[Alberta's Child]

None of those issues involved Rudy Giuliani taking a principled stand. "Supportin Israel" and throwing Yassir Arafat out of Lincoln Center (when you are the mayor of a city with one of the largest Jewish populations in the world), and rejecting a Saudi donation in the aftermath of 9/11 (when the city is awash in billions of dollars in Federal money anyway) are not principled stands . . . they are nothing more than meaningless gestures that can more accurately be described as political grandstanding.

Not to mention is you remember that he was almost a victim of 9/11 and watched close friends die.

Right. Will Rudy Giuliani stand up today and explain to us who came up with the brilliant idea to build an emergency response center in the basement of a building that had long been identified as a terrorist target?

[Sabramerican]

The entire establishment of NYC, including Jews like Ed Koch, came down on him for throwing Arafat out.

You leave out his explanation for the act. It had nothing to do with Israel.

He said that as the third highest official in the Reagan Justice Dept, he had actual knowledge that Arafat was directly guilty of the murder of two US diplomats, Ambassador Cleo Noel and U.S. Charges d'affaires George Curtis Moore.

You can always dismiss what someone has done but the fact remains that he- and only he- did what was needed. No one before and no one since.