Its more of a ghetto, if you need to go there. But its easier to say it looks like Gaza. There's no other place like it on earth.

How likely is it that many world governments, in collusion with the US, actually WANT to encourage terrorism, because terrorisim has been the motivating force behind their big, militaristic cash cow for so long now?

I thought he was in charge of peace in the Middle East?

And thanks Heru for that link, livestation is really amazing!

It's kind of funny all week long I have been reading about how there are no "journalists" in Gaza, and then I tune in Al Jazeera and there they are -- reporting live from Gaza!

Personally, I am still waiting for them to allow journalists into Fox news...

how would you react if Canada and Mexico started firing rockets into the US?

It depends. It might be worth it if they got you in the process.

It depends on what?

Why do you wish me to be hit by a rocket? is it because you cant answer a really straight forward question?

". . . including the cynical manipulation of the leftward drift of the mainstream media."

Now you're just being silly, deluded, and teh stoopid all at once. Only thing drifting left is your statement into the juggernaut of reality.

Israel is the slave that has become the master. I need not say any more than Glenn has regarding our unwavering support of this genocidal regime. I do believe I can offer some of my own insights.

Many of the tactics regarding land sequestration, aid blockades, journalist blacklisting and blackballs, obfuscation of protection vs active aggression, assault vs self defense, these all mirror not so much (but to a large degree) the actions of the United States in Iraq, rather the actions of pre-WWII Germany.

I assume everybody here has a basic understanding of the conditions I speak of here. Germany rose from the ashes of WWI incredibly scarred by Versailles. Determined to never become a victim again, the Nazi party arose out of public and private angst out of perceived "class" issues (not entirely inaccurate considering the horrific state of the German economy without much of an industrial base). The Nazi party, actually elected in somewhat of a democratic manner (I use the term elected loosely), began utilizing the same tactics named above the contain "enemy forces" in name of "national protection", elevating the concept of a german nation state to that of a national religion based on early nordic mythology and claims of super-human Aryan ancestry.

Today the concept of modern Jewry is not much different; based on mythologies thousands of years old (themselves a function of the political at the time rather than the spiritual), Israel claims an inherent right of "ownership".

Think about the similarities here: The Nazi party propagated an idea of the German state comprised of "superhumans" based on early nordic/aryan mythology, while the Israeli government does much the same regarding their own claim to Palestinian land.

In doing so, crafting themselves above and beyond, better than, the Israelis lay a claim to territories. Further, constantly using the holocaust as both a justification, and excuse for their actions serves the Israeli government two-fold: one, it allows them a consistent reason to continue their behavior, and two, it spurs empathy among others (consider Nazi apologists).

I've always advocated attacking Canada, certainly before Iraq:

- back in the day they harbored terrorists, you know, like the medical wing of the PLO, or some such evil group;

- have huge oil reserves

what more does one need to know?

In your hypothetical, have we been occupying Canada and Mexico for the last 40 years, imposing blockades on them which prevent them from getting nutrition and medicine for their children, building walls around them to prevent them from leaving or moving around and the like?

If not, it's not really analogous.

If so, we would probably be advised to stop doing those things in exchange for the rockets no longer being shot.

It deserved such a response. There is nothing similar to the situation between Canada and the United States, and Gaza and Israel. You might as well have asked about Mars and the United States. I'm sure you know this, otherwise you really are stupid, and not just acting that way.

you sir are an idiot . . . the reason nothing is being made in Gaza is because people are too busy being "allowed to be Israel's indentured servants" and starving, and dying, and getting the frickin piss bombed out of them.

"Chomsky and Zin remind me of those supposed dissidents of East Germany who all along were in the pay of the Stasis. We have a few of them in my country. Leftists suspiciously guarding the gate for our rightist masters."

This is quite an accusation, although I've heard this sort of thing bandied about before (e.g. the notion of Chomsky as a "deep mole" of the CIA, leading the left astray for the greater good). Aside from his dismissal of the 9/11 conspiracy theories (which could conceivably be his honest opinion based on the evidence presented, as he himself states in the youtube clip), do you have any evidence to back this claim up?

....is an excellent book regarding creation of the Israeli state and the Israeli's subsequent tactics (directly comparing the state to hitler's germany) very well.

What's a Vacca?

Is that Latin for vacant?

The approval rating for Congress is less than the approval rating for King George before the revolution.

They do not care.

And their arrogant "Let them eat cake" attitude towards the American people is the same as King George's.

Their insistence on bailing out the rich criminals in Wall Street in spite of overwhelming public sentiment against it shows where their allegiance lies.

And their arrogance is supported by a corrupt two party system ....... "Where else can they go?" is their attitude ...... we are the only game in town.

Dressed in their clean tidy suits and dresses, they walk down the clean tidy halls of their elegant palace (the Congressional building which they feel they own).

Theirs is a life of leisure with many "servants" at their bidding.

They would be offended should it rain upon them on their way to their cars or heaven forbid, a bit of mud taint their shoes.

Yet from the protected halls of their insulated priveleged lives, they advocate policies that result in blood and gore on the streets of Gaza ....... starvation ...... terror ...... disease ....

They are unspeakable filth.

They are hypocritical cowardly chicken hawks posturing like a possum until somebody kicks the shit out of it.

The American people should descend on Congress .... drag these vermin out ........ tar and feather them and drive them from the city.