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Re: I No Longer Have Any Use For....
Posted by Marcello (Guest) georgiomalik@yahoo.com - Wednesday, January 26 2011, 5:22:17 (UTC)
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I do want to redact the comment I wrote about dual-citizenship, for I just watched a Finkelstein interview where he was asked what he thought about dual-citizenship and loyalty to Israel, to which he answered that these people (like Wolfowitz) will "throw their mothers in a crematorium than to give up power." He did mention that lobbies (not only the Jewish lobby), but lobbies in general - the gun lobby, the tabacco lobby - have strong influence, but like Chomsky, he thinks that America has a stake in the region and is not necessarliy interested in the well being of Israel. But, as I said, I was never in disagreement with the "Terror-Capitalism" scenario which Pancho presented, I was only elaborating that the power elite in Israel (perhaps not all Israeli people) is aware of the role it plays in this game. My main point was (which I made weeks ago) that Jews have more influence relative to other ethnic groups in America. What I'm bothered with is when these lobbies dictate what artists can or cannot say, as in the case of Pink Floyd's Roger Waters who used both the crucifix, the Star of David and the dollar sign dropping out of an airplane : morphing from bombs to these symbols. This to me is no different than the IRI throwing esteemed filmmaker, Jafar Panahi, in jail for six years and forced to not make any film for twenty years because he supposedly offended the Ismalic leadership in Iran; or, when in 1986, the Catholics tried furiously to strong-arm theaters to not show Martin Scorsese's "The Last Temtation of Christ". To me, this is bullshit and must be challenged each time we smell it around the corner!



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