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The first King Gino Report</div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff9e7; color: #888888; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">African Americans, Africans, Bronx, Cuba, Cuban refugee, Facebook, Frankie Boy, gay bar, Jeff Blankfort, leather bar, night people, race, strip club, strippers, taxi, the Bronx, The Eagle</span><br />
<a href="http://redeyetaxi.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-frankie-boy-report-and-new-york.html?m=1" target="_blank">I told you a little bit about Frankie Boy and his reports. I was being kind. Gloves off </a>.<br />
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Frankie Boy is a taxi driver who might remind you of the Jackie Gleason character Ralph Kramden. He's big and loud. And truth to tell, crude. I'm old, arthritic and walk with a cane so I've not wanted to invite a beating which could end my working days.<br />
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At times Frankie Boy would ventilate his frustration with trips to the depths of Brooklyn or the Bronx, with no tip at the end of it. When Frankie Boy's face gets red and he goes off on Black passengers I worry for him in a way. You see, most of the drivers in my garage are African immigrants. Most barely react. There's one African guy who takes polite exception I sometimes tell Frankie Boy to can it, or stop over generalizing, and that if he doesn'tcalm down he's going to have a stroke . Frankie Boy is son of Cuban refugees. I don't think there are many of them driving taxis, but Frankie Boy is one, just like I'm a New York Jew. There are surely more New York Jews driving taxis than Cuban Americans. I never asked Frankie Boy his story, but part of it is probably about his dissappearances and trips to Cuba, trips he enjoys immensley as he reports. He's crude. He whips out his cell phone to show images of attractive naked brown skinned young women. He can work like a dog for a few months, save up a relatively small stash and live like a rock star for a month in Cuba. When you drive for a taxi fleet you can come and go as you please.</div>
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Anyhow I think he's on to The Frankie Boy Report. I've told him that some of his reports vaguely remind me of highlights of my own shifts, but while he seems to remember virtually everything that happens on his shifts, I remember next to nothing. If I want to have a really successful Taxi Driver Blog I'd better get working on remembering stuff.</div>
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Now, because I amble rather than walk, carry a black and silver walking stick, and maybe due also to my white beard, big belly one of the African drivers has dubbed me "the King ." Others call me Gino. Here's the first King Gino Report.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734285844676849369.post-78776043405761146792016-05-17T11:56:00.000-07:002016-05-17T11:56:07.728-07:00The original Renegade Jew got into my taxi years ago.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The Breitbart website is bringing the concept back, but<a href="https://youtu.be/IWEL1ZylUO0" target="_blank"> Bill Kristol is also too old for this shit.</a><br />
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<a href="https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=543241662526686&id=100005225704206" target="_blank">I like to think of myself as a renegade Jew but this guy was over the top bad. So bad he was good.</a><br />
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Once upon a time, long ago, when I was a boy, Rock 'n' Roll was mainly Black people's music. Then a swarthy complexion ed wiry haired Jewish guy named Alan Freid managed to mainstream it. It crossed the Atlantic a few years later and came back white as England was.</div>
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The sparring during Thursday’s Democratic presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders over whether Henry Kissinger is an elder statesman or a pariah has laid bare a major foreign policy divide within the Democratic Party.</div>
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Clinton and Sanders stand on opposite sides of that divide. One represents the hawkish Washington foreign policy establishment, which reveres and in some cases actually works for Kissinger. The other represents the marginalized non-interventionists, who can’t possibly forgive someone with the blood of millions of brown people on his hands.</div>
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Kissinger is an amazing and appropriate lens through which to see what’s at stake in the choice between Clinton and Sanders. But that only works, of course, if you understand who Kissinger is — which surely many of today’s voters don’t.</div>
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Some may only dimly recall that Kissinger won a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the Vietnam War (comedian Tom Lehrer famously said the award made political satire obsolete), and that he played a central role in President Nixon’s opening of relations with China.</div>
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But Kissinger is reviled by many left-leaning observers of foreign policy. They consider him an amoral egotist who enabled dictators, extended the Vietnam War, laid the path to the Khmer Rouge killing fields, stage-managed a genocide in East Timor, overthrew the democratically elected left-wing government in Chile, and encouraged Nixon to wiretap his political adversaries.</div>
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First, let’s review what happened at the debate. Here’s the video, followed by the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/us/politics/transcript-of-the-democratic-presidential-debate-in-milwaukee.html?_r=0" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6653ff; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">transcript</a>:</div>
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SANDERS: Where the secretary and I have a very profound difference, in the last debate — and I believe in her book — very good book, by the way — in her book and in this last debate, she talked about getting the approval or the support or the mentoring of Henry Kissinger. Now, I find it rather amazing, because I happen to believe that Henry Kissinger was one of the most destructive secretaries of state in the modern history of this country.</div>
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I am proud to say that Henry Kissinger is not my friend. I will not take advice from Henry Kissinger. And in fact, Kissinger’s actions in Cambodia, when the United States bombed that country, overthrew Prince Sihanouk, created the instability for Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge to come in, who then butchered some 3 million innocent people, one of the worst genocides in the history of the world. So count me in as somebody who will not be listening to Henry Kissinger.</div>
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IFILL: Secretary Clinton?</div>
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CLINTON: Well, I know journalists have asked who you do listen to on foreign policy, and we have yet to know who that is.</div>
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SANDERS: Well, it ain’t Henry Kissinger. That’s for sure.</div>
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CLINTON: That’s fine. That’s fine.</div>
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You know, I listen to a wide variety of voices that have expertise in various areas. I think it is fair to say, whatever the complaints that you want to make about him are, that with respect to China, one of the most challenging relationships we have, his opening up China and his ongoing relationships with the leaders of China is an incredibly useful relationship for the United States of America.</div>
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So if we want to pick and choose — and I certainly do — people I listen to, people I don’t listen to, people I listen to for certain areas, then I think we have to be fair and look at the entire world, because it’s a big, complicated world out there.</div>
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SANDERS: It is.</div>
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CLINTON: And, yes, people we may disagree with on a number of things may have some insight, may have some relationships that are important for the president to understand in order to best protect the United States.</div>
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SANDERS: I find — I mean, it’s just a very different, you know, historical perspective here. Kissinger was one of those people during the Vietnam era who talked about the domino theory. Not everybody remembers that. You do. I do. The domino theory, you know, if Vietnam goes, China, da, da, da, da, da, da, da. That’s what he talked about, the great threat of China.</div>
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And then, after the war, this is the guy who, in fact, yes, you’re right, he opened up relations with China, and now pushed various type of trade agreements, resulting in American workers losing their jobs as corporations moved to China. The terrible, authoritarian, Communist dictatorship he warned us about, now he’s urging companies to shut down and move to China. Not my kind of guy.</div>
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And now, some background about Kissinger.</div>
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Greg Grandin, a history professor at New York University, just published a timely book called <em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SwiftNeueLTW01-Italic, Georgia, serif;"><a href="http://us.macmillan.com/kissingersshadow/greggrandin" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6653ff; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Kissinger’s Shadow: The Long Reach of America’s Most Controversial Statesman</a></em>. In an article in<em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SwiftNeueLTW01-Italic, Georgia, serif;">The</em> <em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SwiftNeueLTW01-Italic, Georgia, serif;">Nation</em> last week, “<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/henry-kissinger-hillary-clintons-tutor-in-war-and-peace/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6653ff; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Henry Kissinger, Hillary Clinton’s Tutor in War and Peace</a>,” he offered this pithy summary:</div>
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Let’s consider some of Kissinger’s achievements during his tenure as Richard Nixon’s top foreign policy–maker. He (1) prolonged the Vietnam War for five pointless years; (2) illegally bombed Cambodia and Laos; (3) goaded Nixon to wiretap staffers and journalists; (4) bore responsibility for three genocides in Cambodia, East Timor, and Bangladesh; (5) urged Nixon to go after Daniel Ellsberg for having released the Pentagon Papers, which set off a chain of events that brought down the Nixon White House; (6) pumped up Pakistan’s ISI, and encouraged it to use political Islam to destabilize Afghanistan; (7) began the U.S.’s arms-for-petrodollars dependency with Saudi Arabia and pre-revolutionary Iran; (8) accelerated needless civil wars in southern Africa that, in the name of supporting white supremacy, left millions dead; (9) supported coups and death squads throughout Latin America; and (10) ingratiated himself with the first-generation neocons, such as Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz, who would take American militarism to its next calamitous level. Read all about it in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?index=books&linkCode=qs&keywords=9781627794497" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6653ff; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SwiftNeueLTW01-Italic, Georgia, serif;">Kissinger’s Shadow</i></a>!</div>
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A full tally hasn’t been done, but a back-of-the-envelope count would attribute 3, maybe 4 million deaths to Kissinger’s actions, but that number probably undercounts his victims in southern Africa. Pull but one string from the current tangle of today’s multiple foreign policy crises, and odds are it will lead back to something Kissinger did between 1968 and 1977. Over-reliance on Saudi oil? That’s Kissinger. Blowback from the instrumental use of radical Islam to destabilize Soviet allies? Again, Kissinger. An unstable arms race in the Middle East? Check, Kissinger. Sunni-Shia rivalry? Yup, Kissinger. The impasse in Israel-Palestine? Kissinger. Radicalization of Iran? “An act of folly” was how veteran diplomat George Ball described Kissinger’s relationship to the Shah. Militarization of the Persian Gulf? Kissinger, Kissinger, Kissinger.</div>
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The late essayist Christopher Hitchins examined Kissinger’s war crimes in his 2001 book, <em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SwiftNeueLTW01-Italic, Georgia, serif;"><a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Trial_of_Henry_Kissinger.html?id=pBBBEH0OEoUC&source=kp_read&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button#v=onepage&q&f=false" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6653ff; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">The Trial of Henry Kissinger</a></em>. He listed the key elements of his case:</div>
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1. The deliberate mass killing of civilian populations in Indochina.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2. Deliberate collusion in mass murder, and later in assassination, in Bangladesh.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />3. The personal suborning and planning of murder, of a senior constitutional officer in a democratic nation — Chile — with which the United States was not at war.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />4. Personal involvement in a plan to murder the head of state in the democratic nation of Cyprus.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />5. The incitement and enabling of genocide in East Timor<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />6. Personal involvement in a plan to kidnap and murder a journalist living in Washington, D.C.</div>
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Kissinger’s role in the genocide that took place in East Timor is less well-known than the one he enabled in Indochina. Author <a href="http://takimag.com/article/henry_kissingers_fakepolitik/print" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6653ff; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Charles Glass wrote about that episode</a> in 2011:</div>
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On December 6, 1975, Kissinger and Gerald Ford met President Suharto in Indonesia and promised to increase arms supplies to sustain Indonesian suppression of the former Portuguese colony. Kissinger, quoted verbatim in U.S. Embassy cables of that war council, insisted that American weapons for the Indonesian Army’s invasion could be finessed: “It depends on how we construe it; whether it is in self-defense or is a foreign operation.”</div>
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Since no one in East Timor had attacked or intended to attack Indonesia, Suharto could hardly plead self-defense. But Kissinger would make the case for him. All he asked was that Suharto delay the invasion a few hours until he and Ford had left Jakarta. He presumably relied on the American public’s inability to connect the Jakarta conference with the invasion so long as he and Ford were back in Washington when the killing began. As far as the American media went, he was right. The Indonesian Army invaded on the anniversary of a previous day of infamy, December 7, massacring about a third of the population. The press, apart from five Australian journalists whom the Indonesian Army slaughtered, ignored the invasion and subsequent occupation. Well done, Henry.</div>
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By the time Suharto was overthrown in 1998, Kissinger had gone private — charging vast fees to advise people like Suharto on methods for marketing their crimes. He also kept posing as an elder statesman whose views were sought (and often paid for) by a media that enabled his penchant for self-publicity. He was a patriot whose love of country stopped short of taking part in the 9/11 Commission if it meant disclosing how much the Saudi royal family paid him for his counsel.</div>
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The continuing role Kissinger plays in modern foreign policy is perfectly illustrated by Hillary Clinton, his longtime fan and friend. Just recently, in November, she <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/hillary-clinton-reviews-henry-kissingers-world-order/2014/09/04/b280c654-31ea-11e4-8f02-03c644b2d7d0_story.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6653ff; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">reviewed Kissinger’s latest book, <em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SwiftNeueLTW01-Italic, Georgia, serif;">World Order</em>,</a> for the<em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SwiftNeueLTW01-Italic, Georgia, serif;">Washington Post</em>. There’s a summary of that <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2016/02/12/hillary-clinton-reviewed-henry-kissingers-latest-book-and-loved-it/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6653ff; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">here</a>.</div>
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Clinton called it “vintage Kissinger, with his singular combination of breadth and acuity along with his knack for connecting headlines to trend lines.” She wrote that “his analysis, despite some differences over specific policies, largely fits with the broad strategy behind the Obama administration’s effort over the past six years to build a global architecture of security and cooperation for the 21st century.”</div>
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And she said he came off as “surprisingly idealistic. Even when there are tensions between our values and other objectives, America, he reminds us, succeeds by standing up for our values, not shirking them, and leads by engaging peoples and societies, the source of legitimacy, not governments alone.”</div>
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A key passage:</div>
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Kissinger is a friend, and I relied on his counsel when I served as secretary of state. He checked in with me regularly, sharing astute observations about foreign leaders and sending me written reports on his travels. Though we have often seen the world and some of our challenges quite differently, and advocated different responses now and in the past, what comes through clearly in this new book is a conviction that we, and President Obama, share: a belief in the indispensability of continued American leadership in service of a just and liberal order.</div>
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The difference between the two views of Kissinger is not simply of academic or historical interest. How a presidential candidate feels about him is a clear sign of her or his worldview and indicates the kind of decisions she or he will make in office – and, perhaps even more importantly, suggests the kind of staffers she or he will appoint to key positions of authority in areas of diplomacy, defense, national security, and intelligence.</div>
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Sanders has not made clear who he is turning to for foreign policy advice, if anyone. (What’s your dream foreign policy team? Email me at<a href="mailto:froomkin@theintercept.com" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6653ff; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">froomkin@theintercept.com</a>.)</div>
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But Clinton is clearly picking from the usual suspects — the “securocrats in waiting” who make up the Washington, D.C., foreign policy establishment.</div>
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They work at places like Albright Stonebridge, the powerhouse global consulting firm led by former Secretary of State Madeline Albright, a staunch Clinton backer. They work at places like <a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/12/18/beacon-global-strategies/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6653ff; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Beacon Global Strategies</a>, which is providing high-profile foreign policy guidance to Clinton — as well as to Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz. And they work at places like Kissinger Associates. In fact, Bob Hormats, who was a Goldman Sachs vice chairman before serving as Clinton’s undersecretary of state, is now advising Clinton’s campaign even while serving as the vice chairman of Kissinger Associates.</div>
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Despite the wildly bellicose and<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/09/gop-candidates-compete-over-who-will-commit-most-war-crimes-once-elected/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6653ff; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">human rights-averse</a> rhetoric from the leading Republican presidential candidates, they’re picking from essentially the same pool as well.</div>
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A few weeks ago, I talked to Chas Freeman, the former diplomat I once called a “<a href="http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/blog/?p=827" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6653ff; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">one-man destroyer of groupthink</a>,” whose non-interventionism and even-handed approach to the Middle East was so un-Kissingeresque that his surprising appointment to President Obama’s National Intelligence Council in 2009 lasted <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/white-house-watch/a-departure-that-leaves-a-void.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6653ff; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">all of a few days</a>.</div>
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He marveled at the lack of any “honest brokers” in the D.C. foreign policy establishment. “We have a foreign policy elite in this country that’s off its meds, basically,” he said.</div>
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“There’s no debate because everybody’s interventionist, everybody’s militaristic.” They all are pretty much in the thrall of neoconservatism, he said. You can see them “speckled all over the Republican side” and “also in the Clinton group.”</div>
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Henry Kissinger is thus a litmus test for foreign policy. But don’t count on the mainstream media to help you understand that.</div>
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Imagine two types of people: those who would schmooze with Kissinger at a cocktail party, and those who would spit in his eye. The elite Washington media is almost without exception in that first category. In fact, they’d probably have anyone who spit in Kissinger’s eye arrested.</div>
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Since they only see one side, they don’t want to get into it. And there was a little indicator at Thursday night’s debate, hosted by PBS, of just how eagerly the elite political media welcomes an honest exploration of the subject.</div>
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Just as Sanders raised the issue of Kissinger’s legacy in Vietnam, either Gwen Ifill or Judy Woodruff — both of whom are very conventional, establishment, Washington cocktail-party celebrities — was caught audibly muttering, “<a href="http://gawker.com/moderator-accidentally-whispers-oh-god-into-mic-when-1758651605?utm_campaign=version_e&utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=Gawker_twitter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6653ff; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Oh, God</a>.”</div>
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247 Mulberry Street, located in Little Italy of yore, now SOHO, was the location of a mafia hangout known as the Ravenite Social Club. It is not located North of Hester and South of Grand, it's located North of Spring Street just South of Prince.</div>
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The neighborhood was pretty immense running from Worth Street near Bowery where it bordered Chinatown all the way West and uptown to roughly 14th Street at Eight Avenue. You could say in those days that Greenwich Village was a predominantly Italian neighborhood contiguous to or a part of Little Italy. Now Little Italy is a remnant of Italian restaurants where Mexicans wait table and very few Italians are found in the apartments above the storefronts.</div>
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I can choose any twelve hour shift I want. All I have to do is get to the garage by 2:30 or 3:00 pm and wait to be assigned a taxi at around 5:00 pm. Then I work till 5:00 am. Don't get me wrong. I socialize, joke around with the other guys and blog/Facebook/Tweet at the garage. I always get a place to sit. So this is not a complaint. Also over the past year I always get a taxi to work with. And I like driving, sometimes conversing, girl watching, stopping for a coffee or a nap. I even enjoy the challenges, like getting a heroin strung out night person trust fund kid out of the cab. But I am curious about panhandling. How much could I make?</div>
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I'm large so maybe I could stand outside 247 Mulberry Street singing "Big Man on Mulberry Street " and cage dollars from the passers-by? </div>
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<b><i>Donald Trump, Grand Marshall, leading the 2002 Salute to Israel parade.</i></b></div>
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Anyone with half a brain saw it coming. Trump had showed signs but old style Jew haters as well as a few naive partisans of the Palestinians were living in hope, and we know that the wish is the father of the thought. And the thought? That Donald Trump will champion the Palestinian cause and break the power of the Jewish Lobby mainly embodied in AIPAC, the American Israeli Political Action Committee. David Duke called on his following to go all out for Trump, which they did.</div>
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Donald Trump's daughter converted to Orthodox Judaism, married an Orthodox Jew and is raising a Jewish child. There has been no public fighting, disowning, criticizing between Grampa Trump and his daughter.</div>
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Trump is heavily into hotels and casinos. Real estate is political. Can you imagine an open opponent of Israel, let alone an old fashioned Jew hater surviving in the world of New York City real estate? Las Vegas? Florida?</div>
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Donald Trump can and did crack a Jew Joke with the best of them and this no doubt impressed David Duke who masquerades as a reformed ex Klan Nazi but advocates White / European domination of the United States. He believes that current demographic trends endanger civilization and constitute "white genocide." Given that the majority of infants in the United States are not white, and many occupations have predominantly non white immigrant workforces very drastic, draconian and even violent means would be required to turn back the demographic clock. There is nothing moderate, reasonable, non-racist or democratic about this. Duke sees Trump's campaign promises as salvation for White Power in the USA. </div>
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Duke also has serious issues with "the Jews." Among other things he attributes the current demographic trend to a willful conspiratorial plan by "the Jews."</div>
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The fact that Trump offended a group of rich Jews who contribute big money to the Republican Party with a sly Jew Joke and told them he doesn’t want their money impressed Duke, who is considered a deep thinker by some. Of course, Trump's calls to deport 11,000,000 mainly non white immigrants whose labor is essential to the economy, to build a wall along 1000 plus miles of the United States/Mexican border and force Mexico or Mexican immigrants to pay for it and to bar Muslims from entering the United States was music to the reformed Nazi's ears.</div>
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So white power volunteers, called upon by Duke, helped make Trump the leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. He turned around and thanked them by kissing AIPAC's ass and pledging loyalty to Israel on television. </div>
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Duke cribbed this New York Daily News front page for his own website. African Americans were being demonized to cover the fact that they as well as whites, were victims of government refusal to build adequate dikes to protect the mostly but not exclusively African American low income Ninth Ward, which was below the level of the Mississippi River. The New York Daily News, by the way, was and is published by one Mortimer Zuckerman, an avid supporter of Israel.</div>
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Gilad Atzmon is a London based Israeli Army veteran and a jazz musician of some repute. He believes that David Duke knows more about Jewish Identity than he, Atzmon does, and Atzmon is looked upon as an expert on the matter since publishing his book <b><i>The Wandering Who? </i></b></div>
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This Saint Patrick 's Day didn't start out all that great. I start at my garage on 18th Street in the South Bronx and head into Harlem over the Third Avenue Bridge. I caught my first fare at 12th Street and Lexington Avenue, a thirtyish Latina and this older and seemingly mentally delayed older white guy. They were going to The Bronx up near the Throggs Neck Bridge. The traffic was brutal most of the way and they were arguing in coded words I took to be drug related. He wanted to get high then and there in my taxi. She had a bag of whatever in her purse and wasn't going to share it till they got home. Surprisingly she not only paid in full, in cash without drama but she even gave me a fairly decent tip. But there I was, nowhere near my next fare, six pm and I had forty dollars. I didn't get another fare till 6:45. </div>
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<b>I'm very glad to see your proposal because it gives me the opportunity to raise two mportant issues regarding voting rights in New York City. Council member Richie Torres probably isn't aware but at least in the Harlem office of the DMV the law which allows citizens of New York to register to vote or update their voter registration when changing address, called the "Motor Voter" law is a dead letter, and a joke.</b></h2>
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<b>I know because circumstances have had me changing my address twice this year, and I updated my drivers license both times at the Harlem DMV. I also submitted my updated voters registration. I should have received an updated voter registration card each time. In neither instance did I receive it. I think, Councilmember Torres, that you possibly can elicit a response from both the DMV and the Board of elections to two questions:</b><b> How many voter registrations have been submitted at the Harlem DMV? How many of them have been processed?</b></h2>
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<b>I plan on voting in the upcoming New York primary ( assuming that I can successfully update my voter registration to my current address.) I wonder whatever became of Bloomberg's complaint. Could you please follow up on it? Perhaps a large sign at each polling place notifying voters that their votes are confidential, urging voters to take videos of violations and providing a phone number for complaints (which would be staffed by a human being) would assure this supposed sacred right.</b></h2>
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NEW YORK CITY — Bronx Councilman<a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/people/ritchie-torres" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4291c3; outline: 0px !important; text-decoration: none;">Ritchie Torres</a> has a new idea for increasing voter turnout in the city.</div>
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The politician is the lead sponsor on a bill that would require the <a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/tags/board-of-elections" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4291c3; outline: 0px !important; text-decoration: none;">Board of Elections</a> to send "voting histories" to voters, detailing the elections that they were registered to vote for over the past four years and saying whether or not they had voted in those elections.</div>
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Only 25 percent of registered voters in New York City participated in the November 2014 elections, according to the <a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/tags/new-york-city-campaign-finance-board" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4291c3; outline: 0px !important; text-decoration: none;">New York City Campaign Finance Board</a>, and a <a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160224/hunts-point/salamanca-wins-special-election-for-bronx-city-council" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4291c3; outline: 0px !important; text-decoration: none;">recent special election</a> in The Bronx for a vacant <a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/tags/new-york-city-council" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4291c3; outline: 0px !important; text-decoration: none;">City Council</a>seat saw roughly 3,300 out of 85,000 registered voters cast ballots.</div>
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You can tell from the dispatch receipt that I was clocked in at the garage at 13:34 and I got dispatched at 16:00. That means 2:26 minutes just hanging around. I put the time to good use because the other drivers who got there before I did are kind enough to let me sit on a bench where I have a wall to lean against and a plug to connect my cell phone chager. So I blog, read the news, bullshit with other drivers, doze, etc. No one is paying me, not yet. Oh, I'm rated pretty highly too (Silver, 259 points of a high of 292 and up for a Gold rating). So I guess I don't get the worse treatment. </div>
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So it's four o'clock, I've got the key and the key to my <i style="font-weight: bold;">taxi du jour.</i> Now to find the car. I go to the usual spots, and guess what? It's in the last place I'd look- the body shop. It's filthy.</div>
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It's filthy alright, and the body workers have had the engine running all day, my taxi is the one that they took their brakes, meals and naps in and they had the engine running and the heat on full blast. I go to the dispatcher and get his permission to get on the gas line and have the car filled up.</div>
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Ready to roll. I made $182.00. A lousy night, not caused by Uber.- How do I know? I picked up a passenger who happens to be a stripper. She only made $23.00. I smell recession in the air.</div>
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It's been a couple of weeks that this pop up appears on my smartphone screen, sometimes four or five times in rapid fire, sometimes at intervals of several minutes.<br />
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As some of you know, I am a 69 year old veteran New York City taxi driver. Generally I drive whatever taxi my dispatcher has available for me four nights per week. I work more or less twelve hours a night. I don't own a medallion.<br />
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A few months ago the App <a href="https://www.goarro.com/" target="_blank">ARRO</a> was installed into thousands of taxis. It's not a smart phone app as far as the drivers are concerned, though of course for passengers it is a smart phone app. I always have been skeptical of the mix of taxi hail app and New York street hail (yellow) taxis. (Well, for the past few years). <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/01/hailo-taxi-hailing-safety-concerns" target="_blank">Back in 2013 I wrote a piece for the online Guardian that pretty much demolished Hailo in New York City.</a> The management at Hailo weren't enough on the ball to take steps to prevent that article from appearing on their first Google search page in New York, and I know it hurt them.<a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjY4rS9kfDKAhUBqR4KHUt9AU4QFgg8MAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.crainsnewyork.com%2Farticle%2F20141014%2FTRANSPORTATION%2F141019933%2Fhailo-is-done-hailing-cabs-in-north-america&usg=AFQjCNFtHuqCKw-LtVxWjf82ccR4q39ZTQ&sig2=X-pFqlCWu6m7U-yRgOvDlw&bvm=bv.113943164,d.dmo" target="_blank"> As of now Hailo doesn't operate in North America.</a><br />
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ARRO does not raise the same objections regarding driver and public safety that Hailo did. I do, however find a couple of problems with it that I hope can be improved upon. I suppose there is no way for the app to "know" what direction the taxi driver is moving in when he or she gets a ping. Also, I guess the app cannot "know" that the car being called is stuck in a traffic jam. That's too bad. Generally in "Yellow taxi land" (that's Manhattan south of West 110th Street and East 96th Street) I only get a ping when I am stuck in terrible traffic.There's no way I am going to accept a ping under that circumstance, unless I know where the passenger is, and that's my big beef with ARRO: The driver must first accept the ping in order to find out where it is coming from. This has led me to "bail out" on many ARRO pings. I accept it and find out that it is too far away and taking me too far from my passenger base to be worthwhile for me. Now, I get the impression that ARRO is in a bit of trouble, because of two things:<br />
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2- When I "bail out" on a ping I get a message telling me that I am in jeopardy of not getting another call soon, yet as often as not I do get one fairly promptly after I have bailed out on one. This tells me that ARRO does not have many reliable drivers responding to its calls.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734285844676849369.post-82232284942310044952016-02-01T00:38:00.001-08:002016-02-01T00:43:02.063-08:00The Frankie Boy Report and New York taxi vs. Uber update<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Friday Uber X cut its rates by fifteen percent in New York City and in other places. I didn't drive on Friday night but I did drive Saturday night and Sunday night, so I have an impression of the impact of Uber's move in its war to destroy the New York City yellow taxi: Meh....<br />
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Saturday night I made clear, after every expense, even breakfast was subtracted $263.00. For me that's pretty good, but not for Frankie Boy.<br />
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I must admit that Uberx's nominal fare cut might have impacted my Saturday night by causing surge pricing as all the no tipping cheapskate app tapping cretins were seeking a cheap ride together, simultaneously, causing a shortage of Uberx goobers available for exploitation. The cheapskates, I suspect, were weeded out of the Uberx market and went to hailing yellow cabs. So I was ferrying no tipping bridge and tunnel yo yos into the depths Brooklyn, Queens, and eventhe Bronx.<br />
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Frankie Boy is a remarkable guy who drives out of the same garage that I do. His detailed, colorful and loud nightly recapitalizations with commentary of his taxi driving highlights entertain many of us as we stand in line in front of the cashier's window. He even does Q&A.<br />
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Frankie boy almost always makes more than I do. He's a couple of decades younger. Also, as I receive a small pension that includes medical insurance as well as a monthly Social Security check I don't have the devil riding my back every minute of my shift like Frankie Boy and most of the other drivers. I can take a.lousy night in stride.<br />
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<a href="http://www.freepresshouston.com/why-other-critics-of-israel-wont-work-with-gilad-atzmon/" target="_blank">Gilad Atzmon writes in defense of David Duke:</a> He also says that David Duke knows more about Jewish Identity than he does.<br />
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<strong style="background-color: #f7f6f5;"><span style="color: orange;">Expert Witness Gilad Atzmon:</span></strong><span style="background-color: #f7f6f5; color: #262626;"> As I mentioned before, categories 1 & 2 are totally innocent. And indeed, no one really criticises Neturei Karta (Torah Jews) or Satmar Jews in related to Israeli crimes in Palestine. These two ultra orthodox Jewish groups made it clear that they oppose the crimes committed by the Jewish State and Zionism. </span><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red;">Moreover, nowadays, no one really criticises Jews as a race, biology or ethnicity. </span><span style="color: #262626;">What we do see is opposition Jewish politics and ideology</span></b><span style="color: #262626; line-height: 23.8px;"><span style="background-color: white;">. </span><span style="background-color: #f7f6f5;">However and this is crucial. In the West we tend to believe that every politics & ideology must be subject to political and ideological criticism. My Lord, if every form of politics and ideology must be subject to criticism, this rule must be applied also to Jewish politics and ideology, and as far as I can tell, Jewish politics and ideology deserves a lot of criticism.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="line-height: 23.8px;"><span style="background-color: #f7f6f5; color: red;"><i> I happen to agree with Atzmon that Jewish politics, Judaism, Jewish culture, all things Jewish can be criticized and there are certainly lots of things to criticize. <a href="http://redeyetaxi.blogspot.com/2015/11/gilad-atzmon-israeli-jew-is-at-war-with.html" target="_blank">I see though a real charlatan.</a> I'm talking about his attacks on the Boycott, Divest and Sanction campaign against Israel as well as his tendency to spout out about things he is ether ignorant of (like David Duke Reborn) or willing to lie about.</i></span></span></h2>
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The pimp told me that I had stopped for him before in a completely separate part of town weeks earlier. I hsd no recollection. I often picked up Black men, some garishly dressed. But he typically had such a hard time getting a taxi driver to stop for him that he remembered me clearly. He offered to buy me dinner. He even told me to keep the meter running.</div>
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<b>And so, that we understand clearly: Gilad Atzmon is in favor of all forms of severe pressure on Israel except what is possibly the most important and effective action people who are not on the front lines can do : Isolate Israel in every possible manner.</b></h3>
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<b><br /></b><b>Above is Atzmon's accusation. WHERE IS THE PROOF GILAD ATZMON??</b></h2>
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<b>Oh no, Gilad Atzmon doesn't attack anyone. He just accuses them of selling out the Palestinians in return for a bribe from George Soros.</b></div>
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Okay this was ten years ago, but by that time "the New, sensitive New Age David Duke" had left behind his burning crosses, his swastikas and what he called <a href="http://www.irehr.org/2011/07/06/the-other-side-of-david-duke-living-like-a-gangster/" target="_blank">"the cow pasture." , Donning a suit and tie he went into the hotel rooms.</a></div>
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Most people have seen videos depicting the brutality and inhumanity of the African tribal uprisings and lawlessness. Now you don’t have to watch a video shot in Africa, just look at the many videos from an historic and once beautiful American city, New Orleans.</div>
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The New Orleans looting, robbery, rape, murder and mayhem is not about food and water. There are many distribution points. Absolutely no one is starving. No one is dying of thirst, save perhaps for a few hopelessly trapped in their attics from the risen waters. No this mayhem is about the morals in a man, not the amount of food in his stomach.....<br />
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I can’t believe I am writing these words. I am always careful not to overstate things, not to exaggerate. I’m not exaggerating now. All the things I have written about and warned about for years are coming true in a great American city in the very moments you read these words.</div>
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I lost my family home (since childhood) in New Orleans. The water is up to the attic. My daughter lost her car and all her possessions. Fortunately, we were not in New Orleans when the storm hit.</div>
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Many thousands of European Americans are not so lucky. They now face absolute terror. And because of a near blackout of the press, most people, outside of the ones who are under seige, don’t even know that these Whites are being racially targeted. The victims have no way to communicate their plight to the outside world....<br />
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Some people think that I am against Bernie Sanders. In a sense they are right. Bernie Sanders says he's about restoring faith in "the system. " I believe that the system is played out.<br />
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Bernie Sanders doesn't oppose American Exceptionalism - the doctrine that holds the United States to be near perfect, an example for all others and possessing the right - nay, the responsibility - to correct other nations. Its modern day corollary is the Wolfowitz Doctrine, also called "Full Spectrum Dominance " the operating philosophy that justifies our country having a military force surpassing the power of the next eight military powers combined. The doctrine justifies United States overt and covert operations against virtually every other nation state. You remember that the NA spies on virtually every smartphone, tablet and Internet connected computer on earth leading a spy partnership called "Five I's" or "Five Eyes" consisting of US, British, Canadian, Australian and New Zealander spy agencies (plus another affiliated eye, Israel.)<br />
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<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-spacing: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #4d4d4d; float: none; font-size: 10px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><tbody style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;">
<tr style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><td class="gig-button-td" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto;"><div alt="" class="gig-button gig-share-button gig-button-up gig-button-count-right" id="horizontal-reaction0" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; cursor: pointer; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-spacing: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #4d4d4d; float: none; font-size: 10px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><tbody style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;">
<tr style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><td id="horizontal-reaction0-left" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"></td><td id="horizontal-reaction0-icon" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; zoom: 1;"><div id="horizontal-reaction0-facebook_img" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url("http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/GetSprite.ashx?path=%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2Fbutton%5Bleft%2Cright%5DImg%5Bup%2Cover%5D.png%7C2%2C20%5E%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2FrightCountImg.png%7C38%2C20%5E%2Fsharebar%2Ficons%2F%5Bfacebook%2Ctwitter%2Cpinterest%2Cgoogle-plusone%2Cstumbleupon%2Clinkedin%2Cdigg%2Cemail%5D.png%7C16%2C16"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -46px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; font-size: 1px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 16px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: 16px;">
</div>
</td><td id="horizontal-reaction0-right" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"></td></tr>
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</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><div class="gig-counter gig-share-counter gig-counter-$rid gig-counter-right" id="horizontal-reaction0-count" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url("http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/GetSprite.ashx?path=%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2Fbutton%5Bleft%2Cright%5DImg%5Bup%2Cover%5D.png%7C2%2C20%5E%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2FrightCountImg.png%7C38%2C20%5E%2Fsharebar%2Ficons%2F%5Bfacebook%2Ctwitter%2Cpinterest%2Cgoogle-plusone%2Cstumbleupon%2Clinkedin%2Cdigg%2Cemail%5D.png%7C16%2C16"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -8px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; font-size: 1px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 20px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto 0px 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; width: 38px; zoom: 1;">
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<span class="gig-counter-text gig-share-counter-text gig-counter-text-right gig-share-counter-text-right" id="horizontal-reaction0-count-value" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; left: 1px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; zoom: 1;">0</span></div>
</div>
</td></tr>
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</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap; width: auto; zoom: 1;"><div class="gig-button-container gig-button-container-count-right gig-button-container-twitter gig-button-container-twitter-count-right gig-share-button-container" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-spacing: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #4d4d4d; float: none; font-size: 10px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><tbody style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;">
<tr style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><td class="gig-button-td" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto;"><div alt="" class="gig-button gig-share-button gig-button-up gig-button-count-right" id="horizontal-reaction1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; cursor: pointer; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-spacing: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #4d4d4d; float: none; font-size: 10px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><tbody style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;">
<tr style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><td id="horizontal-reaction1-left" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"></td><td id="horizontal-reaction1-icon" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; zoom: 1;"><div id="horizontal-reaction1-twitter_img" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url("http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/GetSprite.ashx?path=%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2Fbutton%5Bleft%2Cright%5DImg%5Bup%2Cover%5D.png%7C2%2C20%5E%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2FrightCountImg.png%7C38%2C20%5E%2Fsharebar%2Ficons%2F%5Bfacebook%2Ctwitter%2Cpinterest%2Cgoogle-plusone%2Cstumbleupon%2Clinkedin%2Cdigg%2Cemail%5D.png%7C16%2C16"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -62px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; font-size: 1px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 16px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: 16px;">
</div>
</td><td id="horizontal-reaction1-right" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><div class="gig-counter gig-share-counter gig-counter-$rid gig-counter-right" id="horizontal-reaction1-count" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url("http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/GetSprite.ashx?path=%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2Fbutton%5Bleft%2Cright%5DImg%5Bup%2Cover%5D.png%7C2%2C20%5E%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2FrightCountImg.png%7C38%2C20%5E%2Fsharebar%2Ficons%2F%5Bfacebook%2Ctwitter%2Cpinterest%2Cgoogle-plusone%2Cstumbleupon%2Clinkedin%2Cdigg%2Cemail%5D.png%7C16%2C16"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -8px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; font-size: 1px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 20px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto 0px 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; width: 38px; zoom: 1;">
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<span class="gig-counter-text gig-share-counter-text gig-counter-text-right gig-share-counter-text-right" id="horizontal-reaction1-count-value" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; left: 1px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; zoom: 1;">0</span></div>
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</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
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</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap; width: auto; zoom: 1;"><br /></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; width: auto; zoom: 1;"><br /></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap; width: auto; zoom: 1;"><br /></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap; width: auto; zoom: 1;"><br /></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap; width: auto; zoom: 1;"><br /></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap; width: auto; zoom: 1;"><br /></td></tr>
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<div class="vertical" style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto !important; left: 320px; margin: 0px 0px 0px -575px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 7px; position: fixed; top: 80px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 60px;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px;">They didn't. Nice work, Mr. Daus.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px;">Daus, whose legacy includes having introduced annoying backseat TV screens and a credit card payment system that costs cabbies money every time it's used, claimed two weeks ago that he had discovered a massive scam: He had caught thousands of yellow cabbies red-handed. More than 35,000 hacks had at least once improperly charged the suburban rate when only the city rate was warranted.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px;">"Some of these people could face serious charges," chimed in <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Michael+Bloomberg" style="border: 0px; color: #015fb6; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Michael Bloomberg">Mayor Bloomberg</a>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px;">How did Daus know? By analyzing the data from GPS devices that the TLC had demanded be installed in every cab. A careful look at the numbers, he said, proved that drivers had wrongly set the sophisticated new meter - another Daus innovation - to the suburban rate.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px;">The notion seemed preposterous to us from the beginning. Sure, some cabbies were prone to cheat - but that many? Couldn't it have been an error? Where was the proof of fraud?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px;">On Monday came a bit of truth from Daus before a City Council hearing: "It may have simply been a mistake by the driver," he conceded, and the number of cheats "is going to be a lot smaller" than the tens of thousands he initially pegged, and sometimes the wrong button was pressed but it didn't increase the fare.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px;">Daus will no doubt make a good living for himself in the private sector, or wherever he lands. But where do the city's hardworking hacks go to get their reputations back?</span></div>
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These people throw big parties every year in New York City and in Los Angeles. They raise millions of tax deductible dollars to help Israel carry out its crimes against Palestinian, Lebanese and other people who have done American people no harm.<br />
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By allowing these contributions to be tax deductible the United States Internal Revenue Service is forcing everyone who pays taxes in the United States (and even more so those who pay taxes in New York and California ) to involuntarily support this un American group.<br />
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This zionist pro war crimes and pro apartheid organization is headquartered at 1430 Broadway, near the Empire State Building in New York. I think lots of people would love to give a piece of their mind to these un American traitors. I'd like to see frequent demonstrations at their office and Internal Revenue Service office and a big demonstration at their next fundraising gala.<br />
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It's a fact, he did. Most likely there was no discussion about Israel with anyone before he made the decision.<br />
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In Anne Applebaum's recent book<em style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956</em> she claims the USSR supported the new state of Israel and states "Stalin believed Israel would quickly join the communist camp".</div>
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She doesn't cite any references for this, but is it true? And if so, what grounds were there for Stalin believing Israel would align itself with the Soviet Union?</div>
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</td><td class="comment-text" style="border: 0px; color: #686c6e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 1em 0px 0px; padding: 13px 10px; vertical-align: top; word-break: break-word;"><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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It is clear that Stalin supported the creation of Israel. From the Wiki:</div>
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For Soviet foreign policy decision-makers, pragmatism took precedence over ideology. Without changing its official anti-Zionist stance, from late 1944, until 1948 and even later, Joseph Stalin adopted a pro-Zionist foreign policy, apparently believing that the new country would be socialist and would accelerate the decline of British influence in the Middle East.[cite: Paul Johnson, A History of the Jews (1987) p.527]</div>
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On May 17, 1948, three days after Israel declared independence, the Soviet Union legally recognized it de jure, <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">becoming the first country to grant de jure recognition to the Jewish state.</strong>.In addition to the diplomatic support, arms from Czechoslovakia, part of the Soviet bloc, were crucial to Israel in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.</div>
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It's quite clear that this would NOT have happened had Stalin disagreed.</div>
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As far as " what grounds were there for Stalin believing Israel would align itself with the Soviet Union":</div>
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as the commenters noted, most of the early Zionists and founders of Israel were politically quite left and socialist-bent. I consider this fact to bee too well known and trivial to bother with sites, but if you wish I'll add them. Ex:<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20010217041236/http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Zionism/Socialist_Zionism.html" style="color: #294586; text-decoration: none;">[1]</a>.</div>
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Also, at the time, British and the West in general started swinging towards being more pro-Arab due to geopolitical concerns, notably oil (Lawrence of Arabia being a good example; and British resistance to the creation of Israel despite Balfour commitments being another example). As such, Israel would be a natural counterweight for Stalin to extend his influence in Near East, the same way United States was using Israel once the geopolitical alignments reversed themselves in 1970s when Arab states became Soviet clients and Israel American one.</div>
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Maybe Stalin misoverestimated some things: 1-Jewish gratitude for the fact that it was the Red Army that defeated Hitler thereby saving their bacon, so to speak</div>
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2-Jewish powerand influence in the United States Not that it isn't and wasn't considerable, but deliver the US to him? Not even had they wished!</div>
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I read a theory that holds that Stalin thought he had a deal with the Jews- a Jewish state in Palestine for a Communist one in North America.</div>
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