bullet proof vest, but with someone as aged as mcsame she's more likely to be seen as the worst possible choice.
From the recent events in Georgia, clearly, the Russians are the only nation that will stand up against the Zionists. Could this be a result of the Russian experience with the Bolsheviks, and men like Yagoda, Kaganovich, Radek, Sverdlov, Kaminev, and the Cheka, and the people who established and ran the Gulag??
Do you know of Kolyma?? Do you know the terrorist activities of Begin and Shamir and Sharon??
"The cause of unrest in Palestine, and the only cause, arises from the Zionist movement, and from our promises and pledges in regard to it."
That's what brought down the Twin Towers and knocked a hole in the Pentagram.
Now America is tearing itself apart with it's self caused war on terrorislam.
Who will prop up Israel after America is just a smoldering pile of rubble?
Good article but it has, for all practical political purposes, no impact. We are not going to see a more enlightened attitude from McCain and christo-fascist nutbag of a running mate.
If either Nader or McKinney (my choice) had any chance at all of winning then this article might change a few minds.
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One cannot be a Zionist and lose an election.
Credit CommonDreams with printing this criticism of Biden now that all are seemingly only concentrating on McCain's even weaker choice of a running mate. As to whether it is real that Biden actually mentioned the possibility for pressing criminal charges against Bush? Well, I don't think he and Obama have even the slightest plans for that at all, and neither did any Democratic Party rats ever press any criminal charges against Nixon decades earlier. So nobody hold your breath now. Stay alive!
Could it be that the "ball of dung" being fed to the American people by both parties conceals the obvious truth that there is no strategic value in our irrational alliance with Israel?
Most reactionary/fascist Republicans don't like Jews. Their affinity for Israel is based on the eye-popping lunacy about the end of the world and all that biblical rubbish. As for the Democrats . . . who really knows these days? They're probably just petrified of the Republicans.
Democrats are not afraid of the Republicans, they're afraid of losing conservative corporate funding and the support of the majority American sheeple that believe way more in angels than in evolution.
biwee. The notion that the Bolsheviks Yagoda, Kaganovich, Radek, Sverdlov, Kamnev [sic!] were Zionists is utter nonsense. Why did you forget to mention Sinovev and Trotsky? The "experience" by Russian Jews was known as "pogroms."
Biden thinks with his gut.
Steven Colbert thinks with his gut.
Steven Colbert acknowledges being a comedian.
Geez, the differences between Obama/Biden and McCain/Pallin are becoming murkier and murkier.
I actually thought that Joe Lieberman was going to be chosen as McCain's running mate considering how much Joe kisses John's behind.
"If I were a Jew, I would be a Zionist. I am a Zionist. You don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist."
If I were jewish, I'd be insulted to be called a Zionist. Who in their right frame of mind would want to be put in the same boat as Pat Robertson?
With friends like them...
After Obama captured the nomination from Hillary Clinton, he *lurched* to the right. The former "peace candidate" now not only supports the possibility of four wars in the Middle East (Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran) -- he's so far up AIPAC's ass, Joe Lieberman would gasp in amazement.
Israel has for years taken a percentage of American "aid" and funnelled it back to America where it is paid to lobbyists advocating for more "aid."
Where it is used to defeat politicians against increasing Israeli "aid."
And Abramoff was sentenced to four years today.....
and will be pardoned in 5 months?--------------lizard
"… you had me at MONEY "
Namaste
We may be noticing, in a few months, the testing of warning sirens: the type of sirens which were so well tested during the cold war signaling a nuclear attack.
Then the USA will be ready to attack Iran: signaling the end of the world?
With a Zionist controlled media most Americans are completely ignorant of just how corrupt & despicable Zionists (Jewish & Christian both) are. Certainly very few are aware of all the 'false flag' operations they have carried out (to start wars & make it look like someone else was the agressor), of them being the original bombing terrorists, or their intent to rule the world & enslave the populace. Don't be ignorant when your liberty is at stake, or you will be just an ignoramus without freedom.
Here's a good link to start educating yourself to just how insidious, devious, criminal, and immoral the Zionists are:
http://iamthewitness.com/doc/RothschildsTimeline-filer/frame.htm
The hour or so it takes to read the history contained in the link could be the most valuable time you will ever spend reading.
Native Son where are you?
To (loosely) quote the previously listed "former" contributor, who often stirred up many readers. A tribal American as I am.
The USA is currently illegally in possession of more than 60% of its geographical territory as a result of treaties, initiated by the USA, with the previous owners (most likely as far back as 100K years) who had held them off and cost them millions of dollars to pursue illegal wars of aggression for possession of those lands. The USA is now the worlds wealthiest nation as a result of the material wealth extracted from those lands, while the Native American people as a whole are the poorest minority in the USA.
The Jews, who violated three previous treaties with the Romans were in 79 A.D.*, defeated, Jerusalem sacked, and the Jews were expelled from Jerusalem where no Jew was allowed to enter for five hundred years. To expect anyone except the most gullible to believe that the Jews deserve to be in possession of current day Israel, at the expense of the Palestinians is absurd. Unless of course you (the USA) is illegally in possession of territory, then it would behoove you to mock justice with the assumption mentioned above.
* As a scholar and teacher of history, I am acutely aware that the "Jews", cannot prove their supposed antiquity before the Hellenistic era. Proof of this antiquity would only be established with the chronicle(s) of OTHER Nations concerning the "Jews" and there simply are none in existence.
History will treat the USA, as well as the many others from this current era as frauds and charlatans, or worse for having supported the illegal Jewish state of Israel. History is never kind to fools.
Politicians play to the Christian "right" in order to support their own fraudulent assumption of the Messiah "Jesus", that has no basis in fact or historical documentation.
"If I were a Jew, I would be a Zionist. I am a Zionist. You don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist."
This belongs in MadLibs. Substitute any nationality or religion for JEW. Substitute the related chauvinistic philosophy for ZIONIST. There you go. A recipe for eternal strife.
Here is an ideal we can strive toward. "My country is the world, and my religion is to do good." Thomas Paine
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