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• Tuesday, January 6, 2009 11:53 AM

  -- WinSmith

  America has committed nearly a trillion dollars and over 4,500 American, ostensibly to improve the lives of the people of Iraq. If we continue to give Israel 3 billion a year, it will take us 333 years to give Israel what we've sunk into Iraq in financial costs alone.

  If you think Israel is the #1 country we are aiding right now, you're uninformed at best.

  But Israel-hating requires one to talk about Israel in a vacuum. Thus no mention of Gaza missiles, the Second Intifada, the wars on Israel in 1967 and 1973, the fact Arafat was funneling PLO money to his family in France, our funding of Egypt, Pakistan, etc. etc.

  It's just "Israel just did X!!! OMG!!" Lame.

  -- WinSmith

  Did we break Iraq?

  How much money did we funnel into Iraq before the invasion?

  No one here is talking about Israel in a vacuum. Most people here have acknowledged that Hamas is a violent organization and no one here has denied that Hamas' rockets have been targeted indiscriminately against Israel.

  The vacuum you speak of seems to be more identified in the manner our press and our rightwingers place the reasons why Hamas continues to fire these rockets.

  Have you seen the amount of coverage explaining why Hamas is using these tactics against Israel in the coverage provided us by the mainstream press?

  Have you seen actual reports by neutral reporters being heralded in headlines given us by the mainstream press and if so, why not? Why, you should ask yourself, is Israel denying the press access to Gaza?

  The real vacuum designation belongs to absence of accurate and factual coverage of BOTH sides of this sorry mess, not towards those who believe Israel shares equal blame for the slaughter.

  —Jebbie Read Jebbie's other letters
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