Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: That Call from Marty Peretz that Transforms a Young Journo's Horizon via Mondoweiss by Philip Weiss on 9/17/08 As I wrote last night, Folke Bernadotte was killed by Jewish terrorists loyal to Shamir's Stern Gang in Jerusalem 60 years ago.
"When [Yitzhak] Shamir became foreign minister of Israel, he greeted UN official Brian Urquhart by saying that he had 'never dealt with anyone from the United Nations before.' 'Oh but you have, Foreign Minister,' replied Urquhart. 'You dealt with Count Bernadotte, did you not?'"--Andrew and Leslie Cockburn's Dangerous Liaison, p. 35. Thanks to the nimble primate Nim Chimpsky for that. I would add this. All young ambitious Harvard-grad journalists with opposable thumbs pass if they are lucky thru the gilded portals of Marty Peretz's New Republic. I did some work for the New Republic. One piece was about Urquhart. The signal I got from the magazine was I should attack him; and because I was ambitious, I did. Met him at the secretariat. Didn't know much about the U.N. Made fun of Urquhart. Peretz was delighted. Called me on the phone. I remember talking to him on the white wall phone of my grandmother's kitchen on Grand Street on the Lower East Side. He wanted me to do more, more about the U.N. Trying to mock and nullify the U.N. because of its resolutions about Israel. I lived with my grandmother, till she died in the back room, a few blocks from where she was born on Cherry Street, and from where my great-grandfather Philip worked as a tailor on Delancey Street. Some of us Jews did not become entangled in the violent delusions of late Zionism. Things you can do from here: - Subscribe to Mondoweiss using Google Reader - Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites
