Metal Reviews

Express my American outrage at your blasphemy towards Israel.

I feel bad for saying that I hate Israel. Stupid indoctrinating culture.

I was calling America the indoctrinating culture where any form of antizionism is seen simply as antisemitism therefore you must love Israel. I remember people getting physically upset when Obama was being questioned about his loyalty to Israel. His supporters fought vehemently that he loved Israel and others said he would just bend over to terrorists.

Yeah, blanketing a city with bombs is a really bad way to hurt a single group. I'm not well versed in Israeli politics but war with Iran is a serious possibility? A lot of people throw that around but for serious that could happen?

A crowd of anti-Israel protesters in Mosul, Iraq, became the target of a suicide bomber.

Obama's silence on Gaza might strike some as cowardly. To others it must seem an improvement on him opening his mouth and saying something disgustingly obsequious about Israel's right to 'defend' itself. In fact, he has relied on his advisors and spokespeople drip-feeding his pro-Israeli sentiments to the media, so it is obvious that he is basically sympathetic to Israel's attack. However, a small mystery remains. Obama has spoken out on a number of issues, including the economy and the bail-out, so his sudden pretence that he is cleaving to the 'one president at a time' rule (the one that he just invented as a rationalisation for remaining schtum) is an unconvincing one. It is true that the Democratic base are nowhere near as rabidly pro-Israel as the leadership. But this has never stopped Democratic leaders from ventilating noisily on Israel's behalf.

But this is different. Obama was the first US president in living memory to win on an antiwar vote, and to win he had to mobilise constituencies way to the left of himself. People will put up with a lot of bullshit to keep the right out. However. As disgusting as most of his economy and foreign policy picks have been, to come out as a full-throated cheerleader for this slaughter, right when there are dozens of sizeable protests taking place across America against this outrage, would probably be an insult too far. One powerful anecdotal example is the questions and contributions left by members of the public on the president-elect's Change.gov website, under foreign policy. By an overwhelming margin, the most popular topic is Palestine, and almost every comment is pro-Palestinian. The polling evidence is also instructive. On 31 December, a Rasmussen poll found Americans 'closely divided' over the Gaza attacks, but noted that while 62% of Republicans supported the attacks, only 31% of Democrats did. Maybe Obama figures he'll wait until he's actually been inaugurated before he decides to burn that many bridges.

No, Monkey with beer, he's saying that Obama does support Israel but the reason he isn't being vocal about it, like he has about other things, is because he was explicitly elected on a doveish mandate. No websites involved at all...

EDIT: oh wait, yes a little bit about websites...

Yes, that's pretty much EXACTLY what the link says... He is keeping quiet because revealing himself to be emphatically pro-Israel would upset the voters........ that's like, exactly the point Whoever said or even implied that he had a secret affinity for the Palestinians?

Then why did you call me a monkey