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Andrew Sullivan gave this vile person the Michelle Malkin Award nomination for Thursday. He was far too kind.
Here is what Rachel Abrams, wife of the criminal Obama invited to the White House back in January, when he was hoping there was a way to keep Egyptian torture chief Omar Suleiman in control of Egypt when it became obvious Mubarak was toast, wrote at her strange blog in reaction to the Palestinian-Israeil prisoner swap:
He’s free and he’s home in the bosom of his family and his country.
Celebrate, Israel, with all the joyous gratitude that fills your hearts, as we all do along with you.
Then round up his captors, the slaughtering, death-worshiping, innocent-butchering, child-sacrificing savages who dip their hands in blood and use women—those who aren’t strapping bombs to their own devils’ spawn and sending them out to meet their seventy-two virgins by taking the lives of the school-bus-riding, heart-drawing, Transformer-doodling, homework-losing children of Others—and their offspring—those who haven’t already been pimped out by their mothers to the murder god—as shields, hiding behind their burkas and cradles like the unmanned animals they are, and throw them not into your prisons, where they can bide until they’re traded by the thousands for another child of Israel, but into the sea, to float there, food for sharks, stargazers, and whatever other oceanic carnivores God has put there for the purpose.
Ms. Abrams resort to some sort of Prophet-speak here might make a Pentecostal Christian blush. Although she seems to refer to whoever captured Gilad Shalit in her imprecatory rant, the comparison to the ways she assumes Israeli kids are raised to the ways she presumes Palestinian kids grow up seems to be a paean to collective punishment and remorseless race war.
Not only did Obama invite this woman’s husband to the White House to strategize on keeping Egypt a police state, his State Department later awarded a fat contract to an organization her criminal husband sits on the board of – the Middle East MediaResearch Institute – to:
enable MEMRI to expand its efforts to monitor the media, translate materials into ten languages, analyze trends in anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial and glorification, and increase distribution of materials through its website and other outlets.
What if the contract awardees came up with this in their searches of newspapers, electronic media and blogs:
Then round up the Israelis, the slaughtering, death-worshiping, innocent-butchering, child-sacrificing savages who dip their hands in blood and throw them not into your prisons, where they can bide until they’re traded by the thousands for another child of Israel, but into the sea, to float there, food for sharks, stargazers, and whatever other oceanic carnivores God has put there for the purpose.
I merely changed one word from Ms. Abrams’ post.
Her and her husband’s lack of affinity with the aspirations of Palestinians for some sort of dignity you or I might want ourselves are longstanding. It is quite remarkable that people like this couple can even get invitations to rightwing venues, let alone Obama’s White House.
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Elliot was also invited during discussions on Libya. The neocon wanted regime change in Libya. See page 3 if you don’t want to read the whole thing.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/inside-obamas-war-room-20111013?page=3
Disagree with your last sentence. The vile couple very much belong in the rightwing venues. And Obama is rightwing and reactionary.
Thank you, ET.
It’s so fucking ugly, isn’t it?
I can’t get the images of toddlers’ terrified faces during the genocide of Palestine with the napalm raining down.
That was 2[?] years ago and the terror continues.
x2
I wonder why she wants to feed them to sharks. Based on her writings, you’d think she wants to strangle them with her own bare hands.
Boxtutle (I feel dirty just knowing that people like her exist)
Edward, do you know if these Palestinian prisoners ever had trials in the Israeli system? Or were they just people picked up and held without any due process?
I am so glad the intertoobs exist and that people such as ET are writing. In the ustawaz times, the likudniks could talk about how highly moral the idf was: killing only when forced to and trying deparately to get peace established. People, such as Chomsky, who spoke against the israeli gov’t were reviled. That can’t be sustained any longer except by refusing to see the facts and staying inside of a pseudo-reality. Of course 0 invites them to the wh, but not any real progressives.
Alison Weir, in her documentary Off the Charts, noted the following:
Before a single suicide bomber had entered Israel after the start of the Second Intifada, sometimes called, after Sharon’s provocative visit to the Temple Mount, the al Aqsa Intifada, during its first month, 27 Palestinian children had been killed by Israeli Defense Forces in the West Bank and Gaza, the youngest only four years of age, and the majority due to gunshots to the head. Numerous children were also wounded. In the first three months alone, 159 children lost an eye presumably to rubber bullets shot from IDF rifles. Clearly the IDF were intentionally targeting these children, aiming at their heads with either rubber bullets or real bullets in the case of the child kills. We are talking here about a trained, mechanized army versus civilians, children participating in the intifada, the nonviolent resistance instituted by child and teenage Palestinian boys and girls. Oh, yes. Let’s be fair. We did hear that an Israeli soldier lost his eye from a rock thrown by a Palestinian boy from a pretty IDF spokeswoman, but it was the only such incident reported in three years.
In addition to these children, many more innocent adult civilians were killed, in the month before suicide bombings commenced. If terrorism is the intentional killing of civilians, then clearly, Israel’s armed forces were deep into terrorism, state sponsored terrorism, long before the Palestinians engaged in it to any degree. As a people fighting a military occupation, it would seem that the ultimate cause of all of these horrors on both sides rests with Israel and the purpose for which it continued its long occupation, the stealing of Palestinian lands.
See Alison Weir’s short documentary, *Off The Charts: Media Bias and Censorship in America* for the names, ages, places, and dates of these child killings.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5600677940569035557&q=Alternate+Focus
To be accurate, there were sporadic bombing incidents engineered by Hamas extremists in Israel during the Oslo period. None at all occurred between 1998 and 2000. But the strong resumption of attacks after 2000, over fifty in the first year, was directly related to civilian and child killings by IDF, and it was not just Hamas, but Islamic Jihad and other Fatah associated organizations that were involved.
This Time.com article apprises of what motivated Palestinian suicide bombers at this particular moment: Why Suicide Bombing Is Now All The Rage
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101020415-227546,00.html
“Until recently most Palestinians believed they had alternatives to the kind of militancy practiced by Hamas. For years after the 1993 Oslo peace accord, which brought limited self-rule to the Palestinians and the prospect of an independent state, polls showed a strong majority of Palestinians supporting the peace process with Israel and only a minority endorsing suicide bombings. Thus, in their headhunting, the fundamentalists were limited to stalwart followers of their doctrine, which holds that any kind of peace with Israel is anathema. Even then, Hamas and Islamic Jihad had to cajole–some might say brainwash–young men into believing that the rewards of paradise outweighed the prospects of life on earth.
But with the breakdown of the peace process in the summer of 2000 and the start of the latest intifadeh that September, the martyr wannabes started coming to Hamas–and they didn’t require persuading. “We don’t need to make a big effort, as we used to do in the past,” Abdel Aziz Rantisi, one of Hamas’ senior leaders, told TIME last week. The TV news does that work for them. “When you see the funerals, the killing of Palestinian civilians, the feelings inside the Palestinians become very strong,” he explained.”
From the mouth of Rantisi, but it also motivated Fatah supporters, to exact revenge for the killing of Palestinian civilians. Revenge is not a formal use of terrorism. See Alison Weir’s film, Off The Charts, at Google Video.
This commentary is from an article by Rami Khouri, editor of the Beirut newspaper, The Daily Star, which cynically denounced Olmert’s statements professing concern for the well-being of Palestinian children:
(Ehud Olmert’s Profound Ethics and Deep Lies)
http://www.ramikhouri.com/
“For anyone interested in the facts about the impact of Israeli policies on Palestinian children, a good place to start is the carefully checked data disseminated by the Palestinian Nongovernmental Organization Network (www.palestinemonitor.org). Their data is compiled and verified on the ground by the Ramallah-based Health Development Information and Policy Institute, which has been honored by the World Health Organization for its work in promoting Palestinian health needs. So these people know what they are talking about when it comes to health conditions on the ground in Israeli-occupied Palestine. Some of the facts they provide are as follows.
In just the first two years of the second intifada, from September 2000 to November 2002:
• 383 Palestinian children (under the age of 18) were killed by the Israeli army and Israeli settlers, i.e. almost 19% of the total Palestinians killed; those figures have increased since then.
• Approximately 36% of total Palestinians injured (estimated at more than 41,000) are children; 86 of these children were under the age of ten; 21 infants under the age of 12 months have been killed.
• 245 Palestinian students and school children have been killed; 2,610 pupils have been wounded on their way to or from school.
• The Israeli policy of widespread closure has paralyzed the Palestinian health system, with children particularly vulnerable to this policy of collective punishment. Internal closures have severely disrupted health plans which affect over 500,000 children, including vaccination programs, dental examinations and early diagnosis for children when starting schools.
• During the first two months of the intifada, the rate of upper respiratory infections in children increased from 20% to 40%. Almost 60% of children in Gaza suffer parasitic infections.
• An overwhelming number of Palestinian children show symptoms of trauma such as sleep disorders, nervousness, decrease in appetite and weight, feelings of hopelessness and frustration, and abnormal thoughts of death.
• There have been 36 cases of Palestinian women in labor delayed at checkpoints and refused permission to reach medical facilities or for ambulances to reach them. At least 14 of these women gave birth at the checkpoint with eight of the births resulting in the death of the newborn infants.
The Israeli army killing of Palestinian children continues apace. In its annual report May 16, the respected global human rights organization Amnesty International accused the Israeli army of killing 190 Palestinians, including 50 children, last year (2005).”
Here is some commentary from Jonathan Cook on a grandmother suicide bomber:
“If one thing offers a terrifying glimpse of where the experiment in human despair that is Gaza under Israeli siege is leading, it is the news that a Palestinian woman in her sixties — a grandmother — chose last week to strap on a suicide belt and explode herself next to a group of Israeli soldiers invading her refugee camp.
Despite the “Man bites dog” news value of the story, most of the Israeli media played down the incident. Not surprisingly — it is difficult to portray Fatma al-Najar as a crazed fanatic bent only the destruction of Israel.
It is equally difficult not to pause and wonder at the reasons for her suicide mission; according to her family, one of her grandsons was killed by the Israeli army, another is in a wheelchair after his leg had to be amputated, and her house had been demolished.
Or not to think of the years of trauma she and her family have suffered living in a open-air prison under brutal occupation, and now, since the “disengagement”, the agonising months of grinding poverty, slow starvation, repeated aerial bombardments, and the loss of essentials like water and electricity.
Or not to ponder at what it must have been like for her to spend every day under a cloud of fear, to be powerless against a largely unseen and malign force, and to never know when death and mutilation might strike her or her loved ones.
Or not to imagine that she had been longing for the moment when the soldiers who have been destroying her family’s lives might show themselves briefly, coming close enough that she could see and touch them, and wreak her revenge.
Yet Western observers, and the organizations that should represent the very best of their Enlightenment values, seem incapable of understanding what might drive a grandmother to become a suicide bomber. Their empathy fails them, and so does their humanity.
Just at the moment Fatma was choosing death and resistance over powerlessness and victimhood — and at a time when Gaza is struggling through one of the most oppressive and ugly periods of Israeli occupation in nearly four decades — Human Rights Watch published its latest statement on the conflict. It is document that shames the organization, complacent Western societies and Fatma’s memory.”
Thanks also, ET, for this piece.
Maybe she got this way from reading fdl I/P poison.
Surely you jest! She’d never sully her hands in that manner. All that she has to say reminds me of someone… I think from the early to mid-part of the 20th century… According to Monty Python, lived in a boarding house under the name of Mr. Hilter… now who was that?
Ms Abrams’ rant is hysterical and actually sounds crazy. It seems to me it might be animated in its level of rage and hatred by a guilty consciousness of the facts you provide in your post. The repeated disasters Israel has rained down on Palestinian children could only be justified by claiming they are the devil’s spawn. They HAVE to be, otherwise Israelis and their supporters could not live with themselves.
Israel’s policies probably take a deep psychological toll on non-Israeli Jews, as Rachel Abrams’ words attest. Who would choose to allow themself to be convulsed with such rage and hatred? It’s a horrible state to be in.
What do you mean?
Thank you for all this information.
Don’t feed the (paid?) trolls.
“Will NO one rid me of these meddlesome PNAC’s?”
Rcc’d, what DESPICABLE sub humans these are.
N that’s an insult to humans in general, I guess.
Maybe someones should flood MEMRI’s emails with this quote?
I’d bet they would deliver a severe tongue lashing to Abrams to keep his woman silenced like a good lil breeder.
;-)
This is pretty amazingly racist commentary. Imagine if the wife of a former Clinton or Obama official had made equivalent remarks in public.
Randall shows up from time to time, but it has been difficult to get him to answer questions put to him in the past. So, I’ll try him again, in case he actually isn’t a paid troll:
Randall, do you really think Midge Dector’s daughter spends her time reading firedoglake? Are you excusing her comments as having been caused by some external force, the mechanisms of which only you understand?
I wonder if AIPAC pays them by the post or by the hour?
You won’t get an answer this time, either. I think that he(?) is ‘hit and run.’ If he/she answers, color my face red.
Maybe he’s holding out for a raise.
*heh* Good luck with that…!
Mahalo, ET… Another great post…!
We’re lucky to have but one troll on this site, Randall.
Over at Daily Kos there’s an entire group of them called Team Shalom, but don’t be deceived by the label. They are collectively rightly characterized as right wing Zionists dedicated to the Greater Israel Dream, who never recommend articles critical of Israel’s occupation and continuing colonialism. They pretend to be pro-peace, but never recommend two-state diaries. Some believe that they are run out of AIPAC.
Thanks ET. Obama’s embrace of these racist and racial supremacists disgusts me.
MEMRI was created by former Israeli Defense ministers. They threaten critics and mistranslate videos. [1.] [2.] [3.].
I wonder if there are any laws against giving taxpayer money to produce their garbage? It’s a welfare program for bigots, paid to degrade our society.
How many on the BOD besides Elliot Abrams are criminals? Can Abrams even vote?
If he is this Randall Kohn, he likely posts for free. Maybe Kohn will pop back here and tell us he is not this guy. You know he’ll want to..’g’.
http://www.zoominfo.com/people/Kohn_Randall_1084625579.aspx
http://columbusjewishfederation.org/page.aspx?id=35451
If this had been said about any other group of human beings, Rachel Decter Abrams would have been permanently banned from public life. Instead, this upper-class version of Pam Geller is considered “respectable”.
Rachel Abrams (Bigot).
Oh noes, that’s so anti-Semitic. It’s like calling a spade a spade.