On 6/4/2010 8:55 AM Sanity spake thus:

"Peter" wrote in message
...

I've been as guilty as numerous others in perpetuating this wildly off
topic thread for this newsgroup. However, as it refuses to die, here is
my contribution for the moment:

Although my politics is diametrically opposite, and I often find his
reasoning to be flawed, occasionally Charles Krauthammer hits one right
out of the ballpark. Everyone who has followed or contributed to this OT
discussion of the recent Israeli blockade incident should read this OP-ED
piece in today's Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...d=opinionsbox1

Peter, thank you for posting this article. To the rational and open-minded
this will explain and bring out the truth. To the anti-semites, bigots,
racists, etc., they will still ignore what it says and will still spread
their hate and lies.

Krauthammer's article is so full of his usual toxic horse**** it's hard
to know just were to begin to answer it.

Here is the absolute distillation of the neocon's take on Israel vs. the
rest of the world, as is the case here in the attack on the flotilla.

It's just an extension of the usual "never again" absolutism, the tired
resort to the Holocaust as eternal justification to whatever the State
of Israel does to "defend itself".

Hamas is the *democratically elected* representative of the
Palenstinians in Gaza, like them or not.

I consider myself to be immune to the charge of being an anti-Semite as
I am a Jew myself.

For an alternative explanation of why Israel did what it did, read he

http://counterpunch.org/amiri06042010.html

Long story short: Israel does whatever it feels necessary to sabotage
any possibility of peace with the Palestinians, which it never intends
to accept.


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