Why Israel Won’t Change

as Senator McCain announced in his parody of the Beach Boys......

Bomb Bomb Bomb. Bomb Bomb Iran...........................it will happen before the fall.

NOBAMA!!!

I've always felt that the anti-war Progressives who support Obama were going to be in for an ugly surprise if their man ever got in the White House. Barack Obama's most important backer is George Soros, and even though Soros supported Muslims in their terroristic jihad against Serbia, he is of the Jewish descent and thus is never going to support the Iranians in their efforts to challenge Israel for regional dominance.

Thus for Obama to back down against the Iranians, he'd have to go against his most important backer, and I doubt he has anything resembling the personal courage required to do that.

Israel is a Jewish State, not a democracy, Israel has a policy of Jim Crow regarding the Palestinians. no different than Apartheid in South Africa. Israels dream come true is McCain as Presidentt. A warmonger who does not believe in diplomacy, a warmonger who would leave our troops in Iraq for a century, a warmonger who sings about bombing Iran, another warmonger easily manipulated by Israel to send our troops to fight another war for the sake of the Jewish State. Israel has been pimping the US, it's leaders and it's military for 60 years so, a McCain Presidency would almost be as good as electing Netanyahu himself to the Presidency.
Israel does not possess the air strike capability of the US (no nation does) to hit Iran and be 100% sure that it's completely knocked it's program back. Besides, Iran going nuclear is inevitable, sooner or later they will possess at least the ability to construct these weapons. Israel, by it's very definition, is a racist state, Israel, by it's actions, is a criminally racist state, this is obvious. If the Palestinians were white people instead of faceless, anonymous Arabs, the US blind support of Israel would be negated. However, they are not, nothing in Israel will ever change, the only hope for change is to force Israel to the table to actually engage in diplomacy, a term foreign to this state. And the only thing that can do that is Iran going nuclear, so I pray that Iran obtains nukes, nuclear wepaons, when dealing with a criminally racist and oppressive state such as Israel has become is absolutely neccessary to the peace process.

No victory, no peace
know victory, know peace

No freedom, no peace
Know freedom, know peace

No Jesus, no peace
Know Jesus, know peace

The angels made their choice millenniums ago, one third of them made the wrong choice, and now they are called demons, whose leader, Satan persuaded them to follow him, and they have been a plague on earth ever since. Now that he knows his time is getting short here, and soon he will be thrown into the pit, he is trying to get as many humans as will be dumb enough to listen to his lies, to take with him. Don't fight with me about it, I didn't write it, I am only repeating it. And I believe it. Jesus gave us signs to look for to know the end would be near, and all one needs to do is read the headlines or look at what is happening in our world today to see those signs taking place. However, only God, himself, knows the exact time it will happen. Its time we all took a long, hard look at our life and decide if its what we want our creator to see when he comes to call. Don't mean to get preachy, but just being a concerned citizen of the earth.

Why do Darfur's problems belong to Darfur but we make Israel's problems our own. What has Israel ever done for us? They oppress minorities within their country. They are not democratic. They have no strategic value. It is only because we feels some misguided connection over supposedly shared Judeo-Christian values which apparent include bombing other countries. We also feel guilty for not doing more to prevent their genocide which is ironically what we are now doing in Darfur by ignoring genocide. Thank you for being crass and precisely making my point for me.

Is it just an accident that these comments don't jive with the article they are attached to?
Or is something, or someone, keeping us from discussing this important issue?
I just read 'Why Israel Won't Change' by Michael Hirsh, but the member comments reflect a McCain push for expanded drilling; Not the same article. What's up Newsweek? Who are you representing?

On the first day, man created God.

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it.

Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.

???There are no atheists in foxholes??? isn???t an argument against atheism, it???s an argument against foxholes.

Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions.

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.

Iran has land borders with Pakistan (nuclear weapons), Afghanistan (thousands of NATO troops),Turrkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Turkey (NATO member), Iraq (thousand of American trops).
Within missile range are nuclera armed Israel, Russia and American bases in Kuwait and Bahrain. It is a very dangerous region. They have the same rights as any other state to kep nuclear weapons for their defense

There is some very bigoted discussion going on in this thread.
We are all brothers and sisters. Mostly, Arabs are good people, Israelis are good people.
Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists and atheists all deserve respect and dignity.
Give up your hatred. It doesn't help you or anybody else.
When you hate, you are spinning your wheels. When you respect, you take yourself and everybody else forward.

Obama talks of change alot but if elected, i want to see how he differs in his foreign policy approach, especially towards Iran and the Israeli -Palestine issue. He's already declared his support for AIPAC as any american political candidate should when running, so let's see how different he stands from George.

It is interesting thing to read about the willingness of Israel to discuss something serious on the future of Israel with Obama because he is not even from the Aryan stock. Obama has no standing in the eyes of Israel. I do not believe that much was discussed between Obama and Olmert on matters directly related to the security of Israel but rather on the possible strong support that Isreal can give to ensure Obama is elected president.

It is in the best interest of Israel to have someone in the White House who is a true puppet of Israel. Having Obama in the White House would be easier for Israel both in terms of election contribution, campaign efforts, influence or control the US policies and actions rather than having McCain who has his "own people" for backing and reference thus not easily influenced by Israel.

This is the first homage that any aspiring US presidential candidate must do - visit Israel and swear to them that the US will give undivided support to Israel in all circumstances. The ultimate homage will be to address the Congress of Jewish Lobby in New York just before the real election and swear the same.

Why should Israel respond to the demands of the Arabs (Palestinians).? The land of Israel belongs to the Jews. In fact, they have given up too much land already and should take it back. The Palestinians should go and live with their wealthy neighboring Arabs. Why don't they take them in? They have lots of land and some lots of oil our money. If the Palestinians were given the land of Israel, they would destroy it in a few weeks. Just look at Gaza what they have done to it. It is a mess and a haven for criminals and it's getting messier.

War with Iran over perceived future threats of a nuclear bomb sounds eerily similar to war with Iraq and its weapons of mass destruction, including better now than later and so forth. There should be inspectors in place around the world for all nuclear programs, and this march to war rhetoric is nonsense. No country will attack the U.S. or Israel, which already has a sizeable nuclear arsenal. Military threats are not helpful here.

I made some comments below that might seem anti-Israel...and I apologize.

There are good people in Israel and bad, and good people in Palestine and bad as well. The trick to helping solve this problem, I think, is more economic than military.

Israel has the greater economic development, and the power hand here. And it is true that before Israel, the Palestinians were living feudally - just working the land to survive. But there's a thought that keeps nagging at my mind here, and that is that if the Palestinians could get education, food, and jobs if they laid down the Intifada, a lot of them who are tired of the suffering would probably do it.

The trick is to give the Palestinians something to live for - not something to die for.