Soccer Dad

I wanted to point something out here. On the Yahoo News section, in a story titled "Pro-Israel lobbyist hits back at prosecutors" by AP Writer Mark Lavie, I noticed the following quote:

Rosen warned that other officials in Jewish organizations may be targets for similar charges. "They still believe there are Jewish spies under every bed," he said.

Please note that he said "Jewish spies," not "Israeli spies." This is another instance of the Israeli policy of pushing the concept that Jewish and Zionist are the same thing.

One of the big problems we (U.S.) have in fighting terrorists is the perception that the War on Terror is a War on Islam. The terrorists use propaganda to push this idea: Global Jihad and Islam are the same thing. How can you expect Israel and the Palestinians to achieve peace when their leaders are both extremist nuts.

Bibi won't even say the words "two-state solution" and you expect concessions from Hamas? On one side, you have a democratically-elected Israeli leader, backed by the U.S. who has publicly called for the establishment of Greater Israel - the destruction of the Palestinian State which is the globally-accepted solution agreed to by both sides multiple times, most recently at Annapolis. On the other side, you have a democratically-elected Palestinian faction, backed by Iran, which has called for the total destruction of Israel. Bibi refuses to recognize the Palestinians' right to a free, soverign state and Meshal refuses to recognize Israel's right to exist. Israel's gov't is a right-wing group of Jewish Extremists (Zionists). Palestinian gov't is a right-wing group of Islamic Extremists (Jihadhis). Both sides demand a long list of concessions from the other, but refuse to make any themselves. Both pursue extremely absurd lines of reasoning. For example, in the same way that it is absurd for Hamas to expect Israel to release 400+ Palestinian POWs for one Israeli soldier, it is absurd for Israel to demand that any peace deals be tied to the prior release of Gilad Shalit or launch a war in Lebanon over six captured Israeli soldiers when Israel is holding thousands of POWs.

I am repeatedly accused of being an anti-semite for suggesting that the U.S. treat Israel no worse and no better than all other nations in the Middle East. Until we do that, we cannot be considered an hones broker.

Oh, and how about this:
I think that much progress could be made through some quid-pro-quo deals.

Hamas agrees to formally renounce violence in exchange for Israel doing the same.
Hamas agrees to recognize Israel in exchange for Israel agreeing to recognize Hamas.
Iran agrees to give up their nuclear program in exchange for the internationally verified nuclear disarmament of Israel.
Israel agrees to stop using indiscriminate killing machines against Gaza and the West Bank in exchange for Hamas, Fatah, and the various militant groups' agreement to only attack military and gov't targets. (This hinges on Israel's ability to recognize what, exactly, a "soldier's" job description is and stop refusing to differentiate between soldiers and civilians. This is a huge problem.)

This is just a start, but I'm sure you can all figure out the pattern. Of course, the best choice would be for the Israelis to sign on to the Arab Peace Initiative, but since that proposal is a reasonable one, I'm sure it makes no sense to most of the Israeli gov't and the ones who do understand it are terrified of it.

I am repeatedly accused of being an anti-semite for suggesting that the U.S. treat Israel no worse and no better than all other nations in the Middle East.

Does it make any difference to you who are allies are and who are enemies are? Let's treat Canada exactly like Syria?

Amazing.

Israel agrees to stop using indiscriminate killing machines against Gaza and the West Bank in exchange for Hamas, Fatah, and the various militant groups' agreement to only attack military and gov't targets.

Did you really write that sentence? Let's see, if the PFLP and Islamic Jihad will agree to "only attack military and gov't targets," then Israel will agree to stop using something called an "indiscriminate killing machine." Can PIJ use any weapon they want against the "gov't targets"? Bomb-belts?

Let's also treat North Korea no different than South Korea.

You can't reason with a moonbat who keeps pretending that anti-Zionism differs from anti-Semitism and thinks hamas wants a two-state solution even as its charter states the goal of wiping out all Jewish cultural, political and religious existence in the region.