According to some here Thomas Friedman would be a ZOG anti-semite

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Wednesday December 14, 2011 · 7:35 AM PST

2011/12/14 · 07:35

Some of the extremist pro-Israel partisans on this blog have taken delight in using the anti-semite/ZOG cudgel to beat critics when they point out that our politicians are "bought and paid for by the Israel lobby." Well it would follow that you would have to say the same thing about noted Jewish Middle East expert Thomas Friedman:

I sure hope that Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, understands that the standing ovation he got in Congress this year was not for his politics. That ovation was bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.

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Saturday December 10, 2011 · 10:37 AM PST

2011/12/10 · 10:37

Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic brings to our attention Israel's recent defense of Russian dictator Vladmir Putin:

How low can Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman go?
Low:
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman met with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Wednesday, and said that he believes the recent elections in Russia were fair and democratic, the Russian news agency Itar-Tass reported.

According to the report, Lieberman said that he shares the view of the Israeli observers who oversaw the election in Russia, who said they were fair and democratic.

The elections, which were recently described by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as neither free nor fair, resulted with Putin's United Russia party winning less than 50 percent of Sunday's vote - a steep fall from its earlier two-thirds majority.

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Wednesday December 07, 2011 · 9:29 AM PST

2011/12/07 · 09:29

Hunter on the front page had this story about Fox suggesting the Muppets are brainwashing our children. But I think he just scraped the surface of the real story, which starts around 2:55:

This dimwit is suggesting that since we have social programs that help the poor that hunger doesn't exist in this country. And consequently, children don't need to know that other children may not be as privileged as they are (like the hungry Muppet on Sesame Street).

Clearly, this woman is dense and dumb. But this is part of a larger issue, Republicans want to teach children to have no empathy for the poor by criticizing and silencing those who might want to teach children about how other children live. This is sort of similar to the situation in the 50's when black people couldn't be shown on TV. Out of sight, out of mind.

Israeli PM slams Arab Spring. Why does Bibi hate democracy in the Arab World?

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Thursday November 24, 2011 · 8:10 AM PST

2011/11/24 · 08:10

Israeli Prime Minister expressing his support of tyrants:

Netanyahu: Arab world moving backward, not forward
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday blasted Israeli and world politicians who support the Arab Spring revolutions and accused the Arab world of "moving not forward, but backward."

In his sharpest Knesset comment since the wave of uprisings swept out of Tunisia and across the Arab states in January, Netanyahu expressed his complete contempt for the Arab people's ability to sustain democratic regimes, and his nostalgia for Hosni Mubarak's regime in Egypt. He said he feared the collapse of Jordan's Hashemite monarchy and also reiterated his absolute refusal to make any concessions to the Palestinians.

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Saturday November 19, 2011 · 10:23 AM PST

2011/11/19 · 10:23

I am a regular reader of Haaretz, so really all of these stories are about Israeli extremism. So if you have a story about Palestinian extremism in the last week or so I would be happy to add it to this diary.

via volleyboy1:

Man arrested for 'cursing God'
QALQILIYA (Ma'an) -- Palestinian police arrested a man on Thursday for "cursing God" while arguing with his father in Qalqiliya.

Police responded to a call reporting a fight between a father and son in the northern West Bank town, officials said. A police report said the father called police to break up the fight after his son "cursed God."

Police took the man, who was not identified, into custody in accordance with Article 273 of the Jordanian Penal Code, which criminalizes insulting the religious feelings of other persons or their religious faith, officials said.

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Sunday November 13, 2011 · 4:12 PM PST

2011/11/13 · 16:12

So it looks like Ross Douthat - the NYT's resident GOP apologist (because there are some things even David Brooks won't touch) - has taken on the Paterno sex abuse scandal. He draws the apt comparison between it and the Church sex abuse scandal, but quickly goes off the deep end. So as to not bury the lede, here is the money quote:

It was precisely because Castrillón had served his church heroically, I suspect, that he was so easily blinded to the reality of priestly sex abuse. It was precisely because Joe Paterno had done so much good for so long that he could do the unthinkable, and let an alleged child rapist continue to walk free in Penn State’s Happy Valley...
I believe that Joe Paterno is a good man. I believe Joe Posnanski of Sports Illustrated, the brilliant sportswriter who is working on a Paterno biography, when he writes that Paterno has “lived a profoundly decent life” and “improved the lives of countless people” with his efforts and example.

I also believe that most of the clerics who covered up abuse in my own Catholic Church were in many ways good men... They believed in their church. They believed in their mission. And out of the temptation that comes only to the virtuous, they somehow persuaded themselves that protecting their institution’s various good works mattered more than justice for the children they were supposed to shepherd and protect.

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