I don’t know how to make this short, have been immersed in the Israeli/Jewish/Palestine world for 40 years. A brief background, then I am going to include a Facebook exchange I had with Peter, someone I have know for most of those 40 years and considered a friend. He unfriended me shortly after. I am 79, my political awakening came after returning from Vietnam and came to understand the breath and depth of the deceit and lies we had been fed. I have closely followed geopolitics since. Rachel, my current wife, grew up on the South Side of Chicago in a Jewish enclave a few miles from Glenn. She is two years older than Glenn and graduated from South Shore High School. Until I met her, all I knew about Israel was the standard Zionist narrative. She introduced me to Palestine solidarity. That was the beginning of a 40 year journey. A very large extended family, her father was the youngest of ten, all but a few are ardent Zionists. Both her parents were immigrants from Ukraine immigrating to the United States in the mid 20’s.
The exchange started with an Al Jazeera story four years ago
“Horrors at the thought we could have an honest discussion about Jewish power in this country”
Peter:
You conflate the pro-Israel lobby with "Jewish power." Robert, are you afraid by any chance that Jews will replace you?
Me:
I have no idea what you’re talking about. The root problem with nothing of any good for the Palestinians after 70 years lies right here in the United States with Jewish power. The Jewish “lobby” and Jewish power goes far beyond AIPAC, at the center at every level in our endless wars in the Middle East. Jews dominate the senior ranks across the entire media spectrum. Would you like names, would you like organizations? I didn’t start with names but with observing for decades how it was used, a constant super humanization of Jews and a corresponding constant demonization and dehumanization of Muslims in general and Arabs and Palestinians in particular necessary to wage war on others and sleep well at night. Jews have turned their suffering into our national religion while simultaneously creating for Jews in Palestine what the Aryan Nations can only dream of creating for white Christians in this nation, the goal of Zionism from Day 1 was the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Zionism was founded on the same ethno-racist supremacist principles as the Nazi’s only predates the Nazi’s by a couple decades. Congress cannot do a damn thing for America but shows near complete total support for whatever AIPAC trots out before it. Nothing hidden about it, it is all in the Congressional record. In the slaughter in Gaza in 2014, AIPAC trotted out its resolution justifying everything Israel did and there was not one single dissenting voice in either House of Congress. It is impossible to understand this world we live in, this dystopia we live in, the ever greater descent of the world into tribalism, communalism, sectarianism if you do not understand Jewish power in its myriad forms. I’ve barely touched the surface. I’ve been immersed in the Jewish world for almost 40 years, at another level for more than a decade before that, and yet another level going back to childhood. I have come to know it well. Can’t cover it all here. You were saying? Always glad to get together with you if interested.
I looked at my 3 part comment again to confirm it was made at the top level … it was. It was not a reply to yours or someone else’s comment. I am not sure how you managed to think I was referring to you.
“Peter” was not meant for you. Peter is the name of the FB friend I had the exchange with four years ago. I choose to delete his last name for his privacy.
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I don’t know how to make this short, have been immersed in the Israeli/Jewish/Palestine world for 40 years. A brief background, then I am going to include a Facebook exchange I had with Peter, someone I have know for most of those 40 years and considered a friend. He unfriended me shortly after. I am 79, my political awakening came after returning from Vietnam and came to understand the breath and depth of the deceit and lies we had been fed. I have closely followed geopolitics since. Rachel, my current wife, grew up on the South Side of Chicago in a Jewish enclave a few miles from Glenn. She is two years older than Glenn and graduated from South Shore High School. Until I met her, all I knew about Israel was the standard Zionist narrative. She introduced me to Palestine solidarity. That was the beginning of a 40 year journey. A very large extended family, her father was the youngest of ten, all but a few are ardent Zionists. Both her parents were immigrants from Ukraine immigrating to the United States in the mid 20’s.
The exchange started with an Al Jazeera story four years ago
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2019/3/17/why-the-media-fails-to-cover-palestine-with-accuracy-and-empathy
I included the following comment,
“Horrors at the thought we could have an honest discussion about Jewish power in this country”
Peter:
You conflate the pro-Israel lobby with "Jewish power." Robert, are you afraid by any chance that Jews will replace you?
Me:
I have no idea what you’re talking about. The root problem with nothing of any good for the Palestinians after 70 years lies right here in the United States with Jewish power. The Jewish “lobby” and Jewish power goes far beyond AIPAC, at the center at every level in our endless wars in the Middle East. Jews dominate the senior ranks across the entire media spectrum. Would you like names, would you like organizations? I didn’t start with names but with observing for decades how it was used, a constant super humanization of Jews and a corresponding constant demonization and dehumanization of Muslims in general and Arabs and Palestinians in particular necessary to wage war on others and sleep well at night. Jews have turned their suffering into our national religion while simultaneously creating for Jews in Palestine what the Aryan Nations can only dream of creating for white Christians in this nation, the goal of Zionism from Day 1 was the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Zionism was founded on the same ethno-racist supremacist principles as the Nazi’s only predates the Nazi’s by a couple decades. Congress cannot do a damn thing for America but shows near complete total support for whatever AIPAC trots out before it. Nothing hidden about it, it is all in the Congressional record. In the slaughter in Gaza in 2014, AIPAC trotted out its resolution justifying everything Israel did and there was not one single dissenting voice in either House of Congress. It is impossible to understand this world we live in, this dystopia we live in, the ever greater descent of the world into tribalism, communalism, sectarianism if you do not understand Jewish power in its myriad forms. I’ve barely touched the surface. I’ve been immersed in the Jewish world for almost 40 years, at another level for more than a decade before that, and yet another level going back to childhood. I have come to know it well. Can’t cover it all here. You were saying? Always glad to get together with you if interested.
I do agree, however, with the automated prompt you got on this site: Please type a shorter comment!
Robert B. I don't want to rain on your parade of voluminous self-quotation, but I am NOT the Peter with whom you corresponded on Facebook.
I had not read your earlier posts. Now I understand your reply ... you are one of "those".
I looked at my 3 part comment again to confirm it was made at the top level … it was. It was not a reply to yours or someone else’s comment. I am not sure how you managed to think I was referring to you.
“Peter” was not meant for you. Peter is the name of the FB friend I had the exchange with four years ago. I choose to delete his last name for his privacy.