DeLay: Israel's Fight is Our Fight

[Resistance]

Way to go, Democrats: you sound exactly like Bush and the neo-conservatove fascists in power

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=143-07232003

"Terrorism and freedom can't coexist," DeLay said. "I know the consequences of that statement aren't small for our nation or our allies. The United States must stand with Israel against Palestinian terror because Israel's fight is our fight.

"Israel's liberation from Palestinian terrorism is an essential component of victory in the war on terror," DeLay said. "It's a 'liberation' we're talking about, not a mutually-agreed upon cease-fire."

DeLay has increasingly taken a leadership role in foreign affairs through his work to expand freedom and his articulation of democratic principles. He was a forceful advocate of President Bush's decision to confront Saddam Hussein's aggression and received the Friend of Israel award this April from the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.

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[mmm]

1. Is DeLay too stupid to understand the truth?

Or is Delay too evil to care?
Kucinich is the ONLY one who will help Palestine
and punish Israel. How can we vote for anyone else?

[Jim Sagle]

3. Easy - push the Dean lever.

[Resistance]

4. No - the point is

that Dean or Delay will support Israel's aggression and ethnic cleansing as vigorously as any other political candidate, therefore any Democrat with a conscience will have a hard time giving him their vote.

[Herschel]

6. Or

Joe Lieberman.

[Tinoire]

8. DK is my choice also

Though I don't think it's a matter of 'punishing' Israel; it's more a matter of being fair and doling our money out more judiciously.

Israel doesn't need to be punished- they need an honest and responsable government just like we do (Sharon is no more honest than Bush and has a little election scandal of his own).

If the majority of Israeli voters support and really voted for Sharon, then all I can say is that they're suffering from temporary insanity.

They are responsible for him no more than we are responsible for Bush and what's going on in our name, under his watch.

Bush too has manipulated the fears of the US people. LIHOP, MIHOP- happens not just in the US.

[vierundzwanzig]

9. I would disagree

Israel is an Apartheid country. The U.S. is not.

[StandWatie]

11. the vast majority of Jewish voters..

voted for Sharon and when you talk to right wing Israeli's they point this out like the Arab votes shouldn't count anyway.

[Darranar]

12. That is not true...

There was a plurality voting for Sharon, but there was no majority, let alone a "vast majority."

[lcordero]

2. No thank you

Israel can keep it's fight to itself. Israel can keep the retribution that they will receive for all of its human right violations to itself.

[Darranar]

5. This really angers me...

Though I am pro-Israel, the struggling for the Jewish vote is disproportionate. With some of the crazy right-wing statements made by Democrats when it comes to Israel and the Iraq war, I begin to disagree and I wonder how much they actually believe some of that junk.

Kucinich, at least, even if there is a difference of opinion between him and me on this issue, is honest.

[CitizenDick]

7. "Way to go, Democrats:

you sound exactly like Bush and the neo-conservatove fascists in power" Check my avatar for the solution!

[StandWatie]

10. Tom's a republican

it certainly wouldn't shock me to hear a democrat say this but he ain't one of us.

You know it's wild just how far the debate is skewed to the Israeli side in this country, way more than in Israel even. Denny Hastert can get on TV and say the Palestinians should just shove off to Arab countries and nothing happens but when Hamas says the same thing in reverse: The European Jews should go back to Europe the reaction is deafening.

[AndyTiedye]

13. Delay is a Fundie and supports the Crusade

for the usual end-times nutbar kind of reasons.

[Darranar]

14. The truth is...

that though moving the Palestinians to Arab countires is ethnic cleansing and certainly immoral, moving the Jews back to Europe is more so. The Palestinians are racially Arab; the Jews are not racially European. However, you are correct that both statements should be responded to with great outcry.