Israel Shamir is a well-known antisemitic Christian apocalyptic writer who has misrepresented his past and has been denounced as such by pro-Palestinian Muslims, Arabs, Jews, and Christians.
No reputable publisher uses his work.
Counterpunch was stupid to run his article.
-Chip
> Er, okay, just a quick question. Why have you sent an article by Nazi
> provocateur to this list? Richard Seymour
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> Easy does it. I went over some info on Israel Shamir after I read your
> post
> (and had already read Wotjek's post) and I agree Shamir is suspect----but
> of
> what, by who? His essay on Belarus was nice to read, but... a little too
> nice. What's this guy's agenda with all these flowers? But then maybe what
> he says is true, despite who he is or his agenda. I certainly believe the
> US
> would pay any price, go to any length, write, do, or fund any alternative
> to
> its own fiendish neoliberal bullshit.
>
> I would like you to support this charge with concrete sources. I want to
> point out we are in very complicated waters with all sorts of strange
> creatures swimming around in the cesspool of the quote Jewish Question
> unquote.
>
>
> I've been manipulated before. Just the fact that Shamir holds Israeli
> citizenship and switched to Orthodox Christianity, already sends up
> rockets
> of caution with fantails of CIA and AFPAC disinformation campaigns...
>
> Are we really looking at a nazis provocateur or just a confused slavophile
> with a crudge against the current Israeli regime?
>
> Just make the case so the rest of us non cognoscenti can figure it out...
>
> CG
>
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