Jeff is upset because Chomsky cares about the Jews

Why is Blankfort so bothered by the concern of what would happen to Jews living in an Islamic fascist state of Palestine?

Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:59:53 -0800 From: Jeff Blankfort


NOAM CHOMSKY: Before saying a word, I’d like to express some severe personal discomfort, because anything I say will be abstract and dry and restrained. The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it’s likely to harm them.

We have to face the reality that our actions have consequences, and they have to be adapted to real-world circumstances, difficult as it may be to stay calm in the face of shameful crimes in which we are directly and crucially implicated.

Here is Jeff's take on Chomsky's intellectual and heartfelt understanding of reality:
This is an extraordinary statement but unfortunately not a surprising one from Chomsky who has not only opposed any action taken by the progressive movement in the United States to penalize Israel for its years of dispossession and occupation of Palestinian land and its chronic invasions and attacks on Lebanon, but has even tried to torpedo them and stature and his contributions in other areas can no longer be allowed to shield him for the public criticism that his actions in protecting Israel and the Zionist power structure merits.

NOAM CHOMSKY: .[A]nother familiar fairytale that you could read about a couple of days earlier in the New York Times, where the respected policy analyst and former high government official, Leslie Gelb, wrote that every US administration since 1967 has privately favored returning almost all of the territory to the Palestinians for the purposes of creating a separate Palestinian state. Note the word "privately."
Crucial. We know what the administrations have said publicly. Publicly they have rejected adamantly anything remotely of the sort ever since 1967 -- ’76.

Chomsky is no less a teller of fairytales than is Mr.Gelb. The facts of the matter are that every administration beginning with Richard Nixon has attempted to get the Israelis to withdraw from the lands it occupied in 1967, not for the benefit of the Palestinians, but for something that Chomsky does not seem to understand, US national interest.

Is this the reason for Blankfort's turn to the dark side of moral judgement? He feels that sacrificing the lives of a few million Jews is in the best interests of the US? Read on, there is more.

Every one of those attempts except that of Jimmy Carter at Camp David has been shot
down by a combination of the Israeli government and its 5th Column in the US and the evidence for this Chomsky has conveniently hidden from sight while repeating the canard that it is the US that is mainly responsible for Israel maintaining its hold on the occupied territories and preventing the emergence of a Palestinian state which would, if it came into being, would not only be a feather in the cap of the
president, but would add another vassal state to the US Middle East stable, something the Israelis wish to avoid at all costs. Chomsky, in fact, rejected the Palestinian aspirations for a single democratic secular state until the PLO accepted Israel's existence in 1978 and he still rejects that idea because, like other Zionists across the political spectrum, he fears what would happen to the country's Jewish population should the Arabs become the majority. As for his "path to Mideast peace," he has already done a good job of undercutting that.

And, of course, Jeff has to plug his own brand of antisemitic material.

For a more detailed analysis of Chomsky's position see my paper: "Damage Control: Noam Chomsky and the Israel-Palestine Conflict" which was originally published in Left Curve and can be found on the web at: http://www.leftcurve.org/LC29WebPages/Chomsky.html. It was also published on Dissident Voice and Voltaire.Net among others.

Jeff states his disappointment with liberal Jews.

This was sent by a noted British hate-monger by the name of Christopher Leadbeater:

From: Jeff Blankfort BCC: charliechimp1@aim.comSent: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 3.55am

Subject: The Nation's Lazare Does a Hit Piece on Mearsheimer & Walt

"Given the kind of people who are criticizing Mearsheimer and Walt and the way the anti-Semitism card is used to silence dissent on the Israel-Palestine question, many might feel compelled to defend their thesis. They should think twice before doing so. To be sure, Mearsheimer and Walt are not anti-Semites, and The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy does not portray Israel as uniquely evil or "singularly pernicious." But just because a book is not bigoted does not mean it is good, and the one that Mearsheimer and Walt have written suffers from significant methodological deficiencies, which is a polite way of saying it's a mess. In expanding their 13,000-word article into a 500-page book (with more than 100 pages of notes!), they have succeeded mainly in exacerbating the flaws of their original argument. They seem to know little about how American government works, how lobbyists function or how the United States interacts with the world at large. They are blind to history and tone-deaf to ideology...."Whether or not Israel is a shining moral paragon, it certainly is not a pariah state to be condemned. It is, in fact, a nation among nations--a country much like any other, with its problems, its opportunities, its virtues, and, at times, its failings and shortcomings. In short, Israel is a "normal" country.

"This is the latest example of why I do not subscribe to The Nation which has served for years as the Zionist Light publication for liberal Jews, like Lazare, whose sympathy for the Palestinians, like The Nation's, stops at the point where Israel might be threatened with sanctions, the loss of aid or US political support and whose task at this moment seems to be defending the Israel lobby from the scrutiny and righteous wrath of the American people. In my book, soon to be written, this makes him and others like him part and parcel of the lobby and one of the reasons it has been so effective in silencing what passes for "The Left."-JB

Old News but still relevant: Learner denounces Blankfort as both an Idiot and an Antisemite.

From: Rabbi Michael Lerner
To: Jeff BlankfortSubject:
Re: Sharon and his neocon heavies have won
Date: Thursday, April 15, 2004

They won in part because idiots and anti-Semites like yourself helped disempower the pro-Israel left that has been advocating for the Geneva Accord as a real alternative to Sharon -- an alternative that had the possibility of developing a serious constituency both within this country and in Israel for the proposition that Israel and the US would be best served by ending the Occupation and allowing a politically and economically viable Palestinian state to emerge.

But our progressive "middle path" that is both pro-Israel and pro-Palestine was torpedoed by people like you who managed to undermine any possible unity the liberal and progressive world might have shown against Bush/Sharon and instead fulfilled what for all I know might have been your paid mission as an agent of Sharon: to create fights and disunity in the camp of those who are seeking to end the Occupation.

Just when you thought Jeff couldn't lie like a champ;

Jeff tops himself with this one, claiming the Jews invented antisemitism. Is Jeff losing it because no one reacts to him anymore?

Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:42:40 -0700
From: Jeff Blankfort jblankfort@earthlink.net
This is beyond satire. The whole concept of "anti-semitism" was crafted by the Jewish establishment world-wide, well before Israel's existence, and well before WW 2, to distinguish prejudice against Jews from other types of racism in order to give the impression that it is something far more sinister and repulsive than other forms. And here we thought 'antisemitism' was a term invented by a German social scientist using it to differentiate between hating Judaism and hating Jews as a people.

Is it not interesting that a number of Jewish leaders over the years have made comments noting that a little anti-Semitism is not so bad because it keeps Jews united? I guess that's what makes it different. I don't recall representatives of any other group victimized by racism or prejudice claiming that such maltreatment was beneficial (But Jeff, you don't recall much of anything that doesn't help your hate filled agenda.) What other group is constantly taking and publicizing polls such as those commissioned by the ADL and other Jewish organizations to determine if non-Jews in the US and Europe think that "the Jews have too much power," an affirmative answer, that is, the truth, being considered by the Jewish poll takers as evidence that it is. Their plan has clearly worked. There is not a single museum in the United States that chronicles the crimes committed against the indigenous peoples of this country, or the Americas, or a single museum that details the viciousness of slavery in the way that the Holocaust Museum in Washington and the 90 other such museums across the country focus on the crimes committed against the Jews by the Nazis, with whom, ironically, the Zionists in Palestine collaborated with until the beginning of the war. Of course, this latest joke of a task force is just further evidence that the Jewish Zionist lobby runs the US Congress. And in the US today, the truth has become "anti-Semitic."-JB Sorry, Jeff, but you are antisemitic. The truth remains the truth no matter what clowns like you do to undermine it.

Jeff let's it all hang out

If ever there was a question to Jeff's antisemitic bent, this should dispel all doubts:

Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:51:51 -0700
From: Jeff Blankfort jblankfort@earthlink.net
"In an unprecedented move, the ministry has approved a geography text for third-grade children that says some Arab citizens were expelled from their homes and became refugees because their villages were destroyed during and after the war."Telling the truth in an Israeli or any Jewish text about the establishment of Israel is indeed unprecedented and if allowed to go unchecked, may undermine the very foundations of that racist state.

The JudeoNazi government will make sure that does not happen so that the Israel-supporting world will be able to continue to sleep soundly and untroubled by what it has wrought and continues to allow.-JB

Blankfort denies Israels right to speculate about Syria.

I wonder why Jeff hates the Jews so much that he attempts to color a people's right to speculate about what a nation, still at war with Israel, might be planning.

How sick is Jeff? Very sick.

Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:47:40 -0700
From: Jeff Blankfort jblankfort@earthlink.net
"Assad may embark on a war against Israel sooner than expected." This is from Israel's widest circulation newspaper. This mentally sick writer assumes that the war will happen, as the mentally sick Israeli government prepares its equally mentally sick Jewish population for yet another war. I have have long maintained that Zionism is a mental illness whose leadership and adherents are difficult to distinguish from the criminally insane. It appears from this talk of war with Syria that the world is going to be presented with the latest such example. When will the world have the courage and the wisdom to put a stop to it?-JB http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3407946,00.html

Jeff thinks that the US launched 9/11?

(5) A Different 'Gut Feeling': Israel Attacking Iran Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:16:34 -0700
From: Jeff Blankfort jblankfort@earthlink.net

Should there be an Israeli attack on Iran, which has always been more of a possibility than one launched by the US, the current situation in Iraq will appear like a garden party, albeit a grisly one, in retrospect, with the possibilities of a wide spread Middle East war likely to be the outcome with a major disruption of the regional oil supply and a crisis in the world's economy a by-product. It should be clear that the prospect for such a scenario would not even be on the table were it not for the constant drumbeat over the past two years by the Jewish Zionist lobby in the US and only that lobby, spearheaded by its neocon strike force.

Given the power of the lobby over the US Congress as well as the White House, we can expect loud applause from both Houses of Congress as well as the leadership of both political parties as well as from their leading presidential candidates should Israel attack. This will, of course, understandably inflame the already existing anti-American sentiment around the globe and make US institutions as well as its citizens targets for retaliation.

What better time than that for the administration, in the spirit of Operations Northwoods, the sinking of the USS Maine, and quite likely, 9-11, to launch a smaller version of 9-11 or series of such events around the country in order to justify the imposition of martial law? I have been skeptical of such a scenario up to now, but as the administrations of both Bush and Olmert have seen the bottom fall out of their popularity ratings and consequently neither have anything to lose, and while the lobby has been behaving as if it is on steroids while the Congress is on valium, this disaster may well await the world.-JB