Are you a Christian? Have you submitted your soul to our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ? I hope so! I trust so!

You are aware, are you not Mr. z-write, that a horrible fate awaits non-embracers in the afterlife? More than that, a man without Jesus is, well, crippled in this life. Such a man can never know right from wrong, nor can he be trusted by his fellow mens.

You sir, I trust are not such a man, unshriven, unannealed, but are instead, truly at one with the community and polity of Christian believers which make up the Wetern world. Jesus, as he should be, is your Saviour!

I am right, amn't I, Mr. Z-write?

Sean Limbwald: "How many countries would allow a foreign power to occupy their land for four decades and do nothing about it?

Mr. Limbwald:

I understand that your astounding lack of knowledge and desire to flush down the toilet anyone who disagrees with you leads to ridiculous opinions. However, when this ignorance leads to factual errors, you should at least have the professionalism to issue an apology and a correction.

The above sentence was written by you. It contains more errors than words.

What "country" are you talking about? The Gaza Strip? The Gaza Strip was controlled and occupied by Egypt until 1967. Israel occupied and controlled the land from 1967 through 1994.

The Palestinian Authority controlled the land from 1994 through 2007. During this transition period, Israel removed its presence step by step as it tried to figure out whether its national security would be jeopardized by a complete withdrawal. In 2005, Israel COMPLETELY WITHDREW from the land.

Since 2007, the Gaza Strip has been controlled by a terrorist organization that has announced it wants to exterminate Israel.

So, Mr. Limbwald, THE GAZA STRIP IS NOT A COUNTRY AND IS NOT OCCUPIED!!!!!

Here is how an encyclopedia puts it -- "The area is not recognized internationally as part of any sovereign country but is claimed by the Palestinian National Authority as part of the Palestinian territories. Since the June 2007 battle of Gaza, actual control of the area is in the hands of the Hamas de facto government."

Mr. Limbwald, when I read your material, I feel like I'm reading material written by a third-grader. More mistakes than words.

And I'm really, really glad that you determined it is "their land." Wrong again, Limbwald. BOTH sides claim it is their land. The Palestinian Arabs definitely have a great argument, but scholars disagree and the claims are WHY THEY ARE FIGHTING.

And you tipped your hand, you anti-Semite, by using the words "four decades." Why "four decades?" Well, that just happens to be when the Jews took over the land.

Here is what an encyclopedia says about the land pre-1967. "Egypt never annexed the Gaza Strip, but instead treated it as a controlled territory and administered it through a military governor."

So Gaza was NOT a country then either. When has it EVER been a country?

I love your Orwellian tactics. You take thousands of years of history and facts and condense it to one sentence that contains tons of factual errors.

Then, you take that sentence and use it as the premise for 10,000-word articles that close-mindedly attack anyone who disagrees with your lies as inhumane murderers and condoners of murder.

Why are you so concise when boiling down hundreds of years of disputed arguments, but are so rambling when you write articles with bizarre mid-sentence u-turns that veer off into tangents so you can attack anyone to the right of Jesse Jackson?

Please do some basic research before writing a sentence as patently ridiculous as the one you wrote above. Thank you very much.

Shalom,

ZWrite

"I'll personally pay for your Ramallah or Gaza City vacation, so you can see what it's like to live imprisoned by walls, under a 40-year foreign occupation, with blockades that cause your children's growth to stunt and to be denied basic nutritional and medical needs."

40-year occupation, Glenn? Israel is 60. Why don't you enlighten your readers as to who occupied Gaza and the West Bank for the other 20 years? It's a pretty basic question, one that never seems to garner an answer. And why not? Because it's complicated and not boiled down to sound bites like the one above.

Seriously, I'll play the sound bite game now, too. If Egypt and Jordan (and the rest of the Arab world) cared so much for the Palestinian people, why didn't they make every effort to grant them independence? Why not build them into a viable nation from 1948-1967 when they controlled the West Bank and Gaza?

Good sound bite, huh? And every bit as true as what you wrote. Truth is, anyone with a shred of intellectual honesty knows that the governments of the Arab world could give a camel's hump about the Palestinians. They're pawns in a giant, violent chess match.

To prove the point, the leaders and populations of the Arab world didn't rise up during Black September in 1970 when thousands of Palestinians were killed by Jordanian forces. I didn't notice the outcry from them (nor the American left) when Kuwait expelled 400,000 Palestinians after the Gulf War because Arafat aligned the PLO with Saddam (not to mention those Palestinians imprisoned, tortured and killed). And really, as much as Israel imposes harsh economic conditions on the Palestinians in response to terrorism, the expulsion of this huge population (that lived and thrived in Kuwait since the 1930's) ravaged the Palestinian economy.

But nary a peep. Funny how worldwide condemnation only seems to blossom when Palestinians are affected by Israeli decisions. Why is that? Hmmmm?

Personally, I deplore the bloodshed and think the Palestinians should have their own state. And I think all of this will lead nowhere. But the entire truth is that the Palestinians have been 'imprisoned' for far more than 40 years. One could go back to the Iron Age. Israel only goes back to 1948.

Ah, thanks

Kitt makes a good point. The British media is simply BETTER. If you don't want to take the Prime Minister questioning, watch a mere half hour of the BBC on PBS.

What ensues is complete embarassment for the American media.

The recent Bush and Cheney interviews by so-called tough mainstream media journalists who claim to have seem the ravages of the Iraq War firsthand (cough, Martha Radditz, cough) are further evidence of this.

Dick Cheney admits to helping put in place the legal framework for waterboarding. The jouranlists doing the interview responds by sitting there stunned. He asks absolutely NO follow-up questions and then changes the subject to something else.

David Gregory, as Glenn points out, asked NO real questions in a 7-minute interview with the current Foreign Minister and likely next Prime Minister of a country involved in a controversial war. (I won't say they launched it, it's arguable Hamas started it.) Gregory, a citizen of the United States and purported journalist, then proceeds to try to URGE the Foreign Minister to launch HARSHER attacks and overthrow the government of the other country. Look you can argue for that, but not if you're a purported journalist.

The state of American journalism is in the toilet, Gregory's a disgrace as is the rest of our MSM and anyone going after Glenn for pointing this out doesn't understand HE'S the only one doing his job.