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Schumer: It Makes Sense to ‘Strangle’ Gaza Economically

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Sen. Chuck Schumer’s words about Gaza, delivered Wednesday at an Orthodox Union event, were coming back to haunt him via the Interweb on Friday, as video of Schumer declaring that it might be a good idea “to strangle [Gaza] economically” made its way around the blogosphere.  —KA

Think Progress via The Huffington Post:

New York’s senior senator explained that the current Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip — which is causing a humanitarian crisis there — is not only justified because it keeps weapons out of the Palestinian territory, but also because it shows the Palestinians living there that “when there’s some moderation and cooperation, they can have an economic advancement.” Summing up his feelings, Schumer emphasized the need to “to strangle them economically until they see that’s not the way to go”

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By omop, June 14, 2010 at 5:36 am Link to this comment

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    forgot to add dots. hope this works.

    http://www.paklinks.com/gs/all-views/110304-truman-diary.html

    http://www.adl.org/anti_semiism/oped_truman.asp

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By omop, June 14, 2010 at 5:31 am Link to this comment

To: ARABIAN SINBAD.

GOOGLLE HAS A LONG LIST.

http//www.paklinks.com/gs/all-views/110304-truman-diary.html

http//www.adl.org/anti_semiism/oped_truman.asp

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By Arabian Sinbad, June 13, 2010 at 7:06 pm Link to this comment

By omop, June 13 at 4:31 pm #

“Its well to remind all what President Harry S. Truman wrote in his diary about them.
 
“The Jews, I find, are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as
D[isplaced] P[ersons] as long as the Jews get special treatment. Yet when they have power, physical, financial or political neither Hitler nor Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment to the under dog.”
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Omop, I almost can’t believe that President Harry Truman have said the words you quoted above. So I would like help from you or any other poster to give me the reference where this quotation can be found and verified.

Most astonishing yet, if this quotation is truly there in books, why the Zionists have not used this to try President Truman in absencia and label him as anti-Semitic. They have done that lately with President Carter after he wrote his book “Palestine, Peace Nor Apartheid;” that’s despite of the fact that Carter was the one who brought them a semblance of peace with their two closest immediate neighbors, Egypt and Jordan.

It would be refreshing and worthy of a separate scholarly book on how that, in the racist short history of Zionism, they would have two noble American presidents labeled with the worst blackmailing label of anti-Semitic, thus proving that they always bite the hands that feed them!

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By cyrena, June 13, 2010 at 6:05 pm Link to this comment

Me too samosamo. (taken aback that is). I mean I know
Schumer is a Zionist and all, but when I read this, I
was pretty sure he was either on crack, or had
succumbed to the dementia.

I’m still wondering. Maybe it’s both.

You all know the solution. Get your lists
going…now’s the time. Identify every Zionist and/or
other crackpot currently situated in the US Congress,
and make sure you replace them with a new person who
doesn’t hold Israel as their primary allegiance.

There is absolutely NO logic for this Siamese twin
relationship between the US and Israel. So why are we
saddled with the likes of people like schumko here?
Need some Jewish representation in the Congress?
Fine. There’re are hundreds of AMERICAN Jews who
would do quite well. (not all Jews are Zionists, and
not all Zionists are Jews - you all know the drill.)

So if you want a government that puts US ahead of
Israel’s interests in terrorizing the Middle East,
then you just have to elect them.


There is nothing strange about this. We don’t have

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By ThomasG, June 13, 2010 at 1:21 pm Link to this comment

ofersince72, June 13 at 3:12 am,

Backlash as you suggest is NOT a solution.

If you were on trial for your life and your lawyer was not representing you, would letting the District Attorney represent you be a legitimate solution?  Republicans representing the populace is the same thing.

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By ThomasG, June 13, 2010 at 1:19 pm Link to this comment

ofersince72, June 13 at 3:12 am,

Backlash as you suggest is NOT a solution.

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By omop, June 13, 2010 at 12:31 pm Link to this comment

If Helen Thomas would have used the same Charlie Schumer’s words, “It, makes
sense to Strangle Israel economically” would she be considered:- a] un-american.
b] a racist, c] antisemitic. d] a bigot or a potential Senatorial candidate?

Its well to remind all what President Harry S. Truman wrote in his diary about
them.
   
      “The Jews, I find, are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians,
Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as
D[isplaced] P[ersons] as long as the Jews get special treatment. Yet when they have
power, physical, financial or political neither Hitler nor Stalin has anything on them
for cruelty or mistreatment to the under dog. ”

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By grumpynyker, June 13, 2010 at 8:02 am Link to this comment
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Truthdig readers/commentators, GET IT NOW?!  As a
NYker, I’m either writing in the name of Yasir Arafat
or the comic(cannot remember name, known for
impersonates George the deserter Bush and campaigned
against harrassment of black males in Tyler Texas) who
said he was running against Chuck the Schmuck come
reelection time. As for Occupied Palestine, ONE STATE
solution with all the displaced Palestinians coming
home from various concentration camps in
Lebanon,Jordan,Egypt,Syria, etc.  Bring in tankers of
bleach to sanitize all settler communities and watch
the fun.

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By truedigger3, June 13, 2010 at 2:48 am Link to this comment

Re: By ofersince72, June 13 at 4:40 am #

offersince72,

Why are you leaving??!! You contributed many good points and many people learned from your posts.
Are you sure the internet was a total loss for you?! This is hard to believe!
Yes, the internent is full of all kind of people, the smart, the stupid and all kind of agendas and bullshitting, but I am sure there are a lot of valuable information and opinions in the internet.
Good luck.

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By ofersince72, June 13, 2010 at 12:40 am Link to this comment

You all here Truth Dig,

Don’t want any solutions, or even talk about them,

just complain about how it is the samosamo and point

your fingers at everything in the way around the world.
never blaming yourselves in your part for our government
slipping away from us….....

You stuck with me until the end of the month when I am
having this damned contraption of a computer turned off
by internet provider, or to i Completely bore myself to
death before then reading and posting on this inane
internet that has done absolutly nothing to better
the politcal discussion in America or make it any less
politicaly ignorant…A complete waste of a service that
had posibilities, just like television of the 1950s,
good posibilities a couple half a dozen good shows in
fifty years , other than that a complete waste of time,
and that is exactly what the internet has turned into.
I am so sorry that I let my sister talk me into going on
line six months ago.  If you want to blame anyone for
OFER making life miserable for you on Truth Dig for the
last six months blame her, I am really tempted to leave
her Johns Hopkins email address on here so you all may
curse her out yourself.

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By ofersince72, June 12, 2010 at 11:36 pm Link to this comment

you all smart, the cream….

don’t let the Huffington Post or the

New York Times ..or the

Washington Post….

or the MSMS

do your thinking for you…....look where they have
taken you !!!!!!!!!

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By ofersince72, June 12, 2010 at 11:27 pm Link to this comment

As a matter of fact, the quickest way is to take
Limbaugh’s strategy….

Everyone registar Republican, get the biggest baffons
you can in office, stack it,...let the Democrats falter
really, really bad for several cycles….

Don’t worry, the Repubs will self-destruct, the Democrats
will have to rebuild, and thats where we come in….

Use some strategy liberals, its our only hope to save
this place if it is at all posible now, which i doubt.

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By ofersince72, June 12, 2010 at 11:21 pm Link to this comment

However, if you are diehard in voting Democrat,

then you will get the same result everytime….

and you have no reason to complain about this countries
continued support for their little criminal ally…..

and are a supporter and contributor to
being a part of the imperialist murdering machine
that you all rail against…

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By ofersince72, June 12, 2010 at 11:12 pm Link to this comment

If there is any political process left in this country
(and there probably isn’t), the only way to turn this
around, even if it means putting Repubs back in majority
a few terms,,,,is to quit voting for Democrats at all
for anything, anything at all..

Administer euthanasia to the party and rebuild it, it will
be the fastest and most effective way to gain control
of our government again if it is posible.

if you still believe that you can get enough “good”
Democrats in office by going through our corrupt primary
system, you are blind.
just take this 80 - 13   Senate pro war
          356 - 65   House pro war
You can’t overcome those numbers.

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By ofersince72, June 12, 2010 at 11:01 pm Link to this comment

Hey Ed Harges,  I told you so !!!!!!!!!!

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By MarthaA, June 12, 2010 at 10:44 pm Link to this comment

Not One More!, June 13 at 1:16 am,

Shumer is one of the Republican-Lite DLC Republican led Democratic Leadership Council Democrats that care nothing about the populace whatsoever.  I am in hopes that all the DLC will eventually be removed from the Halls of Congress.  The DLC is a violation of the
Constitution, there is nothing in the Constitution authorizing the Democratic Leadership Council, but the Republicans use the DLC, nevertheless, to lead Congress.

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By Not One More!, June 12, 2010 at 9:16 pm Link to this comment

The whole idea of a jewish state is in violation of the UN human rights, just as a christian or muslim state is in violation to that mandate.

Of course, the christians in this country want a christian state, the muslims in the middle east want a muslim state, and the jews want a jewish state.

It is funny that the jewish government treats the palestinians like subhumans, just like the nazis treated the jews. You would think it goes against logic, or basic human sense of justice. 

We are all in agreement that we want to be treated fairly. What we are not in agreement is that we should treat others fairly.

And schumer is a democrat.

go figure

“Anyone who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.” (Alexander Solzenitsyn - Nobel Prize acceptance speech, 1972) Compare that to Obama’s acceptance speech.

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By samosamo, June 12, 2010 at 4:57 pm Link to this comment

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By Xntrk, June 12 at 3:42 am #
Samo samo, Our government loves Blockades.
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Yeah, I am aware of all that, especially about the american
indians, and realize I did not couch my comment in a manner
to emphasize the good old hypocritical american way that I
should have, I was just too taken back with an ‘elected’ creep
saying something like he did, publicly, which I am really not
taken aback. He sure needs removal of office and and lot
more punitive measures for his arrogance. He should not be
one speaking for america and he sure doesn’t speak for me.

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By Ed Harges, June 12, 2010 at 2:04 pm Link to this comment

re:By kalpal, June 12 at 1:16 pm:


Kalpal writes that Schumer “displayed gross ignorance about
middle eastern cultures. His speech was unworthy of any person
who claims to be aware of how the world works.”

Kalpal, I’m glad you deplore what Schumer said, but I find it odd that you fault
him only for showing “ignorance” of how things “work”.

So, “strangling” the people of Gaza is a bad idea only because it might not “work”?
Are there not maybe some other, more important reasons not to do such a thing
(hint: it might have something to do with things like cruelty, immorality, etc.)?

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By Ed Harges, June 12, 2010 at 1:55 pm Link to this comment

re:By Spooky-43, June 12 at 2:56 am:

I said an anti-Israel party, not an anti-Semitic party. I just want the US to stop
supporting Israel; I don’t “want Jews out”.

Can you really not comprehend this distinction?

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By cheyennebode, June 12, 2010 at 12:57 pm Link to this comment
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SCHUMER WOLFOWITZ PEARLE CRYSTAL ARE MOSSADS AND HAVE OBAMAS
EAR AND WILL GET HIM TO DO THEIR DIRTY WORK•••OBAMA HAS BEEN
OVERWHELMED WITH WASHINGTON EXPERTS••OBAMA IS AN
INTELLECTUAL(READER)~NIETZSCHE THOREAU DANTE ADVISED THAT
CONTEMPLATION SOLITUDE
AND THE FOREST WOULD FACILITATE GAINING WISDOM••HE NEEDS TO
SPEND MORE TIME ALONE AT CAMP DAVID WITH HIS OWN THOUGHTS

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By jean Gerard, June 12, 2010 at 12:28 pm Link to this comment
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“Summing up his feelings, Schumer said ...

  It would be more helpful and less inflammatory if Schumer—indeed, all
Senators, Representatives and government officials including Mr. Obama—would
summon up their intellect, their knowledge of history and of human nature, take
note of the universally negative effects of strangling people economically and
causing humanitarian crises, and try something more likely to work, such as
recognition of what stimulus elicits what responses, and then take it from there.
  Coercion is coercion is coercion, and nobody in the world responds positively to
coercion.  Quite the opposite - - they dig in more fiercely, determined to resist.
  America as well as Israel needs desperately to acknowledge this clearly apparent
fact and stop throwing its weight around.
  We will all get there eventually—or else.

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By tazdelaney, June 12, 2010 at 11:51 am Link to this comment

about 4 years ago, israel invaded lebanon and kiled thousands of civilians over one kidnapped IDF soldier. israel left 3.3 million american-made child-targeting clusterbomb fragments on maryland-sized lebanon… had it been an israeli ship piratically boarded; people on board killed and 700 jews taken hostage… plainly, israel would now be bombing the country responsible… and the US would back them as always.

on february 1, 2009, obama re-authorized the bush CIA rendition program of globally outsourced psy-ops torture chambers while expanding the war fronts. likewise, israel operates a concentration camp called gaza with impunity and seeming immunity.

ahmedinejad is a holocaust-denying lunatic, a theocratic tyrant who used bush-style election fraud to hold power. but he isn’t warring across the christian world; isn’t running any concentration camps filled with jews and christians; isn’t in possession of a single nuclear bomb.

america wages war across the world constantly; runs a network of torture chambers; has some 10,000 nuclear bombs on a planet where 1,000 would destroy virtually all life on earth; has a massive WMD arsenal including CBWs and a range of other mad-scientist weapons; constantly overthrows democracies and installing or propping up fascist dictatorships while posing as the arbiter of human rights.

israel runs concentration camp gaza, wages constant war and possesses 200+ nuclear bombs and array of other WMDs. yet no embargo; no blockade; no censure… perpetually protected by america’s apron.

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By pal, June 12, 2010 at 11:14 am Link to this comment
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What a monster.

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By nemesis2010, June 12, 2010 at 11:12 am Link to this comment

This is why all those Israeli agents like Schumer, Lieberman, et alii, need to be weeded out of our government. They—like Christian evangelicals and Muslims and AIPAC—are traitors because of their misplaced loyalties.

It’s a shame that many good and innocent people who are, unfortunately, Jewish are going to pay a heavy price when Israel, and Jews in general, receive the soon to be had comeuppance. The world is quickly tiring of that rogue nation and its evil behavior. Israel has squandered its political capital and world opinion has turned against it.

Statements like that of Shumer demonstrate why Europe dumped their Jewish problem on the rest of the world. There is a reason that they end up being vilified, hated, and reviled—even by their own non-existent god—everywhere they go.

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By Alejandro, June 12, 2010 at 11:11 am Link to this comment
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What a disgraceful display of cowardice by a US Senator.

If the entire Arab world rises up against us, it will be because of the few dispicable SOB’S within our goverment that should be, just like Helen said; sent back to where-ever their ancestors are from.

Schumer you Isaeli lapdog, may you live long enough to see Israel pushed into the sea…

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By kalpal, June 12, 2010 at 9:16 am Link to this comment

Scumer displayed gross ignorance about middle eastern cultures. His speech was unworthy of any person who claims to be aware of how the world works. Very sad!

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By Ed Harges, June 12, 2010 at 9:14 am Link to this comment

After the upheavals of the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War, there was a
cultural moment when the United States was doing a lot of soul-searching, and it
seemed on the verge of becoming a better country, less egotistical and violent,
more tolerant and peaceable and fair.

But then along came the neoconservatives, who merged with the pro-Israel
Democrats, and a belligerent new Israeli-American consensus was born. The
dominance of self-righteous pro-Israel Jews in the Democratic party, combined
with the dominance of religious/patriotic chauvinism in the Republican party,
breathed new life into the briefly dormant monster of arrogant American militarism.

The post-Vietnam moment of healthy doubt, that chance for the USA to become a
better, more peaceful country, was lost.

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By omop, June 12, 2010 at 9:08 am Link to this comment

A Christian by the name of Helen Thomas expressed her feelings by
saying, ” human beings [the Jews]” return to their original homelands.

  A Jew by the name of “A Senator”  Schumer expressed his views by
saying. “strangle/kill Gazans”...economically meaning they wont be able to
eat and therefore die”.

Who of those two above can be called an sob?

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By Tobysgirl, June 12, 2010 at 8:38 am Link to this comment

You know, I’m getting a little tired of all the tears shed for the folks in Waco. I’m not saying I think what happened was okay, but they were given many, many opportunities to come out. Unlike the members of MOVE in Philadelphia, whose homes were bombed, and some of whom have been imprisoned for years. They didn’t pull weapons on ATF, yet people and animals died, and the imprisoned continue to suffer.

As far as Schumer goes, isn’t his attitude the same as the Nazis had toward those in the Warsaw Ghetto and the other ghettos? I am fascinated by Israel’s/Israel sympathizers’ rhetoric being quite similar to Nazi propaganda.

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By MarthaA, June 12, 2010 at 8:36 am Link to this comment

“Summing up his feelings, Schumer emphasized the need to “to strangle them” [the Palestinians] “economically until they see that’s not the way to go”” because “it shows the Palestinians living there [in Gaza] that “when there’s some moderation and cooperation, they can have an economic advancement.” —Requotes from Think Progress via the Huffington Post

Advancement to what?  Food and the necessities of life?

This is tyranny gone to seed by the Israeli Government and the United States must not support Israel in this type of action to take away the Palestinians Extraterritorial Rights through tyranny, because none of them gave away their Extraterritorial Rights. 

I am thankful to hear on the news that President Obama said the Palestinians in Gaza will now be allowed food and the necessities of life, but that doesn’t mean they will give up the fight to not be dispossessed of the Extraterritorial Rights to their homeland. 

Peace will not come until Israel understands that peace needs to be made with the Palestinians, not killing all of them to get rid of them because they are in the way of what they want to do.  This type of thinking is evil thinking.

This comment by Schumer actually shows the evil behind the whole Christian Right-Wing’s/Rupert Murdoch Glenn Beck/Sarah Palin FOX News Network “dumb show” that, as Hitler did in Germany, is deceiving Christians in America, who think they are taking over the world, but are following EVIL in sheep’s clothing, not Jesus. 

Christians of America be not deceived, this is a spirit of Antichrist, it is not the Lord’s plan for YOU to take over the world, it is He, the Lord, that fights for you, not YOU fighting for the Lord.

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By Mike3, June 12, 2010 at 7:39 am Link to this comment

Why doesn’t the Zionist pandering press give Schumer the Helen Thomas treatment? Surely what he said was as bad if not worse than what Helen Thomas said. America will of course not reprimand him because it’s owned by the Zionists and kisses their ass. I feel for those Jews, who are not Zionists: my commiserations that your noble religion should be abused in thus way. We should understand that it is not Judaism that is sick, but America itself.

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By omop, June 12, 2010 at 6:41 am Link to this comment

Schumer is true to his true loyalty. And his loyalty like all Zionists is to Israel
first and foremost. He represents the Jews period.

Time and again in history, Jews have wielded great power to further group
interests that are separate from, and often contrary to, those of the non-Jewish
populations among whom they live.


This creates an inherently unjust and unstable situation that all too often has
ended tragically in violent conflict between Jews and non-Jews.

Ye reap what you sow.

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By rico, suave, June 12, 2010 at 6:12 am Link to this comment

Chucky gets my vote for political opportunist of the year!

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By Mundt, June 12, 2010 at 5:35 am Link to this comment

Schumer is run by Mossad. Why listen to him?

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By bogi666, June 12, 2010 at 5:20 am Link to this comment
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Since Shumer thinks it’s such a good idea why doesn’t he move to Gaza. This jerk needs to be fragged,  just like the officer in Nam who told my brother to do something that him killed, and his reply to the officer “if you think it’s such a good idea, you do it, Sir”.

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By walldizo, June 12, 2010 at 2:56 am Link to this comment
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Statements spewed by Schumer,only help to generate more world isolation for Israel.As the motto goes,the idle organ should be extirpated.

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By Xntrk, June 11, 2010 at 11:42 pm Link to this comment

Samo samo, Our government loves Blockades. We locked the Indians up in uninhabitable Reservations and starved any who were healthy enough to avoid the epidemics of small pox and measles. We’ve maintained a Blockade against Cuba for fifty years. Then, there are the North Koreans, and The Iraqis, and the Iranians. Before them were the North Vietnamese and China and Cambodia.

We’ve also supported blockades by China against Tibet [once we decided we could make money with China]. And the blockade against the Timor Tigers.

What was the Iron Curtain if it wasn’t a blockade against the dirty Commies. Of course we complained mightily about the Berlin Blockade, and rightly so - but would we have complained if we could have locked out the Russians?

It is no secret that these blockades are both illegal, and effective. They kill the kids and the elderly, and impoverish entire Nations. Then we point our finger and declare them to be failures as governments and as people. All they have to do is roll over for whoever is guarding the borders, and everything will be peachy.

I don’t think it is a religious antipathy - I think the whole thing tends to be based on racism. Somehow, the people on the other side of the fence are seldom white, so why should we care?

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By Spooky-43, June 11, 2010 at 10:56 pm Link to this comment

By Ed Harges, June 11 at 10:38 pm #

“Find me an anti-Israel party. They’ll get my vote.”
——————————————————————————-
There are loads of anti-Israel parties.  Try: 

AMERICAN NAZI PARTY - They support the immediate removal of “Jews and non-whites out of all positions of government and civil service—and eventually out of the country altogether.”

If you only want Jews out, and don’t mind letting blacks, latinos and others in, you will have to check out some of these other parties.  There are so many of them, I bet you can find one that believes in your brand of beliefs. 

http://www.politics1.com/parties.htm

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By MeHere, June 11, 2010 at 10:37 pm Link to this comment

Schumer’s political success illustrates how detached voters are from the most serious problems affecting them and the country as a whole. Unlike most Senators, Schumer focuses a great deal on local issues and this has made him very popular in New York. At the same time, his biggest campaign contributors for years have been the financial and banking industry, law firms, and real estate. And he is a member of AIPAC.  So if you look at the big picture, Schumer has been hurting more than helping New Yorkers.

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By Wounded and Dangerous, June 11, 2010 at 9:06 pm Link to this comment

You may recall that Chuck was in New York alongside the faithful who were cheering on the IDF when the genocide was occuring during the last Gaza invasion. Now, if that isn’t grounds for hate speech or promoting genocide then I don’t know what is. These people knew that the Gazans were defenceless, yet they wanted them dead. This is the Zionist mentality which disturbs me greatly.

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By samosamo, June 11, 2010 at 8:36 pm Link to this comment

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How absolutely brazen of our government agreeing that the
‘strangling’ of a people in their own sovereign nation is part of
the goody goody two shoes american christian ideology, and not
to matter that their ‘sovereign’ nation has been stolen from
them.

The what was ‘our’ country condoning this genocide,
goddamnedest thing I never would have thought to come out of
our government. Very distrubing indeed. Need anything be said
about those who elect this piece of shit?

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By skulz fontaine, June 11, 2010 at 7:26 pm Link to this comment

Sen. Chucky ‘shomer’ Schumer opens anus and inserts his head. “Strangle?” Oh
Chuck you servile piss ant.

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By berniem, June 11, 2010 at 6:44 pm Link to this comment

Again I ask, how in the hell can people continue to believe in the myth of the “two party system?” This country was built through greed, genocide, religious delusion, rampant exploitation, and naked aggression. Our current system of governance is as dysfuntional and potentially as terminally destructive as Siamese Twins sharing a pathological hatred of each other. Both factions see the world as an endlessly exploitable commodity and will go to any lengths to make sure that they end up with the 51% chunk of the pie!

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By Ed Harges, June 11, 2010 at 6:38 pm Link to this comment

And now that Schumer admits that the object of the blockade is economic
strangulation of the entire Gaza population, I’ll bet he nonsensically also
still holds that the only reason Israel wouldn’t allow aid boats in is because
Israel needs to make sure there are no weapons entering Gaza.

Jewish American liberals totally sh*t on their liberal principles, and on common
sense, when it comes to their goddamn Holy State. And how have these people
managed to convince us the rest of us that accusations of “dual loyalty” are
anti-Semitic? Hell, I don’t even think this guy has enough of a loyalty to the US
to qualify as a second loyalty. He’s 100% Israel uber alles, and the United States
exists only to serve Israel, so far as he’s concerned.

I would rather die than vote Republican, but I am done with voting for
Democrats.

Israel owns them as much as it owns the Republicans.

Find me an anti-Israel party. They’ll get my vote.

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By azythos, June 11, 2010 at 6:33 pm Link to this comment

A loon, I don’t know. An idiot, probably, for saying in so many words what even the Zionist mass-murderers try to put a fig leaf on. An unreconstructed Nazi, without any kind of doubt.

Continue to vote Democratic, all you nice people.

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By MarthaA, June 11, 2010 at 6:15 pm Link to this comment

It is sad that Schumer thinks it is alright to starve the Palestinians into submission of what he has assumed to be God’s Will, even though the UN doesn’t have Extraterritorial Rights, because Extraterritorial Rights would have to be negotiated with the Palestinians, but that doesn’t matter, “Kill Them, Kill Them All” as Jerry Falwell used to say and like what happened in Waco TX where marksmen and tanks shot, killed and burned up the evidence of those determined by the Shumerites to be unpeople.  Schumer enjoyed far too much interrogating the few that survived.  Getting his way is all that matters, after all, God is unable to accomplish Biblical prophecy.  Schumer and Company have to make sure that it is done their way,  it takes too much time waiting on God..

Schumer is a cancer on the 70% majority Common Populace of the United States and there is no way he could care about the plight of the Palestinians.

I look forward to the time when Schumer will be voted out, but somehow he always manages to keep his seat.

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By Arabian Sinbad, June 11, 2010 at 5:17 pm Link to this comment

One of the pillars of the American fascists speaks out from his filthy rectum, and the terrible smell makes me nauseated and feeling to throw up!

I want few courageous patriotic Americans to call for his resignation from office, for this f…n bloody Zionist has uttered a begotted enormity far more than the gentle and truthful words that cost Helen Thomas her job!

When are we going to start seeing true justice in these sad United States of America, occupied and enslaved by Zionists!

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By Commune115, June 11, 2010 at 4:50 pm Link to this comment

Thank you Schumer for exposing the real way in which our “Democratic” leaders think. What a loon.

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