You wrote:

The rocket attacks are not surprising, considering that Israel cut power to the only sub station in Gaza that is capable of providing electricity that is essential for water and sewage treatment. Hospitals do not have the ability to run neo-natal incubators and other essential life-sustaining equipment.

Here is the other side of the story:

Hamas Shuts Off the Power: MSM Blames Israel

The media leaves the false impression that Israel has completely cut Gaza's electricity...

...Despite ongoing Qassam attacks from the territory, Israel has not switched off the electricity. In fact, Hamas itself shut down Gaza's only power station after inviting the media to watch it do so...

...While Gazans are undoubtedly suffering, the dark picture painted by the mainstream media is different from the reality. As the Israel's Foreign Ministry notes, the supply of electricity to Gaza from the Israel and the Egyptian power grids (124 Megawatts and 17 Megawatts respectively) has continued uninterrupted. These 141 Megawatts of power represents about three quarters of Gaza's electricity needs...

by Barbara Peterson (73 articles, 109 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 541 comments [98 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Jan 24, 2008 at 11:18:40 AM

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The attacks begin....

by Georgianne Nienaber (153 articles, 47 quicklinks, 13 diaries, 350 comments [3 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Jan 24, 2008 at 11:24:50 AM

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It is interesting that you consider an alternate opinion an attack...

by Barbara Peterson (73 articles, 109 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 541 comments [98 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Jan 24, 2008 at 12:15:29 PM

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Barbara, Hamas shut down the power plant because Israel blocked fuel deliveries. Do you think they were they going to run the generators until they come to a grinding halt?

From Gulf Daily News (http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/story.asp?Article=206655&Sn=WORL&IssueID=30309):

by Mac McKinney (53 articles, 113 quicklinks, 240 diaries, 1413 comments [31 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Jan 24, 2008 at 12:07:24 PM

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For some reason, the 'reply to' link is not showing to your posting. Anyway, If I was being barraged by rockets I cannot say that I wouldn't cut off fuel to the group launching the rockets. What is not being said is that Israel supplies 3/4 of the electricity to Gaza, and is still doing so. This was never cut off.

by Barbara Peterson (73 articles, 109 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 541 comments [98 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Jan 24, 2008 at 12:21:08 PM

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While the fuel supply from Israel into Gaza has indeed been reduced, due to the Hamas rocket attacks, the diversion of this fuel from domestic power generators to other uses is wholly a Hamas decision - apparently taken due to media and propaganda considerations.

Noteworthy is the fact that while the Gaza population remains in the dark, the fuel generating power to the Hamas rocket manufacturing industry continues to flow unabated.

Reference

by Barbara Peterson (73 articles, 109 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 541 comments [98 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Jan 24, 2008 at 1:25:33 PM

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I am not really impressed with the objectivity of Solomonia when it starts out like this:

Hamas shut off the power in the Gaza Strip yesterday and then sent the kiddies out into the street with candles for a photo-op pity party.

I would rather put my stock in Haaretz, who had this to say:

by Mac McKinney (53 articles, 113 quicklinks, 240 diaries, 1413 comments [31 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Jan 24, 2008 at 6:39:40 PM

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Here are portions of an article in Ynet News about another issue that is overlooked:

"We're Supplying Electricity to Gaza Under Qassam Fire"

The Israeli Electric Company (IEC) is supplying nearly 70% of electricity to the Gaza Strip despite Palestinians' claims of a power shortage in Gaza, said Miko Zarfati, the chairman of the workers' committee at the power company. 

by Barbara Peterson (73 articles, 109 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 541 comments [98 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Jan 24, 2008 at 8:55:47 PM

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Only 30% translates into some 300,000 to 400,000 people without electricity. Isn't this what's known as trying to put lipstick on a pig? It's not a complete catastrophe, only a partial catastrophe.

by Mac McKinney (53 articles, 113 quicklinks, 240 diaries, 1413 comments [31 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Jan 24, 2008 at 10:34:50 PM

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Since no-one is disputing Barb's contention that Israel is still providing 75% of the usual amount of electricity Gaza uses, it's hard to imagine that electricity would be shunted away from hospitals.

It's easy to imagine that Hamas would learn from George Herbert Walker Bush and lie about hospital patients, which is what Bush Sr. did to justify attacking Iraq in the early '90s. 

It's sad. Israel, Gaza, the US-- the all have bad leaders who really don't want and won't do what it takes to attain peace.

by Rob Kall (952 articles, 4177 quicklinks, 374 diaries, 2087 comments [45 recommended, 3 rejected]) on Friday, Jan 25, 2008 at 8:03:41 AM

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My point exactly. It is difficult to think beyond emotions in this issue, but isn't that just what Bush played on after 9/11? When emotions are high truth takes a back seat, and adept "leaders" take full advantage to create spin. This is not limited to the U.S. or Israel. All "leaders" are suspect.

by Barbara Peterson (73 articles, 109 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 541 comments [98 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Friday, Jan 25, 2008 at 11:30:05 AM

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The electricity is just symptomatic of a larger problem, this whole idea of collective punishment, which just goes on and on injuring the innocent on both sides and creating more anger, injustice, resentment and enemies. It is a perfect vicious cycle. It's like the left hand attacking the right hand with an ice pick because one finger is obnoxious, and then the right hand retaliates, until both hands are bleedling profusely and full of holes. This is all predicated on the idea that neither hand has anything in common, while they are both attached to the same body, so the whole body suffers pain and sickness as well. Now equate the body with humanity and Israel and Palestine with the hands.

There is a better way. How many avatars have to come down on earth and say: Hatred never banishes hatred. Only love can eliminate hatred. But that means everyone has to let go of their personal and collective egos long enough to forgive each other. Egotism only makes individuals and nations stupid and destructive.

by Mac McKinney (53 articles, 113 quicklinks, 240 diaries, 1413 comments [31 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Jan 24, 2008 at 1:37:11 PM

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I have traveled the middle east and I can say for a fact that the people of the middle east are just like you and me, they just wana survive and feed their families.

If our governemnt cut off power and food you can be we would be doing the same things.

I think the world should read the book "How to make a Terrorist for Dummies".  Maybe they would try a different approach.

by Michael Morris (20 articles, 0 quicklinks, 16 diaries, 316 comments [4 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Thursday, Jan 24, 2008 at 11:58:40 AM

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painfully obvious that Israeli govt is  the enemy of its own people. If Israelis  really want   security only ( screw peace) they should have occupied and annexed Gaza. If they value peace and security they  should   be the first to help the Gaza population  so that those people see who their real friend is. But the Israeli govt, paralysed by our involvement and also  by their own paranoya uses its own citzens as pawns in the game of  bantustans. They  just  play hide and seek  which goes nowhere and will achieve nothing. Now,  it is inconceivable to  me that  the people here, on this site   do not understand that  the problem  in the Middle East is us.  The UN, the one that gave mandate to the US on Iraq(!)  has no credibility.  It is  a horrible  abscess we are creating and those who  play on it,  on all sides are criminals indeed.

by Mark Sashine (72 articles, 19 quicklinks, 269 diaries, 4101 comments [130 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Jan 24, 2008 at 12:33:04 PM

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We need the UN, with all its flaws as a human instutution. I have seen MONUC at work, and Congo would be even more of a disaster without MONUC there. Same goes for much of Central Africa...and let's not get into what happened in Rwanda which was the fault of the Clinton administration.

by Georgianne Nienaber (153 articles, 47 quicklinks, 13 diaries, 350 comments [3 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Jan 24, 2008 at 12:38:52 PM

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A very good analysis! The governments of all the players are using their own people as pawns. And as far as the UN goes? This organization is as corrupt as it gets. Good post.

by Barbara Peterson (73 articles, 109 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 541 comments [98 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Jan 24, 2008 at 12:53:17 PM

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I enjoyed the article, but I wouldn't expect much from Elie Wiesel---although I respect you confronting him.  For a long time now he has worked to cover-up and sanctify the injustice of the Israeli state, as well as other atrocities like the US attack on Serbia in '99---of course all in the name of "The Holocaust."  Also, in Chomksy's book "Turning the Tide" on Latin America, he documents Wiesel's complicity in perpetuating the horrors of US/Israeli backed death squads---many of whom were open admirers of Adolf Hitler.

What an outrage that a charlatan like Wiesel continues to be respected by the mainstream media and many on the left.  Thanks again for your article.

by Hans Bennett (25 articles, 117 quicklinks, 141 diaries, 246 comments [35 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Jan 24, 2008 at 12:45:03 PM

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As a person of Jewish origin,  a ' child of miracle' ( because we were all supposed to be dead) who lived  half of his life right in front of the Baby Yar ( the one of the most horrible places of masacres of the Jews) I testify that the people who perished in the Holocaust were in their  overwhelming majority secular Jews and  surely non- Zionist.  In fact, the   Jewish people in Russia, Ukraine, Byelorussia,  Baltics, Moldova, etc were  primarily secular to the core. They, if they could speak would  not understand   why their  memory is misused by the people who never had anything  in common with them.  Secular Jews are considered by the Zionists as  the worst enemies of the movement.   The horrible fate of those people cannot in any way justify  any abuse by the Israelis of  any Arabic population.  I mentioned many times  and in many articles of mine that  the  govt of Israel hijacked the Jews as people:  now  very rarely people distinguish between the Jewish people and Israel: Israel claims to speak for all Jews. Nothing can be further from the truth.  Jewish people in all countries whenever they live are  first and foremost citizens of those countries and   they do not have 'two countries'.  Israeli govt  has no right to claim  Jews, whether alive or dead as their property.  Thus  usage of the Holocaust in any way to justify the actions of the Israeli govt is an insult  to the memory of those who perished.

by Mark Sashine (72 articles, 19 quicklinks, 269 diaries, 4101 comments [130 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Jan 24, 2008 at 1:50:31 PM

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There is so much censorship in the U.S. of anything that sounds anti-Israel, including on the internet, that I'm delighted that opednews saw fit to publish this. I probably don't have to tell  you about  press censorship of anything related to Jewish interests.

To my jaded eye, Elie Wiesel appears to greatly enjoy his status as a victim.  He's certainly made a career of it. And he doesn't like sharing with any other group that has experienced attempted genocide, like the Palestinians, or the American Indians, or the Rwandans, or ... the list goes on.

It's always interesting the way that apologists for Israel have to turn themselves into pretzels, and facts inside out, to justify the indefensible. I'll never understand why it's worth the bother.  Wouldn't Israel be happier and healthier if it gave up it's run as the bully of the Middle East?  Wouldn't the U.S. be safer if we stopped funding Israel's personal vendetta agaiinst the Palestinians, as well as the war in Iraq that was undertaken, at least in part, to protect them?

If we elect a president who has been largely funded by the Jewish Lobby, like Hillary, we may never get out of Iraq. John Edwards is the only candidate that hasn't 'benefitted' from Jewish money.  They don't like him because his campaign manager, David Bonior, voiced support for fair treatment for the Palestiians when he was a congressman.  Doubt me?  Just do a little research.  The facts are right below the surface.

by Sandy Jewell (3 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 11 comments) on Thursday, Jan 24, 2008 at 2:54:26 PM

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Mark; this is a sidebar to the above article -- but I was interested on your thoughts on the following information?  I always appreciate your insight and comments...

http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/history/zionism/news.php?q=1201139489

Following Zakheim and Pentagon trillions to Israel and 9-11

 Jerry Mazza 

Online Journal Associate EditorJul 31, 2006, 00:19 

"Think of this as part two of Recherche du trillions perdu, my Online Journal article on Dov Zakheim, former Bush appointee as Pentagon Comptroller from May 4, 2001 to March 10, 2004. At that time he was unable to explain the disappearance of $1 trillion dollars. Actually, nearly three years earlier, Donald Rumsfeld announced on September 10, 2001 that an audit discovered $2.3 trillion was also missing from the Pentagon books.

That story, as I mentioned, was buried under 9-11's rubble. The two sums disappeared on Zakheim's watch.Yet on May 6, 2004, Zakheim took a lucrative position at Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the most prestigious strategy consulting firms in the world. One of its clients then was Blessed Relief, a charity said to be a front for Osama bin Laden. Booz, Allen & Hamilton then also worked closely with DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is the research arm of the Department of Defense. So the dark card was shifted to another part of the deck"... see rest of the article

by boomerang (0 articles, 7 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 556 comments [215 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Thursday, Jan 24, 2008 at 4:49:27 PM

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the article about Zakheim seems very convincing and plausible. Again, though,  whatever Zakheim was doing  could not be done without knowledge and approval  of the  higher criminals here, no matter what origin they have. PNAC is not a Jewish organization, but like AIPAC is using the 'Jewish cause' for the    cover.  The story of Zakheim seems like a typical story of corruption and greed which eventually goes out of control.

by Mark Sashine (72 articles, 19 quicklinks, 269 diaries, 4101 comments [130 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Jan 24, 2008 at 7:29:54 PM

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Yes, the question was directed to you.  Thank you for your comments and time!

by boomerang (0 articles, 7 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 556 comments [215 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Thursday, Jan 24, 2008 at 8:32:34 PM

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About 3:00 am on Wednesday morning Jan. 23, well-coordinated explosions demolished the iron wall built by Israel to seal the southern border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt (the Philadelphi axis). Tens of thousands of Palestinians streamed across the border and entered the Egyptian side of the town of Rafah, which had been bisected by the wall, in search of food, gasoline, and other basic commodities which have been in short supply for many months in Gaza. The first wave of Palestinians to cross consisted of hundreds of women who were met with water canons and beatings by Egyptian security forces. The wall was the starkest expression of the international boycott of Hamas imposed by the United States, Israel, and the European Union after Hamas won a majority of the seats in the Palestinian Legislative Council elections of January 2006 and formed a government the following March. Hamas has been in sole control of the Gaza Strip after it executed a coup d'état against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in June 2007. Since then, Israel has tightened the siege of Gaza which had been in effect since June 2006. In response, Hamas and Palestinian Jihad militants have fired thousands of Qassam missiles on the town of Sderot and other Israeli population centers near the Gaza Strip. According to the 2007 annual report of B'Tselem, the Israeli human rights organization, Hamas and Jihad killed twenty-four Israeli civilians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip during 2006 and 2007 and thirteen Israeli military personnel. In retaliation, Israel escalated the pace of its targeted assassinations of Hamas and Jihad militants, killing hundreds of civilians in the process. Based on B'Tselem's 2007 annual report, a Ha-Aretz investigation (Jan. 14, 2008) concluded that Israeli forces killed 816 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip during 2006 and 2007; at least 360 of them were civilians not affiliated with any armed organizations; 152 of the casualties were under age 18, and 48 were under the age of 14. Despite the siege, Israel continued to provide electricity and water to the Gaza Strip, allowing people to live on the edge of survival, hoping that the economic pressure would bring down the Hamas government. Half the population now depends on charity handouts from the UN refugee relief organization and other humanitarian NGOs. Four days before the wall came crashing down, Israel sharply cut back fuel and water supplies, imposing a harsh collective punishment on the entire population of 1.5 million. According to Ha-Aretz columnist Amira Hass (Jan. 24, 2008), for several months Hamas leaders had been discussing measures to end Gaza's torment, described by Rela Mazali, an Israeli feminist peace activist with the New Profile organization and an editor of Jewish Peace News, as "an abomination." Apparently, Hamas decided that four days of hermetic closure, following months of siege, created conditions in which Egypt and the international community would be willing to accept bringing down the wall. Hamas did not take official responsibility for blowing up the wall, but praised the action. The Egyptian press reported that several days before the wall was blown up the General Guide of the Muslim Brothers, the largest opposition force in Egypt, spoke by telephone to Khaled Mash'al, the head of the Political Bureau of Hamas who resides in Damascus. Hamas emerged from the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brothers; and there is a high likelihood that the actions of the two organizations were coordinated. Following this consultation, the Brothers began to organize demonstrations throughout Egypt beginning on Friday, Jan. 18. The number of its supporters in the street gradually increased, culminating on Wednesday. Jan. 23. That morning, thousands of Egyptian security forces surrounded Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo and arrested hundreds (according to some reports thousands) of people who were attempting to demonstrate in solidarity with the people of Gaza. The demonstration was supported by both the Muslim Brothers and secular nationalists. Meanwhile, at Rafah Egyptian security forces initially tried to stop the Palestinians from streaming across the border. But as the numbers swelled to tens of thousands, the government had no choice but to acquiesce. President Hosni Mubarak told journalists that he had instructed the security forces to: "Let them come in to eat and buy food" and return "as long as they are not carrying weapons." What are the implications of these developments? It appears that the Annapolis summit and the sham "peace process" it was supposed to have reinvigorated are dead - killed by tens of thousands of unarmed Palestinians crossing the boarder into Egypt to meet their basic human needs. Shortly before President George W. Bush's visit to the Middle East, Israel began an expanded campaign of pressure on the Gaza Strip, including an escalation in targeted assassinations. Hamas has sent several signals that it was prepared for an informal cease fire with Israel. But the political perspective articulated at Annapolis and its aftermath requires that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas cooperate with Israel in crushing Hamas rather than try to restore Palestinian national unity. Egypt's task in this drama is to stand silently by. This is an impossible task and cannot in any way contribute to peace. Even if Mahmud Abbas were to come to terms and sign an agreement with Israel, it would have no credibility and would be very short lived without some degree of approval and participation from Hamas. A government of national unity that represents all the factions of the Palestinian people is the only entity capable of signing a viable peace agreement with Israel. The Israeli government led by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert opposes the kind of agreement that a Palestinian national unity government would demand, as has every previous government of Israel. Such an agreement would require recognition of Palestinian national rights rather than paternalistic "concessions" granted by a magnanimous but ultimately all-powerful Israel. The limited capacity of the Egyptian government to acquiesce to this program has been exposed. The Mubarak regime would like very much to see Hamas crushed, since it is an ally of the Muslim Brothers, its most substantial domestic opposition force. But the Palestinian cause is too popular and emotional an issue in Egypt for Mubarak to appear to be assisting Israel in starving the people of Gaza. Moreover, some of the demonstrations in solidarity with Gaza also raised slogans against the drastic rise in the price of food in recent months and against Husni Mubarak himself. Opposition demonstrations linking the Palestine cause with domestic economic issues and autocracy have the potential to threaten a regime whose legitimacy is already minimal. Palestine, Israel, and Egypt after the fall of the Gaza wall are more unstable than before. It is desirable, but alas unlikely, that this instability will bring the leaderships to their senses and impel them to negotiate a just peace for the benefit of all. But it is more likely that Olmert, Abbas, and Mubarak - all weak and discredited leaders - will seek to hold onto power by clinging to the United States, which has a long record of opposing Palestinian-Israeli peace. The people of the Gaza Strip have taken their survival into their own hands and have shown that the power of ordinary people is more likely to shape the future than polished diplomatic formulas. Joel Beinin Cairo, Jan. 24, 2008

by Mac McKinney (53 articles, 113 quicklinks, 240 diaries, 1413 comments [31 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Jan 24, 2008 at 6:15:18 PM

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Once and for all we have to remove the "force field" around extreme right wing Israelis. Agree with them or not, but STOP this insanity that Israel is in the ONLY country on the planet where right wing extremists get to do ANYTHING and NEVER be held accountable --- except by their definition of a racist. I won't even bother to use the boring word. Over and over again, people in all countries hold the American lunatic fringe right wing accountable for sundry atrocites (as they do in all countries) . . . except Israel. This international muzzle need to be trashed once and for all! Talk about protesting too much.

by W. Christopher Epler (Bill) (291 articles, 59 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 763 comments [44 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Jan 24, 2008 at 6:37:55 PM

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Excellent piece Giorgianne.

Zionists are strange people, it has to said. First they set up a racially and religiously pure – ethnically cleansed – colony. Then they go on stealing land and water on a daily, unprovoked basis for 60 years. Land theft apparently gives them spiritual redemption bringing them inch by inch closer to a god who it seems chose them as his earthy lot: some racial club of sorts with limited membership and a wall. Others are a waste really with no spiritual prospects, so what if their homes, children and olive groves are cluster-bombed, and their food is cut off. Nagging complainers are labelled as racists or even fascist sympathizers, or ‘map wipers’. Map wiping is apparently a heinous crime, but not if it is done daily to the map of Palestine, naturally. They also incarcerate tens of thousands of innocents and collectively punish their communities, and yet claim to be democratic victims of extremism. And they produce the most lethal weapons known to man, and do it in the name of…hmm, shalom? Strange people.

But even stranger are all the western leaders that continue to support these atrocities. I explored the reasons behind western support for unforgivable zionist crimes in an article on this web site a while back. As it is, the US provides an average of around $6 bn in aid to Israel every year - half through official aid and the rest through private donations. Check out the USAID website. Israel could not survive without American support, and has for the longest time been the most aid dependent country in the world with a current average of about $700 per head of population a year, as compared to a Sub-Saharan average of around $80. Almost all of this aid to Israel comes from USA. A 12 July 2004 report (IB85066) by the Congressional Research Service for the US Congress starts with the following assertion: Israel is not economically self-sufficient, and relies on foreign assistance and borrowing to maintain its economy.

And Giorgianne, please don't be put off by the pro-zionist bombardment you are likely to receive on every occasion you criticize Israel. It is deliberate and orchestrated. Even on thiss web site you get warned for mentioning the word 'zionist' in an article! We can see as clear as daylight that Israel is hell bent on war and destruction, having launched its latest war against Gaza right in the middle of alleged 'peace talks'. Truth is a constant casualty of colonialism that effortlessly projects its ugly brutality onto its victims: Wolves in sheep’s clothing in a theatre of deception depicting heartless carnage as self-defence, land theft as liberation, and rejectionism as dialogue. We have seen and heard it all before, and we know what needs to be done. Zionist Apartheid has to be defeated through unrelenting and growing international solidarity. Most importantly, US financial support for Israel must be curbed.

by Niloufar Parsi (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 9 diaries, 83 comments) on Thursday, Jan 24, 2008 at 10:40:28 PM

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Don't worry, it is pretty difficult to put me off. I am kind of shocked at the response this has received. It was more of a conversation between me and my teacher...me feeling abandoned by a man who taught me compassion. It is a straightforward message, really...but so dificult for people to practice...respect for each other...what really drives me crazy is the way celebrities get involved in oversimplifying this important issue...another story I am working on. Celebrity narcissism always finds a way to attach to the latest headlines--a dangerous practice.

by Georgianne Nienaber (153 articles, 47 quicklinks, 13 diaries, 350 comments [3 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Jan 24, 2008 at 11:17:27 PM

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http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=1498

I do not claim I  explained everything but I surely addressed  everything, I think 

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=2472

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=2520

http://www.opednews.com/articles/2/opedne_mark_sas_071118_slimy_love_3__bd_3a_the_.htm

by Mark Sashine (72 articles, 19 quicklinks, 269 diaries, 4101 comments [130 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Friday, Jan 25, 2008 at 7:54:13 AM

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go to Mark Sashine in the writers archives.  The Slimy love, Slimy love  2 and 3 are diary entries. Slimy love 3 1/2 is an article

by Mark Sashine (72 articles, 19 quicklinks, 269 diaries, 4101 comments [130 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Friday, Jan 25, 2008 at 8:20:00 AM

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Can you take the mardi gras to the moon please

by dave stanley (5 articles, 1 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 286 comments) on Friday, Jan 25, 2008 at 2:52:16 AM

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In America the right wing does what it wants and gets away with it I think it's called "Judeo-Bolshevism"

by dave stanley (5 articles, 1 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 286 comments) on Friday, Jan 25, 2008 at 2:54:59 AM

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http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=862

I wrote about it in the above.  Please, have a look

by Mark Sashine (72 articles, 19 quicklinks, 269 diaries, 4101 comments [130 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Friday, Jan 25, 2008 at 7:39:17 AM

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http://www.un.org/unifeed/script.asp?scriptId=2894

Make of this what you will.

My sword arm certainly did more than what was intended. I thought that my comments would encourage everyone who read it (I thought just a few) to have some compassion. Instead, we have a mini-mideast war going on in the middle of our progressive think tank. If we can't get it together, those of mostly like minds, it is no wonder Gaza faces another black day. I hesitate to be an apologist for myself... lest the dreaded "anti" word be applied...but as a 20 year old college student I sat through a week of films (including Nazi footage) from concentration camps that literally made many of us puke. I think I get it. I get it too much. When I went to the genocide memorial in Kigali, Rwanda, I felt almost blase about the mounds of skulls and bones sheltered behind glass within arms reach. I remember thinking, "there is something wrong with me," as others snffled nearby and I plowed on. Sometimes we have seen too much.

Here is text of above link that is sticky

by Georgianne Nienaber (153 articles, 47 quicklinks, 13 diaries, 350 comments [3 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Friday, Jan 25, 2008 at 8:39:54 AM

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As Israel's crimes against the Palestinians make headlines daily, more people every day understand the raw, unvarnished, manipulation in the all-purpose slur 'anti-Semitism'.  It's much more yawn-inspiring than it used to be. Israel is its own worst enemy. The legions of Jewish Americans who support it (Mearsheimer and Walt) are doing that rogue nation no favor. 

by Sandy Jewell (3 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 11 comments) on Saturday, Jan 26, 2008 at 2:34:15 PM

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