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Your drum is beating a little loud. Who are the Democratic leaders saying Israel is the bad guy in this fight. I've heard them all say that Israel was attacked and has a right to defend herself.
If you talking about the lefties on the blog, they are such a minority as to not condone blaming the whole left or all Democrats.
Same as above. Turn your volume down and your spell and grammar check up.
Read the entire Der Spiegel interview again. Carter only says that Israel, at the outset, should have done a prisoner exchange instead of a 30 day military campaign that in total killed 1,000 people. Nowhere does he say that Israel shouldn't have the right to defend itself.
Spell check and grammar aside (which I proof read it again), I think we need to acknowledge that there is a parallel line of thinking in the political movement against Bush and the war in Iraq that couples Israeli actions to it. It would be dubious at best to try and insinuate that the two thought trains don’t at least originate from the same mindset and political ideology. I will provide you with some links Time, because I would rather you not think I was just making this up, or jumping to conclusions. Lastly, note I never specified a particular political party or ideology in my post that is responsible, nor did I say that ONLY American political leaders were responsible.
Doug:
Thanks for stopping by. I apologize for the grammatical errors and/or spelling errors. I didn’t quite vet out the post before launching it late last night (when I couldn’t sleep from a hotel room). But hopefully I’ve adjusted it and there should be no more of that. My reply to Time applies to you as well, so, please see below:
The American Thinker: “Israel is not allowed to be brought up in polite conversation,” McGovern said. ‘The last time I did this, the previous director of Central Intelligence called me anti-Semitic.”
Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.), who prompted the question by wondering whether the true war motive was Iraq’s threat to Israel, thanked McGovern for his “candid answer.”
At Democratic headquarters, where an overflow crowd watched the hearing on television, activists handed out documents repeating two accusations—that an Israeli company had warning of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and that there was an “insider trading scam” on 9/11—that previously has been used to suggest Israel was behind the attacks.
Sun Times:
On the day of the "green light" exchange, Hagel delivered a thoughtful address in Washington. While avowing support for Israel to retaliate against Hezbollah and Hamas (in the Gaza Strip), Hagel declared "military action alone will not destroy Hezbollah or Hamas." He was blunt in predicting consequences: "Extended military action will tear apart Lebanon, destroy its economy and infrastructure, create a humanitarian disaster, further weaken Lebanon's fragile democratic government, strengthen popular Muslim and Arab support for Hezbollah, and deepen hatred of Israel across the Middle East. . . . The war against Hezbollah and Hamas will not be won the battlefield."
Democrat strategist Kenneth Baer wrote : “a faction, which coalesced around Dean in the primaries […]almost instinctively doubts America's stated intentions in foreign affairs, and tends to look inward at what the United States has done to incite and fuel hatred rather than focus on causes intrinsic or unique to America's enemies.” (The New
WorldNetDaily
Al Sharpton: In 1991, Sharpton incited riots, terrorism, and murder against whites and Jews in Crown Heights, New York. Leading 400 protesters and stirring mobs, four nights of violent rock- and bottle-throwing and the stabbing-murder of Yankel Rosenbaum, resulted from Sharpton's shouts of "diamond merchants" and his followers' chants of "kill the Jew." In 1995, Sharpton incited the burning down of "Freddie's Fashion Mart," which he called a "white interloper" business in Harlem. No matter that the store employed mostly blacks and Hispanics, and that at least seven people – mostly black and Hispanic – were killed in the Sharpton-inspired arson, while he led chants of "Bloodsucking Jews!"
Alain Menargues, head of news at the state-owned Radio France International: Speaking on LCI television on Sept 30, he said: "You say Israel is a democratic state, let me rapidly add that it is also a racist state .... The law of return only concerns Jews. What is the basis of Zionism? It is to make a state for the Jews."
Suffice it to say that there is a predominate feeling, outside of the Arab world, that Israel is not only to blame for the violence that surrounds them, but that it is their due for policies that are being labled “unjust”, yet are nothing more that survival techniques.
I stand by my position that far too many people forget why Israel is “occupying” the lands around them, why Israel launched attacks on Lebanon, why they’ve launched attacks into Palestine, and why they consistently have to guard all of their boarder like it is one large military instillation.
The Lebanese government has done nothing to try and stop, or even hamper, Hezbollah operations out of their country. Yet Israel is supposed to keep letting rogue militias launch Iranian and Syrian furnished rockets and bombs into their population? Sure they could have just done a prisoner exchange… after all, Hezbollah is a formal army that fights for a nation with whom Israel is at a formal state of war and that falls under the rules of war right? NO! Hezbollah wants Israel to release drug trafficers, would-be suicide bombers, radical clerics, and terrorist financiers in exchange for two IDF regulars?
Jimmy Carter needs to shut up!
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