On 9/30/17, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well, First: Julian Assange tells the truth, regardless of the consequences
to his reputation. But one of his, "truths", and I know you and others have
said similar things and I understand why, is that there was no difference
between voting for Clinton or Trump. And in spite of the facts that support
that statement, it is a false statement because whatever horrors Clinton may
have brought upon us and the rest of the world, they pale in comparison to
what Trump and his administration do every day. And I'm not just talking
about the insanities that come out of his mouth. Second: No one in the
official American Jewish world talks today about how the US locked out all
those Jewish refugees. I did first hear the story from a rabbi on a Hillel
weekend for college women. The purpose of his talk was to convince us that
no matter what, we as Jews were, and would always be in peril, and we must
completely identify as Jews and follow Jewish traditions and marry a Jewish
man, not because this was God's commandment, but it was a survival
technique. He was a Reconstructionist Jew and that is what Reconstructionism
preached. But I haven't heard about Reconstructionist Jews for a long time
and that has to do with the wealth and power that Jews have attained in the
US in the past 50 years. Back when Jewish refugees were fleeing Hitler, the
American Jewish establishment was cautious about what it demanded from FDR
because there was so much anti-Ssemitism in the US that it did not want to
call attention to itself. But by the beginning of the twenty first century,
powerful American Zionist, many of them the "Neo-Cons", were urging the US
to change the world order in the Middle East on behalf of Israel, and
they're still doing it. That is a good part of why there is so much pressure
for regime change in Syria.
Miriam
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Funny, I thought that Julian Assange was very self contained in his
observations. Especially when we consider that he, an Australian citizen,
has been held prisoner, for years, in the Ecuadorian quarters in London,
by extreme pressure from the United States of Corporate America.
Israel, a little chip off the old American Block. Like little David, Israel
stands at the ready with its little slingshot and a pocket full of "Nuc's".
Do we wonder why there is not a greater outcry over the slow extinction of
Palestinians by the Israeli's?
We have only to look over our own shoulder, at our history. Our Noble march
across the Promised Land given to us by the goodness of God Almighty. We
renamed the proud people who had the misfortune to be living on "our
promised land", Savages! Red Devils! Injuns! And in the time honored way
of conquerors throughout history, our Christian anscestors raped the Native
Women and called the little babies, "Half Breeds", as if they were half
animal.
And when the Savages rose up and fought back, we called their victories,
"Massacres". Our soldiers won battles, and conducted themselves like true
Christian Soldiers of the Cross.
And we wonder why Americans don't rise up in protest to the oppressive
treatment of Israel toward Palestine?
As a small boy, I was just ten years old at the end of the Second World War,
I believed that our Free Nation had saved the Jews from Hitler's gas
chambers. I had no idea that America had turned boatloads of Jewish
refugees away from Port after American Port. I wonder if elderly Jews still
tell their children the horror stories of the abuse they suffered at the
hands of the very governments they believed were established to protect
them. These Jews had worked hard and helped to build powerful nations. But
when their governments needed a scapegoat to blame for the governments
greedy mismanagement, the Jews(God's Chosen People!) were "chosen" for the
job.
And yet, just as if it never happened, today the Jews in Israel suck up to
the Corporate American Empire just as their Forefathers did in the years
leading up to WW II. And when their usefulness comes to an end, or when the
Corporate American Empire needs a Fall Guy, little Israel will be led to the
gallows. And many normally kind and good Americans will accept the
propaganda from their Mass Media, and simply shrug, shaking their heads and
wondering how "those" people who had been so well treated by America, could
have turned on us...like Lambs to the Slaughter.
Jews and Gentiles alike, share the responsibility for the coming horrors,
because we have all failed to study and learn from our past.
Carl Jarvis
On 9/29/17, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Julian Assange certainly isn't worried about his reputation in the US.
I agree with him about Israel, but perhaps he should have been a bit
more tactful, considering his situation?
Miriam
Assange: Real Threat To US Is Not Russia But Israel
awdnews.com
By Staff, www.awdnews.com
September 28th, 2017
Above Photo: From awdnews.com
From his refuge in the Ecuador Embassy in London, WikiLeaks founder
Julian Assange addressed a press conference of his supporters in
Berlin on Tuesday, amid speculation that he planned to reveal
potentially threats to America.
But early into his speech, Assange said that while more revelations
were to come, he would not be making any major announcements,
asserting that there would be no point in dropping making such
revelations at a time when most Americans would be sleeping.
"Russian actions on its own doorstep in Eastern Europe do not in fact
threaten the United States or any actual vital interest. Nor does
Moscow threaten the U.S. through its intervention on behalf of the
Syrian government in the Middle East. That Russia is described
incessantly as a threat in those areas is largely a contrivance
arranged by the media, the Democratic and Republican National Committees
and by the White House.
Candidate Donald Trump appeared to recognize that fact before he began
listening to Michael Flynn, who has a rather different view. Hopefully
the old Trump will prevail,there is, however, another country that has
interfered in U.S. elections, has endangered Americans living or
working overseas and has corrupted America's legislative and executive
branches. It has exploited that corruption to initiate legislation
favorable to itself, has promoted unnecessary and unwinnable wars and
has stolen American technology and military secrets. Its ready access
to the mainstream media to spread its own propaganda provides it with
cover for its actions and it accomplishes all that and more through
the agency of a powerful and well-funded domestic lobby that oddly is
not subject to the accountability afforded by the Foreign Agents
Registration Act (FARA) of 1938 even though it manifestly works on
behalf of a foreign government. That country is, of course, Israel,"
said Assange.
The assessment of Israel and what damage it does regarding what most
Americans would regard as genuine national interests is most
definitely not reported, revealing once again that what is not written
is every bit as important as what is. I would note how what has
recently happened right in front of us relating to Israel is
apparently not considered fit to print and will never appear on any
disapproving editorial page. Just this week the Senate unanimously
passed an Anti-Semitism Awareness bill and also by a 99 to zero vote
renewed and strengthened sanctions against Iran, which could wreck the
one year old anti-nuclear weapon proliferation agreement with that
country.
The Anti-Semitism bill makes Jews and Jewish interests a legally
protected class, immune from any criticism. "Free speech" means in
practice that you can burn an American flag, sell pornography, attack
Christianity in the vilest terms or castigate the government in
Washington all you want but criticizing Israel is off limits if you
want to avoid falling into the clutches of the legal system. The Act
is a major step forward in effectively making any expressed opposition
to Israeli actions a hate crime.
And it is similar to punitive legislation that has been enacted in
twenty-two states as well as in Canada. It is strongly supported by
the Israel Lobby, which quite likely drafted it, and is seeking to use
legal challenges to delegitimize and eliminate any opposition to the
policies of the state of Israel.
As the Act is clearly intended to restrict First Amendment rights if
they are perceived as impacting on broadly defined Jewish
sensitivities, it should be opposed on that basis alone, but it is
very popular in Congress, which is de facto owned by the Israel Lobby.
That the legislation is not being condemned or even discussed in the
generally liberal media tells you everything you need to know about
the amazing power of one particular unelected and unaccountable lobby in
the U.S.
