Who's working hard to make you think OWS are anti-Semites? Check out their new commercial:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIlRQCPJcew&feature=player_embedded">

To view at YouTube, just click on the picture or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIlRQCPJcew&feature=player_embedded">here

I...can't...read...the...small...print...at...the...end. Who...could...it...possibly...beeee? :rofl:

I'll give you a hint: They're trying to kill two birds with one stone!

Apparently this is their second commercial. You can watch their first commercial (which has aired at least several times on MSNBC) and learn more about who's behind this organization http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/04/981980/-Bill-Kristols-Emergency-Committee-for-Israel-and-the-Lastest-Obama-TV-Smear-%28after-smearing-Sestak%29?showAll=yes&via=blog_2">here among other places.

PB

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1. Did these pigs help cost us NY09?

This is just the opening shot in what the Emergency Committee for Israel intends to be a series of ads to sway congressional races across the U.S.

Israel ended up being a huge issue for the repuke in the heavily Jewish district. Hmmm... :tinfoilhat:

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2. Right Wingers are right wingers, no matter in which faction they are the Right Wing. (NT)

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3. So... let me get this straight....

If I am actually a right-wing nutter with a hatred of all minorities and a contempt for non-Christians, all I have to do is make up some astroturf organizations with "Israel" in the name, and I'm automatically:

a) absolved of any taint of anti-Semitism;
b) given a free pass on calling anyone else an anti-Semite to advance my own bugnutty RW agenda; and
c) allowed to raise funds from anyone who supports anti-Semitism and/or Israel-related causes?

DANG, that's a GOOD three-fer!

Sign me up!

Lemme see, what will I call my organization....

Israel Crisis Organization

Advance Israel Campaign

People's Front of... oh, no, wait, that one's taken.

Amazing.

amusedly,
Bright

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4. Extreme right-wing pro-Israeli groups come out with some really obnoxious propaganda. Nasty people

who are real fanatics for The Cause generally don't care much about logic or proportion.

They're no more part of the reality-based community than the Jerry Falwell fundamentalist types. Same people, just a different religion.

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5. From the same people who brought you the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq?

The article at the link in the OP only mentions William Kristol and Gary Bauer as leaders of the Emergency Committee for Israel -- but it also notes that the group operates out of the offices of Orion Strategies, which were formerly used by the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq. And that wasn't simply a Neocon operation -- it was military-industrial complex all the way, lusting after a war to swell its coffers.

If this Emergency Committee for Israel is set up along the same lines, it would make sense that it might be doing its best to push us into war with Iran. But how would sliming OWS fit into that picture?

There's something here that doesn't quite add up. Perhaps I'm connecting dots that don't really exist and ECI is only there to get Republicans elected. But if there really is a MIC connection, that would be very strange and dangerous.


http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair01222005.html

With Lockheed, it’s sometimes difficult to discern whether it’s taking advantage of US foreign policy or shaping it. Take the Iraq war. Lockheed’s former vice-president, Bruce Jackson, headed an ad hoc group called the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq. This coven of corporate executives, think tank gurus and retired generals includes such war-mongering luminaries as Richard Perle, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Gen. Wayne Downing and former CIA director James Woolsey.


http://www.yuricareport.com/Corporations/Lockheed.html

In November of 2002, Stephen J. Hadley, deputy national security advisor, asked Bruce Jackson to meet with him in the White House. They met in Hadley's office on the ground floor of the West Wing, not far from the offices of Vice President Dick Cheney and then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. Hadley had an exterior office with windows, an overt indicator of his importance within the West Wing hierarchy.

This was months before Secretary of State Colin Powell would go to the United Nations to make the administration's case for the invasion of Iraq, touting the subsequently discredited evidence of weapons of mass destruction. But according to Jackson, Hadley told him that "they were going to war and were struggling with a rationale" to justify it. Jackson, recalling the meeting, reports that Hadley said they were "still working out" a cause, too, but asked that he, Jackson, "set up something like the Committee on NATO" to come up with a rationale.

Jackson had launched the U.S. Committee on NATO, a nongovernmental pressure group, in 1996 with Hadley on board. The objective of the committee, originally called the U.S. Committee to Expand NATO, was to push for membership in the NATO military alliance for former Soviet bloc countries including Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic.

What Bruce Jackson came up with for Hadley this time, in 2002, was the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq. The mission statement of the committee says it was "formed to promote regional peace, political freedom and international security by replacing the Saddam Hussein regime with a democratic government that respects the rights of the Iraqi people and ceases to threaten the community of nations." The pressure group began pushing for regime change -- that is, military action to remove Hussein -- in the usual Washington ways, lobbying members of congress, working the media and throwing money around. The committee's pitch, or rationale as Hadley would call it, was that Saddam was a monster -- routinely violating human rights -- and a general menace in the Middle East.

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6. Here's part of that MIC connection: The exact same address is used for:

http://www.foreignpolicyi.org/">The Foreign Policy Initiative

Check out their http://www.foreignpolicyi.org/about/staff">Board and Staff. You'll see some familiarly-stinky names there, as well. I mean, check out http://www.foreignpolicyi.org/node/69">Jamie Fly, alone!

PB

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8. Eric Edelman, Robert Kagan, William Kristol, and Dan Senor

That's certainly a fun list. Half PNAC and half Bush administration.

But the Emergency Committee for Israel has a somewhat different slant -- part Neocon and part Christian conservative, without the obvious military or Bush administration connections. So the impression it gives is of being simply a private organization that's worried Obama might actually do something like trying to make peace.

It's just that with these guys, you can never tell for sure, and I'd really like to know who else is behind them and where their funding is coming from.

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/abrams_rachel

Rachel Abrams, a U.S. writer and blogger associated with the militarist “pro-Israel” group the Emergency Committee for Israel, is a member of a well-established neoconservative family. Her spouse, Elliott Abrams, is a veteran of both the Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush administrations who was convicted (and later pardoned) for his role in the Iran-Contra scandal; her mother, Midge Decter, is on the board of the Center for Security Policy and was a founding member of the Project for a New American Century and the Reagan-era Committee for the Free World, which she codirected with Donald Rumsfeld; her step-father, Norman Podhoretz, is a former editor of the neoconservative flagship magazine Commentary and a widely recognized trailblazer of the neoconservative “tendency.” . . .

Abrams serves on the board of the Emergency Committee for Israel, a neoconservative advocacy group established in mid-2010 in part to counter the Mideast policies of President Barack Obama. Other board members include William Kristol, editor and founder of the Weekly Standard and cofounder of the Foreign Policy Initiative; and Gary Bauer, a well-know Christian Zionist who leads the lobby groups American Values and Keep Israel Safe and serves on the executive board of John Hagee’s Christians United for Israel. Although his name did not appear on the group’s website as of July 2010, Noah Pollak, a contributor to Commentary and former assistant editor at the Jerusalem-based Shalem Center, has been widely reported to be the group’s executive director.]

Abrams’s writings, which also appear on her blog, reveal a fervor for Israeli right-wing politics closely in line with the country’s Likud Party. For instance, observers have noted her tendency to always place the term Palestinians in quotes, as if to question whether the Palestinians exist as a people and thus call into question their claim to Palestinian lands. Additionally, as Daniel Luban of the Inter Press Service has noted, Abrams “constantly adopts the argot of the Israeli settler movement by referring to the West Bank as ‘Judea and Samaria.’

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9. ThinkProgress has the goods on ECI

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/06/02/234474/hedge-fund-managers-eci-obama/

Jun 2, 2011

But seeing that ECI is getting some attention today, it’s worth digging a bit deeper into the group’s origins and looking at benefactors to the group’s PAC. An examination of ECI’s Political Action Committee’s disclosures show that a former Obama supporter has donated to ECIPAC, but the Israel-Palestine issue doesn’t appear to have had anything to do with his shift from fundraising for Obama to supporting a group which runs misleading YouTube ads portraying the President as anti-Israel.

Two-thirds of ECIPAC’s contributions in the past election cycle came from Daniel S. Loeb, CEO of Third Point Management, a New York based hedge fund. Loeb’s $100,000 in support for ECI follow his track record of falling out of love with Obama after the White House pushed for financial regulatory reforms.

On April 26, the Wall Street Journal reported on Loeb’s change of heart and quoted from an email Loeb wrote and circulated in late 2010.

“I am sure, if we are really nice and stay quiet, everything will be alright and the president will become more centrist and that all his tough talk is just words,” Mr. Loeb wrote in an email about four months ago expressing frustration with the president’s posture toward Wall Street. “I mean, he really loves us and when he beats us, he doesn’t mean it.” The email, sent to eight friends, was widely circulated on Wall Street.

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7. It's inevitable.

It will be hard to attack bankers without exciting those who think a cabal of Jewish mercenaries run the banking system.

OWS has a rather fresh hatred for the system compared to the long list of conspiracy theorists ready to support an overthrow of what they consider monstrous evil, i.e Jewish Bankers.

Necessarily, they will need a strong reproach.