The Case
against a Jewish state, part II
It's all about appeasing Israel...
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, May 09, 2013
US Secretary of State John Kerry has succeeded in tailoring
yet
another peace initiative to appease Israel. But it took Israeli
Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu no time to effectively reject
the offer, telling
Kerry and company it was not occupation - it
wasall "about a Jewish
state".
The danger is that recognising Israel as a Jewish ethnocentric
state would pre-empt the right of return for Palestinians expelled
from their
homes in 1948 and render the rights of native, non-Jewish Palestinian-Israeli
citizens second to Ashkenazi converts.
... If ethnocentrism is not good for the US or Europe, it must
not be
Lebanon: Even coffee is political
JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, April 18, 2013
LEBANON commemorated the 38th anniversary of its Civil War
last week.
In the days leading up to April 13, 1975 the country was virtually
divided
across sectarian lines.
Today, Lebanon is not much wiser and no less divided…
Last week I joined a childhood friend at a coffee shop in
Beirut. I was
unaware at the time, but even agreeing on a meeting place had its
political
The proxy war destroying Syria
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, March 28, 2013
WRITING about Syria is emotionally draining and
intellectually
overwhelming. Evident by the level of destruction and killing,
the mutual hatred between President Bashar Al Assad's regime
and the armed
opposition surpasses their love of country.
More than 70,000 have been killed and, not counting
internally
displaced Syrians, there are more than one million refugees in
neighbouring countries.
Not to mention the Arab Summit's vain resolutions, four
important
local and regional events took place in the past week that offer an
insight into what's in store for Syria and the Middle East at large.
Obama's visit & Israeli penchant for conflict...
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, March 21, 2013
President Barack Obama's visit to the Middle East has
coincided with the
10th anniversary of the killing of American peace activist
Rachel Corrie.
For contemporary suffering, from Yad Vashemm the President
should peek
across the prairie for traces of Deir Yassin's massacre or take a
five-mile
detour to a Palestinian refugee camp, a living museum and breathing
testament of Israeli malevolence.
When the President speaks at the International Convention
Centre in
Jerusalem to declare his commitment for an ethnocentric racist state
and
vowing to protect the "Jewish state" from specious nuclear
threat, he
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday,
March 07, 2013
A LEAKED report commissioned by the European Union (EU) has
concluded that Israeli settlement construction"remains the single
biggest
threat" to peace in the Middle East.
While it continues to provide formal "preferential
treatment" for
other Israeli goods, informally it wants an informed public
to decide on purchases violating international trade.
By leaving the EU market open for "taxed"
settlement products,
Europe is in effect subsidising "the single biggest threat" to peace
Impostors in
a foreign land
By JAMAL
KANJ
Thursday,
February 21, 2013
The
Invention of the Jewish People was a book written by Shlomo Sand,
an Israeli
professor of history at the University of Tel Aviv. The author
wasn't probing a
belief system, but Zionist fabrications of a spurious
common lineage for people
of the Jewish faith.
Sand argues …
the notion of Judaism as a "race", rather than a religion of
various
races, is incompatible.
The results
of a recently published study by Israeli-American geneticist
Dr Eran Israeli
Elhaik at John Hopkins University have scientifically and genetically validated
Sand's research.
Today's
genetics prove unequivocally that in 1948, "the children of the
original
Jews" were replaced by converts with no roots in the Middle
The definition of insanity...
JAMAL KANJ
February 14, 2013
WESTERN media is obsessed with presenting a positive spin on
everything
related to Israel, while trivialising good and accentuating negative
news
on Palestine.
It's admirably free in many aspects, but when it comes to
discussing
Israel the Western media loses its spark. Disingenuous news spin and
Israeli pampering are doing peace a great disservice.
Israeli government of Ariel Sharon rejected a road map for
peace by
adding 14 conditions. Western media downplayed the provisions,
emphasising only Sharon's pretence at approval.
Now, the same media
wants the public to believe that Israel's anti-peace
Lobbying blow to US democracy
JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, January
10, 2013
THE undue influence of single issue interest groups is
bankrupting the
essence of American democracy.
While patriot Americans are harangued for their less than
slavish
submission to the Israeli lobby, citizens with "passionate
attachment"
to a foreign country have been able to serve unchecked in US
administrations.
It is no secret AIPAC started seeding the State's Bureau of
Near
Eastern Affairs and Defence councils since the early 1980s. Replacing
cadre of professional staff, the new advocates turned the Defence
and State
Departments into parochial Zionist dens driving America
Obama and
the Jewish lobby
JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, January 03,
2013
THE Israeli lobby is flexing its muscle against Barack
Obama's potential nominee to be the next Secretary of Defence.
Hagel was a Republican Senator representing Nebraska from
1996 until
his retirement in 2008. He was one of few senators who crossed party
lines on issues most important to the American people.
Ironically, patriot Americans are shoved aside by the Jewish
lobby's
"thought police" while individuals with dual Israeli citizenship or
ex-Israeli soldiers or even suspected spies were appointed
unchallenged
to the highest offices in US administrations.
New Israeli Herods and Christians
JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, December
20, 2012
… the descendants of the Messiah in Palestine are marking
another
year of abominable Israeli occupation. Indulged with indifference
to
the collective sorrow cloaking the hearts of native Christians in
the holy
land, the West turns another leaf, rejoicing the birth of the
Prince of Peace.
This Christmas, new Israeli Herods abetted by Western powers
are driving Christians from their land and transforming native
churches into
Israeli tourist attractions and grand "archaeological
A supreme Mursi (Egypt) mess
JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, December 06, 2012
EGYPTIAN democracy is alive and well. That is about the only
positive observation on the current pro and counter demonstrations
in major
cities across the country.
... Egyptians long ago shattered the wall of fear in toppling
their last
dictator and are determined never to revert to tyranny…
To preserve the people's achievements, a sustainable
democracy
must be inclusive, all citizens should be empowered to influence
change and leaders should be elected on a rotational basis.
The protesters are
now demanding a reversal of the latest dictatorial
declarations. If not
resolved soon, Mursi could face being stripped
War and peace incompatible
By JAMAL
KANJ
Thursday, November 22, 2012
ISRAEL's wars on Gaza have not ceased since Palestinians
exercised
their free, democratic election in 2006. The relentless warfare has
alternated between bloody and
muted, but let's clarify some distortions.
Contradictory to most Western media reporting, the current
escalation
was sparked by Israel's extra judicial assassination of Ahmad Al
Jabari,
a Hamas military leader - not by rockets fired from Gaza.
… Israelis should not continue to enjoy peace while
Palestinians
suffer under occupation. Reconciliation and repression are
Israel: guaranteed US election winner
Thursday, November 08,
2012
THE
results of US elections are eccentric. While re-electing Barack Obama to the White House, voters also chose members of the opposing party as
their representatives in Congress. Pundits refer to this as division of powers at its best.
… 80 per cent of the cash that funds Super PACs "comes from fewer than 200 donors". Statistically,
this means that less than 0.0000007 of the US population has the
largest impact in shaping the outcome of the American election. Israel: guaranteed US election winner
Israeli threat to US democracy
JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, October 25, 2012
THE US State Department is circulating a confidential letter
urging European Union (EU) members and other "friendly" countries to
help block Palestinian attempts to secure non-member Observer State status at
the United Nations (UN) General Assembly.
Why is the US concerned about this? Read the whole story Israeli threat to US democracy
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, October 11, 2012
LAST week I referred to Edward Said's scholarly work on Western media
coverage of Muslim and Arab countries, shaped by discreet
or political motives. This fact couldn't be more pertinent than in recent coverage
of protests against the film deriding
… The combination of a formidable Israeli lobby charting US foreign policy in
the Middle East, juxtaposed with special interest reporters
America's public opinion, suggest more US involvement in new,
Israeli-contrived adventures akin to the invasion of Iraq.
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney may have been to
Harvard University, but his recurring gaffes suggest he is not ready
to be commander-in-chief of the world's biggest superpower.
… Parroting his advisers' remarks is Romney's main predicament. He
lacks ingenuity and, like George W Bush,
would let his advisers run
Such traits are not those of a national leader, but of a man who
poses a dangerous threat to America
The death of justice [Rachel Corrie]
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, September 06, 2012
LAST week an Israeli
court ruled the state of Israel was not at fault
for the death of US
activist Rachel Corrie, who was crushed to death
by an Israeli military
bulldozer on March 16, 2003.
… This is
Israel, using its legal system shamelessly to legitimise
military
criminal acts.Absolving the army in the killing of Corrie
was just
another outward manifestation of a nation infatuated
with protecting the
guardians of the professed Zionist ideals, not
Diplomatic terrorism
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, August 30, 2012
HERE we go again! Evet Lvovich Lieberman, the Moldavian
who became Avigdor Lieberman when in 1978 his religion
uniquely qualified him for instantaneous Israeli citizenship,
is demanding removal of Palestinian President Mahmood Abbas.
… Two days later, speaking to Israeli public radio, unrelenting
Lieberman accused Abbas of waging a "diplomatic terror"
campaign.The foreign minister was referring to a Palestinian
initiative to obtain UN recognition of a state on 22 per cent of
historical Palestine.
… The absence of Israeli accountability remains the crux of
New frontier
in US fundraising?
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, August 09, 2012
Mitt Romney has just ended an international tour intended to
prop
his political credentials as a world leader. In the first leg of his trip,
he angered the otherwise
temperate Brits by voicing an unwarranted
opinion on London's readiness for the
Olympic Games.
His second gaffe soon followed during the now common US
presidential campaign pilgrimage to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem…...
Following his successful outsourcing career, fundraising in
foreign
US veto
for sale
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, August 02, 2012
Pre-empting Mitt Romney's campaign visit to Israel,
President
Barack Obama last Friday signed the United States-Israel
Enhanced
Security Co-operation Act of 2012.
… The omnipresence of Israeli lobbyists at the signing of
the "rare bipartisan" bill provided a perfect background
display of
the foreign lobby's power in the US.
The foreign lobby-sponsored act is making farce of the
veto
powers,as the legislative and executive branches
of the world's foremost
superpower blatantly barter its
authority at the council in exchange for
pro-Israeli
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The Case
against a Jewish state, part I
Israel's ethnocentric experiment...
By JAMAL
KANJ
Thursday, May 02, 2013
ISRAELI leaders are masters at muddling the international
community
with trivial issues while turning the peace negotiations into a
temporising process "to end all peace."
Unlike Machiavellian Israeli leaders, the late Knesset
member Rabbi
Meir Kahane was more candid in articulating the ethnocentric
state's
vision in his 1981 book They Must Go. He wrote that in a "Jewish
state,"
Arabs will suffer from discrimination.
In such case they will
become alienated and antagonistic; therefore the
only sensible solution is to
"get rid of them." read more
Counting the cost of war
By JAMAL
KANJ
Thursday, April 11, 2013
ON October 10, 2002 I was driving the family during a short
vacation
at Yosemite National Park. I scanned the radio for the best AM
reception … trying to follow the US House of Representatives'
debate on
authorising force against Iraq.
… Baghdad fell on April 9, less than three weeks after the
start of war.
On May 1, President George W Bush gave a premature
"mission
accomplished" speech on board the USS Abraham Lincoln
aircraft
carrier. At about the same time, I participated in an antiwar teach-in
panel at the University of California, in San Diego. Unlike the
president, I
argued the war was actually just starting - not
Obama's visit & Israeli penchant for conflict...
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, March 21, 2013
President Barack Obama's visit to the Middle East has
coincided with the
10th anniversary of the killing of American peace activist
Rachel Corrie.
For contemporary suffering, from Yad Vashemm the President
should peek
across the prairie for traces of Deir Yassin's massacre or take a
five-mile
detour to a Palestinian refugee camp, a living museum and breathing
testament of Israeli malevolence.
When the President speaks at the International Convention
Centre in
Jerusalem to declare his commitment for an ethnocentric racist state
and
vowing to protect the "Jewish state" from specious nuclear
threat, he
Israeli appetite for US welfare funds
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, March 14, 2013
FAILING to agree on ways to reduce the deficit, the US
president
was forced earlier this month to enact the Budget Control
Act (BCA)
into law. Known as sequestration, it forces across the
board spending cuts by
over $85 billion in 2013, increasing to $109bn thereafter reaching $1.5
trillion by 2021.
It is certain when considering the impact of budget cuts on
taxpayers
neither political party gave much consideration to foreign
beneficiaries.
Not until now at least.
Last week Israeli Ambassador to Washington Michael Oren
echoed
AIPAC's objectives and in what sounded like lecturing US
legislators, he
warned in the Jerusalem Post: "This is no time to
critical
assistance which would only result in greater
Palestine Spring in the making?
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, February 28, 2013
A THIRD Palestinian uprising is simmering slowly, fuelled by
the
denigrating policies of Benjamin Netanyahu's government.
With the chances for a political resolution steadily
diminishing, and
lacking other options, the conditions are ripe for a new
Palestinian Intifada.
The international community's gutless stance on the
continued
building of "Jewish only" colonies in Palestine - combined
with
daily racist humiliations at the hand of illegal settlers, Israeli
checkpoints, torture and extra-judicial detention - means it is only
a matter
of time before the Palestinian street takes matters into its
own hands and
starts managing relations between occupied
No short cuts in Democracy
JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, February 07, 2013
EGYPT is an experimental democracy in progress, but when the
evolution of this process turns bloody it begs the question:
is it worth it?
There are umpteen occasions when Mursi has made poor
choices, from his backing down from early promises to reach outside the MB
hierarchy to his handling of a vote on the constitution. But should that
disqualify him from serving his elected term? I say no.
There are no shortcuts in democracy and the ballot box is
its best guarantee. To violently force an elected official to step down sets a
dangerous precedent.
Tolerating a one-term, despised, elected president is safer
than unpredictable anarchy on the streets. There are no short cuts in democracy
Megalomaniac vs monomaniacs in Syria
JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, January 31, 2013
SYRIAN President Bashar Al Assad has a penchant for blaming
outside conspirators for the troubles in Syria….
He, like other dictators, is far removed from
reality in "forbidden"
palaces - surrounded by a culture of
professional sycophants….
Al Assad is supported by Iran and the self-professed
"resistance block",
while the opposition is a collage of incongruous
actors ranging from
totalitarian regimes, Western democracies and Al
Qaeda-inspired
fighters swarming into Syria from their underground dens.
…, the outcome of the conflict will leave the US and Russia,
next to the
(ISRAELI ELECTION) A vote against common sense
JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, January 24, 2013
ISRAELIS voted on Tuesday to kill the prospect of peace. Out
of 34
factions contesting election, voters chose right wing parties
advocating
land annexation and "Jewish-only" settlements.
… Protesting against illegal land theft should not be
limited to
boycotting negotiations and oral condemnations. In the absence
of a
viable, independent Palestinian state, a single-state option
should become part
of a new strategy.
Israelis want to continue their occupation and have peace.
They can't
2012: hype and realism
JAMAL KANJ
Thursday,
December 27, 2012
The year 2012 was the last in the 21st century to have
matching day,
month and year (12-12-12.) It will be another nine decades before
new congruent calendar is possible.
That wasn't, however, the only unique phenomenon ending the
year.
Hyped by Nostradamus 500 years ago, the ancient Mayan
calendar - long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar - predicted
December 21, 2012 to be the conclusion of year
5125 or the end of
life on earth….
Recognising the hype, I thought that
would also be a
Unsettling realities...
JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, December
13, 2012
A DAY after the UN vote to upgrade Palestine's status at the
UN, the right-wing Israeli government responded by adding 3,500 illegal
Jewish-only homes in occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem
Europe and the US can't continue to claim to promote peace
while empowering and shielding Israel at the UN Security Council.
The US annual direct and indirect financial aid amounting to more than
$5 billion and
European Union special trade tax breaks are enabling
Palestine a new UN member?
JAMAL
KANJ
Thursday, November 29, 2012
TODAY, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas
will formally request the UN General Assembly to vote on
Palestine's
application for an observer member state....
A year ago, the Israeli proxy US veto at the Security
Council delayed the inevitable course of history for one year.
Today, however, the US' fruitless opposition for Palestine's
membership will go down in the annals of history - along
with the ill-treatment
of native Americans and slavery - as
one of the most abominable and darkest
eras in American
US a partner in Israeli war
JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, November 15, 2012
… why did these United Nations resolutions (242 &338)
become so critical in America's political lexis?
In 1975, he (Kissinger) pledged there would be no
negotiation
with the PLO as long as it did not recognise Israel and accepted UN
Resolutions 242 and 338.
In 1982, I was privy to one instance of backdoor
negotiations
when Ronald Reagan's administration and the PLO were on the
verge
of establishing formal contacts….
Kissinger's vow and AIPAC's irrational supremacy over
Congress
and the White House have turned America into an inferior partner
in
Israel's maniacal, bloody and political wars. Today, US opposition
to Palestine getting Observer State status at the UN is inseparable
from Israel's continued
attempts to drag America to the abyss
Another global disaster derailed
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, November 01,
2012
LAST August I predicted that as the US election drew closer,
and
as the President's re-election became certain, a credible scenario
would be
for Israel to strike Iran - pre-empting Barack Obama's
new term in the White
House.
… ( the) ex-furniture salesman Netanyahu was blinded by his
condescending view of American democracy - failing to appreciate
the role the
US military might play.
Refusing to back down, the US military went on the
offensive. General Dempsey was quoted… "I don't want to be complicit if
they [Israel]
choose to do it."
… Unlike the myopic view of elected officials, military
leaders
understand the cost of war and the limitation of its own might in
UN-ilateral politics...
JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, October 18,
2012
…Negating the president's speech [in 2010], the US
successfully
led an Israeli proxy campaign last year to block a Security
Council
vote on the application for full UN membership….
… Thomas Mooerer, a former chairman of the US Joint Chiefs
of
Staff, once summed up this relation stating: "I've never seen a
president stand up to them. They (Israelis) always get what they
want. If the
American people understood what a grip those people
have got on our government,
they would rise up in arms."
Until they "rise up", the US economy is
struggling, American
taxpayers are footing Israel's occupation bill, while
Israelis are
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, October 04, 2012
LAST week was the ninth anniversary of Edward Said's death. He
died in New York following 12-year battle with lymphocytic leukaemia.
… the charge of anti-Semitism has become a psychological weapon
in the hands of Zionists, who use it to numb Israel's opponents and
stifle its critics.
Said questioned this dilemma extensively in his 2003 book Culture
and Resistance, pointing out that "there is a great difference
between acknowledging Jewish oppression and using that as a cover for
the
oppression of another people".
…. For Said, "injustice was to be rectified, not rationalised".
Who gains from anti-Islam film?
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, September 20,
2012
… the latest Islamophobic film Innocence of Muslims is part
of
a trend designed to deceptively turn the memories of 9/11
into a lasting
conflict between Islam and the West, just one facet
in a calculated Zionist
crusade to discredit anyone challenging Israel…
In the east, Muslims must be circumspect when rejecting
hate-
inspired provocations. Violence only plays into the hands of
those attempting to divide followers of religions who share the
same reverence for
Jesus and
21st century robotic wars
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, September 13,
2012
ON the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a new
'sanitised war' is reshaping the future of America's military
industrial
complex....
Like the intercontinental missiles in the sixties, and Star
Wars technology in the 1980s, robotic drone warfare is
reinventing the military
industrial complex of the 21st century.
The only victor in this longest of US foreign wars is a
coalition of
single-issue think tanks, political leaders and business hucksters
driven by mutual interest fostered by a culture of killing, vengeance
By Way of Deception
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, August 23, 2012
WESTERN and Israeli media are lush with purported leaks on
joint
efforts of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defence
Minister Ehud Barak trying to enlist reluctant military brass on a plan to attack Iran.
All
this is hogwash. Israel has no intention to move solo.The leaked
information published in the US media is a distraction from an
Israeli
plot to drag Washington into a new Middle Eastern quagmire.
The Arab Spring derailed...
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, August 16, 2012
… What started as a genuine extension of the Arab Spring had
been derailed from civil uprising to full-blown military conflict.
The ruthless
killings from both sides are polarising Syrians
across ethnic-religious lines,
pushing the country further into
the abyss of destruction.
… Widespread civil disobedience exposing the brutal regime
and shifting the centre of power back to the home-based
opposition is Syria's
last hope for genuine egalitarian system.
Violence will only replace a thug
with another minion dictator;
Israeli voters in US election...
WITH the conclusion of the presidential primaries in the 50
US states,
a new election campaign is shaping itself in the unofficial 51st
state, otherwise known as Israel.
A parade of US officials and politicians are lining up to
visit Israel this
month, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton just
completing her
homage.
… It is reprehensible to see both parties pandering to
citizens with
sworn loyalty to another nation for votes that could influence
the
outcome of a US election, particularly as it is based on issues that
Obama riding on economic cycle
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, July 12, 2012
...Every 10 years or so, the average life of an economic cycle,
free market economies experience two extremes: boom and bust. At least since
the Great Depression, the US and the world economies have experienced identical
lows and highs.
… In layman's terms, the boom turns into bust when the
surplus fund is replaced with deficit, putting the national budget into the
red.
…I can't figure out if the much anticipated boom and bust
cycle is purely an inherent weakness or plain ingenuity in the capitalist
system. However, repeating the same alternations fits Albert Einstein's
definition of insanity: "Doing the same thing over and over again and
expecting different results." Obama riding on economic cycle
Never-ending negotiations?
Thursday, June 28, 2012
... Two decades
later, all succeeding Israeli governments with
no exception, from the spurious left to the devious right, committed to
the Judaisation roadmap through protracted negotiation, "demographic
revolution" and simultaneously proceeding with land appropriation that
benefit Jews only.
... Palestinian leadership must rethink its strategy and
viable options. Doing nothing is not an alternative. Winning over the world's
public
Egypt voting
for a change
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday June 14, 2012
...last-minute
fielding and the Supreme Presidential Electoral
Commission decision
disqualifying Mubarak's vice-president
Omar Suleiman before ultimately
sanctioning ex-premier Ahmad Shafik's candidacy, was a masterful,
theatrical stunt by the
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