http://warincontext.org/2009/07/02/news-views-roundup-editors-comment-july-2/ ... with attention to the unseen Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:06:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://warincontext.org/2009/07/02/news-views-roundup-editors-comment-july-2/comment-page-1/#comment-4848 Jo Houston Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:17:34 +0000 http://warincontext.org/?p=1692#comment-4848 On Bolton's call for an Israeli strike on Iran. It is interesting to read the comments on this article in the Washington Post, the vast majority deploring the man and his ideas, and consigning him to the dust-bin of history - where he belongs. Your editorial says it all Mr.Editor. On Bolton’s call for an Israeli strike on Iran. It is interesting to read the comments on this article in the Washington Post, the vast majority deploring the man and his ideas, and consigning him to the dust-bin of history – where he belongs. Your editorial says it all Mr.Editor.

]]> http://warincontext.org/2009/07/02/news-views-roundup-editors-comment-july-2/comment-page-1/#comment-4847 DE Teodoru Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:13:48 +0000 http://warincontext.org/?p=1692#comment-4847 On a recent St. Louis radio interview President Jimmy Carter was asked why he only got 45% of the Jewish vote in his 1980 attempt at re-election. Carter pointed out that he was the only Democrat President who did not get a majority of the Jewish vote. He attributed that to the opposition of Jewish leaders to his return of the Sinai to Egypt, they insisting that Israel must keep it. This raises again the symbolism of the Israeli flag: a Jewish star between two lines, representing the Jewish land between the two great rivers, Nile and Euphrates, suggesting that according to the original Zionist ideology the goal of Israeli expansion included from half of Egypt to half of Iraq. It is this lebensraum thesis that has put the US at odds with the Muslim World. Given America's dire situation, isn't it time for US Jewish leaders to remember that they are Americans first-- as American as apple pie like all American Jews-- and that these leaders should avoid serving a foreign state causing the deaths of many young Americans in combat? On a recent St. Louis radio interview President Jimmy Carter was asked why he only got 45% of the Jewish vote in his 1980 attempt at re-election. Carter pointed out that he was the only Democrat President who did not get a majority of the Jewish vote. He attributed that to the opposition of Jewish leaders to his return of the Sinai to Egypt, they insisting that Israel must keep it. This raises again the symbolism of the Israeli flag: a Jewish star between two lines, representing the Jewish land between the two great rivers, Nile and Euphrates, suggesting that according to the original Zionist ideology the goal of Israeli expansion included from half of Egypt to half of Iraq. It is this lebensraum thesis that has put the US at odds with the Muslim World. Given America’s dire situation, isn’t it time for US Jewish leaders to remember that they are Americans first– as American as apple pie like all American Jews– and that these leaders should avoid serving a foreign state causing the deaths of many young Americans in combat?

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