"I have no words to describe the depths of my hatred for you."

Offensivetoyou - Your obsession with MJ is totally out of control. Please see a Psychiatrist who can help you. When that is done please make aliyah and join the IDF or some other activity that actually helps Israel. Sitting at your desk responding to each and every posting illustrates a fragile hold on reality. This is a damn blog - it's not real life. You are NOT going to change one person on this site with your positions, especially with the angry tone you use.

Take the time you spend you waste on this site and do something useful for Jews and Israel that you claim to support.

Posted at August 8, 2008 7:14 PM in response to Iran: Initiating a Holocaust To Prevent One

I don't understand why the MSM does not pick up on McCain's zero interest AX card. This is the same kind of sweetheart deal that Johnson got on his mortgage. The foregone interest on McCain's AX debt would easily exceed the amount Johnson saved.

Posted at June 15, 2008 6:39 PM in response to Fiscally Responsible John McCain

"No one trusts the Iranians, therefore, if they're going to get a "Shiite bomb", then Sunni's aren't going to be left behind."

The Sunni's already have the bomb and if neccesary Saudia Arabia will simply buy some from Pakistan, who could use the money. Pakistan has enough nuclear capacity to supply the Sunni mideast with more than enough bombs to deter Iran.

Posted at June 10, 2008 8:17 PM in response to Cheney Winning the Inside Battles Again

tnathan - This is a cop-out. You have VERY strong opinions about I/P issues that you are against. You feel free to state that positions put forth by commentators are "stupid or naive". Are you afraid to put forth your own positions for fear of being called stupid or naive? It is intellectually dishonest for you to claim you have no clue. You have a "fire in your belly" for Israel and it seems impossible that you have not staked out a position on conflict resolution.

I suspect the reason you do not state your position is that you realize that it is incompatible with Western Democratic ideals. In other words, I suspect your position is the same as my relatives in the settlements and a position I heard Kadima member Ze'ev Boim advocative at shul in Ariel. That is the Palestinians will NEVER have a state but only autonomous "reservations" without voting rights. Is this your position too?

Posted at April 28, 2008 8:37 AM in response to Israel At Sixty: Same As It Never Was

tnathan - Instead of taking pot shots at comments and commentators you don't like - how about you outlining how you see the Israeli/Palestinian conflict gets resolved. Do you have the guts to put something on the table for discussion?

Posted at April 27, 2008 12:51 PM in response to Israel At Sixty: Same As It Never Was

Josh - Many thanks for grabbing this bowl of jello. I think TPM commentary needs a little more discipline. Who knows, if the place is a bit more civil (especially I/P issues) I might start posting again.

Posted at April 22, 2008 8:25 PM in response to Acceptable Commenting

dcsmithe - Let me provide a different perspective. First, Hamas does recogognize the "entity" called Israel. It is willing to negotiate with it and provide a 50 year Hudna. That, by definition is recognition. Hamas rhetoric is no worse than you can hear at shul in the west bank settlements. If you want to hear blood curdling sentiments about annihilation of humans attend shul. I have many, many times.

There are hundreds of thousands of Jewish Israelis who do NOT recognize Palestinians or a Palestinian state. How is that materially different from Palestinians. I've heard Ze'ev Boim(Kadima Knesset Member and housing minister) tell the settlers point blank they will NEVER allow a real Palestinian state - only limited autonomy.

Gaza and the West bank were only affiliated with Egypt and Jordan for 19 years(1948-1967)out of a couple thousand year history of arabs in the lands.

Israel has done a very good job of telling the world about the Palestinian loathsome rhetoric but has carefully hidden the kind of talk that Jews utter, even in Synogogues. It is equally hideous. Please remember that Jewish textbooks don't show the Green Line or any Palestinian territory - it's all Israel.

The Palestinians used to be amoung the best educated of all arabs until the occupation. Gaza has been an open air prison for decades and NOTHING happened educationally or economically without Israel's approval. Commerce was especially difficult for palestinians to get approvals. Israel wants Palestinians as a source of cheap labor and customers - not commercial competitors.

Yes, Abbas has been a terrorist by US standards. However, notice the respect given the Stern Gang, Irgun etc by Israel regardless of the atrocities they committed. To the victors go the spoils as well as the right to write history. So Irgun becomes freedom fighters and the PLO - terrorists. My grandfather was Irgun from 1944 to 1947 and he was so traumitized by his activities that he left Israel forever.

This is a long way around to the point that Israel has to talk to Hamas if it ever wants peace and to maintain Israel as the Jewish homeland.

Posted at March 31, 2008 5:39 PM in response to The Alternative to Talking to Hamas -- The Worst War Yet

Bev - I understand your isolationist attitude but are there any red lines that a country, with the will of the people, cross before interference is justified. I call your attention to Ruwanda, Kosovo, and what is happening in Tibet today amoung numerous examples in history.

If the will of the Israeli people was to transfer the Palestinians out of Gaza and/or the West Bank should we do nothing?

Posted at March 19, 2008 4:18 PM in response to Israel, the Palestinians and Elections

Hamas has stated that they would agree to a 50 year Hudna, which for all practical purposes is a face saving way of peace with Israel. Furthermore, they have stated that Abbas can negotiate a peace treaty with Israel and if the Palestinians approve it in a plebiscite, Hamas will honor it.

Now I am realistic enough to know there are some land mines that could derail the entire process. Hamas' Hudna offer is contingent upon Israeli withdrawal to the 67 lines - an impossible FIRST step. However, it is a basis for negotiations especially if, I believe, Hamas is serious about honoring a peace plebiscite. To do otherwise, would jeopardize their relations with Palestinian society.

I have been around Israel for around 50 years - my first trip was a bar mitzvah present from my Grandfather in 1956. The venom spewed by Hamas toward Israel is not as bad as I remember coming from Egypt and Jordan and they eventually signed peace agreements.

In short, Israel has very little to lose by including Hamas in peace negotiations. If it doesn't work out, everything will revert to the present low grade war between the parties. If it works, I can have my dream burial in Israel.

Posted at March 8, 2008 7:20 PM in response to Talk To Hamas -- Before It's Too Late

I agree ARG polls have been far off the mark so far this political season. Other polls in Texas taking in the past week show:

Rasmussen 02/14 - 02/14 (54 38 Clinton +16.0)
InsiderAdvantage02/14 - 02/14(48 41 Clinton +7.0)
TCUL/Hamilton 02/11 - 02/13 (49 41 Clinton +8.0)

H/T - RealClearPolitics

Posted at February 16, 2008 9:47 AM in response to OBAMA LEADS IN TEXAS!!! Poll out few minutes ago...