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Eyeful in Gaza
BEING THERE
Re: Joseph Shattan's
The Right to Development (in Gaza):
Thank you for publishing Joseph Shattan's work. It's a delight to see him writing again!
His description of Gaza's relative normalcy resembles my own experience. Some 30 years ago, I was a student, studying Arabic in Egypt. I first saw Gaza as we drove to Israel, a trip made possible by the recently-signed peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. As we arrived in Gaza, I was shocked: This is the fabled poverty of the Palestinians? Large parts of Cairo were more crowded, more impoverished.
That, in fact, was a significant part of the impetus
behind that peace treaty. It was not uncommon to hear Cairenes
complain that the Palestinians want to fight to the last
Egyptian.
-- Laurie Mylroie
Washington, D.C.
SMART ALEC
Re: Mark Goldblatt's
Alec Baldwin, Right on Taxes:
Someone needs to tell Mr. Baldwin that giving the film and TV folks a tax break is completely unfair to everyone else. They should suffer the same as the rest of New York.
What is the likelihood that he is going to change his mind when
his livelihood is at stake?
-- Don Goodman
Alec Baldwin warns the New York Governor that "if these tax breaks are not reinstated...film production and television production in this town (NYC) will collapse, and it's all going to go to California."
Has Baldwin taken a look at California lately? The entire state is collapsing -- including the studios.
In the last year, MGM stock has gone from $65 a share to under $2 a share, SONY has gone from $50 to $15, and Dreamworks has gone from $32 to $17.
Baldwin has been supporting "tax and spend" politicians his
entire life. So, pay the price, Alec! If he had any talent at
all, he might have an Oscar to melt down so he could feed the
family.
-- Jack Hughes
Chicago, Illinois
MAN LEFT BEHIND
Re: Quin Hillyer's Cox Exchange :
A great article, Mr. Hillyer, but as a wiser man once said, a lie will travel half-way around the world before the truth get it's boots on.
With the left and their media whores pounding away at Cox, deregulation, Republicans, Bush, etc., the truth that traitors like Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and others created the financial mess will never be heard. And even when someone writes about it the books will collect dust on back shelves.
Then the weak Republicans will, as usual, give up on the truth and actually start playing into the lie because they know the morons they are talking to believe it instead. Cowards.
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Robert| 3.9.09 @ 10:18AM
David Reich (no relation to Robert I pray) is dead on.
I expand upon the Marxist president obama's actions so far in light of the rule book from which The Messiah is reading, Alyinsky's Rules for Radicals. Does any of this ring a bell?
1, Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (Warning of catastrophe, chaos, depression, malaise...the currency of obama and his henchmen). Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address)
2, Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. Witness: the full frontal attacks on Rush Limbaugh and earlier, Sarah Palin.
3, Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. There is no defense. It's irrational. It's infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.
4, Keep the pressure on. Never let up." Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. (Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover and re-strategize) (Do all the rapid-fire trillion-dollar congressional appropriations now make sense?)
5, The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself. (create doomsday scenarios...buzzwords, "crisis, catastrophic."
Folks, you are seeing The Plan in action.
Hitler1/2 Jew, Obama 1/2 white| 3.9.09 @ 6:13PM
The results will be the same, because it's the same type of people who is trying to create WIII, they too were Bankers too.
All they do is keep creating the sampe plots because they work. High Unemployment, then they will be rounding people up, for their FEMA death Camps.
Nazis are back in full swing. Buy all the guns but you'll not be able to buy any bullets.
Obama is the Judas, Hitler was the Jewdas the last time. What is happening in Gaza will be happening on Americas street soon.
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