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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He’s hated Jews for a long time.
I’ve never really followed Pat, never read his books, only caught his appearances here and there on the news...guess I caught him on good behavior those times.
Really? I need to get out more!
Yeah. And he calls the Israelis pirates.
I’ve seen a lot of camel dung come from Buchanan in the past, but this one stinks worse than anything that came before.
man...how he so easily stumbles off the reservation
does he really think Muzzies share his culture war views (like me) any more than most Jews don’t?
goober
when it comes to israel, pat and ron paul become brain dead to reason
Pat’s been a Jew-hater for years. This isn’t surprising at all.
3 rockets?
Tens of thousands of U.S. citizens have been raped, robbed and brutally murdered by illegal aliens from Mexico...
Try to keep up.
Israel told them to let them inspect and deliver the goods. The ships were told they’d be boarded. Guess what they were boarded. The reason Israel has a blockade of Gaza is because rockets are being fired constantly from Gaza into Israel. Israel has a right to inspect these shipments to protect its citizens. Irrational Palestinians aside I doubt we would respond so gently if one of our cities were being bombarded by a boarder country which elected known terrorists as leaders. Pat Buchanan is an idiot on this issue. I wonder were Ron Paul is?
Got it...I’m often obscure.
Here goes Pat again.
His descent into irrelevance accelerates...
I don't think Pat's heard of Egypt.
Pat needs to retire from politics and move to a bunker in berlin or a villa in the Austrian alps.
yea... lift the blockade... that way they can get supplies. you know... baby formula, milk, rocket launchers, extra missiles, more hand grenades, guns...
it’s strictly for peaceful reasons
/sarc
you’d have to be an idiot to do that.
Does this guy EVER think the Muslim extremists do anything wrong? If this were Ireland, he’d have no trouble figuring it out.
Pat is a failure.
Shut up Pat.
Any of the necessities the people of Gaza are lacking is the result of their inability to put forth a competent leadership pool more interested in the well-being of the people in Gaza than killing and hating Jews. If they would put one-tenth the effort into bettering the lives of those in the area that they put into messing with Israel the picture would change for the better overnight.
And sadly I see the same thing right here in America when it comes to the class warfare the Left uses as the kingpin of its non-stop efforts to destroy the free market system. If the Al Sharptons and the Jesse Jacksons would put as much effort into helping those who consider them their leaders as they do teaching and preaching class warfare a lot of people would better off.
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