Reply #12: Never mind that the collective Arab nations have promised to push every Israeli into the sea [View All]

[bernynhel]

since the beginning of Israel as a nation.

Never mind that the above declaration has been the official policy of the majority of Israel's neighbors at one time or another.

Never mind that similar language against Arab countries, Egypt or the Palestinians has never come, un-provoked or otherwise, from Israel, the US, et al.

Never mind that Israel has always been pressured into returning captured lands that were justifiably taken in defense of armed aggression against them.

Never mind that the British left almost all of their military munitions and hardware in the hands of Arabs in retaliation to Zionist efforts to oust British rule when those efforts (terrorism? fine. so what?! how the US gained its independance!)finally succeeded. Equipment immediately put to use against Israel upon British departure.

Never mind the outcry from the entire world against Israel when they took out Iraq's Osirak nuclear facility in 1981 only to be applauded years later when such praise became politically correct.

Never mind that the only reason for the Bush administration being the friendliest to Israel, ever, is entirely due to George Bush's personal, religious belief that conditions in Israel must be "just so" for the Second Coming to happen which would, if that anti-semitic tract known as the New Testament is to be taken literally, would annihilate all Jews in one fell swoop. OK, so Israel will take what it can get. Even from a lunatic.

Yes, Israel will NOT require any help from the US or anyone else in vaporizing any of its neighbors stupid enough to instigate anything even approaching the folly of a nuclear attack. The ONLY reason one hasn't occurred already. Why should Israel depend on any nation saving her based on history?

Hillary said what she said. So what? If anyone thinks that such a statement is a finite indication of how she will behave as the President must obviously conclude that the effects of a brutally long and arduous campaign for the presidency mirrors exactly the effects of actually being in office has on one's bedside manner!

Such a conclusion is moronic. Anyone who would actually claim to believe such BS MUST be a liar or a fool or both. Or a Republican.

My point: Hillary or Barack? Both! Hillary NOW, Obama in eight years as he is far more likely to run again if not elected in November. No one can possibly know who would be better now but I do know that either would be infinitely better than the catastrophe of the Bush administration and that a chance at sixteen years of GOP absence in the White House has to be twice as appealing as eight.

And I can't think of a better strategy.

And thank-you, sabra, for this thread!