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Jeff D

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  • Jewish Federations drop JVP leader from 'Heroes' ballot without explanation
    • Jeff D October 9, 2011 at 9:07 am

      I seem to recall the Soviets using that treatment on Jews who didn't care for hte way they'd been treated in the USSR. I find it deeply ironic that one of the most famous such, to Americans anyway, is an official in the current Israeli government and apparently fully endorses anti-Palestinian racism. Double standards, much?

    • Jeff D October 9, 2011 at 1:40 am

      There are apparently (at least) two "mainstreams": the lavishly-funded, politically-connected, belligerent über-Zionists who "worship themselves and a piece of land", and the believers in G-d who work for justice and peace. As I recall, Jeremiah had a few choice words for the first group.

  • Rambunctious reporters question US State Dept's double standard on Syrian/Palestinian aspirations
    • Jeff D October 8, 2011 at 12:51 pm

      I know that's how the law says it works, and (in most Administrations) how it really does work. I think one of the major lessons that the Bush regime taught the world (again, with $DEITY knows how many precedents) was that any nation, large or small, that doesn't even bother to follow its ownlaws is insanely dangerous to others, as well as to its own people.

      That I don't trust this Administration to follow the letter and spirit of the law in all respects scares the hell out of me.

    • Jeff D October 8, 2011 at 12:46 pm

      That's what happens when you look at Israel as the center of the omniverse and the prime beneficiary of American power: you ignore the fact that there's a whole rest of the planet out there.

      Karma running over dogma like that is pretty messy.

    • Jeff D October 7, 2011 at 11:12 am

      Too bad we hit Iraq instead of the real enemy.

    • Jeff D October 7, 2011 at 11:10 am

      J Street have positioned themselves admirably as the "safe", "moderate" Zionist extremists. It's kind of funny that for the last ten years, we've had a policy of "you're either with us or you're against us" on the one hand, and "go ahead and stab us in the back some more; would you like us to double the free money we give you?" on the other.

      Treasonous.

    • Jeff D October 7, 2011 at 11:05 am

      That question WOULD earn Matt (or anybody else) an improved, extra-strength version of the Helen Thomas treatment. You don't ask questions like that to Israeli puppets and get asked back again.

    • Jeff D October 7, 2011 at 11:03 am

      Just imagine how much more loyal to Israeli extremists "our" government would be if HRC was President. Lots of people already think Obama's the most pro-Israel President since Truman.

    • Jeff D October 7, 2011 at 11:01 am

      Only if other agencies choose to follow the OMB guidelines, or if OMB manages to get some legal muscle that's more loyal to America than to Israel. I think I've a better chance of winning the next sixteen lotteries — without buying any tickets.

    • Jeff D October 7, 2011 at 10:54 am

      "Some people" don't like Israel being portrayed as anything less than the epitome of moral perfection AND the permanent underdog.

      They may well be a large subset of those who approve of the West Bank colonists ("settlers") violence against the IDF in recent weeks, let alone against the Palestinians.

      It's about time that US policy is set by Americans, for American benefit — not to have the flea wag the dog.

  • See the children's drawings that terrified the San Francisco Jewish Community Relations Council and the Jewish Federation of the East Bay
    • Jeff D September 19, 2011 at 4:44 am

      Poor Zionists. It's getting to where reality is "an existential threat to the State of Israel." Too bad it's not such to the funding of JFedeastbay.

    • Jeff D September 19, 2011 at 4:42 am

      You'd be (unpleasantly) surprised. A LOT of the "English teachers" I've met in South Asia and Eastern Europe have the English skills of a below-average primary school student in the US, UK or Australia. A lot of the grousing I used to do about the continuing-education and disciplinary standards enforced among teachers in the US disappeared after I spent a few years out here.

      And yes, I have less trouble believing that those are authentic Gaza children's works than I do that said "teacher" can actually communicate effectively.

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