Comments on: ‘U.S. Not Contemplating Sanctions Against Israel…at This Time,’ ‘Whoops, Did We Say That?’

By: Richard Silverstein

Richard Silverstein — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 01:16:50 +0000

Yes, but read my comment rules. I do not accept links to propaganda sites of either the pro Israel right or anti Zionist far left. Israel National News is one of those pro-settler sites that is pure propaganda & therefore not permitted. Also, this site is not a debating forum between pro Israel right and the rest of us. If you’re here to score debating pts. this isn’t the place for you. If you want to engage with the issues raised here (even in a critical way) that’s fine. But don’t come here with off topic links to issues that show you’re trying to hector or score pts for yr side. That’s what this blog is here for.

Read the comment rules & read comments written by many commenters who disagree with me but whose comments are not moderated or censored if you want to get a sense for the type of discourse this blog encourages.

By: Shirin

Shirin — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:35:58 +0000

I’d be in favour of stopping all aid and support to Israel and redirecting it to Palestinians and others whose victimization that money and support has aided and abetted.

By: Yossi Hector

Yossi Hector — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:19:53 +0000

Richard, do you accept pro Israel comments on your site?

By: Jackie

Jackie — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:30:20 +0000

Personally, I would like to stop all aid to Israel. Why not spend it it on US. I know, it wouldn’t go to the military, industrial complex. It is really aid to US corporations.

By: Warren

Warren — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:46:31 +0000

Right, fiddler. It would be more accurate to talk about it as curtailment or modification of the “special relationship”. It shows how skewed pro-Israel America is in its assumptions that a decrease in aid or special privileges is talked about as “sanctions”. Language becomes almost meaningless when it comes to this subject.

By: fiddler

fiddler — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:14:45 +0000

Isn’t the definition of “sanctions” restrictions on economical or political transactions the target country is normally as entitled to as all others? If so, cutting US aid to Israel, limiting loan guarantees and the like would not be sanctions, because Israel isn’t entitled to these any more than Canada is.

By: Margaret

Margaret — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:50:29 +0000

Chess, anyone?

Obama is being attacked from many directions, not only by those who are determined to bring him down but by those who are disappointed that their most earnest desires are not being met immediately. I agree there is reason to believe he has both purpose and plan for achieving peace in the I-P region, and appreciate your ability to indicate how he is engaging with the pitfalls that lay in the path to that achievement.

By: Yossi Hector.

Yossi Hector. — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:30:36 +0000

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