Olmert: Jerusalem must be partitioned

[Cory]

I've always found it ironic that the Jewish nation of all people has a policy of expanding it's Lebensraum to the East and exporting the undesirables.

[Cory]

I tend to doubt that Israel would still exist, if the US did not exist, and in that last war, Israel was rather close to the edge, and the US gave rather massive assistance.  Israel worries and works US public opinion as one of its major priorities, and it should do so.

This. When I said handouts I was referring more to the diplomatic side of things. We (the US) stand up for Israel when she frankly doesn't deserve it. When anyone suggests otherwise, the all-powerful Israel lobby cries "Anti-semite" and their Christian Zionist useful idiots chant along with them.

"How dare you adjust your foreign policy when it doesn't benefit us, you must be an anti-semite!" It's frankly pathetic.

[Cory]

particularly Cory, who I think is being outright -- dare I say it? -- anti-Semitic,

How so? I just think the phrase gets thrown around too much by people as a method to shut down debate.

[Cory]

A "people" is an abstraction, and abstractions don't act.

This. By saying "Israel", I was clearly referring to the Israeli governing apparatus. To suggest otherwise is frankly disingenuous.