[IMC-UK-Features] feature proposal: Indymedia UK and the Atzmon-Greenstein affair

[Chris]

Hi

On Wed 20-Feb-2008 at 02:22:21PM -0800, Shiar wrote:
> 
> I don't agree with Atzmon's analysis at all, not because
> i think he's anti-Semite, but because i think it's
> lacking a lot of other things, and this was kinda
> touched upon in the feature.

I also I think Gilad Atzmon is simply *wrong*, as I have
said before, in his analysis that the US: 

  "becoming an Israeli mission force fighting some idiotic
  neocon wars against Iraq, Syria and Iran serves Israeli
  interest only."

  http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-uk-features/2007-November/1103-yn.html

The Empire is not being primiraly run in the intrests of
Israel, Iraq was clearly far more about the oil resources
and the -- then impending now seemingly past -- peak of
global oil production.
  
I don't really understand much of Gilad Atzmons writing
about "Jewishness", I haven't read that much of his work,
I don't really know if some of it crosses the line or not
(I wouldn't block either article being hidden or unhidden)
but it appears to me that he is trying to come to terms
with his upbringing and is radically reacting against it.

I think he is wrong in the same way that if someone spent
a lot of time and energy deconstructing and condemning
Englishness because they saw this as the key reason for
the Imperial crimes of the British state would be wrong.

As Shiar points out the feature does touch on this:

  he focuses on the "simplistic Biblical worldview" that
  was inherited by Zionists and Neocons, rather than an
  analysis based on colonial history

And this bit links to the email linked to above:

  Some broader implications of this case were also raised:
  should all articles suggesting that the US foreign
  policy is strongly influenced, or determined, by Israel
  or the Zionist lobby be hidden?

Chris

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