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	<title>Comments on: Obama Meets With Jewish Leaders, Tells Off Hoenlein</title>
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		<title>By: Richard Silverstein</title>
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		<dc:creator>Richard Silverstein</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Frankly, I could understand excluding Brit Tzedek because I don&#039;t find their work as energetic and visible in the political debate.  But leaving out IPF was foolish.  But I do understand the tactic.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Frankly, I could understand excluding Brit Tzedek because I don&#8217;t find their work as energetic and visible in the political debate.  But leaving out IPF was foolish.  But I do understand the tactic.</p>
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		<title>By: Doni Remba</title>
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		<dc:creator>Doni Remba</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>They also did not include Brit Tzedek.   I think the intent was to keep it intimate, and by exlcuding a couple of the major left-of-center groups, it counterbalanced (and enabled them to justify exluding) the two right-wing groups who were also not invited (ZOA and National Council of Young Israel).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They also did not include Brit Tzedek.   I think the intent was to keep it intimate, and by exlcuding a couple of the major left-of-center groups, it counterbalanced (and enabled them to justify exluding) the two right-wing groups who were also not invited (ZOA and National Council of Young Israel).</p>
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		<title>By: Hugh Diditt</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hugh Diditt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Have Zionist special interests transformed our fourth estate into their fifth column?  Of this there is no doubt.  The only real question is: How long will it take Americans to become aware of the degree to which they have been played by Israel, and how much it is costing us to support Zionist lies and evil.

Here is the most elegant definition of evil I have come across.

&quot;Evil: Domination of those who do not wish to be dominated.&quot;

By this measure, it is inadequate to merely identify the ongoing brutality against the Palestinians as an acting-out by the Jews, much like an abused child may express his sense of violation by bullying and abusing a smaller child at school the next day.  If you are an American Jew who aspires to an ethics that qualifies as human, then to be an apologist for Jewish hysteria on this issue is no longer adequate.  As Americans we have got to take a long hard--dispassionate--look in the mirror, and ask if we can afford to continue pretending we are somehow absolved of any responsibility for the actions of those who have found political power only because, as voters we were never offered a meaningful choice in candidates, and none of the issues that are pertinent to the roots of the cycles of  crises were ever addressed. This same evil media control precludes the political ascension of anyone or thing that is not an insider, who is not for all practical purposes part-of-the-problem.  Our mass media is so debased that it functions as a fifth column for special interests--counter to the public interest.  Though this state of affairs is nothing new, there are new people coming along all the time.  If for whatever insane reason, one of them wishes to become even just a wee bit free of  self-destructive and crippling views, they must travel a hundred billion light years through a sucking swamp just to get to the point were they would start out, on any sane planet.  This state of affairs is  largely due to the contrived affects of mass media, whether it be through religious dogma, government propaganda, or haute coulture.  Rather than acting as a bulwark for our rights, they divert our perception and energies with an endless run of spawning red herring.  With a little luck (and near total control of the mass media) they will be able to keep the public entirely catatonic while the last vestiges of our liberties and real wealth bleed-out, onto America&#039;s streets, which have been charmingly, if frustratingly, newly-indifferent, for the past two hundred and fifty years or so.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have Zionist special interests transformed our fourth estate into their fifth column?  Of this there is no doubt.  The only real question is: How long will it take Americans to become aware of the degree to which they have been played by Israel, and how much it is costing us to support Zionist lies and evil.</p>
<p>Here is the most elegant definition of evil I have come across.</p>
<p>&#8220;Evil: Domination of those who do not wish to be dominated.&#8221;</p>
<p>By this measure, it is inadequate to merely identify the ongoing brutality against the Palestinians as an acting-out by the Jews, much like an abused child may express his sense of violation by bullying and abusing a smaller child at school the next day.  If you are an American Jew who aspires to an ethics that qualifies as human, then to be an apologist for Jewish hysteria on this issue is no longer adequate.  As Americans we have got to take a long hard&#8211;dispassionate&#8211;look in the mirror, and ask if we can afford to continue pretending we are somehow absolved of any responsibility for the actions of those who have found political power only because, as voters we were never offered a meaningful choice in candidates, and none of the issues that are pertinent to the roots of the cycles of  crises were ever addressed. This same evil media control precludes the political ascension of anyone or thing that is not an insider, who is not for all practical purposes part-of-the-problem.  Our mass media is so debased that it functions as a fifth column for special interests&#8211;counter to the public interest.  Though this state of affairs is nothing new, there are new people coming along all the time.  If for whatever insane reason, one of them wishes to become even just a wee bit free of  self-destructive and crippling views, they must travel a hundred billion light years through a sucking swamp just to get to the point were they would start out, on any sane planet.  This state of affairs is  largely due to the contrived affects of mass media, whether it be through religious dogma, government propaganda, or haute coulture.  Rather than acting as a bulwark for our rights, they divert our perception and energies with an endless run of spawning red herring.  With a little luck (and near total control of the mass media) they will be able to keep the public entirely catatonic while the last vestiges of our liberties and real wealth bleed-out, onto America&#8217;s streets, which have been charmingly, if frustratingly, newly-indifferent, for the past two hundred and fifty years or so.</p>
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		<title>By: Richard Silverstein</title>
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		<dc:creator>Richard Silverstein</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for the correction.  I wonder why that happened.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the correction.  I wonder why that happened.</p>
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		<title>By: Doni Remba</title>
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		<dc:creator>Doni Remba</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Richard,   Please note that Israel Policy Forum was not among the groups invited or attending the meeting with Obama.   Best,  Doni Remba</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Richard,   Please note that Israel Policy Forum was not among the groups invited or attending the meeting with Obama.   Best,  Doni Remba</p>
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		<title>By: manfromatlan</title>
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		<dc:creator>manfromatlan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I hope that will be followed by cancelling the F-22 and F-35 orders. Why give a crack junkie more?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I hope that will be followed by cancelling the F-22 and F-35 orders. Why give a crack junkie more?</p>
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		<title>By: Richard Silverstein</title>
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		<dc:creator>Richard Silverstein</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Damn, I keep forgetting that some of what may appear to be deliberate on the part of journalists actually reflects to vagaries of Haaretz.com shortening their longer &amp; more comprehensive Hebrew versions of stories.  Thanks for correcting me.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Damn, I keep forgetting that some of what may appear to be deliberate on the part of journalists actually reflects to vagaries of Haaretz.com shortening their longer &amp; more comprehensive Hebrew versions of stories.  Thanks for correcting me.</p>
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		<title>By: oceancal</title>
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		<dc:creator>oceancal</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Is this site for real? Jews in seperate political camps? Say it aint so Schlomo.....&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A Jew is a Jew is a Jew is a Jew and finally a friggen Jew. Our party just loves you folks with that 80% voting record. Thank you for making Obama happen.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is this site for real? Jews in seperate political camps? Say it aint so Schlomo&#8230;..</p>
<p>A Jew is a Jew is a Jew is a Jew and finally a friggen Jew. Our party just loves you folks with that 80% voting record. Thank you for making Obama happen.</p>
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