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I looked up "liar liar pants on fire NYAH NYAH NYAH I can't hear you because myfingersareinmyears!!" and came up with the following:
Usually used on 5th grade playgrounds when one child can no longer engage coherently in a discussion. Often followed by tantrums, the extended holding of breath.
But call me a "bot" or a "sewer" or whatever else makes you feel better. It just makes you look like a fool.
And a significant (though not the only) reason why we are unable to extricate ourselves from the endless resource-draining and liberty-degrading involvement in Middle East conflicts is because our one-sided support for Israel ensures that we remain involved and makes ourselves the target of hatred around the world and, especially, in the Muslim world.
Utter bullshit.
Our misguided occupation and quagmire in Iraq have nothing to do with our support for Israel, and your attempts to conflate the two are every bit the propaganda bullshit as when the Neo-Cons try to connect Iraq with 9/11.
We can and will pull out of Iraq, and remain a steadfast supporter of Israel the entire time.
Your unhinged, rage filled agenda becomes more and more transparent, Glenn. The excuse of the response to Hamas (your "attack on Gaza!") has simply let your unhinged emotions find a nicely convenient cover story.
Your nonsense that the response to Hamas was an atrocity because it was "one-sided" fails to even remember the Second Intifada, which I have yet to see you reference in your last six rants on Israel (I know, I know, the Second Intifada is like ancient history, what with it ending in 2004).
Then you ask this nutter:
What possible justification is there for the U.S. (as opposed to Israel) to use its military and the money of its taxpayers to ensure that the Palestinians remain defenseless?
The Palestinians remain defenseless because every time they've been given arms, they've attempted to kill civilians in Israel. They are a society in chaos, led by a terrorist group of thugs. The fact you equate this as a war between "two equal sides" is every bit the false equivalency your decry when the Neo-Cons conflated Saddam with Osama Bin Laden.
Pathetic, Glenn.
You are truly unhinged. And after such an excellent week zeroing in on our broken media, you continue to disgrace yourself with your pathological hatred for Israel.
Forrest? Trees?
Glenn's propaganda drips from every rant he makes on Israel. Rarely does he mention Hamas, instead it's "Gaza." Israel "attacks Gaza!" "Gaza" wants to defend itself. This war between Israel and "Gaza" is unfair because in this specific conflict the death tolls are one-sided.
Glenn's biases remove recent history, downplay the war crimes of Hamas strategies, and then wraps the whole thing up in a "why should America pay for this" while never once mentioning the billions we give states like Egypt and Pakistan, nor the hundreds of millions we gave the PLO in the 1990s to create a police force (many of which were then turned on Israelis in the Second Intifada).
Glenn is a propagandist using selective history and filtration of facts to build his case that Israel is a violent war machine and the poor Palestinians are only victims.
It's a nice neat narrative. It's got a hero and a villian. It's got a wonderful implication of "rich moneylenders" (AIPAC, PNAC, Joe Lieberman) behind the scenes controlling America to do the will of the international Zionist movement while the poor, complaint Christian America is fooled into working against its own interests.
Glenn is every bit the worst of the fever-swamp propagandists dressed up in legalese and pseudo-intellectual deconstructionism. He's the Lyndon LaRouche of the Left, and with every rant on Israel, his important work on things like FISA and torture become less and less likely to gain credence.
You're right, I am crying for help. There's nothing more tragic than watching someone as smart and as important to the national discourse as Glenn Greenwald implode do to his own deep-rooted biases and rage.
I just wish Glenn would be honest about his real conspiracy theory behind the American-Israel connection. He never comes out and says it. Just like PNAC never quite says the real reasons we need to invade Iraq. Glenn is a master wordsmith, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to deduce his real opinions.
And they are nothing new. The same old conspiracy theories of hidden power from the ugliest and darkest places of history.
You're a moron and a bigot. If you're really interested in Jewish theology (although it's obvious you're not), you'd know that the Torah is merely the tip of the iceberg of critical Jewish scholarship. Read the Talmud, shmuck. Read the Mishnah.
You'd know that there's a 2500 year history of Rabbinical work that does not embrace slaughter. Only a non-Jew would be foolish enough to simply state Biblical verse and then claim it's what the Jews "think."
Dumbass.