Pat Buchanan: Lift the Siege of Gaza

townhall.com via Allahpundit on Twitter ^ | June 4th, 2010 | Pat Buchanan

[pillut48]

And today, President Obama should end his and his country's shameful silence over the inhumane blockade of Gaza that is denying 1.5 million beleaguered people the basic necessities of a decent life.

Time to start acting like America again.

That bloody debacle in the Eastern Mediterranean last Sunday was an inevitable result of Israel doing what it always seems to do: going beyond what is essential to her security, to impose collective punishment upon any and all it regards as hostile to Israel.

Israel claims, and film confirms, that its commandos rappelling down onto the Turkish ship were attacked with sticks and metal rods. One was tossed off a deck, another tossed overboard into a lifeboat.

But that 2 a.m. boarding of an unarmed ship with an unarmed crew, carrying no munitions or weapons, 65 miles at sea, was an act of piracy. What the Israeli commandos got is what any armed hijacker should expect who tries to steal a car from a driver who keeps a tire iron under the front seat.

And the response of these highly trained naval commandos to the resistance they encountered? They shot and killed nine passengers, and wounded many more.

But we have a blockade of Gaza, say the Israelis, and this flotilla was a provocation. Indeed, it was. And Selma was a provocation. The marchers at Edmund Pettus Bridge were disobeying orders of the governor of Alabama and state police not to march.

[dragnet2]

You seem behind the times with the rocket BS.....The illegals are chocking off our entire system, including compromising and undermining our very electoral process..not to mention leaving tens of thousands of American victims in the wake of this violent epic illegal invasion of the U.S.

Someone tell Israel to deal with it and stop whining....We have our own GD problems.

[bert]

Pat Buchanan ?

I thought he died and went to purgatory

[KevinDavis]

The civilians in Gaza are not so innocent..

[Gator113]

Wow.... Pat Buchanan is not only a whack-job, he’s also Pro-Terrorist.

[rdb3]

Pat can FOAD too.

Now, now, sister. We don't want to put too fine a point on it. Right? ;-)

[onyx]

LOL.

[gogogodzilla]

The day Israel boarded the ship, I said that Pat would write a ‘drop the embargo’ article. Looks like I was right.

I'm just surprised it took him as long as he did.

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Sometimes, I really wish I wasn't so good at predicting the actions of people. It's really depressing to know just how stupid and hypocritical people are, in general.

[gogogodzilla]

So we should start killing innocent Mexicans to prevent that? Pull a couple dozen truck drivers over and shoot them in the head? I think that the US would be wrong to respond in such a manner.

So, what you're saying is that Israel goes out and randomly picks some Palestinians to kill, right? After all, that's the example you give for how to have America act like Israel.

Geez, what a steaming pile of horsepucky.

[rmlew]

You seem to be under the ridiculous impression that I don't care about illegal aliens. I want them all gone, including their US Board anchor brats, none of whom should have citizenship, krytcrats be damned. I support a reduction of legal immigration to 300,000 per year.

I have been active in the immigration reform movement for a decade, founded an immigration reform group in nyc, and debated for Buchanan at Columbia.

[Mamzelle]

He's always shown up reliably to give conservative Jews someone to bash. He is IRRELEVANT except for that useful red-herring bait. sigh.

Now the Medveds et al will turn their ire to this ancient bete noir of the neo cons, and draw the attention and fire away from the truly pernicious antisemites.

Don't fall for it. Pat is a very small problem, but a useful distraction. Why not go after some big fish?

Can we have a comment from Jon Stewart, for instance, about the flotilla conflict and the embargo? Will he toe the fashionably antisemitic liberal line?

Really, since the Comedy Coward Network can't bring themselves to say "Mohammed" on the air, will Jon hate his own little Jewish self?

[Army Air Corps]

What do you think about 7000 rockets fired into Israel civilians from territory controlled by Hamas?

Well, if one is Pat Buchanan, then one likely tries to determine just how many Joos were killed (while fantasizing about Nazis).

[Sun]

It seems that Pat is big on protecting our borders, but doesn’t want Israel to protect theirs.

[Sun]

Does Ron Paul agree with Buchanan on this issue?

Anybody know?

[Minus_The_Bear]

They are letting the ship through right now!

[xzins]

He’s an anti-Semite. The Jews are keeping arms from reaching terrorists in a neighboring state. They are DOING what our country refuses to do on our southern border.

Buchanen gets no accolades for his continued despising of the Jews.

[grand wazoo]

Pat wrote this week that the reason people in authority hated Joe McCarthy is that Joe’s traitor list consisted of primarily Jews.

He wrote no such thing. Do you hate him so much that you feel the need to make up lies in a vain attempt to discredit him?

[Elsie]

So we should start killing innocent Mexicans to prevent that? Pull a couple dozen truck drivers over and shoot them in the head?

Sure!!

IF...

the vechicles were TOLD to stop, and they came on anyway.

IF the authorities TRIED to stop them, and THEY were attacked and assualted.

IF the paintballs did not deter the attacks..

THEN, I say, blast away!!!

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

Pat Puchanan needs to shut up and f-off.

[grand wazoo]

I say, blast away!!!

Start blasting away at innocent Mexicans? How Christian of you. Maybe you should reflect on your comment when you attend services this weekend.

[exit82]

Pat Buchanan went over the hill this time.

He should hang his head in shame.

Another useful idiot for the slavery known as Islam.

I won’t be wasting anymore time reading his bigoted drivel.