Young Jews Tell Netanyahu Israel Is Delegitimizing Itself

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Thursday November 11, 2010 · 7:29 PM PST

2010/11/11 · 19:29

My oped in Haaretz on the Netanyahu speech disruption. Check it out:

Netanyahu had sharp words for the protesters. "Attempts by our enemies and their misguided fellow travelers to delegitimize the Jewish state must be countered," he said to thunderous applause.

I'm one of the five who was dragged out, clutching a sign that said, "The occupation delegitimizes Israel." When I envision Israel ending settlement expansion and living in equality with the Palestinians - while Netanyahu's government confiscates more Palestinian land and builds more settlements every single day - I wonder who is misguided?

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Monday April 26, 2010 · 4:53 PM PDT

2010/04/26 · 16:53

When will the University of California stop funding war crimes against Palestinian civilians and the occupation of Palestinian land? How much longer will grieving mothers have to wait for justice?

Zinad Samouni is still waiting. She is a 35-year-old Palestinian mother of eight who lost 48 of her family members in Israel's assault on Gaza in January 2009, including her four-year-old son Ahmed.

"The soldiers came early on the morning of Sunday January 4th. [My husband] Atiyeh went to the door with his hands raised holding his ID but they shot him in the doorway," said Zinad. "I shouted 'children, children' in Hebrew but they started shooting," said Zinad's nephew Faraj.

After the massacre, Israeli soldiers left messages for the dead Samounis on the walls of a neighbor's house. The graffiti read: "Arabs need 2 die," "Arabs are pieces of shit," and "1 is DOWN 999,999 TO GO."

Palestine,Gaza,Israel,War Crimes

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Friday February 06, 2009 · 9:08 AM PST

2009/02/06 · 09:08

Check it out:

Everything I've ever needed to know I learned through sports.

Oh, and watch out for those bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers:

Bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie annoy me.

(more on the flip... but not much more)

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_____ taught me everything I needed to know

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_____ taught me everything I needed to know

Sports

3 votes

Kindergarten

3 votes

Grade school

5 votes

University

7 votes

Love

5 votes

Political blogs

10 votes

International affairs/foreign policy briefings

2 votes

Views of Russia from your coastline

4 votes

Sarah Palin's "you betcha" aphorisms

6 votes

Mooseburger

1 vote

Pie

23 votes

Dr. King's Dream Come True?

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Wednesday January 21, 2009 · 8:26 PM PST

2009/01/21 · 20:26

In today's Berkeley Daily Planet, I ask: Has Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream come true?

In part. “An entire generation will grow up taking for granted that the highest office in the land is filled by an African American. It changes how black children look at themselves. It also changes how white children look at black children,” Obama told the Washington Post.

At the same time, let’s recall that Dr. King dreamed many dreams, not just one of racial equality. The U.S. government tends to portray a sanitized version of the preacher, devoid of his passionate advocacy for nonviolence, peace, and economic justice.

On April 4, 1967, exactly one year prior to his assassination, Dr. King delivered a revolutionary anti-war sermon. Dr. King condemned the U.S. government as “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today ... a nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."

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Thursday November 06, 2008 · 1:56 PM PST

2008/11/06 · 13:56

On Tuesday, November 4th, at around 9pm Pacific Time, I had the privilege of announcing to a packed Parkway Theatre - where folks from Oakland, CA were gathered to watch the election returns -- "My first grade friend Tom Perriello is going to Congress!!" The whole place burst into applause. Everyone knows how great it feels to know someone who "makes good."

But, my enthusiasm had gotten ahead of me... the lead swung wildly back and forth between Democrat Perriello and the incumbent xenophobe Virgil Goode for the privilege of representing Virginia's 5th which includes our hometown Charlottesville.

But today, Perriello has opened up a real lead - he's at over 50%.

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Tuesday October 28, 2008 · 10:51 AM PDT

2008/10/28 · 10:51

There Markos goes again. Insulting and hating on Kucinich:

Here's what too many people still don't understand -- there's nothing loony about the netroots. This isn't fertile territory for the McKinneys and Kuciniches of our party.

Markos, are you trying to say that this blog is not fertile territory for:

- Holding our elected representatives responsible for their actions, up to and including impeachment where warranted by law?

- Abolition of nuclear weapons

- Doing not just something, but enough, to actually stop global warming based on a Global Green New Deal

- Labeling genetically modified food

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Daily Kos...

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Daily Kos...

is fertile territory for Dennis Kucinich and his policies

95 votes

is not fertile territory for Dennis Kucinich and his policies

36 votes

other (see comments)

9 votes

pie. with cream and cherries.

26 votes

Biden: A Betrayal of Obama's Core Message...

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Sunday August 24, 2008 · 10:48 PM PDT

2008/08/24 · 22:48

Not knowing much about Joe Biden, I just read this disturbing editorial by Stephen Zunes.... Check it out:

Incipient Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama’s selection of Joseph Biden as his running mate constitutes a stunning betrayal of the anti-war constituency who made possible his hard-fought victory in the Democratic primaries and caucuses....

Biden, who chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during the lead-up to the Iraq War during the latter half of 2002, was perhaps the single most important congressional backer of the Bush administration’s decision to invade that oil-rich country.

Obama's choice of Joe Biden was...

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Obama's choice of Joe Biden was...

a betrayal of the anti-war constituency who made possible Obama's hard fought primary victory

22 votes

a mediocre choice - yes there's some bad, but some good too

21 votes

a good choice - Biden's early support for the Iraq war, while problematic is eclipsed by his positive qualities

76 votes

an excellent choice - Biden's early support for the Iraq war isn't really a big deal

45 votes

other - explain in comments

2 votes

pie in the face of the author of this diary for being so rude as to try to rain on our Biden parade

28 votes

Markos: Support Kucinich's Bush impeachment. Stop your hate.

mrmatthew

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Thursday July 10, 2008 · 8:55 AM PDT

2008/07/10 · 08:55

Hey friends,

Markos has used his bully pullpit to castigate Dennis Kucinich in the past, to the point where he spoke positively about Kucinich being primaried (after misrepresenting Kucinich's SCHIP vote).

I am formally calling on Kos to declare an end to his anti-Kucinich tirades and to state his support for Dennis Kucinich's impeachment of our war criminal president.

Kucinich's impeachment resolution is on the floor of the House today between 3:30pm and 4pm.

Kucinich. The only presidential candidate with the courage to stand for what's right!

(please recommend if you want to force Kos to read)

(check out more of my writing and PeacePower magazine)

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What should Markos do?

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What should Markos do?

Stop hating on Kucinich and support his courage

65 votes

Say whatever the hell he wants about Kucinich - it's his freakin' blog and Kucinich doesn't need the support!

20 votes

Other (see my comment below)

4 votes

How to End Hillary's Campaign (update 1)

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Thursday March 27, 2008 · 11:23 AM PDT

2008/03/27 · 11:23

Many pixels have been spilt not only on the divisive nature of Hillary Clinton's campaign, but the unavoidable reality that every day this sham continues takes us one step closer to four more years of George W. McCain's disastrous policies.

It's time to end this thing. Now. Here's how...

A bold, thoughtful, and courageous member of the media needs to ask Senator Clinton the following question:

"You have previously stated that Senator McCain is qualified to be Commander in Chief, but Senator Obama is not. If you do not win your party's nomination, who will you vote for in the general election?"

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If the media seriously questions Hillary's trashing of Obama's credentials to be commander-in-chief, what will be the result?

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If the media seriously questions Hillary's trashing of Obama's credentials to be commander-in-chief, what will be the result?

It's over - Hillary's responses will drive the superdelegates to end this thing

41 votes

Serious damage to Hillary's credibility, but she's in this thing for the forseeable future

41 votes

Minor damage to Hillary's campaign

9 votes

Not much would come of it

13 votes

The media? What media? Brbrbbrbrbrbbb

18 votes

Pie

4 votes

Obama: a Dignified Climbdown for Republicans (updated 2)

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Saturday February 16, 2008 · 11:22 PM PST

2008/02/16 · 23:22

I have a theory as to why Barack Obama appeals to a significant smattering of Republicans: he provides what we'd call "a dignified climbdown."

I'm a student of nonviolence, and Gandhi and Dr. King always said that in a struggle with an oppressor, the most important thing is to separate the oppressor from their oppression - oppose the behavior, not the person - and try to find a way for the oppressor to "cimb down" from their perch and see the light but with their dignity fully intact.

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Obama will win how many states in the general?

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Obama will win how many states in the general?

The Kerry states plus just enough swing states to win

298 votes

Over 25 states

280 votes

Over 30 states

471 votes

Over 35 states

453 votes

Over 40 states

316 votes

Over 45 states

89 votes

All 50 states except for Arizona (a few thousand votes shy)

91 votes

SWEEP

158 votes

Nahh, he'll lose

87 votes

The Unfamiliar Sensation of Living in a Democracy

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Saturday February 09, 2008 · 9:52 PM PST

2008/02/09 · 21:52

Here's a hot off-the-presses report from my friend Jason, who caucused in Seattle, WA today:

I just caucused for the first time ever today, and apparently I wasn't the only caucus virgin there. The place was a madhouse -- the school gym in the photo was just one of several rooms used for the various Green Lake neighborhood precinct caucuses.

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Monday December 24, 2007 · 5:48 PM PST

2007/12/24 · 17:48

Markos just posted a blistering health care diary, in which he castigates the broken for-profit health scam (er, insurance) system for murdering a teenager who needed a liver transplant. He also indicts all of the presidential candidates whose plans enable the current for-profit system.

Memo to Kos: That would be all of the current candidates except for one... Dennis Kucinich.

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Does Kos owe Kucinich more respect for championing progressive causes (like single payer universal not-for-profit healthcare)?

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Does Kos owe Kucinich more respect for championing progressive causes (like single payer universal not-for-profit healthcare)?

Yes

39 votes

7 votes

Other (see below in comments)

2 votes

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VA-05: My first grade friend is going to Congress - Tom Perriello. Buh-bye Virgil Goode.

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Biden: A Betrayal of Obama's Core Message...

Markos: Support Kucinich's Bush impeachment. Stop your hate.

How to End Hillary's Campaign (update 1)

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The Unfamiliar Sensation of Living in a Democracy

Hey Kos: Want a better health care plan?