Using any terms around zionist ideologies, people falsely equate anti-zionism with anti-semitism (more spin). What I mean when I mention zionist ideologies is not Jews (as many Hassidic Jews are abhorrent of these ideologies) but every strata of society, neo-cons, mormons, jehovahs witnesses, christians, muslims, hindus, freemasons – ALL the upper echelons of religions, finance and politics are infested with racist, zionistic idealogies.

To decide that all Jews are Zionists is to do exactly what they want you to do – they are laughing at you because you are now exactly the same as them, a racists thug! Many Jews are against Zionist ideologies, I am a gentile researcher who has seen much evidence of this.

anti elitist / anti zionist

Ridiculous. Terrorism is violence against civilians. Anti-American terrorism can only happen against American civilians. In Afghanistan itself, any violence against Americans is against US soldiers. That’s not terrorism, it’s the expression of the legal and moral rights of the Afghan people to resist occupation.

There was a time that war was waged over beer because it was a way to preserve grain thus enabling armies to move further. Now the people invading breweries surely yelled insults at the people they were attacking and it always helps to have god or gods on your side in matters of life and death, but that beer was valuable stuff enabling you to get more slaves and women (and to give praise to your gods no doubt)…whether the slaves and women came before the beer or the beer came before the slaves and women, you still needed the beer.

Since you fail to see any significant value in oil to the West and particularly the US, and hence it’s particular importance to the whole US way of life as the primary (and perhaps non-interchangeable) energy source, you continue this meaningless argument about “oil”.

The arrangement FDR made with the Saudis and the deep history of petro in the ME seems to have no sway with your thinking.

Overall this is a very good article by Blum. He covers a variety of pertinent topics. The use of the term “idealistic zionist” is definitely one I would not use to describe the murderous expansionists who have been so from the very inception of Israel to now. If that word was put in to “gate-keep” I don’t know.

But you have done what louisa did NOT. You once again tried to connect the use of oil as some kind of “signal” that there is Zionism behind it. This is not only a slanderous reference to all those who are mightily against Zionism but to anyone with half-a-brain who can see how oil (and other energy producing resources) have been the underlying motives for all imperial empires to dominate regions of the world, and how that is primary in the “chessboard” in today’s foreign policy – for the US. History shows that once energy – whatever the dependency is, becomes scarce in relationship to demand, the life blood of empire is destroyed.

Because of Blum-like gatekeepers, western “progressives” have to date been rendered spineless vis-a-vis the slow motion genocide being carried out in Palestine.

I concur. Excellent analysis.

I’m in agreement with your insight and caution regarding Blum as a “mini” Zionist. Blum has a tendency to blame “oil” as the major impetus of the conflict in the Middle East. This is not to say that oil is not a factor but often times “oil” is used to deflect and to obscure the role and influence of Zionism. Thus some of the cheers I see being hoisted upon Blum here on DV, IMO, is rather misguided.

true canaan was a disputed territory. but only as far hebrews were concerned. here he seems to be blaming the victims, the hated canaanites, and hebrews, the perps.
noah had cursed ham; his son, the ancestor of canaanites.

blum also says or implies that the conflict btw pals and euros since ‘17 is connected to biblical times.
in spite of the fact that israelites have totally evanesced. judeans were slain or most fled for their life; only a few hundred may have remained, mostly in j’lem.

he also needs to clarify what he meant by ‘jews’, a nonshemitic people, not thinking ab a better way to deal w. the shemites or semites, if one will.

he also fails to tell us whether he is for a twostate ’sol’n’. if he is, he is, to me, a mini zionist. there is no lngr a second state available if it ever was available.

there r too many closet zionists on dv. we have levy, zinn, chomsky, hass, blum, et al.
let us have more of the writers who reject any sol’n save one state one.
thnx

By contrast, Gilad Atzmon’s article which is adjacent on DV to Blum’s goes right to the heart of the matter by using the essential words “stolen land”. The early Zionist “pioneers” were nothing more than an advance party of thieves — cf. the notorious “Village Files” researched by Ilan Pappe — who had only theft and expulsion in their hearts.

Blum also works to engender inaction by figuratively throwing up his hands with the usual canards: The probem is so old, “nothing changes”; no wait, it’s worse than that, it goes back to “biblical times” thus it has an eternal quality and may never be solvable. Moreover he accuses both sides of being (childishly) equally at fault, so the disposessed, murdered and looted bear equal responsibility along with the thieves and killers in the Blumian view.

Because of Blum-like gatekeepers, western “progressives” have to date been rendered spineless vis-a-vis the slow motion genocide being carried out in Palestine.

I dunno…the Cosmos is pretty big, isn’t it?

Nah, you’re probably right…

“The GREATEST PURVEYOR of VIOLENCE on the PLANET” and….
the GREATEST HYPOCRITE in the COSMOS, I hasten to add…

As usual, America was willing to do business with the enemy it helped install by default (the Taliban), and can’t afford to annoy the drug/warlords (of whom President Karzai’s brother is said to be one).

The National Assembly is even more corrupt than the American congress (I know!), and poppy growth and exports are at an all-time high.

The dumbest thing in the world would be to increase America’s presence in Afghanistan, so of course that’s what will happen.

Of course people had to get the hell out of Cuba after the Revolution. It was a Batista/Mafia playground, and even more corrupt than the American Congress (I know again!) Mafia casinos were taken over (and later shut down), and hotels (and presumably other Mafia businesses) taken over. Exploitive landowners had to share the land.

Today, Luis Posada Carriles is a respected and feted member of the Cuban exile community in Miami. American officials apparently don’t care that he was instrumental in blowing up a Cubana airliner, killing everyone on board, including many children. It’s only ‘terror’ if you’re not doing it.

Thanks to William Blum. Always fascinating.