Clear bi-partisan thinking on Israel and the Palestinians.

[sailaway21]

I find absolutely nothing to argue with in these two congressman's statements.
Washington Times - CANTOR/HOYER: A defensive war

[sailaway21]

Should have been titled "Bi-partisan clear thinking". Oops!

[sailaway21]

And thank goodness those congressmen are not reading what passes for wisdom in the formerly significant Time magazine.
Commentary » Blog Archive » Dissecting Anti-Israeli Journalistic Bias

The complete claptrap here: Can Israel Survive Its Assault on Gaza? - TIME

[bubb2]

This is not the type of speech our fore fathers had in mind when they wrote the Constitution. I would like to know if that young Lady is even a citizen?
Paul, I am so sorry!!

[sailaway21]

I'd disagree with bubb on the matter of free speech while agreeing with him that had they chosen to take to the streets, it wouldn't have been over such an issue nor expressed in the same way.

During the cold war, the left marched and opposed American and NATO actions that eventually brought down the Soviet Union. Rather than embraced within the Soviet Union these people were known there as "useful idiots". It appears that these pro-Palestinian people shown are of much the same ilk. We can ignore to some extent those such as the young lady because they exactly typify the actual problem within Palestine. For them, it's push Israel into the sea and it's over. We need pay far more attention to the seemingly rational young lady decrying the loss of innocent children. While the loss of those innocents is directly attributable to the actions of the Palestinians, her point of view is persuasive in recruiting yet more "useful idiots" to the cause.

[PBzeer]

One can only wonder how, a more nuanced and engaged dialogue with those who deal only in absolutes, can be of any useful purpose. But HEY !!!!!! damn sure sounds good, don't it?

[sailaway21]

There's also some question as to the motives of such Palestinian rallies being held in the heavily Jewish neighborhoods of Florida. Funny how when the Klan, the skin-heads, and the jihadists choose their venues it's always in the heart of a Jewish neighborhood. The confrontation is more important than the message because the message is so weak. See, if they marched through the streets of downtown Kalamazoo, the only reaction would be, ho-hum, and it'd be only the tiniest blip on the news and soon forgotten. Repeat events would be cancelled due to lack of interest. But, if we can go out into a Jewish neighborhood and possibly incite violence or at least strong emotion we can milk the coverage for weeks. Once again it's the medium and not the message.

[chucklesR]

The message needs to be a bit more fairly and evenly reported.
MSM is very big on putting out headlines of hundreds killed by IDF attacks, and somewhere in the last paragraph of the story reports that Hamas fired 40 missles that day into Israel. They do that consistently so it's not one writer or one agency, it's bias and it's just wrong.
I hope the Ft L Jew's do get out on the corners and get their version of the story out. I suspect they won't.

'News' Organizations that have proven to be providers of biased reporting should have their journalistic credentials pulled.

[bubb2]

Why does the Klan march in Kalamazoo? Because, If they marched in Harlem, They know we could use the sheets. Eddie Murphy

[bubb2]

Sway, I do not believe that free speech allows you to spew forth hate. We have "hate crimes" here in New York. This is what I meant when I said that our fore fathers did not have this in mind under free speech!



Hate crimes (also known as bias motivated crimes) occur when a perpetrator targets a victim because of his or her membership in a certain social group, usually defined by racial group, religion, sexual orientation, disability, ethnicity, nationality, age, gender, gender identity, or political affiliation.^[1]
Hate crime can take many forms. Incidents may involve physical assault, damage to property, bullying, harassment, verbal abuse or insults, or offensive graffiti or letters.