It’s amusing to see you insult Jeffrey Blankfort whenever he posts here as if *you* have any kind of weight in the exchange. You don’t.

Waskow uses “even” quite a lot, but here it sticks out. An accident?:

In its rhetorical breadth and depth, Obama’s Cairo speech was an extraordinary opening to the Muslim world — making clear that the new U.S. government understands the Arab and Muslim view of the world and takes seriously even Arab and Muslim critiques of U.S. behavior and policy.

Yeah, it’s for Witty.

Witty,
Have you been to Dimona?

If one goes back to the days of Truman, Eisenhower,and JFK, the documentation is farely ample that those in charge of US foreign saw Israel not as an asset but a strategic liability, and our State Dept. reps were very public in saying so. But Chomsky and the myopic Left have done as good a job of burying that history as has the Zionist establishment.

I have also spent time in the West Bank as well as in Lebanon under Israeli occupation in 1983 where the Israeli military earned the hatred of the Lebanese Shia by treating them with the same contempt that they had shown the Palestinians. It was that contempt that gave rise to Hezbollah, contrary to the myth that it was created by Iran as its proxy.

Next question?

It is the ONLY position for a committed humanist to take and, as such, it has many adherents around the world who do not identify with either the left or the right and who are not engaged, as is Jack, with the infantile preoccupation of determining whether a certain political stand is leftist or rightist .

Thank you for your straightforward writing. In a world of moral bankruptcy, it is a breath of fresh air.

I asked “the left” about this the other day, and his impression is that you’re very vain, Richard. Always worried more about how a criticism hurts your feelings or the feelings of some Israelis rather than whether the criticism is true, and if so, how to convey the truth of the criticism to people unwilling to listen. He told me, “If only Richard would set aside his own vanity, his own unwillingness to accept that his precious ideology has been responsible for the suffering of millions of innocents and figure out how to reach people who are so consumed with self-righteousness they can’t accept the documented findings of several human rights organizations. For that matter, if only Richard himself would do the same, and employ the same standards to Israel’s actions that he applies to little old me. I haven’t ruined anyone’s economy with a draconian blockade. Richard thinks that’s justifiable when it is done by Israel to a group of 1.5 million Palestinians.” He sighed and then we talked about other things.