Comments on: Praise for J Street

By: Who booed Yoffie?

Who booed Yoffie? — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:36:33 +0000

[...] the perpetual moderate and optimist, I thought you were too easy on J Street! All told, the conference was more or less exactly as I expected: as David Brooks [...]

By: Chaos4700

Chaos4700 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:28:11 +0000

I don’t like everything you say, Citizen, but I have to say on this particular post I agree with you 100%.

By: Citizen

Citizen — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:53:14 +0000

Gee, how many are aware that Israeli jews have better health care than USA citizens as a whole? And that their military is top of the line, thanks to the USA also? It’s disgusting, not to wish the Israelis less, but the USA citizens more, since they pay for the Israeli life style, The UN General Assembly is now planning on debating the Goldstone Report and the HRC Resolution on it, beginning November 4th — weeks earlier than originally scheduled.

And it is in the General Assembly, where of course vetoes do not apply, that a majority can if it so chooses invoke the “Uniting for Peace Resolution” (UNGA 377A), which gives the General Assembly the same enforcement powers as those normally exercised by the Security Council, where US vetoes have consistently shielded Israel. I do not know the precise procedural mechanism needed to do this, as I am not expert in the UN, but it is clear to me that now is the time for an all-out effort to encourage as many countries as possible to take a stand. It has worked before in extremely difficult situations, and it can work here and now.

I am convinced that this is a unique opportunity to hold Israel and its indictable accomplices in Washington accountable for their actions. If this slips away, it will not come again soon, if ever. This is absolutely the drop-dead date of the anti-Zionist effort. Moment of truth, my friends — lobby and write and call as never before!

By: Danaa

Danaa — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:57:17 +0000

Three state solution? no can do – this is the ME we’re talking about. Try six state solution – coastal Israel (cannan?), jerusalem (judea?), gallil (edom/moav?), palibank (west/east banks), gaza (includes ashdod, BTW). Oops that’s only five. Who wants the negev/ red sea?

By: Danaa

Danaa — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:47:49 +0000

Give me Iran – and I’ll give you options!!

Anyone who thinks there’s no horse trading in congress lives in narnia!

It’s just that some don’t do it by the rules and try to trade a herd of surly goats for a thouroughbred….

By: Danaa

Danaa — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:43:53 +0000

dominionist christians …..atzmon…..saxophon….pachyderms…..non-semitic anti-anti-semites…….creepy crawling pythons in the everglades……halloween!!!

You guys are totally funny.

I wonder what I should dress up as this year. Any ideas for a dominionist constume?

By: Shmuel

Shmuel — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:06:59 +0000

Metaphors are indeed a gas, Pabelmont, but aphorisms are better, and you can’t please all of the people all of the time.

By: Dan Kelly

Dan Kelly — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:52:24 +0000

Fascinating idea: a “three-state solution.” I love that sort of thinking outside the box. I’m curious to see the maps.

By: MRW

MRW — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:44:42 +0000

Mooser,

“right-wing and Dominionist Christian folks.” Oh goddddd. I get the heaves. My throat starts to close. I can’t breathe. They’re like those 25-ft 8-inch thick Burmese pythons – currently over-running the Florida Everglades because people released them into the wild – squeezing all the air out of you.

By: pabelmont

pabelmont — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:40:37 +0000

Shmuel October 28, 2009 at 2:26 pm

To Mooser’s observation “but, like chicken soup, “it couldn’t hurt”, Shmuel replies
“Chicken soup hurts plenty – if you’re the chicken!”.

Ah, gee, Shmuel, haven’t you heard (and don’t you believe) that “You have to break eggs to make an omelette” ? What is Zionism about, if not omelette-making? And aren’t metaphors a gas?