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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Talking of Israel and the debates and the presidential and vice-presidential candidates, I am appalled by the unconditional support the US gives Israel. As neither a Jew or a Muslim, I am a plain human being with human values; I cannot understand how there can be peace in the Middle East if the US candidate doesn't even mention the Palestinians in the picture. Israel continues to this day to break all UN resolutions towards peace. Why is Israel and it's ally the US not accountable for this? Please read John Pilger's essay 'The Last Taboo' in his book Freedom Next Time. Here is an excerpt:
Rami Elhanan Story ( Rami and Nurit lost their daughter, Smadar). They are among the founders of the Parents’ Circle – which brings together Israeli and Palestinian families who have lost loved ones, including families of suicide bombers. They jointly organize educational campaigns and lobby politicians to begin serious negotiations.
“Our aim is not to forget or forgive the past, but to find some way of living together.”
J.P. What do you say to Jews in other countries, like Britain and the US: people who support Israel because they feel they must?
“I say they should be loyal to real Jewish values and support the peace movement in Israel, not the state at all costs. It’s only pressure from the outside – from Jews, from governments, from media, from public opinion – that will end this nightmare. While there is silence, this looking away, this
profane abuse of our critics as anti-Jew, we are no different from those who stood aside during the days of the Holocaust in Germany. We are not only complicit in a crime, we ensure that we ourselves never know peace and our surviving children never know peace. I ask you: does that make sense?”
Story of Yitzhak Frankenthal’s Story
Chairman of Parents’ Circle
(His address at a peace rally in Jerusalem)
“Let all the self-righteous who speak of the ruthless Palestinian murderers take a hard look in the mirror.
Let them ask themselves what they would have done had they been the ones living under occupation. I can say for myself that I, Yitzhak Frankenthal, would have undoubtedly become a freedom fighter and I would have killed as many on the other side as I possibly could. It is this depraved hyocracy that pushes the Palestinians to fight us relentlessly – our double standard that allows us to boast the highest military ethics, while the same military slays innocent children….As much as I would like to do so, I cannot say the Palestinians are to blame for my son’s death. That would be the easy way out. It is we who are inwilling to make peace with them. It is we who insist on maintaining our control over them. It is we who feed the cycle of violence…I regret to say it.”
Thank you for your platform of freedom of expression.
Do you think you could desist from taking a dump on this board every five seconds?
Now that Palin is restricting reporter access to both herself and her supporters are events, does anybody want to make odds on whether she'll do any other interviews before the election?
I'm not talking about a warm, fuzzy soft-ball interview, but rather on in which the journalist has the option of asking for clarification and returning to questions she'd rather avoid.
It's Sarah Palin's radical Christian minister who is anti Jewish. Listen to her ministers rants when he is laying hands on Palin. He not only exorcises the witches, he goes on with an anti semitic rant similar to Hitler.
C'mon Klytus, cut dodo some slack. I forwarded my hubby the bit about supposing I must be very young.
It was the sort of thrill that getting carded can give you after a certain age, no?
Oh yes I forgot. Let's get ready to blame the Jews for something.
Unfortunately, most Jews will not remember it well enough.
Near the beginning, and old man, Moshe, returns to his village warning his fellow Jews that he has witnessed massacres, and warns them to leave before it is too late.
They think he is a fool gone mad, and, instead of heeding him, most of them end up getting up on the box cars and being slaughtered at Ausciewicz. One of my best friends was a 15 year old girl in that Roumanian village, Signet. She held her little 4 year old brother in her arms as she and her older brother and her parents were herded off the train at the camp. He was pulled from her arms and she never saw her parents or him again. All her life, she would wake with the same nightmare, her legs churning in her bed, running after her wonderful little brother.
Today, as before, Jews would like to think that they are so well respected and so woven into the fabric of society that this could never happen to them again. They would like to think that Obama, with so many strong Jewish advisors and contributors, really means what he now says regarding his support for Israel now. They would like to believe that his wife, who grew up on Chicago's South Side, shares none of her neighbors' resentment of the Jews who used to sell them furniture and refrigerators and clothing, and who left in the 60's and 70's.
They would like to believe that the Obamas' twenty year association with what can only be called a Jew hating church can be somehow explained away as some kind of oversight or aberration on their parts. Understandably, they do not want to dwell on Obama's Minister and his close friendship with Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan who called Judiasm "a gutter religion". Understandably, they would rather not dwell on Trinity Church's backing of Hamas which rockets Israeli civilians and circulates anti Jewish libels such as "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" and teaches Palestenian children that Jews are animals who must be slaughtered.
They really don't want to think about that part of Barrack 0's youth spent in Islamic schools. And, why focus on "ACORN" and other far left organizations in Chicago which organized and mobilized "actions" against many south side Jews who were singled out as "slum lords" because they owned rental properties, and whose homes they picketed when they did not want to sell or give away their property for youth centers and other radical pet projects?
And, who wants to worry about Obama's close ties with radical Palestinian scholar, Rashid Khalidi, even though Khalidi routinely slanders Israel as an "apartheid state"?
It doesn't seem to matter that Obama has never adequately addressed or explained these rather deep associations with anti-semitic and anti Israel radicals during his past. Now he appears to be a typical Democrat, and most Jews are quite comfortable with every day Democrats. Most Jews I know are so proud to be Americans that it is inconceivable to them that this country could ever harm them.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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