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From: Louis Proyect via Marxism
On 9/23/16 9:42 PM, Andrew Stewart via Marxism wrote:
http://washingtonbabylon.com/six-questions-for-jim-jatras-on-aleppo-boy-atrocity-porn-and-our-godawful-war-loving-media/
"Jim Jatras, a former US diplomat, foreign policy adviser to the Senate
GOP leadership, and lobbyist comments on financial and foreign policy
topics and on U.S. politics in his publication TheJIM!gram."
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Imagine Jatras being quoted favorably on a Marxist site. Why not David
Duke? More on Jatras:
'The Muslim Advance and American Collaboration' by James George Jatras,
in The Christian Activist, "A Journal of Orthodox Opinion,"
http://web.archive.org/web/19990508131324/http://www.tca1.org/vol13/Muslim.html:
"In short, Islam is a self-evident outgrowth not of the Old and New
Covenants but of the darkness of heathen Araby. Beside ludicrous
historical suggestions to the contrary (such as the idea that the Ka'bah
was built by Abraham, which would have been big news to him), Muslim
apologists have strained to find in the Bible evidence that a new
prophet would arise after Jesus, seeing Muhammad in obvious prophecies
of the Holy Spirit (that were fulfilled on Pentecost) or of the Second
Coming of Christ. One could find no better refutation of Islam's efforts
to appropriate Christian Scriptures (here, Matthew 24:27) than that of
the 14th-century Byzantine saint, Gregory Palamas, to his Turkish
captors:
"It is true that Muhammad started from the east and came to the west, as
the sun travels from east to west. Nevertheless he came with war,
knives, pillaging, forced enslavement, murders, and acts that are not
from the good God but instigated by the chief manslayer, the devil."
"St. Gregory's answer is no less devastating to Islam's fraudulent
self-depiction as a pacific creed. Islam was born in violence, from
Muhammad's sanction of raids of pillage and plunder (starting with
attacks against his own Quraysh tribe, which initially rejected his
revelation) to his savage execution of hundreds of men of the Qurayzah
clan (which professed Judaism) and the enslavement and forced
concubinage of their women and children. ...."
More:
http://listserv.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0307&L=JUSTWATCH-L&P=R78600&D=1&H=0&O=D&T=0
James George Jatras, apparently an Orthodox extremist, once called
Michael Dukakis a "pagan" for not following the Orthodox church on
abortion and attacked him for marrying a non-Christian, although he
insisted he was not being anti-Semitic. (His open letter is on file at
Northeastern University.) This former GOP Senate aide is also the author
of an anti-Muslim screed in Chronicles magazine and The Christian
Activist that calls Islam a "gigantic Christian-killing machine" and
says the religion grew from "the darkness of heathen Araby."
Moreover, while Louis and I have disagreed about Kosovo in the past, no
doubt his perspective was different to that expressed by Jatras and his
similarly Orthodox-fascist colleague Trifkovic (also Republican foreign
policy elite guy):
"Strong American support for the independence of Kosovo is detrimental
to Israeli interests. The US position is based on the view that a
solution to long-standing conflict can and should be imposed on the
parties by outside powers. In addition, the new state's creation seeks
to award part of a nations territory to a violent ethno-religious
minority; futilely hopes to curry favor with the Islamic world through
appeasement; effectively gives a fresh impetus to the ongoing growth of
Islamic influence in Europe; and denies the fact that the putative
states leaders are tainted by terrorism, criminality, and
well-documented links with global jihad. Most importantly, it betrays a
cynically postmodern contempt for all claims based on the historical
rights and spiritual significance of a land to a nation"
- This Perspectives Paper is based on presentations delivered at a
conference at the **Begin-Sadat Center** for Strategic Studies on “The
Kosovo Problem" on September 11, 2007
http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/u-s-kosovo-policy-is-bad-for-israel/
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In other words, not in the slightest bit contradictory that Jatras is
quoted by counterrevolutionary "leftists" who openly shill in favour of
today's new and gigantic Nakbah - Bashar Assad is a leader who knows how
to take care of these Arab and Islamic hordes.
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