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08/20/08 09:18 PM

THE HILLARY POWERHOUSE

There is an undeniable force that shouldn’t be discounted and should be appreciated. 

Hillary Clinton knows her game, and her experience is paying off.

http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2008/08/obamas-negotiating-weak-or-inept.html

08/21/08 08:47 AM

Jimmy Carter is 100% right in what he says in his book. If Israel was defending it’s borders, the wall would be built on the border and not a long way inside the border, thus creating a corridor where the Palestinians are on the Israeli side of the wall. 
If Jimmy Carter is cancelled from the conference, it would be undemocratic, and denial of free speech!! Jo.

08/21/08 12:30 PM

The contention that equating Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians with apartheid is somehow new is an error. This comparison is quite common and not very controversial inside Israel itself.

Ami Ayalon, the former head of Israel’s Shin Bet intelligence agency said: “The things a Palestinian has to endure, simply coming to work in the morning, is a long and continuous nightmare that includes humiliation bordering on despair. Is the option of Jewish democracy with apartheid acceptable? I think not.”

Yossi Alpher, a former senior adviser in the Israeli government, once warned that with their unwavering support for Israel’s approach to Palestine, neoconservatives in the Bush administration have encouraged Israel to create “an apartheid reality that is the very antithesis of the democratization that they preach for the region.”

B’Tselem - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights says: “Israel has established in the Occupied Territories a separation cum discrimination regime, in which it maintains two systems of laws, and a person’s rights are based on his or her national origin. This regime is the only of its kind in the world, and brings to mind dark regimes of the past, such as the Apartheid regime in South Africa.”

Israeli historian Benny Morris observes that Zionists could choose from only two options: “the way of South Africa"--i.e., “the establishment of an apartheid state, with a settler minority lording it over a large, exploited native majority"--or “the way of transfer"--i.e., “you could create a homogeneous Jewish state or at least a state with an overwhelming Jewish majority by moving or transferring all or most of the Arabs out.”

The editorial board of Israel’s leading newspaper Haaretz, published an editorial in September 2006 which said that “the apartheid regime in the territories remains intact; millions of Palestinians are living without rights, freedom of movement or a livelihood, under the yoke of ongoing Israeli occupation,”

In an article, “Road Map to Grand Apartheid? Ariel Sharon’s South African Inspiration,” Israeli researcher Gershom Gorenberg concluded that it is “no accident” that Sharon’s plan for the West Bank “bears a striking resemblance to the ‘grand apartheid’ promoted by the old South African regime.” Sharon himself reportedly stated that “the Bantustan model was the most appropriate solution to the conflict.”

In a 2002 speech in the United States, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu referred to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian Christians and Muslims as “Israeli apartheid.” Now the Israeli government will not give Archbishop Tutu a visa.

08/21/08 09:14 PM

Democrats don’t listen to war mongers and neo-cons.  Stick with your own party, the Republicans. We don’t need your suggestions about the Dems convention, thank you very much.
The RJC has no right to demand anything concerning the Democratic Party.  Their votes go to the Republican party.

08/21/08 09:22 PM

Most of us in this country simply have had enough of the neo-cons and just can’t wait for all of them to be removed from our foreign policy decisions.  These people are well on their way to distroying this country. Unfortunately the Neo-cons reflect very negatively on the Jewish community.  Most are aware, but not all, that all Jewish Americans are not Neo-cons and that all Neo-cons are not Jewish, however the perception is very negative.  How about supporting a foreign policy that is good for America for a change.

08/21/08 09:30 PM

The RJC should be ashame of themselves after all Jimmy Carter tried to do in Israel to bring about peace.  You show no gratitude at all.  Just for your infomation your president and neo-con advisers in this administration has brought more death and distruction to Israel then any other administration in recent history. How you could still feel loyal to the republican party is beyond me.

08/21/08 09:36 PM

DOES THE STATEMENT BELOW COME FROM A FOOL WHO BELIEVE THAT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WOULD REALLY DISHONOR PRESIDENT CARTER IN SUCH AWAY? WHO IN THE HECK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE, MAKING SUCH DEMANDS.

“Jimmy Carter’s long history of anti-Israel bias has rendered him unfit to address
the Democratic Convention. It is incumbent upon the Democratic Party leadership
and Senator Obama to remove Carter from the program in Denver. The Democratic
Party and Senator Obama’s continued embrace of Carter and his anti-Israel bias sends
a troubling message to the Jewish community. It stands in stark contrast to the
GOP and John McCain’s pro-Israel stance,” said RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks.
“Additionally, Senator Obama should reject Carter’s superdelegate vote. The hand
that shook Khaled Meshal’s should not be allowed to rise in support of Senator Obama’s
candidacy for president.”

GO PLAY BALL WITH THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

08/21/08 09:37 PM

BY THE WAY STOP TELLING LIES AND SENDING FALSE E-MAILS ABOUT OBAMA.

08/22/08 01:30 AM

Who does the Repub. “Jewish” Col. think they are?

I am more than tired of this Israeli centric Jewish crap in our government.

Who in the hell do they think they are to insult and smear an American President because he isn’t sufficently “loyal” ..to a FOREIGN country!

THIS is America, it is NOT Israel.

Throw the Jewish Repub. Col out of this country, they don’t appreciate it. Or hang them for treason, I don’t care which.

08/22/08 03:04 AM

After reading the article and the commments, I have changed my mind and will now vote for John McCain. Having Carter speak is a big slap in the face to the Jews, and they made a conscious choice to do this. I will not vote for the party of people with so much hatred for Jews.