Cool Nabka Article

By Joseph Mossad.

Massad is an instructor at Colombia University who has been targeted by the Jewish Zionist David Project who tried to get him fired on the basis of a bunch of made-up bullshit, primarily that he made anti-Semitic remarks. Massad is a Palestinian and he is not too happy with the Jews in Palestine, but he is the last person to be an anti-Semite.

In fact, I think he takes his anti-anti-Semitism way too far when he denies, Chomsky-like, the notion that there is a Jewish Lobby that exerts tremendous power in the US. Instead, the whole reason for US support for Israel is that it is some kind of an outpost of US imperialism in the Arab World. This thesis is appealing to Leftists because it absolves Jews of wrongdoing, but it's nonsense.

If anyone is a colony of anyone, the US is a colony of Israel. The US gets zero benefits from its so-called Israeli colony and a ton of heartache and bloodshed. The Israeli outpost has zero value and lots of negative value to US imperialism. Instead, US support for Israel is best explained by a US-Israeli alliance and an extremely powerful Jewish Lobby in the US, particularly in the media.

Also, at this point, most Americans just flat out support Israel, so there is a confluence of interests between the body politics of the two nations. As Massad is a Leftist, he peddles this "Israel as US colony" bullshit. Jeff Blankfort has written many an article dismantling this Chomskyian position. You can Google him with the name Chomsky to find some of those pieces if you are interested in the dynamics.

Massad is also opposed to gay rights, probably due to the fact that he is a Palestinian, and Palestinian culture is very hostile to gay rights. So he's a homophobic Leftist. Oh well.

He's a follower of the late and great Edward Said, but suffers the same faults that Said did, particularly in the emphasis of both men on "Orientalism", so to explain away any critique of Arab society as being backwards, reactionary, misogynist, or fucked up in any way.

Article is here.

Long but well worth it. Not too extreme, and yet not too wimpy. Just about right.

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Pure Zionism, Unadulterated

The Samson Blinded blog. In this (linked) case, a category called The Arab Problem, but there is way more here. I can't quite remember exactly what this fellow is advocating, but it's far to the Right. It's also often hard to argue with! He compares Israel do other states around the world and points out how Israel could act even worse than it already does and plausibly get away with it.

I believe he even advocated legal discrimination against Arabs. And Arabs would be allowed to discriminate against Jews too. He advocates threatening surrounding nations, cutting off ties with them, and in some cases even attacking them. The reason all of this is so hard to argue with is that it is all precisely within the theoretical workings of Zionism! That is, if one is to be a proper Zionist, this sort of mindset would logically follow.

And it would even seem reasonable and proper. Israel does have lots of enemies, and has poor relations with Arab states. Why why not attack some of them and cut off relations with others. Clearly, Israel does have an Arab problem. What to do? Why not discriminate against them, since Israel already ferociously discriminates against them.

What's actually much harder to advocate for, as long as one is to accept proper Zionist principles, is the sort of Peace Now, Labor-liberal, Meretz type soft Zionism. That doesn't make any sense at all. If you are going to be Zionist, go all out. Go Zionazi, KKK-Jew all the way. Attack your enemies, both internal and external, in various ways. Cut them off and discriminate against them even more. Go for it!

It's interesting that this guy is actually an astute and interesting writer, and doesn't really come off like a fanatic at all. He comes across as quite reasonable, and he is very well-educated on everything about the sociopolitics of the region.

In an email, he also told me, properly and sensibly, when I protested that I opposed anti-Semitism on my blog, that he did not care about anti-Semites. Actually, he said that he kind of liked anti-Semites and saw them as allies. Anti-Semitism was good because it prevented the assimilation of the Jews and helped to drive the Diaspora to Israel.

Once again, perfectly logical within a Zionist framework. Of course Zionists love anti-Semites. One feeds the other. Without anti-Semitism, Israel shrivels up and goes away. Amazing how many yucky things start to make sense when you put the proper spectacles on.

The guy actually contacted me a while back asking for a link, and he was unbelievably civil and friendly. I'll hand him that too. He realized that his worst enemies were also his best friends. Only in a combative philosophy of eternal war like Zionism could such a mind-bender actually make sense.

Three cheers for Samson Blinded ! Zionism without the whitewash.

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