First: Jews make up a relatively small number of overall Dems.

Your fallacies in just one post:

Most Jews actually know something about the history of Palestine, is the biggest reason.

Please provide your cite.

Many had relatives who were active in the terrorist organization Haganah, for example.

Really? How many Dem Jews does that apply to? Please cite.

Please provide cites for what I believe to be fabrications.

Further I state, and you ignored, that his timing was callous, insensitive, and wrong. He said all that the following Sunday. How dare he.

You act like what he said was in a vacuum. I suggest you read Richard Clarke’s book, Against All Enemies and look at the backdrop of the story.

I also feel that the people in WTC were innocent. I feel the people who were in the Pentagon were innocent. But the policies we keep on with are interwoven in our results. If you simply wish to ignore that fine.

And yes, there are innocent Palestinian and Israeli citizens who are being attacked on both sides in the battles between Hamas and the Israeli government. How dare I acknowledge this…the shame.

Do you understand what “collective punishment” is? Because you and your ilk keep advocating actions towards the “Palestinians” as a group based on the actions of the militants. This by law is “Collective Punishment” and it is explicitly a War Crime. (Geneva Conventions Article 33) You make my case much easier every time you fail to make the distinction between Palestinian citizens and the radicals in Hamas or Hezbollah.

If you want to gloss over all that with simplifications, that is your problem. You simply confuse yourself.

And your opinion of me isn’t my concern. I think your simplifications are silly and “despicable”.

And, of course, it’s easy to “give advice” from our cozy corner of the world. We all saw the reaction we had to 9/11. I didn’t hear a lot of voices for restraint then.

All I’m saying is that if you beat your head against a brick wall and it doesn’t move, maybe it’s time to try something else.

But I would never suggest giving Hamas a pass. They and all these other terrorist groups are an absolute menace. The question being asked [if I have this right] is what is the best way to fight this sort of conflict and win, once and for all?

As for a resolution to stand by an ally? It would be shameful for the United States to do anything less. But we can still ask questions, even of our allies. As they should be able to ask questions of us.

I am trying to not have my blood boil over this stuff, but I really don’t think people will understand until it happens to us and we have to defend ourselves. Perhaps, God forbid, when one of our children dies from a Hamas attack we will retaliate and really anyone who tells me HOW to retaliate can go f**k themselves. I find it reprehensible to keep reading the nonsense about civilian casualties posted here. It’s propaganda and crap. Quite simply, if they want to secure the rights and lives of civilians, they should put the rockets down, stop using human shields and firing from civilian edifices, and stop attacking Israel. To blame Israel is, IMO, pathetic and why the left is losing so much credibility. Like I said, it’s sad that it will take happening to us before people “get it.” But, then again, the left thinks George Bush created and instrumented 9/11. God help us.

As for the above poster’s comment that Congress passing the Resolution “means nothing.” Well, to me it means we still know how to do the right thing and it’s the appropriate statement. Period. I guess Congress only matters when it’s doing things like voting on aborting live fetuses, etc.

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_strange_case_of_robert_malley