Dissident Veteran For Peace: KPLU Reports on Israeli Vets in Seattle

Dissident Veteran For Peace

"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America." —Alexis de Tocquevile. Democracy in America, Book I, Chapter XV.

With a nod to the Most Rev. Dom Helder Camara: When I support Palestinians some call me an 'anti-Semite', when I try to explain why I stand in solidarity with Palestinians they call me a Nazi.

"WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." —Major General Smedley Butler, USMC (ret.)

"... no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end." —character of O'Brien in 1984, part 3, ch. 3 by George Orwell.

"Every prophet has realized that nobody loves you for being the enemy of their illusions. Every prophet has realized that most of us want peace at any price as long as the peace is ours and somebody else pays the price. That is why the prophet Jeremiah said, ' "Peace, peace," they say, when there is no peace,' ..." —The Rev. William Sloane Coffin. "Not to Bring Peace, But a Sword."

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

KPLU Reports on Israeli Vets in Seattle

A local Puget Sound NPR affiliate, KPLU, has aired a fluff piece on the "Hope for Heroism" program. Check it out at " 'Hope for Heroism' Project - Israeli Soldiers Help US Vets."

Labels: Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, Israel Lobby, National Public Radio

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Comments:

I found this really awful ... but it highlights what the jewish state is trying to do: normalize its genocide by making links to american warmongers, singing in the fresh air of a Seattle park, as their able-bodied counterparts continue their own slaughters. and there are many arguments that convince me that the US' current slaughter in Iraq is ALSO a war for the jewish state...

Activists could take advantage of this "pairing" of criminals to focus on how un-american israel really is... they want to say "See, we're just like you". We should be comparing the Declaration of Independence ("all men are created equal") with israel's declaration of statehood ( "ACCORDINGLY WE ...HEREBY DECLARE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A JEWISH STATE IN ERETZ-ISRAEL, TO BE KNOWN AS THE STATE OF ISRAEL."). Only jews are equal in israel ...

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