http://blog.z-word.com/2009/01/obamas-resounding-words/ Commentary about Zionism, anti-Zionism, antisemitism and the conflict in the Middle East Tue, 22 May 2012 16:39:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5-RC1.1 http://blog.z-word.com/2009/01/obamas-resounding-words/#comment-3298 Karl Pfeifer Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:44:52 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=922#comment-3298 Here in Vienna the left-liberal daily Der Standard welcomed today Barack Obama with an article of Norman Birnbaum, coeditor of "The Nation". He wrote a paragraph about USA-Israel relations and predicts that – my retranslation from the German - "our strange version of the Babylonian captivity - with the Israelis as masters will not end soon." Nevertheless Birnbaum hopes that “rationality” will slowly progress. ”Though this be madness, yet ther’s method in’t” Such pronouncements of an American intellectual are most welcome in a country where only 23 years ago during the election campaign for Kurt Waldheim the idea was promoted that the "East coast" (code word for USA Jews) rules America. It is the very old stereotype of the Jewish world conspiracy. Here in Vienna the left-liberal daily Der Standard welcomed today Barack Obama with an article of Norman Birnbaum, coeditor of “The Nation”.
He wrote a paragraph about USA-Israel relations and predicts that – my retranslation from the German - “our strange version of the Babylonian captivity - with the Israelis as masters will not end soon.” Nevertheless Birnbaum hopes that “rationality” will slowly progress.
”Though this be madness, yet ther’s method in’t”
Such pronouncements of an American intellectual are most welcome in a country where only 23 years ago during the election campaign for Kurt Waldheim the idea was promoted that the “East coast” (code word for USA Jews) rules America. It is the very old stereotype of the Jewish world conspiracy.

]]> http://blog.z-word.com/2009/01/obamas-resounding-words/#comment-3297 Paolo Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:52:27 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=922#comment-3297 Such amazing words. We did it you guys, and I know I'm ready to help be the change, and become the great nation Obama knows we can become. Such amazing words. We did it you guys, and I know I’m ready to help be the change, and become the great nation Obama knows we can become.

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