Posted on 08/01/2006 6:55:27 PM PDT by mdittmar
The Republican Jewish Coalition expressed outrage and dismay at remarks made by Congressman John Dingell (D-MI-15) during a television interview Sunday night on Detroit television station WDIV.
Rep. Dingell refused to choose between Israel and Hezbollah, instead insisting that “I don’t take sides for or against Hezbollah or for or against Israel” in the current conflict. According to his remarks, the U.S. should negotiate with “both sides” to stop the violence.
RJC Executive Director Matthew Brooks said, “It is outrageous that a member of the United States House of Representatives would refuse to denounce Hezbollah, an organization on the State Department’s list of terrorist groups that is responsible for more American deaths than any other terrorist group except al-Qaeda. To be neutral between Israel and Hezbollah is like saying there is no distinction between the U.S. and al-Qaeda in the war on terrorism. As Rep. Dingell apparently believes that Israel should negotiate with Hezbollah, does he also believe that the U.S. should negotiate with Osama Bin Laden?”
Hezbollah’s history of terrorism includes the kidnapping, torture, and murder of U.S. Marine Col. William R. Higgins in 1988 and of CIA Beirut station chief William Buckley in 1984. Hezbollah is responsible for some 30 kidnappings of Westerners in Lebanon, as well as the April 1983 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut that killed 63 people (including 17 Americans) and the October 1983 truck bombing at the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 241 U.S. servicemen. In 1985, during their hijacking of TWA Flight 847, Hezbollah terrorists beat and shot U.S. Navy Seabee Diver Robert Stethem and dumped his body onto the Beirut airport tarmac.
Brooks said, “When a senior Democratic member of the House can show such a lack of understanding of the enemy this country faces, it says much about the Democratic Party’s weakness when it comes to our foreign policy and national defense.”
The RJC calls on the Democrat leadership, and particularly Rep. Dingell’s Democrat colleagues in the Michigan delegations in the House and Senate, to reprimand Rep. Dingell for his remarks. “It is unconscionable that Rep. Dingell refused to take sides between democracy and terrorism. The choice is that simple, the choice is that clear,” Brooks concluded.
Why is this an odd statement, we can't even get our liberals to support us when we fight against the terrorists. Why would they support Israel in the same fight they won't support us?
of course he does......all those ragheads in festering Dearborn are his constituents..........and a bunch more of them not in Dearborn are Conyers, too
And when the dems lose more seats the will claim Bush/Rove stole the election. When the dems can't convince the people they will be stong on terror they will claim it's Bush/Rove.
They just don't get it.
National campaign commercial moment! Democrat refuses to criticize aggressor ragheads! Jews being killed because of Congress weasel.
More to the point, we should ask him to choose between America and al-Qaeda.
Betchya a buck he chooses al-Qaeda.
Osama Siblani is the publisher of the main arab rag here in Michigan. Here's a very recent interview with him by Amy Goodman:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/19/1346204
Homepage of his antiamerican rag:
http://www.arabamericannews.com/aboutpublisher.php
a little of his (public) bio:
Born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1955, Mr. Siblani came to the United States in
1976 to pursue his education. He completed his B.S.S. in electrical engineering in 1979 at the University of Detroit. In 1980 he assumed the position of Vice President at Energy International, Inc., a major import-export firm dealing with the Middle East. He held this position until he began The Arab American News in 1984, at which time he resigned to run the newspaper full time.
Why start a newspaper?
Siblani's prime motivation for beginning the newspaper was the 1982 Israeli invasion of his homeland Lebanon and the startling discovery of the biased fashion in which the major media in America covered such events in the Middle East. In addition, he had settled in the nation's largest Arab American community, in Metropolitan Detroit, and thus he believed the idea for a community newspaper was viable.
http://www.arabamericannews.com/aboutpublisher.php
If the Dem's get control, we may all be killed in a war with the Mooslims.
Think I'll have to pass on that bet. As the saying goes, you're either with us or you're against us. Evidently, Congressman Dingbat is against us.
Hugh Hewitt just asked Yoni the blogger his thoughts on this.
Yoni responded: "He's a jackass"
Commie, socialist, fascist, rat-bastard, lowlife scumbag, liberal-demokkkRAT subhuman POS, US Rep John "I Hate America" Dingell-berry (SCUM-MI). Duly charge, arrest, try, convict, sentence and execute/imprison the hate-US Military, SOB scum.
(((sigh)))
"Congressman Dingleberry"
Dingells history re the Gun Control Act of 1968 is worth looking into......
Just another dumb a$$ demwit.
Tell me again why many Jews support the 'Rat Party.
Dingell is supporting his nation - Communism.
John Dingell is not Mel Gibson so the MSM will try to ignore Dingell's comments.
Is anybody suprised by this?
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