AIPAC: American Israel Public Affairs Committee
Were you unable to attend the recent AIPAC 2007 conference? Well, if you are a US politician or a Christian evangelical or you champion Olmert (who, like Bush, has his own popularity problems) and Cheney or you are a Zionist, then you were well represented.
It was a packed roster. Among our Congressional illuminaries speaking:
Lieberman (I), Coleman (R), Lowery (D), Mikulski (D), Ros-Lehtinen (R), Lantos (D), McConnell (R), Reid (D), Boehner (R), Pelosi (D), Harman (D), Sanchez (D).
Other dignitaries included:
James Woosley (former Director, CIA), Jeff Mendelsohn (National Outreach Director, AIPAC), Marvin Feuer (Director, Policy and Gov’t Affairs, AIPAC), Ken Mehlman (former Chair, RNC), Norm Ornstein (Scholar, American Enterprise Institute), Ariel Cohen (Senior Fellow, Heritage Foundation), Joe Trippi (former campaign manager for Howard Dean).
Also speaking at the conference were several professors at major US universities and leaders of various evangelical organizations, at least one representing Hispanics, and other dignitaries within or associated with our government, but judging by the audience’s enthusiasm there were two standouts:
John Hagee (founder and Pastor, Cornerstone Church, San Antonio, TX). He wowed them with such as this:
“…Israel has no choice but to strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities, with or without America’s help. The strike will provoke Russia — which wants Persian Gulf oil — to lead an army of Arab nations against Israel. Then God will wipe out all but one-sixth of the Russian-led army, as the world watches “with shock and awe,†he says, lending either a divine quality to the Bush administration phrase or a Bush-like quality to God’s wrath.
But Hagee doesn’t stop there. He adds that Ezekiel predicts fire “‘upon those who live in security in the coastlands.’†From this sentence he concludes that there will be judgment upon all who stood by while the Russian-led force invaded Israel, and issues a stark warning to the United States to intervene: “Could it be that America, who refuses to defend Israel from the Russian invasion, will experience nuclear warfare on our east and west coasts?â€
For those of you with strong stomachs and normal blood pressure, you’ll want to watch this video of his highly appreciated speech.
The one who really brought the house down was our esteemed Vice President, Big Dick Cheney. Whoa! The poor guy could hardly get his speech on, what with all the applause and cheering! Here’s the video of his speech.
Just days before the conference, the anti-Zionist organization of orthodox Jews, Neturei Karta, held this protest (video) of AIPAC supporters.
Also just before the annual conference, WebWire offered this analysis:
Call it the first primary.
Ten months before New Hampshire voters render their tone-setting verdicts in the race for the next president of the United States, candidates from both parties and their proxies will wander the halls of next week’s American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference assessing their PIQ — pro-Israel quotient…
…The annual policy conference is AIPAC’s benchmark event and the one opportunity to reach major givers in the pro-Israel community gathered under a single roof..
Media Monitors Network offers this informative article: We, the People vs Zionism
If it were available, I would tag this post Know Your Enemy
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March 19th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
I refuse to ever again apologize or in any other way qualify what I may write or speak or think about the government of Israel
Just sayin’
March 19th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
None of this for you huh mirth? :zip_ee:
Considering all that has come to light by both your excellent post and all the others that have so infrequently been writen in recent years, it is high time the American people stopped considering Israel an ally. It has caused us nothing but grief.
The scariest thing though is Israel’s willingness to happily stand by and let the fundies play out their Armagedon fantasies. As long as they are getting U.S. dollars, they don’t give a shit. The Russians are going to invade them? Apparently Hagee doesn’t remember how ineffective the Russians were in Chechnya. The Russians can kill their journalists perhaps. They are good at that but that’s it. The lunatics are running the asylum.
March 19th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
Is it catching?
Israel faces corruption ‘epidemic’
The latest scandals to hit the Israeli government - involving Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and President Moshe Katsav - are just two examples in a long line that have recently rocked Israeli political and public life.
Did they know Abramoff also?
Did the Dukester eat there also?
Do they have a lobbyist office on K street too?
Think it could spread to other Us sponsored “democracies” like Iraq,
OH wait according to most MSM accounts it already has….here,
and here,
and here,
even Iraqi’s too
Hope it ain’t fatal, (except to their political careers)
March 19th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
BTW off topic, BUT CLASSIC NEW VIDEO
Please Impeach Me
March 19th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
Clif, thank you so much for bringing the video to us. It’s perfect, both the humor and then the stunning ending.
I’m proud to have it on my post thread.
March 19th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
The Israeli government scandals are only exceeded by our own in the U.S.
Thanks for inviting me to ETR and leaving a comment at my Blog, Mirth.
You’re always welcome as are those who express their opinions here.
:smile2_ee:
March 19th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Hey, Clif, how many of them were caught with $90,000 bucks in the refrigerator?
All political parties have their thieves. Remember Dan Rostenkowski and Jim Wright? Wish I could write a book with one word on each page and sell it for a million bucks!
March 19th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
Question, Everyone:
I heard (but wasn’t paying attention…I think it was on Lou Dobb’s show) Condi make a very provocative statement today about the US and/or Israel attacking Iran. Did anyone catch it?
March 19th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
I’m searching for the above story and happenned across this:
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL1960066620070319
Israel has declared their invasion and devastation of Lebanon was a “war” and they are trying to think of a name for it. Can we help them out?
I’ll start…
Crimes Against Humanity War
March 19th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
Yo PUSFACE, 90 grand is a drop in Cunningham’s bucket, Or the MILLIONS Abramoff stole and shared with Grover Norquist and Ralph Reed not to mention, Conrad Burns, Tom Delay, Bob Ney, David Sarifavan, and a whole hoist of others, BTW it alkso includes Kyle “dusty” Foggo and Brent Wilkes who are currently being investigated in California by a US Attorney, not to mention the whole sale outright theft of Funds in Iraq, 18-20 Billion total unaccounted for, and quite a few re-pubie contractors giving money back if not getting indicted son.
Damn son you got ONE name from this century, and even with Alberto “LIES to congress” Gonzolas running a hit squad on democrats in Justice, he has NOT indicted Congressman Jefferson YET, even though scooter Libby was convicted, along with Cunningham, Ney, and quite a few others not to mention all the re=pubies in Kentucky Gov Fletcher PARDONED to try top stifle an investigation into corruption here, and the Ohio Re-pubie governor plead guilty WHILE in Office, and a major re-pubie donar just got convicted,
I guess you might say;
All political parties have their thieves,
But only the re-pubies have a party FULL of thieves…..
Seems you as ignorant about the true depths of corruption that Bush, Delay, Gingrich ET Al brought to Washington as you are about making stupid statements about illegal activities on the tubes you commit eh son?
March 19th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Oh and as for BOOK deals how about newt who decried Jim Wright’s deal then he went and DID the exact same thing, sort of like when he was decrying Clinton’s blow job, he was doing EXACTLY the very same thing and had for years……..
Can you say Hypocrite?
cause you are one…….just like newt ET AL
March 19th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
I don’t know much bout this issue, I admit that up front,so please be patient with me. I don’t know enough to make a cogent comment, but I know an excellent post when I see one, thank you Mirthyone.
It seems like the world views Isreal like they view US. Like the people, hate the government. They have had their share of scandals. Didn’t Nutty yahoo get caught with his hand in a cookie jar? Then recently there have been allegations of rape and coverup in high places? THEN there was that bullyish,heavy-handed mess into Lebanon.
I also have a couple of really idiotic questions, bear with me. I know we give them billions in foreign aid. Other than THAT, how do they make money? They have no oil….do they?OK, this is REEEEELY ignorant. IF there had been no holocaust in the thirtys and forties, would there BE an Israel? If there had been no holocaust, would there have been such a diverse crowd? Just askin.
March 19th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
You’re right, Frank, the Israelis don’t have enough oil to light a candle. We and the Brits conquered N. Africa and took it away from Rommel and the Germans in WWII. Israel was set up as the Jewish homeland. None of the N. African countries wanted to absorb the displaced Palestinians; so they lived in refugee camps. I’m sure my nemesis, Clif, can fill you in on the details, ad infinitum.
March 20th, 2007 at 3:51 am
Sorry Pusface, reading the SHIT on the right side of your colon and thinking it’s FACTS again shit for brains?
The closest Rommel EVER got to Israel was El Alamein which for those who keep interchanging their cranium for their rectum daily, is on the west side of Egypt, while Palestine(which it was called at the time was on the EAST side of Egypt or HUNDREDS of Miles away.
So your WRONG on your historical facts as usual.
In fact your discussing the WRONG war considering the reason Britain got control over Palestine in the first place numbnuts, but what else is NEW?
At the end of World War I the Ottoman empire was defeated, and Britain and France decided to carve it up into colonial Kingdoms they would control, and the British got most of the middle east areas, including Iraq and all of Palestine(Which at the time comprised the modern day states of Jordan, The Palestinian states and Israel).(The french got Lebanon and Syria) BTW this was the same time frame as Laurence of Arabia, who was a British Officer who was the FIRST European to adopt the Military tactics of the locals and won their respect and quite a few battles.
Right after the British asserted their claim of control over Palestine, the Palestinians rejected that, and the Zionists who had emigrated to Israel since the 1890’s demanded their questionable rights to land they had not lived on for 1800 years, a questionable claim if there ever was one. It would be like the Indians coming back in 3450 and demanding Manhattan back, cause it was theirs at one time. Kinda looks idiotic when you put it like that doesn’t it pusface.
After The British got their collective tails kicked in Iraq they set up that country and Kuwait, and kept control over Egypt and Palestine, until after WW2@ depleted their fiscal and military resources so badly, they could no longer afford the costs of trying to control India(which they gave up on in 1947 and was split into two countries Pakistan and India,) and Palestine was turned over to UN control in 1947, which through a settlement divided It into Jordan and two separate states in Palestine, as this Map shows.
After the division war erupted with Jordan seizing the west bank and Egypt the Gaza strip.
What I haven’t discussed is the terrorism of both the arabs and Zionists against the British, betwen the wars, and the FACT some In Palestine who were jewish discussed an alliance with NAZI GERMANY against the British;
Don’t believe me?
Read about Abraham_Stern
Or the Lehi Group
Just as not all Zionists saw Nazi Germany as the ENEMY so did, President Bush’s Grandfather Prescott Bush had the bank he was a director at seized by the US government in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act. And he was not the only Bush ancestor caught up in this;
Union Banking Corporation (UBC) (for Thyssen and Brown Brothers Harriman). The President of UBC at that time was George Herbert Walker, Prescott Bush’s father-in-law. He is the grandfather and great-grandfather of the former and current Presidents Bush.
Seems your as ignorant about the REAL history of Israel as you are the traitorous activities of Bush’s ancestors upon which the family fortune was built.
Just like today the Bush’s and Israel do what is good for them, NOT the American people.
March 20th, 2007 at 4:40 am
Reid, Pelosi & Harman. Nice.
No wonder the Democratic leadership in both the House and the Senate is fumbling around unable to stop Bush’s Iraq war. To do so would be to alienate the very people who control them.
Israel: the unofficial 51st state of the United States of Murika.
March 20th, 2007 at 5:41 am
I watched part of the AIPAC meeting on C-SPAN and I have to say…it was a futuristic Orwellian meeting! Weird. The Big Screen was talking to the crowd and Dick Cheney appeared to be the Big Voice the Pigs squealed at. It was very disturbing to me…
March 20th, 2007 at 5:41 am
Have I mentioned today that I love Clif? LOL
March 20th, 2007 at 6:29 am
Kay, C-SPAN covered the AIPAC meeting? I wish I had known this so I could tape it. Thanks for the heads up - maybe it’s on YouTube. AIPAC is as strange to me as PNAC and the Bohemian Grove meetings attended by the globalists.
March 20th, 2007 at 7:10 am
Oh. My. God! I didn’t see the link. The AIPAC meeting really was like something out of 1984.
March 20th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
Frank, agriculture exports are a large part Israel’s income. They have some oil. Loans from the US…which are ALWAYS forgiven by our Senate, without exception…keep them afloat, which is to say you and I support their economy. Israel’s illegal invasion and destruction of Lebanon had NOTHING to do with a few rockets and capture of an Israeli soldier. It was ALL about more land and water resources grabs…and then there’s that oil pipeline that needs to get laid along Lebanon’s coast.
BAM! Christopher, AIPAC $…spread evenly among Dems and Reps…is exactly why our Congress will do little to end the Iraq conflict and why our attack on Iran looms. Period. Until US citizens force out AIPAC’s control of our gov’t and our media, not much will change. Ditto the US control of the UN Security Council must also end. It is this that prevents world action against Israel’s crimes against humanity (and this is not an overstatement). To think that we support Israel solely because it is a democracy in the Mideast is a AIPAC fantasy. Instead, Israel is the US rottweiler in the Mideast…they contine their natural resources grab, regardless of the suffering and death they cause and regardless their lawlessness, and we get oil and influence to get more oil. End o’ story.
March 20th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
AIPAC influence is also why “Campaign Finance Reform” are empty words and why it never happens. The words are said for their political mileage alone, without any committment, from Dems or Reps, to actual rid the influence $ in our gov’t.
The American public is waking about AIPAC’s control of our country and many noble Jewish voices are helping this to happen. They as well as us have been seized by gov’t actions which are the opposite of our supposed values. Olmert’s polls are in the gutter along with Bush’s. American Jews have stood with Liberals throughout our modern history in the fight for justice and equality. The Civil Rights movement alone would not have advanced without dedicated support by American Jews. Our individal societies have been seized by just what you see taking place in the AIPAC conference. It is our duty and responsibility to expose this corruption.
March 20th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Scott at Dilbert.Blog has an interesting post:
“Why The US Gives Aid To Israel”
http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/05/why_the_us_give.html
March 20th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
http://www.wrmea.com/html/us_aid_to_israel.htm
This link is a few years old, but still has valuable info regarding facts, figures, and impact of US financial aid to Israel.
March 20th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
Speaking as someone with partially Jewish heritage, I think the US should be a neutral supporter of peace in the middle east, something not possible with Crawford Caligula in power.
March 20th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Mirth says: To think that we support Israel solely because it is a democracy in the Mideast is a AIPAC fantasy. Instead, Israel is the US rottweiler in the Mideast…they contine their natural resources grab,
Could you, maybe just list one natural resource that they’ve grabbed?
March 20th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Exactly, TomCat.
Israel is a tiny speck in the enormous Mideast. That US policies haven’t had the unbiased foresight to 1) rid us of our dependence on oil and 2) to develope healthy and mutually-beneficial relationships with all the countries there and have continued the abomination of so-called ‘peace accords’ between Israel and her neighbors which only benefit Israel, has been a failure of both Dem and Rep administrations. The upheaval in our country is bringing suppressed information to all of us. The tragedy is that in 2008 we will be forced to vote for more of what has brought us to this low point in our history.
March 20th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
Pusface said;
Could you, maybe just list one natural resource that they’ve grabbed?
Land … Moron, …. the ultimate NATURAL resource, with out it you have no place to live ….. except in your delusional fairy tale place you think in son.
March 20th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
Bushbot, your question is so fuckin’ stupid that it doesn’t deserve an answer. You are playing with the big kids here. Read up on a few things before you interject your idiocy.
March 20th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
SO….US taxpayer money is basically laundered through Israel and given to politicians here….for nothing. Kinda like Halliburton with a yarmulke?
March 20th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
That’s one way, and a good one, to think of it Mr.FrankMan.
March 20th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
I liked Clif’s revision of history as regards Israel being recognized as a country. Most people consider natural resources to be oil, gas, freshwater, topsoil, coal, wind, lumber, etc. Israel has already given back most of the land they conquered in the 70’s. They only retain strategic ground; like the Golan Heights and control of the West Bank.
You aren’t a “big kid”, Mirth, if you can’t answer a simple question.
March 20th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
franktheliberal, … The part which does not directly pay the Israeli defense budget …which they use to buy US weapons, so in essence we are paying our defense contractors to ship weapons to Israel; nice eh, we can’t find enough money to pay our own troops properly and send them into combat ill equipped and when they come home wounded they get warehoused in the rat infested Bldg 18 at Walter Reed, but we can pay for about 25% of Israel’s defense budget
However that is NOT the only foreign defense budget we pay for now, Bush has borrowed so much money from china we pay MORE in interest then the used to spend on defense, so they are using the excess to build a little modern weapons systems thanks to idiots like Bush and Pusface, who wanted to borrow billions from China each year and hand the bill to all our children and grandchildren.
March 20th, 2007 at 3:43 pm
No revision pusface the truth son, Great Britan was given the mandate after WW1 idiot, LOOK IT UP and Rommel never got close to Israel, he was stopped at El Alamein by Field Marshall Montgomery, which is on the western side of Egypt son, NOT any where Israel, the rest is just as it happened idiot, can’t make up facts son so YOU LIE?
After WW2 England did NOT have the resources to continue fulfilling the mandate to administrate the Palestine Area, so they turned it over to the newly created UN……so PROVE I’m wrong or STFU,
BTW idiot if they keep INVADING the Palestinian Areas they ain’t given them back idiot. Jesus your one stupid son of a bitch ain’t you?
March 20th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Clif, We’re saying pretty much the same thing, but you want to argue nits. I said North Africa, not Israel. The Germans controlled N. Africa before Patton kicked their ass. Israel was acknowledged by the UN as a nation state, and if memory serves, it was after WWII. If my neighbor was firing rockets into my house? He would be invaded. The Palestinians voted for eternal war when they voted in ‘Hamas’. Now they’re going to get it. Israel was actually paying the palestinian authority to be nice before the election. Thank goodness they quit that bullshit. Is there anything left on your plate?
March 20th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
Sorry IDIOT, but it was Field Marshall Montgomery who fought Rommel to a stand still and then pushed him back from egypt NOT Gen Patton son, and your half baked idiotic first rant DOES not agree with the stupid post you just made numbnuts… In fact Eisenhower was the American Commander in Algeria NOT Patton who was one of his subordinates.
and if Israel hadn’t acted like they OWNED the region from the start and allowed the MUSLIMS who have lived there for centuries the same RIGHTS as they demand for themselves they would not have such a bad problem.
Personally they should PAY their own god damned bills and stop stealing from the future of MY children. If they can’t afford it learn to live in peace instead of pushing everyone around LIKE they tried but FAILED to do in Lebanon last summer. they got their asses kicked there otherwise they wouldn’t have high tailed it outa there like they did.
March 20th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
BTW pusface why should another country have to absorb the Palestinians?
They had a HOMELAND for centuries son. Until the European Jews decided to STEAL IT.
March 20th, 2007 at 4:13 pm
Clif says:
In fact Eisenhower was the American Commander in Algeria NOT Patton who was one of his subordinates.
OK, so you’re saying Patton was never in North Africa in a leadership role. Didn’t know that. Thanks
March 20th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Patton was a corps commander UNDER Eisenhower moron,
try actually reading some facts instead of just making them UP idiot.
March 20th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
BTW pusface, WHAT you don’t know fills the entire Internet son…..and then some.
March 20th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
Have I mentioned yet that I can’t stand bushbot? Huh. Well, I can’t stand him.
March 20th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
Christopher, it’s a good habit to get into to watch C-SPAN rather than the cable news programs (well, except for Keith Olbermann..he’s terrific), because they cover these obscure meetings all the time.
March 20th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Clif, bushbot just summed the low-functioning and constipated and unchristian thinking of his ilk by saying if someone fired a rocket at him, he would invade them. A Liberal, on the other hand, might go knock on his neighbor’s door and say ‘OK, we have a problem, what can we do to fix it.’
Of course I wouldn’t go nextdoor if I lived in luxury on land I had stolen from my neighbor and my actions had caused their poorly house to collapse and I had stolen most of the rest of their yard and cut down the trees that fed them on what was left and poisoned their well and killed 5 of their 7 children and put roadblocks all along our shared street and then blamed them for not signing a peace accord that gave me permission to keep right on keepin’ on with whatever the hell I wanted to do to them.
GODDAMIT!
March 20th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Actually pusface let his ignorance and hubris show, when he claimed to KNOW the Facts, calls what I post revisionist, BUT then admits he doesn’t really know what the hell he is saying at all. Because he didn’t even know a simple thing like our 34th President was the Commander of Allied Forces in Europe during WW2, something EVERY school child learns in history class, ….
“cept for the home schooled idiots like pusface” …
They just make up rules for their religion(Ignoring the words and actions of It’s founder) and rewrite history to their liking.
March 20th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
I just wrote at K’s my observation that whenever these Pubies get cornered they refight WW2…why is that?
March 20th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
Mirth they think WW2 justifies all the crimes the re-pubies committed, like interfering in Vietnam, Overthrowing the democratically elected government of Iran, installing dictators everywhere they could, Using the world bank and IMF to bankrupt third world economies then demanding extreme measures which benefit their cohorts of course.
They KNOW WW2 was one of the last times they actually did something RIGHT. So they go back ther to say we’re a “moral country” fighting for freedom, even though the facts defy that. and of course fundi IDIOTS like pusface throw in their bastardized version of that religion, totally ignoring the preaching and actions of the Christ when they make “their pronouncement from their mount”.
March 20th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Thanks Clif. That was my guess…that WW2 was our last honorable military intervention.
March 20th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
I totally stand by my comment of March 19th, where, in part, I said that Israel doesn’t have enough oil to light a candle. You and Mirth are a bunch of rabid Muslim sympathizers who just want Israel wiped off the face of the earth. That’s fine, I can deal with that. Thanks for not pulling punches on the issue. I totally disagree with both of you. Israel is the only truly democratic nation on the continent of Africa. I’m not a Jew, but I support their right to survive. They were given their country back as one of the spoils of WWII.
March 20th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
Not a sympathizer idiot, just somebody who KNOWS a little history, and what morons like you always deny, the TRUTH. It was NOT the Europeans LAND to give away numbnuts,(the Palestinians FOUGHT on England’s side stupid, so why should THEY be punished for the German’s crimes?) but that never stopped the Europeans, or countries who base their heritage on Europe.
BTW STUPID, Israel is in ASIA Idiot.(check the map son)
Your not a jew, just a STUPID Fundi who is wrong again.
Stand by what ever dumb thing you say son, most of it is wrong factually and morally.
March 20th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
And I don’t want Israel wiped off the Map son another LIE you spread, with NO factual basis to back it up, however I do want Israel to have to meet the same standards every other country in that region has to live by.
Israel attack Lebanon in 1982, and occupied one third of it until 1995, but suffered NOTHING for it, unlike Saddam when they attacked Kuwait.
Same thing this summer, Olmert admitted he was itching for a fight and had the PLAN they used waiting for the first excuse, which means they WANTED to attack Lebanon, which is a war crime numbnuts.
Israel is as bad an outlaw regime as South Africa was in the 1970-1990 time frame. The only difference is they have the backing of a portion of this country which South Africa never did.
March 20th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
Am I a Muslim ’sympathizer?’ Hmmmmmm. I do have sympathy for most Muslims in the world and their living conditions in the stranglehold of their radical leaders, something I share with them, so, I guess I could be labeled a sympathizer. I love a lot of their lush culture, especially the art and literature…there are some new and amazing young Muslim writers and I’m gobbling up their books…and, of course, their magnificent architecture. I’m not crazy about their music, but that’s probably because I don’t know a lot about it….ignorance does not foster understanding and affection. I have been surprised to learn of how educated and sophisticated most Muslim are, particularly in Iran…but then I used my country for that comparison. Rather than any particular affinity with Muslims, I am attracted to diversity. I am also a realist. I accept that they and me live in the same world and we better be figuring out how to get along.
March 20th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Clif says:
BTW STUPID, Israel is in ASIA Idiot.(check the map son)
Well, Clif, maybe they changed the map since I went to school. Last time I checked, Asia Minor was everything East of the Gulf of Aqaba, which puts Israel in North Africa; west of the dead Sea; and west of the Dead Sea’s extension; up the Jordan River and into the Sea of Galilee.
March 20th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
I have heard that Palistinians are like the gypsies of Asia/middle East and they have had a hard time finding a homeland for a LOOOONG time. Arafat didn’t help matters diplomatically.
March 20th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
Using Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.2 on Windows XP
Mirth says:
Am I a Muslim ’sympathizer?’ Hmmmmmm. I do have sympathy for most Muslims in the world and their living conditions in the stranglehold of their radical leaders. I am also a realist. I accept that they and me live in the same world and we better be figuring out how to get along.
Mirth, you don’t even want to get along with 70% of the people in ‘this’ country. You’re going to export your ‘people’ skills to the radical Muslim extremists?
March 20th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
70% of the US population and myself are in complete agreement on the issues that matter, namely contempt for the Bush administration and for our 30% of dead weight that prevents the United States from living up to her potential.
March 20th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
Listen, you ignoramus, stop chopping up my comments and sullying them with your drivel.
March 20th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
“The Middle East (or West Asia) sits where Africa, Asia and Europe meet. The countries of the Middle East are all part of Asia.”
worldatlas.com
March 20th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
Hey, Clif, I hear you’ve been banned from Americablog for using bad language. Who’d a thunk it?
March 20th, 2007 at 6:59 pm
Clif, you can’t pound truth into a idiot’s head even if you use a sledgehammer.
March 20th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Mirth says:
Listen, you ignoramus, stop chopping up my comments and sullying them with your drivel.
Anybody can review your full comments. Stop pretending to be non-partisan.
March 20th, 2007 at 7:04 pm
Mirth says:
Clif, you can’t pound truth into a idiot’s head even if you use a sledgehammer.
All you have is the sledgehammer. You gave up on truth a long time ago.
March 20th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
Pfffft
March 20th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
Mirth says:
Pfffft
Well, I don’t have a cat
So, I can’t say that..
March 20th, 2007 at 7:26 pm