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Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:00 AM

Both parties cheerlead still more loudly for Israel's war

As the body count in Gaza piles up, the U.S. Congress acts overwhelmingly to insinuate itself into the war with blind support for Israel.

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Friday, January 9, 2009 07:45 PM

WinSmith

Your entire rebuttal was all about putting words into my mouth to make your point.

I never said "lots of Jews" anything, as you did when you used the "lots of black people are on welfare" as an example.

I never mentioned Lieberman in any post I've made since I started posting here. You're planting evidence to try and give the impression you just made a point. I'VE NEVER MENTIONED LIEBERMAN A SINGLE TIME ON THIS SITE, and this is what you just said:

And your anti-Semitism is confirmed in the "fact" that Joe Lieberman is a duplicitious war mongering clown. And your Jew hatred has found its anecdote to self-justify.

You are some prick!

I had described a fanatical ideological group called Zionists - not Jews. Get that through your fucking head!

Fanatical ideological groups generally resort to propaganda. They work facts around the ideology. They can be of any religion. And this one seems to be composed mostly of Jews and evangelicals. I don't believe MOST Jews are fanatically ideologically bent. I think Zionists are a minority of Jews.

You want SO MUCH to be able to take cover under the anti-semitism charge. You know Israel is involved in ethnic cleansing, collective punishment, etc. and "anti-semitism" is what you consider to be your only "trump card" to silence criticism.

The underpinnings of Zionism is a canard itself: the canard that all non-Jews are basically anti-semite and therefore Jews needed to separate from them.

Sorry, but Jewish individuals don't get a free pass, as you demand. You really are a sociopathic narcissist, as I described your fanatic behavior before.

Friday, January 9, 2009 07:47 PM

-- WinSmith

And your anti-Semitism is confirmed in the "fact" that Joe Lieberman is a duplicitious war mongering clown. And your Jew hatred has found its anecdote to self-justify.

-- WinSmith

I would suggest that Joe Lieberman is a duplicitious war mongering clown but that's not the reason he's being pointed out here.

Joe Lieberman is a whore. Whores are always picked on. That he happens to be a Jewish whore is secondary. He's an odious piece of garbage and he'd be an odious piece of garbage even if he were not Jewish.

Friday, January 9, 2009 07:48 PM

Oh!, Btw

We have a winner!

link at sig

Friday, January 9, 2009 07:58 PM

What I can't understand:

How anyone could like Barbara Boxer?????

Unless you are a leftist slug.

Here's a lady who would get fired slacking off her job selling bras at Filene's Basement and, then, go on to be a US Senator who felt entitled to scold Condi Rice, who has lived through hard times anyone could google, that, she, had no right to talk about our soldiers because she was never married and never had kids.

If some Republican said something as klueless and stoopid as that, you all would be posting your bullshit nonsense outrage for days and days until the next excuse to not get a real life came along.

Friday, January 9, 2009 07:59 PM

human shields

Chris Floyd:

Curiously enough, I did see a shocking example of the use of human shields in Gaza just the other day, on BBC News. One of their reporters was "embedded" with a squadron of plucky Israeli soldiers as they made their way through a Gaza neighborhood. The report showed our heroes taking over the home of a Palestinian family, shunting the house's large number of refugees -- including several children and infants, crying from hunger -- to a cramped space on the bottom floor, while the Israeli soldiers took up residence on the top floor, where they could rain sniper fire on any nearby "militants" and help coordinate air strikes and missile fire on "militant" hotbeds like schools, ambulances, UN relief trucks -- and other houses packed with refugees who had been directed there by the Israelis themselves.
Friday, January 9, 2009 08:01 PM

@ Jebbie, (O/T) your "wog"

I have just one more suggestion for you, I notice that some of your images particularly the ones with text are suffering from jpeg compression artifacts. You might want to try using .png format or failing that the good old gif..

Friday, January 9, 2009 08:05 PM

@zoltan newberry

"And, that is the way Israelis feel at this time. They are very tired of getting killed and they do not care what you bastards and bitches may think. They will not agree to trusting people who are intent on killing them. They would rather die fighting.

OK Dershbag?

-- zoltan newberry"

And is that the egocentric or the egotistic part of you saying this? If that is the case, why did they stop the fight with Hezbollah? This fight with Hamas is no contest. It is the proverbial David and Goliath fight. In fact they should not have cared what the world was thinking and creamed the hell out of Hezbollah. But they did not. Why not, if we go by your assertion? Should Palestinians feel the same? After all, they throw thousands of aimless rockets at Israel with little or no damage and still get a good number of their population wiped out by a more superior opponent with all the missiles and the power any military super power posseses.

In fact, I am not so sure if your statement isn't more applicable to the feelings of the Palestinians than the Israelis. I mean he who is down, fears no fall, and by sheer economic, military, and geopoltical power, Israelis are in a more enviable position than the Palestinians. The problem is peace is not a zero sum game and until both sides seek genuine peace, neither Israel nor Palestine will have peace. Is this too hard to understand?

Friday, January 9, 2009 08:06 PM

Zoltan

I'm not sure I understand all of your posts, but your hatred of Jews and Israel probably won't be tolerated here.

Friday, January 9, 2009 08:12 PM

Dear Car Sick

Hey kid, someone finally responded to your mechanical question.

Grow up. I answered your stupid question. How about that?

What did you expect?

Or are you just a crazy, angry nut case hoping us Jews would go ahead and go away and die already.

Your incessant posts, if you do not know, have marked you as an ignoramus Jew Hater with an agenda to best those of us who would gladly fight you .

GF yourself

Friday, January 9, 2009 08:21 PM

regarding foreign policy

I think Joe Lieberman is an awful senator

I also claim to not be anti-semitic

we know that someone claiming to not be X doesn't necessarily mean they aren't truly X

*****

is it reasonable to say that to opine on whether I'm actually anti-semetic based only on the above three statements is completely dubious?

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