Just Journalism has published a valuable analysis of the London Review of Book's take on Israel between 2000-2010: it is stridently against. Guided by a Jewish editor, one of LRB's main tracks is to "balance" Arab writers who detest Israel with Jewish writers who detest it even more, while effectively never allowing mainstream Israelis the opportunity to respond. It's star Jewish writers are Uri Avnery, Ilan Pappe, and Ytizchak Laor (who manages to make even Gideon Levy look moderate).
Someday, long after we're no longer here to see it, in the 22nd or 23rd century, some scholar will write a fine tome about the antisemitism of the early 21st century. The London Review of Books and the Guardian will be given great prominence.
Before I read the Benny Morris peace and become wiser via it I want to "confess" that I've read from late 2000 to March 2006 all of the LRB I could get a hold off.
ReplyDeleteAll of what I may have read during that time I stored under Israel is having a devilishly hard time and it left me totally unprepared for the M&W shock which made me write my first ever reader e-mail to the only German journalist I knew as Israel-friendly. No response, nothing in our media, so I doubted myself a bit that maybe I had been over-reacting.
Then came the Lebanon war and the in several respects sh..ty brown geysir started spitting in an even for me noticeable way.
Until I read the Seaman-interview in the Jerusalem Post I thought the "disproportionate" BS had been around all the time and I just hadn't noticed. Now I know that in the first half of 2006 "it" got not only the M&W-boost but also the invention of proportionality.
Yossi Melman Spies Like US
ReplyDeleteAnd, yes, the problem of having a American Jew as CIA station chief does come up.
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This group has got together in the UK, to spread lies and hate against the Jewish EDL, the ONLY group in UK to speak out against islamisation of Britain and Europe!
ReplyDeleteYou only have to look at the design of this page, to recall the way the nazis demonised Jews with ugly hateful cariacatures!
The EDL are only non-Jewish group to hold a pro-Israel rally outside the Israeli embassy in London. Embassy responded by closing for the day!!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Not-In-Our-Name-Jews-Against-the-EDL/154699991233294
http://notinourna.me/
PLEASE WATCH THIS VIDEO'D SPEECH IN SUPPORT OF ISRAEL!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpiM4FHf540
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ReplyDeleteI read the book Robert Baer wrote after he quit the CIA. In there everything was due to Iran's doing, i.e. Iran was everywhere, but then about a year or so ago I think in an interview he was very much of the Israel must do this and that and if only Israel would kind.
so when he says the Mossad doesn't have much to offer to the Americans that may be so but until I hear it from somebody I trust more I read it with a grain of salt.
Silke
"The London Review of Books and the Guardian will be given great prominence. "
ReplyDeleteAnd the only prominence many of the Jews who aided and abetted the Guardian and the LBR will have, if at all, is their disgusting role in the attempt to destroy Israel.
The curious thing is that like the pre-WWII anti-semitism so prevalent in Europe (not only there, of course), which allowed Europe to be "softened up" by the Nazi onslaught (from without), just so the current round is softening up Europe for what appears to be imminent destruction (from within and possibly, without).
ReplyDeleteAlas, the progressive mindset seems to enjoy the hatred and moral indignation more than they mind the necessarily---yes, necessarily!---ensuing vortex.
(Well, welcome to the club, I guess. Besides, the previous time was all of 70-80 years ago, which is certainly time enough to forget---and want to forget....)
Barry
ReplyDeletemy current book, a History of Venice, shows Europe so often preferring to concentrate on weakening itself that I am beginning to believe it must be in our "genes". (The book doesn't say much about Jews)
I am now in the early 1500s and the most striking examples were Venice in the fourth crusade going after Byzantium thus crippling it for the fight against Muslims.
and then in the early 1500s a led by the Pope league against Venice the one indispensable player if one wanted to keep the Turks at bay.
i.e. we Europeans are crazy, deluded, gaga. We wallow in going after our own (and yes Jews were our own by WW2 and hopefully long long before that), it seems to be much more urgent for us than keeping the enemy at bay.
Silke
Silke, which of Baer's books did you read?
ReplyDeleteI still have to get back to Melman's Every Spy's a Prince. I took a detour through Shlomo Hillel's book on Operation Babylon.
Btw
Israeli academic, Maya Rosenfeld, wrote a rebuttal to the former UNRWA general counsel Lindsey's critiques, The congressional research service says it was carried on UNRWA's website, although it now appears to have been removed.
http://rete-eco.it/attachments/5172_Rejoinder%20to%20Lindsay_jan09.pdf
http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/RS22967_20090429.pdf
FN on p8 of the report "U.S. Foreign Aid to the Palestinians"
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ReplyDeleteI had it from the library in German. No cover on Amazon rings a bell but it must have been this one
Robert Baer: Der Niedergang der CIA. Der Enthüllungsbericht eines CIA-Agenten. Bertelsmann-Verlag, München 2002, 418 Seiten, ISBN 3-570-00676-X (Original: See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism. Crown Publishing Group, Januar 2002, ISBN 0-609-60987-4)
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baer
Silke
Thanks Silke
ReplyDeleteI see it's at the local library here too. However, I'm enjoying S.Y. Agnon at the moment, so Baer will have to go on the reading list...
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ReplyDeleteI think wiki-ed S.Y. Agnon. He sounds a lot more interesting than Baer is, who sounded a lot more interesting in his articles than he proved to be in the book (except for Iran is everywhere but no specifics I can remember and how to seduce a source - same way you sell insurance apparently, i.e. make them feel good)
Silke