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- 26 Oct 07
- 12:56 pm
I will admit I haven't read all of the comments here, so if someone else has taken this position, sorry I didn't acknowledge your contribution. Those of us on the Left (and no I'm not trolling for the right, I've contributed to both Dennis Kucinich and Cindy Sheehan's campaigns and in the past have given to the Brady campaign) may be too hasty in calling for ending most gun ownership. I have a couple of reasons for this position. First, if nobody in the political opposition to BushCo. is armed, it makes it that much easier for them to round us …

Posted to Let's Pry Open Those Cold, Dead Hands
- 03 Nov 05
- 1:28 pm
I second and third all who call for a total withdrawl of U. S. support of Isreal. Those who steal the land of other, rightful occupants of that land have no right to gain from that act of theft. We need to abandon support for Isreal and tell the rest of the Middle East - 'Have at 'em boys', and let them drive ALL the Jews there into the sea. For those who draw parallels to our treatement of Native Americans and what we should do about them, I say yes that is a problem. However, there are no living Native …

Posted to The Real Case for Israel
- 04 Nov 05
- 12:14 pm
I think the hope for a change in U. S. policy towards Isreal lies with the attitudes of working class Americans, especially in the Black community. I hold an industrial, union covered job on the U. S. East Coast, and many, if not most of the African-Americans I work with are sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. From their history they understand oppression and know it when they see it. They are also generally untrusting of our Government's motives in general, and are among the most likely to see and believe in the Zionist control of our media and politics. I also …

Posted to The Real Case for Israel
- 04 Nov 05
- 4:48 pm
Try and say anything on a call-in show on most radio or TV outlets in this Country that is in opposition to Isreal and see how long it takes you to get cut-off (C-SPAN may be one major exception). I heard Stephanie Miller being called every kind of racist, anti-Semitic thing possible one day by a Jewish listener for being critical of Isreal. There is definitely a concerted and coordinated effort in the media to stifle pro-Palestinian/anti-Isreali commentary. I very much resent the implication of illiteracy. I hold a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from a major American public University, and …

Posted to The Real Case for Israel
- 04 Dec 05
- 9:00 am
If I'm an European decended ethnic Caucasian, does that mean I would be equally at home in Montreal, QE, as Miami Florida? Or, maybe Kosovo, instead of Kentucky? Makes about as much sense as saying an Arab is an Arab. If that's so, then why the deadly conflicts between Kurds, Sunnis, and Shiia in Iraq? You know what, the Germans attacked their neighbors, and the Zionists attacked and expelled the Palestinians. You're right johnnyincentx, if you exercise aggression against another People, you are not entitled to ANYTHING for doing so and should lose ALL, which is why I believe the Palestinians …

Posted to The Real Case for Israel
- 04 Dec 05
- 12:52 pm
Edithann; I don't disagree with your expansion of the reasons the U. S. Government supports Isreal; just as I also think there is at least SOME truth to the argument that Jewish owned American media drive American Zionism to some degree. I've been savaged as a paranoid anti-Semite for saying that, but as I've said before, just try to say anything against Isreal on an American call-in show and see how long it takes you to get cut-off. I was somewhat amazed that NPR got away with carrying a BBC program on Thursday about whether or not there is a new …

Posted to The Real Case for Israel
- 04 Dec 05
- 5:37 pm
Thank goodness for a station like WETA that is willing, in the neo-con's backyard no less, to put out objective programming from foreign sources. I was traveling through the hinterlands that afternoon, and once I was out of range of them, the only talk available was right-wing drool.

Posted to The Real Case for Israel
- 11 Dec 05
- 5:50 pm
You know johnny, you're right, my area of political expertise has alway been American Govt. and politics; but my personal conscience has always been about a basic sense of fairness, a great American ideal - something that is totally lacking in our treatement of Isreal and the Palestinians. I and a growing number of average Americans believe that the people of the Middle East have gotten a raw deal from the West for over a Century now. And it's people like me; talking to family, friends and co-workers about the truth, that will change the grassroots viewpoint from one of swallowing …

Posted to The Real Case for Israel