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Okay, enough guys, as three of the most intelligent people I know, and yet find myself constantly disagreeing on the various details related to specific issues, this takes the cake, and highlights why the left never gets anywhere. Internal bickering, of which
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<div class="">I support Carl’s statement below 100%, not that it matters what I support, but it is the point I had been attempting to make when we began this conversation, only Carl presented much better than I. </div>
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<div class="">1) Carl did not accuse Mort of anti-semitism. Carl merely pointed out that it is a “form of Anti-semitism” making the rounds, that of blaming the “Zionists or “Jews” as most people see them for absolutely everything. Though we recognize the difference,
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<div class="">2) This is dangerous, why? Do I really need ask?</div>
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<div class="">3)Carl’s statement: </div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">"That’s a good example of ‘the higher anti-semitsm’ (“the Jews made us do it”) that exculpates the US from its political and military crimes: “...it leaves the US government untouched
on its high pinnacle of nobility, 'Wilsonian idealism,' etc., merely in the grip of an all-powerful force that it cannot escape.” </span></div>
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<div class="">On May 10, 2018, at 09:30, Boyle, Francis A via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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It’s an absolute disgrace that Carl accused Mort of being anti-semitic—the last refuge of a scoundrel.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Peace-discuss] Israeli influence…<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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On May 10, 2018, at 11:05 AM, Brussel, Morton K via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote (quoting The Saker),<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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"Israel has now fully subjugated all the branches of the US government to its agents (the Neocons) and that they now run everything: from the two branches of the Uniparty to Congress, to the media and, now that Trump has abjectly caved in to all their demands,
they also run the White House. They apparently also run the CIA, but there still might be some resistance to their lunacy in the Pentagon.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">The USA is now quite literally run by a Zionist Occupation Government,
no doubt about it whatsoever.”</b><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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That’s a good example of ‘the higher anti-semitsm’ (“the Jews made us do it”) that exculpates the US from its political and military crimes: “...it leaves the US government untouched on its high pinnacle of nobility, 'Wilsonian idealism,' etc., merely in the
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Stephen Zunes has rightly pointed out, “there are far more powerful interests that have a stake in what happens in the Persian Gulf region than does AIPAC [or the Lobby generally], such as the oil companies, the arms industry and other special interests whose
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