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Huckabee Rejects Two-State Solution

By Matt Duss on Aug 18th, 2009 at 10:39 am

Huckabee Rejects Two-State Solution

huckOn a visit to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories this week, former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee supported Israel’s right to build settlements on Palestinian land. He also stated his opposition to a two-state solution, saying that there is no room for a Palestinian state “in the middle of the Jewish homeland”:

Speaking to a small group of foreign reporters in Jerusalem, Huckabee, seen as a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2012, said the international community should consider establishing a Palestinian state some place else.

“The question is should the Palestinians have a place to call their own? Yes, I have no problem with that. Should it be in the middle of the Jewish homeland? That’s what I think has to be honestly assessed as virtually unrealistic.”

This isn’t the first time Huckabee has come out against a two-state solution and endorsed the idea of Palestinian population transfer. In August 2008, Huckabee said, “The two-state solution is no solution, but will cause only problems,” insisting that “the Palestinians can create their homeland in many other places in the Middle East, outside Israel.” Ironically, the Jerusalem Post reported that Huckabee “did not want to impose his views on the situation or to Americanize it.”

Huckabee’s current visit is being sponsored by the American Friends of Ateret Cohanim, a non-profit organization “that sends millions of shekels worth of donations to Israel every year for clearly political purposes, such as buying Arab properties in East Jerusalem.” Israel’s Haaretz reported that the group “is registered in the United States as an organization that funds educational institutes in Israel,” but that its financing of settlements in East Jerusalem would “seem to violate the organization’s tax-exempt status.”

Yesterday, Huckabee attended a reception at the Shepherd Hotel in East Jerusalem, which “became the focus of American-Israeli tensions last month.” The Obama administration has objected to Israeli plans for construction of a new Jewish settlement at the hotel, which is “located in the heart of a Palestinian neighborhood.”

Update Read CAP's report on the Window of Opportunity for a Two-State Solution.


160 Responses to “Huckabee Rejects Two-State Solution”

  1. Krazny says:

    I recall the right jumping down Pelosi’s throat, about saying things outside the official line of the Bush admin on a trip to Syria.


  2. dasm says:

    Like all Repubs, Huckabee chooses the audiences he speaks to, ensuring the fact they’ll all agree & therefore he’ll look as though he knows what he’s talking about. He doesn’t.


  3. Badmoodman says:

    Huckabee Rejects Two-State Solution

    – - From his looks, Huckabible will soon need the living space of two-states. Fell off the healthy-eating, good-diet wagon, eh Mike?


  4. Mr.Bungle says:

    Why do we care what Huckabee thinks exactly?



  5. Luis Chapulin M says:

    Why is the Palestinian state considered a part of the Jewish homeland? Because the Jewish tribes lived there thousands of years ago?

    If that’s the case, will Huckabee ask that everyone vacates the USA so that the Seminoles, Apache, Sioux, Cherokee, Cheyenne and every other indigenous tribe can return to THEIR homeland?


  6. Spencer's mom says:

    Looks like Huckleberry’s gonna need a two-seat solution while traveling by air. What happened to that whole “I did it, so can you”, Huck?

    Guess he’s lucky he has healthcare for life because he’d be denied coverage for being in the obese category of the height/weight tables.

    PEACE


  7. EnnuiDivine says:

    This is no different than the legions of Arab states saying that Israel should not exist, that if the Jews want a homeland, it should be in Germany…double standards as a nasty thing.

    There is NO reason why a plan similar to the Partion of 47 can’t be implemented (…rational reason….), right down to Jerusalem as an international city.


  8. TheLiberalMedia says:

    The Rapture requires a 1 state “solution”.


  9. Chris LeJeune says:

    I sincerely hope the republicans run Huckabee for the 2012 nomination. I would love to see a Huckabee/Palin ticket! I have never seen such a group of people so far removed from reality.


  10. Xisithrus says:

    Get on the plane, sit down, be quiet, enjoy your squirrel Mcnuggets on the way home.


  11. Uncle Fester Lurks says:

    DAMN! Is that Huckabee in that photo!?! Looks like he’s gained back all of the weight he lost. Just another obese white republican.


  12. DNFP says:

    Huckabee might want to lay off the fried dough and syrup…

    Fat, stupid, and full of sh*t.

    What a pinnacle of Republicanism.


  13. rastaman says:

    holy @#$% that guy has gotten FAT !!!


  14. Wiz says:

    Huckabee like all Republicans doesn’t really care about what potential solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian problem. He is only taking a position against Obama whatever the issue. Republicans don’t have values other than maintaining or regaining power.


  15. kasinca says:

    And what official capacity is Gomer filling? I remember how poor this wingnut was during his run for the nomination last year. Who is picking up the tab on this trip?


  16. Bozo The Neoclown says:

    dayum,
    what happended? did huckleberry’s lapband break? beyotch might want to pass by the donught tray before appearing on faux and friends.


  17. RUCerious says:

    Honest Americans Reject Huckaby. And his crappy bass playing.


  18. bzb says:

    That doesn’t surprise me coming a racist politician like (Hick)ebee.


  19. katy says:

    wow… he wears that private-jet-set-life well, doesn’t he…

    so much for “healthy living”…


  20. Virtual Pebble says:

    Ah, the Famous Mike HuckleBB, Governator, South Ron Talibabtist preach, and Foreign Policy expert.

    Armageddon anyone?


  21. smidget says:

    Looks like Huckabee is, however, in favor of a two-plate solution.

    I keed, I keed.

    Really, though, the only motivation in rejecting a two-state solution is to incite a war. Clearly a two-state solution is the best one. Think about it – if you are babysitting, and the two kids in your care won’t stop fighting with each other, do you force them to stay in the same room and beat the crap out of each other, or do you separate them? Not to trivialize the problem, and clearly it’s more complex than that, but if you just simply can’t get along with someone, staying away from them is the best solution.


  22. dbadass says:

    I wonder if god told Darryl that Huck was gonna hit the calories so hard…


  23. RUCerious says:

    Shorter Huckster ~

    Gimme Rapture Sooner!


  24. Xisithrus says:

    Huh. I though squirell was a lean meat.


  25. RUCerious says:

    dbadass, speaking of Darlyy, it’s been a long time since he ventured onto these pages, eh?


  26. Shayne says:

    Dumber than Joe the Plumber.


  27. Bozo The Neoclown says:

    apparently, since losing his presidential bid, huckleberry has been seeking consolation in “comfort food”


  28. Wiz says:

    On the subject of the Israeli-Palistine issue. There are already two states in what was Palistine. If you look at maps from the early 20th century you will see that an area labeled Palistine in what is now Israel and Jordon. The Jordan portion of what was Palistine was taken over by cousins of the Saudi family, which is now the Jordanian royal family. It is too bad that the Palistinians got robbed of their country by the Saudi cousins, but that has nothing to do with the Israelis. Of course this is little known fact with no hope of being recognized a the root of the problem.


  29. Mary Hannington says:

    Keep pointing out what CLOWNS the GOP truly are. Love the site and will add a link for you!

    Mary

    VagabondGuru.com


  30. Shayne says:

    OT but you know what would be really funny. If a bunch of dark people started showing up at town hall meetings packing weapons in the cities where the crackers are doing it. African Americans and Hispanics of course but the icing on the cake would be Muslim looking folks doing it. Now that there would be funny I don’t care who you are.


  31. Shayne says:

    It doesn’t matter how fat you get Huckleberry you’re never going to make as much money as Rush.


  32. RWeSafer says:

    Huck is insane to talk like this — just inflammatory and debasing to the Palestinians.

    At first glance, I thought he was arguing for a one-state solution — which is a topic that deserves consideration. Not a no-Palestinian state — which is absolutely inacceptable. IDIOT.


  33. DRxJ says:

    Holy Crap! If Huckabuck done gets raptured, there’s going to be some extra clothing laying around from a Men’s Big and Tall stores.


  34. CheeseFlap says:

    Hot sun bakes lardball
    Simpleton gurgles forth thoughts
    World indifference


  35. ralph the wonder llama says:

    Huckabee, seen as a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2012, said the international community should consider establishing a Palestinian state some place else.

    Somewhere… other than Palestine, presumably.


  36. winddancer says:

    Consider that there was no official “Jewish homeland” until 1947, and that the Palestinians had occupied that land, as the majority, for several thousand years prior to that and were removed during partitioning.

    Consider that the people of Abraham, when arriving in what has become Israel, dislocated the indigenous people at the time. They invaded, killed and drove away those who had occupied those lands for generations.

    Consider that in North America, the people who had inhabited it for thousands of years were driven out of their own lands, killed or died of diseases brought by the Europeans and eventually herded onto reservations by those who had invaded their homeland.

    When Huckabee and others defend the actions of the Jewish state, they are defending their own forebears. Whether it’s called “The Promised Land” or “Manifest Destiny,” it’s just words to disguise the destruction of another culture and to justify it.


  37. galmud says:

    So Huckabee supports the idea of ethnic cleansing and expulsion of 6 million Palestinians from their homes?


  38. DRxJ says:

    Shayne, your idea is funny in theory.
    In reality, the “blacks”, the “Hispanics”, and the “Muslims” brandishing weapons, would be immediately arrested, jailed, and sent to prison.
    Hell, some would probably get the broomstick treatment.

    That said, I still would love to see the faces of rightie whitie tighties that have gathered, when a group of minorities showed up “packing heat”!
    Probably all would soil themselves as the ran!


  39. Pilotshark says:

    Huckabee Rejects Two-State Solution>>>>>> and just one question

    just who in the hell you think you are to reject any thing?

    and what angle are you looking for there as well, i mean will you repuke rush and the other nazi speaks. or you keep that to your self.


  40. wisdomofwords says:

    Along with not having any idea of what’s going on over there. Did somebody connect an air hose on his belly?


  41. RUCerious says:

    May I say:

    There’s no room for an Israeli state

    right in the middle of Palestine.


  42. smidget says:

    When Huckabee and others defend the actions of the Jewish state, they are defending their own forebears.

    That’s exactly it, winddancer.

    If the Palestinians have a legitimate claim on the land that the Israelis forced them off of due to some belief in their own superiority, then certainly the Native Americans have a leigitimate claim on the land that the white man forced them off of due to some belief in their own superiority.

    Can’t have that happening. The white male majority is already feeling threatened.


  43. RUCerious says:

    wisdomofwords says:

    Along with not having any idea of what’s going on over there. Did somebody connect an air hose on his belly?

    Reminding anyone of Baron Harkonnen from Dune ??


  44. shoeless says:

    Mr.Bungle says:

    ——————————————————————————–

    Why do we care what Huckabee thinks exactly?

    The same reason we care what Sarah Palin thinks, for the entertainment value.


  45. SoapBox says:

    ACK!

    Look at that picture!

    Mr. Huckleberry is FAT again!

    …better stop yapping-your-flap and get on that treadmill again Huckie.

    (And I’ll add this…between him and Cantor’s out of country spew, I think THESE clowns are the traitors to the U.S…going out and SPEWING against the President is just plain WRONG.)


  46. 5th Estate says:

    Wiz says: Republicans don’t have values other than maintaining or regaining power.

    If I may, Wiz, I think you ended your sentence prematurely:

    Republicans don’t have values other than maintaining or regaining power, for their own benefit.

    Democrats value power too, but their purpose in general is to exercise power for the general benefit, not just their own–that is their record.

    (Funnily enough, when the Republican Party formed under Abraham Lincoln it was the Republicans that established over-arching Federal authority and the use of “big government” to fulfill ‘the self-evident truth’ that “all men are created equal” as the Founding Fathers claimed—whilst the Democrats of that time stood in bloody opposition. Somehow these signature positions began to reverse over time and I think the repolarization of the two parties to their modern forms was revealed in 1930s and 1940s).


  47. Wayne says:

    Huckabee Rejects Two-State Solution

    The Huckster also rejected thinking, “Thinking is highly overrated, regular people should not think, just let your preachers, Republican Presidents and Faux Snews tell you what to do. Thinking about what we tell you should be outlawed.”

    /snark


  48. rastaman says:

    CUT DOWN ON THE SQUIRREL BURGERS GOMER PYLE !!


  49. McWars says:

    I can tell that Huckabee’s grocery budget has increased significantly with his gig at Faux.


  50. tokin librul says:

    The Israelis will ALWAYS say they will accept a two-state solution, but it will not happen, unless the Palestinian “State” resembles the Navajo Nation, with nominal ’sovereignty’ but no real power, no military, no capital, etc…

    In terms of “real politik,” Israel CANNOT tolerate an independent, possibly antagonistic/adversarial Palestinina “State,” with which it would be compelled to negotiate in good faith over resources and land.

    There will not be peace in Palest/Israel until the last Arab is assimilated, driven out or killed.

    Nagahapun…


  51. RUCerious says:

    Also, former Governor and somebody Mike Huckaberry rejects the < 4,000 calorie per day solution.


  52. DRxJ says:

    smidget says:

    Looks like Huckabee is, however, in favor of a two-plate solution.

    I don’t care who you are, that’s some funny chit, right there!


  53. evangenital says:

    I advocate a two-state solution for the U.S.

    Give the repiggies and the holy rollers a good chunk of the Deep South, and turn it into an evangelical habitat, where they can police each other to death and outlaw virtually anything fun. They could eat themselves to death, and bankrupt themselves over medical costs.

    The rest of us could live in peace, harmony and quiet, away from the moral scolds.


  54. Levi the Dungbeetle says:

    Mary Hannington said,

    Keep pointing out what CLOWNS the GOP truly are. Love the site and will add a link for you!


    Welcome to Think Progress Mary. This is where we discuss the progressive agenda, and bash the fascist Republican trolls. It’s a hoot!


  55. RUCerious says:

    Give the repiggies and the holy rollers a good chunk of the Deep South, and turn it into an evangelical habitat,

    They can have Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia, but I want Florida for it’s beaches, swamps and sharks!


  56. RUCerious says:

    Welcome Mary Hannington!!


  57. Pilotshark says:

    Thinking maybe Huck is trying the rushbo look as the skinny huck look just wasn’t getting it done. He also has that same dimwit and lost in the woods thinking as well.


  58. evangenital says:

    Huckabee is getting awfully fat.

    Does Jesus encourage people to get fat?


  59. joe cantwell says:

    ***

    he’s kind of plump.

    :|


  60. Levi the Dungbeetle says:

    In August 2008, Huckabee said, “The two-state solution is no solution, but will cause only problems,” insisting that “the Palestinians can create their homeland in many other places in the Middle East, outside Israel.”


    I would like to see the reaction of Mr. Huckabee if the “forced relocation” of Palestinians he spoke about relocated them to the United States, perhaps to his home district.

    Given that, I wonder if he would still is against a two-state solution.


  61. Zimzone says:

    Huckabible has apparently started a Mayberry, RFD Think Tank.

    Why listen to a campaign losing bad guitarist Baptist Preacher?

    If God is a Republic, is the Devil a Libertarian?


  62. tarazan says:

    Huckabee showed his ignorance about the Middle Eastern affairs.

    He is telling Palestinians to leave the land they lived in, they and their fathers,for thousands of years.

    In 1948 when Israel was created Palestinians were the majority then.
    Israel was not created by democracy in 1948, but by forcing Palestinians out of their homes and creating a massive refuge in 1948 of hundreds of thousands of Palesinian people,who are now scattered around living in many neighboring Arab countries,whom Israel is denying them return to their homes in violation of UN charters.
    For Palestinians May 15th ,1948 called a Nakba Day-(Catastrophe) day,for Israelis it is (Independence Day).

    Hundreds of Palestinians villages were erased to build homes for Jewish newcomers from Europe,and different other places from all over the world.

    The native Plaestinians who are still living among Israelis are called Israelis,they represent almost 20% of Israel’s population today,that does not include 1.8 million Palestinians under military occupation in the West Bank,and over 1.4 millions Palestinians living in Gaza surrounded by land and sea by Israel.

    So, Huckabee wants these people simply to vanish and leave their homes,and history of thousands of years.

    If Huckabee agrees to one state, by suggesting that the two state solution is no solution , that’s fine,if Palestinians(Moslems,Christians,Durz and others) are given the same equal rights as of Israelis.
    But Zionists will not agree.They want the Palestinians to stay as second class citizens in their own country,and be used as cheap labor.

    Huckabee is making statements about a subject he proved to be totally ignorant about.

    It is likely that Huckabee is simply pandering for Jewish votes in US when he runs next time around in 2012.


  63. misscoleopteramolly says:

    Huckabee subscribes to the Republican way of insisting they’re on the right course, even when it becomes obvious the road is going in the wrong direction. Some examples:

    1. There is no room for a Palestinian state, and Israel has a right to all this land. Plus more if they want it. This is the way to bring peace to the area.

    2. The death penalty is a great way to deter crime.

    3. Teenagers must not be given any factual information about sex, birth control, reproduction, or STDs. They should only be told to keep their legs crossed. This will bring down the teen pregnancy rate.

    4. The invisible hand of the free market will always keep the economy healthy.

    5. If we just quit helping the poor, they’ll all become rich.

    6. Etc.


  64. mtone says:

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  65. Dirty Hippie says:

    His head is shrinking.


  66. Tundra says:

    he’s kind of plump.

    Yeah, WOW.


  67. DNFP says:

    It is strange to hear someone speak the truth about having to coexist with someone who calls for your extermination in the worst way.

    It should be even stranger that a country half a World away would continue to use the people of Israel as nothing more than pawns, or better yet, as a remote target for anti-U.S. acts from Arab nations we casually buy oil from, neh?

    The “anti-Semite” card is drawn as a weak distraction to the fact that the majority of Israeli Jews would prefer to finish the job on the Palestine state, and slaughter everyone there.


  68. galmud says:

    The Chief of the Security Police and the SD then gave a short report of the struggle which has been carried on thus far against this enemy, the essential points being the following:

    a) the expulsion of the Jews from every sphere of life of the German people,

    b) the expulsion of the Jews from the living space of the German people.

    In carrying out these efforts, an increased and planned acceleration of the emigration of the Jews from Reich territory was started, as the only possible present solution.

    By order of the Reich Marshal, a Reich Central Office for Jewish Emigration was set up in January 1939 and the Chief of the Security Police and SD was entrusted with the management. Its most important tasks were

    a) to make all necessary arrangements for the preparation for an increased emigration of the Jews,

    b) to direct the flow of emigration,

    c) to speed the procedure of emigration in each individual case.

    The aim of all this was to cleanse German living space of Jews in a legal manner.

    From the Wannsee conference January 20 1942, recording secretary Adolf Eichmann.

    http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Wannsee_Protocol.html


  69. joe cantwell says:

    ***

    better make that really plump.

    :)


  70. DNFP says:

    Huckabee is a semi-closeted Nazi appeaser.


  71. Tundra says:

    better make that really plump.

    yeah all that in less than a year too.


  72. mtone says:

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  73. joe cantwell says:

    **

    bound to happen when all you eat is

    chicken gravy and marshmallows.

    his heart must look like a knotted

    rubber band. not good.

    :(


  74. gummble-bee-itch says:

    monotone: Any read of the Bible shows Israel stretching to the Euphrates through Syria. Palestine is the name the Romans gave Israel after it was stolen- in a great catastrophe – from the Jews. If you would like to talk about it from a historical perspective, consider that first.

    So? I guess we’re giving both North and South America back to the native inhabitants and shipping everyone else back to Europe, Africa and Asia. After all, they have a much longer and more recent claim to the land than the Israelis do.

    Of course, they’ll have to sort out their own issues, because the Lakota were forced out of the woodlands onto the plains, etc.

    The “historical” argument that the descendants of the Diaspora, many of whom are genetically and ethnically far removed from the original Hebrew tribes, have a “right” to the land is ridiculous. Throughout history people have been kicked out or run off or forcibly removed from their homelands, yet the Israelis are the only ones to claim a right to go home, thousands of years after the fact.


  75. mtone says:

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  76. Levi the Dungbeetle says:

    Mtone,

    When you copy something from another web site, you need to cite that source, or it is plagiarism. This particular piece of offal is all over the Internet, cross-posted on dozens of sites.


  77. gummble-bee-itch says:

    monotone drones:

    Maybe it is not about the land guys. Maybe it is about religious warfare and finishing what Hitler started. Why did each Arab country or territory kick their fellow Jew countrymen out of their homes and countries were Jews lived for thousands of years before Islam was a speck in Muhammed’s eye. Not only did they expel them from their homes, but they sent them to a warzone to be killed once and for all.

    Lies, all lies. The People of the Book lived in Muslim countries for centuries. In the early 20th century, 1/3rd of the population of Baghdad was Jewish, you ignorant tool. They were subsequently persecuted and ejected from Baghdad after the establishment of the Israeli state.


  78. Levi the Dungbeetle says:

    My apology Mtone,

    Your post was not plagerized.


  79. gummble-bee-itch says:

    mtone says:
    Bee iotch:
    I do not see the native Americans giving up the rights to their ancestral lands. I think all Jews would naturally support their rights to get as much of it back as realistically and legally possible.

    Crack a history book some day. You have to be willfully ignorant or simply dishonest to suggest that the Native Americans weren’t forced off their land.


  80. mtone says:

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  81. mtone says:

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  82. Virtual Pebble says:

    35. Damn, you’re good, cheeseflap. Ya nailed it again. Right on the money. Well done, three cheers, etc.


  83. Virtual Pebble says:

    How about Arkansas, Huck. We can put the Palestinians in Arkansas. Then we can put the Israelis in Missouri or Louisiana. Then we can flood Israel, the West Bank and Gaza with Rapturers and then nuke the damned place…

    Oh, sorry. I’m not in favor of environmental degradation and flooding anyplace with Rapturers is going to make for one serious mess. Nuking it wouldn’t clean it up, either.


  84. Winski says:

    Huckleberry is only following orders and the talking points that Netanyaya and his Foreign minister gave him…he’s too stupid to figure this out on his own…


  85. Levi the Dungbeetle says:

    mtone said,

    The truth tends to be repeated many times, because everyone knows what the truth looks like.


    Actually, the truth does not need to be repeated for it to be the truth. It is the lies of the fascist Republicans that are repeated over and over, in the hopes that ignorant people will believe lies to be truth.

    As for me being a dungbeetle, I have a large enough supply of dung provided by wingnuts every day.

    Now, you get to provide me evidence that “Arab TV” uses “incitement, homoerotica, and blood libels.” I will be waiting for your unbiased evidence.


  86. winddancer says:

    mtone says:

    Beeiotch:
    That is what I said you moron. They were kicked out by your evil Arab friends so they could kill them in the war in Israel. Why don’t you attempt to disprove something I’ve said?
    Because the truth is like a light, and your lies are like cockroaches scurring into the sh!t filled darkness. I hope you are blown up in a suicide bombing.

    Incredibly ignorant. And I find it interesting that you seem to think anyone who disagrees with you on historical facts (which you DO NOT have a good command of), is either Arab, Muslim or even Native American (”You guys signed treaties?) And and yes, that favorite smear “anti-semite.” Actually an extremely inaccurate description, since both Jews and Arabs are semite peoples.


  87. dannylauve says:

    Here, let me translate this for you;
    Israeli money is talking here thru a Repub. talking head. I hope he does not write a song about it and jam to it on his show….


  88. shawnfassett says:

    By Huckabee’s logic, Mexico should have the right to just expand their way across the U.S. southern border. Dumbass.


  89. Max Anax junius -1 says:

    .

    It looks like UpChuckabee ate Palestine.

    .


  90. Luis Chapulin M says:

    shawnfassett says:
    By Huckabee’s logic, Mexico should have the right to just expand their way across the U.S. southern border. Dumbass.

    Sweet! I claim California in the name of my ancestors!!!

    (”But Luis, didn’t your greatparents come from Europe like 100 years ago?” “Shut up! You’ll ruin my plan!”)


  91. UMMAH_AWARE says:

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  92. RUCerious says:

    FACT –> There never should have been an Israeli state!
    http://eatmyshorts.com


  93. chiroptera toasterhead says:

    mtone says:

    If you arer a true dungbeetle, go learn Arabic, and you will be up to your ears in bullsh!t, horsesh!t, poppycock, amature incitement, bad special effects, homoerotica, and blood libels.

    August 18th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
    _______________

    I have learned Arabic, and have so far come across none of the poppycock, horseshit, homoerotica, and blood libels of which you speak. Perhaps I’m using the wrong textbooks?


  94. chiroptera toasterhead says:

    shawnfassett says:

    By Huckabee’s logic, Mexico should have the right to just expand their way across the U.S. southern border. Dumbass.

    August 18th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
    ______________

    Hey, I’m all for it. Wouldn’t miss Texas, Oklahoma, or New Mexico, or Arizona at all. Maybe they’ll let us keep the Grand Canyon.


  95. chiroptera toasterhead says:

    UMMAH_AWARE says:

    FACT —–> There Never Has Been a Palestinian State

    August 18th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
    ______________

    So?

    That doesn’t mean that there should never be one.


  96. jpd77 says:

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  97. chiroptera toasterhead says:

    jpd77 says:

    Who does Obama think he is to demand Israel not build?

    August 18th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
    ______________

    President of the country that gives Israel billions of dollars in economic and military aid per year. That’s who.


  98. gummble-bee-itch says:

    UMMAH_AWARE says:
    FACT —–> There Never Has Been a Palestinian State

    So? It was a province under the Romans and a province under the Ottomans and a British protectorate before the English screwed the locals completely.

    They never got a chance to be a State, that’s true. What’s also true is that it’s completely irrelevant.


  99. RUCerious says:

    Hmmm. I thought that under King David they were a state…


  100. gummble-bee-itch says:

    chiroptera toasterhead says:
    jpd77 says:

    Who does Obama think he is to demand Israel not build?

    August 18th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
    ______________

    President of the country that gives Israel billions of dollars in economic and military aid per year. That’s who.

    And someone smart enough to realize there will be no peace in the region as long as Israel continues to build settlements in the occupied territories.


  101. woke says:

    By the picture, it looks like hucklebuck has bloated back up nicely, eh?

    Full of bullshit apparently.

    Let’s review all the advice he gave others after losing 100 lbs 5 years ago.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52897-2004Aug9_2.html


  102. mtone says:

    This comment has been voted down. Click to read.


  103. mtone says:

    This comment has been voted down. Click to read.


  104. joe cantwell says:

    ***

    #98,

    it’s a weighty matter.

    :|


  105. hmisbell says:

    With a “friend” like this could we possibly ever need an enemy?


  106. EugeneDebs says:

    mtone says:

    YOu are stupid and brainwashed most of the idiocy you just spewed was not just wrong but monumentally ignorant. It shows how utterly stupid you are to call someone who actually thinks Palestinians are human beings and have human rights an anti Semite. It would take someone as stupid as you to not know the Palestinians are as Semetic as the Jews are you insufferable moron. You spewed out the talking points you were brainwashed with admirably. If you ever get even a dim idea what you are talking about you will, along with your epiphany, finally know enough to be embarassed by your current stupidity. Till then good luck with your stunning ignorance


  107. EugeneDebs says:

    mtone says:

    Take your ignorance, your bigotry and your stupidity. Fold them till they are all corners and shove them far up y our tarhole you mindless moron.


  108. MapleStreet says:

    Pragmatically, there may be so much ingrained hatred on both sides that a 2-state solution would be difficult to impossible.

    However, there is no reason whatsoever for us not to insist that Israel stop provoking the Palestinians and holding them in economic isolation (read poverty).

    I’d feel a lot better about Huckabee’s statement if I thought that it came from a reasoned approach rather than a religious “Israel First” approach.


  109. EugeneDebs says:

    mtone says:

    You are stupid tone. You tell lies. When the 48 UN agreement was signed a virtual civil war broke out and the Jews were much better organized so they expelled about 750,000 Arabs from the land THEIR ancestors had lived in for at LEAST as long as the Jews. You are a moron and you regurgitate propagand with very little actual connection to reality


  110. EugeneDebs says:

    mtone says:

    Hence the name dung beetle, you wallow in it eat it and raise your young in it. For you, it is food, not sh!t.
    <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

    My GOD you are stupid. Your ignorance is palpable. Your stupidity is a wonder to behold. Did you take special training to be so stupid? Is it a gift? Was medication involved. Does it hurt to be as monumentally ignorant as you are? Do us all a favor since you are FAR too stupid to contribute to discussion in any meaningful way. STFU and let the adults talk


  111. mtone says:

    Those territories are occupied by Palestinians. They are in Judea for chrissakes. Is everyone on this site obtuse. The Jews were there for over 5000 years. The Romans kicked them out. Jews and Muslims lived together in peace for much of the existance of Islam. The current animosity is because of the Arab nationalist strategy for expansion, and propaganda from their corrupt leaders.

    I am not a Jew but I am completely disgusted by the immoral arguments of my fellow left wingers around the world against the Jewish people’s rights of self determination.

    I am drawing a personal line in the sand against vile propaganda and hatred right here. You people would have found rational arguments for the Hutu slaughter of the Tutsi’s, or the Turkish massacre of the Armenians, and the American genocide of the Native American’s here (whose blood runs through me winddancer you misguided fool).

    All of you should really take a long look at all the moving pieces of this story. You should read the Koran and the Bible from an objective point of view. You should listen to the rationals for hatred and vile acts coming from the Palestinians. Or you should just not even worry about it, and wait for Iran to nuke Israel and show what the true value of the “third” holiest site in Islam is really worth to the Muslim people.


  112. mtone says:

    EugeneDebs:

    You have said nothing you idiot. Why don’t you concetrate on Huckabees weight. Argue against my facts or go watch the Simpsons.


  113. Levi the Dungbeetle says:

    Mtone said,

    Levi the dung beetle:

    I have learned Arabic, and have so far come across none of the poppycock, horseshit, homoerotica, and blood libels of which you speak. Perhaps I’m using the wrong textbooks?

    Hence the name dung beetle, you wallow in it eat it and raise your young in it. For you, it is food, not sh!t.


    I never said I learned Arabic. It was chiroptera toasterhead’s post at #95. You misquoted me, so now you owe me an apology for insulting my name and a retraction, if you have any honor (which I doubt).

    I am still waiting for you to provide me evidence that “Arab TV” uses “incitement, homoerotica, and blood libels.” I will also be waiting for your unbiased evidence and a retraction and an apology.


  114. donaldinks says:

    Here is the real Mike Huckabee…and, look where his “mindset” is at, and where he would take the Nation.
    Pretty much sums it all up in a “nut”shell…at least for me.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onHkywYc_1M


  115. Parlezvous says:

    Gee Huck, it looks like you haven’t missed a meal lately. The Palestinians suffer every day while you overeat. I still don’t understand how Huck, and folks like him, form their opinions in the name of Christ. Apparently overeating can cloud one’s mind and soul.


  116. Levi the Dungbeetle says:

    Wikipedia says,

    Many dung beetles, known as rollers, are noted for rolling dung into spherical balls, which are used as a food source or brooding chambers.


    The more feces you fascist theocrat Republicans serve up, the more dungbeetles you will have to deal with.

    POWER TO THE INSECTS!


  117. RUCerious says:

    So what’s next for Huckster?
    Calling for the death of all Palestinian firstborn children>?


  118. DRxJ says:

    …immoral arguments of my fellow left wingers around the world

    Twajie is now a “left winger”?

    Huh.

    Whoda thunkit?


  119. EugeneDebs says:

    mtone says:

    YOU are the one pushing vile propaganda you MORON. The anscestors of the Palestinians were there when Abraham GOT there and there were no Jews before Abraham. You are stupid. Didnt Abraham make his servant SWEAR to him to NOT allow Isaac to marry one of the local heathens and go back to Haran to find a wife? Your stupidity and bigotry is not a line in the sand on any MORAL standard it is YOU being a bigot and a moron. The Romans did not KICK the Jews out. That is one of the stupidest statements ever made. When they were taken from the land by the Assyrians then allowed to return by Cyrus the Great most didnt return and the vast majority of those who did were of two tribes. THAT is when the diaspora happened. My GOD you are stupid.

    The expansionism is being done by the modern state of Israel. They were GIVEN 78% of the land and that wasnt enough they invaded the occupied territories in 67 and in DIRECT VIOLATION of the fourth geneva convention settled the occupied land. There are no white hats IN this issue. SOME of the Palestinians are comitting terrorism against Israel but what is Israels gripe when Terrorism is how Israel got THEIR homeland. Ever hear of the bombings of the King David Hotel? The Semiramis Hotel? The Cairo to Haifa train? The SS Patria? The assasinations of Lord Moyne and Folke Burnadotte?

    http://www.chomsky.info/articles/199112–02.htm

    In 1943, current Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir wrote an article entitled “Terror” for the journal of the terrorist organization he headed (Lehi) in which he proposed to “dismiss all the ‘phobia’ and babble against terror with simple, obvious arguments.” “Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war,” he wrote, and “We are very far from any moral hesitations when concerned with the national struggle.” “First and foremost, terror is for us a part of the political war appropriate for the circumstances of today, and its task is a major one: it demonstrates in the clearest language, heard throughout the world including by our unfortunate brethren outside the gates of this country, our war against the occupier.”

    You shouldnt be telling US how to educate ourselves considering how abjectly stupid and uniformed you are on this subject MORON


  120. EugeneDebs says:

    mtone says:

    You have said nothing you idiot. Why don’t you concetrate on Huckabees weight. Argue against my facts or go watch the Simpsons.
    <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

    You arent giving facts you MORON. You are making baseless assertions, spewing stupid propaganda and it is just a shame you are flat out too stupid to even know what a fact IS.


  121. mtone says:

    Levi the Dungbeetle:

    I have misquoted you Levi the Dung Beetle. You guys do perform a valubale service to the ecosystem. We need more of you in the deserts of North Africa and Arabia in order to help make the land fertile again. It appears that ignorance and blood is doing a very bad job.


  122. EugeneDebs says:

    mtone says:

    Well you should be a virtual expert on the subject of ignorance simply from the experience you have gained living your life as, well, YOU. However the very dibility your basic stupidity inherently brings to the table obviates any credible claim you can have on expertise of any kind.


  123. EugeneDebs says:

    Calling the West Bank Judea is not a FACT. It is propaganda it is a way to CLAIM a legitimacy that does not exist to STEAL the occupied Arab Territories. You are a sad and uninformed little cretin


  124. mtone says:

    EugeneDebs:

    A baseless assertion is saying something with no way of backing it up. For instance when you call someone stupid or a moron. It is a waste of typing. You can look up everything I am saying, either online, or in your case at your elementary school library.

    Here is a tip for you while you are fact checking me, take your notes in pen or pencil, crayon is only used by little babies.

    Here I am implying that you are going to get your information from the place where you have easy access, which is your grade school library.

    The assertion I am making now is that you are a child, and your attempts at creating a coherent argument are like those of a third grader who is trying to make sense of something that he has only just read about for the first time.

    Now that we know what an assertion is, maybe you can make some instead of just throwing barbs you baby skinhead.


  125. EugeneDebs says:

    mtone says:

    You were rude and insulting from your very first post you igorant piece of garbage. I have read several books on this subject. All written by Jews like Noam Chomsky and Tanya Rienhard. You are all stupid propaganda and so utterly brainwashed you dont even know what a fact IS. I put many facts in my post. YOU spewed ignorant propaganda of the most juvenile sort. You are stupid. That isnt my fault. You insult us then snivel like the little punk you are that I called you names. It is CLEAR that you are a moron from your posts. That you dont know what you are talking about isnt my fault. You have already established how stupid you are so do us a favor and STFU till you grow at least the semblance of a brain and let the adults talk.


  126. chiroptera toasterhead says:

    mtone says:

    All of you should really take a long look at all the moving pieces of this story. You should read the Koran and the Bible from an objective point of view. You should listen to the rationals for hatred and vile acts coming from the Palestinians. Or you should just not even worry about it, and wait for Iran to nuke Israel and show what the true value of the “third” holiest site in Islam is really worth to the Muslim people.

    August 18th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
    ________________

    How are the rationales for hatred given by disposessed Palestinians any worse than the rationales for hatred given by land-grabbing Israeli settlers?

    If Israelis want to live in “Judea” or “Samarra,” then they should live there. In Palestinian villages, among the Palestinian people. Not in illegal colonies with separate roads and infrastructure.

    I’m with Huckabee on one point – I, too, reject the two-state solution. It’ll never work. The only solution that will bring lasting peace. Integrate all the land east and west of the Green Line into one multi-ethnic, multi-religious state.

    True, this will necessitate wiping Israel off the map, as well as wiping Palestine off the map. But it’s a necessary sacrifice for peace.


  127. mtone says:

    EugeneDebs:
    The Jews fought against the Canaanites, and they killed every one of them under orders from “God”. It is a little hard to be decended from a wiped out people. The Hebrew people originally left from that region to go to Egypt anyway. They killed their distant cousins, in the same way that the Arabs would like to push their distant cousins into the sea.


  128. mtone says:

    chiroptera toasterhead:
    That is true, but the surrounding Arab governments also need to integrate the fifth generation Palestinian refugees into their societies, estabilish trade and commerce with Israel, and stop spewing hatred across the airwaves to their people.

    The Arab Israelies who live in Israel may be “second class citizens,” but they have more rights, religious and economic freedom than their counterparts everywhere else in every Muslim country on the planet. Hmmm… Why is that?


  129. EugeneDebs says:

    chiroptera toasterhead says:

    I think at the beggining a Bi-national state solution would have been perhaps the best one. At this point I am not sure it would work. I think a two state solution is the obvious one. It is clearly the international consensus. Sure Israel would have to cough up the land and return to the Green line, get rid of that wall and make some sort of peace. A lot of problems exist. They would have to negotiate water rights and security agreements for BOTH sides but to me it seems the most viable solution left.


  130. Levi the Dungbeetle says:

    mtone said,

    I have misquoted you Levi


    That is actually a retraction. I am still waiting for an apology and I am still waiting for you to provide me evidence that “Arab TV” uses “incitement, homoerotica, and blood libels.”

    I can wait all night.


  131. donaldinks says:

    As far as the “civil” discussion in this thread over “who owns what”…
    …these cultures have been at war LONG before THIS country (or Europe, as it is today, for that matter) was even a thought.
    We are in the here and now.
    When the Nazis tried to eradicate the Jewish people as a whole in Europe failed (and it took place in Europe)…WHY didn’t they carve out a piece of Europe, to give the Jewish people a State?
    THAT is the problem, in the Middle East…and the colonialists that put their plan into being in the “Holy Land”, rather than anywhere else, coupled with the fact that the Palestinians were living and had a place of THEIR own, and then were kicked out of their land. Since that time, it has never been reconciled to a “fair and equitable” solution.
    These cultures have been at war for thousands of years, yet the “brightest and the best” acerbated and caused a long running cultural war ever since.
    If you study HISTORY…no culture actually can solely lay claim to the “Holy Land”, for the simple fact that the Israelites were the “wanderers” of the land, and were captured, subjugated, culturally polluted throughout ancient history, which was reflected by their “religious” beliefs and the historical writings that have endured through time, from them.
    There were many a “persecutor” in those times…
    The same as in today’s.


  132. EugeneDebs says:

    mtone says:

    Oh my GOD. You are one of the stupidest posters in history. They did NOT kill every Canaanite. Your ignorance is monumental. They killed all the Canaanites in SOME cities. You have apparantly read no literature from ancient sources. In ancient times when talking about people from that region ancient writers spoke of the Sons of Abraham seperate from the other Semites of the region. Do you remember the parable of the good Samaritan? Samaritans were NOT Jews but they WERE Semites. It is frustrating for me to even attempt to talk truth to stupid. You know so little of this subject that all you do is embarass yourself and expose how utterly uninformed you are yet you are too stupid to even KNOW how badly you expose your ignorance.


  133. RUCerious says:

    my fellow left wingers

    pfffft./


  134. chiroptera toasterhead says:

    EugeneDebs says:

    A lot of problems exist. They would have to negotiate water rights and security agreements for BOTH sides but to me it seems the most viable solution left.

    August 18th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
    ________________

    Right – and that’s where it gets tricky. It’s not just water rights, but water infrastructure, power infrastructure, aquifer usage, border crossings, trade and port access, and land titling issues. Separating Israel and Palestine at this point is a bit like separating 42-year old conjoined twins.


  135. chiroptera toasterhead says:

    mtone says:

    The Arab Israelies who live in Israel may be “second class citizens,” but they have more rights, religious and economic freedom than their counterparts everywhere else in every Muslim country on the planet. Hmmm… Why is that?

    August 18th, 2009 at 3:29 pm

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divide_and_rule


  136. EugeneDebs says:

    chiroptera toasterhead says:

    True enough. The problem with the bi-national solution however is the FEAR the Israeli political power structure would have with what THEY call the demographic problem. There are a LOT Of Palestinians and in any REAL settlement the right to return would add TO that. What kind of power sharing would they be willing to settle for. Both solutions have almost intractable problems but I have to go with the international consensus if only that the political pressure COULD be exerted, would the US get out of the way, to leverage the Israeli political apparatus toward it. Which ever way they go it is a tough road


  137. mtone says:

    Levi the dungbeetle:

    That is actually a retraction. I am still waiting for an apology and I am still waiting for you to provide me evidence that “Arab TV” uses “incitement, homoerotica, and blood libels.

    Why don’t you google: blood libel, and go to you tube for everything else. Homoerotica is a joke on keeping women bound and shackled in everyday Muslim life. I can use big letters and give you a glossery if you need one.


  138. EugeneDebs says:

    mtone says:

    Why don’t you google: blood libel, and go to you tube for everything else. Homoerotica is a joke on keeping women bound and shackled in everyday Muslim life. I can use big letters and give you a glossery if you need one.
    <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

    So then NO you CANT back it up, you CANT give examples and are just spewing the ignorant propaganda you have been brainwashed with. Got it


  139. donaldinks says:

    Divide and rule.
    Something that is still used today…especially in our own Country.
    Thanks for the reminder, chiroptera toasterhead.
    …and something Americans aught to wake up to.


  140. mtone says:

    chiroptera toasterhead:

    If Israelis want to live in “Judea” or “Samarra,” then they should live there. In Palestinian villages, among the Palestinian people. Not in illegal colonies with separate roads and infrastructure.

    This is the heart of the problem. If the Palestinians were sincere, and the Arabs really wanted peace, this would be entirely possible. No one would have to be worried about a pogram, or their kids being stoned in the streets. When it is safe for Jews to live under Palestinian rule, and be protected by the rule of law, and not the rule of the streets, then you will see a real one or two state solution with all the soverign rights that go along with it.


  141. EugeneDebs says:

    mtone says:

    At least that was a somewhat reasonable post. The security problems for the Palestinians are much worse than any security problems Israelis have. The Palestinians vote for peace in large majorities. This is the same old propaganda. That they cant be trusted. While not EVERY one of them can that can be said of both sides. Remember Baruch Goldstien. Overall the Israeli population AND the Palestinian population want peace. If Israel coughs up the West Bank. Returns to the Green line. I dont think the security problem is as big as the complex water rights problem. While there are nutbags on both sides Israel has had NO real problems with Arab countries they have signed treaties with like Egypt and Jordan. Saying they cant be trusted is an excuse NOT to negotaite not a true reason. Both sides have comitted attrocities on each other both sides have reason NOT to trust each other, both sides have an imperative to get past it and make a lasting peace


  142. mtone says:

    EugeneDebs:

    When someone tells you to go look it up and gives you an easy source, I think that is backing it up. Go ask your teacher little girl.
    I want you to go to http://www.google.com type in “blood libel” and follow the links. Read for yourself. You will probably think you have stumbled onto some big secret about the Jews.

    I want you to argue facts. You only put emotional subjective crap laced with personal attacks. Lace your personal attacks with substance.

    Come correct or do not come at all.

    Poser.


  143. mtone says:

    EugeneDebs:

    Both sides have comitted attrocities on each other both sides have reason NOT to trust each other, both sides have an imperative to get past it and make a lasting peace

    That is the problem with hate, it is self perpetuating. Who really cares about this little patch of desert? Let everyone stay where they are, stop fighting, and eventually there will be a beautiful poly glot country there with no more threat of nuclear war.


  144. Levi the Dungbeetle says:

    139 mtone said,

    Why don’t you google: blood libel, and go to you tube for everything else. Homoerotica is a joke on keeping women bound and shackled in everyday Muslim life. I can use big letters and give you a glossery if you need one.


    You are the one that made the claim. I have not said that I either agree or disagree with what you said. I am simply asking you to prove your assertion.

    Instead of proving it, you insult me, and tell me to look it up myself. I am going to continue to wait for your apologies, and your evidence, but at this point, it is clear that you are just a bigot troll.

    I wonder if you realize that you represent Republicans when you post here. You aren’t helping your cause by expressing hatred of Arabs.


  145. EugeneDebs says:

    mtone says:

    MY GOD you are stupid. I KNOW what blood libel is. I am married to a Jew. Where is your evidence it and homoerotic images are being used on Arab TV? Are you really this stupid? Do we all have to hold you by the hand like some mentally challenged ten year old and walk you through the simplest concepts. The claim was YOURS it isnt up to us to research it for you. Cough up some back up to your claims or admit you are nothng but a brainwashed MORON. Please stop snivelling like a punk that I am using emotional arguments or making personal attacks when you called me a skinhead. You aer humiliating yourself. YOU have been nothing but rude from your first post. If YOU are going to insult us then whine in a way that would embarass any little girl that I treat YOU the way YOU have been treating me it makes you look like a fool. WWWWWAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH is not an argument


  146. EugeneDebs says:

    mtone says:

    That problem with that is Israel TOOK the West Bank. In the UN agreement that CREATED Israel they set aside 22% for the Palestinians and Israel has illegally settled THEIR LAND. If it is ok to TAKE land by force why did WE go to war to kick Saddam out of Kuwait. No. It isnt right to tell the Palestinians Israel took your land including East Jerusalem which is the center of Palestinian culture too bad. Just live in peace with this injustice and someday it will all be forgotten.


  147. politication says:

    EugeneDebs:

    I gotta say I am loving your outrage.

    mtone starts out by calling everyone advocating a Palestinian state an antisemite, then whines about being called a moron. What a moron!


  148. DallasNE says:

    In that picture Huckabee looks like he has gained about 70 pounds. Has one of his staples come loose? Soon he will look like William Howard Taft.


  149. Alejandro says:

    “The question is should the Palestinians have a place to call their own? Yes, I have no problem with that. Should it be in the middle of the Jewish homeland? That’s what I think has to be honestly assessed as virtually unrealistic.”

    Uh, hello? That was the ‘homeland’ to a few hundred thousand people before 1948.


  150. Alejandro says:

    mtone says:
    chiroptera toasterhead:

    If Israelis want to live in “Judea” or “Samarra,” then they should live there. In Palestinian villages, among the Palestinian people. Not in illegal colonies with separate roads and infrastructure.

    This is the heart of the problem. If the Palestinians were sincere, and the Arabs really wanted peace, this would be entirely possible. No one would have to be worried about a pogram, or their kids being stoned in the streets. When it is safe for Jews to live under Palestinian rule, and be protected by the rule of law, and not the rule of the streets, then you will see a real one or two state solution with all the soverign rights that go along with it.

    Neither side wants peace. Neither side wants to get along.

    There is no solution to this mess until they will both agree to live side by side.

    This won’t happen in my lifetime, and I’m not old.


  151. EugeneDebs says:

    Alejandro says:

    Well most likely you are right but not necessarily. I thought the same thing about Northern Ireland and then BAM it happened. You never can tell


  152. Ape-Man says:

    Huckabee should choose between politics or religion. They just don’t mix.


  153. livelongandprosper says:

    mtone says:

    Any read of the Bible shows..

    The Bible is an ancient text with some truths and many untruths written and rewritten by many people with many motives over many years. To believe everything it says is to believe in fairy tales.


  154. Robt says:

    You think if Huckabee could only take the time to sit down with the Israeli’s and Palistinians and his squirrel pop corn popper. They could work things out while sharing squirrel crisps?


  155. mtone says:

    All of you:

    Here is a link to an article on the blood libel en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel_against_Jews you can go look at Al Jazerra for yourself.

    Most of your arguments are specious and silly and are mostly personal attacks, which I like. I am not whining because you guys are not real intellectuals or men to me. You are mainly hollow men filled with a the twisted propaganda of the left. The left that is supposed to value human rights for all, womens rights, peace and freedom. It is the same values that causes the ACLU to defend Klansmen in the and Nazi’s in the US. The same left that is strangely silent about the atrocities in Iran. The same left that is against globalization and for protectionism.

    What has happened to the values of liberalism on this planet? How did it come to take on an anti-Israel tone? Especially when the Israel represents only 1% of the former Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Where are the angry protests for freedom from tyranny in the Middle East. Why is there no liberal or Muslim outrage against worse injustices against Muslims in China or Chechenya? How have you people become so corrupt in your ideals?

    I’ll tell you. You are hollow men who have been stuffed full of crap. I can joust with a stadium full of you and I would never hear one honest argument for the Palestinians. I will hear plenty of lies though. Here are some more facts that you can deny.

    The six day war was a preemptive strike by Israel against it’s neighbors who were posed to strike, and who had Soviet backing.

    The Arabs launched a sneak attack against Israel in the October war.

    Before the first Intifada, the Palestinian and Jewish communities were becoming more integrated.

    Arafat was offered 95% of the West Bank and Gaza strip in 2000 by both Clinton and the Israelis and he chose WAR, and he was backed by everyone on the planet except the US.

    Hamas’ charter calls for the destruction of Israel as a Jewish state.

    Many Muslim leaders (Adminadjad for one) call for the destruction of Israel first and then the extermination of the Jewish people around the world wherever they are.

    Hezbollah has attacked Jewish synagogues all over the planet, not just in Israel.

    The Arab media incites their people to violence in order to distract from the very real economic and social problems in their countries.

    Israel has no oil is a democracy, and yet is the most prosperous country in the middle east.

    The Palestinians have made no concessions and have chosen force in every situation they have been placed in.

    The only way to keep the Palestinians from blowing up people in the streets of Israel was to put up a huge wall.

    The Palestinian version of peace is for every Jew to be killed or driven from all of Israel.

    Palestinians rejoiced in the streets everywhere after 9/11 in the US.

    The Holocaust was a damned good reason for restabilishing a Jewish state, and maybe it should have been in Germany.

    Osama Bin Laden is a bad person, and is not a freedom fighter anymore.

    I refuse to site any sources for for any of this. It will anger many of you because your memory is only 3 press cycles long (18 months).

    Classic liberalism has died because many of you do not know right from wrong, and you have the morals of an episode of CSI (straitforward and black and white). I want you idiots to remember this, after they have come for the Jews, you guys are next (especially if you are Black or gay).


  156. mtone says:

    Levi the Dungbeetle:

    I wonder if you realize that you represent Republicans when you post here. You aren’t helping your cause by expressing hatred of Arabs.

    I hope that I am representing well read Americans who will question everything, and stand up for what they think is right.

    I am a far right left wing liberal, and that means if I had enemies I would drink their blood and eat their beating hearts, but only after reaching three or four compromises, throwing money at the situation, trying to pretend it didn’t exist, and waiting for the first punch to be thrown at me. Maybe.


  157. Virtual Pebble says:

    95. chiroptera toasterhead says: …

    Hey, I’m all for it. Wouldn’t miss Texas, Oklahoma, or New Mexico, or Arizona at all. Maybe they’ll let us keep the Grand Canyon.

    Just watch it, bub. Don’t dis NM; we’re better than the OKies themselves or the OKies on either side of us. Even the OKies don’t deserve the dis; after all, we BOUGHT OK from the French – it wasn’t part of the landgrabbing Mexican-American War.

    But really, do you know why the wind is so strong over NM? It’s because Arizona blows and Texas sucks.

    Sorry. OT again. dang. It’s that ex-Goobernator Hucklebee demon made me do it.


  158. Mike Hunt says:

    Luckily this ignoramous doesn’t set American policy. Next.


  159. aristokrat says:


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