https://x.com/angeloinchina/status/1789833012625994075
In 1983, Paul Newman explained that the truth has no kind of importance for the American state, it will always manufacture or designate an exaggerated enemy to justify wars and massacres for profit and to ignore the crimes committed by other nations like Israel.
I'm not sure what Newman's point was here. He's making some of the right noises but he also seems quietly supportive of Our Greatest Ally and the (((Bolshevik))) experiment.
Let's check out the Early Life...
"Newman was born on January 26, 1925, in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and raised in nearby Shaker Heights, the second son of Theresa Garth (née Fetzer, Fetzko, or Fetsko, Fetcko; Slovak: Terézia Fecková;[4][5] 1894–1982) and Arthur Sigmund Newman Sr. (1893–1950), who ran a sporting goods store.[6][7] His father was Jewish,[8][9][10] the son of Jewish immigrants to the United States: Simon Newman (from Hungary) and Hannah Cohn (from Poland)."
Every. Single. Time.
Does Popcorn and Salad Dressing count as GoySlop?
share2024-1983=41 years
And just now people are talking about it...
The fact that Newman, being Jewish, should nonetheless point out a double-standard involving the treatment of an Israeli atrocity vs a Russian atrocity shouldn't be surprising.
Is/was every Irish American an IRA supporter ? I'm also sure Newman had a different view of Israel in the early 60s than he had evolved almost 30 years later, for reasons clear to many - mainly their treatment of the occupied territories, and emergent aggression as they became militarily dominant in the region, Sharon's incitements, their incursions into Lebanon and complicity in the slaughter of refugees. Not to minimize the hostilities in the region, but shooting down civilian aircraft is just never cool.
His larger point was that the US, esp. during the 80s, was pumping up the Soviet threat with the not-coincidental feature of bolstering the MIC.
I remember when Donahue had guests that were worth listening to.