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From Steve Sailer:
A reader sends photos of Bibi Netanyahu and Barack Obama as young men, with the implication that these might shed light on why the head of a country of 6 million treated the head of a country of 300 million like his personal dogwalker.
If only we had a leader like Bibi Netanyahu — one who actually cares for the welfare of his own people. Imagine that.
Steve Sailer’s open letter to Bibi:
Dear Prime Minister Netanyahu:
Congratulations on your triumphal tour of Washington D.C. You have emerged as the de facto leader of anti-Obama sentiment in America.
In return for all that America has done for you, may I ask, in all seriousness, that you do a favor for America?
Namely, please come to America again and deliver a high profile speech and slide show explaining the rapid construction and strong success of Israel’s border security fence. Point out that a properly made border fence has been shown to deter not only drug smugglers and illegal immigrants, but even suicide bombers. Then, compare Israel’s success at rapidly securing its borders to the American government’s dithering and ineffectualness at constructing its own border security fence. Please point out that this kind of defeatism and corruption is unworthy of Israel’s ally. You could conclude by offering to send Israeli experts to the American border to advise Americans on how to build the American fence.
Thank you very much.
Steve Sailer
Aaron on 08 Jun 2011 at 5:58 am #
In effect, paleos want a populist American president and an elitist Israeli prime minister. At least, that’s the case for those paleos – Pat Buchanan, Taki, et al., and I think occasionally Sailer – who express any opinion at all on Israel’s policy towards the Palestinians.
The hated Likud party of Netanyahu is a true populist party in Israel, with a working-class, Mizrahi (Middle Eastern) base. Paleos like Buchanan support the foreign policy of Israel’s Zionist left, whose narrow base is the educated, affluent, Ashkenazi (European) elite. These paleos don’t support upper-middle-class elitism per se, but that’s the effect: populism for America, anti-populism for Israel.
Personally, I prefer the attitude, “Do what you want, I don’t care, just not on our dime.” A fair number of paleos do have this attitude, but they’re drowned out by the others.
Bede on 08 Jun 2011 at 2:46 pm #
“Personally, I prefer the attitude, “Do what you want, I don’t care, just not on our dime.””
I agree with this. I don’t have anything against Israel per se but don’t think we should be involved with interventionism or nation building in the Middle East.
RedPhillips on 08 Jun 2011 at 4:44 pm #
Good grief! Obama looks stoned out of his gourd!
Thaddeus on 08 Jun 2011 at 10:52 pm #
I see that Aaron has taken up residence here to proselytize for Israel, as he has at other paleocon sites.
There goes the neighbourhood…
Kirt Higdon on 08 Jun 2011 at 11:11 pm #
Seems to me the initial proselytizing is being done by Steve Sailer via Bede. I certainly agree with the idea that the US should cut off all aid to Israel (and anyone else) and get out of the Middle East (and all the rest of the world outside US borders).
RonL on 09 Jun 2011 at 3:02 am #
The day before Prime Minister Netanyahu came to the US, President Obama threw out the Oslo Accords and tried to dictate the terms of “peace’ based on Israel giving up all of its cards before negotiating over the status of the Palestinian Refugees (ie, Israel gets invaded by millions of Arabs) and decided what land to swap. Obama went further by declaring that Palestine should be contiguous with Egypt, Jordan and Syria. That is to say Gaza and the West Bank meet and Israel is cut in half. Morover, it allows the new Palestinian state to control its borders, so it can import weapons. This means all of Israel can be rocketed, not just 20KM around Gaza.
Netanyahu refuses to abide this lunacy, and graciously sets out his position to the American people and world after meeting with Obama. And to you this is treating Obama like his “personal dogwalker”?
If this were any other country that Obama was trying to screw, you and Salier would applaud its leader.
Bede on 09 Jun 2011 at 3:08 am #
“If this were any other country that Obama was trying to screw, you and Salier would applaud its leader.”
I’m not faulting Netanyahu for doing what he was elected to do.
Aaron on 09 Jun 2011 at 6:23 pm #
Thaddeus is right, I’ve come here to
trollproselytize for Israel. Just in case you didn’t catch my Zionist propaganda, I’ll repeat what I wrote above:Beware, paleocons, or I’ll have you believing that too!
Bruce on 09 Jun 2011 at 6:26 pm #
Aaron, your comments are always interesting and keep us on our toes.
roho on 11 Jun 2011 at 3:01 pm #
Zionism is a failing experiment, and most likely temporary? Israeli’s are now rushing to buy foreign passports, and as many as half may actually leave.
http://www.opinion-maker.org/2011/06/israelis-rush-for-second-passports/
Aaron on 11 Jun 2011 at 5:59 pm #
[Warning: pro-Israel propaganda follows.]
I clicked on the link posted by Roho. It’s by some idiot named Franklin Lamb, who tries to use big words like “centripetal” without looking them up in the dictionary first. No sources given for most of the claims. Lots of weasel words: unnamed surveys find that perhaps as many as half will consider leaving….
I’m a fan of well-written propaganda, no matter what its aim. Really bad propaganda can be enjoyable, too (David Duke posts some great stuff sometimes). But the agitprop by that Franklin Lamb moron just falls in the boring middle; it’s not even so-bad-it’s-good. Can we please have some more high (low) quality, entertaining anti-Israel propaganda? Thanks.
Sempronius on 11 Jun 2011 at 8:07 pm #
OK “Aaron” you asked for it:
httpv://www.presstv.ir/detail/184016.html
The former CIA officer explained to a Press TV reporter in Washington how Israel steals both technologies and secrets from the US and sells them to other countries.
An example, Giraldi said, is the Chinese Chengdu Jet J-10 that has been built with technologies that originally came from the US.
This is despite the fact that Israel relies heavily on the US for political and military support.
“It should almost be seen as an act of war,” Giraldi emphasized.
He also made a reference to the strong influence the Israeli lobby is allowed to exercise in Washington.
The ex-CIA officer, who is currently the Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest Foundation, has authored the report The Spy Who Loves Us.
In the report, Giraldi has sought to expose the dangers and costs that the Israeli espionage poses for the US.
According to the report, almost all US government bodies, including the FBI and General Accountability Office, have confirmed that Israeli espionage continues to take place.
In a 2010 interview with Press TV, Giraldi said “many of these state agencies are actually Israeli companies” that are working in line with the US government.
“This happened recently in Pennsylvania, where an Israeli company was collecting information on war protesters and in the state of New Jersey an Israeli was appointed as homeland security director for the State.”
A Washington Post investigative report showed that the US government is using the largest and most technologically advanced system in the country’s history to spy on its citizens.
The system collects, stores and analyzes information on thousands of US citizens with the help of every state and law enforcement agency and then feeds the information to the FBI.
Sempronius on 11 Jun 2011 at 8:13 pm #
Better url, I hope it gets hyperlinked:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/184016.html
RonL on 12 Jun 2011 at 1:52 am #
Iranian Press TV? You mean the government media of an Islamist regime which openly wants to destroy both the Great (US) and Little (Israel) Satans? They have no reason to work to drive a wedge between us and the Israelis as they openly develop nuclear weapons.
Aaron on 12 Jun 2011 at 3:53 am #
Sempronius: now, that’s good propaganda!!
It’s illuminating to compare it with the example posted earlier by roho. The most obvious difference is, the PressTV propaganda is video, not print. They’ve got the whole CNN look down right. They have a pretty, blond reporterette with an American accent presenting the story. Compare that with old Soviet propaganda, where they had some Soviet appartchik with a bad haircut and an ill-fitting suit presenting the “news” in a monotone. The pretty reporterette has to cover her hair, this being Iranian state television, but she doesn’t wear a typical Iranian hijab. She wears a light, colorful silk scarf, which looks even less “Islamic” than those worn by many Western women reporting from Iran.
Giraldi also comes across well on TV. With his pot belly and his casual, middle-age-guy clothes, he looks like your next door neighbor. He speaks in a calm but authoritative tone, not like some political kook haranguing the audience. Very professional.
One advantage of the video format over print is that you can say a lot of stuff in a TV “news” report that would look awkward in print. For instance, some of the statements presented as fact are based on phone calls that Giraldi says he received, apparently from people he didn’t know. If you were reading this on the page, you’d stop and say, “Huh?”. But in a video it seems as natural as anything. By the time the information hits your brain, the report is already giving you the next bit of information. You don’t have time to ask questions. That’s the beauty of TV news.
All in all, a very good job of propaganda by the Iranian broadcasting agency. Restrained and professional. I think this is only the first or maybe second time I’ve watched PressTV. Frankly, it’s much better than I would have expected from the Iranians, after watching how people like Ahmedinejad ham it up on TV.
Sempronius on 15 Jun 2011 at 2:51 am #
“When I was in London in the Spring of 1938 I went one day to see a high official in Whitehall. As I arrived half an hour too soon I went into a teashop, the only thing you can do in London when you arrive anywhere half an hour too soon, and ordered a cup of the wet, brown and warm stuff which they call coffee, and then I heard a voice call ‘Reed’ and turned round, and corpulent as ever, in a corner, was my acquaintance whom we will call Blumenlevy.
I knew him first in Berlin, some years before Hitler came to power. Then he was well-to-do and important, and nobody, least of all himself, seemed to recall he was not a German. He was part of Berlin and looked likely to end his days there. But then came Hitler, and Blumenlevy moved to Vienna and suddenly he was Austrian-born and a great Austrian patriot and was all for defending Austrian independence to the last drop of anybody else’s blood and fervently admired Mussolini, a dictator, true, but not then an anti-Semitic one, because he had mobilized troops on the Brenner when Dollfuss was murdered and had declared he would not tolerate the rape of Austria. ‘Why do you English quarrel with this great man?’ Blumenlevy asked me. ‘It is madness.’
But then Mussolini became Hitler’s friend and Blumenlevy, all at once, was a red-hot Austrian monarchist and was for bringing young Otto back to Vienna forthwith, for only so could Austrian patriots count on the continued independence of Austria.
A few days before Hitler marched into Austria, and sent his telegram to Rome, ‘Mussolini, I shall never forget what you have done for me to-day’, I ran into Blumenlevy in a coffee house. He had been to see an Austrian monarchist leader, A, he said, and had urged him to arm the monarchists, but A was a feeble fellow and hadn’t felt equal to it. ‘I would do it,’ said Blumenlevy, ‘Ich bin ein Draufgänger – I’m a stick-at-nothing chap.” –Douglas Reed
Ron, he who is without “reasons” (and nukes) cast the first stone.
Aaron, you strain at gnats and swallow -ehem- camels.