I'm happy to be an active member of Jewish Voice for Peace, but I see that some leaders of the organization have been busy making the claim that War On Iran, and most specifically the assassination of Soleimani, was driven by neocon war hawks like Pompeo and not Jewish Zionists. This is not an Israel/Zionist thing at all, JVP people say. Why even Netanyahu is distancing himself from it.
But meanwhile, Phillip Weiss, well known anti-Zionist jew, says otherwise. He says he makes this connection, of Zionists to War on Iran and most specifically the attack on Soleimani.
Needless to say, all my favorite Mondoweiss comments section commentators like Misterioso and Mooser follow the journalist with many more demonstrations of the connection. The most obvious one being the importance of Sheldon Adelson to Trump, and how Trump has chosen administration officials to suit Adelson, a very well known Zionist Jew, who is well known to be obsessed with Israel, and a large factor behind previously unthinkable actions like moving the embassy to Jerusalem.
Netanyahu distancing himself from his own wet dream of assassinating Soleimani is par for his disloyal version of corrupt denial politics too, as the commenters say in other words. We shouldn't take Netanyahu's dismissal as dispositive, as if he'd never lied before. He's just backing away now that the deed's been done, so typical of swamp creatures like himself (not Jews in particular, but politicians in general, and the more corrupt moreso, and he's one of the most corrupt of all).
I'm following Weiss and his approving commentors on this. But it's also a distinction without a difference, as Neocons are definitionally Zionist anyway, even if they are not Jews. And that means they have a special devotion to the state of Israel as it exists. So the War on Iran is, at least in part, a Zionist/Israel thing. But that also axiomatically means it's an Empire thing too, as Israel is the Jewel of the Empire, even when cursed it's always Respected, and that's what counts.
But meanwhile, Phillip Weiss, well known anti-Zionist jew, says otherwise. He says he makes this connection, of Zionists to War on Iran and most specifically the attack on Soleimani.
Needless to say, all my favorite Mondoweiss comments section commentators like Misterioso and Mooser follow the journalist with many more demonstrations of the connection. The most obvious one being the importance of Sheldon Adelson to Trump, and how Trump has chosen administration officials to suit Adelson, a very well known Zionist Jew, who is well known to be obsessed with Israel, and a large factor behind previously unthinkable actions like moving the embassy to Jerusalem.
Netanyahu distancing himself from his own wet dream of assassinating Soleimani is par for his disloyal version of corrupt denial politics too, as the commenters say in other words. We shouldn't take Netanyahu's dismissal as dispositive, as if he'd never lied before. He's just backing away now that the deed's been done, so typical of swamp creatures like himself (not Jews in particular, but politicians in general, and the more corrupt moreso, and he's one of the most corrupt of all).
I'm following Weiss and his approving commentors on this. But it's also a distinction without a difference, as Neocons are definitionally Zionist anyway, even if they are not Jews. And that means they have a special devotion to the state of Israel as it exists. So the War on Iran is, at least in part, a Zionist/Israel thing. But that also axiomatically means it's an Empire thing too, as Israel is the Jewel of the Empire, even when cursed it's always Respected, and that's what counts.
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