Comments on: Huckabee: Palestinians Should Go Live in Arab Countries http://mondoweiss.net/2008/01/huckabee-palest.html The War of Ideas in the Middle East Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:08:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: Charles Keating http://mondoweiss.net/2008/01/huckabee-palest.html/comment-page-1#comment-66119 Charles Keating Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/01/18/huckabee-palest.html#comment-66119 <p>Huckabee: "Sorry, there's no room in the Inn, just read Left Behind & take a gander at Hagee's light." </p> Huckabee: "Sorry, there's no room in the Inn, just read Left Behind & take a gander at Hagee's light."

]]> By: Richard Witty http://mondoweiss.net/2008/01/huckabee-palest.html/comment-page-1#comment-66120 Richard Witty Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/01/18/huckabee-palest.html#comment-66120 <p>Huckabee would make a good candidate to secure that a democrat gets elected.</p> <p>Actually, they are all like that.</p> Huckabee would make a good candidate to secure that a democrat gets elected.

Actually, they are all like that.

]]> By: Ro'i http://mondoweiss.net/2008/01/huckabee-palest.html/comment-page-1#comment-66121 Ro'i Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/01/18/huckabee-palest.html#comment-66121 <p>Bulldozers? Are you kidding? In 1948 Jews drove nearly the entire Arab population out of Palestine with a few flareguns and a half dozen firecrackers!</p> Bulldozers? Are you kidding? In 1948 Jews drove nearly the entire Arab population out of Palestine with a few flareguns and a half dozen firecrackers!

]]> By: Jim Haygood http://mondoweiss.net/2008/01/huckabee-palest.html/comment-page-1#comment-66122 Jim Haygood Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/01/18/huckabee-palest.html#comment-66122 <p>Huckabee's crass comment that "there is an enormous amount of land in Arab control all over the Middle East [where Palestinians could live]" resembles a common 19th century view (held by Abraham Lincoln, among others) that African-Americans could simply be deported back to Africa (e.g., Liberia, or somewhere in Central or South America). But unlike the early African arrivals in America, who were uprooted from the Congo and Angola, the Palestinians are actually FROM Palestine.</p> <p>Huckabee seems to reside in the same fantasy world as Israeli Defense Ministry spokesman Shlomo Dror, who offered this comment today as Israel closed Gaza's borders in response to rocket firings: "It's unacceptable that people in Sderot [Israel] are living in fear every day and people in the Gaza Strip are living life as usual."</p> <p>LIFE AS USUAL??? Gaza is an open-air prison, whose 1.4 million inhabitants are unable to work outside their borders, trade with the outside world, or receive remittances from abroad. Only international food aid prevents mass starvation.</p> <p>Meanwhile, the fear in Sderot of Gaza's crude rockets is indeed real. But in comparison to the 12 Israelis that have been killed in the past six years by Gaza's souped-up bottle rockets, hundreds of Gazans have died from Israel's high-tech guided missiles, helicopter-mounted machine guns, and tank-fired mortars. Who should be the most afraid?</p> <p>Let's reduce this problem to terms that even Mike Huckabee can understand. In 1957, when nine black students were escorted into Little Rock's Central High School by federal troops, the letters column of the Arkansas Gazette focused on racial integration all year long. One woman, channeling Shlomo Dror, complained that the colored domestic help had it easy. All they had to do was show up each day, scrub the floors and toilets, and collect their five dollars. By comparison, Little Rock's white citizens had to worry about the economy, unemployment, their businesses, their investments, and sending their kids to college. It just wasn't fair. </p> <p>Her larger point was that whites could break the back of racial integration by firing all their uppity colored domestic help, and starving them into submission. This seems to be Israel's strategy as it again closes Gaza's borders: starve the uppity Palestinians into submission. Unfortunately, this kosher Jim Crow policy is not likely to succeed any better in Israel than it did for the White Citizens Council of Little Rock, Arkansas, fifty years ago.</p> <p>Even dim, pudgy, Bible-thumping Mike Huckabee should be able to figure that out. You reckon?</p> Huckabee's crass comment that "there is an enormous amount of land in Arab control all over the Middle East [where Palestinians could live]" resembles a common 19th century view (held by Abraham Lincoln, among others) that African-Americans could simply be deported back to Africa (e.g., Liberia, or somewhere in Central or South America). But unlike the early African arrivals in America, who were uprooted from the Congo and Angola, the Palestinians are actually FROM Palestine.

Huckabee seems to reside in the same fantasy world as Israeli Defense Ministry spokesman Shlomo Dror, who offered this comment today as Israel closed Gaza's borders in response to rocket firings: "It's unacceptable that people in Sderot [Israel] are living in fear every day and people in the Gaza Strip are living life as usual."

LIFE AS USUAL??? Gaza is an open-air prison, whose 1.4 million inhabitants are unable to work outside their borders, trade with the outside world, or receive remittances from abroad. Only international food aid prevents mass starvation.

Meanwhile, the fear in Sderot of Gaza's crude rockets is indeed real. But in comparison to the 12 Israelis that have been killed in the past six years by Gaza's souped-up bottle rockets, hundreds of Gazans have died from Israel's high-tech guided missiles, helicopter-mounted machine guns, and tank-fired mortars. Who should be the most afraid?

Let's reduce this problem to terms that even Mike Huckabee can understand. In 1957, when nine black students were escorted into Little Rock's Central High School by federal troops, the letters column of the Arkansas Gazette focused on racial integration all year long. One woman, channeling Shlomo Dror, complained that the colored domestic help had it easy. All they had to do was show up each day, scrub the floors and toilets, and collect their five dollars. By comparison, Little Rock's white citizens had to worry about the economy, unemployment, their businesses, their investments, and sending their kids to college. It just wasn't fair.

Her larger point was that whites could break the back of racial integration by firing all their uppity colored domestic help, and starving them into submission. This seems to be Israel's strategy as it again closes Gaza's borders: starve the uppity Palestinians into submission. Unfortunately, this kosher Jim Crow policy is not likely to succeed any better in Israel than it did for the White Citizens Council of Little Rock, Arkansas, fifty years ago.

Even dim, pudgy, Bible-thumping Mike Huckabee should be able to figure that out. You reckon?

]]> By: Richard http://mondoweiss.net/2008/01/huckabee-palest.html/comment-page-1#comment-66123 Richard Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/01/18/huckabee-palest.html#comment-66123 <p>It's always befuddled me as to why Israel is always so right and perfect all the time.</p> <p>It should be remembered that before the State of Israel was artificially constructed by various other nations out of some sense of misplaced guilt about the plight of the Jews under the Nazi regime the Jews and the Arabs lived side by side as neighbors and there wasn't all this carrying-on.</p> It's always befuddled me as to why Israel is always so right and perfect all the time.

It should be remembered that before the State of Israel was artificially constructed by various other nations out of some sense of misplaced guilt about the plight of the Jews under the Nazi regime the Jews and the Arabs lived side by side as neighbors and there wasn't all this carrying-on.

]]> By: max l cadenhead http://mondoweiss.net/2008/01/huckabee-palest.html/comment-page-1#comment-66124 max l cadenhead Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/01/18/huckabee-palest.html#comment-66124 <p> Huckabee is a consumate panderer. He is sucking up to the Pollardites among the Israeli-american, (small "a" intentional) population, i.e., the NeoCons...and never was a group so aptly named. As for as the "conquest" of Palestine by "a few Jews with flares", etc., the myth of "brave little Israel" is long exploded, and I was alive and well in "48 and watched the brutal slaughter of the Arabs with mondern European weapons in Jewish hands, while the "Arab Armies" were a bunch of camel riding yokels, still suffering from the British colonial yoie, poorly armed at best with 19th, (and even 18th)century weapons. It was a massacre and the Zionists slaughtered with a will. So, no more of this "moral High Ground" nonsense. If Israel has the Moral High Ground than so did Attila the Hun, and the Golden Horde, and every other brutal conqueror in History.<br /> Please, Republicans! Nominate Huckster Huckabee. </p> Huckabee is a consumate panderer. He is sucking up to the Pollardites among the Israeli-american, (small "a" intentional) population, i.e., the NeoCons…and never was a group so aptly named. As for as the "conquest" of Palestine by "a few Jews with flares", etc., the myth of "brave little Israel" is long exploded, and I was alive and well in "48 and watched the brutal slaughter of the Arabs with mondern European weapons in Jewish hands, while the "Arab Armies" were a bunch of camel riding yokels, still suffering from the British colonial yoie, poorly armed at best with 19th, (and even 18th)century weapons. It was a massacre and the Zionists slaughtered with a will. So, no more of this "moral High Ground" nonsense. If Israel has the Moral High Ground than so did Attila the Hun, and the Golden Horde, and every other brutal conqueror in History.
Please, Republicans! Nominate Huckster Huckabee.

]]> By: max l cadenhead http://mondoweiss.net/2008/01/huckabee-palest.html/comment-page-1#comment-66125 max l cadenhead Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/01/18/huckabee-palest.html#comment-66125 <p> Huckabee is a consumate panderer. He is sucking up to the Pollardites among the Israeli-american, (small "a" intentional) population, i.e., the NeoCons...and never was a group so aptly named. As for as the "conquest" of Palestine by "a few Jews with flares", etc., the myth of "brave little Israel" is long exploded, and I was alive and well in "48 and watched the brutal slaughter of the Arabs with mondern European weapons in Jewish hands, while the "Arab Armies" were a bunch of camel riding yokels, still suffering from the British colonial yoie, poorly armed at best with 19th, (and even 18th)century weapons. It was a massacre and the Zionists slaughtered with a will. So, no more of this "moral High Ground" nonsense. If Israel has the Moral High Ground than so did Attila the Hun, and the Golden Horde, and every other brutal conqueror in History.<br /> Please, Republicans! Nominate Huckster Huckabee. </p> Huckabee is a consumate panderer. He is sucking up to the Pollardites among the Israeli-american, (small "a" intentional) population, i.e., the NeoCons…and never was a group so aptly named. As for as the "conquest" of Palestine by "a few Jews with flares", etc., the myth of "brave little Israel" is long exploded, and I was alive and well in "48 and watched the brutal slaughter of the Arabs with mondern European weapons in Jewish hands, while the "Arab Armies" were a bunch of camel riding yokels, still suffering from the British colonial yoie, poorly armed at best with 19th, (and even 18th)century weapons. It was a massacre and the Zionists slaughtered with a will. So, no more of this "moral High Ground" nonsense. If Israel has the Moral High Ground than so did Attila the Hun, and the Golden Horde, and every other brutal conqueror in History.
Please, Republicans! Nominate Huckster Huckabee.

]]> By: Leslie Armstrong http://mondoweiss.net/2008/01/huckabee-palest.html/comment-page-1#comment-66126 Leslie Armstrong Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/01/18/huckabee-palest.html#comment-66126 <p>Look, God gave Israel to the Jews. The Arabs, as always, are usurpers. </p> <p>If the Palestinians do not get out, God will burn off the chaff himself. </p> <p>Selah.</p> Look, God gave Israel to the Jews. The Arabs, as always, are usurpers.

If the Palestinians do not get out, God will burn off the chaff himself.

Selah.

]]> By: P.M.Lawrence http://mondoweiss.net/2008/01/huckabee-palest.html/comment-page-1#comment-66127 P.M.Lawrence Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/01/18/huckabee-palest.html#comment-66127 <p>Leslie Armstrong, where do you think the Palestinians came from? They aren't the descendants of Arab invaders - those stayed in cantonments until further invasions took them into richer countries. They are the descendants of the Jewish population of two millennia ago, converted to Christianity or Islam (sometimes directly from Judaism or sometimes from Christianity) over the course of time. Not only do DNA studies show that they are the same as Sephardim, there are Turkish tax records that show entire Jewish villages converting en masse as late as the 17th century. Even by your definitions, they are no usurpers.</p> Leslie Armstrong, where do you think the Palestinians came from? They aren't the descendants of Arab invaders – those stayed in cantonments until further invasions took them into richer countries. They are the descendants of the Jewish population of two millennia ago, converted to Christianity or Islam (sometimes directly from Judaism or sometimes from Christianity) over the course of time. Not only do DNA studies show that they are the same as Sephardim, there are Turkish tax records that show entire Jewish villages converting en masse as late as the 17th century. Even by your definitions, they are no usurpers.

]]> By: DetainThis http://mondoweiss.net/2008/01/huckabee-palest.html/comment-page-1#comment-66128 DetainThis Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/01/18/huckabee-palest.html#comment-66128 <p>Huckabee: "This conflict isn't new. It has been going on since all the way to the time of Abraham."</p> <p>Wow. Just... wow. Where is Rabbi Dovid Weiss, or even Norm Finkelstein, when you need him? Heck, even Alan Douchawitz might've said, "huh?" I'd love to see Huckabee get totally leveled for the Hageeist Hasbaranik he is.</p> <p>===========================================</p> <p>Leslie: "Look, God gave Israel to the Jews. The Arabs, as always, are usurpers. If the Palestinians do not get out, God will burn off the chaff himself. Selah."</p> <p>You're being facetious, right? (Or are you one of those pleasant, mild-mannered, peace-loving, uzi-toting "settlerists" we always see hijacking the comments section of Ha'aretz with messages of love? Just wondering...)</p> Huckabee: "This conflict isn't new. It has been going on since all the way to the time of Abraham."

Wow. Just… wow. Where is Rabbi Dovid Weiss, or even Norm Finkelstein, when you need him? Heck, even Alan Douchawitz might've said, "huh?" I'd love to see Huckabee get totally leveled for the Hageeist Hasbaranik he is.

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Leslie: "Look, God gave Israel to the Jews. The Arabs, as always, are usurpers. If the Palestinians do not get out, God will burn off the chaff himself. Selah."

You're being facetious, right? (Or are you one of those pleasant, mild-mannered, peace-loving, uzi-toting "settlerists" we always see hijacking the comments section of Ha'aretz with messages of love? Just wondering…)

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