The American writer, Max Blumenthal, is in Israel working with Philip Weiss’ blog, Mondoweiss, reporting on events down at the street level in Israel and the Palestinian territories. He filed this report and video (above) on the eve of Obama’s speech from Cairo, largely about the sentiments of visiting Jewish American youth.
Max Blumenthal: Feeling the Hate In Jerusalem on Eve of Obama’s Cairo Address
On the eve of President Barack Obama’s address to the Muslim world from Cairo, Egypt, I stepped out onto the streets of Jerusalem with my friend Joseph Dana to interview young Israelis and American Jews about their reaction to the speech. We encountered rowdy groups of beer sodden twenty-somethings, many from the United States, and all eager to vent their visceral, even violent hatred of Barack Obama and his policies towards Israel. Usually I offer a brief commentary on my video reports, but this one requires no comment at all. Quite simply, it contains some of the most shocking footage I have ever filmed. Watch it and see if you agree. (Warning: this video contains profanity and material offensive to just about anyone.)
Now that the speech is over, one can only imagine the divide that exists between peace and the status quo in Israel since Obama came on the scene.
An interesting comment from Aristo at WWL:
see, I don’t agree with that. I think the video is interesting. I think it would probably shock most Americans. But I don’t think it says anything about whether it is a good idea to support Israel. What it says, above all, is that the hate is more pervasive than many would like to think, and that we should have clear eyes about the difficulties in achieving peace.
The writer simply meant ‘supporting Israel no matter what’.
shergald, Great, the ‘Jerusalem street’. I have to laugh. There used to be only an ‘Arab street’. And after the race and religion purification laws get through the Knesset we will be able talk without blushing about the ‘Jewish street’. Is that in NYC or Tel Aviv? This all goes to show how unacceptable the expression ‘Arab street’ is: Djakarta or the place in Michigan with so people with Arab background (Detroit?, Dearborne?). And how Israel seems to be going off the deep end. There will be no more ‘Arab street’ in Israel. Just a bunch of Arabs who need to purged and banished: purified. Sounds all too familiar on the 65th anniversary of D-Day! It seems that more and more people have been born yesterday, as in ‘I wasn’t born yesterday.’
Some of the bravest people in this whole mess are the Jews that have decided that enough is enough and it’s time to expose the underbelly of the beast. I am sure they will pay dearly.
Israel’s meme has always been…A Light onto the World, ONLY democracy in the ME….high moral ground. It kinda puts that to rest. Propaganda.
And and adds to the meme that the Zionist Enterprise is racist at it’s core.
There is a lot more racism there than the ADL wants us to know.
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Charles Krauthammer:
“In the 16 years since the Oslo accords turned the West Bank and Gaza over to the Palestinians, their leaders built no roads, no courthouses, no hospitals, none of the fundamental state institutions that would relieve their people’s suffering.”
Despite miles of coastline, businesspeople in the largely Palestinian-controlled Gaza Strip must go through Israel for most of their trade. The Palestinians complain that Israeli middlemen nearly double the costs for imported goods, from automobiles to furniture, while Israeli-imposed delays play havoc with Palestinian exports of fruits and vegetables.
After years of testy negotiations, Palestinians finally have the right to build and operate–under some restrictions–their first seaport. Last year’s U.S.-brokered Wye Plantation accord put the Gaza harbor in writing, and another agreement ratified this month at Sharm el Sheik, Egypt, gave the green light for an Oct. 1 construction start date.
More than the Palestinian airport, which opened in Gaza late last year but has no cargo facilities, the harbor will provide a critical boost for a listless economy overly reliant on foreign aid and expensive imports and hamstrung by corruption among Palestinian officials.
Initially, the harbor project is expected to create at least 5,000 jobs …
“Infrastructure in Gaza has been severely affected by lack of funds for upgrades and rehabilitation, in addition to destruction incurred during military operations. From electricity and sewerage networks, to access to roads and clean, running water, basic daily requirements have not been maintained. Particularly over the past five years, municipal buildings and schools have been occupied, damaged or destroyed and roads rendered inoperative.”
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."Gaza and its development during the pre2000 Arafat period represented Oslo, and it had to be destroyed once Sharon took office: Oslo is dead, he said, or something to that effect.
And of course he is correct.
“They actually do Israel harm by stoking Palestinian, Arab, Muslim and international animus towards Israel.“
This is a ridiculous statement. The harm they do to Israel by stoking animus is a tiny drop in the ocean compared to the harm every single Israeli government has done with its death-and-destruction-dealing bombs, guns, tanks, bulldozers, occupation, and oppression and theft of land and resources, not to mention its practice of “targeted murders”, often of Palestinians’ more moderate leaders.