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- but not a paragraph of it could ever be uttered by any American politician, in either party, of any national prominence.
Posted by slinginrich
now we understand the problem with AIPAC and all the other pro-israel organizations which have a strangle-hold on our politicians. They put millions into campaign coffers if you''re with them, millions against you if you don''t.
and the American people are told only "israel''s right to existence" is our reponsibility....
we''ve signed a blank check for disaster. - Reply to this comment
- On October 3, 2001, I.A.P. News
According to Israel Radio (in Hebrew) Kol Yisrael an acrimonious argument erupted during the Israeli cabinet weekly session last week between Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his foreign Minister Shimon Peres. Peres warned Sharon that refusing to heed incessant American requests for a cease-fire with the Palestinians would endanger Israeli interests and "turn the US against us". Sharon reportedly yelled at Peres, saying, "don''t worry about American pressure, we the Jewish people control America".
"The Israelis control the policy in the congress and the senate".
-- Senator Fullbright, Chair of Senate Foreign Relations Committee: 10/07/1973 on CBS'' "Face the Nation".
"I am aware how almost impossible it is in this country to carry out a foreign policy [in the Middle East] not approved by the Jews.....terrific control the Jews have over the news media and the barrage the Jews have built up on congressmen .... I am very much concerned over the fact that the Jewish influence here is completely dominating the scene and making it almost impossible to get congress to do anything they don''t approve of. The Israeli embassy is practically dictating to the congress through influential Jewish people in the country". - Reply to this comment
- Without necessarily endorsing all of it, I want to recommend very highly this column by Israeli Gideon Levy in Haaretz, entitled "The neighborhood bully strikes again". What''s most striking about it is that this scathing criticism of Israel''s behavior can, and does, appear in one of Israel''s leading newspapers, but not a paragraph of it could ever be uttered by any American politician, in either party, of any national prominence.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1050459.html
-Glenn Greenwald
(in Salon today) - Reply to this comment
- the israeli government calls itself a democracy
but in reality it''s a fascist state.
40 years of illegal expansion, millions of oppressed human beings, violence and killing.
All for land - which is not theirs to claim. Like Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini. - Reply to this comment
- "Gil Feiler, a regional economics experts, said it was too early to assess the economic impact on Israel, but that a monthlong operation could cost Israel $200 million in lost wages, trade and other business. "
no problemo, they already have the 50 billion Madoff sent over.....and when Congress gets back another 5 billion to tide them over, maybe a little more to build some new illegal settlements in East Jerusalem. - Reply to this comment
- Can''t the exact same mentality be deployed to justify everything Hamas has done and is doing, to wit: "if a foreign power were brutally occupying my country for four decades, or blockading my country and denying my children medical needs and nutrition and the ability even to exit, I''m going to do everything in my power to stop that. And I would expect Palestinians to do the same thing"? But the last thing that our political class ever extends is reciprocal, two-sided analysis to this dispute.
One can travel from the farthest right fringe of the GOP to the heart of the Democratic Party leadership and hear exactly the same thing: Israel is always right. Israel must not be criticized. Israel never bears any blame. Any action taken by Israel is justified. No matter the situation, that just gets repeated over and over like some hypnotic bipartisan mantra. Meanwhile, American citizens overwhelmingly,- 71%, want their Government to be "even-handed" in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Yet that view is simply ignored, disregarded, not even viable for any American mainstream political leader to express.
- Glenn Greenwald
(In Salon Today) - Reply to this comment
- Did you figure out what a neo-con is yet?
Posted by Abrame
that''s an amazing question. where have you been these last 8 years?
a neocon is a closet fascist. - Reply to this comment
- Sounds like the Palestinians have a death wish.
Posted by Abrame
no, but living under their conditions, you might say, they''re already dead. - Reply to this comment
- israel "withdraws" from Gaza - big fanfare...
israel & bush call for palestinians elections....
hamas wins easily....israel besieges gaza
hamas signs truce with israel under heavy siege....
truce period ends hamas demands lifting of siege, israel refuses.....rockets flare
israel bombs gaza, a crowed slum of over 1 million
if that doesn''t remind anyone of the nazis in the polish ghetto of warsaw, think it over.... - Reply to this comment
- Let''s try to boil this down.
Late 1940''s. Multiple Arab nations attack and Israel puts the hurt on them. Palestinians get screwed in the middle of it all.
60 years later Palestinians wanna shoot rockets with no consequences.
Israel is stomping on them big time after lots of warnings that shooting rockets needed to stop or there will be dire consequences.
Sounds like the Palestinians have a death wish. - Reply to this comment
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