Stop Me Before I Vote Again

Someone commented yesterday the real issue at the moment, the one that would indicate serious pressure, is the wall, not the settlements. That's the word that cannot be spoken, because it's too unambiguous, whereas settlements has many meanings, including "natural increase", indicating something organic and living, not contrived as policy.

"Two state solution" is another ambiguous term useful for diplomatic evasion. Israel actually wants a "two state solution", by which it means the current powerless bantustan of the West Bank, ruled by the compliant Fatah. The US will continue to earnestly push for this noble and distant goal, which bibi would crow obscenely if he could sign into law right now.

To my eye, this is evidence that ZerO pays very close attention to retaining the loyalties of the KosNoBots, whose energies he'll need as a pacifiying force in the run-up to "Change 2012."

There's not a single serious sign ZerO will impose a single thing on our Theocracy of Choice. But the dropped intimations of concern and preferences for things that won't get enforced is catnips to the yuppa-liberal kittenry.

where are the pro zionical smbiva-ites ??

must i become one ???

Owen -- This is an interesting development. Not so many years ago, the fans of Zion would have shut down the site -- comment bombing, DOS attacks, SQL injection, Lord knows what. You probably remember the anonymous phone calls, the meeting-crashers, the bullets through the window, that we got for saying similar things back in, what, the first Reagan administration? Or was it Carter?

Now we can get away with it. The toothpaste is out of the tube. The thought police just don't have the manpower any more to play whack-a-mole with everybody who pokes his head up.

They seem to be concentrating on the campuses now -- a characteristically middle-class over-estimation of just how important education is.

Incidentally, I've had a chance recently to use a computer that has McAfee filtering "inappropriate" sites. You folks, Dennis Perrin, Arthur Silber, John Caruso, Black Agenda Report, and Jews sans Frontieres are all blocked. Surprisingly, Lenin's Tomb is okay with them. The disgusting Ace of Spades HQ is blocked, but Little Green Footballs, the BNP, and Stormfront are apparently okay.

Fascinating. I'm so flattered. I miss the anonymous phone calls, actually.

My SO, who sees Martians in the cauliflower bin, says GIYUS (Give Isreal Your United Support) has increased its volunteer troll/mole base to 30,000. That's a big enough number to think they may have begun spying on themselves.

I hadn't heard of GIYUS before, but one wonders if there's a parapraxis involved. The acronym at first glance is likely to be read as GIVUS.

MJS,

I think it's the "Uncle Leo" effect that's changing things. One can only scream "anti-Semite" so much until people respond with a collective yawn.

The most absurd thing I've ever heard before is that leftists who condemn Israel are hypocrites because so many of them supposedly used to be pro-Israel. It is true that Israel was supported by left/liberal factions in its early years, but that was before the rise of the Israeli far right and the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

There's also been a steady whittling away of likable Zionists. Over the last thirty years or so, Israelis with a civic sense beyond violent aggrandizement have been emigrating. The fundies and bellicose 'wingers have shredded the social fabric of the country. They've been importing neoliberals to manage the transition to a patronage kleptocracy. The glamour of the socialist kibbutz is gone and the desert blooms, for now, at the expense of Palestinian groundwater.

despite the raft of comments confirming my fearss
there is no zionic left ...left

i'm convinced by super al's comment
that the last thing zionia maxima needs
now its so shy the beloved
human left lollipops
is ....MOI
wading in to the cess pool
as
an amicus he-bray-icus simplicissimus

the record requires correcting

father writes:

"You(moi) probably remember the anonymous phone calls, the meeting-crashers, the bullets through the window, that we got for saying similar things back in, what, the first Reagan administration? Or was it Carter?"

yes alas

but only from the relative safety of bean town

seeing it all about to come down
as u may recall
i slinked out of laputa by the dark of nite
shortly before you ...father S
straightened some dear chaps..tie
simply for petitioning U in person
at that ramshackle second floor rookery
of a press room/club house/tree fort
of yours
where you scribbled demonic marat type
flammable swill
to print in that that that
community incendiary of a rag
you edited back then
when we both were
young dashing and restless

That's right, Owen. I had forgotten. You missed all the fun!