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Comment on When the Washington Post notices by Gary Rosen

Gary Rosen — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:45:15 +0000

What Alex said, plus the fact that the Arabs still held the West Bank and Gaza after the 1948 war and did not lift a finger to establish a Palestinian state.

Comment on Drunk on his own eloquence by Michael Lonie

Michael Lonie — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:18:37 +0000

Clinton got reelected, that’s what. His administration tried to prevent Bibi from becoming PM, then worked for years to get him booted out in favor of Labor.

Comment on The Obama-Clinton Israel rerun by Michael Lonie

Michael Lonie — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:15:32 +0000

Well when the Shi’a of Iran could trust and count on America (back in the 70s) they went and overthrew the Shah and put in power Khomenei, who almost immediately made Iran the enemy of the USA through the embassy seizure, even as the Carter Administration tried to establish good, or even merely correct, relations with the new Iranian government. That Iranian act backfired on them, because Saddam Hussein would never have dared invade if Iran had still been an ally, or even reasonably friendly with, the USA. Khomenei’s bigoted, senile hatred of America, and the stupidity and fanaticism of the “students” who seized the embassy, played a major role in getting a million Iranians killed. So I’m not too impressed with any Shi’a complaint that they can’t trust America because were are too much inclined to help the Jews of Israel to fight off the threat of genocide facing them.

I suspect that if the Shah had not been overthrown, the cancer that killed him would have done so at about the same time he actually died. Then his heir could have proved to be a reformer, especially if pushed in that direction by American influence, and the Iranians could have been in the situation today of living in a constitutional monarchy with the freedoms they are now trying to wrest from the iron grip of their Islamofascist masters. In the 20th century, revolutions almost invariably resulted in the replacement of misrule, not by bad government as Ambrose Bierce’s definition said, but by horrible tyranny.

Comment on When the Washington Post notices by Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:45:47 +0000

Cohen seems to forget that the nakba was caused by Arab refusal to abide by partition. Otherwise, the total number of Palestinians displaced by the rise of Israel would have been: none. But apparently the Arabs are never held to the consequences of their actions.

Comment on The Obama-Clinton Israel rerun by Meryl Yourish

Meryl Yourish — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:03:57 +0000

That’s because they all buy the propaganda that the PA spent decades working on. They were taught by the Russians, you may remember. And it’s worked. The Shiites in Iraq who are getting blown up by the Sunnis are still saying that if only Israel weren’t “oppressing” the Palestinians, they would be able to trust and count on the Americans.

Riiiiight.

Comment on The Obama-Clinton Israel rerun by soccer dad

soccer dad — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:57:21 +0000

The latest news has it that Petraeus never asked to have authority over WB/Gaza.
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=68715

However the sentiments he expressed are largely in accord with what’s expressed in tha article.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/laurarozen/0310/Petraeus_throws_support_to_Mitchell_peace_efforts.html?showall

Comment on The Obama-Clinton Israel rerun by soccer dad

soccer dad — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:35:28 +0000

Noah Pollak's in good company.

Comment on The Obama-Clinton Israel rerun by soccer dad

soccer dad — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:25:31 +0000

JDF, the article that “quoted” Gen. Petraeus was written by a guy who used to do PR for Yasser Arafat. I’ve asked about the article in a different forum and was told by someone with a connection that it’s BS.

Maybe the administration is laying this at the feet of Gen. Petraeus so they can credibly claim that it’s a security issue. But apparently it doesn’t come from Petraeus.

Comment on Happy EATAPETA Day! by Veeshir

Veeshir — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:14:02 +0000

What’s your favorite Italian place in NorVA?

I can’t find one that I wouldn’t rate right up (down) there with the Olive Garden or Carraba’s.

It’s so hard to find decent Italian food outside the northeast.

Comment on The Obama-Clinton Israel rerun by Veeshir

Veeshir — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:10:50 +0000

The Israel haters usually only take each other seriously so they are wholly ignorant of any
other side to the story.

I work with a guy who gets all his news from the NY Times, Wash Post, CNN and the New Yorker.
Seriously.

His misconceptions on Israel are astounding and his ignorance is breathtaking.
He knows all about Jewish terrorists against Britain in the 30s, but then you had to see the look
on his face when I said, “See? There were Jews there before 1946″.
That had never occurred to him.

He knows about “700 Arabs expelled from Jerusalem” (I didn’t ask) but has never heard of the fact that Israel’s
peace-loving neighbors, at the founding of Israel, told all Muslims to leave the area so they could
kill all the Jews and not mistakenly kill some Muslims.

He had no idea that Israel gave back any of the land they took from their neighbors who tried to kill them all.

He had no idea whatsoever that they gave back the Sinai for instance.

Talking to him is a pain in the neck, you have to figure which misconception or ignorance he’s relying on for any statement.