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Saturday, January 10, 2009 07:59 PM
Original article: Bill Moyers on Israel/Gaza

Emotional attachment to Israel:

I gather it is very easy for even non Jews who visit Israel not to come away with an emotional attachment. Many of those Congressmen and Congresswomen have made the trip. I gather it is quite an experience to get up in a small plane or helicopter and see just how small and vulnerable a country Israel is. So why is an emotional attachment toward Israel and a sympathetic understanding of Israelis such a bad thing?

Many of you have an emotional animus AGAINST Israel. Even a Jew like Mooser, otherwise a fine and funny fellow, rants and raves here on a daily basis against the "Zionists" he hates.

My wife is British. She never met her uncle because he died serving England in WWII. That war lasted 6 years. I wonder what our British posters would be like (London Lad and Maureeen) if the Blitz was still happening.

Israel has been subjected to invasive wars of annihilation and terror attacks for over 50 years now. Unlike us, no one in Israel can remember a time of peace. Yet, many I know criticize Israelis for being bellicose and tough. Think of what we'd be like if we were still fighting WWII.

Glenn and most of you have no idea what it is like to be born and to grow up in a nation which is constantly under siege. There are even Jews here like Greenwald and Mooser who just don't seem to care to think about what it must be like to live under siege in Israel.

The resentment you feel about the role of Israel in American life is telling. You tell American Jews who support Israel to leave and go there if we love Israel so much.

Well fuck you. My Grandparents helped to build this country and so have I. My father served us in the Philippines and my step Dad in France. I served in Vietnam. I and my relatives here have built schools, and hospitals, and shopping centers and homes, and produced films and TV series and worked with disadvantaged children and their parents. Who are you to tell us to go away and move to Israel?

Sure, this could snowball out of control and escalate into a world wide disaster. You can keep smashing Israel and think that your collective protest might stop you from getting hurt in some looming disaster.

Wouldn't it make sense to insist that the Arabs and Muslims finally call a stop to their 50+ year war on Israel? Wouldn't make sense to insist they stop teaching their kids to hate Jews as some kind of vermin? Wouldn't it make sense to demand they stop embezzling aid money?

For some reason that path is not so attractive to Glenn and his chorus here.

I wonder why.

Sunday, January 11, 2009 07:25 AM
Original article: Bill Moyers on Israel/Gaza

@ Jonathan in Tel Aviv

Thanks again for your stoic and patient posts.

Do you think any of them have learned anything from you?

Has their response taught you anything new about leftoids in America, (and Canada and the UK)?

Has their response in any way changed your views regarding this situation?

Cheers,

Zolt

Tuesday, January 13, 2009 04:57 AM

@JonathanInTelAviv - note "the world's oldest hate;" Marc Steyn's recent column regarding anti semitism

Good morning.

Note these haters coming out of the woodwork like termites day in and day out.

I really seen no difference between Gwenn and Kamiya and the raging 'Steele the Worst' and the hag, 'Maureen' as they spout their ugly hate day after day.

Note Maureen's complaint that there are too many Israelis of European and Russian extraction, as if these Jews have no right to emigrate from countries where their shops, their synagogues and their children are still being set upon by mobs.

Every day they come out of the woodwork like cockroaches screaming that Israelis have no right to defend themselves.

They use inflammatory rhetoric day in and day out, and, the really sick thing about it is, quite a few of them are self hating Jews like Glennnn and Mooser the looser with his non stop rants regarding Zionists, as if he cannot see what happened to Russian Jews and what currently is happening to Jews in France.

Hah! Do you think Marks and Spencer will miss Maureen's business now that she's decided to boycott Jewish enterprises? Do you think they will go broke because the looney hag is buying her booze and ciggies and lotto tickets elsewhere? But remember, she is NOT an anti semite, she has that particular kind of Irish radar which correctly identifies only those British Jews who, unlike Gwennn and Mooser the Looser, always back whatever Israel does 100 per cent.

No, she is NOT anti semite, Gwennnn is NOT an anti semite, nor is Gary K. They just think it is they who should micro manage Israel's defense of her own people.

Cheers,

Zolt

Tuesday, January 13, 2009 03:49 PM

@Jonathan: Nice video!

Seeing those lovely women in their well cut low slung uniform pants, so obviously proud of their place in society, is very inspiring, my friend.

It is certainly a contrast to another utube video of Hammas' children, very young toddlers proudly marching around in suicide vests chanting how they will kill Jews because they are animals.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009 05:49 PM

@aVULCAN & @Hankey, dear

Mister aVulcan: since your family in Gaza is not so crazy about Hamas, do you think they could oppose Hamas?

I think not. They'd be murdered by Hamas, right?

Mister Hankey: So if these hot Israeli girls in India are sluts who are easy to lay for your sons and their buddies, that really surprises me, because I am a noted urologist and I am still trying to figure out why 68% of German men are impotent. Especially the Nazis.

Do you know that Hitler couldn't get it up?

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