BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Bill Moyers on Mideast Violence | PBS

[DogPoundPup]

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On his PBS Journal Show last night, Bill Moyers delivered a poignant essay on Israel/Gaza (video below). The whole segment is worth watching -- it begins with coverage of a mostly ignored anti-war march this week in Washington (while media hordes, down the street, fixated on the Roland Burris circus) -- but Moyers' essay begins at roughly the 2:20 mark.

The most striking aspect is that sober, fact-based, even-handed commentary like this about Israel automatically subjects one to widespread, profoundly ugly accusations of being "anti-Israel" and even "anti-Semitic," to the point where not a single U.S. Senator and no House member other than a handful dare utter anything other than unquestioning support for Israeli actions, such that most members of the U.S. Congress are, literally, far more willing to question and oppose American military actions than Israel's military actions (the establishment discussion rules are virtually identical to those that prevailed in the pre-Iraq-war days, though even more rigidly enforced: one can question the efficacy of the Israeli attack from the perspective of Israeli interests, but may not question its morality, legality or justifiability):

Read more: http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/01/10/moyers/

[Brucie Kibbutz]

1. excellent post K&R

[L0oniX]

2. Hmmm I was just saying the same thing the other day here. Everyone is afraid ...

to say anything negative about Israel for fear of being labeled an anti semite. I am sure that is the reason that some threads here are moved off to I/P and eventually locked as well. You know the reason the media does not put out any video of the dead is because they fear AIPAC and being labeled anti semite.

[bushmeister0]

5. Hmmm . . . I seem to recall Tim Russert, to his credit, confronting Henry Kissinger

about the charges, point by point, Christopher Hitchens made in his book "The Trail of Henry Kissinger."

Kissinger stopped Russert dead by simply answering:

"That man is an anti-Semite."

End of discussion. On to next subject.

The last refuge of a scoundral!

And yes, come to mention it, a recent thread of mine was relegated to P/I and immediately locked. (And, apparently, also totally scrubbed, cuz I can't find it, again. It's gone)

The thread involved me making fun of an article in Haaretz about one Rabbi Samuel Klibanoff of NYC raising $100.000 dollars in two days to aid those poor, beleaguered IDF troops who are struggling so mightily to liberate the Palestinian people from this mortal coil. (Did you know they have to dry their underwear on their tanks? I mean, oh the humanity!)

Can't have that sort of anti-Isreal speech at democratic underground. Perish the thought!(Literally!)

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1053564.html

Read it quick, before they delete this, too!

[PerpetuallyDazed]

6. It's very analogous to us as American citizens criticizing our Gov't...

It doesn't mean we're "anti-America." Furthermore, most of our congress members identify as "Christian." So if I think most of them are scum, does that mean I'm "anti-Christian"?? Those arguments really make no sense.

[bertman]

3. Thanks for posting this. I missed it last night.

Recommend.

[Duppers]

4. Bill Moyers deserves a medal!

nt

[Douglas Carpenter]

7. kick and recommended

[babylonsister]

8. Kick cause I can and this is worthy. nt