Vietnam War occupied a decade of my life. Its relevance as an issue of Socialist Internationalism vs. US Imperialism was great, for, though US imperialism was little of an issue in Vietnam, the US imperial points sappui were very much at issue in Vietnam. Maos comment about Vietnam: one, two three&.many revolutions, suggesting that defeat in Vietnam would have loooong tails elsewhere was quite to the point, Iraq being a case in point. Let us remember that with GW Bush AMERICANOT the UNimposed on the world a lot of GLOBALIST notions. The excuse for invading Iraq: it is building nuclear bombs&and the later excuse once the nuclear part turned out to be mere Bush-it, that Saddam had to be removed because he used chemical weapons on his own people brought to an end traditional national sovereignty historic traditions. Indeed, Bush single handedly (with a push start from Clinton when president) invoked a made up as you go globalism that essential invoked Americas right to do whatever it wants militarily BECAUSE IT CAN. Bush got quite a lesson in naked imperialism from Israel because it wanted the US to serve as its large mad dog on a chain that it selectively lets loose on the Muslim World. The idea was first Iraq and next Iran, with the result that Israel totally dominates the Middle East, using Turkey as its flunky. To that end, the craziest of Zionistseeming like ZIONAZISwere hawks that (a) never went to war and (b) never sacrificed their upper West Side apartments for the Israeli frontline of Zionism, instead making quite a bundle as madmen admen for the military-industrial complex Ike warned us about. The idea was to become Israels hit man so that American society would never see the post-Cold War $$$benefits because they would be spent as Israels warrior. Since Israels enemies happened to be Saudi Arabias at the same time, Riyadh could pursue a dual track: Fundamentalist Sunni domination of the Muslim World and destruction by American power of all its Muslim Shia and Sunni and secular challenges to domination of Muslim World.

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Like 75% of all Jews, for whom it’s GREAT PLACE TO VISIT BUT NOT TO LIVE, pick your homeland. Sabras with no other homeland are dying or living without future other than war to make you feel like "mensch" pretending to live there. AZURE, tells in editorial: "LOSING OUR MINDS," that as soon as Israelis get a degree they leave for the West for a future. They could have made careers leading the Arabs, their cousins, into modernity, so could be home for weekends. Instead they defend your “vacation” settlements, your Fire Island on the Mediterranean to give you mensch-hood in absentia, dying fighting Arabs for your settlements while you make good in NYC. It’s shameful that Israel's ambassador to the US has double passports, American one just in case? Where's your dignity and your compassion for Israeli who only want peace, security and a future for their kids instead of being your "mensch-hood" surrogates. Stay home and let them make peace with the Arabs. Stop being the ever back&forth wondering Jew.

Hey, back-and-forth olims on reversible aliyah, stop burdening Israel with your pseudo-Zionism. In 2002 Sharon said that any Jew who does not permanently settle in Israel by 2020 WILL LOSE HIS JEWISH SOUL. Leave Israel to the Sabras and Palestine to the Palestinians and watch Israel, smaller to be sure, get a lot bigger as an influence and leader in the Middle East.

In an Israeli poem a grieving old man every day sits on a bench by his son’s grave, a fallen Israeli War Hero, and cries. From the grave the son cries out: DON’T CRY FOR YOURSELF, FATHER. CRY FOR ME AS I LIE HERE UNDER THE DARK, COLD AND DAMP GROUND BURIED WITH ALL MY DREAMS NOW NOTHING BECAUSE I *HAD* TO DIE FOR YOUR IDEOLOGIES.

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