The Haredim share a common plight with Israel’s Arab population: Both communities face increasing police harassment, discrimination, religious persecution and rising levels of poverty. A Haredim-Arab alliance would unite 30% of the population against a common secular militarist and plutocratic enemy. A study in 2006 claimed that over a third of Israeli Jews identified the Haredim as the most unpopular group in Israel .
About James Petras
James Petras is the author of more than 62 books published in 29 languages, and over 600 articles in professional journals. Petras' latest books, Global Depression and Regional Wars (Atlanta, Clarity Press, 2009) is the third in a series, including Zionism, Militarism and the Decline of US Power (Atlanta, Clarity Press 2008) and The Power of Israel in the United States (Atlanta, Clarity Press 2006), analyzing the influence of militarism and Zionism in American foreign policy.Author Archive | James Petras
Israel, Judaism, Religion
Israel’s Coming “Civil War”: Haredim Jews Confront the Militarized Secular Zionist State – by Prof. James Petras
A Doomsday View of 2012
All indications point to 2012 being a turning point year of unrelenting economic crises spreading outward from Europe and the US to Asia and its dependencies in Africa and Latin America. The crises will be truly global.
The Washington – “Moderate Islam” Alliance: Containing Rebellion Defending Empire
The West have agreed to a kind of “power-sharing’ with Islamist parties. The Islamists would be responsible for imposing orthodox economic policies and re-establishing ‘order’ in partnership with pro-multinational bank economists and pro US-EU generals and security officials. In exchange the Islamists could take certain ministries, appoint their members, finance electoral clientele among the poor and push their ‘moderate’ religious, social and cultural agenda.
Obama Raises The Military Stakes: Confrontation On The Frontiers Of China And Russia
After going from defeat to defeat on the periphery of world power and not satisfied with running treasury-busting deficits in pursuit of empire building against economically weak countries, Obama has embraced a policy of encirclement and provocations against China, the world’s second largest economy and the US’s most important creditor, and Russia, the European Union’s principle oil and gas provider and the world’s second most powerful nuclear weapons power.
Empire or Republic. How the Empire Destroys its Own People
When you hear the tornado warning, it’s up to you. As a proud, free American you can find a rock to crawl under and say your prayer: the Federal government and Homeland Security have the Endless, World-wide War against Terror to fight and cannot be bothered by a Joplin , Missouri nursing home in the path of a tornado.
Roots of the Arab Revolts and Premature Celebrations
Street-based movements lack the organization and leadership to project, let alone impose a new political or social order. Their power is found in their ability to pressure existing elites and institutions, not to replace the state and economy. Hence the surprising ease with which the US, Israeli and EU backed Egyptian military were able to seize power and protect the entire rentier state and economic structure while sustaining their ties with their imperial mentors.
The State and Local Bases of Zionist Power in America
By James Petras* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Introduction Any serious effort to understand the extraordinary influence of the Zionist power configuration over US foreign policy must examine the presence of key operatives in strategic positions in the government and the activities of local Zionist organizations affiliated with mainstream Jewish organizations and religious orders. There [...]

The Major Jewish American Organizations Defend Israel’s Humiliation of America
By James Petras* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz “The Government of Israel has insulted the Vice President of the United States, and spat on the face of the President… they wiped the spit of their faces and smiled politely… as the saying goes: when you spit in the face of a weakling, he pretends that [...]
James Petras – Mossad Comes to America: Death Squads by Invitation
By James Petras* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The principle propaganda mouthpiece of the Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (PMAJO), the Daily Alert (DA), has come out in full support for Israel’s practice of extra-judicial, extra-territorial assassination. In the face of world-wide governmental condemnation (except from the Zionist-occupied White House and US Congress), the [...]

The US and China: One Side is Losing, the Other is Winning
By James Petras | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Introduction: Asian capitalism, notably China and South Korea are competing with the US for global power. Asian global power is driven by dynamic economic growth, while the US pursues a strategy of military-driven empire building. One Day’s Read of the Financial Times Even a cursory read of [...]
James Petras – Bended Knees: Zionist Power in American Politics
By James Petras* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz “Obama want to see a stop to settlements: Not some settlements, not outposts, not natural growth exceptions”. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, May 2009 “What the prime minister has offered in specifics of a restraint on the policy of settlements…..is unprecedented, there has never been a precondition, [...]
James Petras – The Deadly Embrace
Zion-power and War: From Iraq to Iran From left to right: William Kristol, Richard Perle, Ari Fleischer, Israeli PM Ariel Sharon, Paul Wolfowitz, Elliott Abrams, Douglas Feith By James Petras* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Explanations for the US attack on Iraq range from military-political pretexts to accounts focusing on geopolitical and economic interests. The [...]

James Petras – From Gaza to Tehran: Israel Asserting Middle East Supremacy
By Carlos Latuff “The Israeli Defense Force is the most moral army in the World!” –Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany bombed, invaded and annexed countries and territories as a prelude to their quest for World Empire. Israel’s drive for regional dominance has followed in their footsteps, imitating their style: Indiscriminate [...]
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