Here is Rahm Emanuel writing to Condoleezza Rice last year when there was a war going on between Fatah and Hamas. He and a Lebanese-American colleagued feared for the Palestinian children who couldn't get to school.
we are calling on you to help find a safe place for students in Gaza to
complete their final exams. We urge you to work with allies in the
region, such as Egypt and Jordan [what about Israel?], to either find a secure location in
Gaza for these students, or to transport them to a neighboring country
[scary words] where they can study and take their exams in peace. Such an effort on
your part would serve as an example of our country’s commitment to a
better future for the young people of Gaza
complete their final exams. We urge you to work with allies in the
region, such as Egypt and Jordan [what about Israel?], to either find a secure location in
Gaza for these students, or to transport them to a neighboring country
[scary words] where they can study and take their exams in peace. Such an effort on
your part would serve as an example of our country’s commitment to a
better future for the young people of Gaza
Well good for him. But my informant says he has searched Emanuel's database and found no such earnest eloquence when Israel was blocking the 7 Palestinian Fulbright scholars from getting out of Gaza to come study here. A great shame. And of course again: a blot on Jewish identity.
Why should this surprise anyone?
You want to puke, American Firsters? Especially those who voted for the lesser of two evils, Obama?
Read this:
link to kennysideshow.blogspot.com
Anon,
"America First"?
You mean to say that the relationship between Texas and Mexico, is enormously morally superior to the relationship between Israel and Palestine?
How?
"You mean to say that the relationship between Texas and Mexico, is enormously morally superior to the relationship between Israel and Palestine?"
It has nothing to do with morals. It has to do with basic geography and common sense. In fact, it implies some of the tribal instincts you adhere to, albeit in a different manner. The point is that we're living in America, and you don't have to be a flag-waving nationalist (I know I'm not) to know that we should deal with our interests first and foremost.
Obviously America's relationship with its immediate neighbors is more important to Americans than the relationship between Palestine and Israel. This isn't based on any moral code. It's common sense. Or, it would be common sense, if we didn't have a completely Zionized media and a government and society heavily infiltrated with people who hold Israel in higher regard than the place they live.
Richard,
Barack Obama is a green spotted lizard, with shift shaping abilities. The above statement makes as much sense as your post on Texas and Mexico being "morally not so different" to Israel and Palestine.
I refuse to believe that you can write this staff with straight face. So either you spout these sentences for a private amusement, or you have problems.
Sometimes the nonsense that you write makes me fear for integrity of your intellectual faculties.
Richard Witty:
I'm a Texan, so I can tell you the difference. We stole Texas from Mexico—fair and square!—enough longer ago that it doesn't matter.
If Israel can hang on to itself for another hundred years, and can find a conveniently located major power (preferably on its border) to which it may ally itself, everything will be cool.
The trend lines, however, they are not good.
Also, the Mexicans have/had/allegedly had a saying: "So close to the United States, so far from G-d." Even if we posit that the state of Israel can invert that statement, it's still not good.
There was something in between the Anglos taking Mexican land and Israel taking Palestinian land–it was called the Nuremberg trials, and in its aftermath, new international law. It wasn't totally fair to the Germans, but so what? You have to start somewhere. My point is it was started.
Unless you go backward, you just are a major part of the problem the world's progressives work to achieve.
What's good for the gander, is good for the goose.
No exceptions.
Deal with it.
Otherwise, it's just power politics.
What Goering knew so well.
Yes?
I mean the problem progressives worked to fix, the problem is already there in the next version, the wart called Israel.
To look at the problem in any other way is simply to justify might makes right, and worse, where the might comes from fleecing sheeple, the American goys.
The analogy is to German Americans, pretending they stole the USA to support Hitler because it was only fair.
That did not happen, despite the demographics of the day.
USA, awake!