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GreatLeo

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  • Bill Kristol celebrates Republican Party purge of 'oldfashioned Arabists' Scowcroft, Baker and Bush I
    • GreatLeo May 21, 2012 at 10:07 pm

      "[Ben Ami] said the destruction of Palestinian rights was at the top of the agenda wherever Hillary Clinton goes and is hurting the U.S.' strategic national interest."

      "Kristol sniggered. He said that it’s a “myth” that the Palestinians are important even to Arab countries."

      OK, so Kristol implicitly admits that Palestinian rights are being destroyed. But it's not an issue because Palestinians aren't important. Kristol is supposed to be an American. "All people are created equal" is the sine qua non of being an American. It shouldn't matter whether or not the people whose rights are being destroyed are important.

  • A twitter debate on Israel/Palestine and racism
    • GreatLeo April 2, 2012 at 9:21 pm with 1 replies

      When Adler writes "Native Americans cannot reclaim the land in Brooklyn that the Park Slope Food Coop currently occupies", he is deliberately choosing his words in order to confuse the issue. Native Americans do have the right to return to Brooklyn and live as equals with all other Americans. They even have the right to purchase the Park Slope Coop. His beloved Israel refuses to give similar rights to Palestinians.

  • Can you support the Palestinians when you live on their stolen land?
    • GreatLeo October 14, 2010 at 7:35 pm

      "And, it is no longer individual Palestinians’ land. It is the property of those with current title and/or leasehold rights."

      So then, quite clearly, you support the notion of theft as a means to acquiring someone elses private property. If you steal something, and then use overwhelming miliatry power to prevent the original owner from claiming the land, you get to keep it.

      You talk about people getting their day in court. Do you mean Palestinians getting their day in an Israeli court?

      I am an American. From what I have read, you are also an American. But it seems that only one of us is dedicated to the proposition that all people are created equal. It's not you. You are dedicated to the proposition that Jews are born with superior rights.

  • Back on TV due to popular demand.... 'The Peace Industry'
    • GreatLeo August 30, 2010 at 10:55 am with 2 replies

      Palestinian refugees have not been given the opportunity to vote in elections for the PA (or the PLO for that matter). Abbas and his negotiating team therefore do not have the representative authority to negotiate away refugees rights.

  • Israel called him a 'terrorist'; but hear his family's story
    • GreatLeo June 14, 2010 at 3:11 pm

      This is what our $3 billion per year buys. That plus a lot of vicious lying from our Senators and Congressman.

  • Nader: 'Anti-semitism against Arabs is rife' in U.S.
  • A prayer for her country
    • GreatLeo June 8, 2010 at 7:16 pm

      I understand your points (both David's and Nigel's). It's just that most Americans are indoctrinated with "Palestinian" = "terrorism". Plus, "pro-Palestinian" subtly implies "anti-Israel" without saying it directlry.

      For me, it's just one more part of the broad-spectrum distortion of the whole issue that gets repeated in any and every article published in the local newspaper. For instance, every article and opinion piece in our local paper since May 31st has mentioned the Hamas "takeover" of Gaza.

    • GreatLeo June 5, 2010 at 1:55 pm with 4 replies

      I've noticed that the AP stories printed in our local newspaper repeatedly use the wording "Pro-Palestinian activist." This seems to me to be a turn of phrase subtly meant to distort things.

      During the 60's civil rights activists weren't referred to as "pro-African-American" or "pro-Negro". They were for equal rights. Of the hundreds of activists I know on this issue, including every Palestinian I know, not one of them is for special rights for Palestinians. They want equal rights.

      Those of us who are American are required by our nationality to be dedicated to the proposition that all people are created equal. The phrase "We hold these truths to be self-evident" is at the beginning of the Declaration of Independence for good reason. This concept that can never be tossed aside.

      On the other hand, every one I know who is "pro-Israel" believes that Jews have been endowed by their Creator with certain special rights in the Holy Land. (I deliberately co-opted the wording of the Declaration here).

  • We aren't the world
    • GreatLeo June 4, 2010 at 4:37 pm

      A related parody video should be made for America. Its title would be: "We Arm The World"

  • It wasn't Edward Said that upset the students; it was the very word 'Palestinian'
    • GreatLeo May 25, 2010 at 10:26 am

      They're not uneducated. They're indoctrinated. These kids are taking the final exam for their advance placement English class, for heaven's sake.

      If the question had been about a topic written by a lesbian author, would hetero students be permitted to freeze and throw a hussy fit?

  • Israelis made 'strategic theft' of ISM's video cameras
    • GreatLeo May 22, 2010 at 2:09 pm

      This just doesn't make any sense. Everyone knows (or has been told) that the Israeli Army is the most moral army on the planet. Were anything captured on video, it would only prove that in spades. We'd see soldiers blowing kisses at Palestinian children, helping elderly Palestinians cross the street, planting vegetable gardens, and things like that.

  • 'I will not cooperate with any Israeli institution while Palestinians are denied basic human rights'
    • GreatLeo May 18, 2010 at 12:43 pm

      Israel boycotts Palestinian academia all the time, by preventing students from leaving, preventing Noam Chomsky from lecturing at Bir Zeit. It also boycotts Palestinian academia by shelling schools and killing students.

      But heaven forbid that any Israeli's feelings get hurt by a boycott.

  • yup the Israelis are really concerned about not wanting to be surrounded by Arab enemies...
    • GreatLeo May 18, 2010 at 10:42 am

      "As far as Jerusalem goes, I think it would be best if both states chose to site their capitals elsewhere, and let Jerusalem be a non-political city."

      So you're saying Jerusalem should be some kind of corpus separatum. Interesting idea! Too bad nobody thought of it earlier.

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