by Philip Weiss, June 14, 2016.

Michael Oren

By stressing accused Orlando shooter’s Muslim name, Trump can gain upper hand on Clinton. (Michael Oren.)

Sadness, horror, gloom, outrage, fear, resolve are among the emotions
being expressed by Americans today, but of course some see a political
angle in the massacre in the Orlando, FL, gay nightclub. Donald Trump tweeted this morning that
he deserved credit for making an issue of radical Islam– when in fact
the motivation of the shooter is not known at this time. “Appreciate the
congrats for being right on radical Islamic terrorism, I don’t want
congrats, I want toughness & vigilance,” Trump said.

Now here is former Israeli ambassador to the U.S., Michael Oren,
offering himself as an Islamophobic adviser to Trump, and saying that
Trump can reap an opportunity from this crime:

Pride display at Tel Aviv city hall

Tarnopolsky was challenged as to veracity, and then tweeted this transcript:


Oren (who imagined there were pogroms in West Orange, N.J.,
when he was a boy, when it was actually violence related to extremist
Meir Kahane) is surely of a mind that a civilizational war is good for
Israel. Just as Oren’s former boss, Israeli PM Netanyahu, is said to have stated that the 9/11 attacks were good for Israel. They put the U.S. in Israel’s boat.  Now you see what we’re up against.

On that note, here is Gabriel Sherman of New York Magazine saying that the U.S. is closer to Israel than ever.

Brace yourself, there’s going to be a lot of this.

More propaganda. Oren Segal, the director of the Anti-Defamation League’s center on extremism, says
Israel is telling Americans to take heart. “City Hall building in Tel
Aviv lights up in solidarity w/ the people of #Orlando & #LGBT
community.”

But guess what, it’s not even dark yet in Tel Aviv! Segal later said that the picture was from an earlier occasion, but no doubt the message he reflected was accurate.

Thanks to Adam Horowitz and James North. 


SOURCE: Mondoweiss