19 thoughts on “Kerry Led Bankrupt, Failed Peace Talks; Now He Wants Bankrupt, Failed Ceasefire – Tikun Olam תיקון עולם إصلاح العالم
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  1. [comment deleted: Advocating the overthrow of Hamas shouldn’t theoretically be grounds for deleting a comment, but considering you seem about the 10th or 20th hasbara commenter to try it and it’s such a stupid, odious idea–I’ve just reached my maximum load for hasbara.]

    1. [Comment deleted: If your world view presented anything of the remotest interest, I’d be happy to entertain it. But as long as you simply regurgitate Hasbara talking points, I’ve got better things to do.]

  2. [comment deleted–it’s the anti-Hamas hasbara brigade again. Trying to score points offering little more than personal opinion.]

    1. to walter benjamin,

      “All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.”

      “The distracted person, too, can form habits.”

      – Walter Benjamin

  3. In a very real way, Hamas is the legitimate government in Gaza, if not the whole of the occupied territories. They won the last Palestinian general election in January 2006 – after the US had pressured Israel to allow Hamas to participate. I guess no one figured that Hamas could possibly win, but they did win in what was largely considered by international election observers to have been a fair process. Hamas won because the Palestinian population were sick of the inability of Fatah/PLO to defend them against Israel’s intensified campaign of murder and ethnic cleansing launched on September 28, 2000 with Arik’s frolic to the 3rd-holiest Muslim religious site.

    Later, Israel and the US conspired to have Hamas over thrown in Gaza, but Hamas routed the the Israel/US sponsored forces. Hamas has never ‘seized’ power in Gaza. They won power legitimately, through the ballot box. They only lost power in the West Bank/East Jerusalem after Israel locked up (kidnapped) many of their elected officials and the US, dutifully followed by the rest of the west, boycotted the elected Hamas government (so a boycott is OK when applied to the Palestinians).

    Israel claims, ad nauseum, to be the only democracy in the Middle East, but it refused to recognise the result of the Palestinian election. Israeli exceptionalism rules.

    1. [Comment deleted–this must be Hasbara Central’s beat-up-on-Hamas week. I’m gonna start a contest for the most innovative, original attack. Yours is boring, old, heard- it-before. But I encourage you to keep trying. The winner actually gets to have his comment published here. But till you can come up with something interesting & worth reading, nah.]

  4. Silverstein, I saw yesterday in your tweet, a news about a buffer zone which will grab more palestians lands.
    Do you have in your blog any post about that or any link so i could read more about?
    I would very much appreciated, thanks a lot.
    By the way, I like very much your blog and your work

  5. So do something similar to what we have with egpyt or with Syria?

    With egpyt the entire Sinai was made practically into a DMZ without the israeli side being a DMZ in kind.

    Or make it akin to the golan where you have UN peacekeepers separating the two sides?

    Personally I think Gaza should be demilitarized with NATO being the international body enforcing it. Maybe have a 5 km buffer zone on the israeli side too that acts as a DMZ ?

  6. I enjoyed your comments to the deleted hasbara folk. A new and original piece of propaganda sounds like an interesting challenge.

    Anyway, on Kerry, yes he’s ridiculous but he probably knows it and acts this way because if the US ever tried to establish a fair and just peace between Hamas and Israel he’d be tarred and feathered. And that’s just by the Democrats in Congress.
    You can tell he has some knowledge of reality from his gaffe Sunday–you could hear it in his tone “hell of a pinpoint operation”. Nice to see there is a human being inside there. Normally he has to keep it covered up and of course he clumsily tried to go back to the talking points when Chris Wallace confronted him on it.

  7. Guardian:

    Still, Kerry’s stubborn support for Egypt’s regime appears undiminished. Following his “wanding” experience, Kerry continued to praise the new Egyptian government, despite widespread criticism of its year-long crackdown on dissent. “I want to thank the people of Egypt for transitioning to democracy,” said Kerry.

    Is it possible to take Kerry seriously? He visits a fascist dictatorship on steroids, OK, not every alliance is savory. And diplomats are supposed to say some pleasant pablum (unless their first name is Avigdor). But is it really necessary to praise them for “transitioning to democracy”?

  8. “…(D)eeply concerned about…legitimate…defend itself…etc. ” This is psychobabble, as you suggest, on a par with Netanyahu’s remarks about “telegenic” pictures of dead Palestinians absent any sensitivity to the fact that they are his victims. These people are plain nuts and should be institutionalized for the protection of all of us.

  9. The United States blindly supports anything Israel says or does. The reasons for that is that 1.2% of Americans identify as Jewish vs. only .8% identifying as Muslim. In other words, we have a lot of Jews, and they vote. There’s also the fact the the modern state of Israel was created because we needed someplace to send displaced Jews after WW2…unfortunately nobody thought to ask the people who already lived there. (Europe has a funny way of doing that)
    The truth is, if this conflict were to take place anywhere else, or if the roles were reversed, the US would condemn the Israeli actions as terrorism… which would be accurate.

    1. 1.2% is not much. And not all Jews are zionists, I think it’s more an exception. The problem, in terms of election, is primarily the non-Jewish zionists. Don’t you think the Bible Belt renders Israel a lot of support?

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