Re: [A-List] Re- Ramsey Clark and Milosevicz

[Macdonald Stainsby <mstainsby@xxxxxx>]

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From: "James Daly" <james.irldaly@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Perhaps I should not have ventured into an area (the politics of
> Ramsey Clark, and in general the anti-war alliances) about which I
> know next to nothing, and perhaps an egg (Jared Israel) cannot be good
> in parts (on former Yugoslavia). I am aware of the bad parts, and I
> was apprehensive about J. I.'s planned agenda. However, what Ramsey

I strongly caution people in assessing Jared's overall work on the things he
has published since his stray into deep Zionism. Jared, like many people
weak on their conviction to a class analysis and detached from the class
struggle personally, has been rather weird since 9-11 and has been unhelpful
at best since he embraced the last remaining Apartheid state. His work, as a
researcher and an amateur journalist, on Yugoslavia before his retreat is
beyond reproach. I personally, and I know both Chris and Louis among many,
needed his extremely valuable research on Yugoslavia during the war. He
provided first hand sources and verifiable proof of the Orwellian flip done
to the entire situation, culminating in calling Nazis liberators and
resistance fascism.

That said, he has signed off from the progressive community with his
grotesque apologia for one of the most disgusting, venal, racist and
imperialist-laden regimes in history; Jared Israel was once useful and now
is a bigger embarrassment to Slobodan Milosevic than Milosevic is to the
left-- and I continue to defend he and would gladly shake his hand and break
bread with Slobo, just not Jared.

Macdonald