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Tuesday, January 6, 2009 12:00 AM

The Israel rules

America's support of the Gaza attack proves once again that our mythical image of Israel has blinded us to its faults -- a myopia with devastating consequences for both countries.

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  • Tuesday, January 6, 2009 12:42 PM

    The pragmatic thing for Obama to do . . .

    would be to order the US Military to join Hamas in the destruction of Israel.

    It would be easy to pull-out all troops from Iraq, and sweep across Israel. After a long and effective bombing campaign of populated Israeli cities, of course. Our attack aircraft are much more effective than Hamas' cheap little unguided rockets; they have _no_ idea who they're gonna kill when they fire them.

    And by joining Hamas, we could even finally deplete our inventory of 'dumb bombs', since we'd be going for maximum Israeli casualties.

    So, if the US would just do what the Arabs haven't been able to do for the last 60 years - and kill all the Jews - that would do more to raise America's standing in the world than anything else he could do.

    In addition to bringing joy to so many of Obama's supporters. Joining the terrorists is easier than fighting them!

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