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Posted By Radiofreeeuropa 1 year, 3 months ago in NewsAnd while Joe Biden -- a 65-year old working class Irish Catholic, the Senator for Delaware since 1972, and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — has a far from unblemished foreign policy record (most notoriously in his support for the invasion of Iraq, but also, arguably, in his strenuous support for armed intervention in Kosovo, which, like that of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, paved the way for justifying war on a basis other then that of self-defense), he has since recanted his position on the Iraq war, and has, for many years, also been unafraid to tackle other excesses of the Bush administration's post-9/11 policies; in particular, through his persistent calls for the closure of the "War on Terror" prison at Guantánamo Bay.
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IzaBluByU1 year, 3 months ago
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Add a comment...ok. Why is it that when I sign online looking for the news that's happening, I have to sift through so much of this pc bull. Why is it that in this whole great nation we can have so many idiots so intent on tipping the scales toward their preference, disregarding the truth. Why is it that so many of our journalists are bent toward promoting the positives of socialism, even though it's been proven to be communism in disguise when implemented by beings being possessed of a sin nature. Don't buy these lies people. Read the constitution of the United States. Anyone that thinks they can improve on that already has their head hopelessly jammed in their own posterior. encourage them to remove it, but it has to be their choice.....................................
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 3 months ago
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Are you suggesting that anything other than swallowing the proven untruths of Cheney Bush and whoever their handlers are propping up with their 2x4s up their butts is a communist? Good grief! Have you not noticed America's journey to the bottom of the toilet since these people captured your unwavering support? They have done nothing but harm to us and the world. The article isn't about Political Correctness capitalism or communism, it's about Joe Biden and his insights into the erred international policy of the last 8 years. It's OK not to like it but Biden a communist? Really? Whose head is where?
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hyperbola1 year, 3 months ago
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I can't be as optomistic about Biden as you. Biden has long been one of the democratic-zionists that have been gung-ho about american imperialism in the mideast and elsewhere. He openly supports the ethnic cleansing of millions of christians and moslems in Palestine for the zionist claims (god gave palestine to the jews) and showed himself to support zionist goals of fragmenting all mideast nations in his silly proposals about Iraq.
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The errors in our foreign policy go back further than 8 years and Biden is one of those errors. Obama has sold out.
Biden, Iraq and Obama's Betrayal
The choice of Biden calls into question whether Obama's offering a "change we can believe in."
http://www.alternet.org/audits/96180/biden,_iraq_and_obama's_betrayal/
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Spadecaller1 year, 3 months ago
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Here we go. I knew it would not be long before hyperbola started with her typical anti-Semitic rant cloaked in hatred for Zionism. Israel doe not have the right to exist according to hyper.
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Of course, for hyper all topics lead to justification for the destruction of Israel.
At least Biden is able to admit he was wrong about supporting the war in Iraq and he presently opposes detaining "alledged POWs" at Guantanamo, he opposes the policies of torture, and has signed on against the power of lobbyists.
That's a pretty good choice on issues and inside knowledge of how things really work in Washington.
BTW... unlike McCAin who is among the richest people in Congress, Biden ranks 5th from the bottom among the poorest legislators. He is certainly not on the take nor is he an elitist.-
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hyperbola1 year, 3 months ago
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Sorry Spade, but zionists are not real jews. Real jews do not rob, kill, expell or put in concentration camps millions of human beings for religious fanaticism. That Biden supports zionism shows that he denies the basic principles of american democracy. I agree with the real jews, like this american jew.
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The End Of Israel?
I am feeling optimistic about Palestine.
I know it sounds crazy. How can I use "optimistic" and "Palestine" in the same sentence when conditions on the ground only seem to get worse? ....
...and yet I dare to say that I am optimistic. Why? Ehud Olmert. Let me clarify. Better yet, let's let him clarify:
"The day will come when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights. As soon as that happens, the state of Israel is finished."
That's right, the Prime Minister of Israel is currently trying to negotiate a "two-state solution" specifically because he realizes that if he doesn't, Palestinians might begin to demand, en masse, equal rights to Israelis. Furthermore, he worries, the world might begin to see Israel as an apartheid state. In actuality, most of the world already sees Israel this way, but Olmert is worried that even Israel's most ardent supporters will begin to catch up with the rest of the world....
.... I am optimistic not because I think the process of ethnic cleansing and apartheid in Israel/Palestine is going to end tomorrow, but because I can feel the ideology behind these policies beginning to collapse. For years the true meaning of political Zionism has been as ignored as its effects on Palestinian daily life. And suddenly it is beginning to break open. Olmert's comments last week are reminiscent of those of early Zionist leaders who talked openly of transfer and ethnic cleansing in order to create an artificial Jewish majority in historic Palestine...-
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hyperbola1 year, 3 months ago
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...So this idea of a "two-state solution" a la Olmert -- which I would argue provides neither a "state" nor a "solution" for the Palestinian people -- is the new transfer. It is no longer popular in the world to openly discuss expulsion (though there are political parties in Israel that advocate this), but Olmert hopes that by creating a Palestinian "state" on a tiny portion of historic Palestine, he can accomplish the same goal: maintaining an ethno-religious state exclusively for the Jewish people in most of historic Palestine. His plan, as all other plans Israeli leaders have tried to "negotiate," ignores the basic rights of the two-thirds of the Palestinian population who are refugees. They, like all other refugees in the world, have the internationally recognized right to return to their lands and receive compensation for loss and damages. This should not be up for negotiation.
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So why am I optimistic? Why do I think Olmert will fail, if not in the short term, at least in the long term? There are many signs....
.... So when Olmert warns that we will "face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights" and that "the state of Israel [will be] finished," I get a little flutter of excitement. I think of the 171 Palestinian organizations who have called on the international community to begin campaigns of boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israel until Israel complies with international law. This is already a South African-style struggle, and we outside of Palestine need to do our part. Especially those of us who live in the US, the country that gives Israel more than $10 million every single day, must take responsibility for the atrocities committed in our name and with our money.-
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hyperbola1 year, 3 months ago
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Ultimately, this is our role as Americans. It is to begin campaigns in our churches, synagogues, mosques, universities, cities, unions, etc. It is not to broker false negotiations between occupier and occupied, and it is not to muse over solutions the way I have above. But one can dream. And as a Jewish-American, I know that while it might be scary to some, while it will require a lot of imagination, the end of Israel as a Jewish state could mean the beginning of democracy, human rights, and some semblance of justice in a land that has almost forgotten what that means.
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Hannah Mermelstein is co-founder and co-director of Birthright Unplugged, which takes mostly Jewish North American people into the West Bank to meet with Palestinian people and to equip them to return to their own communities and work for justice; and takes Palestinian children from refugee camps to Jerusalem, the sea, and the villages their grandparents fled in 1948, and supports them to document their experiences and create photography exhibits to share with their communities and with the world.
http://www.countercurrents.org/mermelstein221207.htm-
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Spadecaller1 year, 3 months ago
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After your usual repetitive rant, one thing remains constant: your hatred for Israel and Jews. Jews who believe in the right of Israel to exist are Zionists; they have just as much right to love their country as any other citizen from a sovereign nation.
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As usual this is not the thrust of the topic. Your obsessive hatred for Jews forces you to repeat the same crap that frankly most of us are sick of hearing about. Even you must get sick of yourself too. -
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miklkit1 year, 3 months ago
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Joe Biden is against the "war on terror" which is about the only thing the republicons have. But wait! Even the Rand Corporation says the" war on terror" is an oxymoron. The republicons have bankrupted our country for nothing.
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http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG741-1/
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Tcaros1 year, 3 months ago
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The Bush's have been on a long course to intall a facist government in America. One that selectively applies our laws and Constitution. One that benefits the wealthy and corporations over the individual. There was a quote from his grandfather shortly after his assets were frozen by the US government for trading with the enemy (Nazis). The disdain for having to abide by a government "by the people" was evident thereafter.
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The only difference is the use of terrorism to restrict personal liberties.
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