OK so here’s what was published:
BLAINE, Minn. – Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin told supporters Friday that “Democrat partisans” had pressured organizers of an anti-Iran rally in New York next week to withdraw an invitation for her to appear. “This should be an issue that unites all Americans. Iran should not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons, period,” Palin said at a rally here. “Unfortunately, some Democrat partisans put politics first and now no elected official can appear. This should not be a matter of partisan politics.” Palin had been set to attend the rally protesting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad organized by major Jewish organizations and sponsored by the National Coalition to Stop Iran Now. New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton also had been scheduled to appear at the rally, but canceled after learning Palin would be there, too.The former first lady, who suspended her own presidential bid in June, has sought to avoid any appearance with Palin, who has emerged as the new female star of the 2008 campaign.On Thursday, organizers announced that they had withdrawn their invitation for Palin to attend, saying they did not want the event to be overtly political. GOP hopeful John McCain criticized the move in a statement to reporters Thursday, suggesting Obama backers pressed for Palin to be disinvited.
But guess what –it wasn’t the dems at all — it was the Jews! Yes, we can really, truly blame the Jews on this one — in particular the Zionists. http://www.jstreet.org
We collected over 20,000 signatures in 24 hours asking Iran Unity rally organizer Malcolm Hoenlein to take Sarah Palin off the schedule for Monday’s rally, and he caved to our pressure on Thursday afternoon citing the fact that the rally had become too partisan.This is the right decision. A unity rally to express communal solidarity is no place for partisan politics. And to give such prominence to Sarah Palin alone would have spoken neither to, nor for, the American Jewish community.This is a victory not just for the 20,188 others who signed J Street’s petition. It’s a victory for the broader community. And we’re pleased the rally’s organizers came to their senses so quickly.Victories like these don’t come easily – or often. But when they do, we should savor them, at least briefly.We’ll be back at it tomorrow, because our next task is making sure that the messages at the rally reflect the view of a majority of Americans – Jewish and otherwise – that the best way to deal with Iran is through tough, smart diplomacy – not saber rattling and threats of force.
I guess it’s more politically correct to blame the blameless than it is to blame the Jews, even if they really DID do it!
Blockquotes don’t fail me now.
That’s all I read of your’s.
Okay, What,
I probably deserved that. But, when I read things like this, from godless:
“I DESPISE islam and the threat that it poses to the West, especially my beloved Britain, but my issue with israel has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with a group of bullies treating a weaker group of people in the most inhumane ways possible.”
To me it’s frustrating to hear that kind of uneducated bluster, and having been drawn into more than a few debates on the reality of history, I do grow tired and bored.
For example, a huge misconception is that the Jews arrived back in Palestine and kicked all the Palestinians of the land they owned for generations. A HUGE LIE!!! The reality is that Jews required only one thing as they were establishing their new state, that land owners register their claim on the property with the new incoming government. No one was asked to leave, EXCEPT by the Palestinians who vowed do drive the Jews into the sea, and warned any Palestinian who stayed in the Israeli state would share their fate. So many left, and they, and their families are the ones occupying the refugee camps on the border, the hives of terrorist activities, and lauchpoints for most of the missiles lobbed into Israeli residential sections. Now, as a condition of peace, Palestinians demand the “right of return” which means that all those “refugees” can move back and reclaim the land they abandoned when Israel was being established. That is, of course, impossible, and the fact is even though they know they made their bed, they refuse to sleep in it.
NeoWolfe
How can they sleep when their beds are burning? (OK, that might not be appropriate here, but somehow you put Midnight Oil songs in my head.)