Okay, Ratner, the first one I opened was the second link. This is the
entire paragraph in which you discern a lie by me:
> > > UPDATE II: Here's a perfect example of the glaring double standard
> > > I'm talking about: hard-core GOP loyalists are today promoting this
> > > claim that the tension between the Obama administration and Israel
> > > will cause American Jews to stop voting Democratic and (according to
> > > John Podhoretz) stop donating to Democratic candidates. The
> > > neoconservative Right has been making similar predictions for years
> > > with complete futility, but think about it: what is the core
> > > assumption of such a claim? *That American Jews determine their
> > > political beliefs based on what is best for Israel rather than the
> > > U.S. -- exactly the "dual loyalty" assumption that, when made by
> > > others, this very same faction brands as anti-Semitic.*
The alleged lie BY ME is the final sentence which I have put in
asterisks. It's now in context so we're making progress. I hope you
don't interfere with it again.
First I will gently ask you who wrote it? I'll even answer for you: it
was the famed New York Columnist Glenn Greenwald, not me. I admire
Mr. Greenwald but am not my brother's keeper. Like the NYT I post news
which by my lights is fit to print. There is absolutely nothing
whatever about the Greenwald article which is objectionable, period.
It's honest, honorable and courageous. Everyone should read it.
Now I'll note that you perhaps were first infuriated by the fact that
I pasted from Greenwald into the title line of the post. I do that a
lot to catch the eye and don't apologize for it. I don't bother to put
it in quotations because the reader will find it in the text and thus
know where it came from. The quote certainly got you to read it. And
that fact is in turn giving me some opportunities you won't be happy
to have had a hand in. That's good because the paragraph in question
is only secondarily about Jewish votes but more importantly about
hypocrisy in the political use of an "ancient canard". I chose it
because you're a massive exemplar of that particular vice. Now that
I'm involved you'll have to read it more carefully than you probably
have to date. The readers you champion will probably do so too.
As a preliminary let me say that the system you're supporting of
identifying alleged "canards" and of accusing anyone who isn't
intimidated by one of them as anti-Semitic is a primary technique of
the Israel Lobby and of yourself as a tiny, thoughtless cog in that
overall effort. I'm here to do exactly the opposite of your
assignment. My role is to push back at efforts such as yours to
silence political speech on American foreign policy which you and the
Lobby find distressing because of your giant conflict of interest.
That you abuse antisemitism as a political weapon and do it
irrespective of context and facts is something I'll point out below.
On Mar 24, 10:41 pm, "
iconocl...@yahoo.com" <
coaster132...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> On Mar 24, 3:52 pm, drahcir <
justrichardsmu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mar 24, 3:16 pm, "
iconocl...@yahoo.com" <
coaster132...@yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> > > U.S.-Israel rift undermining some long-standing taboos
> > > BY GLENN GREENWALD
Ratner said:
> > I skimmed this post for approximately 19 seconds and concluded that
> > only a colossal idiot such as yourself could possibly glean what you
> > wrote in your subject from it.
You've never been serious about anything of substance. I didn't write
a thing. I pasted in the words of Glenn Greenwald as the title for an
article by Glenn Greenwald. When you say I wrote the title you know
you are not truthful. I consider the article to be important and ask
that everyone read it in its entirety so that they can understand what
has gotten Ratner so rattled.
> > > (updated below - Update II - Update III)
> > > The rather extraordinary dust-up between the U.S. and Israel has,
> > > among other benefits, shined a light on two of the most taboo yet self-
> > > evidently true propositions: (1) our joined-at-the-hip relationship
> > > with Israel is a significant cause of anti-American sentiment in the
> > > Muslim world, fuels attacks on Americans, and entails a very high
> > > price for the U.S. on multiple levels; and (2) many American
> > > neoconservatives have their political beliefs shaped by allegiance to
> > > Israel.
> > > As for the first: not only did Joe Biden tell Prime Minister
> > > Netanyahu that Israel's actions are endangering U.S. troops in the
> > > region, but -- more important -- as Foreign Policy's Mark Perry
> > > reports, both Adm. Mike Mullen and Gen. David Petraeus within the last
> > > couple of months stressed the same causal connection to Obama
> > > officials: "Israel's intransigence could cost American lives." It's
> > > rather difficult to maintain the fiction that only fringe Israel-
> > > haters see the connection between our support for Israel and Muslim
> > > hatred toward the U.S. when two of America's most respected military
> > > officials (responsible for U.S. troops in the region) are making that
> > > case explicitly. Moreover, the Mullen/Petraeus alarm is almost
> > > certainly what accounts for the Obama administration's sudden (and
> > > commendable) willingness to so publicly oppose Israel. As Perry
> > > says: "There are important and powerful lobbies in America: the NRA,
> > > the American Medical Association, the lawyers -- and the Israeli
> > > lobby. But no lobby is as important, or as powerful, as the U.S.
> > > military."
> > > As for the second point: I've previously noted the glaring
> > > contradiction among neoconservatives, whereby they simultaneously (a)
> > > tell American Jewish voters to vote Republican because (they claim)
> > > the GOP is better for Israel and (b) insist that it's anti-Semitic to
> > > point out that some are guided by their allegiance to Israel when
> > > forming their political beliefs about U.S. policy. Obviously, anyone
> > > who does (a) is, by logical necessity, endorsing the very premise in
> > > (b) which they want (when it suits them) to label anti-Semitic.
> > > Neoconservatives constantly make political appeals to Jewish voters
> > > expressly grounded in the premise that American Jews are guided by
> > > allegiance to Israel (vote Republican because it's better for Israel),
> > > yet then scream "anti-Semite" at anyone who points this out. When
> > > faced with this glaring contradiction, their typical response -- as
> > > illustratively voiced by Commentary's Jennifer Rubin, after she argued
> > > in a 2008 Jerusalem Post column that American Jews should vote against
> > > Obama because he'd be bad for Israel -- is to deny that "that the
> > > interests of the U.S. and Israel are antithetical" and insist that
> > > "support for Israel in no way requires sacrificing one’s concerns for
> > > America’s interests." In other words: to advocate for Israel is to
> > > advocate for the U.S. because their interests are wholly
> > > indistinguishable, even synonymous.
> > > Yet here we have a major split between the U.S. and Israel, with key
> > > American military and political leaders explaining that the opposite
> > > is true: that Israeli actions are directly harming U.S. interests and
> > > jeopardizing American lives. And what is the reflexive, unambiguous
> > > response of virtually every American Israel-centric neocon? To side
> > > with Israel over the U.S. AIPAC, the ADL, Elliott Abrams, AIPAC-loyal
> > > Democrats in the House, Marty Peretz, Commentary, etc. etc. all
> > > quickly castigated the U.S. Government and defended Israel,
> > > notwithstanding the dangers to Americans posed by Israeli conduct and
> > > the massive price paid by the U.S. in so many ways for this
> > > relationship (by contrast, J Street called the administration's anger
> > > towards Israel both "understandable and appropriate"). There's
> > > nothing wrong with taking Israel's side per se -- one is and should be
> > > free to criticize one's own government in its foreign policy -- but
> > > incidents like this make it increasingly futile to try to suppress
> > > what is glaringly visible: that (as is true for numerous groups in
> > > the U.S.) a significant segment of the neoconservative Right (which
> > > includes some evangelical Christians and some American Jews) are
> > > guided in their political advocacy by their emotional, religious, and
> > > cultural attachment to another country, and want U.S. policy shaped to
> > > advance that devotion.
> > > On a related note: there has been a long-standing effort to equate
> > > those who make this observation with anti-Israel hatred or even anti-
> > > Semitism. Two widely-cited reports did exactly that with regard to me
> > > recently: this pseudo-scholarly report from the Jerusalem Center for
> > > Public Affairs and this post on the blog of the American Jewish
> > > Committee, both of which hurl all sorts of ugly though trite
> > > accusations at me for daring to suggest that some American Jews are
> > > guided in their political advocacy by allegiance to Israel. I'll just
> > > note that the author of both "reports" is someone named Adam Levick,
> > > who -- with extreme, unintended irony -- lists this as his biography
> > > on his Twitter account:
> > > I'm an American who just made Aliyah (moved to Israel), and love
> > > America and my new country.
> > > If you're going to try to render unspeakable the observation that some
> > > American neocons are devoted to Israel, it's probably best to have the
> > > crusade led by someone with a different biography (The Atlantic's
> > > Jeffrey Goldberg, who went to serve in the IDF as a prison guard
> > > incarcerating Palestinians, is probably also not a good candidate to
> > > lead that crusade). As I've said many times, there's nothing wrong
> > > per se with harboring cultural affections for other countries -- many
> > > individuals in the culturally diverse U.S. do -- but stridently
> > > denying what is so obviously true, and smearing those who point it
> > > out, does more than anything else to make something innocuous seem
> > > nefarious.
> > > Finally, the reason Israel engages in this intransigent, arrogant
> > > conduct is because it believes (with good reason) that U.S. officials
> > > will never be willing to (and, in any event, cannot) take any real
> > > action against it. At this point, the Obama administration -- as
> > > reflected by the excellent questions posed yesterday to David Axelrod
> > > by ABC News' Jake Tapper -- still seems far from ready to do so.
> > > Still, there's no denying that the very public condemnation of Israel
> > > by the Obama administration is unprecedented at least over the last
> > > two decades, will produce benefits on its own (including sentiments
> > > like this and this being increasingly expressed even among those Obama
> > > supporters who don't typically speak out about this issue), and will
> > > subject Obama officials to serious political pressure and attacks,
> > > from which they ought to be defended. It's true that none of this
> > > will ultimately matter unless the administration is willing to back
> > > this up with meaningful action -- i.e., credible threats to change
> > > policy -- but this last week was an important and substantial first
> > > step toward that vital goal.
> > > Many of the issues I write most about here -- from civil liberties
> > > erosions and radical, lawless National Security State policies to the
> > > wars that justify them -- have their roots in our involvement in the
> > > Middle East, and our self-destructive, blind support for Israeli
> > > actions is a major (though not the only or even primary) factor in all
> > > of that. It's impossible to care about the former without wanting to
> > > do something substantial about the latter.
> > > UPDATE: Former AIPAC official M.J. Rosenberg has more on the extreme
> > > and highly revealing AIPAC attacks on the Obama administration and the
> > > political strategy it intends to pursue.
> > > UPDATE II: Here's a perfect example of the glaring double standard
> > > I'm talking about: hard-core GOP loyalists are today promoting this
> > > claim that the tension between the Obama administration and Israel
> > > will cause American Jews to stop voting Democratic and (according to
> > > John Podhoretz) stop donating to Democratic candidates. The
> > > neoconservative Right has been making similar predictions for years
> > > with complete futility, but think about it: what is the core
> > > assumption of such a claim? That American Jews determine their
> > > political beliefs based on what is best for Israel rather than the
> > > U.S. -- exactly the "dual loyalty" assumption that, when made by
> > > others, this very same faction brands as anti-Semitic.
> > > UPDATE III: AP details the seriously nasty backlash now developing
> > > against the Obama administration from the Israel-centric Right, led by
> > > AIPAC, Joe Lieberman and John McCain. Lieberman dismissed this as
> > > nothing more than a "family feud" and demanded that this all end. You
> > > may have thought the U.S. and Israel are separate countries with the
> > > obligation to protect their own interests, but according to Lieberman,
> > > they're all part of the same "family" that should never publicly
> > > disagree, because doing so only helps Our Enemies, which (of course)
> > > we have fully in common. Meanwhile, John Cole analyzes the neocon
> > > threats that the Obama administration will pay a serious political
> > > price for its defiance of the Israeli Government as a result of the
> > > upcoming AIPAC conference.
Ratner:
> Here it is again, from the end of "Update Two":
> "American Jews determine their
> political beliefs based on what is best for Israel rather than the
> U.S. -- exactly the "dual loyalty" assumption that, when made by
> others, this very same faction brands as anti-Semitic."
Here is the complete paragraph by Greenwald about a hypocritical
double standard again. By clipping you were consciously distorting the
context:
> > > UPDATE II: Here's a perfect example of the glaring double standard
> > > I'm talking about: hard-core GOP loyalists are today promoting this
> > > claim that the tension between the Obama administration and Israel
> > > will cause American Jews to stop voting Democratic and (according to
> > > John Podhoretz) stop donating to Democratic candidates. The
> > > neoconservative Right has been making similar predictions for years
> > > with complete futility, but think about it: what is the core
> > > assumption of such a claim? *That American Jews determine their
> > > political beliefs based on what is best for Israel rather than the
> > > U.S. -- exactly the "dual loyalty" assumption that, when made by
> > > others, this very same faction brands as anti-Semitic.*
H - ARE YOU COMPLETELY INSANE?? IS YOUR ALZHEIMIC "BRAIN" SO FAR
GONE?
OR IS THIS JUST MORE OF YOUR INSIPID LYING?
HHW You've called it a lie. Have you changed your mind?
Ratner:
HERE IS THE CONTEXT:
"The neoconservative Right has been making similar predictions for
years
with complete futility, but think about it: what is the core
assumption of such a claim? That American Jews determine their
political beliefs based on what is best for Israel rather than the
U.S. -- exactly the "dual loyalty" assumption that, when made by
others, this very same faction brands as anti-Semitic."
No, here's the fuller context:
> > > UPDATE II: Here's a perfect example of the glaring double standard
> > > I'm talking about: hard-core GOP loyalists are today promoting this
> > > claim that the tension between the Obama administration and Israel
> > > will cause American Jews to stop voting Democratic and (according to
> > > John Podhoretz) stop donating to Democratic candidates. The
> > > neoconservative Right has been making similar predictions for years
> > > with complete futility, but think about it: what is the core
> > > assumption of such a claim? *That American Jews determine their
> > > political beliefs based on what is best for Israel rather than the
> > > U.S. -- exactly the "dual loyalty" assumption that, when made by
> > > others, this very same faction brands as anti-Semitic.*
On Mar 24, 10:41 pm, "
iconocl...@yahoo.com" <
coaster132...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> On Mar 24, 3:52 pm, drahcir <
justrichardsmu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mar 24, 3:16 pm, "
iconocl...@yahoo.com" <
coaster132...@yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> > > U.S.-Israel rift undermining some long-standing taboos
> > > BY GLENN GREENWALD
Ratner:
> > I skimmed this post for approximately 19 seconds and concluded that
> > only a colossal idiot such as yourself could possibly glean what you
> > wrote in your subject from it.
You've always been sloppy.
> > > (updated below - Update II - Update III)
> > > The rather extraordinary dust-up between the U.S. and Israel has,
> > > among other benefits, shined a light on two of the most taboo yet self-
> > > evidently true propositions: (1) our joined-at-the-hip relationship
> > > with Israel is a significant cause of anti-American sentiment in the
> > > Muslim world, fuels attacks on Americans, and entails a very high
> > > price for the U.S. on multiple levels; and (2) many American
> > > neoconservatives have their political beliefs shaped by allegiance to
> > > Israel.
> > > As for the first: not only did Joe Biden tell Prime Minister
> > > Netanyahu that Israel's actions are endangering U.S. troops in the
> > > region, but -- more important -- as Foreign Policy's Mark Perry
> > > reports, both Adm. Mike Mullen and Gen. David Petraeus within the last
> > > couple of months stressed the same causal connection to Obama
> > > officials: "Israel's intransigence could cost American lives." It's
> > > rather difficult to maintain the fiction that only fringe Israel-
> > > haters see the connection between our support for Israel and Muslim
> > > hatred toward the U.S. when two of America's most respected military
> > > officials (responsible for U.S. troops in the region) are making that
> > > case explicitly. Moreover, the Mullen/Petraeus alarm is almost
> > > certainly what accounts for the Obama administration's sudden (and
> > > commendable) willingness to so publicly oppose Israel. As Perry
> > > says: "There are important and powerful lobbies in America: the NRA,
> > > the American Medical Association, the lawyers -- and the Israeli
> > > lobby. But no lobby is as important, or as powerful, as the U.S.
> > > military."
> > > As for the second point: I've previously noted the glaring
> > > contradiction among neoconservatives, whereby they simultaneously (a)
> > > tell American Jewish voters to vote Republican because (they claim)
> > > the GOP is better for Israel and (b) insist that it's anti-Semitic to
> > > point out that some are guided by their allegiance to Israel when
> > > forming their political beliefs about U.S. policy. Obviously, anyone
> > > who does (a) is, by logical necessity, endorsing the very premise in
> > > (b) which they want (when it suits them) to label anti-Semitic.
> > > Neoconservatives constantly make political appeals to Jewish voters
> > > expressly grounded in the premise that American Jews are guided by
> > > allegiance to Israel (vote Republican because it's better for Israel),
> > > yet then scream "anti-Semite" at anyone who points this out. When
> > > faced with this glaring contradiction, their typical response -- as
> > > illustratively voiced by Commentary's Jennifer Rubin, after she argued
> > > in a 2008 Jerusalem Post column that American Jews should vote against
> > > Obama because he'd be bad for Israel -- is to deny that "that the
> > > interests of the U.S. and Israel are antithetical" and insist that
> > > "support for Israel in no way requires sacrificing one’s concerns for
> > > America’s interests." In other words: to advocate for Israel is to
> > > advocate for the U.S. because their interests are wholly
> > > indistinguishable, even synonymous.
> > > Yet here we have a major split between the U.S. and Israel, with key
> > > American military and political leaders explaining that the opposite
> > > is true: that Israeli actions are directly harming U.S. interests and
> > > jeopardizing American lives. And what is the reflexive, unambiguous
> > > response of virtually every American Israel-centric neocon? To side
> > > with Israel over the U.S. AIPAC, the ADL, Elliott Abrams, AIPAC-loyal
> > > Democrats in the House, Marty Peretz, Commentary, etc. etc. all
> > > quickly castigated the U.S. Government and defended Israel,
> > > notwithstanding the dangers to Americans posed by Israeli conduct and
> > > the massive price paid by the U.S. in so many ways for this
> > > relationship (by contrast, J Street called the administration's anger
> > > towards Israel both "understandable and appropriate"). There's
> > > nothing wrong with taking Israel's side per se -- one is and should be
> > > free to criticize one's own government in its foreign policy -- but
> > > incidents like this make it increasingly futile to try to suppress
> > > what is glaringly visible: that (as is true for numerous groups in
> > > the U.S.) a significant segment of the neoconservative Right (which
> > > includes some evangelical Christians and some American Jews) are
> > > guided in their political advocacy by their emotional, religious, and
> > > cultural attachment to another country, and want U.S. policy shaped to
> > > advance that devotion.
> > > On a related note: there has been a long-standing effort to equate
> > > those who make this observation with anti-Israel hatred or even anti-
> > > Semitism. Two widely-cited reports did exactly that with regard to me
> > > recently: this pseudo-scholarly report from the Jerusalem Center for
> > > Public Affairs and this post on the blog of the American Jewish
> > > Committee, both of which hurl all sorts of ugly though trite
> > > accusations at me for daring to suggest that some American Jews are
> > > guided in their political advocacy by allegiance to Israel. I'll just
> > > note that the author of both "reports" is someone named Adam Levick,
> > > who -- with extreme, unintended irony -- lists this as his biography
> > > on his Twitter account:
> > > I'm an American who just made Aliyah (moved to Israel), and love
> > > America and my new country.
> > > If you're going to try to render unspeakable the observation that some
> > > American neocons are devoted to Israel, it's probably best to have the
> > > crusade led by someone with a different biography (The Atlantic's
> > > Jeffrey Goldberg, who went to serve in the IDF as a prison guard
> > > incarcerating Palestinians, is probably also not a good candidate to
> > > lead that crusade). As I've said many times, there's nothing wrong
> > > per se with harboring cultural affections for other countries -- many
> > > individuals in the culturally diverse U.S. do -- but stridently
> > > denying what is so obviously true, and smearing those who point it
> > > out, does more than anything else to make something innocuous seem
> > > nefarious.
> > > Finally, the reason Israel engages in this intransigent, arrogant
> > > conduct is because it believes (with good reason) that U.S. officials
> > > will never be willing to (and, in any event, cannot) take any real
> > > action against it. At this point, the Obama administration -- as
> > > reflected by the excellent questions posed yesterday to David Axelrod
> > > by ABC News' Jake Tapper -- still seems far from ready to do so.
> > > Still, there's no denying that the very public condemnation of Israel
> > > by the Obama administration is unprecedented at least over the last
> > > two decades, will produce benefits on its own (including sentiments
> > > like this and this being increasingly expressed even among those Obama
> > > supporters who don't typically speak out about this issue), and will
> > > subject Obama officials to serious political pressure and attacks,
> > > from which they ought to be defended. It's true that none of this
> > > will ultimately matter unless the administration is willing to back
> > > this up with meaningful action -- i.e., credible threats to change
> > > policy -- but this last week was an important and substantial first
> > > step toward that vital goal.
> > > Many of the issues I write most about here -- from civil liberties
> > > erosions and radical, lawless National Security State policies to the
> > > wars that justify them -- have their roots in our involvement in the
> > > Middle East, and our self-destructive, blind support for Israeli
> > > actions is a major (though not the only or even primary) factor in all
> > > of that. It's impossible to care about the former without wanting to
> > > do something substantial about the latter.
> > > UPDATE: Former AIPAC official M.J. Rosenberg has more on the extreme
> > > and highly revealing AIPAC attacks on the Obama administration and the
> > > political strategy it intends to pursue.
> > > UPDATE II: Here's a perfect example of the glaring double standard
> > > I'm talking about: hard-core GOP loyalists are today promoting this
> > > claim that the tension between the Obama administration and Israel
> > > will cause American Jews to stop voting Democratic and (according to
> > > John Podhoretz) stop donating to Democratic candidates. The
> > > neoconservative Right has been making similar predictions for years
> > > with complete futility, but think about it: what is the core
> > > assumption of such a claim? That American Jews determine their
> > > political beliefs based on what is best for Israel rather than the
> > > U.S. -- exactly the "dual loyalty" assumption that, when made by
> > > others, this very same faction brands as anti-Semitic.
> > > UPDATE III: AP details the seriously nasty backlash now developing
> > > against the Obama administration from the Israel-centric Right, led by
> > > AIPAC, Joe Lieberman and John McCain. Lieberman dismissed this as
> > > nothing more than a "family feud" and demanded that this all end. You
> > > may have thought the U.S. and Israel are separate countries with the
> > > obligation to protect their own interests, but according to Lieberman,
> > > they're all part of the same "family" that should never publicly
> > > disagree, because doing so only helps Our Enemies, which (of course)
> > > we have fully in common. Meanwhile, John Cole analyzes the neocon
> > > threats that the Obama administration will pay a serious political
> > > price for its defiance of the Israeli Government as a result of the
> > > upcoming AIPAC conference.
> Here it is again, from the end of "Update Two":
> "American Jews determine their
> political beliefs based on what is best for Israel rather than the
> U.S. -- exactly the "dual loyalty" assumption that, when made by
> others, this very same faction brands as anti-Semitic."
Here is the Greenwald paragraph again, whole:
> > > UPDATE II: Here's a perfect example of the glaring double standard
> > > I'm talking about: hard-core GOP loyalists are today promoting this
> > > claim that the tension between the Obama administration and Israel
> > > will cause American Jews to stop voting Democratic and (according to
> > > John Podhoretz) stop donating to Democratic candidates. The
> > > neoconservative Right has been making similar predictions for years
> > > with complete futility, but think about it: what is the core
> > > assumption of such a claim? *That American Jews determine their
> > > political beliefs based on what is best for Israel rather than the
> > > U.S. -- exactly the "dual loyalty" assumption that, when made by
> > > others, this very same faction brands as anti-Semitic.*
H - ARE YOU COMPLETELY INSANE?? IS YOUR ALZHEIMIC "BRAIN" SO FAR
GONE?
OR IS THIS JUST MORE OF YOUR INSIPID LYING?
HERE IS THE CONTEXT:
"The neoconservative Right has been making similar predictions for
years
with complete futility, but think about it: what is the core
assumption of such a claim? That American Jews determine their
political beliefs based on what is best for Israel rather than the
U.S. -- exactly the "dual loyalty" assumption that, when made by
others, this very same faction brands as anti-Semitic."
No, here is the accurate, unclipped, undistorted context:
> > > UPDATE II: Here's a perfect example of the glaring double standard
> > > I'm talking about: hard-core GOP loyalists are today promoting this
> > > claim that the tension between the Obama administration and Israel
> > > WILL CAUSE American Jews to stop voting Democratic and (according to
> > > John Podhoretz) stop donating to Democratic candidates. The
> > > neoconservative Right has been making similar PREDICTIONS for years
> > > with complete futility, but think about it: what is the core
> > > assumption of such a claim? *That American Jews determine their
> > > political beliefs based on what is best for Israel rather than the
> > > U.S. -- exactly the "dual loyalty" assumption that, when made by
> > > others, this very same faction brands as anti-Semitic.*
Caps added by HHW.
Now that we have the real thing in front of us and can see why you
clipped part of it, what's wrong with it? GOP loyalists made the
prediction which you falsely attribute to me.. So, apparently, has the
neoconservative Right. That's news, Ratner. You shouldn't be trying to
suppress it. That's not very American of you.
Ratner:
So the statement is the BASIS of the FUTILE and FALSE claim that
American Jews will abandon the Democratic party.
HHW:
A futile and false claim? Really? Would the neoconservative Right do
such a thing. I didn't but but maybe I should now, eh? It just has to
be true, right? Or a prediction?
It is NOT A STATEMENT
OF FACT, but rather a statement that is PROVEN FALSE by the fact that
the predicted outcome DID NOT AND HAS NOT OCCURRED.
No, it wasn't a statement of fact but part of a paragraph about
predictions about Jewish abandonment of the Democratic Party made by
neoconservatives and their right wing GOP allies.
H, you are lying scum, pure, unalduterated scum, and the stupidest of
anyone here. The lowest of the low. A maggot is an unattainable
aspiration for you. Now go wallow in your shame, if you have any
ability to do so.
Haha, I was tempted to clip that last paragraph on the grounds that it
was not about a lie, but decided to leave it in to provide local color
from the Israel Lobby sewers.
Ratner:
So the statement is the BASIS of the FUTILE and FALSE claim that
American Jews will abandon the Democratic party. It is NOT A
STATEMENT
OF FACT, but rather a statement that is PROVEN FALSE by the fact that
the predicted outcome DID NOT AND HAS NOT OCCURRED.
HHW:
This brilliant statement raises two points: In fact the falling away
of Jewish support for Obama has occurred and recent polls of Jewish
voters confirm it. So that by your standards makes you a liar, right?
And, the election to which the *predictions* of the neocons and gop
stalwarts are germane has not been held and is still six months away.
That makes you pretty ignorant.
Ratner:
H, you are lying scum, pure, unalduterated scum, and the stupidest of
anyone here. The lowest of the low. A maggot is an unattainable
aspiration for you. Now go wallow in your shame, if you have any
ability to do so.
HHW:
Again, there is no mention of a lie here but I believe in free speech
so I didn't clip it. It demonstrates to the readers what your tactics
are. And besides, I have something else to say.
It's my prediction that Obama's tense relationship with Netanyahu, his
uppity relationship with Israel, will in fact result in a
substantially lower Jewish vote for Obama's Democratic ticket than
voted for him three and a half years ago. It's simple common sense
based on the de-facto existence of a conflict of interest between
allegiance to Israel and to the United States. It is a conflict of
interest which the history of the Israel Lobby proves beyond a
reasonable doubt.
Frankly, I'm surprised you can get so up-tight about reality, Ratner.
You are now 0 and 2 on the lie front. I invite you to continue, but
you will have to post the specific text you claim to be a lie or I
will ignore you. You caved and met that standard more or less in this
post. You'll have to do it in the future too.