Include Peter Beinart, editor-at-large of the New Republic, among those who objected to Democratic leaders’ efforts to block Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki from speaking to Congress. Beinart, who wrote the book “The Good Fight: Why Liberals — and Only Liberals — Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again,” wrote in The Washington Post that the objection was really about “appearing more pro-Israel than the White House and thus pandering to Jewish voters.” He wrote: “The Democratic Party’s single biggest foreign policy liability is not that Americans think Democrats are soft. It is that Americans think Democrats stand for nothing, that they have no principles beyond political expedience. And given the party’s behavior over the past several months, it is not hard to understand why.”
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I felt the same way, some of the Dems. were trying to out Israel the Republicans. I thought it a mistake, though. On the other hand dems may have seen it as another divisive issue that the republicans could use to boost their ratings.
Several elected Democrats refused to condemn Hezbolla in a Resolution passed a few weeks ago.Maliki lives in fear for his life every day.The House and Senate Democrats who refused to go on record against Hezbolla have no such fear.Are those House and Senate Democrats who refused to condemn terrorism also anti semites?
I couldn’t agree more. It’s unfortunate to see the Democratic Party being led by pro-Israel ideologues. This is one example where Democrats are flat out wrong. It doesn’t help that the DNC revieves a third of it’s income from pro-Israel interests.
First case in point-In Jan. 2003 Howard Dean states that he supports a fair policy towards Israel and Palestine. The next day John Kerry issues a press release that Howard Dean’s statement demonstrates that he’s unpresidential.
Second case-Senator Schumer, the Senator representing the state wheret he UN headquarters is located, doesn’t support the UN because, in his words, it’s anti-zionist and this is coming from one of the most liberal members of the Senate.
http://www.ifamericansknew.org
This is a big ‘well duh’ to put it simply. It’s not like the Republicans are any different.
They may have started out as representatives of the people, but they became politicians long ago.
I just love it when some one does not support every action that Israel takes gets the anti Semites tag. To me it is the same as saying that when a priest molests a child and someone objects that they are anti- Catholic!Israel does have a right to exist, but they are not infallible nor are they God. They wheel the fact that they have the power of death in the form of WMDs like a drunk man with a pistol. It is one thing to have the knowledge that to attack the enemy may face a nuclear response It is quite the other to use that knowledge to throw your weight around. Hezbollah attacked Israel that is true, it was not Lebanon yet it is Lebanon that is suffering the outcome. To use the logic that Israel is using,a gang of gun wheeling criminals have taken up residence in your block. So in order to take out the criminals the Police bomb the entire block killing more innocent families then criminals. All because your block does not have the strength to ouster the criminals on your own.
But make no mistake, the fight with Hezbollah is not with Hezbollah but with Iran without their state sponsorship Hezbollah would not exist. So did Israel go to the Lebanon ESE and ask is Hezbollah you? No, well we will help you to get them out of your country! No they decided to kill innocent people, to destroy the country in order to route out the criminals. It is arrogant to fight these proxy wars, the main characters do not risk their lands and existence. The fight in Vietnam was not a fight against that tiny country it was a fight for and against ideology. It was a war between red China and the U.S. Between Capitalism and Communism. Yet it was not china who city and homes that were destroyed , it was not the U.S. whose people knew only war for three generations.
It is not Iran that will fail when finally Israel has a buffer zone within Lebanon by destroying Southern Lebanon. It is not Israel that will suffer the greatest numbers of citizens deaths that did nothing to the enemy. There are those that would say that the Israelis are God’s chosen people, I would say every human being is God’s chosen people. That is if you happen to believe that God created all human beings, else then it is OK to kill anyone you would wish to.
Sheer Insanity
“Staying the Course” is the PNAC course. It has been right from the start. The American people have rejected this PNAC foreign policy, concocted by Vice President Dick Cheney and a few other delusional neocons, as an unworkable fantasy, but Bush, falling somewhat short of being intellectual, keeps trudging along (Rice is just along for the ride).
You’ve only have to look at the near complete destruction of Lebanon to understand that the PNAC plan is sheer insanity and hurts everybody, which begs the question about Bush’s derangement.
You can’t keep dropping bombs on helpless civilians while expecting that will somehow benefit someone and still have both oars in the water. Lebanon serves as a clear view of the Israeli/US commitment to use barbaric force on innocent people to satisfy some vague and sordid goal.
They’ve even bombed Lebanon Harbor’s lighthouse. In the 21st century, with GPS, nobody in their right mind bombs a lighthouse.
“Staying the Course” is one thing, but watching out where that takes you is another. For that, perhaps the lighthouse might have come in handy.
Israel took out 59 enemy civilians in their sleep early Sunday, guess Rosell would say “drive on”!
I guess we have our own problems here at home.
“A gunman who claimed to be a Muslim angry at Israel killed one woman and wounded five others Friday afternoon at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, and police arrested the man they believe was the shooter.”
http://www.komotv.com/stories/44656.htm
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MonaCharen/2006/07/21/ceasefire_now
Yes Joe it is true that the unjustifiable almost slavish support the US favors on Israel will no doubt have repercussions here at home.
Perhaps it is time we started questioning our tight embrace with Israel……maybe put a little distance there.
It’s probably not good to unfailingly support a nation that just early this morning bombed a civilian target killing 57 civillians…..37 of them children.
Both parties continually pander to Israel and support each and every atrocity committed by Israel.
Cable news is airing footage of rockets being fired from right beside the building that got blown up. Fox did an interesting bit this morning where they all but accused Hezbolla of blowing up the building themselves because it wasn’t reported until 7 hours after the Israelis finished shooting.
That part of the world is insane. A pox on all of them.
XXX – I have also seen footage claiming that the moon landing was staged. The tape you are seeing is from the IDF – I’m sure they have good video editors.
Remember, these are the same people who claimed that it was a Hizbollah F-16 that deliberately bombed the UN post. And, 10 years ago, they bombed a UN base in this same town and murdered over 100 refugees.
Then, back during the joint US-Israeli invasion of Lebanon we had the massacres at Sabra and Shatilla.
An observation: according to Israeli military Hizbollah launches during the day since they are so easy to spot at night. However, the Israeli tapes purport to show night launches. I also recall seeing tape of daytime launches and was struck by how crroked the trails were. These trails were clean and straight.
JR! So the attack on the Seattle Synagogue by an Islamic extremist was justified, because of the Israeli war against Hizbolla?
Unbelievable. :rolleyes:
You are the one saying that Joe, not me.
I’m not directing to you Ben.It’s JR. And he meant it.
Justified? Where did I call the event you mention justified Joe?
I said we could expect more of the same.
Would you care to “justify” the actions of Israel or the unfailing US support of that nation? Apparently THEY think terroristic acts are “justified”.
Oh, and another example of the MSM pukes not reporting facts that challenge their agenda. What is the number of missles launched by Hezbollah? Where did they get all those missles? Why is Hezbollah launching the missles from neighborhoods and not from military positions? All questions that informative minds want to know. Ah, I forgot. MSM and Ed F. don’t really care about being objectively informed so we can make up our own minds. They/he wants to us to think like them/him. After all, they are the intellectuals of the world, right?
What the Islamic Fascists don’t want to know….THE TRUTH!!!
Horst? You DO know that you are using the name of a homosexual nazi don’t you?
You pop up from time to time Horst. But never enough for anyone to really get to the bottom of your sick little reality that prompts you to occasionally favor us with little more than a hate laced rant.
I say that makes you a coward.