{"id":484,"date":"2006-01-04T10:44:10","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T09:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/01\/04\/juan_cole_on_abramoff_and_the_settlers"},"modified":"2025-10-10T22:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T21:23:16","slug":"juan_cole_on_abramoff_and_the_settlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/01\/04\/juan_cole_on_abramoff_and_the_settlers","title":{"rendered":"Juan Cole on Abramoff and the settlers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Cole has a lengthy article on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/01\/03\/AR2006010301536.html\">disgraced American lobbyist Jack Abramoff<\/a> and his links to, in JC&#39;s words, &quot;what are essentially terrorist activities by armed land thieves in Palestinian territory&quot;.  Among his activities are hoodwinking native American tribes into funding &quot;Jabotinskyites&quot; and diverting money from an ostensible inner-city youth charity to purchase weaponry for Israeli settlers.<\/p>\n<p>He compares this to what Sami al-Arian was accused of:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nNow here&#39;s the thing. If a Palestinian-American had diverted $140,000 from a Muslim charity to &quot;security equipment&quot; and &quot;sniper lessons&quot; for Palestinians on the West Bank, that individual would be in Gitmo so fast that the sonic boom would rattle your windows.<br \/>\nIn fact, it seems to me that Sami al-Arian is the mirror image of Abramoff.<br \/>\nBut here&#39;s a prediction. None of the Jewish extremists, some of them violent, who are invading the West Bank and making the lives of the local Palestinians miserable will ever be branded &quot;terrorists&quot; by the US Government, and Abramoff&#39;s foray into providing sniper lessons will be quietly buried.<br \/>\nTerror isn&#39;t terror and aggression is not aggression when it has lobbyists in Congress who can provide luxury vacations and illegal campaign funding.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2006\/01\/abramoff-and-al-arian-lobbyists.html\">Abramoff and al-Arian: Lobbyist&#39;s &quot;Charity&quot; a Front for Terrorism<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(I do hope nobody thinks I&#39;m going on a Palestinian posting frenzy to persuade anyone that I&#39;m not a Zionist &#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Cole has a lengthy article on the disgraced American lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his links to, in JC&#39;s words, &quot;what are essentially terrorist activities by armed land thieves in Palestinian territory&quot;. Among his&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3792],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palestine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-7O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42643,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/42643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}