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*****REVISED VERSION: SANITIZED FOR THE CENSORS***** So let me suggest that the one- and two-state solutions are inside the box thinking, and both are non-starters. Kabuki to cover the real goal, that has been the real goal from the start of the Zionist project: all of Eretz Israel for the Jews, and the Arabs, well,... "erased", "disappeared", "not in the picture". It reminds me of the Gordian knot. Big-äss impossibly tangled and knotted giant ball of rope-like material. Legend held that he who untangled the Gordian knot would conquer the world. From "inside the box" it looked like an impossibility, like the Isräel/Pälestine problem. But Alexander the Great would not be confined to "the box", and took out his sword and chopped up the Gordian knot, and then went on to conquer the world. Most of the known world of the time.   Avnery, with all his sincerity is just fooling himself. Making himself feel good and just, ...

The US is pushing ISIS out of Iraq and back into Syria. It's the latest gambit in pursuit of the original goal of Syrian regime change. But it's plan C or D -- Gotta do something, ... right? -- and "gotta do something" doesn't stand a chance of accomplishing anything substantial. It will likely make things a bit more difficult for Russia and Syria, but in the end it will probably backfire. My guess is that ISIS will adjust in some way. Perhaps they will make the Iraqis pay dearly for Mosul as they pull back, then wait yet again for the US to back away from Iraq, and then re-invade the Sunni area of Iraq were they have Sunni support, and humiliate the Iraqi army... again. The Pentagon failed its "mission" to build an Iraqi (Shiite) army. Failed utterly. They failed because they were indifferent as well as incompetent, for Sunni/Shia sectarian/tribal reasons, and because of corrupt Shia governance -- and will fail utterly... again, once the US pulls ba...

The Dem part grew to prominence if not dominance starting with the labor movement of the thirties, and reached its peak in the post-war boom. But while the rest of the world was recovering from the devastation of WW2, and rebuilding and modernizing their productive systems, the US squandered the advantages of that moment, and chose not to modernize. Rather, the "glory" of victory in war having captivated the American populace, instead of heeding Eisenhower's warning about the MIC, allowed -- embraced even -- a national policy of hegemonic militarism and the imperial acquisition of wealth through military dominance. In adopting the atavistic national policy of wealth acquired through coercive dominance -- theft actually -- rather than by maintaining a lead in the race for ever more efficient methods of production, the US squandered every bit of post-war advantage. The MIC, with the help of the US govt, parasitized/looted the nation on behalf of the one-percent, leaving the...

You got it exactly right. Trump is a builder, not a "conqueror". His mindset is managerial not martial. He sees, as so many "people of intellect and morality" see, that the Soviet Union -- the Commie boogieman -- is now dead a quarter century, and that continuing to kick at the memory of that dead horse, or seeking to manufacture a replacement boogieman, only serves political ideologues and others with a personal stake in continued belligerence. It's pointless Kabuki and a huge waste of money. The crucial question is found in Justin's observation: "He’s pledged to take so much on in so short a time that even someone with so much energy is bound to get bogged down by relentless opposition from every quarter." Trump is indeed possessed of an incredible level of "energy". At seventy years old, with the vitality of a thirty-year old, he is a phenomenon . And when people are working ***WITH*** him, that energy is focused laser-l...

The two state solution is by no means the only game in town. But Uri Avnery can be forgiven for thinking it is, because as an unwilling Zionist he cannot see any other possibility. He cannot see beyond "Israel must have it Israel's way". The universe and the God of Zion declare it so. No other thought may enter the mind of man. No other thought exists. No other thought is possible. This is the Jewish delusion, amplified by the extremism of Zionism. It reminds me of the Gordian knot. Big-ass impossibly tangled and knotted giant ball of rope-like material. Legend held that he who untangled the Gordian knot would conquer the world. From "inside the box" it looked like an impossibility, like the Israel/Palestine problem. But Alexander the Great would not be confined to "the box", and took out his sword and chopped up the Gordian knot, and then went on to conquer the world. Well, at any rate, most of the known world of the time. So let me suggest that...

I think the political assassins have misjudged, and gone after the wrong guy. He’s not a “go along to get along” kind of guy. Trump is a take-no-prisoners bad boy, schooled by Roy Cohn in the art of utterly destroying one’s adversaries. The Republican leftovers in particular think ***THEY*** won the election and that they, the old leadership are still in charge, and still playing the same old game of politics as usual, with Trump “the politician” co-opted, and set to go along with the old boys rule book: you know, kabuki without effectiveness, blaming the other side for nothing getting done, and a get-out-of-jail-free card for DC club members. But that’s not how it is. Trump is boss now, and the swamp will be drained, and the swamp creatures tamed or turned into high end leather goods. I think Trump is biding his time until he gets into the big chair with all the power that goes long with it, and that he will then descend on these transgressors like the wrath of god:indictments an...

Censored from Anti-war.com The Zionists stole Palestine, murdered and expelled Palestinians, lie about it to cover up their crimes, and bankroll virtually the entire MSM to relentlessly repeat those lies. Possibly worst of all is the comprehensive subversion of the United States which they have achieved by the simple expedient of buying/bribing/threatening the Senate and House. Sadly, the American Jewish community has become complicit in the Zionist subversion -- yet again demonstrating the historically persistent "dual loyalty" problem -- by bankrolling the subversion. The American Jewish community was, for the first hundred years, hoodwinked into thinking that the Zionist project was both pragmatic and just. Now that the internet has revealed the essential and criminal nature of Zionism, many in the American Jewish community, particularly the young, are beginning to turn against the Zionist project, but the majority, the older folks, continue their support. As they...