Informing Americanized Jews

Informing Americanized Jews

"Israel chooses conflict over peace." This is a peculiar mindset typical of many Americans and some American Jews. They are willing to fight to the last drop of Israeli blood. They wonder why our region rejects their brand of democracy.

The intellectuals among them believe that peace is possible through negotiation and compromise. How sad they are when they discover these paths closed by Arabs!

So, the 'peace talks' become one-sided: Jews communicating with Jews. Sixty years of conversing with ourselves are quite enough, thank you.

Ari Sharon was right to grant them self-rule and to build high walls. Now, if everyone shuts his mouth and tends his garden, we may have calm.

There are not two sides to every story. You can't always get what you want. Being an Israeli is a lot more than being in Israel.

by jbpaz

Jeha's Nail

Global Voices

Jeha’s Nail makes the point of differentiating between “talks” and “dialogue” among other things:

There has been much talk about talk in the news lately, and our insignificant little slice of the Middle East has been the center of much of it, even some ominous talk and “interesting” moves…
Yet for all the useless attention we’re getting, most are missing this little truth;
There’s talk, and then there’s dialogue
The two are not necessarily the same. Such a distinction evades otherwise smart politician. He should take heed from those “leaders” of ours, now in Qatar to continue talking past one another as they had been talking forever. Their talks serve no function other than provide underpaid journalists with a much needed excuse to window shop in Qatar. Yes, Beirut would be more fun, but the yellow rose of downtown has yet to unpack her UNHCR tent.
All this talk about talk misunderstands the real dynamics of the conversation between the United States and the Persians. Before mouthing off about engagement, those “realists” need to consider the persons they are engaging.

Sitting with Ahmadinejad

Hamid Tehrani, Voices Without Votes

Speaking in Israel, President George W Bush cited the remarks of a U.S. Senator who proposed in 1939 that he could have negotiated with Hitler to avert the Nazi invasion of Poland. The American President continued: “We have an obligation to call this what it is—the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history” - prompting presidential hopeful Barack Obama to condemn Bush for launching a ‘false political attack.' Several Iranian bloggers reacted to Bush's remarks and the Democrats' reaction to it.

Voacapitol says [Fa] that Senator Josef Liberman, who supported President Bush's remarks, asked how Obama could sit at the same table with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian President who sends weapons to Hamas, Hizbollah or other terrorist groups?

The blogger adds although White House speaker Dana Periono says Bush did not mean Obama, many politicians believe he was the target. Republican candidate John McCain also said he did not think Bush was talking about Obama but that Bush must explain what he wanted to say to Ahmadinejad, whom he called a ‘corrupted corpse.'

Vahshateh Marg, which translates to Fear of Death, believes [Fa] that Bush's comments were targeted towards both Ahmadinejad and Obama. He adds:

The Democrats already reacted to Bush's Speech. Now we should wait for Ahmadinejad's reaction to that.

The blogger reminds us how several months ago, Mohmmad Javad Larijani, an Iranian politician (his brother was former chief Iranian negotiator on Iranian nuclear program), told a reporter about negotiating with the US: “If we find ourselves in the heart of hell, we will negotiate even with Satan.”

Khomenei's Generation says [Fa] that Jewish communities in the United States are afraid of Obama because they consider him a disciple of Noam Chomsky! He adds:

I remember 10 or 11 years ago, Iranian Leader [ Ali Khamenei] predicted that everything will start the moment that the American people will come to the streets and take the power out of the hands of the Zionists in the USA!

Brainwashed Children

Brainwashed children are a self-fulfilling prophecy. School teachers maintain their self-respect with a dictum. If one generation matures without any knowledge of history, philosophy and fine arts, we lose our culture and our civilization forever.

Since 1947 Palestinian and American children have been inflicted with increasingly clever programs to alter their mindsets. That’s three generations given to mindless jingoism, rampant racism and perpetual war.

The leaders of both countries have denounced the aim to negotiate in order to reach peaceful agreements. It is high treason to talk to a perceived enemy. Each leader realizes that compromising with a foreign power could destroy his local support and perhaps lead to his assassination.

All the 1947 kids have grown up many of them nasty.

They say that revolution is a long term proposition. If that is true, the wingnuts have certainly paid their dues. I wonder if progressives are willing to pay the price to reverse the process.