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• Monday, January 5, 2009 10:21 PM

  Gary Kamiya, just stay away from Israeli on Jewish issues, your hate shines through

  It's clear, you HATE Israel, you either lie or are simply and wholly ignorant on most issues. What little knowledge you have is wholly derived from an anti-Israeli viewpoint.

  Most of what you write would receive a failing grade, but on issues concerning Israel, its beyond a failure.

  Let's examine just a little tid-bit.

  Gary Kamiya After 60 years of lockstep U.S. support, the era of Israeli exceptionalism must end.

  I had no idea I was older than 60, since the United States sold it's first defensive weapon to Israel during my lifetime, and the first offensive weapon when Johnson decided to sell Phantom jets to Israel in 1968.

  It wasn't until 1962 that the US sold Israel a major weapon system. The HAWK anti-aircraft missile.

  Let's see 2009 - 1962 = 60 in Kamiya years. *Rolls Eyes*

  Now, be honest, did you not know this, or did you lie in your 60 years statement? Can Salon not afford a fact checker, and are you too lazy to verify what you write?

  It's not as if Israel needed our weapons before then, they seemed to do fine on their own.

  They would do equally fine now. The difference would be that the US would have about zero influence over Israel, and far more Palestinians would be killed, because Israeli weapons wouldn't be as accurate.

  Now, an argument could be made that should be US policy, but that's not what you advance. As usual, you simply try to hold Israel to a different standard, under the guise of a double standard.

  Even your little example buries Hamas complicity in Israel's response. Yes, Israel was to open the crossing, with the actual government of Palestine, not with Hamas.

  Hamas seized control of Gaza, and not even Egypt has opened their crossing, because they don't want to legitimize the take over, and neither does Israel.

  You know not a week went by where a rocket wasn't fired from Gaza during the cease fire. Yes, the number was greatly reduced, but the deal was no rocket fire, not reduced rocket fire. You left that part out, as usual.

  Then you deliberately left out why Israel invaded just as the cease fire was to expire, to destroy a tunnel dug by Hamas under the Gaza/Israel border, the same type of tunnel used by Hamas to capture Gilad Shalit.

  Hamas had little difficulty bringing in Iranian and North Korean made Grad rockets, despite the closed borders.

  Hamas chose to attack, expecting there would be little response, despite being warned by Egypt there the would be a massive Israeli response.

  BTW, if your example were actual fact, the US would exterminate the natives. My people no longer live in Georgia.

  —Xanthro Read Xanthro's other letters
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