For the umpteenth time—it was Likud governments that gave up the
entire Sinai and destroyed all the Jewish settlements there.
It was a Likud government that destroyed all the Jewish settlements
in Gush Katif, some of whose residents had lived there for more than
30 years.
No gov’t ever headed by the Labor Party or had MERETZ as a member of
the coalition ever gave up a single settlement. Try to remember these
facts when you throw out comments like that one above.

I regret that I did not learn more from my grandmother. I remember two - in English-
‘Go away without your feet’
and
‘You should grow like an onion with your head in the ground.’
:)

ellen

If I were an American Jew, I would find the whole AIPAC and pro-Israel professional propaganda organizations offensive, as they do not represent American Jews at all.

American Jews (here I go again) represent the whole range of the political spectrum, from hippies to fascists and everything in between.

It irks me that American Jews are not louder in condemning AIPAC et al and shouting to the world - “This is not us, they do not represent us, they are a FRINGE”.

Just like moslems should shout out something similar about al Kaida and its offshoots.

At least Americans (including Jewish) have no compunction to voice our displeasure with bush, cheney and the neocon rat pack entrenched in the beltway….

thats exactly what the corrupt lying hypocrite administration of bush cheney rice is doing. pressuring israel.

I must be missing something…pressuring Israel? Do tell. What pressure?

Suzanne: ‘Tchai’ is ‘tea’ because tea originates in China. So a chaynik is a teapot or tea kettle. You’re correct in that it is not meant as an aspersion on Chinese people.

But I am cleared up now about this. First of all you cannot bang on a teapot or it will break if it is made of china (presumably where “chinik” comes from?). So it must be a tea kettle- perhaps iron or some metal. That would also make the noise that would give a headache. And thank goodness it’s not a racial slur.