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The handouts that Jordan and Egypt receive are heavily backed by Israeli lobby groups and the military-industrial complex. It does nothing to help U.S.' security. In fact, it puts U.S. at more risk by escalating the tension that the illegal treatment the Palestinians are facing. Palestinian handouts from the U.S. should not even be discussed since it's nothing compared to the billions the other countries receive. All it really does is keep corrupt politicians in power. A fair and just Palestinian state means just that. If withholding Israel's handout will push Israel to stop the stupid settlements that have absolute no benefit, then I don't see why you wouldn't support it.

They were rich and rolling in money before Chavez? He is stealing from who? Where was the oil money going before? Not to the people of Venezuela. Again, you are trying to give the impression that the people of Venezuela were living in better conditions before Chavez. Reality disagrees with you. The economy was never in a good condition. The real world is not like Simcity. You need to read up on Venezuela and its history and its economy and pretty much everything else Venezuela related. Because you're making cowboys look really really bad, Foxnews called and they want their empty and useless rant back.

A fair and just Palestinian State may not be in Israel's interest, but I have no idea why you wouldn't think it would be in U.S.'s interest.

If Obama is able to stick to his guns, unlike before when Bush Sr. ended up giving into pressure and freeing up the loans, then we may see a different result.

This is part of his foreign policy agenda. He has said he will be re-starting the talks between Israelis and Palestinians. As it is part of the MidEast Roadmap, Israel must freeze all settlement activities. Israel refuses to do this and the U.S., as they have done before, can use the handout Israel receives as a way to put pressure on them.

Mr Mitchell, who is due to return to the Middle East this month in his latest attempt to restart negotiations, was asked on Wednesday in an interview with America's PBS how the US could bring pressure to bear on Israel. "Under American law, the United States can withhold support on loan guarantees to Israel," he said. link This is Obama's challenge. We will have to see if George Mitchell and the Obama administration really mean it and that they can resist the pressure to accept the interionally recognized illegal building of settlements by Israel in East Jerusalem.

You keep accusing me of denying the holocaust even though I have never denied it. Why do you lie? I will report you for defamation. The one that won first prize is very well done. It shows the ironic behaviour of a victimized group, victimizing another group: http://www.irancartoon.com/120/holocaust/001derkaoui-abdellah-Morroc.jpg

I wonder what kind of reaction we would see if the Holocaust cartoons from the Holocaust cartoon contest were published in the mainstream media. I doubt we would ever see the reactions since they would never be published. Personally, I was expecting a bunch of anti-semite cartoons when I first heard about the cartoons, but majority of the ones I saw were political cartoons criticizing Israel's treatment of Palestinians and drawing parallel between the Nazis' treatment of the Jews to the Israelis' treatment of the Palestinians.

Your problem is that you're unable to distinguish between Muslims. Just because my uncle is a rabid Zionist Jew who advocates killing all Muslims and pissing on the Christian pigs, I don't think it's okay to label all Jews as having his view.

Wow - You failed to respond to more than 50% of what I wrote. You're a waste of time. So you are saying Israel is only pretending to have nuclear weapons because it's under threat? If Israel removes its ambiguity it would be forced to go under NPT and thus, remove its nuclear program. Israel has also had an agreement with the US since 1969 to keep the program ambiguous in return, they would not be asked to join the NPT. Something that oozes with double standard and hypocrisy. You are really stuck on Israel not wanting to neither deny or confirm their nuclear program. It's a non-issue. Going back to the original topic that triggered your PR campaign; There is enough evidence to show that Israel has nukes: - France and UK's help to create the nuclear program - CIA issued a report concluding that Israel had successfully started production of nuclear weapons - Former Israeli nuclear technician who provided descriptions and photographic evidence of Israel's nuclear warheads. This man was thrown in prison and continues to be under surveillance for revealing Israel's secret nuclear program. - In the 1990's, US Intelligence community estimated that Israel has between 75 to 130 nuclear weapons - Israel's acknowledgment it had illegally imported critrons, an important element in creating nuclear weapons, from the United States in the early 1980's that it stole - Israel's denial of IAEA's inspectors to visit the Dimona site, even though it is a member of the organization Sources: http://www.thebulletin.org/article.php?art_ofn=mj06cohen http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/israel/ http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB189/index.htm http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/israel/nuke/biblio.pdf http://www.thebulletin.org/article_nn.php?art_ofn=so02norris http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/2000/mj00/mj00cohen.html You want to be honest, then admit that Israel has nuclear weapons.

So in your eyes, Iran is okay to do the same thing. Or are you saying it's only Israel who can do this? I am not only claiming this to be happening, the evidence is right there. Israel is in violation of international law by a number of actions. You should look it up. The PR campaign can only take you so far and allow the supporting governments to support you so much. I mean, I guess they could create concentration camps and gas the people, but that would probably not go well. Instead, they will continue their systematic violations where they will push the envelop as far as possible. A perfect example of this is the systematic land grab of the Arab land. Despite the direct violation of international, Israel continues to seize more land and build more illegal settlements. Their PR campaign, which includes your support and participation can only excuse so much of the atrocities. There is only so much 'nothing to see here' Israel can do before the governments of the Western countries will be forced to stop supporting Israel. Something we saw with Apartheid South Africa. Back up a second American Woman. Just because we don't see photos of the Israeli governments standing beside nuclear warheads with their thumbs up, you want everyone to question whether they do or not? There are documented evidence that Israel has nukes. It goes all the way from France and Britain's assistance to making their nukes to a man, who worked at the main nuclear plant, who revealed the details of Israel's nuclear weapons, and in turn was imprisoned for 18 years. Then there are, of course, people like wulf and jbg, who will not sink to your level of discourse and will not play this: "but they've never confirmed that they have nukes so we can't say that have nukes" game. Honesty has never been Israel's (or your) forté. Just a lot more babbling. Israel has nukes and your attempt to question whether or not they have it in order to stop and change the course of the debate about the hypocrisy and the double standards is nothing new. Right. We only have "my claim" that Israel has nuclear weapons. You are embarrassing yourself. Your failed attempt to turn this into 'my theory' that Israel has nuclear weapons has failed. You are saying that the Palestinians should stop their struggle against Israel's violation of their human rights and other nations should stop supporting the Palestinians because of Israel's nuclear weapons. Iraq war. I don't have the patience to debate a make belief world with you. Israel has nukes. The world knows it. Everyone knows it. Stop being such an obvious PR tool and stop trying to divert people from trying to be honest about the situation. Here is an Israeli official going off script. Oops. Panic. Call up the PR department! Ynet News http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hcXJTD51ro

Why do you think Israel is not denying it? To admit that Israel has nuclear weapons is to 100% confirm that Israel, U.S. and the rest of the West are hypocrites in demanding that one country cannot have nuclear power while another does. However, that is besides the point. The point here is that we have a country with known nuclear weapons who is saying 'all options are on the table'. I would expect the countries in the region see Israel as a big threat. This for many reasons: A) Israel has nuclear weapons Israel has a history of initiating attacks or as it is called by the PR department; pre-emptive strikes. C) Israel doesn't have respect for international law. They've shown they're capable of doing some really horrible things to people. D) Israel has the political, military and economical backing of the U.S.

Who cares why they are not confirming it or why they are not denying it. You want your comments to be treated with respect? Why not start being honest about the topic instead of playing these games. The issue is not vague. Israel has nukes and the whole world knows it. When they say all options are on the table, as wulf and numerous other extremely pro-zionist people have already mentioned, they mean that the nukes are an option.

You are advocating genocide. You are a bad human.

Everyone knows that Israel has nukes. Who cares if Israel has 'never confirmed or denied' it. Just because they never confirmed or denied it, we can't talk about it? You have an interesting method of debating topics. The hundreds of other information out there aside, even the US congress confirms that Israel has nukes. Even wulf. Read that, even wulf is not playing your stupid game. Way to sink to the bottom with your failed attempt at diverting legitimate criticism of Israel with your stupid argument that they 'neither confirm or deny', therefore you cannot say that they include their nuclear program when they say 'all' options are on the table. Stop wasting time by reducing these political debates into artificial debates where honesty is jeopardized because you need to fulfill your unconditional love for a team you're cheering for.

I didn't watch Krauthammer. How do you suggest we help the people of Iran in their struggle against their government?

A failure. Canada should stick to its timetable and get all its troops out.

I suppose all the people who are pissing on Chavez prefer corporate puppet dictators who have been running Central and South America into the ground for the past few decades. Chavez has his many faults, but he's been better for the people of Venezuela than the past, corrupt leaders. South America is going through an interesting transformation period right now.

- From Jewish Voice for Peace It was the last place in the world I expected to see Barbie's smiling face emblazoned on the front of a children's notebook. It was a hot day in June, and as we traveled along a bumpy, dusty road in the south of Gaza, I thought how eerily quiet it was compared to the last time I had been here, when we were taunted by the whizzing sounds of small military drones following our every move. Suddenly, our van arrived at a farmhouse where we were welcomed by a father and beekeeper wearing a flowing white robe. His name was Mohammed Shurrab. On his desk lay a stack of children's notebooks, each with an image of a Barbie doll on the cover. Just months before, during Israel's attack on Gaza, Mohammed and his two sons waited for a lull in the fighting so they could flee to join the rest of their family. They weren't far from the farmhouse when they came under a hail of bullets from Israeli soldiers. All of them were shot. Mohammed's 28-year-old son Kassab, an engineer, was killed immediately. Mohammed called various radio stations to ask for help from an ambulance while he held his other son, Ibrahim, while he shivered. It was nearly 24 hours before the Israeli military allowed an ambulance to come through. By then, Ibrahim, 18, had already bled to death in Mohammed's arms. Cecilie Surasky Deputy Director Jewish Voice for Peace

It was one year ago today that Israel launched its War on Gaza. The first day of the attack - Dec. 27, 2008 - resulted in the deadliest one-day death toll in 60 years of conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians. After 22 days, over 1400 Palestinians, and 13 Israelis had been killed. On this anniversary, CJPME remembers the families of the victims, and the communities devastated by Israel's terrible assault on Gaza. In the year that has passed since the attacks, every single human rights report on the Assault - foremost the Goldstone Report - conclude the same: Israel is suspected of widespread war crimes. The facts are in the open; it's up to us to demand accountability. - Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East

Stop wasting time. Everyone knows that Israel has nukes.

Not it does not. Everyone knows that Israel has nuclear weapons. Israel does not deny that they have it either. This makes the nuclear weapons as one of the options to use as a weapon. Not sure why you want to debate something so simple.

Oh yeah. Obviously. Because American Woman says so.

Stop babbling nonsense. Israel has nukes as weapons and when they repeatedly say all options are on the table, this would mean that nuking is also on the table.

When they say 'all options', nuking Iran would be included in the 'all options'. It doesn't get any more simple.