I am nearly speechless. Are the AIPAC and Israeli right wingers so filled with hate for everyone they are willing to risk having even their friends abandon them? This video is that offensive. This is sick and arrogant on a level you don't see outside of the most radical right wing crap. What is wrong with these people?

Russia's and China's "Thank You" card to AIPAC is already in the mail!

Mr. Rosenberg, I recently saw one of your pieces in Antiwar.com. This site recently featured Justin Raimando speaking truth to power about 'The Lobby' along with Mr. Giraldi, invoking, as they do, The USS Liberty attack of '67 where, they claim, Israel attacked and murdered scores of US servicemen. Giraldi, a favorite of Antiwar.com, invokes Judaism itself in his recent screed, telling us how 'The Chosen People' aren't 'so chosen' after all, but kind of a malicious group of volk.

I wonder, Mr. Rosenberg, how you feel you article is highlighted at Antiwar.com? Do you share Antiwar.com's sentiment?

Before you ask what the hell this has to do with your post, let me explain: are you conflating this video's message with the state of Israel? or just AIPAC? Did Richard Pryor represent the administration of Ronald Reagan. How about Jon Stewart... does he speak for President Obama? Or are they private citizens making attempts at humor, satire, or with intent to hurt or promote hate? In any event, using your lockage, any crime, dunderheaded assertion made by an Israeli, would be the responsibility of AIPAC and company.

Sorry for the comment, but I'm sure your post will be rewarded at Antiwar.com. Mersh and company will add you to the list of good Jews.

ps. Media Matters has little to say about the anti-semetic Giraldi at Antiwar.com. Oversight? david

Also, as an aside, did not the sainted Saul Alinsky admonish us that humor and satire is one of the most biting forms of critique? Or is satire only a weapon of the left?

BluePearl. Using your logic, when Rush Limbaugh makes fun of Jesse Jackson, does that imply the racism inherent in all Americans.

After all, Rush is an American as I assume you are. He views himself as as pontificator, satirist. But does he represent America? Or does he represent his listeners? I'm sure TPM and the Daily Kos would argue that Rush Limbaugh decidedly does not represent their point of view. Many view Rush as a stooge. Many in Israel probably view the Rosenberg video satire of this post as not representing their point of view.

How the fuc*can you be so fuc((ing obtuse? So, you take three or four or 4000 thousand Israelis and shine a Max Blementhal or other useful-idiot troll's camera in front of their face and 'that's all folks?' WTF is that?

Ever watch Mississippi Burning? Does the racist views of Mississippi forever and ever reflect ALL FREAKING AMERICANS? Why the freak not? BECAUSE WE ARE INDIVIDUALS! ONE ASS DOES NOT REPRESENT ALL OF US.

How many lurid anti-semtic cartoons originate from Syria? Jordan and Turkey? Turkey had a recent state owned TV special on Jewish doctors stealing organs in Iraq, sending them to Tel Aviv. This was among several recent TV shows applauded by the leader of Turkey and his wife.

So, some dolt of a writer does this satire on three idiot leaders. This same crew lampooned Bibi and Obama and the entire journalistic establishment in Israel.

MJ. Question, and it's an honest one, since the occupation began in 1967, I'm assuming you worked for AIPAC in the pre-67 period, and, if not, why not? Since the evils of the world began in May '67 with the occupation, was AIPAC a better AIPAC when your worked for her as you noted, lobbying those democratic senators. Now, it's a bad Israel, until Labour takes over again. Funny thing, the occupation and settlements began under the sainted socialists: not Likud.

The posters above sadly prove my point. I dearly wish I were wrong. But anti-semitism is a growth industry. The Holocaust gave a generation's reprieve. But the oldest hatred has never been completely snuffed.

If Israel didn't exist or moved back em masses to the '48 or '67 borders, it would change nothing. I am comforted that so many good people reject bigotry in all of it's guises.

Note the technique of Mr. USS Liberty Giraldi of the Ray McGovern Justin Raimando fan club Antiwar.com. First he moves beyond the usual trope distinguishing Israelis from Jews. Mr. Giraldi gives his audience(read those comments folks)the red meat: a discussion on murder and the Talmud.

What's next? An Antiwar expose on the Israeli connection to e coli infections as a result of eating brisket? What a nice group of leftists. Some of my best friends are....

Where's the line? Sometimes it's hard to find? But everyone knows who the Neighborhood Bully is.

From the dispatches of Antiwar.com on the front page... read all about it by P Giraldi

"Recognizing that it undoubtedly makes many people uncomfortable to cite the bloodthirstiness of the Old Testament and Talmud, it must be observed that virtually all American and European Jews would rightly laugh at the notion that they are a people chosen by God that authorizes special rights and privileges vis-à-vis their fellow citizens. Nearly all would agree that lying or murdering someone is always wrong. But other attitudes appear to prevail in Israel where there is most definitely a different perspective. To those who are skeptical about how religion bolsters jingoism, one need only look at reports that Israeli Army rabbis for the first time were seen exhorting front line troops during the 2009 invasion of Gaza. The army rabbinate also issued pamphlets advising "When you show mercy to a cruel enemy, you are being cruel to pure and honest soldiers…This is a war on murderers." More recently, the Israeli commando who reportedly shot dead six unarmed Turks on board the Gaza bound Mavi Marmara has reportedly been recommended for a medal. Many Israelis excuse brutality towards the Palestinians based on a divine dispensation, God’s will to create a Greater Israel and cleanse it of followers of other faiths. Combined with an in-your-face nationalism that feeds off of a siege mentality, it is a sentiment that has been growing stronger over the past few years demographically as religious conservatives out-reproduce their politically more liberal counterparts. Many moderate Israelis have also become concernedthat the army officer ranks are increasingly being filled by Jewish fundamentalists and settlers who believe in Israel’s divine mission.

Netanyahu is a product of his environment, education, and culture and one can reasonably ask what drives him. The question is important because if his inner demons reinforced by a sense of ethnic entitlement and racial superiority are in control, he cannot be trusted at all, in anything that he says. And it could have dire consequences for the United States, suggesting that Netanyahu will behave ideologically and culturally rather than rationally and will unhesitatingly draw Washington into a war with Iran, a conflict in which the US will have to pay much the heavier price both in treasure and in lives. So it is important to know what Bibi Netanyahu and Avigdor Lieberman as well as some of their extremist colleagues in government actually believe. Do they believe that they are racially or by the grace of God better or more entitled than their Arab neighbors or their American patrons? Do they think that the killing of gentiles is less wrong than killing a Jew? Do they believe that lying constantly is acceptable because the lies are directed at the gentile population, not to deceive coreligionists? Based on recent evidence, lying to the gentiles certainly appears to be the hallmark of the Israeli government response to the Gaza flotilla massacre. The Israelis have fabricated information and even two videos, contrived a manifestly false narrative, and lied at every step along the way, ignoring eyewitness accounts and calling their unfortunate victims aggressors and "al-Qaeda mercenaries."

Unfortunately the arrogance of Bibi Netanyahu and the behavior of the Israeli government would seem to suggest strongly a belief in a manifest destiny granted by God. Israel is prepared to charge recklessly ahead to do whatever it takes to intimidate and instill fear among all its neighbors. Tel Aviv wants to be a combination of a mad dog and the school bully, suggesting that its contempt for Washington made evident in the Lavon Affair and the attempted sinking of the USS Liberty in 1967 was the rule rather than the exception and could easily happen again. And Israel appears to have little concern about doing whatever is necessary to drag the United States down with it if that is what is required. It is we Americans who should be fearful. Each American should be very concerned about what Bibi is actually thinking, particularly as our Congress and media have already been bought and occupied and we have a president who is so unsure of the support of his own party that he is afraid to face down an Israeli prime minister."

Here's Mr. USA Justin Raimando, editor and chief of Antiwar.com

"Our Enemies, the Israelis
When will we wake up to the threat?

by Justin Raimondo, June 07, 2010
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One of my readers, in the comments section below, wrote the following in response to my last column on Israel’s hijacking of the Gaza flotilla:

“Again I ask the question: What do the Israelis have on our politicians that makes them such whores? Dirty pictures? Threats of withholding campaign contributions? It’s really embarrassing as well as infuriating to see congress with its collective pants down around their legislative ankles just waiting for Israel to do it again.”

And, Justin's just getting started. But he's just anti-zionist as in the 'I have no problem with secular self-hating Jews who delete the Israel part of the bible' crowd, it's just the shift zionist Jews who gives me the creeps specie that's got me blue.' Do I got that right?

RE: "this stuff is right out of 1930's Central Europe" - M.J.
MY COMMENT: Not only that, but it's also über schmaltzy! Although it is more unimaginative and tasteless than it is racist, it did somehow still manage to remind me of the notorious film Der ewige Jude.
FROM WIKIPEDIA (excerpts): The Eternal Jew (1940) is an antisemitic[1] German Nazi propaganda film[2], posing as a documentary. Its title in German is Der ewige Jude, the German term for the character of the "Wandering Jew" in medieval folklore. At the insistence of Nazi Germany's Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, the film was directed by Fritz Hippler. The screenplay is credited to Eberhard Taubert. The film consists of feature and documentary footage combined with materials filmed shortly after the Nazi occupation of Poland. At this time Poland's Jewish population was about three million, roughly ten percent of the total population...
...The movie was produced in the style of a documentary, the central thesis being the immutable racial personality traits that, according to Nazi doctrine, characterize the Jew as a wandering cultural parasite...

Signs of the Coming Holocaust (portions of Der ewige Jude) [09:42] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrK2CJ-TJvQ

I realize now there are only two kinds of folks in the world. Elvis Costello and, despite his talent, is so J Street. But, there are also the gems, the one-and-only Elton Johns, the rare birds who just don't give a fuc2 what is the politically correct thing to do, but does the right thing as he sees it in his heart. Sir Elton is my kind of guy, although his playing in Israel is so AIPAC.

Damm the torpedos. Storm the windmills.

blue, are you the kind of lefty who thinks Senator Byrd is hunky dory cause he's a lefty? So, being a grand kleagle of the white knights of the KKK is kosher if your a democrat? Good Jews/bad Jews. Good gays/gay sell outs. What's next: wasps behaving badly?

No, it is you who are using Orwellian Kabuki theatrics. Is there a dime's worth of difference between Obama's Iraqi policy and Bush's? Is there a dime's worth of realistic difference from what we are doing in Kabul and the Afghan hilltops, and in Pakistan? Perhaps Obama is more aggressive in his predator campaign; otherwise, not a dime's worth of policy difference.

Neocons also supported action in Darfur and, in support of Muslims, in Albania. Did you know that, or does the semantic distinction of a person's philosophy repulse you to that degree?

No, I'm just a dumbo lefty. Neocon Bad. Except where we agree. You neocon, bad. Smart, really smart.

The world is not full of a movement of the soul of humanity or it urge to manifest equality and freedom, just like that pretty plant. You sound like President Wilson, or some naive neo-wilsonian, or true neocon. Again, you doth protest to much. Embrace your inner neocon. Dress British; think Yiddish.

"The movement of the soul of humanity is to manifest equality and freedom just a plant grows and moves forward the sun...." Seriously, you should write for my favorite online journal Commentary.

Dick, don't religious Christians have a right to fund any thing they want? and to lobby to their hearts content? There is no hidden hidden, nefarious alliance between religious Christians and right-wing Israelis; it's right there in the open.

I'm always amazed at the talk against the Israeli Lobby.

It's a right.
It's supported by a majority of the country, if not a very large group of people.
How could you control it, repeal it, make it illegal, and not destroy what is sacred about America.(I'm sure many are passionate on the issue of abortion or gun control, but never question the fucking right to lobby).
Lobbying allow freedom of speech(even what is perceived as hurtful speech).

You have your right to lobby against the lobby, but the 20 plus million Christian evangelicals also have their right to lobby for what they believe in.

Interesting. What really seems to piss liberals off is when the Israelis laugh at and satirize the worlds indignation over the peaceful travelers and Assad, The Turkish Holocaust denier(1.5 million dead Armenians), and the Iranian Holocaust denier(6 million Jews).

Interesting indeed. what's offensive is not that the Iranian dictator threatens Israel with destruction, murders and rapes her own green election protestors. No, to satirize him is beyond decency.

In the words of Elton John, "ain't going to stop me from coming here, baby." Don't worry, tpm, I'm sure the Jihad train against Israel will continue....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT0WmEwiCy0&feature=related

More 'racism' from Latma....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPPawcPXwDo&feature=channel

Counterpunch. Lots of good stuff there. No anti-semitism at all. Nothing at all to see... moving right along. Mazel Tov.

Caroline Glick is a real piece of work, she is a sort of "by Tennessee Williams out of Bud Schulberg" character, her columns often have a borderline hysteria of the paranoiac, Chicken Little, "sky is falling" variety. A sort of Daniel Pipes with hot flashes: a type of lady my Victorian granny would have called "high strung".

Thank you for giving her a roast MJ; you can do it without being labeled an antisemite.