but I still have no idea what you are talking about. Perhaps we should move on.

The comments you refer to are from the ardent Zionists, characterising their view of any disagreement with them. You just did the same fucking thing, idiot.

And let me clue you in on a very disappointing fact, boychik</>! There is no law against being anti-semetic! Anybody can not like Jews if he or she desires.

Go, bubbele go to the AG! Go tell him that people who may not agree with you are forcing you to say these anti-semetic things cause, cause, well, cause they won't, and you know that is what they are thinking?

How stupid do you think Goyim are, Wallaby? It's been my experience they're a pretty smart bunch. They even see through Zionists sooner or later.

C'mon, you know I have to say this: Wallaby, So nue, so sue

What are we coming too? Surviving 2500 years of persecution to turn into little whiners? "He made me say a bad thing about me!"

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.

We are sinking all that money into Iraq, because, um...we wrecked the country during the invasion? We are there, supposedly, trying to buid an Arab democracy (well, run by people who know what side their bread is buttered on) so we had to rebuild the infrastructure that got blowed up. I'm sure in 2000, Iraq wasn't the largest receipient of foreign aid.

The real question I have is why isn't Afghanistan number 2 on the list? Seriously, they are living in the friggin stone age. We invaded that country and then forgot about it; its high time that we start thinking about our own objectives in the Muslim world irrespective of Israel's agenda. And fixing Afghanistan and Iraq should be the number 1 and 2 priorities for us. At least when it comes to foreign policy.

"I will take my examples to the appropriate authorities.

Thank you."

-- Wallaby

Oh, dear God, NOOOOOOO!!!!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Another stable democracy in the middle east. Or at least that's what I heard on Fox News. ;)

Just a thought...

Check Wallaby's other letters, and this post by Juan Cole,

http://www.juancole.com/2009/01/israelgaza-cyberwar-and-parallels-to.html

Perhaps they're not unrelated.

It would be at minimum a libelous offense in many European Union countries.

I thought those were the copuntries which were going to be sending the box-cars for us at any minute? So they can send us to the camps, but they can't call us names? Not a good trade-off, in my humble opinion.

Please, Wallaby, continue to show us how brave Zionists are!

methinks it is just another iteration of Mr. Greenweld's favorite cut and paster.

It's hard to take anything you say seriously when you can't even spell Holocaust and anti-Semitism correctly.

Here's your first clue. "Semetism" and "Holacaust" are both incorrect.

As anyone with two eyes can see, Israel has countless enemies, both tangible (the kind that carry AK-47's and RPG's), and intangible (European critics and leftist bloggers).

Even while this Jewish nation is battling furiously to preserve the safety of its own citizens, the calls for Israel to lay down its arms and allow the Jihad Juggernaut to push it into the sea is reaching an ear-splitting cacophony of selective outrage. Selective in the way that overwhelming scorn is heaped on Israel for challenging the multiple threat sources in Gaza, and hypocritically silent while Israel is forced to endure never-ending rocket barrages upon its own soil.

Predictably, the Lockstep Left of the Great Liberal Hive Mind gnashes their collective teeth and wail unto the skies that all those "peace-loving" Islamists are not given the chance to approach unsuspecting Jews within the blast radius of their explosive vests. What a shame, eh, lefties?

I just hope that Israel is able to weather the storm of hypocritical and bigoted criticism long enough to finish the job in Gaza, once and for farking all.

Okay, Hugh Hewitt swallows the canard that giving warnings before hitting a civilian target is being "incredibly careful". The warnings are for 10 minutes. I've done some fire disasters, and anyone who believes that a family who has 10 minutes to leave their home, without knowing where to go instead (one family that evacuated died when the place they moved to was targeted) is a genuine attempt to prevent casualties, and not a form of targeting civilians, is barking at the moon.

It's a fig leaf to avoid direct accusations of Geneva Conventions grave breaches.