To say that Israel is in my Dog House is not exactly tough talk, I realize. But others must realize — rather, admit — that, for some people, Israel has always been in the Dog House. For some people — let us PLEASE be candid for once in our cowardly lives — Israel is in the Dog House just by its existence. There are people who hate Jews, period, and would continue to hate Jews even if Israel were, as is apparently the hope of certain Whacko Extremists, annihilated.
I am not one of those people. Nor do I have a bugaboo about Blacks.
Therefore, I do not fear the Anti-Semite card. Nor do I fear the Racist card.
But with its sustained hard-hitting . . . strike that, PULVERIZING . . . attack on Gaza, Israel has lost the natural benevolence that I, as a rational person, am predisposed to have toward people who are, again naturally, determined to define and protect their own sovereignty.
When I say that I have not previously harbored animosity toward Israel, I do NOT mean to say that I have always approved of their policies. Their policies are their business. I have NOT always supported policies of OURS that support policies of THEIRS — which, by the by, IS my business.
It has been obvious to me for some time and by several means that Israel has disproportionate representation in American governance and that Israeli interests are disproportionately served by American politicians.
We’re up for Change, remember? Enough is enough.
I declare my belief that Israel’s launch of a WILDLY LOPSIDED OFFENSIVE into Gaza during America’s Changing of the Guard is below-the-belt, beyond-the-pale dirty pool. I declare my belief that, in their limitless self-absorption, this pulverization of Gaza is to establish for all the world that America’s Excellent Adventure In Change doesn’t mean diddly-squat where it really counts — read that, with Israel. Read that, America has got Israel’s back NO MATTER WHAT.
Count me out.
Israel is in my Dog House.
I would add this:
NOT AN EFFING DIME OF FOREIGN AID FOR REBUILDING GAZA
JUST LIKE ISRAEL WILL NOT PAY FOR OUR WRECKAGE IN IRAQ
And this:
RAHM EMANUEL ON STAFF & SCORNED WOMAN CLINTON AT STATE
POURS FUEL ON FIRES & GUARANTEES THE FAILURE OF DIPLOMACY
Like Columbo, and another thing. One Israeli Made-in-America missile nailed FIVE daughters from a single Arab family. I’ll bet dollars to donuts that Georgie Porgie Bush and Mamby Pamby Obama would re-think their unthinking No-Matter-What support of Israel if THEIR privileged and protected, some might say spoiled, daughters were among the dead.
I am decided that certain World Leaders — in the manner of Pied Pipers attended by Rasputins — have rendered the fabled Pursuit of Happiness IMPOSSIBLE, verboten, to men and women of Reason and Conscience. I contend that my Constitution — which ensures my right to pursue Life, Liberty AND the Pursuit of Happiness — trumps the plots and plans and schemes and scams of the Perpetually Insecure and Insatiably Greedy.
Anyone but me up for an old-school class-action lawsuit?