Letters to the Editor
aVulcan
Published Letters: 160
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Is Iran an Imminent Threat?
[Read the article: Turning Ahmadinejad into public enemy No. 1]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I listened to Ahmadinejad's speech and the guy's views seem in many aspects to belong firmly to an earlier era of history (No homosexuals in Iran! Give me a break!!) which is unfortunate but not surprising.
However, he did not seem like the imminent threat that the neocons, the Israel Lobby and the war mongers have made him out to be.
What I found most interesting was his call for a referendum in Palestine (I presume he refers to mandate Palestine which includes Israel, the West Bank and Gaza) so that the people living in that area (including the Palestinians who are deprived from citizenship rights although they constitute more than half the population) can decide on the future of the country. Doesn't sound like he called for wiping Israel off the map to me. Although that is how the Zionists interpret it to mean, because such a solution would contaminate the purity of their "Jewish state"!
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Sugarman the Delusional!
[Read the article: Turning Ahmadinejad into public enemy No. 1]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Most people being killed these days are not Jews. They are Palestinians and Iraqis. Is it not time you moderated your hatred of the world in the name of the suffering of the Jewish people?
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Anonymous - Stop the BS
[Read the article: Mission accomplished -- for Iran]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your attempts to make people feel pity for the poor Israelis - who are about to be annihilated by the evil Iranians- are transparently manipulative. After all, Israel has over 200 nuclear bombs, 2nd nuclear strike capability and one of the most powerful armies in the world.
I find it immoral that you try to invoke the feeling of pity and sympathy to get people to support another war for Israel's interests where millions will die (the Iraq war has already claimed more than 1.2 million Iraqi lives)
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Susan - You are wrong about the influence of the Israel Lobby on Middle East Policy
[Read the article: Turning Ahmadinejad into public enemy No. 1]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Do you think the Iraq war - which so clearly didn't make any sense from a US interests point of view - would have been possible without the lies and deceit of the neocons (who are closely linked to the fascist Likud party in Israel)? Also, the push to war with Iran, is there any rational reason for it other then the tremendous pressure from the Israel Lobby?
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erlik9 - You forgot the real reason the US will attack Iran
[Read the article: Turning Ahmadinejad into public enemy No. 1]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is simple: The Israel Lobby and its insidious influence over both the Republicans and Democrats. As you concluded, all other "reasons" don't make any sense.
You may want to read Walt and Mearsheimer.
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Sugarman and His Disinformation
[Read the article: Mission accomplished -- for Iran]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So attacking Iran has to do with everything except for the one reason that makes sense: The machinations of the Israel Lobby. Yeah right!
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Don't Sweat the Small Stuff
[Read the article: I want a perfect wedding, but my in-laws are trashy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Families are not perfect. However, if you open your heart and try to have a bit more sympathy for your screwed-up future sister-in-law - and control your desire to look down at her- it will be well worth it over the long run.
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Time for Jews to Rise Up
[Read the article: "Nazis" and "Hitler" -- the Right's casual, trivializing political insults]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is time for Jews who truly believe in human rights -not those who believe in human rights as long as they don't involve Palestinians- to stand up against the neocons and the Israel Lobby. To do otherwise would be to allow those who continue to work for endless war in the Middle East and who whitewash the ethnic cleansing and apartheid policies of the state of Israel to speak in the name of Jews.
It is time for Jews to shout NOT IN MY NAME.
http://www.nimn.org/
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It is all connected!
[Read the article: "Nazis" and "Hitler" -- the Right's casual, trivializing political insults]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The problem is that the Israel Lobby uses the anti-Semite (or self-hating Jew) label to smear any critic of Israeli policies (including the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, the brutal occupation of Palestine and Israel's apartheid policies). This has cheapened a whole series of labels including "Nazi" and "Hitler"!
The vicious smear campaign against Jimmy Carter (and his book Israel Peace Not Apartheid) is a case in point.
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If the ADL weren't hypocritical...
[Read the article: "Nazis" and "Hitler" -- the Right's casual, trivializing political insults]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]they would have stopped advocating for endless war in the Middle East, including a disasterous war-in-the-making with Iran, and condemned the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and apartheid policies of Israel.
Will they do it? Don't hold your breath.
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"~~~~" and his "Pogroms"
[Read the article: "Nazis" and "Hitler" -- the Right's casual, trivializing political insults]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Can you please stop playing the victim here? It is not credible anymore given the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by Israelis and the apartheid policies of Israel, not to mention the neocons and Israel Lobby's ceaseless efforts to get America to fight endless wars in the Middle East on Israel's behalf.
Even mainstream Israeli papers are starting to call Israel's hold on the Palestinians "apartheid"
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/909327.html
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"~~~~" on how to become an "anti-semite"
[Read the article: "Nazis" and "Hitler" -- the Right's casual, trivializing political insults]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Criticizing Israel's ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians, its apartheid policies or the well-documented and frenzied efforts of the Israel Lobby to get America to fight Israel's wars in the Middle East are sure fire ways to be labeled an "anti-semite" by Israel's apologists.
Well I am honored to be in the company of such "anti-Semites" as Darren Barenboim, Jimmy Carter and Desmond Tutu who - drawing on his experience with apartheid South Africa - made the following "anti-Semitic" remarks about Israel.
"Yesterday's South African township dwellers can tell you about today's life in the Occupied Territories. To travel only blocks in his own homeland, a grandfather waits on the whim of a teenage soldier. More than an emergency is needed to get to a hospital; less than a crime earns a trip to jail. The lucky ones have a permit to leave their squalor to work in Israel's cities, but their luck runs out when security closes all checkpoints, paralyzing an entire people. The indignities, dependence and anger are all too familiar.
Many South Africans are beginning to recognize the parallels to what we went through. Ronnie Kasrils and Max Ozinsky, two Jewish heroes of the anti-apartheid struggle, recently published a letter titled "Not in My Name." Signed by several hundred other prominent Jewish South Africans, the letter drew an explicit analogy between apartheid and current Israeli policies. Mark Mathabane and Nelson Mandela have also pointed out the relevance of the South African experience. "
- Desmond Tutu and Ian Urbina (07/02), International Herald Tribune