[Rhodes22-list] Politics: How 'Bout That Bill Effros?

[Bill Effros]

Wally,

Here is what Pat Buchanan has to say on this issue:

"While the United States must support Israel's right to defend her towns 
and to strike bases from which Israelis are being attacked, Obama should 
denounce the collective punishment of 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza, 
by Israel's cutting off their electricity in the dead of winter and 
denying them the food and medicine many need to survive.

For us to remain silent in the face of this comports neither with our 
interests or our values. Israel's policy of withholding from the weak 
and innocent of Gaza, women and children, the necessities of life, to 
punish the guilty who rule at the point of a gun, is a policy that Obama 
should declare the United States will no longer support with tax dollars."

To paraphrase another part of the same article, "Obama can't just sit 
mute at the table like the 'dummy' in a game of bridge."

Bill Effros

 

TN Rhodey wrote:
> Bill, What should Obama be doing? Should he fly to Crawford and join Bush on
> vacation? Perhaps go Grouse hunting with Dick C.? Heck what should Bush do?
> The only control we have over Israel is money. They will do as they please.
> If Hanas attacks they will respond. Rightly so. It would be hard fo use to
> be critical of this considering our attack on Iraq.
>
> I think Israel is itching to fight and if Hamas continues to provoke they
> will get pounded even worse. The last Isreali ops in Lebanon did not have
> the normal kick ass results.  I think both Hamas and Hezbollah were
> emboldened by the poor Israeli tactics.
>
> I suspect Israel will take care of any nuke plants in Iran long before we
> feel the urge.
>
> Do you see it different?
>
> Wally
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> On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Bill Effros <bill at effros.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Ed,
>>
>> 150 people who were alive yesterday morning are dead this morning
>> because Israel massively attacked Gaza.  That includes women and
>> children because the Israeli's attacked targets at a time that ensured
>> civilian casualties.
>>
>> They attacked when no one in this country was on the job.  Right now we
>> have no President at all.
>>
>> Obama is on both sides of this issue--where are you?
>>
>> Bill Effros
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> Tootle wrote:
>>     
>>> Bill:
>>>
>>> He is not President of USA yet.  You want him stirring the pot like
>>>       
>> Captain
>>     
>>> Rummy?  He said that there is only one President at a time.  Calm down,
>>>       
>> and
>>     
>>> enjoy the holidays.  While the liquor stores are still open go get a
>>>       
>> bottle
>>     
>>> of Mt. Gay Rum.
>>>
>>> Ed K
>>> addendum from where there is a lot of snow:
>>>
>>> "Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleded sucess.  A whole,
>>> clear, glorious life lies before you.  Achieve! Achieve! - Andrew
>>>       
>> Carnegie
>>     
>>> (borrowed from from the cover of the Pennsylvania Travel Guide.)( I would
>>> have expected some of the native Pennsylvanians on this forum to have
>>>       
>> quoted
>>     
>>> that.  Where is Ben C, Frone, John S., et al????)
>>>
>>>       
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