By Jeff mace, July 23 at 7:18 am #

What’s the purpose of this post. You sound like a Republican. Go vote for McCain. Your capital letters only make your stupid negativity stupider.

By robin, July 23 at 7:49 am #
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To Howard: You mentioned from your history knowledge that Israel is occupying Palestine lands after 1948. Israel is no more within 1948 division that it agreed. So Israel is an UN criminal.
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robin,

Quite right. Israel never had any intentions of staying within the U.N. partition. Ben Gurion and every Israeli leader since has had the intention of annexing all of Palestine from the river to the sea. Howard knows this perfectly well.

For far too long we have unconditionally sided with the Isrealis in every dispute. We should not continue to define our foreign Policy by th estandards or desires of ANY other Country.
what has become apparent is that there is undue influence with in Our gov’t. First and Foremost we must demand that NO Public Servant have any other Citizenship than American. they must revoke such conflicts of interest to hold public Office! Far too many ,esp in this Admin & congress are currently holding duel Citizenships in both the US and Isreal.This is an outrage! How can we KNOW those who pledge to Protect and Defend Our constitution are doing so legitimately if they are also foreign nationals??Would this be acceptable if they held an additional citizenship from Iran, S. Korea,Syria, Russsia- NO!So such priviledge should not be extended nor ignored just because it is an Isreali Citizenship.
Also it should be noted that a Group called JStreet has been campaigning to expose Not only Liebermans bias,but also his affiliation with Hagee, who only ‘loves’ isreal as a means to his Armeggedon Plan.J Street has been bring forth the reality that those who claim to support Isreal in the ‘christian’ community feel that Isreal is th ekey to th e2nd coming and The ‘Rapture’ which will ‘save’ only those CHRITIANS who have followed this Sociopath Hagee. J Street has demanded Lieberman end this association, but has refused, appearing with him just yeterday. So one must wonder about those who Proclaim allegience to Isreal and their real motivation and intentions for it’s future!

You see, we’re all so conditioned by our gov. and the media to believe that we are required to be involved in the “Mid-East Peace Process” that we can’t see that the US gov. or any of its agents have any business whatsoever butting their noses into the affairs of the MidEast.

BTW, think of that soundbyte: “The Middle East Peace Process.” So it’s the job of the rest of the world to continue and be involved in the 2,000 year-old Mid-East Peace Process?  Dr. Phil says, “The best predicter of future behaviour is past behaviour.”

One thing that Obama said while there was that, as CIC, “he had concerns other than the war in Iraq and that he was adhering to his 16-month ‘time horizon.’”

This said to me that, rhetorically at least, he wanted Americans to know that he, rhetorically at least, intended to take care of things at home. 

Iraq, Iran, Isreal, Afghanistan, all of them, have done a marvelous job of manipulating Americans and their money into caring for, thinking about and working for them and their inability for a couple thousand years to live with one another in relative harmony.  It is not the job of the US or any other people to any longer facilitate harmonius co-existence in the ME, an obvious impossibility anyway.

It has been a gross derelict of duty and oath of our elected officials not to have developed a sound, workable energy policy that would make our continued, sickening concern for the Mid-East unnecessary.  We have absolutely no pride.

Obama understands this and we can only hope he’ll set us on the right track.  Forget McCain.  He doesn’t get it.

My whole life has been hijacked by Isreal, except for the first maybe 10 years.  Doesn’t any mortal have the power or courage to buck religious destiny?  It really doesn’t have to be this way.

If the US gov. is going to insist on being a player in MidEast politics and religion, then we might as well be annexed by Isreal and “be the spade that, by our foreign policy and actions, we’re calling ourselves.”

Tony Wicher writes: “It would sure be nice if Obama visited Gaza as well as Sderot to see how the people there are doing, wouldn’t it? ”

Couple of reasons for that.

Obama’s security could not be assured in Gaza, because the controlling element in gaza (Hamas) is itself a terrorist entity.

The Jews of Sderot are the victims of Gazan Arab genocidal rocket attacks on the general population. The Gazan Arabs are in danger from their own Gazan brothers (witness the Hamas-Fatah fratricidal battles, and the typical Hamas repression of Christians), and from IDF defensive operations against Hamas terrorists who are committing war crimes by hiding combatants amongst the civilian population.

The situations are not at all comparable.

Obama would be a fool to go to Gaza.

It would sure be nice if Obama visited Gaza as well as Sderot to see how the people there are doing, wouldn’t it?

You read history.  Partition in 1948 was turned down by the Arabs.  Israel said ok even though they got the short end of the deal and they have prospered in the last 60 years.

Arab countries refused their mandated half of the contentious land appropriation at that time by the U.N.  They would rather have no country if it has to be next to Israel.

Has not changed in all those years. Arab countries are responsible to this day for putting pal’s in refugee camps. Arab countries offer no aid or help with all their oil monies and extensive land.

Israel doesn’t want to feed them and be responsible for them.  Let them federate with Jordan, which is about 70% Pal’s anyway.  And/or with Egypt who was responsible for Gaza and its people for decades before 1948 —as it belonged to Egypt.( Note, they refuse to take Gaza back or to help them improve their economy, etc.; no, just allow smuggling of weapons and armaments in the tunnels instead of food and consumer goods )

Sorry Mr. Obama! And no thanks for your condescending sympathy for the Palestinians!

The issue is not limited to “economic hardships facing Palestinians” as you claim. It’s about a homeland that was stolen from them. It’s about their self-determination, their freedom and the need to overthrow the yoke of oppression and terrorism practiced by marauders occupiers for over sixty years!

Go read a little bit of history!