Black People Politics : Rania Khalek on U.S. Police Training in Israel and Israelis Advocating Genocide

Conference looks at attacks, targets, power of Israel Lobby
By Askia Muhammad


WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Far from home, New York City’s police department actually maintains an office in Tel
Aviv, Israel. That’s clear evidence of the secretive and extensive reach of the “Israel Lobby” in this country, Dr. Alice
Rothchild, a Boston-based physician, filmmaker, and human rights activist told 500 attendees at the National Press Club,
April 10.

In addition, thousands of individual U.S. police officers from dozens of local police forces have received
all-expense-paid trips to the Jewish state for Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) training from the
Israel Defense Force (IDF), funded by components of the Israel Lobby.


Read more: http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/National_News_2/article_102325.shtml

 
well, guess this reply is technically "off topic" as i'm not speaking to the trainings by israel, nor the allegations of "advocating genocide". for that matter, i will have to honestly admit to not having a clue as to where to come down on the israel vs palestine "question", and could honestly care less. were i to be concerned about any of those folks and any of those messes in, and around, the middle east, i guess i'd be most upset by the actions perped by the trans saharan slave traders, who kept on until 1964 before giving slavery it's "final call".

if i must wage concern on anything, it would be the trafficking of little girls; the homeless situation; disenfranchisement of americans displaced as jobs that were outsourced now return with bodies in them; lack of access to training in modernized technologies for an "aging workforce" whose social security benefits are subject to backroom deals and cuts to pay for more and more war that doesn't seem to actually do anything . . . except get more expensive; corporate profits that keep climbing and then going into off shore tax evading "tax shelters" that remove american dollars from the working tax generating capitol that support infrastructure, health care and education ... <whew!>. israel vs palestine, zionism, muslim vs shiite vs whomever - we've got more important things to think/worry about and fix. (did i not mention retuning to critical thinking in our so-called "educational system"!? oops)

"so why did you bother to post anything?!"

reluctantly, i did surf to this final call article and came away with a severe sense of "pot, kettle, black":

Author and media critic Dr. Jack Shaheen presented excerpts from what he said are hundreds of racist and hate-filled, anti-Arab and anti-Muslim Hollywood films, and even popular network television shows produced openly and without any public rebuke, depicting Muslims and Arabs as hateful, remorseless murderers and terrorists—films, had they shown that same behavior perpetrated by Israelis against the unarmed Palestinian population—would have been condemned as anti-Semitic, out of hand.

The “Israel Lobby” conference at the National Press Club presented a microcosm of the battles now raging on college campuses all over the country as pro-peace and pro-Palestinian organizations work to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel over its treatment of those millions who were displaced in order to create the state of Israel.

The American public has increasingly begun to question the value of the incessant lobbying by the Israel Lobby, is it good for the United States, or is it even good for Israel? And even within the Jewish community, panelists revealed, Americans and Israelis are debating whether the lobby is helping or actually hurting Jews in the United States and Israel.

seems to me that one of the best ways to deflect what one is doing is to project a bit of inflammatory journalism at other folks that are doing the same thing on a smaller scale!

i will be glad when their armegeddon completes running it's course!!
 

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