About the only things that Israel exports that would make it to the US are cut diamonds and high-tech gadgets. I’ve been boycotting Israel for years without even knowing it.
What about the billions of dollars in interest-free loans and military subsidies? The only way to boycott those is by not paying taxes, which gets you a neat little jail cell.
I think you need to make more of a distinction between zionism and capitalism. When the US gives Israel a bunch of tanks and shit, that’s basically a subsidy for arms manufacturers. It’s paid for by taxes on income, meaning the people who make murder so nice and easy get the cost of their mansions socialized to the population at large. It’s the principal of make-work, and it’s why the budget of the US is so disproportionately weighted towards war.
Zionism is a symptom of the greater evil: capitalism. Capitalism is the reason for the destruction of Haiti, the war in Colombia, the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan, the war in Israel, the death of the oceans, the poison in the air, the children starving in the streets and the racism that pervades every aspect of American society. It’s selfishness made into an ideology, and selfishness is precisely what it promotes. Empathy is weakness, egoism strength.
That’s certainly not to say that zionism isn’t evil in and of itself, though. It’s just that zionism follows capitalism, not the other way around.

Understand that NO politician can become POTUS unless they are vetted to at least to NOT bring up any challenge of the U.S. relationship with Israel and Zionism within the United States. Not even Ron Paul tackled the subject yet he received mucho support from the left. What this represents is how dominate Zionism is WITHIN the U.S. and we have the demobilization of the anti-war movement by the “left” as evidence of this.

Ralph Nader has scratched the surface talking about “Israeli puppeteers” but the problem with this approach is that it assumes that the politician are “sellouts” to Israel when the real problem is ZIONISM as a racist ideology that have BELIEVERS among the rank of the U.S. citizenry and polity. The racist attitudes that define Zionism is acceptable discourse.

This very aspect NO politician not even Nader has touched. And such left wing intellectual such as Noam Chomsky ignore or worst yet — DEFLECT. We’ve seen this with the recent rash of books that denounce the war in Iraq as mere “profiteering” (The Shock Doctrine).

The only way the plight of the Palestinian can be address is when the left, and I mean especially the WHITE, JEWISH, left decide to CONFRONT Zionism head on by advocating a complete boycott of Israel. When that happens then you’ll see the emergence of “courageous” politicians.

That is absolutely correct. CNN and much of the media are pro Zionist. If Obama or any other politician wants to become President must show their adherence to Zionism. Unfortunately, even this author misses that. Wright spoke directly about the suffering of the Palestinians and mention that 911 was really about “blowback” due to U.S. foreign policy.

The reason again for the demobilization of the anti-war movement and especially the lack of African American participation within the anti-war movement has very much to do with the difference of how African Americans (especially the Black Nationalists) addresses Zionism and its effects on U.S. policy vis-a-vis the white left.

Sorry folks but that is the truth.

NewsMax hasn’t. And, I imagine, won’t.

That said, I agree with Wright on a number of his points, and unless you are terminally stupid, you know that what this is REALLY about is the reverend mentioning Palestinian suffering.

The Reagan-Sharon massacre of more than two thousand Palestinians in Sabra and Shatila is just one example of the horrifying Reagan years!

The jig’s up. The economy is going where it’s never been before.

Watch for this in the news:

Despite Obama campaign’s denials, a Newsmax report posted in August places Obama at Trinity on July 22 when Wright preached of the “United States of White America” and “White arrogance.” Obama denies having heard Wright speak in such divisive terms – he says Wright talks about Jesus. Obama campaign has denied the date, but Secret Service should easily be able to clear that up. The reporter, Jim Davis, offers details about his visit on July 22 with Obama in attendance.

[quote=http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/8/8/194812.shtml]Jim Davis
Thursday, Aug. 9, 2007

Presidential candidate Barack Obama preaches on the campaign trail that America needs a new consensus based on faith and bipartisanship, yet he continues to attend a controversial Chicago church whose pastor routinely refers to “white arrogance” and “the United States of White America.”

In fact, Obama was in attendance at the church when these statements were made on July 22.

Obama has spoken and written of his special relationship with that pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.

The connection between the two goes back to Obama’s days as a young community organizer in Chicago’s South Side when he first met the charismatic Wright. Obama credited Wright with converting him, then a religious skeptic, to Christianity.

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Obama was not the only national African-American figure to cozy up to Wright. TV host Oprah Winfrey once described herself as a congregant, but in recent years has disassociated herself from the controversial minister.

A visit to Wright’s Trinity United is anything but Oprah-style friendly.

As I approached the entrance of the church before a recent Sunday service, a large young man in an expensive suit stepped out to block the doorway.

“What are you doing here?” he asked.

“I came to hear Dr. Wright,” I replied.

After an uncomfortable pause, the gentleman stepped aside.

On this particular July Sabbath morning, only a handful of white men — aside from a few members of Obama’s Secret Service detail — were present among a congregation of approximately 2,500 people.

The floral arrangements were extravagant. Wright, his associate pastors, choir members, and many of the gentlemen in the congregation were attired in traditional African dashiki robes. African drums accompanied the organist.
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[quote=http://www.newsmax.com/kessler/Obama_hate_America_sermon/2008/03/16/80870.html]Obama Attended Hate America Sermon
Sunday, March 16, 2008 7:14 PM
By: Ronald Kessler

Obama claims he was completely unaware that the Reverend Wright’s trademark preaching style at the Trinity United Church of Christ targeted “white” America.

Contrary to Senator Barack Obama’s claim that he never heard his pastor Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. preach hatred of America, Obama was in the pews last July 22 when the minister blamed the “white arrogance” of America’s Caucasian majority for the world’s suffering, especially the oppression of blacks.
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If Obama’s claims are true that he was completely unaware that Wright’s trademark preaching style at the Trinity United Church of Christ has targeted “white” America and Israel, he would have been one of the few people in Chicago to be so uninformed. Wright’s reputation for spewing hate is well known.

In fact, Obama was present in the South Side Chicago church on July 22 last year when Jim Davis, a freelance correspondent for Newsmax, attended services along with Obama.

In his sermon that day, Wright tore into America, referring to the “United States of White America” and lacing his sermon with expletives as Obama listened. Hearing Wright’s attacks on his own country, Obama had the opportunity to walk out, but Davis said the senator sat in his pew and nodded in agreement.
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