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Entry: Neocons and the Left: Know Your Enemies Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/neocons_and_the_left_know_your_enemies#2456 Post contents: RE: "Equally problematic is the excessive enthusiasm that the paleos have shown in beating up on the Israeli side in Middle Eastern affairs and in sometimes imitating the far Left as rabid critics of the war in Iraq." Let's see, the Israeli Lobby has gotten us into a war in which thousands of American soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans have died. It is also a war that is rapidly bankrupting us and robbing us of our civil liberties. Doesn't Israel deserve to be justly criticised for these incredible outrages or should we just shut up to protect Jewish sensitivities. This comment also smells more than a bit of racism. It appears that paleos should not be entitled to criticise Israel simply because citicism of Israel (by non Jewish paleos at least) is by nature anti-Semitic and therefore forbidden. Israel deserves to be "beaten up" for a ever expanding number of reasons involving things other than just the war in Iraq. Here are but a a few examples: 1) the Israeli government controlled Anti-Defamation League has been instrumental in foisting "hate crime" laws on numerous countries both in Europe and North America. 2)The Israelis through their minions in Washington have so throughly corrupted American politics that our founding fathers must be spinning in their graves. 3) The Israeli government has hijacked our foreign aid program. How else would it have been possible for a country of only six million people to have managed to end up receiving 20-40% of our country's entire foreign aid budget. This largesse the part of the US taxpayer allows Jewish emigres to Israel can get free government subsidized condominiums (with nearby community swimming pools of course) while others in the third world die from starvation because there is no foreign aid money left for them. I found it amazing that Gottfried has sympathy for a country that is openly racist, rabidly (and increasingly openly) anti-Christian, and perpetually expansionistic. For those whose memory is short, remember that it just a few years ago, during the time of the USSR, that Israel was called "the most heavily socialistic country outside the eastern bloc." Who subsided this little experiment in social planning? The US taxpayer of course with little or no opposition from those very fearful conservatives who at the time were generally considered "budget hawks" politicans in the US congress. Maybe Gottfried should make a trip to Israel and put on a sign on his chest once there saying he has converted and is now a Catholic. Then he should take a walk into one of those ever increasing number number of fundamenatlist Jewish neighborhoods in the West Bank.I think he would be amazed at just how intolerant a group that will soon make up a majority of Israeki citizenry can be to those, who like himself, who have strayed from the fold. By the end of the day, if the experiences of Catholic nun and pries residents of Israel are any indication, he would come out of one of these neighborhood at least covered with spittle or maybe with actual physical injuries. If he thinks claim this is an exaggeration, he should contact Mordechai Vanunu so that Vanunu can explain to just how "free, open, tolerant, and democratic" Israel really is. It might be time for Gottfried to read (re-read) Israel Shahak's books in order to get a better understanding of what "this brave little country" has been up to. Sent at: 2008 05 16