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There is literally nothing in the article that endorses Trump. Jeff is a troll, please ignore. - Amith On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Jeff via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > On 2016-11-06 08:47, Ken Hiebert via Marxism wrote: > >> >> http://www.councilforthenationalinterest.org/new/?p=4221 >> > > It is sickening to see much of the American left playing out the > anti-Clinton theme as if they can't figure out that this is the way you > increase the vote for the (near-) fascist Trump. After all, no one has much > nice to say about either viable candidate, so the way you support the one > is by trashing the other so they will lose the "unpopularity contest" that > the US election has become. > > But it's not hard to imagine that an ex-CIA official (also the executive > director of the CNI) would lean in that direction. And from all that I had > learned about her, I wouldn't have expected Alison Weir to be voting for > any other than the fascist. But I wouldn't really have predicted that she'd > go so far as to do so blatantly on the webpage of her organization. > > To refresh your memory, Alison Weir is the president of the so-called > Council for the National Interest (CNI) and the founder of If Americans > Knew, both right-wing anti-Israel organizations trying to exploit the > success and prestige of the Palestine solidarity movement, as has been > previously discussed on this list. Although you wouldn't think that an > organization with a rather narrow focus (advising the American state > against support for Israel) would support a canidate in a general election > campaign, one can also see that by doing so she's hardly likely to cause > anyone to quit that outfit. I'm sure the rightist membership of that group > would already be voting 20:1 in favor of Trump. I didn't bother to look at > her other organization, If Americans Knew, where that group's non-profit > status would make such blatent electoral intervention problematic. > > Yes, I know that Amith wrote a very contrary post. He is very much in > denial, which is why he came out screaming that the presence of this > article on the CNI site was NOT an endorsement of Trump, even when no one > had even posed that question! And I guess he could hold up the disclaimer > at the bottom of the page. But I'm talking about what everyone can see if > they are not in denial. For Alison Weir to post a vehemently anti-Clinton > article (one not even directly addressing the issue of concern to the CNI, > namely Israel) just 18 days before the election, cannot be viewed as > anything other than motivation for the reader to vote for Trump. > > Also, as an aside, let me just be clear about one thing. For all the awful > things I have pointed out about Alison Weir and her organizations, I have > never said or believed that she or these groups need to be "smashed" or > "taken on." The growth of non-left organizations opposing Israel and > American aid to Israel is a sign of the success of our movement in support > of Palestine. The more successful we are in projecting the voices of > Palestine, the more will cracks emerge within the ruling class and > mainstream politics over the issue of American ties with and support to > Israel. I want to see two, three, many CNI's. The reason Alison Weir and > her right-wing groups became controversial within the solidarity movement > (and on this list, mainly through Amith) was the importance of > differentiating ourselves, and the Palestinians, from right-wing opposition > to Israel. We support the freedom struggle for Palestine regardless of what > "foreign policy" is deemed optimum for imperialism. And above all, we shall > not allow the rightist politics (and frequently accompanying anti-semitism) > of those anti-Israel forces to tar the image of the Palestinians and their > supporters, and in particular we take care to avoid providing fuel for the > "Anti-zionism is anti-semitism" mantra spewed by Israel. > > - Jeff > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/opt > ions/marxism/amithrgupta%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
