<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="color: black;"></div><div style="color: black;">Thanks Cynthia,</div><div style="color: black;"><br></div><div style="color: black;">Gilad does hit this one out of the ballpark. In fact he's leading the league in HR's .</div><div style="color: black;">It is very difficult to discuss "controlled opposition" to the Peace Movement here in</div><div>Houston : <b><font color="#ff00ff"> City of Peace .</font></b><br> Kris and Robert are two of only a handful of people that have much idea about what</div><div>is really going on ..... and we have something like 4Mil human souls.</div><div> Not a good idea ..... </div><div><br></div><div>As C.Lee Taylor says, " At the end of the day, we're all just doing the best we can."</div><div>Sadly, that doesn't seem to be
enough.</div><div><br></div><div>We as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values.</div><div>Bart</div><p style="color: black;"><br><br><span style="FONT-FAMILY:times new roman, new york, times, serif;FONT-WEIGHT:bold;"><span style="FONT-STYLE:italic;">Barton Comly Boyce</span></span><br></p><p style="color: black;"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p><div style="color: black;"><br></div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> HQ <hq2600@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> updates@lists.allthingscynthiamckinney.com<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Fri, April 12, 2013 2:57:00 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Subject:</span></b> [hq2600] From Cynthia McKinney: Why the Peace Movement Is NOT About Peace<br></font><br><div dir="ltr"><div>I started highlighting, only to discover that the entire article should be highlighted. Gilad hit this one out of the ballpark!<br><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/04/12/controlled-opposition/">http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/04/12/controlled-opposition/</a><br>
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<div class="">From Goldstein to Soros and Beyond</div>
<h1 class="">Controlled Opposition</h1>
<div class="">by GILAD ATZMON</div>
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<p>In his new book, “<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844679462/counterpunchmaga">The Invention of the Land of Israel</a>”,
Israeli academic Shlomo Sand, manages to present conclusive evidence of
the far fetched nature of the Zionist historical narrative – that the
Jewish Exile is a myth as is the Jewish people and even the Land of
Israel.</p>
<p>Yet, Sand and many others fails to address the most important
question: If Zionism is based on myth, how do the Zionists manage to get
a way with their lies, and for so long?</p>
<p>If the Jewish ‘homecoming’ and the demand for a Jewish national
homeland cannot be historically substantiated, why has it been supported
by both Jews and the West for so long? How does the Jewish state manage
for so long to celebrate its racist expansionist ideology and at the
expense of the Palestinian and Arab peoples?</p>
<p>Jewish power is obviously one answer, but, what is Jewish power? Can
we ask this question without being accused of being Anti Semitic? Can we
ever discuss its meaning and scrutinize its politics? Is Jewish Power a
dark force, managed and maneuvered by some conspiratorial power? Is it
something of which Jews themselves are shy? Quite the opposite – Jewish
power, in most cases, is celebrated right in front of our eyes. As we
know, AIPAC is far from being quiet about its agenda, its practices or
its achievements. AIPAC, CFI in the UK and CRIF in France are operating
in the most open manner and often openly brag about their success.</p>
<p>Furthermore, we are by now accustomed to watch our democratically
elected leaders shamelessly queuing to kneel before their pay-masters.
Neocons certainly didn’t seem to feel the need to hide their close
Zionist affiliations. Abe Foxman’s Anti Defamation League (ADL) works
openly towards the Judification of the Western discourse, chasing and
harassing anyone who dares voice any kind of criticism of Israel or even
of Jewish choseness. And of course, the same applies to the media,
banking and Hollywood. We know about the many powerful Jews who are not
in the slightest bit shy about their bond with Israel and their
commitment to Israeli security, the Zionist ideology, the primacy of
Jewish suffering, Israeli expansionism and even outright Jewish
exceptionalism.</p>
<p>But, as ubiquitous as they are, AIPAC, CFI, ADL, Bernie<i> </i>Madoff<i>,</i>
‘liberator’ Bernard Henri-Levy, war-advocate David Aaronovitch, free
market prophet Milton Friedman, Steven Spielberg, Haim Saban, Lord Levy
and many other Zionist enthusiasts and Hasbara advocates are not
necessarily the core or the driving force behind Jewish power, but are
merely symptoms. Jewish power is actually far more sophisticated than
simply a list of Jewish lobbies or individuals performing highly
developed manipulative skills. Jewish power is the unique capacity to
stop us from discussing or even contemplating Jewish power. It is the
capacity to determine the boundaries of the political discourse and
criticism in particular.</p>
<p>Contrary to popular belief, it is not ‘right wing’ Zionists who
facilitate Jewish power, It is actually the ‘good’, the ‘enlightened’
and the ‘progressive’ who make Jewish power the most effective and
forceful power in the land. It is the ‘progressives’ who confound our
ability to identify the Judeocentric tribal politics at the heart of
Neoconservatism, American contemporary imperialism and foreign policy.
It is the so-called ‘anti’ Zionist who goes out of his or her way to
divert our attention from the fact that Israel defines itself as the
Jewish State and blinds us to the fact that its tanks are decorated with
Jewish symbols. It was the Jewish Left intellectuals who rushed to
denounce Professors Mersheimer and Walt, Jeff Blankfort and James
Petras’ work on the Jewish Lobby. And it is no secret that <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.occupyaipac.org/">Occupy AIPAC</a>,
the campaign against the most dangerous political Lobby in America, is
dominated by a few righteous members of the chosen tribe. We need to
face up to the fact that our dissident voices is far from being free.
Quite the opposite, we are dealing here with an institutional case of
controlled opposition.</p>
<p>In George Orwell’s 1984, it is perhaps Emmanuel Goldstein who is the
pivotal character. Orwell’s Goldstein is a Jewish revolutionary, a
fictional Leon Trotsky. He is depicted as the head of a mysterious
anti-party organization called “The Brotherhood” and is also the author
of the most subversive revolutionary text (The Theory and Practice of
Oligarchical Collectivism). Goldstein is the ‘dissenting voice’, the one
who actually tells the truth. Yet, as we delve into Orwell’s text, we
find out from Party’s ‘Inner Circle’ O’Brien that Goldstein was actually
invented by Big Brother in a clear attempt to control the opposition
and the possible boundaries of dissidence.</p>
<p>Orwell’s personal account of the Spanish Civil War “Homage To
Catalonia” clearly presaged the creation of Emmanuel Goldstein. It was
what Orwell witnessed in Spain that, a decade later, matured into a
profound understanding of dissent as a form of controlled opposition. My
guess is that, by the late 1940’s, Orwell had understood the depth of
intolerance, and tyrannical and conspiratorial tendencies that lay at
the heart of ‘Big Brother-ish’ Left politics and praxis.</p>
<p>Surprisingly enough, an attempt to examine our contemporaneous
controlled opposition within the Left and the Progressive reveal that it
is far from being a conspiratorial. Like in the case of the Jewish
Lobby, the so-called ‘opposition’ hardly attempts to disguise its
ethno-centric tribal interests, spiritual and ideological orientation
and affiliation.</p>
<p>A brief examination of the list of organisations founded by <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1237">George Soros’</a>
Open Society Institute (OSI) presents a grim picture – pretty much the
entire American progressive network is funded, partially or largely by a
liberal Zionist, philanthropic billionaire who supports very many good
and important causes that are also very good for the Jews. And yet, like
staunch Zionist Haim Saban, Soros does not operate clandestinely. His
Open Society Institute proudly provides all the necessary information
regarding the vast amount of <i>shekels </i>it spreads on its good and important causes.</p>
<p>So one can’t accuse Soros or the Open Society Institute of any
sinister vetting the political discourse, stifling of free speech or
even to ‘controlling the opposition’. All Soros does is to support a
wide variety of ‘humanitarian causes’: Human Rights, Women’s Rights. Gay
Rights, equality, democracy, Arab ‘Spring’, Arab Winter, the oppressed,
the oppressor, tolerance, intolerance, Palestine, Israel, anti war,
pro-war (only when really needed), and so on.</p>
<p>As with Orwell’s Big Brother that frames the boundaries of dissent by
means of control opposition, Soros’ Open Society also determines,
either consciously or unconsciously, the limits of critical thought.
Yet, unlike in 1984, where it is the Party that invents its own
opposition and write its texts, within our ‘progressive’ discourse, it
is our own voices of dissent, willingly and consciously, that
compromises their principles.</p>
<p>Soros may have read Orwell – he clearly believes his message –
because from time to time he even supports opposing forces. For
instance, he funds the Zionist-lite J Street as well as Palestinian NGO
organisations. And guess what? It never takes long for the Palestinian
beneficiaries to, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.paltelegraph.com/opinions/editorials/10737-bds-movement-and-the-palestinian-principles.html">compromise their own, most precious principles</a> so they fit nicely into their paymaster’s worldview.</p>
<p><b>The Visible Hand</b></p>
<p><i>The</i> <i>invisible hand</i> of the market is a metaphor coined
by Adam Smith to describe the self-regulating behaviour of the
marketplace. In contemporary politics. <i>The visible hand</i> is a
similar metaphor which describes the self-regulating tendency of the
political-fund beneficiary, to fully integrate the world view of its
benefactor into its political agenda.</p>
<p>Democracy Now, the most important American dissident outlet has never
discussed the Jewish Lobby with Mersheimer, Walt, Petras or Blankfort –
the four leading experts who could have informed the American people
about the USA’s foreign policy domination by the Jewish Lobby. For the
same reasons, Democracy Now wouldn’t explore the Neocon’s Judeo-centric
agenda nor would it ever discuss Jewish Identity politics with yours
truly. Democracy Now will host Noam Chomsky or Norman Finkelstein, it
may even let Finkelstein chew up Zionist caricature Alan Dershowitz –
all very good, but not good enough.</p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(0,255,0);">Is the fact that Democracy Now is heavily funded by Soros relevant?</span> I’ll let you judge.</p>
<p>If I’m correct (and I think I am) we have a serious problem here. As
things stand, it is actually the progressive discourse, or at least
large part of it. that sustains Jewish Power. If this is indeed the
case, and I am convinced it is, then <span style="background-color:rgb(0,255,0);">the occupied progressive discourse,
rather than Zionism, is the primary obstacle that must be confronted.</span></p>
<p>It is no coincidence that the ‘progressive’ take on ‘antisemitism’ is
suspiciously similar to the Zionist one. Like Zionists, many
progressive institutes and activists adhere to the bizarre suggestion
that opposition to Jewish power is ‘racially motivated’ and embedded in
some ‘reactionary’ Goyish tendency. Consequently, Zionists are often
supported by some ‘progressives’ in their crusade against critics of
Israel and Jewish power. Is this peculiar alliance between these
allegedly opposing schools of thoughts, the outcome of a possible
ideological continuum between these two seemingly opposed political
ideologies? Maybe, after all, progressiveness like Zionism is driven by a
peculiar inclination towards ‘choseness’. After all, being progressive
somehow implies that someone else must be ‘reactionary’. It is those
self-centric elements of exceptionalism and choseness that have made
progressiveness so attractive to secular and emancipated Jews. <span style="background-color:rgb(0,255,0);">But the
main reason the ‘progressive’ adopted the Zionist take on antisemitism,
may well be because of the work of that <i>visible hand</i> that miraculously shapes the progressive take on race, racism and the primacy of Jewish suffering.</span></p>
<p>We may have to face up to the fact that the progressive discourse
effectively operates as Israel’s longest arm – it certainly acts as a
gatekeeper and as protection for Zionism and Jewish tribal interests. If
Israel and its supporters would ever be confronted with real opposition
it might lead to some long-overdue self-reflection. But at the moment,
Israel and Zionist lobbies meet only insipid, watered-down,
progressively-vetted resistance that, in practice, sustains Israeli
occupation, oppression and an endless list of human rights abuses.</p>
<p>Instead of mass opposition to the Jewish State and its aggressive
lobby, our ‘resistance’ is reduced into a chain of badge-wearing,
keffiyeh-clad, placard-waving mini-gatherings with the occasional
tantrum from some neurotic Jewess while being videoed by another good
Jew. If anyone believes that a few badges, a load of amateur Youtube
clips celebrating Jewish righteousness are going to evolve into a mass
anti-Israel global movement, they are either naïve or stupid.</p>
<p>In fact, a recent Gallup poll revealed that current Americans’ sympathy for Israel has reached an <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/161387/americans-sympathies-israel-match-time-high.aspx">All-Time High</a>.
64% of Americans sympathise with the Jewish State, while only 12% feel
for the Palestinians. This is no surprise and our conclusion should be
clear. As far as Palestine is concerned, ‘progressive’ ideology and
praxis have led us precisely nowhere. Rather than advance the
Palestinian cause, it only locates the ‘good’ Jew at the centre of the
solidarity discourse.</p>
<p>When was the last time a Palestinian freedom fighter appeared on your
TV screen? Twenty years ago the Palestinian were set to become the new
Che Guevaras. Okay, so the Palestinian freedom fighter didn’t
necessarily speak perfect English and wasn’t a graduate of an English
public school, but he was free, authentic and determined. He or she
spoke about their land being taken and of their willingness to give what
it takes to get it back. But now, the Palestinian has been ‘saved’, he
or she doesn’t have to fight for his or her their land, the
‘progressive’ is taking care of it all.</p>
<p>This ‘progressive’ voice speaks on behalf of the Palestinian and, at
the same time, takes the opportunity to also push marginal politics,
fight ‘Islamism’ and ‘religious radicalisation’ and occasionally even
supports the odd interventionst war and, of course, always, always,
always fights antisemitism. The controlled opposition has turned the
Palestinian plight into just one more ‘progressive’ commodity, lying on
the back shelf of its ever-growing ‘good-cause’ campaign store.</p>
<p>For the Jewish progressive discourse, the purpose behind
pro-Palestinian support is clear. It is to present an impression of
pluralism within the Jewish community. It is there to suggest that not
all Jews are bad Zionists. Philip Weiss, the founder of the most popular
progressive pro-Palestinian blog was even brave enough to admit to me
that it is <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/gilad-atzmon-jews-their-self-interest-an-interview-with-phil.html">Jewish self -interests</a> that stood at the core of his pro Palestinian activity.</p>
<p>Jewish self-love is a fascinating topic. But even more fascinating is
Jewish progressives loving themselves at the expense of the
Palestinians. With billionaires such as Soros maintaining the discourse,
solidarity is now an industry, concerned with profit and power rather
than ethics or values and it is a spectacle both amusing and tragic as
the Palestinians become a side issue within their own solidarity
discourse.</p>
<p>So, perhaps before we discuss the ‘liberation of Palestine’, we first may have to liberate ourselves.</p>
<p><em><strong>Gilad Atzmon’s</strong> latest book is: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1846948754/counterpunchmaga">The Wandering Who? A Study of Jewish Identity Politics</a></em></p>
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