Friday, December 17, 2010

Ken O'Keefe -- Antisemite?

I have been publishing videos about the occupation of Palestine by Israel & the resistance it has engendered -by Palestinians, by Israelis, by international activists.   I started out as a weekly series on Daily Kos, but also started publishing here because commentators on the blog accused Yousef Al-Helou (Palgaz), the Gaza stringer for Press TV of being antisemitic--not because of anything he said or done, but because of something someone else said in  stories about Israeli & Jewish gangsters involved in trafficking organs.  Nothing the Gaza stringer was posting even suggested antisemitism, but the moderator declared Press TV antisemitic as  a source, & so Palgaz became unusable for news about Gaza on Daily Kos.  Which is why I started publishing this website.

Now basically the same thing has happened with Kenneth O'Keefe, the ex-US Marine who was on the Mavi Marmara. I was warned by the moderator about using him on Daily Kos, which is the step before being banned. Again, the story seems to be that some commentators on DKos will do anything to keep news about Gaza from being available, but in this case, there is more substance to the accusation. There is this quote from the Baltimore Chronicle & Sentinel:
The world is full of illusions that are used by the rich and powerful to manipulate and control the people. The greatest illusion, and the one with the most devastating consequences, is that the American people and the Israeli, and the British, and numerous others, vote in their governments and hold them to account. Those who really control the governments are those powerful few who control the banking systems, the major multi-national corporations and, of course, the mass media. If you look beyond the faces of the presidents, prime ministers and politicians you will see that these governments' policies remain virtually the same, no matter who is 'leading' these countries. These 'leaders' do not answer to the people they have pledged to serve; they answer to those who remain behind the scenes.

These powerful people and entities have key strategic needs in order to maintain power:

1. They must keep the people ignorant and disempowered.
2. They must keep the people divided. They conquer by dividing the people, never giving people the chance to unite; constantly fostering war by pitting the masses against each other

This system has been controlled by the same families for millennia, and people have been manipulated into a collective state of insanity throughout. Over the course of this tragic situation, empires have come and gone, each one giving way to the next. America is simply the latest in that repeating pattern, and it will fall like all empires do. However, the powers behind it, those controlling the banking, the governments and the propaganda, they will remain in place and prop up the next empire and the pattern will repeat.

We are constantly looking at the faces that these powers present to us, the puppets in effect. The powers themselves remain hidden, with many layers of separation between themselves and the people, and an intricate and complex legal system to protect and hide them. In the west this conspiracy has been called a theory, and everything is done to try and marginalize and ridicule the people who speak correctly about the way the world works. Until this system and those behind it are exposed, we will continue our cycle of self-destruction and continue marching towards a nuclear Armageddon. The most powerful weapon we have is the truth, and until we yield its full power, we will never have justice and peace in this world.

That, is borderline antisemitic. So there is just cause for banning him from Daily Kos. I think, though, that the straw that broke the camel's back was this video put out by someone calling themselves otraverdad. All the imagery of ZOG (Zionist Occupation Government, an Aryan Nation term) otraverdad added in was what inflamed many commentators on DKos. Which is a shame. O'Keefe does appear to embrace the wildest of 9/11 conspiracy theories, but the way he presents himself isn't that of the white supremacist. Look at his websites Aloha Palestine & World Citizen Ken O'Keefe. I've contacted O'Keefe & he replied, saying that since he is married to a semitic woman & has a semitic son, he can't be an antisemite. I don't know what to think. I think I'll post his videos for now, but will stop.

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