Posted on 06/03/2010 10:30:34 PM PDT by pillut48
And today, President Obama should end his and his country's shameful silence over the inhumane blockade of Gaza that is denying 1.5 million beleaguered people the basic necessities of a decent life.
Time to start acting like America again.
That bloody debacle in the Eastern Mediterranean last Sunday was an inevitable result of Israel doing what it always seems to do: going beyond what is essential to her security, to impose collective punishment upon any and all it regards as hostile to Israel.
Israel claims, and film confirms, that its commandos rappelling down onto the Turkish ship were attacked with sticks and metal rods. One was tossed off a deck, another tossed overboard into a lifeboat.
But that 2 a.m. boarding of an unarmed ship with an unarmed crew, carrying no munitions or weapons, 65 miles at sea, was an act of piracy. What the Israeli commandos got is what any armed hijacker should expect who tries to steal a car from a driver who keeps a tire iron under the front seat.
And the response of these highly trained naval commandos to the resistance they encountered? They shot and killed nine passengers, and wounded many more.
But we have a blockade of Gaza, say the Israelis, and this flotilla was a provocation. Indeed, it was. And Selma was a provocation. The marchers at Edmund Pettus Bridge were disobeying orders of the governor of Alabama and state police not to march.
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Whatever respect I might have had for him disappeared just now.
You didn’t?
It’s been as clear as crystal to me for about 5 years.
The man’s been a pinhead....forever.
Old Pat is an anti-Semite from WAY back. He embarrasses conservatives and Catholics in this regard, with some frequency.
Bull feathers...Gaza has plenty of food, water and necessities, including building supplies.
Buchanan is flat out wrong.
I never had any
No, he’s mostly been just a plain old crabby anti-semite with a grating, whiny voice and attitude, which MSNBC likes to trot out now and then as one of their token “conservatives,” because he’s an especially putrid example.
Comparing the Gaza incident to Selma??!! What a friggin moron. You and your pal the peanut man Carter need to ride into the sunset arm in arm never to return.
You nailed it.
First of all, there is no place on the planet that receives more humanitarian aid DAILY than Gaza. All Israel does, is the same thing Egypt does, insist on inspecting cargo for illegal weapons etc. We do the same thing with ships heading to Iraq.
Buchanan’s torture of the facts and law in this case finally makes it clear to me what I should have realized long ago. Buchanan is a flaming jew hater.
Pat would have sold ties handpainted with swastikas in 1944 on the streets of New York. When the devil thumbs a ride you never know just who will give him a lift.
Pat,
What do you think about 7000 rockets fired into Isreal civilians from territory controlled by Hamas?
What would you do if three rockets were fired into Arizona from Mexico??
What would you do if 100 Americans were killed by a rocket fired from the French-Canadians into America??
Answer that, or shut up!!!
Does man live by bread - and building supplies - alone?
Of course not, but I’m not sure of your point.
These are things that are given to them. They need to make some contributions of their own. If they worked as hard at making a life for themselves on their lands as they do building rockets to fire into Israel, Gaza (and the West Bank) would look a WHOLE lot different.
Their problems are of their own making, not Israels. It's that simple.
This is nothing new. William Buckley described Buchanan as an anti-Semite back in 1991.
Harry Truman responded with the Berlin airlift, in perhaps the most magnanimous act of the Cold War.
For nine months, U.S. pilots flew into Tempelhof, carrying everything from candy to coal, saving a city and earning the eternal gratitude of the people of Berlin, and admiration everywhere that moral courage is admired.
Too funny. I love how he opens his piece on Israel with memories of postwar Berlin. You can't make this stuff up.
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