The Big Lie About Israel
By Steve Huntley | July 26,2023
The overwhelming denunciation from official Washington of the latest outburst of antisemitism from the Democrat Party’s hate-Israel caucus is of course welcome. Yet, it didn’t confront the big lie behind the racist libel against Israel — that it is the Jewish nation that is the roadblock to the creation of a Palestinian state.
The newest venomous outburst came from Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), the chairman of the “Congressional Progressive Caucus.” “I want you to know that we have been fighting to make it clear that Israel is a racist state,” she declared in Chicago recently.
She’s just the latest member of the extreme left Democrat anti-Israel faction to smear the only democracy in the Middle East, one whose previous government included an Arab political party.
Already on record defaming Israel a couple of years ago as “a racist state” is Rashida Tlaib, a Palestinian-American representing Michigan in Congress. A few years ago, another antisemite extremist, Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, characterized U.S. support for the Jewish state as “it’s all about the Benjamins baby.”
The House of Representatives responded to Jayapal’s calumny by passing 412-9 a resolution declaring “Israel is not a racist or apartheid state; Congress rejects all forms of antisemitism and xenophobia; and the United States will always be a staunch partner and supporter of Israel.”
That’s fine as far as it goes. But it doesn’t actually label Jayapal’s statement as antisemitic. And that is exactly what it was.
The racist slander is an attack on Israel’s legitimacy and its right to exist. How is it that among the nearly 200 nations on the globe, it is only the Jewish state that has its right to exist challenged time and again?
And the resolution doesn’t tackle the big lie implicit in what else Jayapal said — “that the Palestinian people deserve self-determination.”
The implication is that Israel is responsible for preventing a two-state solution yielding a Palestinian state.
That is false in every way. The history is clear, unequivocal and damning to Palestinians.
In 2000 with a Camp David summit orchestrated by President Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered a comprehensive peace proposal. It would have created a Palestinian state on most of the West Bank and all of the Gaza Strip, a further expansion of the West Bank area over 10 to 25 years, land swaps necessary to achieve the Palestinian state while incorporating in Israel several Jewish West Bank communities, a land connection linking the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and an arrangement for religious sites in East Jerusalem.
The monstrous terrorist Yasser Arafat responded with a bloody campaign of terror, suicide bombings, shootings and slaughter that killed more than a thousand Israelis and, as the Israelis had no choice but to fight back, even more Palestinians. Soon you heard media accounts of a “cycle of violence.” Nonsense. As is always the case, it’s a sequence of violence, with the Palestinians starting the killing.
As the Israelis mourned their dead and the thousands more injured, they saw then, they didn’t have a peace partner.
But the Israelis didn’t give up on their hopes for a settlement.
The Palestinians were given a chance to demonstrate they could govern the Gaza Strip and live in peace with Israel when Prime Minister Ariel Sharon withdrew all 7,500 Jewish inhabitants from the Strip and closed military facilities there in 2004-2005.
Right from the start the signs were bad. The Israelis left behind economic assets like greenhouses. They were burned as soon as Palestinians gained control of them. It wasn’t long before the vile terrorist gang Hamas took control of the area and the Strip became headquarters for terrorist plots, attacks and rocket barrages against Israel.
Again Israel saw it didn’t have a partner for peace.
Yet, it would take another effort.
The Israelis opened negotiations with new Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in late 2006 (by then Arafat was dead and rotting in hell). In 2008 Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sweetened the 2000 Israeli peace plan. For instance he offered a near total withdrawal from the West Bank, placing the Old City religious sites under international control, and Palestinian sovereignty over Arab neighborhoods in East Jerusalem so it could be the capital of the new state.
Olmert said it would be 50 years before another Israeli leader would offer such a generous plan and urged Abbas to not “miss this opportunity.” (Olmert was, perhaps unconsciously, channelling the late, great Israeli diplomat Abba Eban who once observed about the Palestinians, “They never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.”)
Well, they missed another opportunity. Abbas walked away from this generous proposal.
Once more Israel learned it didn’t have a partner in peace.
In 2010, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried yet again, this time ordering a 10-month partial freeze on construction in Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria, aka the West Bank, to facilitate negotiations. Again nothing.
You notice that it was always Israel offering a plan and concessions. Nothing comparable ever came from the Palestinian side.
Finally in 2014 Abbas did offer up a proposal — not to Israel but to the United States. All you need to know about its deficiencies and lack of sincerity is that President Obama’s secretary of state, John Kerry, rejected it. There was nothing there worth taking up with the Israelis.
And last month a new poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research showed that only 28 percent of Palestinians support a two-state solution while 70 percent are against it. And a majority expressed support for violence against Jews.
So when you hear someone like Jayapal say “that the Palestinian people deserve self-determination,” remember the history of Israeli peace offers, of Jewish hopes for peace, of never ending Palestinian rejection.
Jayapal spoke up at a mid-July meeting of Netroots Nation, a progressive organization, where pro-Palestinian hecklers shouted down Illinois Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a prominent Jewish member of the House and proponent of the far left view that always puts the onus on Israel while excusing the Palestinians. She tried to quiet the crowd by describing herself as “one of the most outspoken voices (in Congress) for justice for the Palestinians.” When it didn’t work, Jayapal stepped up with her dose of antisemitism. News reports don’t record that Schakowsky, who calls herself a “steadfast friend and supporter” of Israel, had anything to say about that.
The disgraceful spectacle in Chicago showcased the American far-left’s ever growing hostility to Israel. That hostility is evident in the kind of venom spouted by Jayapal, Tlaib and Omar, an openly anti-Israel atmosphere on too many college campuses sometimes leaving Jewish students fearful, and the boycott and disinvest campaign against the Jewish state.
Any government leader, politician, international organization or activist group interested in self determination for the Palestinians would tell them to finally, at long last, enter into serious negotiations with Israel.
The record is clear: the Palestinians have never — never — been a partner for peace with the Israelis.
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Steve Huntley, a retired Chicago journalist now living in Austin, Texas, has contributed other pieces to johnkassnews, from an examination of the secret jail for Christopher Columnbus and other politically problematic public art to an essay on Americans suffering from Joe Biden gas pain.
For almost three decades Huntley spent most of his career in Chicago journalism at the Chicago Sun-Times, where he was a feature writer, metro reporter, night city editor, metropolitan editor, editorial page editor and a columnist for the opinion pages.
Before that he was a reporter and editor with United Press International (UPI) in the South and Chicago, and Chicago bureau chief and a senior editor in Washington with U.S. News & World Report. Northwestern University Press has issued soft cover and eBook editions of Knocking Down Barriers: My Fight for Black America by Truman K. Gibson Jr. with Steve Huntley, a memoir of a Chicagoan who was a member of President Roosevelt’s World War II Black Cabinet working to desegregate the military.
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All — well, almost all — you can do is look at the Palestinians, shake your head and say, “What a bunch of losers.”
Huntley nails it.
I think it might have been Golda Meir who said in light of a spate of suicide bombers: “The Palestinian issue will only be resolved when Palestinian Mothers love their children more than they hate Israel.”
The obnoxious and odious bigot was flanked by two Progressive nitwits here in Chicago, the oafish Chuy Gracia and the always nasty Jan Schakowsky. Both idiots should have been excoriated by the local press, but, as always, were give a free pass. Until the great Steve Huntley tuned up Schakowsky: “Jayapal spoke up at a mid-July meeting of Netroots Nation, a progressive organization, where pro-Palestinian hecklers shouted down Illinois Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a prominent Jewish member of the House and proponent of the far left view that always puts the onus on Israel while excusing the Palestinians. She tried to quiet the crowd by describing herself as “one of the most outspoken voices (in Congress) for justice for the Palestinians.” When it didn’t work, Jayapal stepped up with her dose of antisemitism. News reports don’t record that Schakowsky, who calls herself a “steadfast friend and supporter” of Israel, had anything to say about that.
The disgraceful spectacle in Chicago showcased the American far-left’s ever growing hostility to Israel.”
Progressive Jew-hating, like it’s anti-Catholic bigotry, can been witnessed right here at Northwestern University with its treatment of the brilliant Joseph Epstein, for daring to poke mild fun at the ludicrous DOKTOR Jill Biden and denying coach Patrick Fitzgerald any due process justice in the alleged hazing whine-ry. If it is Progressive it is hate delivered in bubble wrap by the corrupt media. Thank God, for some independent thought here at John Kass News.
Amen..well said Mr. Huntley and Mr. Hickey.
Northwestern lost all my respect and support after Portess and his journalism majors lied, slept with, and intimidated witness es to recant court testimony..
In conjunction with the lying private investigator.
Fitz not even given a chance to clear his name..
I could not agree more.
Eloquent. I’m wondering though that since Coach Fitz is employed by a private entity, his ultimate fate is likely determined by formal contractual agreement rather than “due process.”
This is a great piece Mr. Huntley. The Palestinian people are pawns being kept in suffering to be a political and existential thorn in the side of the Israeli government. Their leaders are bigger grifters than our leftist DEI and race pimps. The people are conditioned to shut up and take it, just like our democratic voters do in our cities wracked with poverty, crime and carnage.
The Israeli government has take a far right turn, and it’s clear that many of these folks are tired of negotiating with people who not only don’t deal in good faith, but actually want them gone. So they’ve built a coalition and are wielding power that our “progressives” here will not do. They leverage their votes to get policy they want. Our progressive caucus here do not actually want to lead. They prefer to wield the deep state and interfere in our lives instead of actually leading the nation.
Netanyahu and those who are pulling him farther right are not angels in this. The Israeli government has not always been kind to the Arabs, but who would stay in a refugee situation for 75 years if they actually cared about their families? They are also treated unequally by fellow Arabs in other countries, which the media NEVER reports on. Only Israel must open up their government and society to them.
They’ve had multiple chances to make deals for sovereignty, safety and prosperity. They could have a nice home in the desert and valuable Allies in the US and Israel. Instead, they choose martyrdom, suffering, and terrorism. The Palestinians are a lot like our urban street gangs and race hustlers here. They have little interest in improving the greater good of their people. If things ever got better, they’d actually have to display talent and innovation to stay in power, when threats, intimidation, and violence are all they have.
Given a few more years, the settlement will be built out, and Palestinian youths will be sent into a buzzsaw to die for a false cause that could have been avoided. Netanyahu, like him or not, is a true Machiavellian prince. The man is playing 4D chess against people playing checkers. He does love his country. We could use a leader like him instead of clowns like Biden or Trump.
RT: Moses wrote this per God Almighty about Ishmael the head Muslim “a wild ass among men; his hand shall be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. And he shall dwell over against all his brethren” (Genesis 16:12). And that continues even today with them. And really your “Clown” comment, you left out the biggest one, you’ll find him in any mirror!
You can tell a lot about a man by the people whom he has surround him. John Kass is a serious and honest journalist and so is his friend Steve Huntley. This piece was a strong rebuttal to Jayapal’s false charge of racism.
Too many on the left have falsely called Israel an apartheid state. This despite the fact that, as Huntley pointed out, an Arab party was part of the last coalition government. There are Arabs in the Knesset, both in parties that are Arab and ones that are mainly Jewish. There are Arab judges, including an Arab Justice on Israel’s Supreme Court. Arab physicians treat Jewish patients and Jewish physicians treat Arab patients in Israeli hospitals and clinics. Arab pharmacists in Jerusalem are a majority of the working pharmacists. I could go on but you get the idea.
Where was Jayapal while Bashir Assad’s forces were literally decimating a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria? Why do the Progressives not call out Lebanon for the actual apartheid that occurs in Lebanon where Palestinians are barred from almost all professions? The charge against Israel of racism and apartheid is indeed a big lie but that charge can be made against Lebanon. Where is the outrage over that?
Good morning John.
I hardly watch TV anymore, I just look for the weather and the rest I know is garbage and lies.
These people that hate Israel do not know God or Jesus Christ and they hate the hate them before God has Blessed them. Scripture says, Jerusalem you will be surrounded by your enemies but no one will destroy the house of the Lord. Put that in the bank you uneducated Liberal Communist people. Obama said that he would change the face of America and he and his buddies that run our Institutions are doing all of that. Biden is his guy doing the dirty work for him, since Biden has no knowledge of what is happening. Look at his Son? If that was your Son of mine would be in jail. Eric Holder still runs the DOJ, Garland is mad that he did not win the Supreme Court job and is doing what Obama wants. I do not understand how stupid people are and especially the Republicans that allow mail in Voting. They will never Win a seat again until the stop these madness. Criminals Vote, Illegals Vote, and Americans are made to feel guilty about Slavery. We were all slaves when we came to America and we worked hard to be part of these once great States of the USA that they hate and still make millions from Basketball to the White House. So sad that the Irish that really were the Slaves when they came here and worked so hard are allowing all this to happen. History has been destroyed, it is all about money, and like a Dear friend of 95 told me you cannot take money with you, only love and the kids are waiting for us to die for the money. So many kids never visit their Grandparents but want their money and become Liberals, do not know God or go to Church. This is the new America. Thieves walk in stores and still, the Cartels run the World and no one is safe anymore, and the the 12% and less than 1% run the Country. I am mortified at all that has happened in our Country. We immigrants that came worked hard to be part of these great United States, and now we allow these Idiots to destroy what our Grandparents and Parents and us did to make this a better Country for all. No, we are not Racists, they are and will not allow anyone to tell me otherwise, and I believe this is still a free Country for people to express their views. If these groups can say just about anything and get away with it why can’t tell the truth. Believe in the Christian God he will save us all. I am sad but happy to know God and Jesus as my Saviors. Good Luck America you and the World need it.
The most egregious act of the Israelis is that they made the useless swamps and deserts of their homeland blossom.
Surrounded by blood enemies on all sides, they built a nation that is a world leader in medical and scientific advancement, while their enemies allow their own people to live in huts and caves without electricity or running water.
The Arabs will never make peace with the Jews because that would mean admitting that the Jews have succeeded where the Arabs were – for centuries – total failures.
They have better health care than we do. They’ve done well with tech, agriculture, irrigation technology, water desalination, even “green technology”.
Surrounded on all sides by people who want them dead, and they’re supposed to go for one “Democratic” state?
It’s sad because the Arabs force them to be cruel at times in order to defend themselves and maintain safety and security. To paraphrase Golda Meir, “There will be peace when they love their children as much as we do.
The liberals make the mistake of thinking they value individual freedom and life as we do. They have an entirely different outlook. They essentially use women, children, elderly, as human shields.
They are cowards
It is comical how our left takes up for them given their treatment of women, Christian minorities, and the beloved LGBTQ. In Israel these folks are not hassled.
There are always “inequities” in any society. But freedom and a solid chance at prosperity are invaluable.
Our people here take these things for granted.
Interesting that these two are here as a result of immigration and yet seek to destroy the very country that welcomed their family! If we’re such an awful country then maybe the should consider leaving!
Excellent column. As Steve succinctly states, over and over Israel has made the overture, offering a good path to settling the problem and over and over Palestinian leadership rejects or retaliates. Well stated in other comments today we owe the Jewish pharma and medical researchers much to keep us healthy. Why is it that third world countries can verify the vote with ink stained thumbs and we allow rampant ballot box stuffing with “mail in ballots”. At least when a Turkey was in the offing for your ballot you had to show up at the polling place. Allowing non citizens to vote dispels any notion of a country. Oh wait, with open borders we’ve done that already. Who would not vote for freebies ? Illegals get more and better than every man and woman who served in the military.
This column is 100% true. Also, Robert Maitano’s comment is accurate. My lifelong best friend has lived in Jerusalem for 55 years. She would agree with everything here. The Palestinian people just want peace, but their terrorist leaders are evil to the core.
Well written Mr. Huntley!
Remember when Arafat spoke at the UN: “Today I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom-fighter’s gun. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. I repeat: do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.” ? Well that didn’t last long when he resumed bombing kindergartens, public buses and markets; he was just grand standing. PLO, Fatah, Hamas and the rest of them could care less for peace. The PA would prefer its citizens to live in squalor and destitution than to actually work for peace and prosperity.
Thankfully, Israel’s leaders learned, from the very beginning of their state, that the only people they can always count on are themselves for their freedom and independence.
They realized long ago that the old adage was true that; “You get a lot further with a kind word and a gun, than with just a kind word”.
I just can’t fathom why all the Democrats, from Obama and Biden to the entire worthless “squad”, hate on Israel and Israelis so much.
It appears that the leftist dems in Congress have much in common with Palestinians. Keep fomenting violence with their hate speeches, and see what keeps happening – simply more violence. This is their way of “governing” by turning our cities and states into hotbeds of crime with no fear of reprisals. We have much in common with the Israelis – we’re surrounded by people – not only in government, but in our schools, cities and states – that want to eliminate and/or destroy our (former) way of life! The definition of insanity – doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results! Guess it’s true – stupid is as stupid does!
Fantastic and informative column. You hit the nail on the head by questioning why Israel is the only country that needs to prove its right to exist. Israel, also, always is the country asked to make concessions for peace. But the Palestinians don’t want peace. They want the annihilation of Israel and every Jewish person.
The question is why there aren’t more of the American Jewish population supporting politicians that support Israel?
Yes, with Congressional far left Democrats’ opposition to the existence of the State of Israel the American Jewish community’s support of the Democratic Party will drop from 74% to……….73% I think.
(Radio personality Bruce Wolf made that joke/observation some years ago)
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The Democrats seemingly dare sensible people to abandon them. That’s why they rig their primaries, deny access to different candidates and smear RFZ, Williamson and West.
If the Republicans are so bad, they should beat them with policy, not smears or other dirty tactics.
Neither of these parties really wants to lead though.
They rely on low information voters. If you seriously study the issues and the candidates, the likely nominees are both seriously lacking in decency, comportment and truly cares for the working people of this nation.
Of the elites, by the elites, for the elites. Red and blue? You can have them!
After reading this thought provoking article by Mr. Huntley as well as the comments, I wondered did I sign up for Johnkassnews.com or Robertmaitinonews.com? So here’s a question John. Why do you allow a gas bagging insufferable scold piggyback his columns upon yours? Maybe ole Robert should pay an extra “service fee” to you or perhaps Robert should charge a fee to the rest of us, with the option that should we decline, Robert will become invisible. Yeah. I know. I can just ignore his many, and often singular insights from the world’s foremost authority. True. But still. It’s sorta like trying to avoid other minor annoyances in life. You often can. But it’s still annoying.
Keep banging that drum.
Even if someone isn’t told to hit the highway, at least give us the option to “Hide” the comments of trolls.
(With the clear understanding that there are those who would hide mine.)
Very nice idea, H Young. But don’t the trolls that creep through this site seem, at some level, to realize how foolish they sound to jkn’s smart, discerning audience? Their drum banging is that of a child with no sense of rhythm or volume.
You truly are a bitter old crank, aren’t you?? Why do you feel so powerless in life that you pop up here and feel the need to make demands of others, insist on who can write what, what constitutes (in your mind) a proper response?? You have little control in the real world thus you want to wield it in the virtual?? If you don’t appreciate Robert’s POV, skip past it. Pretty simple Bruce.
Tony. You’re an idiot, a gasbag, and a liar. By the way, I have easily accomplished substantively more in one year of my life than you in your whole life. You are a mere parasite who have contributed nothing but CO2 to the world with your ludicrous insufferable gasbaggery. Oh I forgot. How’s your bar in Mineral Point WI doing? You know Tony’s Tap? The bar you allegedly owned … but don’t. As David Pearling has pointed out you are a low life fraud:
The real Riga- Tony:
His real name is Tony Cesare. He is a confirmed identity thief.
I was finally able to remove his libelous review of my book on Amazon. He is forever blocked there.
John Kass: You said that you intended to block Riga- Tony. When will you?
Here is the proof of his attempt to steal the identity of a restaurant and bar in Mineral Point, Wisconsin. Click:
https://www.gardendesignquickstartguide.com/2022/09/come-for-our-durp-burger.html
Big difference between you and I Bruce (and there are many..) is I don’t make up lies about strangers, then follow up with demands on someone else’s column. I am a guest here, same as you. My currency is my invitation, you don’t like it? Take your cranky, old a** and shuffle off to the porch, where you can insist the neighborhood kids stay off the lawn. Regarding the slander you insist on perpetuating, need I remind you yet again, the Tap is located just east of Lake Pearling in downtown Kleintown. I’ve always insisted you are welcome here, but I don’t need you lurching about and scaring the regulars. Besides, it’s trivia night tonight, intellectually way over your head.
Last piece of advice Bruce (and by now you should be thanking me for it..:) instead of responding to other commenters POVs with demands, hissy fits, insults and slander, why not ignore them and move on?? Neither myself or Robert have ever purposefully included YOU in our comments on the substance of the AUTHORS articles, yet you attack us personally on the author’s behalf?? Who passed and made you crusty old social media gatekeeper?? Try some courtesy in the future, it may do you some good. But in the event you can’t muster it, just move on. I’ve actually tried to be courteous to you in the past, but you don’t embrace courtesy. I’m sorry you’re so angry Bruce, and I resent whoever hurt you, I truly do. Peace.
Tony: You are morally bankrupt. See if you can understand this: the absolute defense against slander is the truth. And the truth is YOU attempted to commandeer someone else’s identity. I did not make this up; nor did David. You did this all on your own. Your denial of your subterfuge is a classic case of gaslighting. Not amount of denial on your part can change the reality of what you tried to do: assume someone else’s identity. Your prior FB posts prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that you attempted to do exactly that. No slander there. Just the ugly truth as to what you tried to do and the type of person you are.
What is wrong with these Democrats? We have only one ally in the Middle East and they approve of anything against Israel! The same hatred they hold for America, is the hatred they hold for Israel. How can be on the wrong side of everything?
I find it incredibly ironic that this column, essentially accusing Democrats of being ‘anti Israel’ and by extension ‘anti-semitic’, appears the same week one of Fox News recently elevated hosts (Gutfeld) suggested, on air live, that Jews sent to concentration camps could survive ‘by being useful?
“I wanted to throw up after this comment,” Juliet Jeske, a research associate for the Tow-Knight Center News Integrity Initiative at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, “How would he not know that Jews were sorted the day they arrived in some camps and were immediately murdered. I thought that was common knowledge. A lot of them were children.”
Why does it matter?? Because Fox is the mouthpiece for the GOP, Sauroman to Sauron, and ideas spoken and shared on the air have been vetted to appeal to Conservative voters. Gutfeld’s comments were disgusting, but here we are discussing the ‘hatred of Democrats.’ Can no one smell the hypocrisy??
You are an onanistic marvel, Champ.
I would argue that the act of responding to any opinion piece in social media is an act of onanism, your self gratification is no more relevant (or interesting) than mine. At least I have the courage to shout truth into the echo chamber, while you jerk off in unison to everyone else. Champ.
Pat:
What type of man equates posting contrary opinions on social media – and using a pseudonym no less – as an act of courage? And get this. Riga-Tony is a veritable prophet: shouting out the truth – the ONE truth, Riga-Tony’s truth – to all the heretical masses on Johnkassnews. Where would we all be if not for St. Riga-Tony of Phony-Baloney?
..and there you are again, the fading, aging Knight, decades past his relevance but still weekly holding the proverbial sword against anyone who dares threaten the collective POV. Can’t swing it with authority so you below as loud as you can. Weak. More dignity in admitting your own irrelevance.
I resent whoever hurt you Bruce, I truly do.
In the mid 1990’s Benedictine University had a series of invited lectures titled “Great Issues, Great Ideas”. They invited people like President Bush 1 – a true gentleman, Margaret Thatcher – “I only sign books”. Others, and Madeline Albright.
As often happens after she gave her talk and the alcohol and food was served, she was all alone. I approached her. I am not a tall man. Madeline was at least 1 foot shorter than me. I looked down at her, “Madame Secretary, The Oslo Accords seemed to me to finally provide a way to end the Palestinian Israeli conflict and give the Palestinians a real country”. “What happened”. She looked up at me, “Arafat fucked up”. I stepped back a bit and she looked even smaller. ”
“Madam Secretary, “How did Arafat fuck up”? She looked up. “After we thought that we had reached a total agreement, Arafat said that it was contingent on all of the Israeli land being returned to the Arabs”. “That would have meant no more Israel.” “It was just a big waste of time and money dealing with another Arab warlord.”
I lowered my head to gaze respectfully into her eyes . I just said, “Thank you for your insights!” Or, something like that. And, then attempted to not make her alone in the crowd.
I have not read her memoir. I don’t know what she said about this episode in her life. I recall vividly what she said to me, and what was said to her on a warm summer evening after a couple of Gins. Or maybe it was wine.
What a story! Short. Cogent and unforgettable.
Riga Baloney! Riga Phony! Riga Looney! There are numerous names that can be assigned to this goofball. Whatever you choose to call him, he’s still the equivalent of a dose of syphilis that sulfa drugs can’t kill. And just like a bad dose of syphilis his dripping, reeking pus leaking invectives are a horrible sight to behold. His idiotic ramblings are those of a syphlitic idiot. His brain is rotting just like someone in the final stages of syphlitic infection. He should be housed on a lunatic asylum and only allowed out to work his job the various fast food outlets unfortunately employ him. As long as he’s not allowed near the food that is….
Here is more about Riga- Tony. Some of us refer to him as “TTT,” for Tony-the-Troll.
Here is his attempt at identity theft:
The real Riga- Tony:
His real name is Tony Cesare. He is a confirmed identity thief.
I was finally able to remove his libelous review of my book on Amazon. He is forever blocked there.
John Kass: You said that you intended to block Riga- Tony. When will you?
Here is the proof of his attempt to steal the identity of a restaurant and bar in Mineral Point, Wisconsin.
Click:
https://www.gardendesignquickstartguide.com/2022/09/come-for-our-durp-burger.html
It gets worse. A lot worse.
Last summer he trolled my dying daughter’s GoFundMe account. He really did. She died last November.
It is impossible to conceive of a more despicable act than to troll a terminally ill mother of two young boys.
More:
He sent me personally, unsolicited, photos of young boys, some in curious states of dress. Where did he get these? Does he have more on his computer?
Why does John Kass continue to allow his deranged comments?
Tony now on two occasions has acused me of slander … specifically when I refer to him as an outright liar in regard to his attempt to assume another person’s identity. Well you and I know that the absolute defense of slander is the truth. So I would love to see Tony explain to me and everyone else on this site how claiming to be the owner (proprietor) of a bar and restaurant (Tony’s Tap in Mineral Point WI) that in fact he does not now own and never did own is somehow not a lie? I would love to hear that explanation. But somehow Tony avoids that embarrassing inconvenience.
Bruce:
It’s always a pleasure to see your comments. We all know what Riga- Tony is: Tony Cesare, a broom-pushing, bitter loser, and a troll. Nothing more, except he’s an identity thief and as John Kass wrote about him: a cockroach in a gas station urinal.
That’s it: a cockroach.
And a coward. He hides like the cockroach he is behind a fake name. Can you image going through life like that?
I haven’t missed your lies David, but I have missed you. Welcome back! Any thoughts on the substance of the author’s POV??
Riga- Tony (real name is Tony Cesare):
Are you referring to your lies? Like this one:
https://www.gardendesignquickstartguide.com/2022/09/come-for-our-durp-burger.html?m=1
That’s the one wheee you clearly and unequivocally claimed to be the proprietor of Tony’s Tap in Mineral Point, Wisconsin.
We called there. They’ve never heard of you. That lie?
Or do you mean the lie where you said that somebody else created your Facebook profile page showing you as the owner? Is that your lie you mean?
It s too bad that others saw your identity theft attempt.
Do you mean the part of your lie, when exposed, had you taking down your claim of ownership the very next day?
That lie told by you?
Or do you refer to your bogus threat of lawsuits against those of us who expose you? That lie?
Or the fact that you cowardly hide behind the fake name, “Riga- Tony,” when your real name is Tony Cesare? That lie?
Was it a lie that John Kass himself calls you “a cockroach in a gas station urinal?” Please tell us.
What is not a lie is that you are unable to resist making a fool of yourself here.
It’s true that some of us enjoy baiting you and watching you scurry out and back into your cockroach urinal drain.
The Arab terrorist leaders have never been in favor of peace. They would lose their jobs and their relevance. Just like American leftist extremists!!
Steve Huntley writers:
“The racist slander is an attack on Israel’s legitimacy and its right to exist. How is it that among the nearly 200 nations on the globe, it is only the Jewish state that has its right to exist challenged time and again?”
I respond:
That’s simply not true Steve and kind of dishonest of you to say so. Once sovereign countries like Taiwan, British Run Hong Kong (prosperous place), Portuguese run Angola and Mozambique, French Algeria, White run Rhodesia, South West Africa and South Africa had their countries’ right to exist all the time. These places were once stable, safe, prosperous places, with good economies, functioning public schools (better than Chicago CPS now), like the USA they had huge problems with illegal immigration, mass migrations of migrants from worse Communist, Socialists, Black African countries, Arab/Turk Islamic countries where life, education, work was much worse.
The UN and globalists destroyed these countries same as they want to destroy the Jewish ethno state of Israel which like Rhodesia, White run South West Africa and South Africa were ruled and run along ethnic/racial grounds – nobody (Palestinians now, Black Africans, Arab Algerians in French Algeria then) was starving , but that didn’t matter then or now to the globalists.
And these same Globalists, United Nations, Doctors without borders, George Soros, ADL, AIPAC, SPLC, Bill Gates are now attacking all remaining White Western European, European Americans, European Canadian, Australian, UK attacking their right to exist as they populated for hundreds or thousands of years through mass migration invasions; the Great Replacement.
John Kass – You’re Greek Orthodox Christian – you should know what happened to Greek Constantinople in the 15th Century and Christian Armenians in Anatolia, now Islamic Turkey after World War I.
Sure, the international community, Lib Demorats, globalists, NAACP even the SPLC picks on the J ethno state of Israel. They want to do to Israel what was done to Rhodesia, Rhodesia Zimbabwe, South Africa, French Algeria… Detroit, Baltimore.
But this is hardly unique.
And John Kass – you’re supposed to be Greek Orthodox Christian – what about the rights or even the survival of any type of Christians in Jerusalem, Lebanon, Syria…. Marseilles, Paris, London/Londonstan between the twin hammers of radical Islam and Je*ish Talmudism, J LGBT, cult marxist, open borders anything goes globalism.
How about it Mr. John Kass?
You already got fired, purged from the Chi Tribune, mainstream media for even mentioning George Soros and who he is; are you still on a strict leash that you can never say anything honest about really evil, bad Js?