Print this post.BY JUAN COLE | with select commentary loop
The media, of course, hardly covered this issue seriously, that’s NOT what they do, especially since many of Weiner’s real sins concern his pro-Zionist stance, widely embraced by the media and political class as simply support for Israel. —Eds.
Weiner
The real scandal surrounding Anthony Weiner is that he is bigoted against Palestinians and has misused his position in Congress to support punitive policies against them. Americans appear to be bored by policy, titillated by private peccadilloes. But it is the policies that are important. Mahatma Gandhi was once kicked out of a brothel in South Africa. No one judges him by his lapses. Weiner, in contrast to Gandhi, has not worked for peace but has rather given knee-jerk support to the worst policies of the most far rightwing parties in Israel toward Palestinians. A social liberal in American terms, Weiner is so blinded by his allegiance to Israel and so studied in his ignorance of the Middle East that he has played a uniformly sinister role in that aspect of foreign policy. If he were replaced by, say, an up an up-and-coming Dominican-American politician from Queens who had some sympathy with Arabs, that would be all to the good.
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Weiner’s real sins:
1. Called for Columbia University professor Joseph Massad to be fired for being critical of Israel; Weiner thus spearheaded a new McCarthyism.
2. On the Israeli attack, in international waters, on the Mavi Marmara relief ship, Weiner sputtered: “”If you want to instigate a conflict with the Israeli navy it isn’t hard to do. They were offered alternatives. Instead they chose to sail into the teeth of an internationally recognized blockade.” The blockade of Gaza civilians is a breach of international law; it is not internationally recognized and has on the contrary been condemned by almost every nation and human rights organization.
3. Alleged that the New York Times is anti-Israel: “Amnesty International in particular, has always had bias against Israel, and frankly I would argue that in many cases, the New York Times has, as well.”
4. Alleged that the Palestine Liberation Organization is still listed by the US as a terrorist organization. It was dropped from the list over 2 decades ago.
5. Tried to bar the Palestinian delegation to the United Nations from New York.
6. Alleged that Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestine Authority, is not the head of the PLO. He is.
7. Refused to condemn the use by Israel of cluster bombs on the civilian farms of south Lebanon in 2006.
8. Alleged that the Israeli army does not occupy the West Bank and that there is no Israeli Army presence in the West Bank.
9. Called Israel’s war on Gaza a “humane” war. 400 children were killed.
10. Voted for Iraq War authorization in 2002, before later turning against the war.
JUAN COLE is a well known liberal intellectual and activist. He was the target of a “an enemies list” dirty trciks operation under George W. Bush.
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1 comment
Peggy 06/10/2011 at 3:12 am
Thanks for stringing these together. He’s a loud mouth (& a liar) and many people overlook his allegiance to Israel.
MR 06/10/2011 at 6:46 am
The sanest commentary on Weinergate I have heard so far.
James Speaks 06/10/2011 at 7:40 am
From the Saw this coming down Broadway Department, “Let’s be frank. He tries to be the big hot dog but he’s just a little piece of artifical casing with meat by products.”
At least now we have had a chance to see what a fine job AIPAC has done stuffing Congress with their weiner-types who say on national TV, “Yes, I’m telling the truth today and I haven’t been for several days. Now I have to go back to work (making our nation’s laws).
Ann 06/10/2011 at 9:36 am
Thank you for these facts, Juan. I had no idea.
Laura 06/10/2011 at 10:23 am
Amen. And thank you so much.
Chu 06/10/2011 at 10:46 am
Thanks for making this list. I was waiting for someone to make the case against this zio-creep. Baird was so patient for sitting through this man’s mental tanrum’s. It was very childish the way he carried on. Half the crowd saw a an unleashed zealot of zionism, the other half saw a rational congressman who was more that fair dealing with Weiner’s tantrum.
What’s sad is Baird is gone and Weiner won’t leave the house.
Jessica 06/10/2011 at 11:03 am
Brilliant. Good work, good sir.
Shahid Shahid 06/10/2011 at 11:58 am
The only thing comes to mind is “men proposes, God disposes”.
It is a perfect example how one chops his own feet.
moe99 06/10/2011 at 12:03 pm
One wonders why his wife, a Muslim, married him.
Marion L. 06/10/2011 at 4:52 pm
She is wiser in every way than he.
Bill Bodden 06/10/2011 at 12:38 pm
There are a couple of problems with your comments on Weiner. The first is that not enough people will read them. The second is that many people claiming to be liberals should agree with the points you make but are instead touting Weiner as a liberal. He has consistently approved of the Israeli right-wing violations of international law and human rights, and he is a “liberal”? What would Orwell have to say about that? Apparently, a significant portion of representatives in Congress are seeking to get rid of Weiner yet they joined him 29 times in applauding Binyamin Netanyahu’s claptrap.
linda in chicago 06/10/2011 at 12:40 pm
Wow!!! I don’t get it–his wife is Arab, isn’t she?!
Sumbz 06/10/2011 at 4:36 pm
No actually she’s Pakistani. But yeah, I had no idea he had these type of extreme views on the Palestinians and Israel- Bc he comes off as this liberal super hero on the daily show. What a fail. And his wife is smoking.
CBBB 06/12/2011 at 12:31 am
When it comes to domestic policy Weiner is pretty liberal, but for some reason he’s just rabidly pro-Israel when it comes to foreign policy. I don’t really understand it – perhaps he has a lot of strong Israeli sympathizers in his district?