Posted on 03/27/2002 11:52:01 AM PST by davidtalker
This is about the only part I disagree with. Far more Palestinian innocents are dead from the so-called "collateral damage" of Israeli military reprisals than Israelis from Palestinian terror. Also, I would consider the bulldozing of villages to be "awfulness." And the continued building of settlements and colonization of the West Bank in violation of US wishes and international law is pretty awful as well.
Also, our own State Department places Israel on its list of human rights violators for Israel's treatment of Arabs. Yes, I'd say there's plenty of awfulness to go around on both sides.
Yes he is and I'm there hitting him on steel tariffs, the education bill and CFR. Those I speak of are one issue people who rarely post on any thread not dealing with Israel. You do not see them pushing school choice, defending the second amendment, advocating privatizing Social Security pushing for a NRST, a flat tax or seeking to abolish the IRS. Their criticism of Bush is not rational, it is hyperbolic. Bush won't let Israel defend herself! Bush thinks oil is more precious than Israeli blood! Bush is in the pocket of Arab campaign contributors!
Come on, you know agitprop when you see it, you know FR has been infested with liberals pretending to be conservatives.
I have stated forever that Israel should do whatever it takes to end all security threats once and for all.
For these positions, I am called a Jew Basher, an antisemite, a hater..blah..blah..blah. Same old identity politics, left wing song and dance.
It has been posted over and over. The left will never forgive Grover for the success of the Contract With America and the GOP win in 1994. Post all the smears you want. Most of us know what the game is here.
'The Bush administrations latest crackdown on terrorist finances could touch some raw political nerves. Last week federal agents raided more than a dozen U.S.-based Islamic businesses and charities looking for ties to Al Qaeda and other terror groups.
NEWSWEEK has learned that a main target of the raids, a Saudi-backed charity called the SAFA Trust, has provided funding for an influential Islamic political group with close ties to the GOP and the Bush White House.
The group, the Islamic Institute, which operates out of the same D.C. office suite as GOP activist Grover Norquist, was set up in 1999 to mobilize American Muslim support for the Republican Party. Since then Norquist and the groups chairman, Khaled Saffuri, have arranged meetings between Islamic leaders and top Bush officials.'
Funding for the institutes $170,000-a-year operation could prove problematic. Saffuri confirmed the authenticity of checks obtained by NEWSWEEK showing the institute received $20,000 from the SAFA Trust and another $20,000 from Abdurhanman Alamoudi, a board member of the Success Foundation, whose offices were also raided. (The institute has also received foreign funding, including $55,000 from Kuwait and more than $200,000 from Qatar.)'
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Sure we can. These folks need to fight it out amongst themselves, and we should let them do just that. We have no business sticking our nose into that mess over there. These folks are not our next-door neighbors, as the author of this piece falsely implies... |
If you would like, we could ping the many others who have proven their pro-conservative and pro-FR positions, yet who still disagree with you. Maybe then, you would see that it doesn't take an "Israeli Firster" to think you, Luvs and the people Luvs pinged are truly the ones on the fringe of conservative thought.
BTW, I'm not Jewish, and I work for the Republican party. So far, I agree with you on every other topic. But I am convinced you have a bug up your rear that keeps you from being rational about this subject. Maybe it's a personal grudge with some posters, but if it what keeps you from being objective, you might do yourself a favor and re-focus.
When Osamma made his tape when we began the fight in Afghanistan, he referred to the year 1924. That was the beginning of the downfall of Pan-Arabism as he sees it. It marks the secularization of modern day Turkey. Notice he did not use the date of 1948. The founding of Israel. As many in the Arab World have pointed out, bin Laden has cared little about the Arab-Israeli situation. He is dedicated to a Islamist WORLD,
The war is on. You can see Israel gobbled up. Fine. Chamberlain figured Czechoslavakia would do the trick. Better undue that umbrella.
HAHahahhaha. Brother or Sister, you don't know how true that is. We are lucky to have a President who sees the "Palestinian" atrocities for what they are, who refuses to be goaded into a war on Arafat and Saddam's timetable.
When we strike it will be at the moment of our choosing. And it will devastating to the likes of Arafat and his minions. No more Saddam, supplying the muscle. No more menacing Arab neighbors pushing for a "settlement." At that point, the real threat (Iraqi WMDs) will have been eliminated, and Israel will finally be free to deal with the "Palestinians" as she needs to.
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