Developers are Crabgrass : Apartheid is as Apartheid does. Done with savagery and a vengence for daring to resist.

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Apartheid is as Apartheid does. Done with savagery and a vengence for daring to resist.

Steve Timmer republishes his analyses from 2014, which are today's too. Israel does not know CHANGE but the Palestinian Arabs know HOPE.

Readers are urged to review Timmer's REPUBLISHED earlier writing, just as he felt urged to re-post. Note that Timmer includes sidebar links to the remainder of his previous 2014 multi-part posting.

This opening excerpt - from this link:

The Final Solution

by Steve Timmer

POSTED: May 16, 2021, 12:00 PM (from: Jul 19, 2014, 9:00 PM)

Gaza: The Final Solution – a reprise

This is a story from July, 19, 2014. There was a part two, part three, and a part four to the story. I think it has some currency at the moment. (Regrettably, the original @billmon1 is gone. Someone else has the account now.)

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I write very little about international, or even national, matters. A lot of other people do, and do it better than I could. But the present of invasion of Gaza by the Israeli “Defense Forces” cries out for comment, even if it is merely cathartic for me. I hope it is more than that, of course.

A couple of days ago, in a justification of the invasion by Israel, the Strib editorial board drew itself to its full height and opined that Israel “has the right to defend itself”: Hamas cynicism is the biggest threat to Gaza. Hardly.

The editorialists are merely repeating the lazy American media line.

One of the best sources of information on the situation in Israel/Gaza, and current Israeli thinking about it, can be be found in the Twitter feed of @billmon1. Billmon is the pseudonym of someone who used to write the excellent blog Whiskey Bar. I commend him to the Strib; if the editorialists read some of the links that Billmon offers up, perhaps they wouldn’t simply and ignorantly parrot bilious Israeli propaganda. I commend Billmon to the rest of you, too, as a way to read some sources that don’t just drink from the Israeli cup.

So let’s look through some things the editorial board may have missed.

“We must depopulate Gaza of Palestinians and repopulate the land with Jews.” That’s not just some crackpot in Israel; that’s the Deputy Speaker of the Knesset. Here’s part of what he said:

Israel must attack Gaza even more mercilessly, expel the population and resettle the territory with Jews, the deputy speaker of Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, has said.

Moshe Feiglin, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling Likud Party, makes the call in an article for the Israeli news website Arutz Sheva.

Feiglin demands that Israel launch attacks “throughout Gaza with the IDF’s [Israeli army’s] maximum force (and not a tiny fraction of it) with all the conventional means at its disposal.”

Force Gaza population out

“After the IDF completes the ‘softening’ of the targets with its firepower, the IDF will conquer the entire Gaza, using all the means necessary to minimize any harm to our soldiers, with no other considerations,” Feiglin writes in one of several calls for outright war crimes.

Following the reconquest, Israel’s army “will thoroughly eliminate all armed enemies from Gaza. The enemy population that is innocent of wrongdoing and separated itself from the armed terrorists will be treated in accordance with international law and will be allowed to leave,” Feiglin writes.

“Gaza is part of our land”

“Gaza is part of our Land and we will remain there forever,” Feiglin concludes. “Subsequent to the elimination of terror from Gaza, it will become part of sovereign Israel and will be populated by Jews. This will also serve to ease the housing crisis in Israel.”

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From Timmer's sidebar:

You may be interested in

Gaza: The Final Solution II
Gaza: The Final Solution III
A People’s Bailout is only half the solution
The solution in search of a problem
Therapeutic Nazi hunting, part one

Shifting to other coverage,

Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/

Hundreds of ex-Biden staffers call on him to help end Israel’s ‘occupation, blockade and settlement expansion’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/biden-israel-palestine-campaign-letter-b1853042.html

Dear President Biden,. OVER 500 DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN STAFF… | by Matan Arad-Neeman | May, 2021 | Medium
https://matan-aradneeman.medium.com/dear-president-biden-b19600918a67

REPUBLICAN SENATORS WRITE: Microsoft Word - 05.12.21 Letter to Biden re Israel Attacks - letter_to_potus_on_iran_sanctions.pdf
https://www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/letter_to_potus_on_iran_sanctions.pdf

138 House Democrats pen letter to Biden calling for Israel-Gaza ceasefire | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/138-house-democrats-pen-letter-to-biden-calling-for-israel-gaza-ceasefire/

A Letter to Biden on Gaza - CounterPunch.org
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/05/21/a-letter-to-biden-on-gaza/

Letter to the editor: Biden’s hypocrisy on Israeli violence rankles - Portland Press Herald
https://www.pressherald.com/2021/05/18/letter-to-the-editor-biden-administrations-hypocrisy-on-israeli-violence-rankles/

Biden got two letters days ago, as review of the above links will show. One from Republican Senators being Trumpists re Israel as is their current fashion; the other from people telling Biden to get smart (good luck on that).

Resuming:

Democrats, Growing More Skeptical of Israel, Pressure Biden - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/us/politics/israel-gaza-democrats-biden.html

Democrats dither on military sale to Israel | The Electronic Intifada
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/michael-f-brown/democrats-dither-military-sale-israel

*Progressives stay largely silent on Israeli apartheid report | The Electronic Intifada
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/michael-f-brown/progressives-stay-largely-silent-israeli-apartheid-report

DMFI board member Archie Gottesman wanted to “burn” Gaza | The Electronic Intifada
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/michael-f-brown/dmfi-board-member-archie-gottesman-wanted-burn-gaza

*Democratic leadership stands with Israel | The Electronic Intifada
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/michael-f-brown/democratic-leadership-stands-israel

State Department buries Israeli occupation in word salad | The Electronic Intifada
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/michael-f-brown/state-department-buries-israeli-occupation-word-salad

NOTE: Two of the above listed titles are bolded. Read each, if not reading any of the other linked items. The electronicintifada.net website clearly represents one viewpoint, while readers with deep attachment to Israel surely already have read the propaganda from that opposite perspective. The view at Crabgrass differs from mainstream coverage, and the links given here are in accord with the differing view. Clearly the letter to Biden from the Republican Senators is viewed here with derision and scorn, yet it is a major part of the story, hence its link has been included. Last, the item is formatted and posted to be read in a desktop or laptop browser. Users of phone-view, good luck - or use a browser.

From Women's March - 10-2-2021 - imagery speaks

Image is cropped from one of a series of Buzzfeed images. Click the image to access the Buzzfeed coverage of that march. This was a major event in Washington, D.C., and it happened mid-way after Trump had been fired by voters in the 2020 election, and before the one approaching. To assert as MN GOP politicians have that abortion is not an issue is an insensitive fiction concocted in some smoke filled GOP backroom. Do not let a GOP intent to deceive misleed your vote. The issue IS ON THE BALLOT. Women deserve dominion over their bodies, we all deserve privacy in our lifetime decision making.

Cracker fear and loathing toward Critical Race Theory has its precedent.

The precedent - Integration dodging intent behind segregated "non-profit" private schools, after the Brown decision was issued. Leading a twisted mind, Paul Weyrich, to issue-monger.

Politico in 2014 posted the true history of the ginned up propagandized opposition to abortion among the nation's hordes of Evangelicals as the "Weyrich solution" to energize the base. Leading to grave mischief. Evangel-Jesus-jockeys, with fellow travelers, (many of whom are surveyed as not as worked up about Roe as Alito would want you to falsely believe). Some, "foaming-at-the-mouth" rabid, however -

This is for you, Gipper and crowd.

Click that Wikipedia image, get THE STORY (and a link to the enlarged image, copyright info and all). GET: Online info leading into a new year via some pre-1947 new "old thoughts." New to many first time voters - this cycle. Not the thoughts, but the history. A history not to be found in Gipper speech transcripts, nor the Gipper's presidential library papers. Hello, Joe, Dem Party history, so pay attention. Pre-Clinton, Pre-Obama, but Dem party new-old nostalgia. Good old ways. Show the guts to walk that talk.

War Crime - Crime Against Humanity - Today, Now.

Let's go Brandon?

Yes, it relates to a NASCAR event, NASCAR attendees making a statement. But given how fifteen bucks got disappeared, and now Build Back Inconsequentially is pending, shouldn't we all chant? Trust whoever you care to, but wouldn't you like to see trust earned? Actions speak louder than words, while inaction when action is needed speaks loudest? Truthfully so? Pharma prices if anything have gone upward since Trump left while Manchin's daughter's a part of it via her grotesque EpiPen market manipulation and price gouging (a/k/a contract, combination, conspiracy in restraint of trade to gain market segment monopolization). Who might they want to fool? Biden's Justice Department appearing to not be looking at EpiPen under antitrust criminal law? Student debt relief is an aim of many, yet Biden has made no move to be helpful. Never mind Medicare for All sidetracked - Not even cosmetic change is being made to Obama's Romneycare? Taking progressives for a buggy ride? DC redux? Money talks? A Congress of old owned lackeys? Let's go Brandon?

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MYOGA - Make Yacht Owners Gain Again

A RIGHT - not a privilege - EVERYBODY'S RIGHT - no limits

JOE BIDEN DOES NOT SUPPORT MEDICARE FOR ALL. That is because Biden's billionaires want to keep every last one of the people beholden, manageable that way, willing to compromise and to worry about the next paycheck and the mortgage, rather than worrying abstractly over the grossly unfair distribution of wealth and power in our nation. Reform of that situation is needed. HOWEVER, with the Biden White House team, we must wait for HOPE and CHANGE. He owes, as a career politician now a millionaire himself, after NOT ever biting a feeding hand. We need Bernie.

Bernie ran for President. Who cares?

Bernie Sanders early 2019 crowds from before the Democratic Party oligarchs did him in, Clyburn, Bloomberg, Biden - the usual suspects. What resonated with those crowds - a candidate for justice and fairness, finally and for us all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7DRwz0cAt0 Joe Biden could have a Lincolnian legacy, if he cuts and runs from the big donor class he has so far courted, makes his platform the heart of that speech and delivers on the promises. If there is the will, there is the way.

More meddlesome in U.S. of A. politics. More money spent over Russians? Does that compute?

click here for image source plus NYTimes coverage.

Will there be blowback? There seems to be a disproportionate sense to DC's media-mania focus. Russians seem to make better theater, while Israelis generate movement on a scale Putin could only dream of? Essays and books could be written . . . However, in 2012 Romney and Bibi preceded Donald and Vlad mischief, in attempted outsider bias of U.S. national elections. Donald never visited Vlad in Russia. Romney did visit and schmooze Bibi, in Israel. "Double standard?" Go figure.

Doug Wardlow's police pal, Bob Kroll.

POLICE ENDORSED has to have a meaning, a context, and a discernible personality. G.R.Anderson writing over a decade ago, in a CityPages item, puts in a context, Bob Kroll, further fleshed out, here. It behooves the public to know who the supporters of a politician are, (photo above), since that reflects on the politician. "Rule of Law" must have a meaning to Kroll, one which few would share. Why is Mainstream Media not asking about POLICE ENDORSED, a Wardlow tout point?

IN ADDITION: In this image, isn't it Bob Kroll standing to the right hand of friend Wardlow? Looks like him. Paired Ellison haters? Anti-Muslim cohorts? How far back does the pairing go? And how has the pairing grown over time or evolved, from what start? Is there some Dobson joinder? The press should inquire.

Douglas Gary Wardlow did not merely throw the first stone . . .

He unleashed an ADF salvo, earning his ADF paycheck. Read about it, here, here and here. Outlawyered on appeal, Wardlow now apparently has no ADF paycheck. Others for ADF are pressing on. ADF appears to be a win-or-go-home team. James Dobson's team, so walk the line. Whatever you think you want, trust me, you do not want James Dobson anywhere near our attorney general office. A Berniecrat is the other choice, and is a good choice because Bernie's policies are the only future the Democratic Party has whether they accept that or not. Aimee Stephens is as human as I am, as human as Wardlow and Dobson and Hillstrom and Pelikan, the latter two seeming to have gone silent. Ms. Stevens should not be bedeviled in this Twenty-first Century. She merely wanted to be herself, do her job, and get her share. That is what each of us wants for ourselves. Evolution of politics is overdue. Ellison got piled on; is getting piled on. Click the above image.

Sell 'em Prosperity Gospel and feed 'em beans. Some never catch on.

What is Prosperity Gospel? It is: Channeling the mind of a brick into GOP and related dogma. Read this Minnesota story. Click the image to read its fine print. (image source: Bluestem Prairie) The image shows a part of the "mind" of a 30 yr. and still-going Prosperity Gospel faithful attendee. A Dev Crabgrass post fleshes things out. Islamaphobia is but one dimension of a larger "GOP base" stupidity. Stupidity you can bank on. HINT: Follow links in items linked here. Questions will get answered. And --- There's more -

DINO NEWS: Democrats in Name Only; they exist as a problem.

a DINO with an up-top money slot

This link. Al Franken in the linked WashTimes item is quoted:
“There are a lot of Minnesotans who are Franken-Trump voters. You have to go and talk to them, and you have to listen. That’s what we need to do. We need to listen.”
Al knows the score better. Al knows Sanders-Franken voter numbers dwarf that Trump-Franken segment, as to where Al needs to pay most attention, "to listen."

Al, in no uncertain terms, should be telling Tom Perez and the beltway money-bunnies of a new fresh smell in the air. Recognizing (in kind wording) one DINO foundation-family's drift, now, into irrelevancy is far from admitting what's relevant and moving full speed to the Bernie side of the force.

Dinosaurs, DINO ways and means, must and will be extinct (can you say "Primary Joe Manchin and Clair McCaskill"). As Al in the item says; listen. Hear Bernie sounding like a giant asteroid strike upon a DINO status quo. Indeed, primary the poster DINO-bunny of artful misdirection and status quo actions, Cory Booker. Gain attention from that, successful or not. Ideally, send Cory to work with Eric Cantor on Wall Street, where his heart is.