Pigs, Piper and Palestine

1. Israel Recognizes Palestine? I don’t think so.

It's not something that's granted, it's something that's taken

Photo courtesy of the great Skulz Fontaine.

2. I am attaching at the bottom of this item a link to an audio excerpt of Michael Collins Piper’s radio program from November 12. For those of you who do not know of Piper, and I expect many in our foreign audience may not, Piper is a diehard anti-Zionist gadfly who has written a number of very controversial books, writes for what I consider to be a worthwhile though quaint weekly newpaper, The American Free Press and hosts a radio show on the Republic Broadcasting Network, a network I’ve both praised and criticized.

One of the things I like about Piper is that he likes Eric Cantor about as much as the tuyuur here at Mantiq al-Tayr do and he’s gone off on Cantor lately in print and on his show. Here’s a link to an online American Free Press (AFP) article by Piper about Cantor and the latest US elections that you’ll find worth reading. Please note, although AFP does have some of it’s stuff for free online, the bulk of the weekly paper is not online but you can subscribe to its online edition real cheap.  (Scroll down the page on the link I just gave you till you see AFP ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION in red caps. )

Now here is the link to an excerpt from Piper’s show during which he goes after Cantor. Enjoy.

Piper on Cantor

BTW, the next segment of the program is even better than what I have put in the link above. You can get RBN’s previous programs for $1.33 a month. That’s not much and you can subscribe here.  From RBN’s main page you can also listen to their shows live.

3. While the now lame duck Israeli Vice President for American Affairs (IVPFAA) Barrack Obama was away all the rats in the US decided to play.  Israeli Prime Minister and US Congressional Whip Bibi Netanyahu came to the US and has almost literally occupied it since then the way Israel occupies East Jerusalem. One would think that when Netanyahu speaks of a “united Jerusalem” he doesn’t just mean stealing the rest of East Jerusalem but also including in his version of tikkun olem the uniting of Washington and Jerusalem for eternity.  He has made considerable progress in this regard this past week. He has managed now to turn much of the United States’ government against its president in his meetings with the likes of Cantor, Clinton, Biden and Shumer.

Let’s look at the Hillary Clinton meeting first. My take on this meeting is, as you would no doubt expect, quite different from the views put forth by such mags and rags as Foreign Policy. I think the real point of the meeting was so that Hillary could shore up support for running against Obama in 2012.  She knows she’s got stiff competition from Joe “I am a Zionist” Biden and from the Republicans, especially now with the ascendency of the creepy Eric Cantor. So while Barrack is overseas where he is far more popular than he is here, she uses the cover of the completely fake peace process to get the Israeli leader on  her side.  Look at what she is reported to have conceded to Netanyahu and this is right from the stodgy Foreign Policy website:

“In a Friday morning conference call with Jewish community leaders, notes of which were provided to The Cable, the National Security Council’s Dan Shapiro described several of the incentives Clinton offered Netanyahu. They included increased U.S. diplomatic opposition to efforts to delegitimize Israel in international fora, continuing to block efforts to revive the Goldstone Report at the United Nations, promising to block condemnation of Israel at the United Nations for its raid on the Gaza-bound Mavi Marmara, and defeating resolutions aimed to expose Israel’s nuclear program at the IAEA, and increasing pressure on Iran and Syria to stop their nuclear and proliferation activities.

In other words, a complete cave in to Netanyahu on just about everything. Oh, I can hear you now, “Oh but Mantiq, Hillary is holding fast on her opposition to settlement construction, so won’t we have peace in our time?” Oh Ye of little ‘ilm.

Hello no, she caved totally on that too basically saying the Palestinians, for whom she got 150 million in hush money earlier in the week, need to go to the peace negotiations no matter what the Israelis do. As Shapiro – could you imagine the outcry if this guys name was Tillawi?- but I digress. Anyway, on the issue of settlements, Shapiro reported:

“The U.S. position on settlements has not officially changed, Shapiro said. The United States still believes that the Israeli settlement moratorium should be extended, but that Palestinians should stay in peace talks even if it is not.”

A complete total cave in.  Hillary is telling Bibi, that she can play ball with him. It probably won’t work Hillary, these folks hate you about as much as the tea party types hate you. But at least you get a Eruv for effort.

Cantor’s meeting with Bibi is even more interesting because it appears he has basically entered into a coalition with Netanyahu to screw Obama.  That one has been all over the media and the Internet.  Could you imagine if some Muslim leader were to meet with the in-coming majority leader of the US House of Representatives and get a commitment from that majority leader that he and his party will work together with the Muslim leader to thwart the policies of the President of the United States?  Well that has just now happened openly with Cantor and Netanyahu.  Ron Kampeas comments on this mess here and he includes Cantor’s statement about the meeting, one that is well worth reading.  Here’s just a couple of snippets. Oh wait, hold on, I just got a text message from Ovadia Yosef the head of the Shas Party.

“Mantiq, is the red highlighting in your last post yours or is it like that in the original source?”

Yes, Shas Party members, the red highlighting is always mine. Always, red highlighting is the eternal capital, err, never mind. But yes, the red highlighting is mine.

“Eric made clear that he believes that it is time for the administration to fully and aggressively implement the Iran Sanctions Act passed by Congress earlier this year. . . .”

Running this through the Tafsiranator we got “We are going to declare war on Iran as soon as we have the American people distracted enough . . .”

“A unilaterally declared Palestinian state will only create more distrust between Israel and the Palestinian Authority and move the process further away from peace. “

This means “Although the United States declared its independence unilaterally Palestinians must not because if they exercise their “inalienable rights” it will piss off Zionist Jews who are stealing their land.  This is what we mean when we say we are bringing you democracy.”

“Eric stressed that the new Republican majority will serve as a check on the Administration and what has been, up until this point, one party rule in Washington. He made clear that the Republican majority understands the special relationship between Israel and the United States, and that the security of each nation is reliant upon the other.

Cantor’s post-meeting statement is about as close as it comes renouncing your own US citizenship without actually do so, in my opinion. No doubt Cantor’s office would strongly disagree with this. But change Bibi’s name to Bashar al-Asad and put out a similar statement about how Cantor would work with President al-Asad to thwart Obama by  putting a “check” on his Administration for the sake of Syrian interests and you’d see all  hell break loose.

You know it would be kinda fun.

Now we come to someone who has become a sort of favorite Mantiqiyyan whipping boy – a guy who may just become the next Israeli Vice President for American Affairs, Joe Biden.  Like Clinton and Cantor, Biden also met with Bibi on Bibi’s “Take Over America Tour” and ass kisser par excellence that he is, he thoroughly outdid Cantor and Clinton combined.  He not only met with Bibi and no doubt swallowed the full Monty, he then basically gave us his version of “Biden does B’nai Brith” during his speech at the Jewish Federations of North America’s General Assembly.  The speech is so obsequious it qualifies as pornographic. Not surprisingly, another Mantiqiyyan whipping boy, the National Jewish Democratic Council loved it.

For your amusement, I present you selected highlights of Biden’s address. You can also read the whole thing here.

Ready? Please don’t read this while sipping milk or something, it’ll end up going right up your nose.

First of all, Americans are going to be forced to support Israel until Judgment Day.

“And it’s the reason why, like all of you, I feel so absolutely certain that our support for Israel must continue in a way and forever.“

Biden loves Bibi.

“Since that day, I have had the extreme pleasure and honor of working with nine Israeli Prime Ministers, some of whom would become close friends over the years, but none closer than Bibi, who I met me earlier today.  We spent an hour or so together talking about our relationships and the future of the great state of Israel.”

I guess it wouldn’t have occurred to Biden to discuss America’s interests or America’s future.

Now tell me if Biden doesn’t sound like an abused spouse in this next quote:

“And I can tell you, and I’m sure he will tell you as well, that the disagreements when they’ve existed have only been tactical in nature.  They have never been fundamental. “

It’s like saying “Yes, Israel did try to sink the USS Liberty and managed to kill 34 Americans that day, Israel killed a US citizen on the Mavi Marmara, and Israel stole uranium for the US and damn they might have even helped off JFK, and then there’s Pollard and all those other spies and Rachel Corrie too, but really Israel only beats us when it’s drunk. It’s not always like that.”

The next quote highlights what I just wrote:

“When a dispute arose on my last trip to Israel in March, the Obama administration and the Netanyahu government worked closely together to work our way through it.  And the way we did was Bibi had me over to his house.  We sat at his dining room table and we talked it through. And even as we did so — and we talked it through and worked it out as friends and brothers — I told an audience at Tel Aviv University just two days later that this administration represents an unbroken chain of American leaders who have understood this critical strategic relationship, one in which we will not yield one single inch.”

Every American reading Biden’s quotes should feel ashamed.

Biden even wants to strip naked for Bibi and Israel. Here’s his version of “Stand by Your Zionist.”

“I am proud, and I’ve always been proud, to stand with you. Our nation has been proud to stand with Israel from its founding 60 years ago. And I absolutely guarantee you as long as there’s a breath in me, this government, this nation, will stand with Israel. It’s in our own naked self-interest beyond it being an absolute moral necessity.”

I mean, can’t we just get a divorce? Shapira law does allow that you know.

Please note that the “no day light” clause below was also said on the occasion of Bibi’s bitch-slapping of Biden back in March. I guess Bibi kind of liked it and is asking for more.

“Folks, no administration has done more than ours to bolster Israel’s ability to defend itself. . . .When it comes to Israel’s security, there can be virtually no daylight, no daylight between the United States and Israel, under any circumstances.”

In other words, no matter what evil things Israel does to the Palestinians or even to Americans, we all have to support Israel.  Biden is giving Israel carte blanch to carry out ANY CRIMES against humanity it wants.

There was also the usual Iran bashing stuff – I’m telling you that war with Iran is a coming, but it wasn’t as funny as the rest, so I’m skipping that.

Anyway, Israel has the right to commit any crimes against humanity it wants which is why:

“That’s why in the wake of the Goldstone Report, we loudly and repeatedly claimed our support for Israel’s right to defend itself and the ability of its domestic institutions to conduct their own investigations. “

Can it get any funnier or any worse? Yes it can. Remember, killing US citizens is something we should support when Israel does it.

“Indeed, at the President’s instruction, we were the only no vote on two Human Rights Council resolutions in September—one, the flotilla incident and, one, the follow up to the Goldstone report. That’s why, at the direction of President Obama, as Bibi will tell you and the ambassador will tell you, I spent hour after hour in the aftermath of the flotilla incident, trying to put it in its proper focus and ensure that Israel had its right to conduct its own independent investigation.”

You know, I think Bibi should  have worn a wife-beater t-shirt to the conference.

Biden is against any efforts to “delegitimize” Israel. This is an absolute bullshit term and is a cover for combating any and all efforts aimed at either criticizing or stopping Israel’s gross human rights abuses.  Those crimes are to be ignored and replaced by fake threats, as usual.

“It’s also why the Jewish Federation’s recent initiative to counter de-legitimization attempts through Israel Action Network is so important and so appreciated by the President and me.  And it is why, as I will say more about in a moment, we think it’s critical to keep the international spotlight on the genuine threats in the region like Iran’s nuclear program, not Israel.”

You know, this entire talk to a group of mainly American Jews was ENTIRELY about Israel and the only time Biden mentioned America was in contexts where it is there to be Israel’s bitch.  So, clearly Biden must believe that Israel is more important to American Jews than America is.

Sing it loud, I’m Zionist and I’m proud.

“I am proud, and I’ve always been proud, to stand with you.  Our nation has been proud to stand with Israel from its founding 60 years ago.  And I absolutely guarantee you as long as there’s a breath in me, this government, this nation, will stand with Israel.  It’s in our own naked self-interest beyond it being an absolute moral necessity.

I know, I already quoted this. But is just such a nice quote I thought I’d do it twice. That quote is immediately followed by an invocation for God’s help for Israel and for America. Israel is mentioned first. I believe that is quite revealing.

“So, ladies and gentlemen, thank you all.  May God protect Israel. May God bless America and keep our troops safe.  Thank you very much for the work you do.  You guys are the best.  Thank you.  Thank you very much.”

Yeah, may God bless America while our troops are out fighting Israel’s enemies.

And that pretty much tells you why there’ll be no peace in the Middle East until pigs fly.

4.  “Tell them Palestine belongs to us.”

Hala Layya. A lovely Palestinian lullaby by the handsome and charismatic Nabil Mansour who is rapidly becoming our favorite Arabic speaking musician. The female tuyuur  here keep fainting and swooning whenever they see a new video by him, frankly it is a little annoying, but شو بدي اعمل؟ .

Nabil has provided English subtitles so therefore King Abdallah will be able to understand it.