Comments on: More on Schumer and the Zionism in our politics

By: Grumpy Old Man

Grumpy Old Man — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Schumer beats his chest about his liberalism by hassling GOP judicial nominees and prating about gun control (hardly a libertarian position, but that's another story).

Meanwhile he carries water for the financial industry and apparently, the Israel lobby as well.

Fuggedabadit.

By: LanceThruster

LanceThruster — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

I give them all the support they need so that they can look after their safety.

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Even at the expense of our own? And what you "give" is taken from many of those who do not feel the same obligation.

By: Jaffr

Jaffr — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

These attitudes are creating problems for well-meaning non-Israeli Jews (even Zionist ones), who were raised on different values.

See, for example:

It is my first day at the youth cafe in Ofakim. I pick up a ping-pong paddle and start whacking the ball back and forth with an Israeli teenager. Others hear of my arrival and gather around the table. "Eh, you speak Hebrew?"

I say I speak a little.

"Eh, from where are you?"

I say New Jersey.

"Eh, you like Arabs?"

I tell the kids I do not know many.

"I hate them," they yell in unison.

I saw this enmity at the youth cafe and I see it also among the children at various schools at which I teach English here. The kids wear this bigotry with pride, as if it were a source of patriotism. . .

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1236764174383

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Chas Freeman wasn't "destroyed" and I dislike seeing it said that he was. He appears to have voluntarily elected to step aside rather than put up with the tons of crap that would, in his expectation, continued to flow his way from the Israel lobby as long as he was in office. To some of us, his decision is disappointing, but it is his to make. This is not at all to say, of course, that the Israel lobby doesn't deserve condemnation for their malicious and shameless lies.

By: Julian

Julian — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Of course Freeman was destroyed. His toadying to the Saudis and Chinese was revealed publicly. His reaction showed he is now a broken man. Maybe Walt can put him back together.

By: Saleema

Saleema — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

@ Julian

The best person to contact on how to put together anything, no matter what it is, would be your average Israeli. They put together a country where there was none.

By: Richard Witty

Richard Witty — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

So much presumption.

If Freeman was unqualified for the job due to doubts about the prospect of prejudicial performance of his duties, how is that bad that that was discovered?

Are you sure that the story that you are making is a story in fact?

If someone that you don't like tells the truth, do you then believe the lie? (The truth being that likely Freeman was the wrong man for the job.)

Should someone that you don't like shut up?

By: Chris Berel

Chris Berel — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Saleema pays a compliment and doesn't know it. One could certainly say that the average Israeli took a small, miserable, dysfuntional region and turned it into a vibrant 1st world nation.

By: BluePearl

BluePearl — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

It's all about Iran, the next target for Israel. The point is to have Israel-First pods in positions of power to promote a position of attacking Iran. The Israel lobby is unlike any other lobby. You cannot compare them to the AARP, or to the NRA, or to the Florida Cuban lobby. None of those are advocating that the US go to war with Iran.

And Obama got punked.

By: Saleema

Saleema — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

@ Chris Berel,

Only a Zionist finds it complimentary that Israel stole land and then called it "Israel." That's because they are RACISTS.

You have got to be kidding.