Liberal bloggers criticize liberal hero for embracing AIPAC, Israeli officials http://blogs.jta.org/ENTRY_PERMALINK_HERE/liberal-bloggers-criticize-liberal-hero-for-being-pro-israel/ Max Blumenthal and MJ Rosenberg say Rep. Alan Grayson is good on every issue but Israel --- because he’s scared of the pro-Israel lobby. en-us efingerhut@jta.org Copyright 2009 2009-12-02T;23:50:00-05:00 Comment by Michael Levin MichaelLevin11@mac.com For people-of-the-blog who are interested in reading and viewing more of the work of Max Blumenthal: In addition to its availability on Mondoweiss [ http://mondoweiss.net/2009/12/gutsy-progressive-congressman-alan-grayson-leads-a-double-life.html ], the text of Blumenthal’s article, Progressive Hero Alan Grayson’s Secret Life As An AIPAC Tool, is available on Blumenthal’s own website: http://maxblumenthal.com/2009/12/progressive-hero-alan-graysons-secret-life-as-an-aipac-tool/ . For those who haven’t seen Blumenthal’s classic video report, Rapture Ready: The Unauthorized Christians United for Israel Tour [2007], it can be found at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/rapture-ready-the-unauth_b_57826.html For people-of-the-blog who are interested in reading and viewing more of the work of Max Blumenthal:

In addition to its availability on Mondoweiss [ http://mondoweiss.net/2009/12/gutsy-progressive-congressman-alan-grayson-leads-a-double-life.html ], the text of Blumenthal’s article, Progressive Hero Alan Grayson’s Secret Life As An AIPAC Tool, is available on Blumenthal’s own website: http://maxblumenthal.com/2009/12/progressive-hero-alan-graysons-secret-life-as-an-aipac-tool/ .

For those who haven’t seen Blumenthal’s classic video report, Rapture Ready: The Unauthorized Christians United for Israel Tour [2007], it can be found at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/rapture-ready-the-unauth_b_57826.html

]]> 2012-05-23T;03:01:00-05:00 Comment by Bill Pearlman WPearlman@aol.com Blumenthal is a piece of shit who should get it over with. Convert to Islam, bend over, and take it up the ass. And I’d like to see Rosenberg writer one thing, just one thing, that is critical of the Arabs without the bullshit moral equivalence that Jews by accident of birth like him love to employ. But watch, he just can’t do it. Blumenthal is a piece of shit who should get it over with. Convert to Islam, bend over, and take it up the ass.

And I’d like to see Rosenberg writer one thing, just one thing, that is critical of the Arabs without the bullshit moral equivalence that Jews by accident of birth like him love to employ. But watch, he just can’t do it.

]]> 2012-05-23T;03:01:00-05:00 Comment by Michael J. Rosenberg mjx847@gmail.com I don’t know about Max but I do not consider supporting AIPAC’s positions to be pro-Israel.  AIPAC’s support for the status quo will lead either to an apartheid state or the “one state solution” (that state won’t be Israel).  And, no, I do not consider Grayson’s support for AIPAC motivated by anything other than expediency.  He opposes the Iraq war, the Afghanistan war and has carved out a leftisy positions on domestic issues.  But, suddenly, he’s a Netanyahu supporter without even a word of criticism for the Gaza horrors.  Come on.  He’ll criticize US policies and US Presidents with cheerful abandon but defers to the Israeli prime minister and the lobby that supports him.  I credit him with hypocrisy.  Any alternative explanation (i.e., he thinks its okay to criticize US policies but not Israel’s) is much worse.  If he really cared about Israel, rather than about pleasing AIPAC, he would support J Street and a diplomatic solution not AIPAC’s devotion to preserving a status quo that is killing Israel. I don’t know about Max but I do not consider supporting AIPAC’s positions to be pro-Israel.  AIPAC’s support for the status quo will lead either to an apartheid state or the “one state solution” (that state won’t be Israel).  And, no, I do not consider Grayson’s support for AIPAC motivated by anything other than expediency.  He opposes the Iraq war, the Afghanistan war and has carved out a leftisy positions on domestic issues.  But, suddenly, he’s a Netanyahu supporter without even a word of criticism for the Gaza horrors.  Come on.  He’ll criticize US policies and US Presidents with cheerful abandon but defers to the Israeli prime minister and the lobby that supports him.  I credit him with hypocrisy.  Any alternative explanation (i.e., he thinks its okay to criticize US policies but not Israel’s) is much worse.  If he really cared about Israel, rather than about pleasing AIPAC, he would support J Street and a diplomatic solution not AIPAC’s devotion to preserving a status quo that is killing Israel.

]]> 2012-05-23T;03:01:00-05:00 Comment by Boris Goykhman bgoykhman@hotmail.com The fact that Max Blumenthal is a total douche bag notwithstanding, shame on us Jews for not being able to unite around core issues such as support of Israel. The fact that Max Blumenthal is a total douche bag notwithstanding, shame on us Jews for not being able to unite around core issues such as support of Israel.

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