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Raimondo: American reaction to Egypt is “all about Israel”

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Summarizing the American political reaction to the popular uprising in Egypt, Justin Raimondo writes:

Israel, Israel, Israel – it’s all about Israel, even when it isn’t. That’s the explanation for the coolness of the major pro-Israel organizations to Egypt’s valiant democratic upsurge. As Alan Elsner, an analyst with the “Israel Project,” put it:

“We understand very well that this is a regime that has been there for 30 years and is an authoritarian government. It hasn’t allowed free and fair elections – we understand that. We also understand that this is a government that made peace with Israel in 1979 and Mubarak’s predecessor paid for that peace with his life.”

“We understand” – and we don’t care. All we care about is that shitty little country in the Middle East which is fast turning into a racist theocracy and thrives on the $3 billion of taxpayer dollars we shovel down its greedy maw every year. We don’t care about democracy, liberty, the right of human beings to live and breathe – all we care about is our narrow little tribal ambitions. Asked why the Project supported the Iranian “Green” upsurge, and not the Egyptian version, Elsner replied: “”There is a huge difference between the governments of Iran and of Egypt. The government of Egypt has a peace treaty with Israel and has observed it.” So unacquainted with morality and any concept of basic human decency are the Elsners of this world that I doubt they realize how bad this sounds.

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January 31, 2011 at 8:04 am

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Weir: Ultimately, Mubarak did Israel’s bidding

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In a Press TV discussion of the Egyptian uprising against the dictatorial regime of Hosni Mubarak, Alison Weir really got to the core of the issue:

“Part of the lack of his popularity is that he does the bidding of the United States, which does the bidding of Israel.”

In part 2, Weir and the other guests, Marwan al-Ashaal and Said Zulficar, discuss the uprising’s implications for the post-Camp David Egyptian collaboration with the Israeli occupation of Palestine:

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January 30, 2011 at 12:02 pm

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The Palestine Papers show Israeli tail wagging American dog

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By Lawrence Davidson

The Palestinians have always been a strong and determined people. You have to be so in order to defy a powerful and ruthless adversary, backed by the most of the world’s great powers, for close to one hundred years. The Palestinian leaders, both secular and religious, have likewise been strong and determined. A list of such people would run into the hundreds and so I shall just name a few: Sheikh Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, who organized Palestinian resistance against both the Zionists and the British only to be gunned down by the latter in 1935; George Habash who founded and led the secular Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the founder and leader of Hamas until his assassination by the Israelis in 2004 and, of course, Yasir Arafat who led the Palestinian struggle for independence and statehood for half a century. None of these men were terrorists. They were freedom fighters. And the inevitable violence that they carried out was minuscule compared to that violence leveled upon the Palestinians by their adversaries. Finally, none of them ever gave up.

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January 30, 2011 at 9:10 am

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People Power in the Middle East

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By M. Shahid Alam

From his weekly perch at CNN, Fareed Zakaria, speculated last Sunday (or the Sunday before) whether George Bush could take credit for the events that were unfolding in Tunisia, whether this was the late fruit of the neoconservative project to bring ‘democracy’ to the Middle East.

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January 29, 2011 at 8:26 am

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Has Wolf Blitzer become an Africa-firster?

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Pressing Senator Rand Paul on his budget cut plans, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asks, “You want to end all foreign aid as well, is that right?” For the former AIPAC employee, Sen. Paul’s opposition to “shipping the money overseas” would, one might have expected, immediately raise the disturbing prospect of an end to U.S. aid to Israel. But before “the $2 billion or $3 billion that goes every year to Israel” even crossed his mind, Blitzer’s next question was: “What about humanitarian aid, for example, to Africa? You want to end all that?” It must be very reassuring for American taxpayers to know that, even in these hard times, Blitzer — like Ben Stein — cares so deeply about the rest of the world.

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January 28, 2011 at 5:11 pm

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Biden: Mubarak isn’t a dictator because he’s nice to Israel

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JIM LEHRER: The word — the word to describe the leadership of Mubarak and Egypt and also in Tunisia before was dictator. Should Mubarak be seen as a dictator?

JOE BIDEN: Look, Mubarak has been an ally of ours in a number of things and he’s been very responsible on, relative to geopolitical interests in the region: Middle East peace efforts, the actions Egypt has taken relative to normalizing the relationship with Israel.

And I think that it would be — I would not refer to him as a dictator.

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January 28, 2011 at 9:28 am

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Anchors Away! The ‘Stability’ of U.S. Puppet Dictatorships

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By Nima Shirazi

I’ve been beating up on State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley lately, first over his disingenuous support for freedom of the press as the U.S. cracked down on WikiLeaks and more recently over his amazing ability to say nothing while being asked direct questions about the illegality of Israeli colonization of the Palestinian land.

So why stop now?

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January 27, 2011 at 3:58 pm

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