tyler..

I hadn’t noticed this (the Star of David and the US Flag) until you’d pointed it out.

It’s not so much weird as it is downright terrifying!

Sheeezze

Gotta commend your take on Dershowitz. Of all the players in the history of the ME conflict, he strikes me as the most clearly wicked in both method and intent. Even Zionist leaders like Ben Gurion and Herzl evinced some remorse at the displacement and death their movement caused.

Meir Kahane, for all his Jewish supremacy, was less threatening, because at least everyone knew where he coming from. But Dershowitz, thanks to the perceived credibility his position and his notoriety affords, is a frightful trojan horse—invited into America’s homes through the networks to spew his twisted, hateful propaganda.

Ed Harges..

Thanks for the book list. (and the excellent post)There are a few here that I hadn’t gotten to yet.

LOVE the description of Alan Dershowitz...all true and then some. He’s the “make torture legal guy.”

You knew he was a primary advisor to Hillary’s campaign as well, eh? Yep.

Well said Ed Harges.I hope you don’t get banned at Truthdig.

No, little backwards.  Christians are suffering terribly under Hamas.

Assailants Saturday beat up guards and stole a bus from a Christian school in Gaza run by the Baptist Church, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights said.
Since Hamas came to power a year ago, attacks on Gaza’s 3,000 Christians have increased.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/06/01/africa/ME-GE N-Palestinians-Gaza-Christians.php

And even more on attacks on Christians by Hamas

http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/Engl ish/eng_n/html/gaza_020608e.htm

It is no doubt unthinkable to some, but let’s imagine a nuclear armed Iran for a moment. The right wing in Israel would have us believe that this spells immediate and inexorable armageddon. The racist thrust of this—those irrational Arabs are not capable of dealing responsibly with such power, as we are—is obvious.

But imagine a ME in which Israel can no longer play the supreme power, or act with impunity. Imagine a ME in which Israel would be forced to deal fairly with their neighbors.

Yes, in this imaginary scenario, the world may face a Middle Eastern Missile Crisis or two, but this would mostly consist of saber rattling and bluster—headline grabbers to be sure, but not armageddon.

While dirty bombs in the hands of radical groups may present an ever growing threat around the world, it is almost never in the interest of a nation state to use nuclear weapons.  However, it can be useful to have this option in your back pocket, especially if your aggressive neighbor is keeping all their options on the table. Who is Israel to be final arbiter in deciding who shall have this right, and who shall not?

Further, Iran, being a new member of the nuclear family, would no longer feel bullied and browbeaten, regarded as second class. It’s honor and dignity as a nation would be restored, making it more stable, not less.

This will never happen of course. Israel is going to get it’s way. We are going to have continued generational strife in that region, and Americans are going to continue to pick up the tab, wether it’s more unwinnable wars, or more planes flown into buildings. Even now, our president is going to give audience to a corrupt, discredited, lame-duck leader, who, while claiming to be our true friend, will foment fear and spread lies in the single minded interest of the great colonial project.

the comments are ‘backwards’.  Israel has been attacked numerous times since 1948 by the Arab countries.  Certainly not the other way around.

Only genocide that is around has been announced by Hamas which has called for complete total elimination of Israel and its peoples. Its in their charter. In their textbooks and schools and sermons in their mosques. It is the only goal of Hamas. Imagine.

Great post Seamont. I always appreciate when anyone can put this information so concisely. It would have taken me 5000 more words to say the same things.

I’m still practicing on cutting it down to appropriate size.

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Well, the only ones trying to eliminate other peoples is Hamas (and Hezballah) who daily announce, as well as is stated in their charter, the complete destruction of Israel and its people. They want nothing less.

What a stretch ! All the way to the Euphrates river ?  Might as well make it the Missisipi river.

Well Howard, if every Muslim threw a bucket of water on Israel, Israel would be DELIGHTED, since that’s one of the many elements that Israel has been killing off all of their neighbors, in order to control. (and they do of course).

So, since Israel controls all of the water, forcing the native occupants of the area to die of thrist/dehydration/hunger..they obviously don’t HAVE a bucket of water to throw on Israel.

So, this is just more lies and rhetoric that you refuse to stop posting. Why is that?

Why do you think that we (at least those of us here in the US) care a whit about what Mottaki or anyone else in Iran says about Israel? We understand that for as long as Israel continues to oppress the Muslims in the occupied territories, this is going to be the standard complaints from any other Muslim nations, INCLUDING Iran.

EVERY NATION in the Middle East is THREATENED by Israel and Israel’s nukes. There is not a single nation state or territory in the ME, that has not (at some point in the past 60 years) been ATTACKED by Israel, and some have been attacked MULTIPLE times - by Israel.

The ONLY exception might be Iran, though certainly the US has attacked Iran, and we know that Saddam was in the habit of it as well. (attacking Iran that is).

So wise up Howard. As I said before, (and far too many times) this is RHETORIC from Iran, and maybe you can or should expect to hear it, for as long as Israel continues its abuses to the population of the Middle East. If Iran was actually interested in engaging in bringing any serious harm to Israel, they would have done it a long time ago. They haven’t.

So, this is talk, and it has nothing to do with us here in the West, UNLESS we wanna start talking about all of the assistance (including weapons) that the US provides to Israel, who then uses the stuff to attack everybody else in the Middle East.

Now in THAT respect, we ARE involved, but that’s about to stop. There is no logical reason for ‘we the people’ of the US, to continue allowing our own blood and treasure to be used to help Israel perpetrate crimes against humanity.

That would make us a sponsor of State Terrorism, and that’s against our own laws, as well as the laws of the international community.

So, we simply have to stop doing this criminal behavior, and providing assistance to Israel for their criminal behavior.

The UN is going to have to do their job as well...neglected after all of these years. The entire international community has an obligation to prevent and punish crimes of genocide, and we’ve pretty much failed in that effort, since the inception of the Genocide Convention, nearly 60 years ago. The biggest failure of that Convention, (and the world response to such atrocities) has been the genocide perpetrated by Israel against the peoples of the Middle East, INCLUDING Christians and Druze, and any other NON-Jewish peoples.

Until Israel stops the genocide, or the world community forces them to stop it, the rhetoric from the Muslim world will continue. That should be a no-brainer.

surely, And they cause all the hurricanes, typhoons, and floods.  Bad weather and crop failures.
and strife in Africa.  and hunger in China.

No, I don’t wanna bet on Israel’s intelligence over the intelligence of the US and the IAEA!

Why would anybody with a brain cell be willing to trust Israel’s ‘intelligence’ on ANYTHING!

And, what does that have to do with US? Iran isn’t bothering us, and Iran isn’t producing any nuclear weapons. So why did Olmert have to come all the way over HERE, to issue his threats against Iran?

We’re not HAVING IT anymore. Israel is NOT going to run our country, and bleed us dry of all our blood and treasure! That’s why Israel’s puppet Dick Bush and all the rest of the PNAC thugs, are on their way out!

Iran is NOT a threat to US, but there are many things that ARE! A ruined economy, a crumbling infrastructure, and and a demoralized popultion that can barely pay attention, let alone pay anything else.

Let me repeat. Iran isn’t BOTHERING US, and we have other things to concern ourselves with.

And let me repeat this too...Israel is NOT RUNNING NOTHIN’ HERE! This is the US of A, NOT ISRAEL. Love it or leave it, and we care not where you go!

We can’t AFFORD you Israel. We can’t afford to feed, house, clothe, educate ourselves! Why in the hell does anyone think we can or should ‘afford’ to support Israel in their own created misery?

GO HOME OLMERT! We are in the middle of very important business here right now, and you are not welcome. You are no more welcome here, than I would be there. So...LEAVE, and take Dick Bush with you.

The worst threat to the world and the region is Israel , fuelling mini civil wars even in latin America nd providing arms to both parties .

howard
everyone knows by now that iran was talking about regime change in Israel , they were talking about the zionist regime occupying jerusalem . You seem to be last one (and many in the white house) who has not caught on the evil hands behind mistranslation .

Iran has threatened many times in past year to destroy Israel. Just Sunday their Foreign Minister added his voice to Iran’s President’s to call to eliminate Israel.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki Sunday called on the world’s Muslims to work to “erase” Israel.

“As the Imam Khomeini said, if each Muslim even throws a bucket of water on Israel, Israel will be erased,” said Mottaki in Tehran.

http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=21916 5&Sn=WORL&IssueID=31074

Mr. Olmert, what’s the Yiddish word for “hypocrite?”

The world’s worst-kept “secret” is the fact Israel possesses (by some estimates) a hundred nukes already. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! (Except in this case, the kettle isn’t even smudged; that is, Iran has no nukes at all!)

Then there’s that nagging problem that you have produced ZERO EVIDENCE (!) that Iran has any nuclear weapons program whatsoever!!!

Go ahead--state your case to candid world, to paraphrase Jefferson.

Iran has a weak army, a navy that is little more than a coast guard, and an air force that is grounded most of the time for lack of parts. Their GNP is about on a par with Norway and Denmark.

Iran has attacked no one in over 200 years. Iran allows intrusive inspections of its nuclear facilities, as signatories to the NPT (a treaty, btw, which Israel refuses to sign). Iran’s leaders have consistently denied they have any nuclear weapons ambitions whatsoever, considering such weapons to be against their religious beliefs.

At this point, what can they do to prevent an attack by Israel or the US? Why are you so hell-bent for war?

C’mon, Ehud--state your case! What are you REALLY up to?

Afraid you have the puppet-master relationship 180 degress out of phase.  Bush is Israel’s loyal puppet.  Some food for thought “Loyal to Whom?” http://www.viewzone.com/dualcitizen.html

Wanna bet that Israel’s intelligence on Iran is better than their intelligence on Iraq???

What a Bush puppet. How many times do we have to read the NIE reports? Please, the only threat Iran provides is that of political influence in Iraq due solely to our invasion and failed occupation where political progress was stifled.

We’re going to take care of your country. You’ll all be safe, and it will be peace accomplished through compromise and not anguished assault and air strikes.