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32 Responses to “I-97 Opponents Plan $150,000 Campaign”

1. MannyJ says:

   August 9, 2008 at 9:41 PM

   Richard, I came here to give a fair hearing to your side of the I-97 debate, as I had only recently heard about it from your opponents. Your vicious, contemptuous way of dealing with people on this thread who disagreed with you, particularly Keith, convinces me that the other side was right. If you treat people trying to sort out the truth that way, I cannot trust you to be fair to Israel either. So, congratulations, you have convinced another Washington voter to vote — and perhaps organize — against your initiative.

   Your approach is not surprising, considering the way you drafted I-97. If you were trying to get to a fair peace, you would not try to punish only one side in a war that both sides have prolonged. I don’t know and don’t much care what your motives are; what matters is that initiatives like yours on a large scale will force Israel to make unilateral concessions. I don’t like Israel’s settlement policy either, but I will not cripple only my own side in a war to satisfy your self-righteousness.

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2. Richard Silverstein says:

   August 9, 2008 at 10:20 PM

   @MannyJ: Oh please. You came here with no opinions about I-97 & yr mind was totally open to either pt of view, right? Come off it. The reason you heard about I-97 from “my opponents” is that that’s where you get yr information from & clearly you agreed w. them before you came here. So don’t posture to me about yr alleged “sitting on the fence” on the issue till I pushed you off. You were against I-97 when you came here & you left being against it.

   I didn’t draft I-97 & it isn’t “my initiative” as you erroneously claim. But don’t let me spoil yr ignorance.

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