Posted on 06/03/2010 10:30:34 PM PDT by 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.
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No you can take my comment at face value.
This article is just red meat for this place. Nobody wants to actually discuss the issue. They just want to rip it up with like-minders.
Lets stipulate that he is an anti-Semite. Now what? What about the content of his words?
If we started to, what do you think the response would be? People would be outraged.
Not the DEAD ones!
And any OTHERS who we thinking about invading our country and taking things that are NOT theirs would be a wee bit less likely to try it!
If you think it is "prejudiced" to identify with peace-loving people who just want to be left alone to raise their children, enjoy liberty, and build their own country, then yes. Otherwise, if you're sane, hell no.
Yes that is prejudice and it is ironic that you mention “peace-loving” and “want to be left alone” as descriptors of the state of Israel. Well gee, it sure seems that way TO THEM. But how did they win such a position for themselves in the first place? Fighting wars and taking land.
The way some defend Israel with such zeal should make most free-thinking people pause for thought.
We ought to have no illusions regarding Israel, yet most here seem to rush into a weird defense of her at every opportunity and even when it is an unreasonable defense.
I defend my family even when it is wrong, but Israel is not family. America first.
You’ve been deceived.
Buchanan is an idiot. His swastika is starting to show again.
My oh my oh my. How times change.
Buchanan used to be a big favorite here.
Leading up to the 2000 election, if you read FR you’d have thought Buchanan was going to win.
My goodness, there must be a miscommunication. The people McCarthy uncovered were mostly Jews, weren’t they? I guess not Harry Hopkins?
Buchanan is a complete moral idiot. I think CNN puts him on to embarrass conservatives and to nourish the canard that conservative are racists.
When they learn to police their own and not allow their territory to be used to fire thousands of rockets into Israel then they can have more. Until then they have proven themselves too criminally inept to be trusted without adult supervision.
What would you do if hundreds of rockets were fired into the US from Mexico and the terrorists were kidnapping American soldiers on the border while the Government in Mexico turned a blind eye to the terrorists actions?
Which side?
What would you do if hundreds of rockets were fired into the US from Mexico and the terrorists were kidnapping American soldiers on the border while the Government in Mexico turned a blind eye to the terrorists actions?
He fell out of a guard tower.
It's an old joke
Radio stations and newspapers eventually stopped providing a platform for him and he was ordered by his superiors to return to priestly parish duties.
But during the many years of his heyday he had legions of listeners and followers who agreed with his virulent hatred of Jews personally and Jewry in general.
Today's Buchanan is more sophisticated and subtle than yesterday's Coughlin, of course. But the fact that Pat is still carried by various media is disappointing and disgusting.
Maybe someday he'll wake up to the fact he's being used by the Left as a sample of an "anti-Israel conservative" which, of course, makes all conservatives look bad....which is the Left's aim.
Go away, Buchanan. You're becoming nuttier and more dangerous every day you live and breathe and hate.
Leni
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