Linda J Retired person. Active locally on Palestine, healthcare and planned parenthood. This user account status is Approved Comments Comments Posts Posts " If progressives used the same standard when they measure Israel, he said, they would see that Israel has outstripped the U.S. in many of their dearest causes, including gun control,..." Thanks for the laugh. On AIPAC panics over progressives abandoning Israel From former head of Israel’s Int’l Law Div., Military Advocate General’s office: "If you do something for long enough, the world will accept it. The whole of international law is now based on the notion that an act that is forbidden today becomes permissible if executed by enough countries … International law progresses through violations. We invented the targeted assassination thesis and we had to push it. At first there were protrusions that made it hard to insert easily into the legal molds. Eight years later, it is in the center of the bounds of legitimacy." http://original.antiwar.com/bisharat/2009/04/02/israel-is-changing-the-rules-of-war/ On Thomas Friedman justifies slaughter of Arab civilians by ‘crazy’ Israel I must agree with xanadou. Ms. Garson's Jewish privilege shows throughout this harrowing narrative. Is that a matter of religion, really? If so, then my dim view of religion in general is justified. On Reading Maimonides in Gaza "She gets lots of political mileage and attention with her theatrics of scolding the financial industry at Senate hearings which are just a show for public consumption " kinda like Bernie. On ‘Beholden to AIPAC’ — progressive senators Warren, Murphy, Brown sign letter seeking to limit Obama’s actions Thanks, Nada. We needed that! Free Free Palestine! On Palestinians on Nakba Day 2016 — Defiant, Undeterred and Organizing for-peace sez "we can thank Ralph Nader and the Green Party being that third alternative in Florida in 2000 for 8 years of W." This bit of sophistry is very wrong. "#3) So why did Gore lose to Bush? Democrats. there are two other Florida constituencies that cost them more votes than Nader did. First, Democrats. Yes, Democrats! Nader only drew 24,000 Democrats to his cause, yet 308,000 Democrats voted for Bush." http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/06/1260721/-The-Nader-Myth Endlessly repeating this erroneous information about Nader undercuts our work of challenging the corrupt duopoly by generating third party efforts. On Donna Edwards ends insurgent campaign by taking on Democratic Party orthodoxy, and supporters vow to continue the fight Max B has an Alternet article including a video compilation of Ms. Barr's speech at the conference. http://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/watch-israel-govt-calls-civil-elimination-left-wing-activists-and-roseanne-barr She shouldn't have gone off her meds, obviously. On ‘We don’t want to find ourselves in a position like apartheid South Africa’: A report from Israel’s first national conference against BDS Here is Rabbi Ascherman on Democracy Now. http://www.democracynow.org/2015/10/26/knife_wielding_israeli_settler_attacks_founder It could be Amy's fault because she NEVER mentions the occupation when she is reporting on the knife attacks, etc. But here again there is no context except that the IDF is supposedly guarding the Palestinians during the Olive Harvest. Ha! I'm with Citizen C. Jeff and Erik should come home and work in the belly of the beast. On Do ‘Rabbis for Human Rights’ protect Palestinians or the Jewish State? Me too. On Church group condemns cancellation of Rev. Hagler’s ‘Ferguson to Palestine’ speech Yes, "we are not going to get anyone better than Sanders" -- because we ALWAYS give in and vote for the lesser evil. Jill Stein is running for President too. Her policy includes these words: "Material progress will be understood to include but not be limited to an end to the discriminatory apartheid policies within the state of Israel, the removal of the Separation Wall, a ban on assassination, movement toward denuclearization, the release of all political prisoners and journalists from Israeli and Palestinian prisons, disarmament of non-state militias, and recognition of the right of self-determination for both Israelis and Palestinians." https://thepeaceresource.wordpress.com/2015/08/29/dr-jill-stein-on-israel-palestine-and-the-middle-east/ We will not "get anyone better than Sanders" if we keep ACCEPTING this crap. Elections should be tools to build movements in support of the issues we support. Not bowing our heads, and taking what ever unprincipled creep they shove down our throats. On Bernie Sanders is ‘radical’ on economic policy but a pussycat for Israel load more comments
