eagleye13 Loc: Fl

It’s not bigoted to call out the Israel lobby over Iran Deal
US Politics Annie Robbins on August 9,

The spontaneous eruption on social media assaulting Chuck Schumer’s decision to reject what many Americans consider to be, potentially, the greatest diplomatic feat in US foreign policy since Nixon’s ’72 trip to China, and potentially the pinnacle of Obama’s presidential legacy
— the Iran Deal — has ticked off editors at Tablet Magazine. Tablet says that supporters of the deal are resorting to bigoted appeals.

“Crossing a Line to Sell a Deal” is a cornucopia of accusatory rhetoric in an attempt to paint a big thick red line around words no one is allowed to say in US politics because they’re — anti-Semitic. Those words include

Murmuring about “money” and “lobbying” and “foreign interests”

Obama, Tablet says, is raising dual loyalty accusations, the “dark, nasty stuff we might expect to hear at a white power rally.”

Sorry, I don’t buy it. If lobbyists are spending 40 million dollars in the next 2 months flagellating the public (and Congress members) with propaganda against the Iran Deal– with the result that polling numbers on the Iran deal are actually changing in the negative direction– don’t expect people who support the deal to fight for it without identifying the real opponent, “lobby” and “money” and “Israel”.....

- See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2015/08/semitic-israel-lobby?utm_source=Mondoweiss%2BList&utm_campaign=eb6a9d08f9-#sthash.OvRuhJBI.dpuf


There's some people with guts who are standing up to the Israel Lobby and calling them out for what they are - bullies and dual loyalist traitors. Obama maybe and is in my opinion a marxist leninist communist, a muslim and a far left wing socialist tyrant, but he's finally done one thing right in coming out swinging and speaking against this pernicious traitorous Israel lobby and the neocon fascist Republican warmonger hawks and some Democrats like Shumer and Lieberman, etc., who are in thrall to this un-American foreign lobby group AIPAC, working on American soil to subvert our U.S. Congress like mindless zombies, and put them all under the control of a foreign government with Netanyahu, not the people, telling them what to do ,and bribing or blackmailing them all to subdue them to their will. Like them or not, It goes beyond religion, politics, whatever your views are, this is criminal and treason, and needs to be prosecuted by the FBI and treated this way as a judicial/law-enforcement issue or you can kiss America goodbye forever.

Grugore

If foreign powers were negotiating a deal that could have a negative impact on the U.S. what do you think we would do? We would do everything in our power to influence it in our favor. This is all Israel is doing. Because you know that if Iran gets nukes their first target will be Israel. Israel has a vested interest in this deal. Their survival as a nation depends on Iran not getting nukes. And Obummer is handing them to Iran on a silver platter.

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

Bull Shit!
how many nukes has Israel got?
Somewhere around 200.
The US has to stop letting those parasites and terrorists from running our foreign policy.

Scoop Henderson Loc: The Rez, (I am from Egypt)

Pernicious, traitorous, Israeli lobby is much more succinct than my Anti-American label. Thank you

Grugore

Any negotiations with Iran directly affect Israel. They have every right to get involved.

Boo_Boo Loc: Jellystone

Israel has about 80, however when was the last time you saw them march and yell, death to anyone? However, how many marches has there been in Iran where the demonstrators carried signs that read "Death to America" and "death to Israel"...... can we say as late as 14 July 2015?

http://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/Nuclearweaponswhohaswhat

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6160/iran-quds-day-death-america-israel

And Israel has had nukes for years.... how many have they used against anyone?

Your hatred of Israel and Jews is just incomprehensible. Why do you hate them so much?? Have you received help for your abnormal emotions?

Scoop Henderson Loc: The Rez, (I am from Egypt)

You simply espouse the time worn, out of date party line. Enough is enough is enough of American support for the continued occupation of Palestine by the nomadic Jewish tribe. Read your own words, "Death to America" and "death to Israel". The blunder of 1948 set it off, and the Muslim rage is now off the charts, directed at us, on our soil. Sell Israel, and off the top repay USA every dime that went to that litter box. Pro-Israel is Anti- American.

Boo_Boo Loc: Jellystone

So you want your money back. Just how much have YOU personally given to Israel? I know that I certainly have enough in petty cash to cover what YOU HAVE PERSONALLY Given. I do hope that you have not had to do without so that a Jew might live. I hope you are also asking Germany, Russian, Poland, Australian, China, Japan, South Korea, Palestine, Egypt, Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya.....and others for your money back from them too. I suppose in the end, you could wind up a wealthy individual....if that is how you count wealth.

Much of the following was extrapolated from articles read or books, I am so sorry, I can not provide the exact references or give proper credit where it is due. So those who will yell that I plagiarized other people's work, you are right. I just do not know where and when I lifted the hard work and thoughts of others.

What if there was no Israel? No Jew, how would the world be better?



You think that the world would be better without Israel and Jews. You are not alone, there was a time where the Jew was admired as "those plucky Jews" who survived against all odds and made democracy and the desert bloom in a climate hostile to both liberty and greenery. This attitude has shifted, now there is a push to delegitimize Israel. And this comes in two guises; first the soft version. Israel is blamed for whatever ails the Middle East and the corruption of America’s foreign policy. This attitude is pervasive and the standard fare of editorials around the world and should you mistakenly pick up an Arab-Islamic press for the “truth” you will find the hate and venom oozing from the pages for Jews in general. And as you, the hard line questions the very existence of Israel. According to this dispensation, it is Israel as such, and not its behavior, that lies at the root of troubles in the Middle East. Hence the "statocidal" conclusion that Israel’s birth, midwifed by the Soviet Union and Great Brittan in 1948, was a grievous mistake, grandiose and worthy as it may have been at the time.

The soft version is familiar enough. One motif is the "wagging the dog" theory. Thus, in the United States, the "Jewish lobby" and a cabal of neoconservatives have bamboozled the government into a mindless pro-Israel policy inimical to the national interest. This view attributes, as has happened so often in history, too much clout to the Jews. And behind this charge lurks a more general one — that it is somehow antidemocratic for subnational groups to throw themselves into the hurly-burly of politics when it comes to foreign policy. But let us count the ways in which subnational entities battle over the national interest: unions and corporations clamor for tariffs and tax loopholes; nongovernmental organizations agitate for humanitarian intervention; and Cuban Americans keep us from smoking cheroots from the Vuelta Abajo. In previous years, Poles militated in favor of Solidarity, African Americans against Apartheid South Africa, and Latvians against the Soviet Union. In other words, the democratic melee has never stopped at the water’s edge.

Another soft version is the "root-cause" theory in its many variations. Because the "obstinate" and "recalcitrant" Israelis are the main culprits, they must be punished and pushed back for the sake of peace. "Put pressure on Israel"; "cut economic and military aid"; "serve them notice that we will not condone their brutalities" — these have been the boilerplate homilies, indeed the obsessions, of the chattering classes and the foreign-office establishment for decades. Yet, as Sigmund Freud reminded us, obsessions tend to spread. And so there are ever more creative addenda to the well-wrought root-cause theory. Anatol Lieven of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace argues that what is happening between Israelis and Palestinians is a "tremendous obstacle to democratization because it inflames all the worst, most regressive aspects of Arab nationalism and Arab culture." In other words, the conflict drives the pathology, and not the other way around — which is like the street fighter explaining to the police: "It all started when this guy hit back."

The problem with this root-cause argument is threefold: It blurs, if not reverses, cause and effect. It ignores a myriad of conflicts unrelated to Israel. And it absolves the Arabs of culpability, shifting the blame to you know whom. If one believes former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter, the Arab-Islamic quest for weapons of mass destruction, and by extension the war against Iraq, are also made in Israel. "As long as Israel has nuclear weapons," Ritter opines, "it has chosen to take a path that is inherently confrontational.… Now the Arab countries, the Muslim world, is not about to sit back and let this happen, so they will seek their own deterrent. We saw this in Iraq, not only with a nuclear deterrent but also with a biological weapons deterrent… that the Iraqis were developing to offset the Israeli nuclear superiority."

This theory would be engaging if it did not collide with some inconvenient facts. Iraqis didn’t use their weapons of mass destruction against the Israeli usurper but against fellow Muslims during the Iran-Iraq War, and against fellow Iraqis in the poison-gas attack against Kurds in Halabja in 1988 — neither of whom were brandishing any nuclear weapons. As for the Iraqi nuclear program, we now have the "Duelfer Report," based on the debriefing of Iraqi regime loyalists, which concluded: "Iran was the pre-eminent motivator of this policy. All senior-level Iraqi officials considered Iran to be Iraq’s principal enemy in the region. The wish to balance Israel and acquire status and influence in the Arab world were also considerations, but secondary."

Now to the hard version. Ever so subtly, a more baleful tone slips into this narrative: Israel is not merely an unruly neighbor but an unwelcome intruder. Still timidly uttered outside the Arab world, this version’s proponents in the West bestride the stage as truth-sayers who dare to defy taboo. Thus, the British writer A.N. Wilson declares that he has reluctantly come to the conclusion that Israel, through its own actions, has proven it does not have the right to exist. And, following Sept. 11, 2001, Brazilian scholar Jose Arthur Giannotti said: "Let us agree that the history of the Middle East would be entirely different without the State of Israel, which opened a wound between Islam and the West. Can you get rid of Muslim terrorism without getting rid of this wound which is the source of the frustration of potential terrorists?"

The very idea of a Jewish state is an "anachronism," argues Tony Judt, a professor and director of the Remarque Institute at New York University. It resembles a "late-nineteenth-century separatist project" that has "no place" in this wondrous new world moving toward the teleological perfection of multiethnic and multicultural togetherness bound together by international law. The time has come to "think the unthinkable," hence, to ditch this Jewish state for a binational one, guaranteed, of course, by international force.

So let us assume that Israel is an anachronism and a historical mistake without which the Arab-Islamic world stretching from Algeria to Egypt, from Syria to Pakistan, would be a far happier place, above all because the original sin, the establishment of Israel, never would have been committed. Then let’s move from the past to the present, pretending that we could wave a mighty magic wand, and "poof," Israel disappears from the map.

Let us start the what-if procession in 1948, when Israel was born in war. Would stillbirth have nipped the Palestinian problem in the bud? Not quite. Egypt, Transjordan (now Jordan), Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon marched on Haifa and Tel Aviv not to liberate Palestine, but to grab it. The invasion was a textbook competitive power play by neighboring states intent on acquiring territory for themselves. If they had been victorious, a Palestinian state would not have emerged, and there still would have been plenty of refugees. (Recall that half the population of Kuwait fled Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s "liberation" of that country in 1990.) Indeed, assuming that Palestinian nationalism had awakened when it did in the late 1960s and 1970s, the Palestinians might now be dispatching suicide bombers to Egypt, Syria, and elsewhere.

Let us imagine Israel had disappeared in 1967, instead of occupying the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, which were held, respectively, by Jordan’s King Hussein and Egypt’s President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Would they have relinquished their possessions to Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat and thrown in Haifa and Tel Aviv for good measure? Not likely. The two potentates, enemies in all but name, were united only by their common hatred and fear of Arafat, the founder of Fatah (the Palestine National Liberation Movement) and rightly suspected of plotting against Arab regimes. In short, the "root cause" of Palestinian statelessness would have persisted, even in Israel’s absence.

Let us finally assume, through a thought experiment, that Israel goes "poof" today. How would this development affect the political pathologies of the Middle East? Only those who think the Palestinian issue is at the core of the Middle East conflict would lightly predict a happy career for this most dysfunctional region once Israel vanishes. For there is no such thing as "the" conflict. A quick count reveals five ways in which the region’s fortunes would remain stunted — or worse:

States vs. States: Israel’s elimination from the regional balance would hardly bolster intra-Arab amity. The retraction of the colonial powers, Britain and France, in the mid-20th century left behind a bunch of young Arab states seeking to redraw the map of the region. From the very beginning, Syria laid claim to Lebanon. In 1970, only the Israeli military deterred Damascus from invading Jordan under the pretext of supporting a Palestinian uprising. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Nasser’s Egypt proclaimed itself the avatar of pan-Arabism, intervening in Yemen during the 1960s. Nasser’s successor, President Anwar Sadat, was embroiled in on-and-off clashes with Libya throughout the late 1970s. Syria marched into Lebanon in 1976 and then effectively annexed the country 15 years later, and Iraq launched two wars against fellow Muslim states: Iran in 1980, Kuwait in 1990. The war against Iran was the longest conventional war of the 20th century. None of these conflicts is related to the Israeli-Palestinian one. Indeed, Israel’s disappearance would only liberate military assets for use in such internal rivalries.

Believers vs. Believers: Those who think that the Middle East conflict is a "Muslim-Jewish thing" had better take a closer look at the score card: 14 years of sectarian bloodshed in Lebanon; Saddam’s campaign of extinction against the Shia in the aftermath of the first Gulf War; Syria’s massacre of 20,000 people in the Muslim Brotherhood stronghold of Hama in 1982; and terrorist violence against Egyptian Christians in the 1990s. Add to this tally intraconfessional oppression, such as in Saudi Arabia, where the fundamentalist Wahhabi sect wields the truncheon of state power to inflict its dour lifestyle on the less devout.

Ideologies vs. Ideologies: Zionism is not the only "ism" in the region, which is rife with competing ideologies. Even though the Baathist parties in Syria and Iraq sprang from the same fascist European roots, both have vied for precedence in the Middle East. Nasser wielded pan-Arabism-cum-socialism against the Arab nation-state. And both Baathists and Nasserites have opposed the monarchies, such as in Jordan. Khomeinist Iran and Wahhabite Saudi Arabia remain mortal enemies. What is the connection to the Arab-Israeli conflict? Nil, with the exception of Hamas, a terror army of the faithful once supported by Israel as a rival to the Palestine Liberation Organization and now responsible for many suicide bombings in Israel. But will Hamas disband once Israel is gone? Hardly. Hamas has bigger ambitions than eliminating the "Zionist entity." The organization seeks nothing less than a unified Arab state under a regime of God.

Reactionary Utopia vs. Modernity: A common enmity toward Israel is the only thing that prevents Arab modernizers and traditionalists from tearing their societies apart. Fundamentalists vie against secularists and reformist Muslims for the fusion of mosque and state under the green flag of the Prophet. And a barely concealed class struggle pits a minuscule bourgeoisie and millions of unemployed young men against the power structure, usually a form of statist cronyism that controls the means of production. Far from creating tensions, Israel actually contains the antagonisms in the world around it.

Regimes vs. Peoples: The existence of Israel cannot explain the breadth and depth of the Mukhabarat states (secret police states) throughout the Middle East. With the exceptions of Jordan, Morocco, and the Gulf sheikdoms, which gingerly practice an enlightened monarchism, all Arab countries (plus Iran and Pakistan) are but variations of despotism — from the dynastic dictatorship of Syria to the authoritarianism of Egypt. International strife in Algeria has killed nearly 100,000, with no letup in sight. Saddam’s victims are said to number 300,000. After the Khomeinists took power in 1979, Iran was embroiled not only in the Iran-Iraq War but also in barely contained civil unrest into the 1980s. Pakistan is an explosion waiting to happen. Ruthless suppression is the price of stability in this region.

Again, it would take a florid imagination to surmise that factoring Israel out of the Middle East equation would produce liberal democracy in the region. It might be plausible to argue that the dialectic of enmity somehow favors dictatorship in "frontline states" such as Egypt and Syria — governments that invoke the proximity of the "Zionist threat" as a pretext to suppress dissent. But how then to explain the mayhem in faraway Algeria, the bizarre cult-of-personality regime in Libya, the pious kleptocracy of Saudi Arabia, the clerical despotism of Iran, or democracy’s enduring failure to take root in Pakistan? Did Israel somehow cause the various putsches that produced the republic of fear in Iraq? If Jordan, the state sharing the longest border with Israel, can experiment with constitutional monarchy, why not Syria?

It won’t do to lay the democracy and development deficits of the Arab world on the doorstep of the Jewish state. Israel is a pretext, not a cause, and therefore its dispatch will not heal the self-inflicted wounds of the Arab-Islamic world. Nor will the mild version of "statocide," a binational state, do the trick — not in view of the "civilization of clashes" (to borrow a term from British historian Niall Ferguson) that is the hallmark of Arab political culture. The mortal struggle between Israelis and Palestinians would simply shift from the outside to the inside.

Can anybody proclaim in good conscience that these dysfunctionalities of the Arab world would vanish along with Israel? Two U.N. "Arab Human Development Reports," written by Arab authors, say no. The calamities are homemade. Stagnation and hopelessness have three root causes. The first is lack of freedom. The United Nations cites the persistence of absolute autocracies, bogus elections, judiciaries beholden to executives, and constraints on civil society. Freedom of expression and association are also sharply limited. The second root cause is lack of knowledge: Sixty-five million adults are illiterate, and some 10 million children have no schooling at all. As such, the Arab world is dropping ever further behind in scientific research and the development of information technology. Third, female participation in political and economic life is the lowest in the world. Economic growth will continue to lag as long as the potential of half the population remains largely untapped.

Will all of this right itself when that Judeo-Western insult to Arab pride finally vanishes? Will the millions of unemployed and bored young men, cannon fodder for the terrorists, vanish as well — along with one-party rule, corruption, and closed economies? This notion makes sense only if one cherishes single-cause explanations or, worse, harbors a particular animus against the Jewish state and its refusal to behave like Sweden. (Come to think of it, Sweden would not be Sweden either if it lived in the Hobbesian world of the Middle East.)

Finally, the most popular what-if issue of them all: Would the Islamic world hate the United States less if Israel vanished? Like all what-if queries, this one, too, admits only suggestive evidence. To begin, the notion that 5 million Jews are solely responsible for the rage of 1 billion or so Muslims cannot carry the weight assigned to it. Second, Arab-Islamic hatreds of the United States preceded the conquest of the West Bank and Gaza. Recall the loathing left behind by the U.S.-managed coup that restored the shah’s rule in Tehran in 1953, or the U.S. intervention in Lebanon in 1958. As soon as Britain and France left the Middle East, the United States became the dominant power and the No. 1 target. Another bit of suggestive evidence is that the fiercest (unofficial) anti-Americanism emanates from Washington’s self-styled allies in the Arab Middle East, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Is this situation because of Israel — or because it is so convenient for these regimes to "busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels" (as Shakespeare’s Henry IV put it) to distract their populations from their dependence on the "Great Satan"?

Take the Cairo Declaration against "U.S. hegemony," endorsed by 400 delegates from across the Middle East and the West in December 2002. The lengthy indictment mentions Palestine only peripherally. The central condemnation, uttered in profuse variation, targets the United States for monopolizing power "within the framework of capitalist globalization," for reinstating "colonialism," and for blocking the "emergence of forces that would shift the balance of power toward multi-polarity." In short, Global America is responsible for all the afflictions of the Arab world, with Israel coming in a distant second.

This familiar tale has an ironic twist: One of the key signers is Nader Fergany, lead author of the 2002 U.N. Arab Human Development Report. So even those who confess to the internal failures of the Arab world end up blaming "the Other." Given the enormity of the indictment, ditching Israel will not absolve the United States. Iran’s Khomeinists have it right, so to speak, when they denounce America as the "Great Satan" and Israel only as the "Little Satan," a handmaiden of U.S. power. What really riles America-haters in the Middle East is Washington’s intrusion into their affairs, be it for reasons of oil, terrorism, or weapons of mass destruction. This fact is why Osama bin Laden, having attached himself to the Palestinian cause only as an afterthought, calls the Americans the new crusaders, and the Jews their imperialist stand-ins.

None of this is to argue in favor of Israel’s continued occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, nor to excuse the cruel hardship it imposes on the Palestinians, which is pernicious, even for Israel’s own soul. But as this analysis suggests, the real source of Arab angst is the West as a palpable symbol of misery and an irresistible target of what noted Middle East scholar Fouad Ajami has called "Arab rage." The puzzle is why so many Westerners, like those who signed the Cairo Declaration, believe otherwise.
Is this anti-Semitism, as so many Jews are quick to suspect? No, but denying Israel’s legitimacy bears an uncanny resemblance to some central features of this darkest of creeds. Accordingly, the Jews are omnipotent, ubiquitous, and thus responsible for the evils of the world. Today, Israel finds itself in an analogous position, either as handmaiden or manipulator of U.S. might. The soft version sighs: "If only Israel were more reasonable…" The semihard version demands that "the United States pull the rug out from under Israel" to impose the pliancy that comes from impotence. And the hard-hard version dreams about salvation springing from Israel’s disappearance.

Why, sure — if it weren’t for that old joke from Israel’s War of Independence: While the bullets were whistling overhead and the two Jews in their foxhole were running out of rounds, one griped, "If the Brits had to give us a country not their own, why couldn’t they have given us Switzerland?" Alas, Israel is just a strip of land in the world’s most noxious neighborhood, and the cleanup hasn’t even begun.

And no post on doing away with Israel would be complete without a small mention of Jewish gifts to the world.


Theodore Maiman successfully fired the first working laser on May 16, 1960. Of course, he wasn't the first Jew involved in this innovation--it was Albert Einstein who established the theoretical foundations for the laser back in 1917. Today, Russian Jewish scientist Zhores Alferov continues to work in the area of semiconductor heterostructures. Alferov won a Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000 for this work, which led to the invention of the heterotransistor, a laser that could handle extremely high frequencies. At the time of the Nobel Prize, Hermann Grimmeiss of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said, "Without Alferov, it would not be possible to transfer all the information from satellites down to the Earth or to have so many telephone lines between cities."

The laser, a device named for the acronym "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation," focuses light on a tight spot across a narrow spectrum of colors. Lasers are used in everyday devices like DVD players and barcode scanners and specialized applications like laser surgery and welding materials. Military and law enforcement use lasers as a tool to mark targets, measure speed and set range. From weapons to entertainment, lasers impact all corners of modern life.


Paul Zoll was one of the pioneers in the development of both the cardiac pacemaker and defibrillator. Pacemakers and defibrillators have saved countless lives over the years. The former regulates the heartbeat with electrical impulses, while the latter can restart the heart in the case of dysrhythmia. Some patients awaiting surgery for a pacemaker will wear an external defibrillator to automatically shock their heart in the case of a near-fatal dysrhythmia.


While genetic engineering still has the ring of science fiction to it, the manipulation of DNA through biotechnology is currently used in medicine and agriculture. Among other applications, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are used to mass-produce insulin and create disease-resistant crops. Though genetically modified food has caused controversy, the process of genetic engineering has shown promise for treating certain kinds of cancer. In 1980, the US supreme court ruled that genetic life could be patented, setting a precedent that continues to affect financial and scientific concerns today.

The J-Connection?

Jewish American scientist Paul Berg created the first recombinant DNA molecules in 1972 by combining two viruses, which led to the development of modern genetic engineering. One year later, Herbert Boyer and his Jewish colleague Stanley Cohen created the first transgenic organism by inserting genes into an E. coli bacterium.

Stainless steel does not corrode, rust, or stain like ordinary steel. It's applications are various, from kitchen appliances to architecture to aircraft.

The J-Connection?

German Jewish chemist Hans Goldschmidt developed the process by which carbon-free chromium could be produced in 1893. Goldschmidt patented the thermite reaction in 1895, pursuing both its ability to produce very pure metals and its value in welding. Stainless steel is an alloy that is more than 10 percent chromium with a low carbon content, so Goldschmidt's discovery allowed scientists to create what would now be considered stainless steel in the early 1900s.


Mass-Energy Equivalence


Mass-energy equivalence, better known by its formula E = mc², is the concept that the mass of an object or system is a measure of its energy content. In some measure, this discovery led to the creation of the atomic bomb.

The J-Connection?

Why, Einstein, of course! While he was not the first to propose a relationship between mass and energy, he was the first to interpret mass-energy equivalence as a fundamental principle that follows from the relativistic symmetries of space and time.

Cholera & Bubonic Plague Vaccines

Cholera and the bubonic plague devastated central Asia and India in the mid-19th century. Thanks to the rise in global trade, the cholera pandemic had migrated to Europe and the United States by 1827, and spread in a series of outbreaks to Africa and South America. Cholera is recognized as one of the most widespread and deadly diseases of the 19th century, killing tens of millions of people. The bubonic plague, on the other hand, was first recorded in the sixth century. It is perhaps best known as the black death, which ravaged Europe in the middle ages in what is now considered the most deadly disease outbreak in history. But by the mid-19th century there was still no vaccine, and small outbreaks continued from India to Hawaii. Though still in existence today, the bubonic plague is near eradicated, while cholera continues to to affect millions of people.

The J-Connection?

Back in the 1300s, Jews were sometimes blamed for outbreaks of the black death. More recently, Jewish bacteriologist Waldemar Haffkine is credited as the first microbiologist to develop vaccines against cholera and bubonic plague. Risking his own life, he tested each vaccine on himself, and even moved to India to be closer to the source of the outbreaks. For his work, British surgeon Sir Joseph Lister named Haffkine "a savior of humanity," and he was knighted in 1897.

Poliomyelitis, often called polio or infantile paralysis, is an infectious disease that can cause paralysis. Major polio epidemics began to appear in the late 19th century in Europe, coming to the United States shortly thereafter. Polio quickly became one of the most dreaded childhood diseases of the 20th century, finding its most famous sufferer in US president Franklin D. Roosevelt. The race toward a vaccine culminated with successful trials in the 1950s, and now polio vaccines have reduced the number of global cases from hundreds of thousands to just under a thousand per year.

The J-Connection?

Austrian Jewish biologist Karl Landsteiner identified polio's causative agent in 1908. But the true hero is Jonas Salk, the Jewish medical researcher who developed the first successful inactive polio vaccine. The field trial for the vaccine, which took seven years to develop, involved over one million school children. When news of the vaccine's success was announced in 1955, Salk was hailed as a hero. Further, he refused to patent the vaccine, choosing to save lives rather than make a profit.


Google has changed the landscape of the Internet, and the world, forever. The company, which began as a new kind of search engine, now makes a slew of products, from Gmail and Drive to Glass and AdWords. Google leads the development of the Android mobile operating system and the browser-only Chrome operating system for the Chromebook computer. In 2011, the number of monthly unique visitors to Google.com surpassed one billion for the first time.

The J-Connection?

Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while the pair was attending Stanford University. Both founders are Jewish, and endorse the company's motto, "Don't be evil."

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

"They have every right to get involved." Kinda; But by using our money to buy politicians?

Israel is out for Israel.
They take our money/foreign aid.
We don't have to let them lead us by the nose.
We don't have to let them control "our" foreign policy.
But too many politicians are.

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

If the Arab nations did to America what America has been doing to them (for Israel); America would be yelling death to the Arabs. Some Americans already are on these threads. The MSM does not cover the atrocities committed by Israel on the Arabs. Many know why, but not enough know.

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

Pennylynn is very long winded when trying to defend Israel.
This comment by giving a history of "Jews" that have done great things; which they have.
But as always; she lumps Torah and Talmudic. Mixing the Tares with the Wheat.
PL and I have gone over this many times, and a lot was discovered. If she wants another refresher, that can be accommodated.

Backing Israel,right or wrong, has hugely cost America not only financially, but in its world wide image. IMO - A deserved image. The world is seeing what has been going on because of the web and social media. The cover up has, and is being exposed.

Scoop Henderson Loc: The Rez, (I am from Egypt)

-We is the issue on repayment, not me. The amount owing is 3 trillion.
Turn out the lights, the free lunch is over.
-Thank you for illustrating the Jewish achievements showing that they can stand on their own. We will now disban your groveling, anti American, arm twisting, oh please pity us lobby.

jack sequim wa Loc: Blanchard, Idaho

Can you name all of the Allies Israel has? The world against one nation that is anti-Israel, anti-Semitic and the leaders of Iran past a present call for the genocide of all Jewish!
This is exactly what the Bible (God) says will happen, it is prophecy! !!!
Not until post tribulation and Christ rules the nations from Jerusalem, will any of the nation behave in a godly manner, this includes Israel.

Scoop Henderson Loc: The Rez, (I am from Egypt)

Do the Buddhist's concur?

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

The world is anti-zionist.
The world is anti bully.
The world is anti-usury.
The world is waking up.
BTW; those running Israel are not Semitic, and are a very nasty sort.
They are not the "chosen". The impostors will be removed, and true Israelites and Judah will regather there.
Aren't many preparing to return to Ukraine (Gog,Takarma,Magog, etc.)