Obama administration gives in to Israel and the Israeli lobby

[myata]

You can be the first or last....it doesn't really matter either way. Canada is a valued supplier to Israel don'tcha know:

I already said that in the current situation, all sales of arms to Israel, as well as crediting it to buy those arms, is an encouragement of its government's aggressive policies.

You typed it in a moment of honest outrage...the best kind. "Mumbo jumbo" indeed!

The term applied strictly to all people and places with strange and unusual to me practices (like "settling" you neighbour's home in Texas) without a hint of moral or otherwise valuation of such. I really can't see what made you unhappy.

That would nix the Balfour Declaration and Palestine Mandate as well....and probably all of Canada too. God Save the Queen!

And because these things happened about a century and several generations back, we are simply bound to repeat the same logic over and again. Should we start moving into caves now, after all, it's also been a venerable practice for many many generations back?

LOL!...all while not settling First Nations land claims. Are you serious?

As said, parently / brotherly understanding mixed with pride. That's what this democratic civilized alliance should be (is?) all about.

[bush_cheney2004]

I already said that in the current situation, all sales of arms to Israel, as well as crediting it to buy those arms, is an encouragement of its government's aggressive policies.

But why just pick on Israel? Canada sells to many nations, including the biggest "aggressor" of all. I guess there are not enough PalestIndians to go around.

The term applied strictly to all people and places with strange and unusual to me practices (like "settling" you neighbour's home in Texas) without a hint of moral or otherwise valuation of such. I really can't see what made you unhappy.

Not unhappy....just culturally insensitive. LOL!

And because these things happened about a century and several generations back, we are simply bound to repeat the same logic over and again. Should we start moving into caves now, after all, it's also been a venerable practice for many many generations back?

Pretty much...international law finds precedent in exactly such logic, no matter how old. It's good enough for "The Right of Return" as well.

As said, parently / brotherly understanding mixed with pride. That's what this democratic civilized alliance should be (is?) all about.

Sure....Canada's First Nations have every confidence that it will all work out someday in a "brotherly" way.

[myata]

But why just pick on Israel? Canada sells to many nations, including the biggest "aggressor" of all. I guess there are not enough PalestIndians to go around.

Sad reality. We aren't really going anywhere with all this "peaceful democracies" after all. Same old, same old, only under a new name.

Pretty much...international law finds precedent in exactly such logic, no matter how old.

Balfour declaration and Queen Victoria was all about a slightly different law though, let's call it "colonial" if it matters (unless in essence it's still the same thing - "us" making "laws" and "justice" for them, if under a new name).

Sure....Canada's First Nations have every confidence that it will all work out someday in a "brotherly" way.

I know. It's a neverending story. La-la.

Edited November 25, 2009 by myata