Journalist Max Blumenthal Takes RFK Jr to School About Israel
I also learned a lot from this interview on the Jimmy Dore Show
Bobs is not going to interview with Max.
Max is brilliant and destroys RFK Jr’s confusing lies about the Israel/Palestine issue.
I hope that if you think this issue doesn’t matter, or, is not important, then Max will give you some food for thought.
Again, if there is anyone out there who doesn’t think that the Israel/Palestine issue is so important, there is one person in the world who DOES, and that’s RFK, Jr. He won’t stop doubling down on his Likudnik agit-crap!
RFK Jr is so massively WRONG about Israel, it makes me question his other claims and beliefs—if I didn’t have other sources to confirm what I have come to know is true, I would doubt RFK on vaccines, lockdowns, and health freedom.
Kennedy has less than zero chance to get the Democrat nomination, so why does he keep insisting on making these unforced errors?
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I suspect that losing tires has never been a problem for Kammie.
From my friend, Sam Husseini’s Substack (please subscribe, he’s good on bio-weapons and biolabs, as well)
Is RFK Jr. Campaign Part of an Establishment Agenda — a More Insidious Sheepdog?
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His defense of Israel, and also his affiliation with the Democratic Party, is truly bizarre. Does he actually think the Democrats are going to fall in love with him because he grovels at the altar of Zionism? Is he starting to believe he is going to become president? 🤔
I may have already put in my 2¢ on the question of why RFK Jr.* persists in expressing his reactionary Zionist stance, but unfortunately there's no way to keep track of Substack comments that I know of.
* Point of order: the living RFK is indeed nominally a "Junior", but it's annoying and tiresome to have to add that "Jr." all the time when it's obvious that we're not referring to his deceased father. I don't want to be the only one to do it, but I wish or hope that at some point sooner than later we just use "RFK" when the context is obvious that it's "Junior".
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Maybe my guess is just too simplistic, but it may well be that RFK may not think, or realize, that he's "doubling down" or going out of his way to flog his abysmal Zionist perspective. He may simply be telling it like it is (as he sees it, obviously).
Yes, it's an ultra-politicized topic, but I don't think he necessarily is hyping it for the sake of perceived political gain. Nor do I think he's been bribed or co-opted to become a virtual Hasbara proselytizer.
Once again, I offer an "anecdotal" comparison or parallel: I have a close relative, X., now 73, who is highly intelligent and educated, and a polyglot. In most areas, he's politically sophisticated, skeptical, and long ago rejected conventional mass-media as a source of information and analysis. He's the only fellow scamdemic-skeptic and resister in my small and dwindling nuclear family, and we often agree on sociopolitical issues despite my more "radical" perspective.
But, perhaps because he's also a devout Roman Catholic, when it comes to Israel X. hews to the unctuous pop-culture script we acquired in parochial school in the early 1960s. I won't repeat it all, but it's the standard postwar narrative that Israel was a much-needed and deserved refuge for Holocaust victims, is the only "democracy" in the Middle East, albeit a still-persecuted "underdog", etc.
Apart from championing Israel's "right to exist", X. still sentimentally thinks of Israel as the "Holy Land". I didn't know all this until just a couple of years ago, when I shared a video expressing criticism of Israel as a colonial settler-state, and linking Israeli intelligence and plutocrats to the events of September 11, 2001.
X. was indignant and horrified. Incredibly, he actually claimed that he'd never heard the term "Zionist" used as a pejorative before. "What is all this 'Zionist'business?" he asked angrily. "Doesn't 'Zionist' just mean someone who believes that Israel deserves to be a state?".
To me, there was such a contrast to his usual thoughtful and well-informed views that it was as if he'd just swallowed extra-strength Stupid Pills; X.'s mindset and attitude toward Israel, as noted, is pure unreconstructed public-relations glurge that seemed to emerge from a time capsule, unaffected by real-world events in the ensuing decades.
Anecdotal, I know, but although I can't abide listening to much of RFK's appalling perspective, the quality and "vibe" is exactly, EXACTLY, like X. I'm certainly not excusing it, but I think it's possible that, like X., he is so wedded to this familiar sanitized view that he persists out of sheer cranio-rectal inversion because he thinks his abysmal perspective is commonsensical and correct. 🤔🤨