HYPOCRISY AND RACISM .......

Few days back the Times of Israel published an article criticizing Mr. Trump's latest little tirade against four junior members of Congress. I'm copying verbatim some extracts.

U.S. President D. Trump on Friday falsely claimed a group of four Democratic Congresswomen he has repeatedly attacked this week had referred to Jews as "Evil" Speaking to reporters outside the White-House, the President said of the four women, they can't call our country and our people garbage, they can't be anti-Semitic, they can't talk about evil Jews, which is what they say"Evil Jews"

Non of the women has ever been documented referring to "Evil Jews" continues the article, The President may have been referring to Rep Ilhan Omar tweeting in 2012 during a conflict in the Gaza strip; "Israel has hypnotized the world, may God awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel." Trump was also misrepresenting the use of the word garbage, which Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did not use to denigrate her country or its people, rather she asked in March about her so called radical socialist agenda, she said ;"We've strayed so far away from what has really made us powerful and just, and good and equitable and productive, and so I think all of these things sound radical compared to where we are. But where we are is no good thing, this idea of 10% better from garbage shouldn't be what we settle for.

As noted by several media outlets, Trump has himself in the past referred to"garbage in our society" and accused his predecessor of turning things to garbage.Trump has in recent days repeatedly accused Omar, Ocasio-Cortez, R.Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley of being anti-Semitic and hating Israel, and called on the women of color to go back to their home countries, though all are citizens and three were born in the U.S.

When I hear the way they talk about our country, when I hear the anti-Semitic language they use, when I hear the hatred they have for Israel, I tell you I don't believe this is good...... Omar was accused of anti-Semitism in February after she said that American support for Israel was driven by money from the powerful pro Israel lobbying group AIPAC. Later in May, Tlaib sparked a similar fire storm after she claimed her Palestinian ancestors had to suffer for the Jews to have a safe haven in the wake of the Holocaust, end of quote from the Times of Israel.

Now I have an honest question, while I fully endorse the article and fully approve the legitimate criticism, but I repeat why is it OK. and forgivable for an Israeli news paper to criticize openly the U.S. president, his words and tweets, and policies,accuse him of lying, while here in America, States like Texas criminalize and punish citizens for peacefully criticizing the heinous acts of the Israeli State and regime. Senators like Graham and others, even our President himself forbid anyone from any mention or word of criticism toward Israel or its leadership,brutality, inhumanity, theft, apartheid don't belong to Israel, no matter what.

Would anyone please, tell me why here in the U.S.  it is a crime worthy of harsh punishment to mention Israel in any critical form, or Mr. Netanyahu, while their media can say whatever their conscience dictates, rightly or wrongly. Again the article in its entirety is fully justified and correct, although I don't think Mr. Trump approves of its content or wordings. He even tweeted later, " "Amazing how the fake news media became crazed over the chant"send her back" by a packed arena in North Carolina, but is totally calm and accepting of the most vile and disgusting statements made by our four radical left, anti-Semitic Congresswomen.
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ONE MORE DEADLY ADVENTURE COMING TO A SCREEN NEAR YOU .....

The entire country nowadays is in dire need of leadership, sane leadership that is. Our current oligarchy,advisers, president and his family, plus of course all lobbyists and influencers, internally and externally, they all play and experiment with our foreign affairs, interests, and military global presence, And internally at our borders, with our education systems, social welfare, and medical entitlements, our taxes are a ripoff, slowly and surely replaced by Americans paying for futile tariffs on their everyday items. And a total mockery of all our judicial establishment.

One major example of our foreign policies blunders would be the blatant repeat of past adventures throughout the world. And mostly across the Middle-East, where it seems we didn't learn anything by our repeated mistakes and consequent failures, where only the exorbitant cost in many trillions of Dollars is practically bankrupting the nation, while killing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians plus many thousands of our uniformed boys and girls.

My case here is about the Iran war, being strongly advocated, planned and orchestrated by a whole bunch; John Bolton, Mike Pompeo, Jared Kushner, our ambassador to Israel, Netanyahu, AIPAC, and Mohammad Bin Salman. Plus a complete plethora in the Trump administration, they are all rapidly escalating the conflict with Iran, after imposing devastating sanctions and years of oppression exactly like we did in Iraq killing more than a 100k of their children and repeating it all now in Yemen.

Until recently, Iran held up their end of the nuclear agreement, even after and despite Trump's unprovoked decision to renege. And Mr. Trump's continued antagonism has left practically all our traditional allies deeply skeptical of American policy and tactics and objectives.

Military direct action against Iran would inevitably kill very large numbers of civilians, be phenomenally expensive, kill too many of our uniformed men and women, and probably drag for years to come. Bring international condemnation as well as a world-wide total financial collapse, and foster even more hatred toward the United States. Even the Trump hotels and properties will suffer.

 Most experts, civilians and military, believe a war with Iran and its sympathizers would be more devastating and drag longer than the Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined. This is obviously not a war to start now, especially not for the sake of Israel's Netanyahu, nor Saudia's Bin Salman, even not for Mr. trump's reelection bid. It's simply not in our American interest .
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A MEMO TO Mr. PENCE ............

No Mr. Pence, we don't have the safest and cleanest air and water in the world, as you lately declared, as a matter of fact we don't have the best and most affordable health care in the world, and Mr. Pence we surely don't have the best educational system in the world either, Nor the affordability for it by the majority of our higher level students to go through it and graduate in dignity without a life time debt. 

Mr. Pence , in a few and short words, we literally have non of the best in anything anymore, that used to be in the far past, in your youth, in different times, today the majority of the advanced and industrialized world has or are achieving better records than ourselves, at literally all levels. 

Mr. Pence, what we have instead and a lot of , is hypocrisy, few very rich and a lot of poor, a tremendous military expenditure and a war machine that is eating all our hard earned tax Dollars and savings, but making your boss the president proud while forgiving his dodging and eloping his military services. 

While you and your patron, keep cutting taxes to all rich and very rich individuals and corporate and Wall-Street figures, plus any special interests across the country who knocks on your doors. While continuing your predecessors very costly adventures in more than several spots of the world, While proudly creating new ones . 

Our present cost estimates of our adventures, the continuation of them, and the creating of new permanent wars somewhere, anywhere, is in the tens of trillions of Dollars, too many trillions indeed, in my earlier times, the numbers expressing one trillion was a bit incomprehensible, so are most developing countries of the world, we are proudly trying to buy Palestinian sovereignty, liberty dignity and existence for 50 billions !!!!  go figure.   

Now we look at it all, coldly, and admit simply that we're leaving our kids ten, twenty , or more trillions of Dollars in debts, even Lebanon didn't achieve such a high degree of hypocrisy, they are leaving their kids only a 100 billions of debt. 

Keep going Mr. Pence with your Lord Patron, and all his brilliant advisers, keep creating adventure after adventure , after all it's our motto in life as Americans, keep alienating our allies and trade partners, our neighbors, and far away partners, it surely might bring you two back to power , unless the patron decides to topple you, or simply drop and trade you for a greater adventure warrior or a full fledged credited neocon, just after Bolton anyway,  All for his pleasure and his destructive visions to the country, its people and the entire world, something of a Nero and his beloved Rome, but let's remember ; Nero died and Rome survived.  

I believe you call it Apocalypse, while addressing your beloved congregation, one would think and correctly so, that your Christian morals and beliefs and often your parroted values, would at least, some of the times, put you as a wake up call to many of the atrocities and vulgarities perpetuated by this administration of yours, but no one have seen any sign of compassion or love or understanding of the needy, of the weaker, the poorer, the oppressed or the losers, only arrogance. 

Finally , all I can say in all honesty is; good for you and him, good for your entire oligarchy and your families, especially his, but , as a matter of fact it's far from good for all of us, Americans and world wide citizens. 

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THE OTHER SIDE OF OUR IRANIAN ADVENTURE .......

The Middle-East is living these days some dangerous and serious possibilities of renewed total chaos, even after the last couple decades of civil and regional invasions and wars, regime change and various other events of brutality and hegemony. All states and peoples of the entire region suffered dearly as well as the U.S. Europe, maybe the exception was Israel, that helped orchestrate and had a hand in all events, and helped execute some of them .

Unfortunately now we are witnessing through part two, a revival to all types of fanaticism and a renewed form of radicalization, new divides leading to new conflicts and very bloody wars, by the direct involvement of the U.S. against Iran and it's allies in the region, all leading directly and rapidly to a renewed religious sectarianism and turning into a growing radicalization .

Whatever started couple decades ago in more than one spot of the M-E, as internal youthful and peaceful protests, emanating mostly from impoverished and unemployed youth, and poorly managed  economies, plus deteriorating social and environmental conditions and weak executive brutal governments, was quickly exploited by outside forces, and turned into very bloody religious and sectarian conflicts.

The Palestinian territories, Jordan and Yemen, Iraq Libya and Syria, Sudan and Egypt, and now the entire Persian Gulf area are all victims and now are reliving it all again, the world and all players will eventually pay the price of this chaotic scorched adventure, including Israel and the U.S .

Conflict begets more conflicts, leading always to loss of life and destruction, the new American  regimes clearly pushed by Israeli upcoming possible adventure against Iran and its proxies in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and some major chunks of the Shiaa population in all the States of the area, is reviving the Sunni/Shiaa fault line that divides several nations through the M-E, and the new conflict will increasingly take on a sectarian hue, further separating the two major Muslem sects and all main minorities like the Druze, Alawites and growing portions of the Christian communities, empowering all salafists militants and Al Qaida inspired jihadists.

It's all clearly turning into a proxy war for Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Iran, plus the fully played by all of the above, and against its own interests the U.S of A. and its own neocons and the war machine, adding to it all our own dreams of reelection of our actual administration as well as the Israeli one. The Saudis have their own agendas of a total supremacy of their blind Wahhabi Sunni doctrines, versus the Shiaa and Israeli fiction dreams championed by Iran and Zionist Israel , and some of our everlasting dictators and ascending paramilitary groups and parties.

All these factors and factions are being replayed and revived for the sole benefit of the very few, and to further destroy any serious prospect of peace and a fair revival of the entire area. The risks of igniting a new hugely destructive world conflict for the benefit of few psychopaths selfish individuals who have absolutely no right to drag the entire world into such possibilities.
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TRUMP'S MAN IN JERUSALEM ......

Yes his bankruptcy lawyer and now his envoy to Jerusalem is harming the peace process, with the quick developments of the situation in the Middle East, and more so the Palestinian issue versus the Israeli aggression and deliberate theft of lands and wealth, the failure of PM Netanyahu to form a government and hide his corruption scandals, The American side is working quietly to help him and itself electorally by implementing their agenda of annexations and reallocation of the Palestinian populations.

The deal of the century as the American administration calls it, which is already refused by many concerned parties, including the Palestinians themselves, is considered dead before birth. Haaretz the leading English Israeli newspaper published an editorial commenting on an interview in the NY Times by Mr. Friedman, the Trump appointed American Ambassador to Israel, and known fund raiser for the Israeli settlers of the West bank.  The article goes like this ;

"The remarks by U.S. Ambassador David Friedman last week implying that the U.S. is giving Israel's government the go ahead to unilaterally annex parts of the West Bank, are tantamount to spitting in the face of Palestinians. And they augur ill for anyone who seeks a just solution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict based on the division of the land and the recognition of both people's right to self determination.

For two years Friedman has been helping draft the "Deal of the century" along with the son in law and senior adviser to president Trump Jared Kushner, and Trump's special representative for international negotiations, Jason Greenblatt. Friedman said in an interview with the NY Times; "Under certain circumstances, I think Israel has the right to retain some, but unlikely all, of the West Bank." He did not specify what those circumstances might be. He also declined to say how the U.S. would respond if PM Netanyahu moved to annex West Bank lands unilaterally , "we really don't have a view until we understand how much, on what terms, why does it make sense," Friedman said.

These statements, which are identified with the position of Israel's annexationists right, destroy Friedman's legitimacy as an honest broker and retroactively justify the Palestinian's apprehension about Trump's peace plan. After such remarks, it's hard to be surprised by the Palestinian suspicions, which are expressed in part by their stated intention to boycott the Bahrain preliminary conference, where the U.S. is expected to disclose the plans economic section.

In the interview Friedman even accused the Obama administration for allowing passage in 2016 of UN security counsel resolution 2334, which states that Israeli settlements violate international law, of giving credence to Palestinian arguments "That the entire West Bank and East Jerusalem belong to them." Certainly Israel's entitled to retain some portion of the West Bank Friedman said.

Friedman is wrong and deceptive, Israel has no such right in international law, because this is occupied territory that cannot be annexed, that was also the position of all U.S. administrations up to now. The retreat from this position is also the reason that five Democratic Senators introduced last week a resolution supporting a two state solution, and opposing the annexation of any part of the West Bank.

The Democrats know what Israel's peace camp knows ; Only a two state solution can guarantee the rights of both peoples. And the unilateral annexation of territories runs contrary to Israel's interests. If the U.S. is sincere about wanting to hold a peace conference with Palestinian participation and to act as an honest broker between the two parties, its representatives must be neutral. Friedman represents the interests of the settlers right, and he does not meet these conditions.

The above article is Haaretz' lead editorial, as published in Hebrew and English newspapers in Israel, I wish some of our Western and American media would be as candid and truthful about the whole issue.                               
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DEITIES AND MONSTERS .......

The question of having moral beliefs at all or not having them, is decided by our will, said W. James. If your heart does not want a world of moral reality, your head will assuredly never make you believe in one. Gods and religions are the first and major negaters and destroyers of free will.

The worst part though, is when humans try to bluff themselves into partial or part time on demand morality, you can not be moral only to white skinned and immoral to other colors, you can not be moral and righteous and fair to Jews, Christians or only to Muslems or factions of them all, while exercising hatred and theft and apartheid and racial superiority toward other religions or races.

What is happening today in our world, in several places, like the American manipulation of politics, social and economical affairs, threats of wars and annihilation, or in Israel against whole segments of the population under their illegal occupation and control, or the ascendance of many fascist and ultra right political groups, all under a curtain of religious, ethnic and patriotic facade, while still claiming by all parties high morality and humanity is a total falsehood and a blatant arrogant lie.

Historically, for the last few thousands of years, all different peoples of the world worked hard at creating their own imaginary deities, they were always enough smart men who obliged and exercised high imagination to shape and institutionalize these Deities and their worldly universal demands, and the people went into the frenzy of pleasing them, men and women, young and old, started subjecting themselves to all sorts of meaningless restrictions, like voluntary fasting, tormenting themselves by celibacy, wasted their time and money on long pilgrimage journeys, created fantastic rituals, reiterated daily and weekly prayers and so forth, even went on invasions and barbaric wars, all in the hope pf pleasing their God, and getting his forgiveness at some future date, as well for a promised other future life in the clouds.

Many, new deep down that it was all for nothing, a hoax, and simply an act out of ignorance and naivety. Even today most intelligent people know the futility of it all, but persist behind a minority to play the game, no sane educated person in our times take the whole story seriously, we even mock fanatics and zealots of all religions for their outdated models, acts and interpretations and fatwas.

Still, in many or most parts of the world religious influence plays a big role in politics, and the daily life of many, manipulating it for all sorts of gains and political grabs and extortion. As a matter of fact, for the last few thousands of years, the Gods didn't fulfill nor achieve much in rewarding or satisfying the human race, nor to show any compassion toward our worldly miseries, wars, famines, natural disasters, or our own cruelty and brutality.

Our wars, adventures and acts of brutality, are qualifying and prove how far we really stand from our presumed Gods and Deities morality, and how far and detached they are from our lives and actual problems here on earth. Still we all continue to play our games of putting gods as the source of our morality, and the inspiration behind our acts.

Whether it's all for electoral purposes power grabs, annexation of other's lands, or even the simple theft of entire populations' wealth and well-being, always at the exorbitant prices of annihilating entire races and populations. 

So let's all collectively admit to our present situation, who we are and what we would like it to be, and how we envision our life together on earth, individually and collectively, let's keep Gods out of it, out of the games of pseudo morals and blind total faith in the abstract and imaginary, only to find excuses and justifications for our own acts, motives and immorality.
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GOVERNANCE BY ADVENTURISM .....

The Webster dictionary defines adventurism as "improvisation or experimentation as in politics, military or foreign affairs in the absence or in defiance of accepted plans, and disregard of accepted standards of behavior".  There's no denying it, the entire world today is living through a major reshuffle of the balance of power and the centres of influence.

The US and some of its presumed allies, militarily and economically practically dominated the geopolitical and economical scene of international politics for the past century. The show is changing as some new or at least reemerging powers are now in ascendance, while some like Europe is in decline as an international influence and their divisions while pursuing their economic independence from the US.

America is plunging into a deeper isolation and chaos following Washington's bizarre policies toward its allies and competitors, plus a very egotistical stand vis-a-vis its interests and economical goals and choices of allies and partners. It's all personal, and not in the interests of the nation or the world.

Take for instance the relatively new emancipation of the BRIES, Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, where all our reactions to them came in some regime change in Brazil, re empowering the army and the Evangelical right. The Shanghai cooperation organization, the Asian infrastructure bank, the Eurasian union, and all individual Asian power houses, like Japan, South Korea, Taiwan are all seeking more independence from the US. And more so from a present administration that is not offering any type of reassurance or long term alliance of any type.

Strategies to build new replacements to the classic Western/American control of shipping routes and naval domination that are becoming semi obsolete, by the fixed realities of building huge faster and cheaper land roads and adapting new ports in practically all strategic parts of the glob, further weakening the total domination of international trade by the US. The old Western/American military domination of most of the world under the strategy of insuring various countries security is eroding, as its demand of creating continual wars is not economical to the welfare of the West.

The US Dollar as an irreplaceable and unique currency for international trade, exchanges and reserves is being lost slowly and surely. And the banking messaging and control SWIFT system is itself being bypassed and maybe eventually replaced by most of the above mentioned countries. Even by some of our traditionally most trusted European partners, like Germany, France and Great Britain, when dealing with our fictional and delusional tariffs against the world and sanctions against Iran, Russia, China, Turkey, Pakistan, Venezuela and Cuba, plus an array of other small players. Even the Palestinian authority and the UN agencies serving the people got their share of revenge and punishment .

We always had the tendency of dominating the whole show, but the Trump administration pushed the game to new dangerous levels. So instead of the game being America facing the world, the scene is turning into "the world facing America" I don't think it's in our best interests economically, monetarily or militarily to play this game, under the pretense of our presumed total power and supremacy.

We have lost more wars lately in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, to name a few, that creating new ones in Iran, Venezuela and north Korea are definitely not safe for the country or the world. Unless it's a point to prove our arrogance and ignorance and start again reviving the old adage of the "ugly American".  While a large segment of the American population is evolving politically and socially and globally, some who are headed by pure demagogy and false pretenses, religion, fear and pseudo patriotism remain stubbornly steady.

We are still being played systematically by fascist leaderships, only capable of destruction and poor judgment for their egoistical survival. our only allies left, constitute of some rogue neo fascist crazy leaders, like Netanyahu and MBS. destroying their countries and everyone near them. Another good way to name adventurism is; "It is a willingness to experiment and behave irresponsibly especially to obtain unfair advantages in politics or business, actions or attitudes regarded as reckless or potentially dangerous.
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