GH”T and all that.

The right’s two-pronged religion of rage and self-pity

The Right in this country — meaning the faction that followed George Bush for the last eight years — long ago ceased being a movement of political ideas and is driven by two, and only two, extreme emotions: (1) intense, aggressive rage towards their revolving door of enemies, and (2) bottomless self-pity over how unfairly they’re being treated. As their imminent defeat looks increasingly likely (potentially on a humiliating scale), these two impulses are in maximum overdrive, feeding off one another in endless self-perpetuation (the more they lose, the more victimized they feel, the more they rage against their enemies who oppress them, etc.)……..

ENTIRE COLUMN- http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/10/02/self_absorption/index.html

A discursive red line

By Claude Kandlyotl

BRUSSELS – Let me start with two Belgian stories – unfortunately, not funny ones……

…..These two tales are typical of the gap of understanding that divides Belgian Jews, indeed European Jews in general, and the national communities they belong to. The Jews often feel lonely, even abandoned, when they hear Israel subjected to public criticism, and they react angrily. Most politicians and commentators in turn fail to perceive anything but paranoia in their response. Michel and Flahaut genuinely do not see themselves as anti-Semitic, and believe they are sincere friends of Israel and the Jewish people. The Jews, on the other hand, are shocked by their attitudes toward Israel, and tend to see them both as enemies, who conceal their hatred of Jews under the cloak of opposition to Israel’s government……

ENTIRE ARTICLE- http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1026026.html

from “The Independent”, Thursday, 2 October 2008

Peace campaigner attacked with a pipe bomb tells Donald Macintyre why right-wing extremism should be feared

Zeev Sternhell is careful about his choice of words when he unhesitatingly calls the pipe bomb which exploded outside his front door last week “an act of Jewish terrorism.”

As a Holocaust survivor orphaned by the age of seven and a combat veteran of Israel’s wars, Professor Sternhell, 73, who was lucky to have only been injured in the leg by flying shrapnel…..

ENTIRE ARTICLE- http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/how-i-became-a-target-for-israels-jewish-terrorists-948610.html

By Kathleen Parker
Wednesday, October 1, 2008; Page A17

Allow me to introduce myself. I am a traitor and an idiot. Also, my mother should have aborted me and left me in a dumpster, but since she didn’t, I should “off” myself.

Those are a few nuggets randomly selected from thousands of e-mails written in response to my column suggesting that Sarah Palin is out of her league and should step down……

ENTIRE COLUMN- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/30/AR2008093002315.html?sub=AR

This guy is for real though.

Truly interesting.

You didn’t just “go” to PSU. You’re a member in good standing there w. member name phx_dem. That automatically makes anything you say suspect. So first, yes members at PSU are “very pro-Israel.” As for being Democrats, you’d have to provide proof on a case by case basis for me to believe that claim. As for the claim that Paul Katz is pro-Obama, I’ll believe it when you can find anything he’s written that confirms it.

Alan Dershowitz, like PSU, is an ardent pro-Israeli militant. He may be a Dem. but Henry Jackson was a Dem too. He’s a hawkish pro war Dem. He was undoubtedly pro-Hillary. For God’s sakes, even Marty Peretz can pretend to support Obama. What does it mean? Very little.

Most important is the vile nature of ea. of their pro-Israel rants and the violence of their hates & opinions.