Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Thursday, October 13, 2011

Israel's Defense Against a "Demographic Demon"

By John Ballard


This fascinating video via Notes from a Conflicted Land by Michael Omer-Man, an American writer living in Israel, illustrates in graphic form how two or three easy to understand principles are being deliberately used to shrink Palestinian power in an uneven conflict between Israel and Palestine. He provides English subtitles which would not likely be furnished by the source. I find this video to be more than a little disturbing. 


When the phrase "right of return" is used by Israel it applies only to Jews (whether or not born in Israel), but not former residents or their families who fled or were driven away as the result of the extablishment of Israel. 


Many in Israel say there is no such thing as Palestine. (See this video)


Reference to the "demographic demon" strikes me as nothing more than a variation of eugenics, an ironic resource to be found in any Jewish toolbox.  References to time is on our side clearly indicates that the more "resolution" of the I-P conflict can be delayed, the better the outcome will be for Israel. 




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  1. John BallardOctober 13, 2011 at 9:22 AM

    A Faux-Dershowitz Tweet says I suggest the Israeli govt ethnically cleanse the remaining 20% of Palestinians from Israel so #J14'ers can finally chant "We are the 100%!"

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