To: tejek who wrote (797601 ) 7/27/2014 8:22:10 PM From: scamp Respond to Roberts' balanced views on radical ZionismIsraeli government in the 21st century. He cautions against confusing opinions about a right-wing Zionist government with support of world Jewry . In one of his columns, "What Became of Western Morality?" (January 2005), he noted that it is Israeli newspapers, not American ones, that protest Israeli government "atrocities" against Palestinians:goyim moralists who are silent, not the Jews. It is the Israeli newspaper Haaretz , not the goyim media, that provides reports of Israel’s abuse of Palestinians . Gideon Levy ’s “The Neighborhood Bully Strikes Again” was published in Haaretz on Dec. 29. Levy’s words—”Once again, Israel’s violent responses, even if there is justification for them, exceed all proportion and cross every red line of humaneness, morality, international law and wisdom”—are not words that can appear in American print or TV media. Such words, printed in Israeli newspapers, never reach the goyim." Counterpunch magazine, titled "Pirates of the Mediterranean", Roberts wrote that for 60 years, Israel has replicated "the 17th, 18th, and 19th century theft of American Indian lands by US settlers." Roberts repeated accusations that Gaza is "the world largest concentration camp," populated by people who were "driven out of Palestine so that Israel could steal their land." He called the U.S. State Department a "puppet" of the Israelis and the U.S. a puppet state " of the Israelis. He concluded that "there’s no money for California, or for Americans’ health care , or for the several million Americans who have lost their homes and are homeless, because Israel needs it." [11] This was another position that separated him from the right, who have generally supported Israel.Anti-Defamation League , a Jewish organization, has criticized Roberts as promoting anti-semitism for his increasing focus on "criticism of Israel and Jews," making his writings "popular with fringe publications on both the left and the right". [12] Roberts nominated Israeli peace activist Jeff Halper for the Nobel Peace Prize .American Jews oppose President Bush’s wars of aggression in the Middle East and his unconstitutional policies at home. We must not confuse Israel’s Zionist government with world Jewry, just as we must not confuse the American people with the war criminals in the Bush regime." [13]
