It’s been a while since I’ve checked up on Dennis “Justin” Raimondo and his insane rants. Just when you think Raimondo can’t write anymore insane crap, he does just that. Dennis compares the crackdown in Egypt on the Muslim Brotherhood to the Tienanmen square massacre. Even worse, he claims AIPAC and Israel are behind the coup!
Sen. Rand Paul’s bill to cut off US aid to Egypt certainly was prescient, wasn’t it? The bill failed in the Senate, 86 to 13, on account of heavy lobbying by AIPAC, the pro-Israel advocacy group which packs a powerful punch on Capitol Hill. To those unlettered in the intricacies of American foreign policy, this may seem counterintuitive: after all, why would a pro-Israel group lobby on behalf of giving $1.5 billion a year to a regime that has been a fulcrum of anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism in the region, and whose major political actors – all of them – are profoundly opposed to Israel’s very existence?
The reason is simple: the 1979 Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty, in which the Egyptians agreed to recognize Israel, demilitarize the Sinai peninsula, and end their economic boycott of the Jewish state. Aside from providing Israel with a measure of basic security – having a nation of some 80 million potentially quite hostile people looming large on its border is an understandable cause for nervousness – the treaty also led to an informal regime of cooperation between the two countries, focused on keeping the Palestinians in check. Israel’s blockade of Gaza is mirrored by the Egyptian blockade, which keeps Gazans confined to their Israeli-made cage.
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The pro-Israel media is busy whitewashing the worst massacre since Tiananmen Square. Michael Goldfarb’s “Washington Free Beacon” ran a piece by tired neocon hack Bill Gertz warning that if we refused to embrace Egypt’s murderous new rulers – who have killed hundreds in just a few days, and jailed many more – the Russians will be sending them military aid in our stead. Has anyone told “The Goldfarb,” as he dubs himself on Twitter, that the Soviet Union is no more and the cold war is over? Guess not.
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Murders? Jailings? Shooting a man carrying a wounded victim? The Goldfarb couldn’t care less – not when Israel’s interests are involved. Commentary, the Pravda of the pro-Israel crowd, editorialized that the elected government headed by President Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood was overthrown “by popular demand.” The Foreign Policy Initiative, which replaced Bill Kristol’s Project for a New American Century as War Party Central, avers that, in the wake of the coup, “Egypt’s democratic experiment will take time to mature”!
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Make no mistake: the slaughter now taking place before the eyes of the world will blow back right in our faces, sooner rather than later. Footage coming out of the Egyptian bloodbath is a recruiting tool for Al Qaeda and its worldwide affiliates, a shot in the arm for a beleaguered and isolated organization that we were told was on the wane – at least, before it became politically convenient to portray them as a threat once again.
Egypt was the crucible in which the ideology of Al Qaeda, and its principal spokesmen, was formed: under the extreme repression practiced by Hosni Mubarak, the radicals split away from the more moderate elements of the Muslim Brotherhood, convinced the infidels would never let them take power peacefully. Now they can point to the massacres being carried out by the US-supported junta and crow that they were right.
Justin Raimondo claims al-Qaeda will now be justified in their attacks over the Egyptian military cracking down on the Muslim Brotherhood. His obsession with AIPAC and Israel clearly is a sign of his mental illness. It amazes me that a Homosexual like Dennis would support an organization that wuld hang him. I guess Raimondo is into Bondage and fantasizes about Arabs roughing him up.
Dennis “Justin” Raimondo is poison and deserves all the ridicule he receives.
Tags: AIPAC, Justin Raimondo, Tienanmen Square
