“Chickenshit” Post 1 & 2… Kevin Barrett VT 11-2-14… “Bibi crashes 9/11 plane into grassy knoll”

“Chickenshit” Post 1 of 2… Kevin Barrett VT 11-2-14… “Bibi crashes 9/11 plane into grassy knoll”

Posted on 2014/11/03 by kauilapele
I found this article by Kevin quite hilarious. It connects, of course, to the last post, about JFK, since it contains the famous words, “Grassy Knoll”. It also indicates to me that “things are falling apart” for those trying to keep the old paradigm together. The next article by Uri Avnery adds to that “things are falling apart” pile.
This may be one reason I moved to a place which has two chickens (one black, one white), even though I almost never run into any of their very authentic and colorful chickenshit, I am aware of the challenges of being around it from time to time.

“It seems that the insane war party (the neocons) and the relatively restrained war party (the realists) are trading threats – by referencing the two most infamous (and most obviously true) “conspiracy theories” of the 20th and 21st centuries.
“The Netanyahu-as-9/11-pilot cartoon was the realists threatening “chickenshit” Bibi… The cartoon was a not-so-subtle reminder: “Any time we want, we can reveal the truth about 9/11 and have you and your neocon friends and assets hanged from a thousand lampposts.”
“Bibi responded with his “grassy knoll” reference – yet another threat to Obama’s life, like Jewish Times editor Andrew Adler’s calling on the Mossad to assassinate Obama, and the various White House “intrusions” that have showed the President cannot be protected from the world’s biggest and baddest international crime syndicate.
“Bibi seems to be the one who is self-destructing… by turning into a cartoon character… a sort of not-so-wiley Coyote.
“Netanyahu’s reference to the grassy knoll is just the latest in a series of high profile “conspiracy theory” references by neocon assets in politics and media. First there was David Cameron saying that nonviolent extremists such as 9/11 truthers are as bad as ISIS and must be dealt with the same way. Then Canadian reporter Brian Lilley coined the phrase “terrorist truthers” equating truth-telling with blowing people up.
“…such brags/threats would not be necessary if the neocons were feeling secure. The three conspiracy blurt-outs are a tribute to the efficacy of the truth movement – and a symptom of neocon fear. The noose is tightening around their necks, so they are shrieking louder and louder that they are above the law and will never, ever get caught.“

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Bibi crashes 9/11 plane into grassy knoll
Israeli PM Benyamin “Bibi” Netanyahu is suddenly embroiled in controversy – over the two biggest unsolved murder cases in American history. First, a cartoon in Haaretz, Israel’s liberal flagship newspaper, depicts Netanyahu as a kamikaze pilot flying a jetliner into the World Trade Center. Then Netanyahu, angered at being called a “chickenshit,” snarls out a threat to Obama referencing the famous Grassy Knoll from whence JFK’s brains were blown out.



What in tarnation was THAT about?
It seems that the insane war party (the neocons) and the relatively restrained war party (the realists) are trading threats – by referencing the two most infamous (and most obviously true) “conspiracy theories” of the 20th and 21st centuries.
The Netanyahu-as-9/11-pilot cartoon was the realists threatening “chickenshit” Bibi. They had already told him he was too chickenshit to start a war, and too chickenshit to even think about making peace. The cartoon was a not-so-subtle reminder: “Any time we want, we can reveal the truth about 9/11 and have you and your neocon friends and assets hanged from a thousand lampposts.”
Bibi responded with his “grassy knoll” reference – yet another threat to Obama’s life, like Jewish Times editor Andrew Adler’s calling on the Mossad to assassinate Obama, and the various White House “intrusions” that have showed the President cannot be protected from the world’s biggest and baddest international crime syndicate.
It isn’t just that Barrack and Bibi REALLY hate each other (though they obviously do). It seems there is an ever-widening gap between the neocon chickenhawk loonies lined up behind Bibi, and the grownups in the room including POTUS and handlers.
And Bibi seems to be the one who is self-destructing…
…by turning into a cartoon character…
…a sort of not-so-wiley Coyote.
First, the Netanyahu toon “bombed” at the United Nations.
Now he’s flying a 9/11 plane into the Grassy Knoll.
Whatever will Bibi think of next?
Let’s imagine Bibi decides to really, truly fly a 9/11 plane into the Grassy Knoll – by arranging another JFK-style assassination of the President of the United States, as Andrew Adler suggested in that heart-warming editorial. Bibi’s hope would be that Joe “I am a Zionist” Biden would be another LBJ – a treasonous psychopath who in 1967 conspired with the Israelis to help them steal Jerusalem and murder the USS Liberty sailors. If Joe Biden were like LBJ, he would help traitors kill the President, then conspire with the Israelis to enable a newer, bigger 9/11-style false flag followed by war on Iran.
But Biden isn’t LBJ, and the grownups in the room aren’t likely to let that happen. An Obama assassination would more likely backfire, causing the already strained US-Israel relationship to snap.
Netanyahu’s reference to the grassy knoll is just the latest in a series of high profile “conspiracy theory” references by neocon assets in politics and media. First there was David Cameron saying that nonviolent extremists such as 9/11 truthers are as bad as ISIS and must be dealt with the same way. Then Canadian reporter Brian Lilley coined the phrase “terrorist truthers” equating truth-telling with blowing people up.

[Legal notice to Brian Lilley: Since I trademarked the expression Truth Jihad, every time anyone uses a phrase like "terrorist truther" they have to send me a dollar.]

Is the sudden rash of “conspiracy” references part of some new neocon agenda?
Let’s break it down. First, all three were threats. Cameron and Lilley were threatening truthers. Netanyahu was threatening Obama.
All three threats included the implication “we can kill people and you’ll never know for sure what hit you.” Cameron and Lilley were saying (between the lines): “We can commit huge crimes like 9/11 with impunity – and if necessary kill or imprison the people who tell the truth about them.” This message reiterates Obama’s former Zionist information czar Cass Sunstein’s assertion that some day it may be necessary to outlaw conspiracy theories, but in the meantime the government should “disable the purveyors of conspiracy theories” by means including “cognitive infiltration.”
Netanyahu’s grassy knoll reference likewise alludes to high-level conspirators’ ability to cover up their crimes. The “grassy knoll,” in popular culture, connotes conspiracy-theory confusion…resulting in perpetrator impunity. In mainstream culture controlled by mainstream media, nobody will ever know for sure who killed JFK or who orchestrated 9/11, and all discussion of such topics is just more “grassy knoll” theorizing.
So all three neocons were bragging/threatening: “We can blow up skyscrapers and murder presidents, and if you try to stop us, we can confuse you and if necessary ‘disable’ or imprison you.”
But such brags/threats would not be necessary if the neocons were feeling secure. The three conspiracy blurt-outs are a tribute to the efficacy of the truth movement – and a symptom of neocon fear. The noose is tightening around their necks, so they are shrieking louder and louder that they are above the law and will never, ever get caught.


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“Chickenshit” Post 2 of 2… Uri Avnery VT 11-2-14… “Chickenshit”

Posted on 2014/11/03 by kauilapele
This is becoming a little messy, I suppose, with all this “chickenshit” flying around the planet right now. It appears that, yes, “The ‘chickenshit’ has indeed ‘hit the fan’.”
I really enjoyed a few of the points both Jim Dean and Uri have made here, which I highlight below.

[Jim Dean] “…Regardless of the upcoming election, America may be preparing to serve Israel its divorce papers. This 66-year-old liaison is on the rocks…
“Despite the fact that our congress is a den of over-priced escorts with little sign of change on the horizon, more and more working-class persons are beginning to envision that a redefining moment of diplomatic engagement with Israel may be imminent.
“…Uri raises a valid point about the successful triangulation that Netanyahu has used to ensnare America’s confused and self-serving political parties, who understand the Mideast only enough to sniff out potential sources of campaign funding. But, for the millions of Americans who are not on the take, we see the diplomatic dance for the fraud that it is.
[Uri Avnery] “This week, it happened. An unnamed, very high-ranking US official referred to chickenshit in an interview with the respected American journalist who bears the very Jewish name of Jeffrey Goldberg… No high-ranking official would use such a term for publication without the express permission of the President of the United States of America. So here we are.
“Netanyahu never entertained even for a moment the idea of making peace. His entire upbringing makes this quite impossible. His late father, Ben-Zion, was such an extreme and rigid nationalist, that compared to him Vladimir Jabotinsky, the Zionist right-wing leader, looked like a leftist pacifist.
“Every word Binyamin Netanyahu has ever uttered in favor of peace and the Two-State solution was a blatant lie. For him to advocate a Palestinian state is like the Chief Rabbi advocating eating pork on Yom Kippur. Any American diplomat who does not know this should be transferred at once to Micronesia (or Palau).
“Israel is totally dependent on the US – not 99%, but 100%… The money comes from the yearly tribute the US pays to Israel.
“The US is now a dysfunctional democracy. In a normal democracy – say the UK or Germany – there are two central parties, or party coalitions, which face each other. They are both “mainstream” and the differences between them are minor. They succeed each other from time to time without much ado. The citizens hardly notice. Not in the US. Not anymore.
“Obama could still do a lot for peace between Israel and Palestine, a peace supported by the entire pro-American Arab bloc – something clearly in the US national interest, not to mention ours. For that, courage is needed. And – yes – a little more Obsessive Messianism.”

Chickenshit
by Uri Avnery, with Gush Shalom

[ Editor’s note:  Uri has written another skillfully-nuanced piece designed to poke the eagle. Regardless of the upcoming election, America may be preparing to serve Israel its divorce papers. This 66-year-old liaison is on the rocks. As an arranged union in 1948, it was a childhood marriage anyway, and ill-advised. Conjugal rights — except between Bibi and congress — are over.


And, as in many divorces, where the abuser can not perceive that it’s over because everything had seemed to have been going his way, the other good spouse has awakened — with a jolt. He or she realizes that they have been taken for a ride by a con artist.
While many of our entreaties for compassion and restraint have been ignored, Americans have watched as our BFF Israelis have nuked Syria and spread phosphorous weapons on Gaza babies and run over Rachel Corrie with a bulldozer during their inexorable conquest of The Levant.
Despite the fact that our congress is a den of over-priced escorts with little sign of change on the horizon, more and more working-class persons are beginning to envision that a redefining moment of diplomatic engagement with Israel may be imminent.
True, Uri raises a valid point about the successful triangulation that Netanyahu has used to ensnare America’s confused and self-serving political parties, who understand the Mideast only enough to sniff out potential sources of campaign funding. But, for the millions of Americans who are not on the take, we see the diplomatic dance for the fraud that it is.
Bibi is doing his best diplomatic in-your-face line dance that he does so well, and that his handlers have authorized him to do. Since the entire cat-fight between the Democrats and Republicans is merely biennial vaudeville, Uri correctly notes that the US is a dysfunctional democracy. As Jim Dean has said on numerous occasions, “It is a pretend-a-democracy.”  This begs the question, when are we going to take it back? We might not have long to wait… Jim W. Dean and Erica P. Wissinger ]

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-  First published  …  November 1, 2014  -

 
When a high-ranking official of one country calls the leader of another country “chickenshit”, it may be assumed that the relations between the two countries are not at their best. In fact, they may be considered somewhat less than cordial.
This week, it happened. An unnamed, very high-ranking US official referred to chickenshit in an interview with the respected American journalist who bears the very Jewish name of Jeffrey Goldberg.
No high-ranking official would use such a term for publication without the express permission of the President of the United States of America. So here we are. History has seen many strange relationships between nations. But I dare say none stranger than that existing between Israel and the US.
On the face of it, no two states could be closer to each other. Just a minor example: the day the memorable Chickenshit remark made headlines, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution calling upon the US to put an end to its 50-year old embargo on Cuba. 188 countries, including the whole spectrum of EU and NATO countries, voted in favor. Two states voted against: the US and Israel.
Two countries against the entire world? No, not entirely. Micronesia, Palau and the Marshal Islands abstained. (These three mighty island nations generally support Israel, too, though few Israelis could place them on the map.) Throughout the years, in hundreds of UN votes, Israel has stood loyally with the US, and vice versa. An unshakable alliance, so it seemed. And now they call our valiant Prime Minister chickenshit?

The official based his uncomplimentary remark on Binyamin Netanyahu’s inclination to bomb Iran, as threatened repeatedly, as well as on Netanyahu’s unwillingness to make peace with the Palestinians.

The first accusation is unfounded, since Netanyahu never seriously considered an attack on Iran. Some of my readers may remember that, from the first day, I assured them that such an attack would not happen, without even leaving myself a loophole in case I might be wrong.
I knew that such an attack was quite out of the question. And not only because the entire Israeli defense establishment was against it.
The second accusation is even more groundless. Netanyahu did not chicken out of making peace. This would presuppose that he wanted peace in the first place. If the Americans really believe so, they should read a few good articles — especially mine.
Netanyahu never entertained even for a moment the idea of making peace. His entire upbringing makes this quite impossible. His late father, Ben-Zion, was such an extreme and rigid nationalist, that compared to him Vladimir Jabotinsky, the Zionist right-wing leader, looked like a leftist pacifist.
Every word Binyamin Netanyahu has ever uttered in favor of peace and the Two-State solution was a blatant lie. For him to advocate a Palestinian state is like the Chief Rabbi advocating eating pork on Yom Kippur. Any American diplomat who does not know this should be transferred at once to Micronesia (or Palau).

Lately, it seems that Netanyahu has been doing everything in his power to provoke a quarrel with the US government. At first sight, this looks like an act of lunacy, an act so dangerous that any competent psychiatrist would commit him to the closed wing of an asylum.

Israel is totally dependent on the US – not 99%, but 100%. On the very same day as the publication of the Chickenshit statement, the US agreed to sell Israel a second squadron of F-35 fighter planes, after the sale of the first 19 planes (which costs 2.35 billion dollars). The money comes from the yearly tribute the US pays to Israel.
Without the automatic US veto on all UN Security Council resolutions not approved by the Israeli government, there would have long been a State of Palestine as a full-fledged member of the UN.
A cornerstone of our foreign relations is the belief of many countries that, in order to gain entrance to the favors of the US Congress, they first need to bribe the gatekeeper – Israel. And so on.
Literally every Israeli is convinced that our relationship with the US is the lifeline of the state. If there is anything at all on which Israelis of all age groups, communities, beliefs and political orientations are unanimous, it is this conviction.
So how come our prime minister is working full-time on destroying the relationship between the two governments? When our Minister of Defense, Moshe Ya’alon, visited Washington DC this week, all his requests to meet US cabinet ministers and other high officials were categorically refused, except for a meeting with his colleague, Chuck Hagel, who could not very well object. It was an unprecedented, open insult.
Ya’alon, a former Chief of Staff of the army, is not considered a genius. Some believe that it would have been better if he had stayed at his former profession – milking cows in a kibbutz. When he declared that John Kerry suffered from an “Obsessive Messianism” in his efforts to achieve peace between Israel and Palestine, both Kerry and President Barack Obama were deeply offended.
But such statements by Israeli cabinet ministers have become routine. So have the sharp rebuttals of official US spokesmen and spokeswomen. These are ignored by the Israeli public.

Binyamin Netanyahu is no fool. Chickenshit or not, unlike Ya’alon he is considered smart and intelligent. So what is he doing?

There is method in his madness. Netanyahu grew up in the United States. When his father was boycotted by Israeli academia, which refused to take him seriously as an historian, the family moved to a suburb of Philadelphia. Binyamin prides himself on having an intimate knowledge of the US. What is he thinking about?
He knows that Israel controls the US Congress. No American politician could possibly be reelected if he voiced even the slightest hint of criticism of the “Jewish State”. AIPAC, the most powerful lobby in Washington (apart from the National Rifle Association) will see to that. The powerful grip the Jewish lobby has on the media is a further guarantee.
In Netanyahu’s view, in any confrontation between Congress and the White House over Israel, the President is bound to lose. So there is nothing to be afraid of.
Netanyahu, in fact, is playing roulette with all the capital of Israel in the vast casino called the USA. Perhaps he has been infected by his mentor and protector, the Casino Czar Sheldon Adelson, who has a hand in conducting Israeli policy in the US.
It was Adelson who appointed the Israeli ambassador in Washington, Ron Dremer, a prominent activist of the Republican party, who is detested by the White House. In order to appreciate the magnitude of Netanyahu’s gamble with us as chips, one has to visualize the state of the union.

The US is now a dysfunctional democracy. In a normal democracy – say the UK or Germany – there are two central parties, or party coalitions, which face each other. They are both “mainstream” and the differences between them are minor. They succeed each other from time to time without much ado. The citizens hardly notice. Not in the US. Not anymore.

The American public is now deeply divided between two camps, which hate each other from the bottom of their hearts (if they have any). This hatred is abysmal.
One is the party of the ultra-rich, who defend their privileges; the other belongs to the moderately wealthy and serves their interests. The ideologies of the two camps are diametrically opposed. Therefore, they cannot agree practically on anything.
Anything the Democrats do is considered almost treason by the Republicans; anything the Republicans advocate is considered by the Democrats as stupid, if not crazy.
The Republicans, who control Congress (and may do so even more firmly in a few days time) are out to immobilize the administration. Once they even stopped all federal payments, making the running of the state impossible.
A consistent joint foreign policy is out of the question. I am not sure that the situation on the eve of the great Civil War was much worse.
During the last presidential elections, he almost openly supported Mitt Romney, the opponent of Obama, thus practically declaring war on the present administration. The radical anti-Obama statements made now by Israeli leaders are used – and designed to be used – by Republican candidates against their Democratic opponents.

The Democrats make strenuous efforts to woo Jewish voters and donors by flattering Israel in the most outrageous terms, promising to support each and every action of the Israeli government, now and for all eternity, be it what it may. Inadvertently, they stick knives into the back of the Israeli peace forces, making the fight for peace even more Herculean.
But even if the mid-term elections make the House and the Senate even more subservient to the Israeli right-wing, Obama will be around for two more years. In a way, having no more elections to fear, he will be freer than before to obstruct Netanyahu.
I wish he would. But I do not entertain too much hope. Even as a lame duck, he will still have to consider the interests of the next Democratic candidate for the White House.
Obama could still do a lot for peace between Israel and Palestine, a peace supported by the entire pro-American Arab bloc – something clearly in the US national interest, not to mention ours. For that, courage is needed. And – yes – a little more Obsessive Messianism.


Thanks to KP at: http://kauilapele.wordpress.com