On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:58:33 -0800, knews4u2chew wrote:
> On Nov 6, 11:45 pm, "Bay Area Holdout" <Linea...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> "Jeff McCann" <NoS...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>
> <Snip wasted good advice that will never see the light of day>
>
> Here it comes kids.
> Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
>
> From:
> http://rense.com/general83/done.htm
>
> ALI ABUNIMAH: On yesterday's announcement of Rom Israel Emmanuel to
> become White House Chief of Staff. "Indeed Emmanuel is one of the most
> hard-line sup****ter's of Israel and has been for years. He's the son of
> Benjamin Emmanuel who actually was a gun-runner for Irgun, the pre-
> Israeli Zionist militia that carried out numerous terrorist attacks on
> Palestinian civilians, including the bombing of the King David Hotel.
>
> Of course Rom Emmanuel himself is not responsible for any of that, but
> his record is sometimes far to the right of President Bush when it comes
> to sup****ting Israel. But I think the im****tant thing here is not just
> the appointment of Emmanuel but the greater context here which is that
> from the days when we knew Barack Obama as a small time politician in
> Illinois.
>
> I won't tell you that I've never said that he was incredibly progressive
> on Israel-Palestine; but he was certainly more open minded than he is
> now. And what he's done substantially throughout the campaign is to
> distance himself, or to 'throw under the bus' as the term goes; any
> advisor or friend that was suspected of having pro- Palestinian
> sympathies. In other words he has suc***bed to the McCarthyite and
> racist campaigns that says; If you associate with even a very moderate
> Columbia University professor, or take their advice, then that's the
> biggest crime. So the signal he's sending here is that this is not going
> to change. The people who could give him more balance, more objective or
> more realistic advice that could change the course of the disastrous
> Palestine- Israeli policies of the Bush and Clinton administrations-that
> that is not going to happen.
>
> That should be very worrying because a lot of progressive people; a lot
> of people in the Middle-East, a lot of leaders, have pined hopes upon
> Obama of being quite different on this issue-and I just don't see any
> evidence so far, that that's going to be the case.
>
> It worries me that people will stay silent, rather than putting on the
> table now: and loudly-their demands for a more balanced, more objective,
> more fair plan that could bring peace for Palestinians and Israelis.
> There could not be a more provocative appointment than Rom Emmanuel, if
> he wanted to send a signal that he is going to stick by a hard-line
> pro-Israel!
>
> The point I want to make is that Barack Obama has painted himself into a
> corner by appealing to the most hard-line pro-Israeli elements in this
> country. By distancing himself from all advisors, even mainstream
> establishment figures like Zebignev Brzezinski or Robert Malley who was
> one of Clinton's officials who was thought by the pro-Israeli lobby to
> be too pro-Palestinian. What he has done is he has publicly embraced
> people like Dennis Ross and Martin Endig, two of the most pro- Israeli
> officials from the Clinton era, who are totally distrusted by the
> Palestinians and other across the Middle-East, because they are seen as
> life-long advocates for Israeli positions.
>
> So he's made it impossible or extremely difficult for himself to say
> 'look, now we're going to talk to wider range of people; we're going to
> talk to those excluded voices that could give us advice, that could
> actually get us out of this mess in Israel- Palestine' and that's very
> worrying. And I think that progressive people across this country;
> instead of basking in the euphoria, need to pick themselves up today and
> start demanding that the Obama administration immediately end The Siege
> of Gaza: it's totally indefensible, and it is a crime unprecedented in
> modern history, that 1.5 million people are confined to a Ghetto,
> starved, cut-off from the world: threatened! This is indefensible and
> there's no need for this to continue even for a single day under a new
> administration that should be setting the standard very high; not
> accepting 'slight hints' that 'in a few year's time,' an Obama
> administration "might" accept a Palestinian State or might talk about
> one. The days for that are over. This situation is urgent, and we really
> need to see radical change: It's not going to come from Rom Emmanuel and
> Dennis Ross and Martin Endig-it's only going to come from a groundswell;
> demanding that the promises of 'change' be kept!"
The left will ever whine that Jesus himself is not in command. Because
they are absolutely dead sure that Jesus shares their particular views.
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