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Israeli newspaper blasts Bannon


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2016 Nov 16, 10:34am   5,121 views  18 comments

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http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/u-s-election-2016/.premium-1.753104

"Donald Trump has appointed Stephen Bannon, his former campaign CEO, as chief strategist and top aide – a man who deliberately shaped the Breitbart news site into an online gathering place for racists, white nationalists and misogynists. No one can pretend there is any ambiguity as to who Trump is and what kind of president he plans to be. He is precisely the same divisive and dangerous figure he was in his campaign.

If proof of that is necessary beyond the Bannon appointment, the fact that Trump has refused to repudiate his fractious and frightening campaign rhetoric in post-election interviews provides it. When asked directly by The Wall Street Journal if he regretted inveighing against Muslims, Latinos and other groups during his campaign, the president-elect said “No,” because, after all, “I won.”

These groups are likely to justify “normalizing” Trump by pointing to the Israel-hostile and anti-Semitic elements within the left, and arguing that this never stopped them from talking to the Obama White House.

It’s exactly the same way in which Bannon defends the alt-right, which he denies is racist. In a Mother Jones interview, he contended: “Look, are there some people that are white nationalists that are attracted to some of the philosophies of the alt-right? Maybe,” he said.

“Are there some people that are anti-Semitic that are attracted? Maybe. Right? Maybe some people are attracted to the alt-right that are homophobes, right? But that’s just like, there are certain elements of the progressive left and the hard left that attract certain elements.”

"Such equivalency, of course, is impossible to buy.

In 2008, after all, then-candidate Barack Obama ended up resigning his membership in his church over his pastor Jeremiah Wright’s inflammatory remarks, which were mild compared to what Bannon published every day on Breitbart: He didn’t bring Wright into his campaign, and he certainly didn’t give him a top job at the White House.

Groups like the ADL, for whom standing against anti-Semitism trumps getting along with the powers-that-be, certainly won’t buy it. The ADL was the first – and only – major U.S. Jewish organization to denounce Bannon’s appointment immediately after it was made.

If violence against minorities continues to mount, and a Bannon-strategized White House continues to dismiss, ignore or in any way encourage it – the Jewish grass roots, particularly young Jews, won’t stay silent when Jewish organizations and Israeli leaders “normalize” President Donald Trump with the usual “warm and productive” meetings and photo-ops that characterize the opening days of a presidency.

Think seas were stormy for Jews and Israel during the Obama-Netanyahu struggle over the Iran deal? We ain’t seen nothing yet."

#politics

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1   Gary Anderson   2016 Nov 16, 1:36pm  

What is funny is that Israel is an apartheid state. Bannon most likely seeks the merger of the alt right and Zionists to fight Muslims. I wrote this is not the first time a billionaire has tried to bring alt right together with Jewish people to fight a holy war:

http://www.wickedzionism.com/2016/11/this-website-rejects-holy-war-against.html

I am surprised Haaretz does not know more about Kolomoyskyi.

Don't forget, Donald Sterling was a racist. He was a white racist and a Jewish racist. Go figure.

2   dublin hillz   2016 Nov 16, 2:29pm  

Gary Anderson says

What is funny is that Israel is an apartheid state. Bannon most likely seeks the merger of the alt right and Zionists to fight Muslims. I wrote this is not the first time a billionaire has tried to bring alt right together with Jewish people to fight a holy war:

I think alt right wants the Jews out of the United States as part of their white ethnostate project, so he may find it strategic to support the "zionists" while at the same time make things uncomfortable for jews in america so that they "self deport." Additionally, those seditious alt right characters want to make allies with other white ethno-nationalists in europe because they share a common enemy in liberal democracy. They are serious throwbacks who make no secret of their views regarding "race mixing", return to patriarchy, ethno-purity over material standard of living, etc. FBI needs to keep a consistent eye on them. How do you "vet" someone who is already here?

3   MisdemeanorRebel   2016 Nov 16, 2:31pm  

dublin hillz says

Groups like the ADL, for whom standing against anti-Semitism trumps getting along with the powers-that-be, certainly won’t buy it. The ADL was the first – and only – major U.S. Jewish organization to denounce Bannon’s appointment immediately after it was made.

The ADL is the Al Sharpton of Judaism.

4   dublin hillz   2016 Nov 16, 2:33pm  

Thunderlips is Tovbot2 says

The ADL is the Al Sharpton of Judaism.

The are a completely legitimate organization who looks out for the interest of their people and they don't self promote, so I am not sure how your comparison applies.

5   MisdemeanorRebel   2016 Nov 16, 3:19pm  

Yes, Bannon the White Supremacist who hires all kinds of Zionist Writers, including David Horowitz, and has a Division of Breitbart just for Israel

Smear attempts not working.

Provide evidence Bannon is an anti-semite or STFU.

6   Tenpoundbass   2016 Nov 16, 3:22pm  

dublin hillz says

“normalizing” Trump

Like Obama normalized "N*gger Thugs" huh?

7   dublin hillz   2016 Nov 16, 3:27pm  

Thunderlips is Tovbot2 says

Yes, Bannon the White Supremacist who hires all kinds of Zionist Writers, including David Horowitz, and has a Division of Breitbart just for Israel

Smear attempts not working.

Provide evidence Bannon is an anti-semite or STFU

He provided a platform for all sorts of "questionable characters" whose motivations are crystal clear to everyone who has internet access. Your attempt to exonarate him is like saying that Osama should not have been held accountable because he did not personally fly the planes into the towers!

8   MisdemeanorRebel   2016 Nov 16, 3:46pm  

dublin hillz says

He provided a platform for all sorts of "questionable characters" whose motivations are crystal clear to everyone who has internet access. Your attempt to exonarate him is like saying that Osama should not have been held accountable because he did not personally fly the planes into the towers!

Like who? David Horowtiz? Ben Shapiro (who is kind of a bit of an ass)? Milo Yannipoulos, the Gay Jew who talks about his love for BBC and I don't mean UK State TV?

Give it a rest!

9   Shaman   2016 Nov 16, 4:25pm  

dublin hillz says

He provided a platform for all sorts of "questionable characters" whose motivations are crystal clear to everyone who has internet access.

By that metric, so does our own Patrick. Is he also a racist and anti-Semite?
On a corporate scale, have you read most of the comments on Yahoo articles? Most are definitely alt right or alt right inspired, even tho the website itself is a liberal rag.
You should really step back and apply logic to your words to see if they pass the shit test.

11   Gary Anderson   2016 Nov 16, 7:05pm  

dublin hillz says

I think alt right wants the Jews out of the United States as part of their white ethnostate project, so he may find it strategic to support the "zionists" while at the same time make things uncomfortable for jews in america so that they "self deport."

If you see mass murders in the Jewish community, it will be because Netanyahu and Trump were in on it. Well said, Dublin. Charlie Hebdo's editor was Val, who was a Zionist.

12   Gary Anderson   2016 Nov 16, 7:06pm  

I hope Patrick reads this thread.

13   Gary Anderson   2016 Nov 16, 7:08pm  

Thunderlips is Tovbot2 says

Yes, Bannon the White Supremacist who hires all kinds of Zionist Writers, including David Horowitz, and has a Division of Breitbart just for Israel

Smear attempts not working.

This may work out ok. But, if you see Muslims killing Jews under Trump you can know it was a set up. And obviously there are too many Jewish people to all go to Israel. So that may stop them from madness. But it isn't a smear unless you also want to doubt Kolomoyskyi who is an Israeli dual citizen. He wants that fusion of right and Jew to fight Islam.

That is fact.

14   Strategist   2016 Nov 16, 7:15pm  

Gary Anderson says

Thunderlips is Tovbot2 says

Yes, Bannon the White Supremacist who hires all kinds of Zionist Writers, including David Horowitz, and has a Division of Breitbart just for Israel

Smear attempts not working.

This may work out ok. But, if you see Muslims killing Jews under Trump you can know it was a set up. And obviously there are too many Jewish people to all go to Israel. So that may stop them from madness. But it isn't a smear unless you also want to doubt Kolomoyskyi who is an Israeli dual citizen. He wants that fusion of right and Jew to fight Islam.

That is fact.

You are a bigot Gary, you disgust me.

15   MisdemeanorRebel   2016 Nov 16, 7:20pm  

Gary Anderson says

He wants that fusion of right and Jew to fight Islam.

He's an Oligarch like Judas Goat George Soros, and he uses his pet Neo-Nazis to seize what little remains of productive Ukrainian assets (and smuggle cigarettes)

16   Gary Anderson   2016 Nov 16, 7:30pm  

Strategist says

You are a bigot Gary, you disgust me.

No, I have not said that Bannon and Trump definitely will go down that road. But don't be surprised if they do. I hope they don't.

As far as being bigoted, you know that the True Torah Jews do not accept the Zionist state. You can hardly call them antiSemitic. My natural father was Jewish and I am adopted. I am not antiSemitic either.

17   The Original Bankster   2016 Nov 16, 8:39pm  

Haaretz is very left, often anti-Israel

18   dublin hillz   2016 Nov 17, 9:47am  

Quigley is sad says

By that metric, so does our own Patrick. Is he also a racist and anti-Semite?

Not a valid comparison. Patrick welcomes all political viewpoints whether he agrees with them or not. He does not control who chooses to post. Breitbart was founded specifically to make money of those who mistrust the "mainstream media" and after the founder died of the heart attack (no, he was not killed by the "spooks"), changed direction specifically attract the alt righters.

Quigley is sad says

On a corporate scale, have you read most of the comments on Yahoo articles? Most are definitely alt right or alt right inspired, even tho the website itself is a liberal rag.

Naturally, of course they are! They are a parasitic troll farm in addition to the venomous ideology. Most of them either ain't got no job and/or ain't got no family so they gotta blame somebody as they stew in their hate.

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