So this is now three jobs in a row that I’ve really liked. Unfortunately, all three jobs have been temporary jobs. This one has the biggest chance to turn into a permanent job. If only a letter-writing campaign would work; I’d solicit letters from the blogosphere on why Large Company needs to hire me.

The more I work at Large Company, the more I like it. I work in a really, really good department. People are so nice. It’s not that they weren’t nice in the last two jobs—they were—but this place tops the Nice People To Work With list. And my job has a variety of duties, so there seems to be no chance at all to get bored. Except when there’s no work, but, well, that’s everywhere. I’ve never been one of those people who can be happy doing nothing at work all day. If I can’t work, I’d rather be home. I see no point in being at work, otherwise.

Argh. I can’t really give too many details, what with all the asshats out there who lie in wait, hoping to be able to get one of their most hated bloggers fired by calling their place of employment and lying about said blogger. So I can’t really tell you much about the training exercise I took part in last week, save to say that the team I interacted with had a very clever man on their side, but I gave as good as I got, and we laughed about it over dinner that night (which was on Large Company, and quite good—even the cafeteria has good food). But today, I used Microsoft’s Sharepoint to put up a web site for a team event next month, and it was just like putting up a weblog. Without the opinions, of course.

I was telling my mother about the job, and the various things I’ve been doing, and I kept saying, “But I knew how to do that because at X job I did Y,” and she said, “Is there anything you haven’t done at a job?”

Well, I haven’t had to dig ditches. Or mow lawns. But probably not much else that I haven’t covered. Weirdest job ever: Dog-bather at a grooming shop. Shortest job ever: Selling radio ads for KUPY, the Voice of the Valley (Puyallup, Washington). Worst job ever: The Job From Hell, which you can read about somewhere in my archives (you find the link; I’m tired). Best job ever: Being part of the Art Department at Lucent, learning how to build and design websites.

Until now, that is. I think this one’s going to become Best Job Ever. Let’s hope they convert me to permanent employee. I really like it here.

Professor James Petras published an article in the Arab News under intriguing title The Lobby and the Israeli Invasion of Lebanon: Their Facts and Ours. The article is a longish one and deals with Lebanon war and its “cover up” by the Jewish Lobby - that multi-headed and multi-tentacled monster that the learned profess seems to have made his chief object of hate (but more about this later).

I shall not dive into the analysis of Petras’ war against the Jewish lobby, there are much better people who addressed this issue exhaustively. Suffice to say that not one proponent of the ZOG theory ever answered any single one of a few simple questions, for instance:

• Is the Jewish lobby any different than oil lobby, Evangelist lobby, Cuban lobby etc.?
• Is Jewish lobby involved in unlawful activities?
• Why is it OK for Armenians (to take one example) outside of Armenia to support and worry about their motherland, but when Jews do the same it is anathema?
• And many other inconvenient questions (that never stopped valiant fighters against ZOG in their stride).

Instead I would like to focus on some “facts” on Lebanon war that the professor is using so freely for support of his theories. To start with… the opening sentence of the article:

All the national, state and local Jewish organizations in the US have launched a $300 million fund-raising and propaganda campaign in support of the 21 Jewish civilians and 116 soldiers killed during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon (but not the 18 Israeli Arabs who were excluded from Jews-only bomb shelters).

A bit of sleight of hand here, eh, professor? Of course, the drive is not to raise funds “to support” the 21 Jewish civilians and 116 soldiers - they are hardly in a position to benefit from this support (this may have escaped the professor’s attention in his righteous ire). The moneys, if and when collected, are to rebuild and to recover a small part of the damage caused by the rain of Katyushas everywhere in the north of the country. For some reason professor sees this fundraising as a sinful and shameful act. Interesting, the similar activity by Arab countries (who could rebuild several Lebanons using a fracture of the petrodollars) does not register on his radar. Nor do the Iranian dollars distributed by Hezbollah, the cause of the whole destruction in the first place.

I had a desire to quit at the libelous “(but not the 18 Israeli Arabs who were excluded from Jews-only bomb shelters) “, because one simply does not argue with a person for whom undisguised libel is a tool of trade. The image of these poor Israeli-Arab citizens knocking in vain at the thick steel doors of the Jewish-only shelters should be quite enough to recognize the professor for what he is. Just a quotation from here:

Over the next four weeks, the UJC gave the agency $15 million for camps that hosted some 40,000 children from northern Israel.
…
The children were dispersed among various organizations: The Working and Studying Youth Movement took 15,000 kids; the Scouts hosted several thousand; Rabbi Yitzhak Grossman of Migdal Ha’emek took more than 5,000 kids, some with their parents; and so on. About a quarter of the children were from Arab communities.

This quote alone should suffice, but professor should figure out an answer to the following: in a generally unprepared for war country, how does one foresee that Hezbollah would not mind rocketing the Arab villages - the mere fact that this has never happened before surely does not leave a trace of thought in professor’s brain…

To the next “bomb”:

On the contrary, the entire Jewish lobby echoed in precise detail the Israeli lies that the Lebanese deaths were caused by the Lebanese resistance’s “use of human shields,” despite the total devastation of the heavily populated southern suburbs of Beirut, completely out of range of any Hezbollah rockets.

These “heavily populated southern suburbs of Beirut” - do they happen to be the neighborhood where Hezbollah set up the command centers and bunkers? Does not the territory in question measure less than 5% of Beirut’s footprint? Weren’t the dwellers of this area warned to leave before the bombing? And what does the “out of range of any Hezbollah rockets” have to do with the price of chicken on the market? Sounds completely raving in the context.

Surely the documented facts like this and this and this and this and this are all carefully invented Zionist lies? Surely even Jon Egeland, the UN official hardly sympathetic to Israel, is a Zionist stooge when he “criticized Hezbollah on Monday for what he called ‘cowardly blending’” among Lebanese civilians and causing the deaths of hundreds“. Surely Hezbollah “resistance” using the above mentioned UN buildings as shields does not ring a bell? And it goes without saying that the Lebanese Christians, complaining about being used in the same vein, are Mossad stooges…

It does not take a lot of time to gather tons of incriminated facts about the callous and cynical use of human shields and human suffering by Hezbollah (and we do not even mention the falsifications of their propaganda war). But enough with that, let’s continue with the professor’s educational scientific rant. The logic of the following paragraph left me breathless:

The proportion of civilian deaths to soldiers was 41 to 116 or 26 percent of the total Israeli dead (but if we only consider Jewish Israelis and IDF members the proportion 23 to 116 or 16 percent of the Jewish dead were civilian.) Clearly the Lebanese resistance was aiming most of its fire at the invading IDF.

I understand that the professor chosen field of science is sociology (stupidity is not a science yet, but this should be reconsidered seeing how our professor lifts it to the new heights). Anyway, military expert he is not. Neither am I, but I could see some difference between Katyushas falling on Israeli cities and villages where most of the population is in shelters and the bullets, grenades and anti-tank missiles directed at the army going ahead inside Lebanon. Was IDF invading Heifa or Tsfat? If the number of dead Israeli civilians seems regretfully small to professor, this is not for the lack of trying, rather due to notoriously imprecise Katyushas.

In contrast, in Lebanon, of the 1,181 so far known to have been killed, 1088 were civilians and only 93 were fighters. In other words 92 percent of the Lebanese dead were civilians - over three times the rate of civilians killed by the Lebanese resistance and almost six times the rate of Jewish civilians killed (the only ones who count in the lobby’s propaganda machine).

I don’t know where professor obtained the numbers for the civilians and “resistance” fighters killed (there is no reference to any source). It is a murky business in every case IDF is involved. Uncounted times the “statisticians” were caught labeling every terrorist killed by IDF as civilian, and it is virtually impossible to audit the numbers. But the part with “only 93 were fighters” is simply laughable. The conservative IDF count was above 450, and there are some (Lebanese) sources that insist that the real number of Hezbollah dead is above 1,000. No matter what the precise numbers are, the whole grisly arithmetic of the article stinks.

I don’t think there is any sense in continuing with the article. Maybe to mention briefly the debunked “use of phosphorous anti-personnel bombs” libel, on par with Arafat’s “use of depleted uranium against Palestinians” and Suha’s “poisonous gases use in Gaza” and Hamas’ “bird flu” scam…

Let’s take a close look at the learned professor himself. Wiki, being a tool of the Mossad and ZOG, founded and funded by ardent Zionists, does not mince words:

Some of his more controversial essays have argued:

• On September 11 The idea that radical Islamists carried out the attacks of September 11 is a “conspiracy theory”; it is more likely that the attacks were the work of a secular group.
• On Danish Cartoons The Mossad, with the help of the Ukrainian Jew Rose, helped plot the Danish cartoon conflict pitting the West against Islamic peoples.
• On Jews Loss of manufacturing jobs for workers in New York City was no doubt facilitated by “the ethnic-class differences between the six-figure salaried Jewish labor bosses and the low-paid Asian and Latino workers”. The myth of war for oil “is circulated by almost all the major progressive Jewish intellectuals and parroted by their Gentile followers, who are in word and deed prohibited from mentioning the AIPAC word in any public meetings or manifestos. The power of the minority of politically active Jewish financiers in the pro-Israel lobby is spreading far beyond the area of US foreign policy…
• On Zionist Organizations “Yesterday the major Zionist organizations told us who we may or may not criticize in the Middle East, today they tell us who we may criticize in the United States, tomorrow they will tell us to bend our heads and submit to their lies and deceptions in order to engage in new wars of conquest at the service of a morally repugnant colonial regime.”

If the above does not draw the full picture for you, you might be in need of glasses. And the learned professor - in dire need of psychiatrist.

Oh, and have we already mentioned his latest work? Surely it does not come to you as a surprise by now that it is titled The Power of Israel in the United States?

Cross-posted on SimplyJews

Jews Under Fire: Jews in the Armed Forces celebrate the High Holy Days.

Pakistan bugs out, Taliban moves in: Our “allies” in Pakistan, the ones who are helping us win the War on Terror? They just gave Al Qaeda everything it wants in Waziristan, and released a bunch of prisoners to top it off. Five years after 9/11, Pakistan is still our enemy, and W. still refuses to acknowledge it.

And oh yeah—they’re back in Afghanistan, too.

Check out the sexist first line: Ladies, trust me when I tell you that you’re gonna get really, really pissed if you read this story. I think there are still hairs stuck to the ceiling above where the top of my head blew off.

Okay, that’s it. I’m tired. Check the list of blogs on the right and left sides of the page.

Dennis MacShane, one of the authors of the report on British anti-Semitism, has an article in the Guardian’s Comment is Free section.

Already the emails are pouring into my parliamentary inbox denouncing Israel in terms that will be familiar to all readers of Cif and Guardian comment pages. (By the way, why was the Guardian’s coverage of our report quite as titchy as it was? The other broadsheets gave it full whack but it was a surprise to me that the Guardian reduced an important report based on a year’s parliamentary work to a tiny news story.)

But please, will those already gearing up to attack the report, read it? It is not about Israel and the Middle East. It is not about the behaviour of Israel in Lebanon. It is not about 1948, or 1967, or 1973. Nor is it about Hamas, Hizbollah, the intifadas.

What we did is what Parliament exists to do. We examined a problem. We heard witnesses. We read submissions. One MP, the West Midlands Labour MP, Bruce George told one witness : “You are describing a Britain that my constituents do not know exists.”

Precisely. There is a tiny slice of Britain - less than a quarter of a per cent of the population - who feel the quality of their lives, their right to their religion, their sense of history, the causes they support is being denied to them because they were born Jews, not Catholics, or Anglicans, or Muslims or Hindus.

I understand all the anger that people may feel about what happens overseas. Many hate America. But we do not throw bricks through schools for Americans in London or seek to desecrate the graves of Americans in Britain. My constituents of Kashmiri origin feel passionately about the behaviour of India in Kashmir. But this does not lead them to attack British Indians, or jostle a British Indian citizen who wears the marks of faith or community.

(Actually, the graves of American soldiers have been desecrated in Europe as a protest against American acts.) And by the way, Dennis is my new hero:

We make clear that criticism of Israel is to be expected. There is a double-standard at work, in that criticism of other regimes with terrible records of human rights abuses against Muslims (or whose planes have killed scores of children as Sri Lankan air force warplanes recently did in attacks on Tamil areas of the island) never get the same front-page coverage.

We are where we are with Israel. But we know of no mechanism that visits upon a community in Britain the responsibility for the actions that a sovereign state and UN member takes, however angry many are over Israel’s behaviour. Our universities should be as open to Jewish students to say what they want as they are to other faiths. Our newspapers should watch language and images so that there is not a crossing of a line into attacking Jewishness. In the 1930s, the language was of the Jewish “cabal.” Today, it is the Jewish “lobby” that is all-powerful. The demonisation of Jews was meant to have died in 1945. Alas it did not.

Instead we have to examine the acts against Jews and see them for what they are: racist attacks on individuals of a faith. We need to look at language and images especially those available on the internet, or via satellite and DVDs. Liberatarians will have no problem with copies of the hideously anti-semitic Protocols of the Elders of Zion being on sale in Arab shops in London’s Edgware Road.

Naturally, the comments to this Guardian post bring out the anti-Semites, who obviously don’t understand irony in the least. Here’s one of them fisking the piece:

“You are describing a Britain that my constituents do not know exists.”

That’s right, I only knew about the city of London and how it was given to a powerful banking familly / syndicate.

“Today, it is the Jewish “lobby” that is all-powerful.”

In the states, yes. But it is more of a corporatist banking lobby than just a Jewish lobby. But it is rather helpful to just generalise that and leave out the details, leave those for those dumb grauniad readers..

Good luck in implanting apartheid in Britain, hope the plan to hand over Britain to the “Jews” will be a success. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a 5 year old patient who has arrived with a peculiar gunshot wound. It seems the bullet has fractured upon impact leaving thousands of microscopic pieces in her body. And we have a patient in serious condition after being stopped for an hour at the checkpoint. On top of that we are very busy because the IDF also bombed a hospital.

And all this knowing that no matter what we shall be held in poverty by the banking and corporate international syndicate. I mean they want a private central bank for the whole of the EU now… what next…

I rarely read the comments any more, because, well, I get enough Jew-hatred in my daily look at the world media, thank you. But I read far enough to find this one:

You didn’t need a commission of enquiry to find anti-semetism in Britain. Just go through any Guardian comment thread regarding Lebanon or Palestinians and it’s fairly obvious.

Read the rest, and there is a link to the report.