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2014-07-27 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

What Sympathy is Deserved for the 'Palestinians'?

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Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-07-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
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#1 None. However, the question arises as to why the left in the U.S. and in other places across the world view the Palestinians as the "oppressed" and "victims?"

I'm aware of a local community organizer who has been doing this sort of thing for 40 years or more. Although white she is like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson in many ways. Anything that is controversial regarding race that occurs draws them to the flame like moths. This women also is drawn by the latest "so-called victims" like a moth to the flames. It is what these leftists do, it is their avocation, their job. This lady has protested the coal miner cause of black lung disease in the 70s and 80s, union causes, racial issues, nuclear arms, and now the Palestinian issue. It reminds me of that old question: What are you protesting?" The protester replies, "What have you got?" This got me to thinking "Why does the left support all these causes and seldom support Israel?" They view Israel as the aggressor not the attacked or the recipient of terrorism. How does such a distorted view develop? Why does the left typically end up on the wrong side of so many issues. Why are they such monomaniacs and myopic about these causes? They tend to simplify things into sound bites and slogans--never really considering the ramifications of what they do in any depth?
Dennis Praeger addressed this question back in 2002. Left support of Palestinians rather than Israel. There are no easy answers but the question needs to be asked. One would think the West would be thanking Israel for cleaning out a bunch of terrorists who undermine a democracy and our only ally in the M.E.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-07-27 09:11|| 2014-07-27 09:11|| Front Page Top

#2 I've often wondered myself ... and in the last ten years or so, I've concluded that Saudi money likely has had a lot to do with it, in openly or surreptitiously funding anti-Zionist "scholarship", publications and activities.

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2014-07-27 12:09|| http://www.ncobrief.com 2014-07-27 12:09|| Front Page Top

#3 That's the reason a thermonuclear weapon on Riyadh wouldn't bother me one bit, Sgt. Mom. Saudi Arabia is behind a LOT of the misery in the Muddled East. Iran is behind 2/3 of the rest.

Posted by Old Patriot 2014-07-27 18:57|| 2014-07-27 18:57|| Front Page Top

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