Reply #36: Conrad Black no longer owns Jerusalem Post nor heads [View All]

[IndianaGreen]

Hollinger International. He was ousted as CEO for mismanagement, and I believe he has been sued by Hollinger.

Now, as to Efraim Halevi's rant, I dismiss it outright as another of those Bush-like and Blair-like appeals to emotion while dulling our senses to reason and facts. Fact of the matter is that Tony Blair shares the blame with the terrorists for this cowardly attack on innocents in London. It was Blair that ignored the millions of Britons that marched against his war alliance with the criminal Bush. Over a million marched in the streets of London!

The roots of terrorism lie in the injustices of the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan by the US.

I won't be joining Mr. Halevi's call for a world war against terrorism, a war that will certainly doom our planet to more barbarism on the part of American militarism and the deaths of millions of innocents throughout the world. Instead, I call for an immediate withdrawal of US and UK troops from Iraq, and for an end of American support for despotic regimes throughout the world, e.g., Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, etc.

I also call for a complete withdrawal of the US from the Middle East. It is clear that the US will never play a constructive role in the Middle East due to domestic considerations. Once the US is out as Israel's nanny, the Israelis will be more motivated to seek peace with the more rational members of the Palestinian community.

Let us also realize that there are real evil people in this world that won't rest until Israel ceases to exist and every Jew is dead. Let us also recognize that the only country in the Middle East where women are fully emancipated, and where gays are not killed for just being gay, is in Israel. While this is no justification for the occupation, nothing really is, it is enough reason to challenge those in the Left that see Israel as an abomination, a cancer that should be removed, all the while ignoring the true nature of many of Israel's enemies.