Why am I a bigot?

Was it bigoted when people in the 1930's said "Gee, what a surprise, another German Nazi kills an innocent family?"

How the hell do you pronounce your handle? What does it mean? Are you Illuminati?

How the hell do you pronounce your handle? What does it mean? Are you Illuminati?

Ewige Blumenkraft?

Timothy, does Israel surround Gaza on all sides?

You have asked this before and I responded "And Egypt allows free crossing, right?"

Your answer please.

are you saying the Palestinians have no control over the people they elected?

About as much as we Americans have over our own congress.

You'll notice when I say 'we' I exclude you because it is well known you have a hard-on for the neocons.

FOAD

You wanna talk about "brutal rhetorical rockets", I was subject to an atrocity while I was out.

Just happened. The barber, when she's almost done she shoves this mirror in back of my head to show me the block-or-taper and I get a good look at the top of my head. And that ever-increasingly unoccupied territory. Unoccupied by hair, that is. "OH Jesus!" I shouted, involuntarily, and broke into sobs, causing the tonsorialist ask what was the matter. I pointed, and my chop-fallen visage explained all. But I quickly regained my sang-froid, suspicious, lest my saloniste use this opening to push some type of hair-gro tonic on me. Apparently, in her judgement, I'm a hopeless case. She just murmured "Yes, it's good you wear a hat" and went on stropping her razor.

Apparently, it's a big stropping one.

If I get real ZIonist and frum and move to a Settlement, I get to wear a yamulke all the time right? 24/7 yamulke-on is the rule, right? In that case, look out, baby, I'm makin' aliyah to-frickin'-day!

OH no, ohno, It just hits me! That's what G-d sees when He looks down at me? I'm toast.

All hugely overpopulated Egypt needs is over a million Palestinian refugees swelling the streets of Cairo, some of them ready to get into a radical rendezvous with the Ikhwan.

This is Israel's love next...they just took a big shit in their own nest...now they need to deal with it.

Elsewhere, in another thread, UT's very own WT observed,

I can [...] imagine why Glenn might be targeted both by free-lancers [...] and by the organized volunteers of the Israel's-hands-are-always-clean-by-definition brigade. He has a much larger audience now [...] an audience which he's earned not only by his fearlessness, but also by his relentless determination to stick by the facts as he sees them, and, finally, by the sheer force of his logic.

Strikes me as high praise coming from that dude. So, to the extent that this thread swarm is empirical evidence of the degree to which your fearlessness and logic are penetrating the mainstream, good on ya and congratulations.

Thanks for the updates. Saves me from having to wade through the blood, the mud, and the beer - so to speak. I suspect some of your erstwhile detractors actually think they're making a difference. Do they have any sense how doubtful that is? Probably not. It's more fun for me to waltz around the blogosphere and see you quoted, appreciably, I might add, by others who speak with equal authority.

I keep thinking there ought to be a way to score the thread like they do in baseball; runs, hits errors and all. Some day I may try it.

So, keep up the good work. And, carry on all, whomever you are.

The state of Israel, like all nations, is an artificial creation. When I assert that Israel is forfeiting her "right to exist," I am in no way advocating that it be wiped off the map in an atomic fireball.

My feeling is that the Zionist state of Israel, with its internal system of anti-Arab apartheid, as well as its external pattern of aggression, illegal settlement & other violations of international law, is INCAPABLE of peaceful coexistence with its neighbors. This belligerent little nation, bristling with nuclear weapons, may treat its Jewish citizens with dignity and liberty, but Zionism by nature divides the world into us vs them. It seems pretty clear to me, based on my limited readings on the situation, that a secular Palestine, with Jerusalem as its seat of power, allowing every citizen his/her full rights & religious freedom, would be far better for the vast majority of people who live there than the current clusterf••k.

And it would be an even nicer place for you to visit... no miles-long concrete barriers, checkpoints, etc.

I think WT is right, but another reason for the larger audience share is that Greenwald doesn't write articles like this:

Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:

Why Liberals Aren't Angry Over Obama's Dinner

I actually don't find it terribly surprising that liberals haven't shown any outrage over Barack Obama's dinner party with George Will, Charles Krauthammer, Bill Kristol, and David Brooks. I'll get to my hypothesis why liberals aren't upset in a moment...

Activists disrupt Israel's PR operation

http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/465

Activists disrupted the offices of the British Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM) in central London this morning. The lobby group's media centre, which is playing a key role in Israel's public relations operation during the assault on Gaza, was shut down as protesters occupied the building.

Photographs of civilian casualties from Gaza were pasted on to the computer screens of public relations executives, phone lines cut off to halt the organisation's media rebuttal unit and leaflets thrown out of window on to the main road and handed out to staff pressing them to confront the truth about the human cost of Israeli aggression.

Activists challenged the BICOM chief executive, Lorna Fitzsimmons, in her office, demanding she explain her support for military action against civilians. Fitzsimmons was formerly Labour MP for Rochdale and a leading member of Labour Friends of Israel. Other Bicom staff attacked activists and attempted to lock them inside the office.

BICOM arranged briefings, conference calls and interviews for months in preparation for the attack, laying the groundwork for Israel's public justifications for the onslaught (see: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/04/israel-gaza-hamas-hidden-agenda, para. 16).

Since the bombing began, BICOM has sought to downplay the number of Palestinian dead, deny the reality of Israel's military occupation and manipulate the news agenda in Israel's favour.

Bicom, which claims to be an independent organisation devoted to seeking a more supportive environment for Israel, is at the forefront of the campaign to win over the British media. Foreign reporters are bombarded with press releases and invitations to interview senior Israeli ministers and advisors at top London restaurants. Set up in 2001, it has regularly flown journalists to Tel Aviv.

As the attack on Gaza enters its third week, with 900 Palestinian lives lost, including over 250 children, BICOM's continued operation in London must be urgently challenged.

Contact:

Russell Gower 07930 223 825

londonpalsol@googlemail.com

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Notes for editors

1. BICOM's media and research centre (www.bicom.org.uk) is based on Great Portland Street, London. Its staff have close links with Israel's political and military establishment. Danny Shek, a former BICOM chief executive, is currently the Israeli Ambassador in Paris. His successor, Lorna Fitzsimmons, was formerly Labour MP for Rochdale and a leading member of Labour Friends of Israel.