Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 26
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We need to talk more about Israel and Palestine and AIPAC in the U.S.
[Read the article: War as reality rather than cartoon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We need to talk more about Israel and Palestine and AIPAC in the U.S.
We need to talk about Israel and Palestine and AIPAC until we're blue in the face, and then we need to talk about it some more.
If you want to end the war in Iraq, we need to talk more about Israel and Palestine and AIPAC in the U.S.
If you want to avoid starting a war with Iran, we need to talk more about Israel and Palestine and AIPAC in the U.S.
If you want to avoid Afghanistan becoming a haven again for violent anti-Americanism, we need to talk more about Israel and Palestine and AIPAC in the U.S.
If you want to prevent future terrorist attacks against the U.S., we need to talk more about Israel and Palestine and AIPAC in the U.S.
If you want to increase vitriolic hatred towards the U.S., let's continue to avoid honest discussions about Israel and Palestine and AIPAC in the U.S.
If you want Isreal to continue feeling mortally threatened for another six decades, let's continue to avoid honest discussions about Israel and Palestine and AIPAC in the U.S.
If you would prefer that Palestine and its millions of citizens exist in exile for another six decades, and that they continue to retaliate against Israel Defense Forces with equally counterproductive violence for another six decades, let's continue to avoid honest discussions about Israel and Palestine and AIPAC in the U.S.
The entire world--outside these 50 States--knows that unconditional U.S. support for Israel is THE central issue, the singlemost important lynchpin issue, affecting all U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and its own national security--and that Americans sadly haven't a clue about this.
The entire world--outside these 50 States--knows that you can criticize decisions of the Israeli government in Israel but not in the U.S.
The entire world--outside these 50 States--knows that criticizing the actions of the Israeli government and military does not make you an anti-Semite, any more than criticizing the Bush Administration makes you anti-American.
The entire world--outside these 50 States--recognizes that the dishonest attempt to label criticism of a sitting government as treason is a tool of desperate totalitarian dictators.
The entire world--outside these 50 States--knows that a President Hillary Clinton would be just as likely to bomb or invade Iran as a Republican President. And some might also know that Rep. Nancy Pelosi, a strong supporter of AIPAC, cannot be trusted to stop that war either. Sadly.
The entire world--outside these 50 States--knows that the main cheerleader of another guaranteed miserable failure of a war, this one with Iran, is AIPAC, and that this must not be allowed to continue.
The entire world--outside these 50 States--knows that President Ahmadinejad is a figurehead official with no real power in Iran, most of which is retained by the mullahs, and that he cannot instigate military aggression on his own. He might want to be an instigator, but he is far from Hitler's equivalent, as AIPAC would have you believe.
The entire world--outside these 50 States--knows that Israel's hard-right aggression decreases its own security, just as Bush's hard-right aggression decreases U.S. national security.
Bottom line: you can't bomb and shoot your way into peace and security; not in Iraq, not in Iran, not in Lebanon, and not in Palestine. The people under those bombs will only hate you all the more.
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not a peep? anyone?
[Read the article: Enforced orthodoxies and Iran]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not a single comment on the hot-button topic of AIPAC, Iran and Israel in three months?
Are we really prepared to march like cable-news-watching lemmings into another miserable failure of a war that endangers us all, without even discussing it? Because that's what silence will get you.
How sad. How terrifying.
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'08 is all about Iran, even more than Iraq
[Read the article: Joe Lieberman, warmongering centrist]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Preventing war with Iran is the #1 issue of the 2008 Presidential election.
Unfortunately, it's no less likely to start if Clinton is elected. Beyond Clinton, what candidate, Democrat or otherwise, hasn't already professed allegiance to AIPAC and its preemptive, elective war with Iran? I'll tell you: the ones that the press will unfairly demonize and not allow to be elected come hell or high water.
Obama's been less belligerent than Clinton, but he has yet to clearly state his intentions regarding Iran, Israel, Palestine, and the whole ball of wax. Maybe he thinks he can't and still survive. Maybe he's right. Maybe it's too damn late for America to stop it.
Thanks Glenn for a vitally necessary post. I hope your clear-headed presentation of the facts echoes far and wide.