Neoconservatives were originally ex-leftists who rebelled against the left’s increasing fecklessness. They are not robotic rightists, they are pragmatists.

The Likud is the lineal descendent of Jabotinsky, the original rightist Zionist. Binyamin Netanyahu’s father was Jabotinsky’s secretary.

The Likud is a diverse political party, not a guerrilla terorist orgnization.

Amazing that we have to say these things, but the Meanstreak Media is determined to distort, even when they don’t need to. Why don’t they simply accept that different people have different views, and instead of smearing the opposition, educate their audience about their own program?

Ahh … no program …

Salon, in the very beginning, was an irreverent, counter-culture e-zine clearly written by a motley crew of sexually obsessed adolescents fuelled by copious amounts of espresso. You could almost see the spiked hair, tatoos and nose rings. It was actually fun to read.

Somewhere along the line they decided they had to be Responsible, Grown Up Journalists and promptly went off the rails. Probably had to do with their corporate sponsorship.

But we need to face some facts: in the US, Jews are considered White People of Privilege. To be socially and politcally acceptable to the Left, which consists almost exclusively of said White People of Privilege, you have to prove that you are a class, and especially a “race”, enemy. It is therefore impossible for a Jew to care about Am Israel because they are fellow Jews and be a member in good standing of the Left. People of Color can identify with their own people and they are prasied by the Left because they are “authentic”. But Jews can’t do that and get away with it because being Jewish is, for some reason, not on the list of acceptable or chic ethnicities (because we are, supposedly, no longer oppressed). For the Left, Israel is a cat’s paw of American hegemony rather than a Jewish state that is there because the Jews, as Jews, wanted it and needed it. It can’t be seen as something organically Jewish, it can only be seen as an agent of American imperialsim. Therefore, to prove his or her credentials, a Jew on the Left must dafka reject Israel and side with the Arabs. Otherwise he or she is a (shudder!) “Zionist”.

Interestingly enough, Kamiya and I were in the same class (Class of ’70) at Berkeley High. I’ve moved on, but he’s obviously still there.

And, yeah Suck absolutely ruled. It was a total bummer when they went away.

I miss Spy magazine, too.

Of course this article is written by Gary Kamaiya, so I’d expect nothing less. The misrepresentation of the AJC article they cite also suggests that both Kamaiya and Weiss either have reading comprehension problems and/or are dishonest. You can decide.

But I still miss Suck.