Faux Anti-Semitism

We've already experienced many years of Wokists commonly trying to shut down meaningful conversations by using slurs. Here's a newscaster (the BBC's BBC's Laura Kuenssberg) trying to pull this cheap stunt on Tucker Carlson, who appropriately calls her out. He's absolutely correct. The mere fact that one opposes Netanyahu or opposes the current foreign policy of Israel (as I do) does not make one Anti-Semite or anti-Jewish.

BBC's Laura Kuenssberg: I mean, I am going to point out I probably don't need to, because our audience can see and hear for themselves pretty much everything that you've said in our conversation. Tucker Carlson, you you have put at the door of the Israeli government now to some people, that will be evidence that you are anti semitic. You are anti-Jewish.

Tucker Carlson: Oh, I know. I'm very anti semitic [Laughing]. And well, first of all, the State of Israel does not speak for all Jews at all, despite its claims. It does not. There are many, many Jews, many of whom I know, who don't think the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu speaks for them.

Laura Kuenssberg: I wasn't suggesting that. [talking over each other]

Tucker Carlson: Of course you were suggesting it. I've been in this business longer than you, and I understand what a slur looks like, and you're attempting to call me an anti Semite in a passive-aggressive way. Some people would say that. Well, I'm responding to your slur and saying that it's untrue. It does not apply to me. Doubtless there are anti Semites who don't like Israel. I'm not an anti Semite. I don't hate Israel. The Israeli government--this is documented, and I saw it personally-- steered the United States into a war that hurts the United States and the world. I'm offended by that. I didn't want it and I'm mad about it. Now I have every right to feel that way. That does not make me an anti-Semite despite your insinuation. And I think it's important that I say that. And by the way, I hope that you run this. I can't control whether or not you air this exchange. I hope that you will. Because I think it's important to push back against slurs like that, because they limit our ability to understand what's actually happening. This is not an attack by Jews on the United States. This is Benjamin Netanyahu moving the United States to do something he thinks will benefit him, but that does not benefit us. It's that simple.

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Tucker Carlson: No More Blank Checks for Israel

Tucker Carlson's message needs to be blasted from every corporate news outlet:

It's time not to end it, not to set up an adversarial relationship, but to set up a healthy conventional relationship where Israel can pay its own bills and fund its own military and act within the constraints imposed on it by its own economy and population. That's what normal countries do. Most countries live with neighbors that don't like them, with whom they have testy relationships. But they make accommodations because they have no choice. There's no country in the world that acts with total impunity because it knows a much larger country will backstop it no matter what it does that just doesn't exist in the natural world, because it's not natural, it's grotesque, and it's terrible for the United States, and now it's obvious.

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Democrat Party War Mongering

There was no anti-war party on the presidential ballot in 2024.

Jeremy Loffredo:

There is a version of the Democratic Party that exists only in the imagination: the peace party, the anti-war party, the party that marched against the Iraq War and howled at its neocon designers. As Donald Trump (reportedly) accepted Iran’s ceasefire terms this week, some of the most pointed attacks coming his way from Democrats are not about the thousands of civilians killed, the weeks of brutal bombardments against medical centers and universities, or the global economic damage the war has caused. They are about the war ending before the U.S. and Israel finished the job.

And this is not a fringe phenomenon. It is a pattern coming from Democratic senators, the Democratic House Foreign Affairs Committee, ranking members of the Armed Services Committee, and some of the party’s most prominent voices. The liberal opposition party wants more war.

This pattern predates the war. During the 2024 presidential campaign, Kamala Harris called Iran America’s “greatest adversary,” vowed that Iran would never obtain a nuclear weapon under her watch, and argued that Iran’s attacks on Israel would not have happened under her presidency. The Democratic nominee for president was running on a promise to be harder on Iran than Donald Trump.

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The United State of War

Trump's despicable war might be coming to a close for now (as Israel continues to pummel Lebanon). One can hope. But take a look back at US military involvement in the Middle East and the constant war-mongering by the US for many decades. Biden/Harris stood watch over the leveling of Gaza. Harris was ready and willing to do what Trump just did.

Obama was a most unusual "Peace President."

It disgusts me that this comes strongly from both political parties. Americans have no option to vote for no war. Nor do we have any option to vote for candidates who are not controlled by the AIPAC and the government of Israel. Our "leaders" keep us in the dark and do the opposite of what we vote for. Our government system is rotted to the core. It pains me to write these words.

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No Anti-War Option on the Last Presidential Ballot. No Option for Restraining Israel

I wonder why?

And remember that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris eagerly participated in regarding Gaza.

Transcription of Kamala Harris's statement in the video (from her July 25, 2024 remarks after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu):

From when I was a young girl, collecting funds to plant trees for Israel, to my time in the United States Senate and now at the White House, I’ve had an unwavering commitment to the existence of the state of Israel, to its security and to the people of Israel.

And why do so few of our politicians speak out against the US-Israel war against Iran? For that matter, why aren't we hearing the US corporate media excoriating the bi-partisan effort to blow through tax dollars we don't have to engage in war? What is the top priority of most of our politicians? They will tell you in their own words:

AIPAC (= Israeli) control over our politicians (federal and state) is strong

 

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