- A lot of aging leftists invite us to march in the streets.
Some say, "Mass action will defeat the empire." Will protesting
stop war? Everyone who has been paying attention probably already knows
that marching on Washington will not even disturb President Obama's breakfast.
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- In fact, by causing havoc on the streets we actually
distract the public's attention from the real crimes taking place like
AIPAC's lobbying of Congress to bomb this or that country or like Haliburton's
pocketing of our tax money. Americans and their politicians need to understand
that invading other countries hurts America. This approach is the only
way to get the anti-war movement into the mainstream and away from the
fringes of society.
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- The Israel Lobby has made sure the Zionist perspective
permeates American discourse from grammar school through the highest levels
of government. No child is too young for brainwashing.
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- An official diverging one iota gets
- his knees shot metaphorically. Holocaust Studies in the
public school curriculum can start as early as Pre-K. Anyone that wants
to discuss the role the Holocaust plays in US policy-making is an insane
Holocaust denier. The Israel Lobby makes no distinction between national,
transnational, and international politics.
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- Obama told AIPAC, "... the bond between the United
States and Israel is unbreakable today, tomorrow and
- forever." As long as Zionist subver-sives dictate
to Obama, patriotic Americans will not make much headway in attempting
a direct effort to change US policy. Activists need to change tactics by
focusing on the danger that
- the Israel Lobby represents to the American political
system and by attack-
- ing the discourse on which the Israel Lobby stands.
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- The pro-Israel lobby operates on every level of American
society. Holocaust propaganda serves to shield the most privileged group
in America from just criticism of many of its members and of its collective
conduct-especially in relation to the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian
people and the destruction of America's Constitutional liberties.
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- The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) was one of the main
proponents of the Patriot Act, which monitors the reading history of library
patrons. Zionist organisations are heavily involved with Homeland Security
and they use book banning and far worse methods to squelch criticism of
Israel. While there is no limit to the amount of hate speech against Muslims
or Christians that is tolerated now in the western world, the mere suggestion
that Muslims and Christians should have equal rights with Jews in the Holy
Land, or that the Hollywood version of the Holocaust is not entirely accurate,
have in recent times resulted in the deportation, imprisonment, and even
assassination of the speakers, writers, or publishers, and in the banning
of their books or films because of Zionist pressure on western governments
to abandon the principle of freedom of expression.
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- How about a turn-around in rhetoric? Instead of trying
to make Americans care about Arabs-too hard-we need to increase their awareness
that Jewish Lobby is undermining American democracy and costing taxpayers
money. Since activists can destroy a movement if they dwell upon who the
good guys are (there are various opinions), we should concentrate on what
we can all agree on: The Lobby needs to be stopped. That's the only way
to stop war and war taxes. The Israel Lobby is the enemy of all Americans.
I would suggest a public rhetoric campaign against all Israel lobbyists
suggesting prison. It should be social suicide to participate with Hillel
or other pro-Israel organizations training future lobbyists.
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- There are plenty of ways to address this issue in town
meetings, parent-teacher conferences, and other mundane ways. Causing a
huge stir at a Martin Luther King school assembly or sending a mass mailing
to all the high school students will create a lot more word-of-mouth grassroots
pressure than a protest in DC, which doesn't even get discussed. We are
at war because we allowed our country and our minds to be taken over by
Zionists and other opportunists. We refused to take responsibility for
our country or for our children's education.
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- Every town has a web of pro-Israel groups that work together
to undermine American democracy to promote their personal interests. Pro-peace
advocates need to identify the Zionist individuals who are pushing their
agenda in the local school system. As soon as you start engaging in anti-Israel
activism, all the Israel lobbyists will come crawling out of the woodwork
to try and discredit or stop you.
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- Once you know who these individuals are, then you will
be able to protest directly to the local leadership and law enforcement
specifically about those who are personally responsible for pushing Americans
to die for Israeli interests. You probably know where they live. If Americans
started talking to their neighbours we could probably stop this insanity.
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- Karin Friedemann is a Boston-based writer on Middle East
affairs and US politics. She is Director of the Division on Muslim Civil
Rights and Liberties for the National Association of Muslim American Women
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