Letters to the Editor
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The 800 lb.Gorilla Questio:Youtubers and CNN Fail a Test of Priorities
Just to show how little attention is given one of the most threatening wounds on the battered body of the world community, one ommission by the Youtubers and CNN was particularly galling. That one issue which has sparked multiple wars, 9/11, RFK's and Sadat's and Rabin's assasinations, Olympic Munich's 1972 kidnappings, Lebanon's many agonies, 2 generations of apartheid and much of the entire world's post-1967 suffering: the Israeli occupation and settlements- and just what the next US President hopes to do about this overlooked horror.
Not one single Palestine question! Even now after years of proof that this is the core dilema of so much of our globe's many conflicts. The very answer to the question: "Why do they all hate us?"
Perhaps there was just not enough air time, after so much time was allotted to other issues: relative personal preference;gay marriage;Iraq impossibilities; various rehashes; lies on such gesture-only issues as minimum wage and race- all of this deemed more important than Palestine/Israel to the Youtubers and CNN.
Obama took the time to lie twice. (flagging down taxis in NYC?,He doesn't take lobby money?)
Further, I do not believe any of those country clubbers on that stage would ever accept any minimum wage job. Period. Well, Mike Gravel, now, maybe.
All of that fluff and filler and all those warm fuzzies toward the end after a löittle faked tension, the...NO PALESTINE?
The Edwards/Clinton/AIPAC axis question must still be on the CNN cuttingroom floor somewhere. Why such contrivance? Unless, as Wonkette suggests- that Youtubers really are stupid. Well, most of them except Tennesse Jackie and Art, that is.