Reply #57: I'm sorry, but this whole thread disturbs me... [View All]

[FormerRepublican]

There seems to be a knee jerk reaction to automatically blame Jews whenever something crooked happens. I'm not Jewish, but I know a few. Are there whacked out Jews who do crooked things? Yes. It's also clearly obvious that there are whacked out Americans who like to do crooked things, and a bunch of them are sitting in the White House right now! I'm not about to start hating and blaming Americans as a whole because of it!

I don't know what's behind the AIPAC thing, but with BushCo involved, I'd bet that there's more to it than meets the eye. Do I believe that Israel could spy on the US, and even manipulate our politics if it were to their advantage? H*ll yes, we do the same thing all the time! Does that mean they're evil, not our allies, and can't be trusted? Please. That's like saying we can't do business with Europe because they didn't follow the party line and dump troops into Iraq!

What the Jew bashing, AIPAC crowing threads look like to me is thinly veiled anti-Semitism, and despite being a non-Jew, I resent that. We, as a nation, are better than that. We, as a party, are better than that.

Let's leave racism, anti-semitism, gay bashing, woman hating, and all those other nasties to the past, please.