tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post5352932816173505686..comments2024-03-29T01:07:30.224-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: The Company Hillary KeepsStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-39529990564053441252016-04-05T05:41:16.644-07:002016-04-05T05:41:16.644-07:00Quite frankly I am more interested in whether Hil...Quite frankly I am more interested in whether Hillary and/or the Clinton Foundation have anything to do with Mossack Fonseca? Given that there appears to be a Washington establishment with the democrat and republican establishments being full members it would not surprise me if there was a larger group of people made up of the world leaders, et al.<br />It could be why outsiders in both parties are so hated. Obama may be right when he states that foreign leaders don't like Trump, Cruz et al, but not for the reasons postulated. Rather interesting considering.Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-61065545680051570852016-04-04T11:18:06.132-07:002016-04-04T11:18:06.132-07:00I would call him those, Ares; that's what I...I would call him those, Ares; that's what I'm seeing.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-13663193649240991882016-04-04T10:39:19.403-07:002016-04-04T10:39:19.403-07:00Being curious about Max Blumenthal, whom I previou...Being curious about Max Blumenthal, whom I previously couldn't have told you anything about him, I found this interview from a year ago:<br />https://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/journalist-max-blumenthal-on-the-perils-of-critiquing-the-state-of-israel-456<br />-----<br />One side of the conflict sees the Palestinians as being governed by extremist groups who want to wipe Israel off the face of the earth; the other side views Israel as an apartheid state where Palestinians are brutalized and treated like animals. Journalist Max Blumenthal sits firmly in the latter camp.<br /><br />Max: There's a flurry of articles painting me as an anti-Semite because I've been published in the New York Times. It makes the assailants who represent the right wing of the Israeli lobby feel like their attacks have failed because The Times is taking me seriously, so all they have left is this allegation of anti-Semitism. They don't care whether I keep kosher or not, whether I go to synagogues. All they care about is my relationship to Israel, and my opposition to a religiously and ethnically exclusive state. I went to Germany to speak recently, a country where there really isn't any distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. Germany has kind of absolved itself of its Holocaust guilt through its support of Israel. So I was targeted there. <br />...<br />Why would Republicans be more inclined to support Israel?<br />Max: It's often about eschatology, about Israel being the future landing pad of the Messiah. But it's also about Israel being the only country in the West that has a clear ethnic and religious criteria for who can be a citizen. So, for those who think America should be a white, Christian nation, Israel provides a great model. Israel is what they see as the Fort Apache on the front lines in the clash of civilization.<br />-------<br /><br />I see, in Evangelical Christianity eschatology, is related to Dispensationalism as my Presbyterian minister mentioned.<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispensationalism<br /><br />Politics is always interesting, and religion is interesting squared, while politics based on religion is interesting to the nth degree, or terrifying as the case may be.<br /><br />I wouldn't call Max Blumenthal anti-Israel or anti-Zionist, I think he's anti-crazy-making which is where Israel is, and where Israel wants America to go, and for the sake of the 2000 year mythical last days of Christianity, the crazy-making has unlimited potential.<br /><br />I'm sure Israel is a great place stil, with lots of great people, but it makes sense that it'll eventually drive all the rational moderates out until stupid finally wins out. How could we imagine otherwise?<br /><br />Let's hope America keeps its sense away from all this insanity. Still I won't bother hoping Hillary will do it. I'd say she's doing her best to look like Israel's BFF, even if paranoid minds would see otherwise.Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-30335903518442923512016-04-04T05:18:59.237-07:002016-04-04T05:18:59.237-07:00Stuart: Considering that Hillary Clinton is joined...Stuart: Considering that Hillary Clinton is joined at the hip with a daughter of the Muslim Brotherhood, one Huma Abedin, one has reason to doubt her support for Israel and her willingness to fight Islamist terrorism. One remarks, yet again, that when Muslim Brotherhood chief Mohamed Morsi was elected president of Egypt, the first foreign leader to show up to legitimate his election was Hilary Clinton.<br /><br />Myself, I'll file this under "reason to doubt Stuart's support of President Hillary."<br /><br />It definintely helps for dismissing anything that follows with biases expressed so forthrightly, like Rabbi Shmuley Boteach "Max is quite simply one of the most biased, anti-Semitic, terrorist-defending, Israel-has-no-right-to-exist haters out there."<br /><br />Rabbi Shmuley Boteach has my pity, if that's what he wants from his readers.<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.com