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ise dsanthony The US and Israel are allies. Luckily, people like you are a small minority. Even pols who agree with you know better than to say so in public. "The US and Israel are allies" [CENTER] What evidence? [/CENTER] An ally does NOT murder the others' sailors. USS Liberty. An ally does NOT steal the others' secrets. An ally does NOT sell your secrets to an enemy. dsanthony "Even pols who agree with you know better than to say so in public." Interesting. Very interesting. I doubt if you will explain this in more detail. Which flag is your allegiance to. Divided loyalties? Or a christian with the snip confused as to the state of Israel. A host with the most. The bully boy tactics in your "you know better than to say so in public" reminds me of other bully's tactics. No, not the Nazis but from their pupils. Loudmouth bully - H A A R E T Z "Even pols who agree with you know better than to say so in public." Explain. dsanthony I think the sentence "even the pols (politicians) who agree with you know better than to say so in public" is self-explanatory. No offense intended, but is English your first language? I'd assume a native english speaker would recognize there was not "threat" in that sentence... only a fact of electoral politics in the US.

I always know what to expect when I see the "no offence intended, but" preamble. Now this was about as silly a reply as I've ever seen. You'll get yourself dumped out of your baiting school. Did they not teach you that it is better to ignore a superior argument than to reply with such a pathetic retort. Now everyone can see how useless you are. Well, maybe you will know the next time.

I'm Irish. We are touchy about not being able to speak our first langauge, Irish. We reckon that we speak the best english in the world! You'd feel sorry for the English. Everything they gave the world is done better by their former dominions. Shocking.

How is your english. What do you speak in the bosom of your family. Yiddish. Now for the hard questions.

US and Israel are allies? [CENTER] What evidence![/CENTER]

Do you confirm that American politicians are threatened by THE LOBBY and "know better than to say so in public."

Opening the Debate on Israel
by Norman Solomon the Baltimore Sun

The extended controversy over a paper by two professors, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," is prying the lid off a debate that has been bottled up for decades. Routinely, the American news media have ignored or pilloried any strong criticism of Washington's massive support for Israel. But the paper and an article based on it by respected academics John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt, academic dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University , first published March 23 in the London Review of Books, are catalysts for some healthy public discussion of key issues.

In the United States, "the lobby's campaign to quash debate about Israel is unhealthy for democracy ," Mr. Mearsheimer and Mr. Walt assert. They point to grave effects on the body politic: "The inability of Congress to conduct a genuine debate on these important issues paralyzes the entire process of democratic deliberation ." While their paper overstates the extent to which pro-Israel pressures determine U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, a very powerful lobby for Israel clearly has enormous leverage in Washington. And the professors make a convincing case that the U.S. government has been much too closely aligned with Israel - to the detriment of human rights, democracy and other principles that are supposed to constitute American values. The failure to make a distinction between anti-Semitism and criticism of Israel routinely stifles public debate.

Journalists understand critical words about Israel to be hazardous to their careers.