Reply #34: Well, unconditional support of Israel is also the Dem party position [View All]

It is also the one issue that more than any other single thing, defines the United States for people around the world.

So I can see that the admins are between a rock and a hard place.

How can they permit open criticism of a long-standing policy of the Democratic party, and one that has enabled many Dem candidates and office-holders to have enough money to run their campaigns?

This is only going to become more of a sensitive issue as the campaign progresses, we have already seen one candidate going to Israel and implying criticism of the bush regime for not financially supporting Israel unconditionally ENOUGH. And he is indeed, one of the moneyed candidates, the only one who has even suggested a mild criticism of the policy has almost NO money!

The other day, I suggested that theyrule.net was a good place to go see who rules the world, and gush shalom and bet salem were good places to go find out what Jews are doing. It was immediately deleted, and it took me a while, but I finally realized why. The corporations who benefit from the bipartisan Israel right or wrong policy do not want to hear about peaceful Jews or have people talking about how they (the corporations) are interrelated with each other and how they are ruling the world.

It is actually more in the interests of Politics, Inc. to have people arguing back and forth about how anti-Jewish this or that person is than to look too closely into who really rules the world and how Jews, like everybody else, are exploited by that.

On the other hand, I read your post in the Ask the Administrator thing and I agree with you that the more thoughtful people, the ones who do research and present strong but civil arguments, are probably going to increasingly find that other forums are probably better for that.

Is that a bad thing or a good thing for DU?