Henry Payne for October 31, 2014

Nobody hates like the right. They don’t even need a reason.

“Aside from a question of faith in some immediate restoration of their Jews to their former land, this wholesale system of pensioning paupers upon the country to hold a footing in it, is of most doubtful propriety. Nor is it even true charity. For the knowledge of the, in the aggregate, considerable sums of money that are each year forwarded to Jerusalem by benevolent Jews in Europe, leads to the idle, the improvident, and perhaps dishonest, to rush to the Holy Land, with the view of leading there and easy life at the expense of others. The poor population remain in excess of there funds for their support, and much hardship and misery are the natural result. It is quite certain that the Jews of Jerusalem, as a class, are much the most wretched of any there.”

The above from “Going to Jericho- Sketches of Travel” byJohn Franklin Swift, published in 1874 recounting events encountered in his travels of 1868!!!

He goes on to detail some of the abuses of Arab Palestinians by Europeans, that is “accepted practice”, like beating them if they don’t move out of your way in a narrow street, in front of THEIR business!

Considering Netanyahu’s behavior toward those in Gaza, and the West Bank, who indeed occupied the land long before those Jews of the 1860’s, and despite his very UN – “w” – like history as an actual combatant, I would say the “epithet” issued, was pretty accurate, toward his ACTIONS, if not his “person”.

“Netanyahu is chicken___t.” Pure Freudian projection.

“And as soon as we get our illegal voter base in place, we can dispense with our black voter base.”

“We just have to wait until the rightwing gets so deep into absolute lunacy that they can no longer figure out which end of the pencil makes a mark on the ballot. Unfortunately, that probably won’t be Tuesday but they can’t possibly continue this slide into paranoid, delusional idiocy and make it to 2016”

Netanyahu is Obama’s daddy!…So is Putin for that matter.

Just a note again: Netanyahu, even Likud, is NOT ISRAEL!! The problem is their opposition is put down and not allowed to speak to the outside world. Calling a state only recently divesting of it’s state-owned industries (Communist history), still persecuting it’s citizens, both Jewish AND Arab, AND Christian, by stealing land, or ignoring cries for justice and true freedom, is NOT a “democracy” in function. The long ago now attack on the U.S. S. LIberty, and the cover up of that flagrant attack by the Johnson administration heavily threatened by AIPAC and Israel, was a bad moment of weakness. In June of ‘67, we SHOULD have spared a couple B-52s to send a more precise message to Tel Aviv at the time, and told them to get out of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. It might have ended decades of violent abuse by Israel’s radicals.

“Israel” is still not the true problem, it is the radical wing-nuts, who have nukes in their back pockets, and a history of violent brutality and injustice to maintain in their relationships with ALL their neighbors, and even their “best buddy and sugar daddy”, the U.S.. Begin, Sharon, Netanyahu- violent pasts that turning away from, will get them turned out.

Who else in that region is our ally? Syria? Iraq? Israel has some self interest, sure. So do we.