VP Debate - Israel: What has the Bush administration done...

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MS. IFILL: Senator?


SEN. BIDEN: Gwen, no one in the United States Senate has been a
better friend to Israel than Joe Biden. I would have never, ever
joined this ticket were I not absolutely sure Barack Obama shared my
passion.
But you asked a question about whether or not this
administration's policy had made sense, or something to that effect.
It has been an abject failure, this administration's policy. In
fairness to the Secretary Rice, she's trying to turn it around now in
the seventh or eighth year.
Here's what the president said when we said no. He insisted on
elections on the West Bank when I said and others said and Barack
Obama said big mistake, Hamas will win, you'll legitimize them. What
happened? Hamas won.
When we kicked -- along with France, we kicked Hezbollah out of
Lebanon, I said and Barack said move NATO forces in there, fill the
vacuum, because if you don't know -- if you don't, Hezbollah will
control it. Now what's happened? Hezbollah is a legitimate part of
the government in the country immediately to the north of Israel.
The fact of the matter is, the policy of this administration has
been an abject failure.
And speaking of freedom being on the march, the only thing on the
march is Iran. It's closer to a bomb. Its proxies now have a major
stake in Lebanon, as well as in the Gaza Strip with Hamas.
We will change this policy with thoughtful, real, live diplomacy
that understand that you must back Israel in letting them negotiate,
support their negotiation and stand with them, not insist on policies
like this administration has.


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[casanova0102]

why is support for Israel a prereq to running for US office?

[idiottester]

CAN YOU JUST IMAGINE IF palin WON WE WOULD BE FUCKED!!!!!!!!!

[Sshelly34213]

WOW Sarah Palin didn't say anything, I mean she literally didn't say anything about the question. She said I respect Bush, Biden respects Bush when he does something right, I respect Biden for respecting Bush when he does something right, we're for change.

What a fcking idiot lol.

[NicolasJz]

It's funny to see Palin reciting the notes from the index cards McCain gave her.

[leo752]

You are ignorant and incorrect. Zionism and Judaism are completely interrelated. Does the bible not declare over and over that g-d gave the Jews the land of Israel?? And that Jews must settle there?

Furthermore, the majority of ancient Jewish History took place in Israel, including the building of the temple (to serve g-d).

Please explain "divinely decreed exiled". What in the world are you talking about???

[mzkaddah]

man I lovw palestine too..but I just want u to tell me how u plan to murrder 6 million israelis and 300 million americans...not to say that is not even islamic..Yavuz if Turkey had a nuclear bomb, would u aprove using it to kill millons even thousands for a peice of land? think carefully before writing comments like that.All we are trying to do is to pressure both nations to confess a crime of ethnic cleansing that happened in 48. that cannot be achieved by another genocide..

[oo446611]

The truth is that the Jewish faith and Zionism are two very different philosophies. They are as opposite as day and night. The Jewish people have existed for thousands of years. In their two thousand years of Divinely decreed exile no Jew ever sought to end this exile and establish independent political sovereignty anywhere. The people's sole purpose was the study and fulfillment of the Divine commandments of the Torah.

[oo446611]

Jews and Arabs are all really children of Abraham," says Harry Ostrer, M.D., Director of the Human Genetics Program at New York University School of Medicine, an author of the new study by an international team of researchers in the United States, Europe, and Israel. "And all have preserved their Middle Eastern genetic roots over 4,000 years,"

[YavuzSelim2008]

I'M MUSLIM

I'M TURKISH

DON'T PANIC

[oo446611]

President George W. Bush asked Congress on Tuesday to consider giving him powers to use the military to enforce quarantines in case of an avian influenza epidemic. "If we had an outbreak somewhere in the United States, do we not then quarantine that part of the country? And how do you, then, enforce a quarantine?" Bush asked at a news conference. The active duty military is currently forbidden from undertaking law enforcement duties by the federal Posse Comitatus Act.