[Peace-discuss] Peace-discuss Digest, Vol 147, Issue 27
C. G. Estabrook
carl at newsfromneptune.com
Thu Apr 14 09:28:17 EDT 2016
No, I wanted to point out that modern antisemitism has been understood since the 19th century as what philosophers call a ‘category mistake’ - "a property [a pun in this case] is ascribed to a thing that could not possibly have that property.” Specifically, the misery caused by capitalism is ascribed to the Jews.
It was clear to many that things had gone badly wrong in the 19th-century European economy, and some such as Engels and Marx accurately described the agents as the modern ruling class, the bourgeoisie - and the agency, the wage-contract:
"Capitalism is the first mode of production in history in which the means whereby the surplus is pumped out of the direct producer is ‘purely' economic in form - the wage contract: the equal exchange between free agents which reproduces, hourly and daily, inequality and oppression. All other previous modes of exploitation operate through extra-economic sanctions - kin, customary, religious, legal or political” (Perry Anderson).
But because that process is hidden (as Anderson’s irony about "equal exchange between free agents” shows), it was easier (if 'foolish’) to misidentify the agents - the Jews as a people.
Thus socialism (a good idea) is twisted into antisemitism (a bad idea).
—CGE
Der Antisemitismus ist der Sozialismus der dummen Kerle (“antisemitism is the socialism of fools”).
—a common saying of 19th c. social democrats, commonly attributed to August Bebel (1840-1913)
> On Apr 14, 2016, at 7:51 AM, Stephen Francis via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>
> Carl,
> You're a professor. Is that all you can do is cry 'anti-Semitism'...
> It has an ever-increasing and ineffective hollow ring.
> The fervor against Zionists is completely consistent with the fervor to protect the Palestinians from Zionism.
> True 'victims' would not perpetrate the crimes we see against the Palestinians.
>
>
>
> On Thursday, April 14, 2016 7:06 AM, Stephen Francis <stephenf1113 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> To Carl,
> You're trying to diminish and dilute the importance of 9/11 by elevating Bill Clinton's role in Iraq, but the argument doesn't hold water.
> It was and is a very well kept secret that 500,000 children died under the Oil for Food scandal. No Patriot Act or DHS-like structures were created from that horrific revelation. Falujah (DU mutations) has about the same status. It has never been compared to Pearl Harbor as 9/11 has. Madeline Allbright said it was necessary.
> Clinton was an important part of the run-up to 9/11. His cabinet and administration was rife with J....ish persons (Cohen, Albright, Ross, Emanuel, Perle...etc). Clinton's role in the explosion African-Americans imprisoned and the deregulation of banks is just now starting to come to light as Hillary comes under scrutiny.
> Clinton was just a waterboy for the global elites invasion of the Middle East.
>
>
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> From: "C. G. Estabrook" <carl at newsfromneptune.com>
> To: "Brussel, Morton K" <brussel at illinois.edu>
> Cc: Peace Discuss <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
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> Certainly, it would be interesting to know if (e.g.) the US vice-president or the Mossad promoted the crimes of 9/11/2001 - I think it unlikely but not impossible.
>
> But the attacks themselves were counter-attacks in the long US war for domination of the Mideast and its energy resources. The Bush I and Clinton (I?) administrations had killed many (a half million children in Iraq alone, said Clinton's SoS).
>
> And 9/11 didn’t change much in that war. When the US invaded Iraq two years later - the greatest crime of the 21st century - 9/11 was not a factor in US propaganda, even though the Bush administration was facing the largest anti-war demonstrations in history, because the US couldn't make a plausible case for an Iraq connection to 9/11; they had to lie about WMD instead.
>
> There’s little doubt about Israeli government Schadenfreude over 9/11. (In 2008, Netanyahu said, “We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq. [The events] swung American public opinion in our favor.”) But there is a lot of confusion about the relation of the US and Israeli governments. Here’s what seems to me a good summary: <https://chomsky.info/20060328/>.
>
> AWARE was founded to encourage opposition to decades of killing by the US government in support of the world economic hegemony of the US 1% - what George Kennan called (in 1949) “maintaining the disparity." It was clear that the crimes of 9/11 would be employed in the propaganda for what became the subsequent Bush-Obama(-Clinton?) wars, so an accurate analysis of the context in which they occurred was and remains essential. But like the US wars in SE Asia, the ongoing wars in SW Asia are crimes, not mistakes - not something the US was tricked into.
>
> —CGE
>
> > On Apr 13, 2016, at 9:33 PM, Brussel, Morton K via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> >
> > Correction: I meant to write "astounding analysis” in the second paragraph below.
> >
> > -mkb
> >> On Apr 13, 2016, at 9:30 PM, Brussel, Morton K <brussel at illinois.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >> Quoting: When some of us say "9/11 doesn't matter", we mean that our opinion of who is responsible for the killing of over 3,000 people here in the US, doesn't change anything, not that those lives don't matter. What we do think matters is the thousands upon thousands that the US has been killing, with little coverage by the media. That matters because we hope that if the American people know and understand what we are doing and why, we might be able to prevent it's continuance.
> >>
> >> And so with this rationale, who was responsible for the “ holocaust doesn’t really matter, nor who caused the Iraq wars, the Libya debacle, the Ruanda massacres, in fact almost anything that occurred in the past doesn’t matter, since knowledge of who was responsible for all this “doesn’t change anything (for whomever)”?? . Quite an as analysis(?) to come from being “AWARE”.
> >>
> >> Indeed, if we really knew that Israel was behind the 9/11 disaster, would it not affect future policy here and abroad?
> >> A true knowledge of the causes of historical events does affect future events.
> >>
> >> —mkb
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Apr 13, 2016, at 7:53 PM, Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> As one of the seven active members of AWARE, and the most outspoken on this topic, amongst the group. Let me clarify:
> >>>
> >>> Objections to S.Francis being on the program were due to his labeling and smearing "the Jewish people" for the attacks on 9/11. Just as he has done on this Peace Discuss List, in the past. None of us were concerned with the issue of 9/11. That being said, we do focus, as was intended by AWARE's creators on "Anti-war, anti-racism", the issue of racism taking a back seat to anti-war only because there are other groups focused on the race issue, while none in the area other than AWARE are focusing on war. There are other reasons as well, and to be clear, we were a group divided.
> >>>
> >>> I'm not referring to the wars of the past, but those we are facing in the present and future. They are of course all connected, history of behavior does matter.
> >>>
> >>> When some of us say "9/11 doesn't matter", we mean that our opinion of who is responsible for the killing of over 3,000 people here in the US, doesn't change anything, not that those lives don't matter. What we do think matters is the thousands upon thousands that the US has been killing, with little coverage by the media. That matters because we hope that if the American people know and understand what we are doing and why, we might be able to prevent it's continuance.
> >>>
> >>> Focusing on "ourselves as victims" of 9/11 offers no solutions. Let the experts do their research, let all documents be released and discuss it amongst your peers as you like, but don't expect the American people to rise up against oppression when the "truth of 9/11" is revealed. We have enough abuse occurring on a daily basis, that needs to be challenged and is sometimes covered by the corporate owned media. I won't go into the topic of "identity politics" or even address the " class system" and "capitalism" in this statement.
> >>>
> >>> What we, the American people, need to focus on is our own behavior, that's the only thing we can control. The crimes against humanity for which we are responsible if we turn away and ignore, makes us as guilty as the perpetrators, for allowing what is done in our name. In preventing the deaths of thousands upon thousands, keep in mind some of those lives could be our own.
> >>> From: Peace-discuss <peace-discuss-bounces at lists.chambana.net> on behalf of Brussel, Morton K via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
> >>> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 12:52 PM
> >>> To: Karen Medina
> >>> Cc: Peace Discuss
> >>> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Proposal
> >>>
> >>> Regarding this statement:
> >>>
> >>> * We do often talk about U.S. support for Israel and Saudi Arabia -- seemingly the closest friends of the United States -- as we exchange money, weapons, and military training; But the reason for this even coming into the conversation is again the actions of OUR government, not that we are anti-(other countries).
> >>>
> >>> Do “we" not talk about the repression by Israel of the Palestinians, the attacks on Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, Syria… and other policies of Israel that we deplore? Strange that in replying to Stephen Daniel with otherwise admirable remarks, you insert this statement which I don’t believe holds wrt AWARE folks, the “we” of your remark.
> >>>
> >>> Also, we may not be “anti- other countries", but we can be anti- what their governments and perhaps most of their people do and support.
> >>>
> >>> Just a thought… The statement doesn’t apply to me.
> >>>
> >>> —mkb
> >>>
> >>>> On Apr 13, 2016, at 12:22 PM, Stephen Francis via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> correction:
> >>>> Sophisticated-sounding political arguments that intricately navigate through idealistic and well-intentioned discourse play well on chat screens, but wilt under the light of good ole plain 'follow the money' and analyzing who benefits, in getting to the root of the system we rail against.
> >>>> Investigations look for objective facts that fit patterns and care not who or what becomes the final target and eventual conclusions. I want names of people who can be prosecuted and put behind bars.
> >>>> 9/11 was a criminal attack on the US by Neocon Zionists to further theirs and Israel's goals in the Middle East and ... the 19 hijackers were patsies just as Oswald was a patsy in Kennedy's assassination. There are hundreds of pieces of evidence supporting this, if you look for them.
> >>>> Yesterday, I created a partial list of Neocon Zionists from my work on the internet that totalled over 500 people, but the list was so long (or something?) that this (Peace-discuss) site system blocked it as spam...so I just dropped the idea...but it is available on the net with no spam issues whatsoever.
> >>>> This is REAL investigation.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wednesday, April 13, 2016 11:45 AM, Stephen Francis <stephenf1113 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Sophisticated-sounding political arguments that intricately navigate through idealistic and well-intentioned discourse play well on chat screens, but wilt under the light of good ole plain 'follow the money' and analyzing who benefits, in getting to the root of the system we rail against.
> >>>> Investigations look for objective facts that fit patterns and care not who or what becomes the final target and eventual conclusions. I want names of people who can be prosecuted and put behind bars.
> >>>> Yesterday, I created a partial list of Neocon Zionists from my work on the internet that totalled over 500 people, but the list was so long (or something?) that this (Peace-discuss) site system blocked it as spam...so I just dropped the idea...but it is available on the net with no spam issues whatsoever.
> >>>> This is REAL investigation.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wednesday, April 13, 2016 11:17 AM, Karen Medina <kmedina67 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> As an anti-war activist:
> >>>> * I am interested in stopping the atrocities that my country is perpetuating.
> >>>> * I am not interested in provoking animosity toward people of other countries.
> >>>> * We do often talk about U.S. support for Israel and Saudi Arabia -- seemingly the closest friends of the United States -- as we exchange money, weapons, and military training; But the reason for this even coming into the conversation is again the actions of OUR government, not that we are anti-(other countries).
> >>>> * Working to change the current actions of the United States government is the sole responsibility of the citizens of the the United States: Classism, "Christian" extremism, exceptionalism, environmental destruction, and the mentality of "we are rich and powerful so we should tell those other countries who is boss" are the message that our current decision-makers in the United States are hearing.
> >>>> The anti-war voice needs to focus on these issues.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 01:29:25 -0700
> From: Roger Helbig <rwhelbig at gmail.com>
> To: "C. G. Estabrook" <carl at newsfromneptune.com>
> Cc: "Brussel, Morton K" <brussel at illinois.edu>, Peace Discuss
> <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Proposal
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> Half a million children - nonsense - and where is this alleged quote
> in something reputable instead of a on-line blog -
>
> Roger
>
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 8:32 PM, C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss
> <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> > Certainly, it would be interesting to know if (e.g.) the US vice-president or the Mossad promoted the crimes of 9/11/2001 - I think it unlikely but not impossible.
> >
> > But the attacks themselves were counter-attacks in the long US war for domination of the Mideast and its energy resources. The Bush I and Clinton (I?) administrations had killed many (a half million children in Iraq alone, said Clinton's SoS).
> >
> > And 9/11 didn’t change much in that war. When the US invaded Iraq two years later - the greatest crime of the 21st century - 9/11 was not a factor in US propaganda, even though the Bush administration was facing the largest anti-war demonstrations in history, because the US couldn't make a plausible case for an Iraq connection to 9/11; they had to lie about WMD instead.
> >
> > There’s little doubt about Israeli government Schadenfreude over 9/11. (In 2008, Netanyahu said, “We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq. [The events] swung American public opinion in our favor.”) But there is a lot of confusion about the relation of the US and Israeli governments. Here’s what seems to me a good summary: <https://chomsky.info/20060328/>.
> >
> > AWARE was founded to encourage opposition to decades of killing by the US government in support of the world economic hegemony of the US 1% - what George Kennan called (in 1949) “maintaining the disparity." It was clear that the crimes of 9/11 would be employed in the propaganda for what became the subsequent Bush-Obama(-Clinton?) wars, so an accurate analysis of the context in which they occurred was and remains essential. But like the US wars in SE Asia, the ongoing wars in SW Asia are crimes, not mistakes - not something the US was tricked into.
> >
> > —CGE
> >
> >> On Apr 13, 2016, at 9:33 PM, Brussel, Morton K via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> Correction: I meant to write "astounding analysis” in the second paragraph below.
> >>
> >> -mkb
> >>> On Apr 13, 2016, at 9:30 PM, Brussel, Morton K <brussel at illinois.edu> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Quoting: When some of us say "9/11 doesn't matter", we mean that our opinion of who is responsible for the killing of over 3,000 people here in the US, doesn't change anything, not that those lives don't matter. What we do think matters is the thousands upon thousands that the US has been killing, with little coverage by the media. That matters because we hope that if the American people know and understand what we are doing and why, we might be able to prevent it's continuance.
> >>>
> >>> And so with this rationale, who was responsible for the “ holocaust doesn’t really matter, nor who caused the Iraq wars, the Libya debacle, the Ruanda massacres, in fact almost anything that occurred in the past doesn’t matter, since knowledge of who was responsible for all this “doesn’t change anything (for whomever)”?? . Quite an as analysis(?) to come from being “AWARE”.
> >>>
> >>> Indeed, if we really knew that Israel was behind the 9/11 disaster, would it not affect future policy here and abroad?
> >>> A true knowledge of the causes of historical events does affect future events.
> >>>
> >>> —mkb
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On Apr 13, 2016, at 7:53 PM, Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> As one of the seven active members of AWARE, and the most outspoken on this topic, amongst the group. Let me clarify:
> >>>>
> >>>> Objections to S.Francis being on the program were due to his labeling and smearing "the Jewish people" for the attacks on 9/11. Just as he has done on this Peace Discuss List, in the past. None of us were concerned with the issue of 9/11. That being said, we do focus, as was intended by AWARE's creators on "Anti-war, anti-racism", the issue of racism taking a back seat to anti-war only because there are other groups focused on the race issue, while none in the area other than AWARE are focusing on war. There are other reasons as well, and to be clear, we were a group divided.
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm not referring to the wars of the past, but those we are facing in the present and future. They are of course all connected, history of behavior does matter.
> >>>>
> >>>> When some of us say "9/11 doesn't matter", we mean that our opinion of who is responsible for the killing of over 3,000 people here in the US, doesn't change anything, not that those lives don't matter. What we do think matters is the thousands upon thousands that the US has been killing, with little coverage by the media. That matters because we hope that if the American people know and understand what we are doing and why, we might be able to prevent it's continuance.
> >>>>
> >>>> Focusing on "ourselves as victims" of 9/11 offers no solutions. Let the experts do their research, let all documents be released and discuss it amongst your peers as you like, but don't expect the American people to rise up against oppression when the "truth of 9/11" is revealed. We have enough abuse occurring on a daily basis, that needs to be challenged and is sometimes covered by the corporate owned media. I won't go into the topic of "identity politics" or even address the " class system" and "capitalism" in this statement.
> >>>>
> >>>> What we, the American people, need to focus on is our own behavior, that's the only thing we can control. The crimes against humanity for which we are responsible if we turn away and ignore, makes us as guilty as the perpetrators, for allowing what is done in our name. In preventing the deaths of thousands upon thousands, keep in mind some of those lives could be our own.
> >>>> From: Peace-discuss <peace-discuss-bounces at lists.chambana.net> on behalf of Brussel, Morton K via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
> >>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 12:52 PM
> >>>> To: Karen Medina
> >>>> Cc: Peace Discuss
> >>>> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Proposal
> >>>>
> >>>> Regarding this statement:
> >>>>
> >>>> * We do often talk about U.S. support for Israel and Saudi Arabia -- seemingly the closest friends of the United States -- as we exchange money, weapons, and military training; But the reason for this even coming into the conversation is again the actions of OUR government, not that we are anti-(other countries).
> >>>>
> >>>> Do “we" not talk about the repression by Israel of the Palestinians, the attacks on Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, Syria… and other policies of Israel that we deplore? Strange that in replying to Stephen Daniel with otherwise admirable remarks, you insert this statement which I don’t believe holds wrt AWARE folks, the “we” of your remark.
> >>>>
> >>>> Also, we may not be “anti- other countries", but we can be anti- what their governments and perhaps most of their people do and support.
> >>>>
> >>>> Just a thought… The statement doesn’t apply to me.
> >>>>
> >>>> —mkb
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Apr 13, 2016, at 12:22 PM, Stephen Francis via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> correction:
> >>>>> Sophisticated-sounding political arguments that intricately navigate through idealistic and well-intentioned discourse play well on chat screens, but wilt under the light of good ole plain 'follow the money' and analyzing who benefits, in getting to the root of the system we rail against.
> >>>>> Investigations look for objective facts that fit patterns and care not who or what becomes the final target and eventual conclusions. I want names of people who can be prosecuted and put behind bars.
> >>>>> 9/11 was a criminal attack on the US by Neocon Zionists to further theirs and Israel's goals in the Middle East and ... the 19 hijackers were patsies just as Oswald was a patsy in Kennedy's assassination. There are hundreds of pieces of evidence supporting this, if you look for them.
> >>>>> Yesterday, I created a partial list of Neocon Zionists from my work on the internet that totalled over 500 people, but the list was so long (or something?) that this (Peace-discuss) site system blocked it as spam...so I just dropped the idea...but it is available on the net with no spam issues whatsoever.
> >>>>> This is REAL investigation.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Wednesday, April 13, 2016 11:45 AM, Stephen Francis <stephenf1113 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Sophisticated-sounding political arguments that intricately navigate through idealistic and well-intentioned discourse play well on chat screens, but wilt under the light of good ole plain 'follow the money' and analyzing who benefits, in getting to the root of the system we rail against.
> >>>>> Investigations look for objective facts that fit patterns and care not who or what becomes the final target and eventual conclusions. I want names of people who can be prosecuted and put behind bars.
> >>>>> Yesterday, I created a partial list of Neocon Zionists from my work on the internet that totalled over 500 people, but the list was so long (or something?) that this (Peace-discuss) site system blocked it as spam...so I just dropped the idea...but it is available on the net with no spam issues whatsoever.
> >>>>> This is REAL investigation.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Wednesday, April 13, 2016 11:17 AM, Karen Medina <kmedina67 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> As an anti-war activist:
> >>>>> * I am interested in stopping the atrocities that my country is perpetuating.
> >>>>> * I am not interested in provoking animosity toward people of other countries.
> >>>>> * We do often talk about U.S. support for Israel and Saudi Arabia -- seemingly the closest friends of the United States -- as we exchange money, weapons, and military training; But the reason for this even coming into the conversation is again the actions of OUR government, not that we are anti-(other countries).
> >>>>> * Working to change the current actions of the United States government is the sole responsibility of the citizens of the the United States: Classism, "Christian" extremism, exceptionalism, environmental destruction, and the mentality of "we are rich and powerful so we should tell those other countries who is boss" are the message that our current decision-makers in the United States are hearing.
> >>>>> The anti-war voice needs to focus on these issues.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>>> Peace-discuss mailing list
> >>>>> Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
> >>>>> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss
> >>>
> >
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> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 10:35:56 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Stephen Francis <stephenf1113 at yahoo.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Peace-discuss Digest, Vol 147, Issue 26
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> You (MKB) have confirmed my belief that I'm not going to appear on the TV show because of my "labeling and smearing "the Jewish people" for the attacks on 9/11", which is very similar in purpose to Carl Estabrook's argument that my beliefs are a 'distraction'. ...or others calling me a NeoNazi. You are all afraid of confronting what you suspect is a credible threat to your comfort zone.I've spent years compiling objective undisputable facts to counter these shallow attacks but consistently am unable to present them locally. Again, that's ok. My work reaches thousands of people on all continents around the globe every day and I will just continue to persevere. The issues will not go away. History is an important predictor of the future.Here is another interesting case that is very typical what I'm saying:Professor says Jews are behind 9/11 attacks and she's keeping her job
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> Professor Karega has been effectively shut down by the local Jewish academic and national news community. She has shuttered all her social media and has gone silent for fear of losing her job (she's not tenured). But Oberlin officials so far are defending her academic rights and she has not been fired (yet). Her accusers obviously struggle with the concept of academic freedom which has a higher calling than political argument.
> At Florida Atlantic University, Professor James Tracy WAS fired for not correctly filling out time sheets. He had a wildly popular anti-establishment blog that contested the official 9/11, Sandy Hook and many other similar issues. I believe his case will have a similar outcome as Professor Salaita.
> Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are winning because they are anti-Establishment and calling it like it is. In my opinion, the Peace-Discuss group is basically 'Establishment' ....as much as you would deny this, but I guess it all depends on where one draws the line between Establishment and anti-Establishment.
> I would like to 'call it like it is' concerning 9/11 with undisputable objective facts, but am denied this opportunity for what I believe are irrational reasons.
>
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> On Wednesday, April 13, 2016 9:33 PM, "peace-discuss-request at lists.chambana.net" <peace-discuss-request at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 02:33:17 +0000
> From: "Brussel, Morton K" <brussel at illinois.edu>
> To: Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Proposal
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> Correction: I meant to write "astounding analysis” in the second paragraph below.
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> -mkb
> On Apr 13, 2016, at 9:30 PM, Brussel, Morton K <brussel at illinois.edu<mailto:brussel at illinois.edu>> wrote:
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> Quoting: When some of us say "9/11 doesn't matter", we mean that our opinion of who is responsible for the killing of over 3,000 people here in the US, doesn't change anything, not that those lives don't matter. What we do think matters is the thousands upon thousands that the US has been killing, with little coverage by the media. That matters because we hope that if the American people know and understand what we are doing and why, we might be able to prevent it's continuance.
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> And so with this rationale, who was responsible for the “ holocaust doesn’t really matter, nor who caused the Iraq wars, the Libya debacle, the Ruanda massacres, in fact almost anything that occurred in the past doesn’t matter, since knowledge of who was responsible for all this “doesn’t change anything (for whomever)”?? . Quite an as analysis(?) to come from being “AWARE”.
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> Indeed, if we really knew that Israel was behind the 9/11 disaster, would it not affect future policy here and abroad?
> A true knowledge of the causes of historical events does affect future events.
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> —mkb
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> On Apr 13, 2016, at 7:53 PM, Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com<mailto:karenaram at hotmail.com>> wrote:
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> As one of the seven active members of AWARE, and the most outspoken on this topic, amongst the group. Let me clarify:
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> Objections to S.Francis being on the program were due to his labeling and smearing "the Jewish people" for the attacks on 9/11. Just as he has done on this Peace Discuss List, in the past. None of us were concerned with the issue of 9/11. That being said, we do focus, as was intended by AWARE's creators on "Anti-war, anti-racism", the issue of racism taking a back seat to anti-war only because there are other groups focused on the race issue, while none in the area other than AWARE are focusing on war. There are other reasons as well, and to be clear, we were a group divided.
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> I'm not referring to the wars of the past, but those we are facing in the present and future. They are of course all connected, history of behavior does matter.
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> When some of us say "9/11 doesn't matter", we mean that our opinion of who is responsible for the killing of over 3,000 people here in the US, doesn't change anything, not that those lives don't matter. What we do think matters is the thousands upon thousands that the US has been killing, with little coverage by the media. That matters because we hope that if the American people know and understand what we are doing and why, we might be able to prevent it's continuance.
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> Focusing on "ourselves as victims" of 9/11 offers no solutions. Let the experts do their research, let all documents be released and discuss it amongst your peers as you like, but don't expect the American people to rise up against oppression when the "truth of 9/11" is revealed. We have enough abuse occurring on a daily basis, that needs to be challenged and is sometimes covered by the corporate owned media. I won't go into the topic of "identity politics" or even address the " class system" and "capitalism" in this statement.
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> What we, the American people, need to focus on is our own behavior, that's the only thing we can control. The crimes against humanity for which we are responsible if we turn away and ignore, makes us as guilty as the perpetrators, for allowing what is done in our name. In preventing the deaths of thousands upon thousands, keep in mind some of those lives could be our own.
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> From: Peace-discuss <peace-discuss-bounces at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace-discuss-bounces at lists.chambana.net>> on behalf of Brussel, Morton K via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 12:52 PM
> To: Karen Medina
> Cc: Peace Discuss
> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Proposal
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> Regarding this statement:
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> * We do often talk about U.S. support for Israel and Saudi Arabia -- seemingly the closest friends of the United States -- as we exchange money, weapons, and military training; But the reason for this even coming into the conversation is again the actions of OUR government, not that we are anti-(other countries).
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> Do “we" not talk about the repression by Israel of the Palestinians, the attacks on Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, Syria… and other policies of Israel that we deplore? Strange that in replying to Stephen Daniel with otherwise admirable remarks, you insert this statement which I don’t believe holds wrt AWARE folks, the “we” of your remark.
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> Also, we may not be “anti- other countries", but we can be anti- what their governments and perhaps most of their people do and support.
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> Just a thought… The statement doesn’t apply to me.
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> —mkb
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> On Apr 13, 2016, at 12:22 PM, Stephen Francis via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:
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> correction:
> Sophisticated-sounding political arguments that intricately navigate through idealistic and well-intentioned discourse play well on chat screens, but wilt under the light of good ole plain 'follow the money' and analyzing who benefits, in getting to the root of the system we rail against.
> Investigations look for objective facts that fit patterns and care not who or what becomes the final target and eventual conclusions. I want names of people who can be prosecuted and put behind bars.
> 9/11 was a criminal attack on the US by Neocon Zionists to further theirs and Israel's goals in the Middle East and ... the 19 hijackers were patsies just as Oswald was a patsy in Kennedy's assassination. There are hundreds of pieces of evidence supporting this, if you look for them.
> Yesterday, I created a partial list of Neocon Zionists from my work on the internet that totalled over 500 people, but the list was so long (or something?) that this (Peace-discuss) site system blocked it as spam...so I just dropped the idea...but it is available on the net with no spam issues whatsoever.
> This is REAL investigation.
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> On Wednesday, April 13, 2016 11:45 AM, Stephen Francis <stephenf1113 at yahoo.com<mailto:stephenf1113 at yahoo.com>> wrote:
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> Sophisticated-sounding political arguments that intricately navigate through idealistic and well-intentioned discourse play well on chat screens, but wilt under the light of good ole plain 'follow the money' and analyzing who benefits, in getting to the root of the system we rail against.
> Investigations look for objective facts that fit patterns and care not who or what becomes the final target and eventual conclusions. I want names of people who can be prosecuted and put behind bars.
> Yesterday, I created a partial list of Neocon Zionists from my work on the internet that totalled over 500 people, but the list was so long (or something?) that this (Peace-discuss) site system blocked it as spam...so I just dropped the idea...but it is available on the net with no spam issues whatsoever.
> This is REAL investigation.
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> On Wednesday, April 13, 2016 11:17 AM, Karen Medina <kmedina67 at gmail.com<mailto:kmedina67 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> As an anti-war activist:
> * I am interested in stopping the atrocities that my country is perpetuating.
> * I am not interested in provoking animosity toward people of other countries.
> * We do often talk about U.S. support for Israel and Saudi Arabia -- seemingly the closest friends of the United States -- as we exchange money, weapons, and military training; But the reason for this even coming into the conversation is again the actions of OUR government, not that we are anti-(other countries).
> * Working to change the current actions of the United States government is the sole responsibility of the citizens of the the United States: Classism, "Christian" extremism, exceptionalism, environmental destruction, and the mentality of "we are rich and powerful so we should tell those other countries who is boss" are the message that our current decision-makers in the United States are hearing.
> The anti-war voice needs to focus on these issues.
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