Comments on: Rep. Lantos, American Politics, and Aid to Lebanon http://blog.psaonline.org/2006/08/28/rep-lantos-american-politics-and-aid-to-lebanon/ Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:29:47 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Loner http://blog.psaonline.org/2006/08/28/rep-lantos-american-politics-and-aid-to-lebanon/comment-page-1/#comment-880 Loner Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:08:09 +0000 http://blog.psaonline.org/2006/08/28/rep-lantos-american-politics-and-aid-to-lebanon/#comment-880 Tom Lantos has visted The Jewish State some 68 times, according to the Jerusalem Post. There are many places is his district that he has never visited. Lantos is a poster-boy for the Israel-first wing of Congress. I would not mind so much, if the Israelis paid US taxation in order to earn their demonstrated US Congressional and Whitehouse representation. And I would not mind so much if ,by paying my US taxation which generously supports the Zionist enterprise, the USA earned some modicum of representation in the Israeli Knesset. Sadly, the Israelis have inverted the usual taxation/representation paradigm. Anyone who dares to question this unnatural relationship risks being branded as an anti-Semite and a terrorist sympathizer. Our elected officials are absolutely spineless when it comes to demanding conditions for US aid to the apartheid state. We need another Declaration of Independence - this time we need to part company with Herzl's failed utopian experiment in race-based, faith-based colonialism. Contrary to AIPAC-generated conventional wisdom, what is good for The Jewish State is seldom truly good for these United States. Tom Lantos has visted The Jewish State some 68 times, according to the Jerusalem Post. There are many places is his district that he has never visited. Lantos is a poster-boy for the Israel-first wing of Congress.

I would not mind so much, if the Israelis paid US taxation in order to earn their demonstrated US Congressional and Whitehouse representation. And I would not mind so much if ,by paying my US taxation which generously supports the Zionist enterprise, the USA earned some modicum of representation in the Israeli Knesset.

Sadly, the Israelis have inverted the usual taxation/representation paradigm.

Anyone who dares to question this unnatural relationship risks being branded as an anti-Semite and a terrorist sympathizer. Our elected officials are absolutely spineless when it comes to demanding conditions for US aid to the apartheid state.

We need another Declaration of Independence – this time we need to part company with Herzl’s failed utopian experiment in race-based, faith-based colonialism.

Contrary to AIPAC-generated conventional wisdom, what is good for The Jewish State is seldom truly good for these United States.

]]> By: Gladys Miller http://blog.psaonline.org/2006/08/28/rep-lantos-american-politics-and-aid-to-lebanon/comment-page-1/#comment-783 Gladys Miller Thu, 31 Aug 2006 06:11:38 +0000 http://blog.psaonline.org/2006/08/28/rep-lantos-american-politics-and-aid-to-lebanon/#comment-783 Israel dropped thousands of "Made in the USA" cluster bombs on civiliam areas of Lebanon in THE LAST THREE DAYS of the war, AFTER a cease fire date had been established. More than 100,000 bomblets remain unexploded, UN authorieits estimate it will take years to defuse them. The Israelis' behavior falls into the catagory as viscious sadism. I don't know what it will take for our President and congress to wake up and condem this rogue state as does the rest of the world. Israel dropped thousands of “Made in the USA” cluster bombs on civiliam areas of Lebanon in THE LAST THREE DAYS of the war, AFTER a cease fire date had been established. More than 100,000 bomblets remain unexploded, UN authorieits estimate it will take years to defuse them. The Israelis’ behavior falls into the catagory as viscious sadism. I don’t know what it will take for our President and congress to wake up and condem this rogue state as does the rest of the world.

]]> By: srp http://blog.psaonline.org/2006/08/28/rep-lantos-american-politics-and-aid-to-lebanon/comment-page-1/#comment-781 srp Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:05:57 +0000 http://blog.psaonline.org/2006/08/28/rep-lantos-american-politics-and-aid-to-lebanon/#comment-781 Your argument is self-contradictory. If they don't need the money anyway, and iit's bad for us to send it to them in the first place, then Lantos's hold is a good thing. I agree that it would be even better if the Congress put the conditionality into law, but for those who disagree with his position, the hold is less commital than a law would be. Your argument is self-contradictory. If they don’t need the money anyway, and iit’s bad for us to send it to them in the first place, then Lantos’s hold is a good thing. I agree that it would be even better if the Congress put the conditionality into law, but for those who disagree with his position, the hold is less commital than a law would be.

]]> By: swampytad http://blog.psaonline.org/2006/08/28/rep-lantos-american-politics-and-aid-to-lebanon/comment-page-1/#comment-776 swampytad Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:39:41 +0000 http://blog.psaonline.org/2006/08/28/rep-lantos-american-politics-and-aid-to-lebanon/#comment-776 Dan Baum's article in the current New Yorker, actually, is exceptionally flawed, <a href="http://swampytad.livejournal.com/20021.html" rel="nofollow">full of lazy reporting and outright falsehoods</a>. The fact-checkers at the New Yorker should be ashamed. Dan Baum’s article in the current New Yorker, actually, is exceptionally flawed, full of lazy reporting and outright falsehoods. The fact-checkers at the New Yorker should be ashamed.

]]> By: Daniel W. Drezner http://blog.psaonline.org/2006/08/28/rep-lantos-american-politics-and-aid-to-lebanon/comment-page-1/#comment-772 Daniel W. Drezner Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:24:45 +0000 http://blog.psaonline.org/2006/08/28/rep-lantos-american-politics-and-aid-to-lebanon/#comment-772 <strong>Tom Lantos steps into a big foreign policy snafu</strong> Many thanks to Greg Djerejian, Bill Petti, and (especially) Eugene Gholz for articulating why Representative Tom Lantos (D-CA) is f***ing up U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, saving me time and effort.... Tom Lantos steps into a big foreign policy snafu

Many thanks to Greg Djerejian, Bill Petti, and (especially) Eugene Gholz for articulating why Representative Tom Lantos (D-CA) is f***ing up U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, saving me time and effort….

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