Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz speaks out against defense budget cuts approved by Cabinet based on Trajtenberg recommendations, denounces government officials who called IDF soldiers and commanders "spoiled."
FP: Israel may have just added another strategic blunder to the many previous ones (see also next).Israel to formally apologize to Egypt over soldier deaths
Barak to release apology after talks with Cairo; Israeli delegation traveled to Cairo earlier this week to present a draft of apology.
FP: Yuckh! Israel has a serious masochistic streak.Hamas institutes visa requirements for entry to Gaza
Aid workers and pro-Palestinian activists will have to apply online or through local sponsors for entry visa to Gaza • Application includes $7 registration fee causing issues for aid groups prohibited from financial dealings with Hamas government.
FP: Instead of telling Hamas to get lost for charging them to support Gaza, wanna bet they’ll find a way to pay, thus legitimizing Hamas in defiance of the law? (which is probably precisely Hamas' intention)Martin Kramer: ‘Exodus’, myth and malpractice
In sum, the Gottlieb “commission” never happened. Uris’s biographers dismiss it, Gottlieb’s most knowledgeable associate denies it, and no documents in Uris’s papers or Israeli archives testify to it. It originated as a boast by Gottlieb to another PR man, made almost thirty years after the (non-)fact. And given its origin, it’s precisely the sort of story a serious professional historian would never repeat as fact without first vetting it (as I did).
Yet it persists in the echo chamber of anti-Israel literature, where it has been copied over and over. In Kathleen Christison’s book, it finally appeared under the imprimatur of a university press (California). In Khalidi’s lectures last fall, it acquired a baroque elaboration, in which Edward Gottlieb emerges as “the father of the American iteration of Zionism” and architect of “one of the greatest advertising triumphs of the twentieth century.” What is the myth’s appeal? Why is the truth about the genesis of Exodus so difficult to grasp? Why should Khalidi think the Gottlieb story is, in his coy phrase, “worth noting”?
Because if you believe in Zionist mind-control, you must always assume the existence of a secret mover who (as Khalidi said) “you probably never heard of” and who must be a professional expert in deception. This “seasoned” salesman conceives of Exodus as a “gambit” (Khalidi) or a “scheme” (Christison). There is no studio or publisher’s advance, only a “commission,” which qualifies the book as “propaganda”—an “advertising triumph.” In Khalidi’s Brooklyn Law School talk, he added that “the process of selling Israel didn’t stop with Gottlieb…. It has continued unabated since then.” It is Khalidi’s purpose to cast Exodus, like the case for Israel itself, as a “carefully crafted” sales job by Madison Avenue mad men. Through their mediation, Israel has hoodwinked America.
In fact, the deception lies elsewhere. Exodus, novel and book, were universally understood to be works of fiction. In contrast, Rashid Khalidi claims to speak in the name of history—that is, carefully validated truth. “I’m a historian,” he has said. “What I can do best for the reader or audience is provide a background for which to see the present, not tell them about the present.” Again: “I’m a historian and I try not to speculate about the future.” And this: “I’m a historian, and I look at the way idealism has tended to operate, and it’s not a pretty picture.” And this one (which truly beggars belief): “I’m a historian, it’s not my job to attack or defend anybody.”
Forget that Khalidi interprets the present, speculates about the future, poses as an idealist, and attacks and defends people with vigor. (If he didn’t, he wouldn’t be a regular on NPR, Charlie Rose and the lecture circuit.) The point is that he proclaims over and again that he is a historian—that his opinions rest on facts about the past that he has subjected to his professional investigation. As I have shown, this is simply untrue. Khalidi will repeat and embellish a story simply because of its utility, without even a cursory check of its veracity. That’s literary license in a novelist. It’s malpractice in a historian.
FP: Let me make a prediction: The thoroughly researched, based on evidence claim by Kramer will be deemed as propaganda and lies by pro-Israel supporters attempting to distract from the truth, while the Khalidi propagandist lies will be deemed the truth. That's the kind of reality inversion that is the Palestinian contribution, other than suicide bombers, to the world. Inversion of reality is ultimately fatal.Yet it persists in the echo chamber of anti-Israel literature, where it has been copied over and over. In Kathleen Christison’s book, it finally appeared under the imprimatur of a university press (California). In Khalidi’s lectures last fall, it acquired a baroque elaboration, in which Edward Gottlieb emerges as “the father of the American iteration of Zionism” and architect of “one of the greatest advertising triumphs of the twentieth century.” What is the myth’s appeal? Why is the truth about the genesis of Exodus so difficult to grasp? Why should Khalidi think the Gottlieb story is, in his coy phrase, “worth noting”?
Because if you believe in Zionist mind-control, you must always assume the existence of a secret mover who (as Khalidi said) “you probably never heard of” and who must be a professional expert in deception. This “seasoned” salesman conceives of Exodus as a “gambit” (Khalidi) or a “scheme” (Christison). There is no studio or publisher’s advance, only a “commission,” which qualifies the book as “propaganda”—an “advertising triumph.” In Khalidi’s Brooklyn Law School talk, he added that “the process of selling Israel didn’t stop with Gottlieb…. It has continued unabated since then.” It is Khalidi’s purpose to cast Exodus, like the case for Israel itself, as a “carefully crafted” sales job by Madison Avenue mad men. Through their mediation, Israel has hoodwinked America.
In fact, the deception lies elsewhere. Exodus, novel and book, were universally understood to be works of fiction. In contrast, Rashid Khalidi claims to speak in the name of history—that is, carefully validated truth. “I’m a historian,” he has said. “What I can do best for the reader or audience is provide a background for which to see the present, not tell them about the present.” Again: “I’m a historian and I try not to speculate about the future.” And this: “I’m a historian, and I look at the way idealism has tended to operate, and it’s not a pretty picture.” And this one (which truly beggars belief): “I’m a historian, it’s not my job to attack or defend anybody.”
Forget that Khalidi interprets the present, speculates about the future, poses as an idealist, and attacks and defends people with vigor. (If he didn’t, he wouldn’t be a regular on NPR, Charlie Rose and the lecture circuit.) The point is that he proclaims over and again that he is a historian—that his opinions rest on facts about the past that he has subjected to his professional investigation. As I have shown, this is simply untrue. Khalidi will repeat and embellish a story simply because of its utility, without even a cursory check of its veracity. That’s literary license in a novelist. It’s malpractice in a historian.
JoshuaPundit: Proof That Being An Activist For The 'Occupy' Protests Pays Pretty Well
As Scott Johnson from Powerline reveals , there are help wanted ads on Craigslist from the Working Families Party looking to hire protesters for Wall Street and offering $350-650 a week, depending on responsibility and length of time on staff.
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The Working Families Party, as you may know, is a hard left local NY outlet of the Democratic Party that receives funds directly from George Soros ' Open Society via the Tides Foundation.
And it's not just George Soros. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), the official campaign arm of the Democrats in the House of Representatives is actively fundraising to finance the 'Occupy' protests. More proof, if any was needed that the 'Occupy' protests are directly linked to the Obama campaign and coordinated out of the White House. The protestors for the most part are simply hired, ginned up shills without a clear idea of what they're actually protesting. They simply follow the orders of their employers.
This is simply a foretaste of the class warfare campaign this president plans to wage in an effort to secure four more years in power.
FP: Soros is the very embodiment of the Wall Street that OWS supposedly demonstrates against, he is an utterly parasitic speculator completely amoral. The Democratic politicians, including Obama, are an integral component of the kleptocratic Wall Street welfare state, having pumped zillions of taxpayer funds into the coffers and bonuses of those who brought down the economy more than once. Can a society survive when the political system is so corrupt, the business system so rapacious and the public so ignorant and tolerant?
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The Working Families Party, as you may know, is a hard left local NY outlet of the Democratic Party that receives funds directly from George Soros ' Open Society via the Tides Foundation.
And it's not just George Soros. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), the official campaign arm of the Democrats in the House of Representatives is actively fundraising to finance the 'Occupy' protests. More proof, if any was needed that the 'Occupy' protests are directly linked to the Obama campaign and coordinated out of the White House. The protestors for the most part are simply hired, ginned up shills without a clear idea of what they're actually protesting. They simply follow the orders of their employers.
This is simply a foretaste of the class warfare campaign this president plans to wage in an effort to secure four more years in power.
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