"[This site's policy against profanity is suspended because Seham is young and Californian]"

hilarious.

With our blood and our potatoes we redeem ourselves to you, o' Angry Arab!

Yes Thors,

I understand what the conspiracy is and I don't deny that there is a concerted effort by Zionists to alter the facts on the ground in the U.S. to create an environment in which they will hope that their shitty little Zionist endeavor is forever supported by this country. I get that.

But all that I am saying is that I don't think they are pulling the wool over anyone's eyes (is that how that saying goes, I'm so bad at those things) and that I think that they are "allowed" to do what they do because Americans think it's in their best interest to have Israel as an ally.

But you all seem to think that the magic recipe to fix the U.S. is to erase Zionism and it's influence and I think that Zionism is only one facet of what is wrong with the U.S. I read history you know, I know that the U.S. pre-Zionism was not the wonderland that you think it was.

Country clubs are really lame.

"Even Phil admits that Jews have influence far beyond the issue of Palestine."

Ok but I think Chomsky agrees with me.

I find affiliation with La Raza to be much more benign than the politics of some of the justices who wish that they could mandate what I do with my body.

Illegal immigrants are not to blame for the state of CA's economy.

If Americans don't want to pay decent living wages for Americans to mow lawns and work in restaurants why should you hate on Mexicans that are willing to do anything to feed their children?

"I you think that Jewish influence stops with the Palestinian issue, you aren't familiar with America."

I’ve never done extensive research to find out what the role of Jews has been in all issues that I care about or are important to me. But in many of the social issues not related to Palestine that I do care about I find myself in agreement with Jews more often than with Christian conservatives that morally repulse me.

“And if you think that Americans aren't negatively affected by being forced to support Israel, and by the wasted money, wasted lives and corruotion that comes with it, you don't see the issue fully.”

I agree with you and I think that support of Israel is detrimental to the U.S.

“If Jews are major power players, then we have to give them some credit for what is being done beyond Palestine. I don't care if you don't like the discussion.”

Huh?

“As for the WASPs in positions of influence, they all tow the line of Israel. They are owned in every way imaginable.”

No, I disagree. I don’t believe that Jews control the country, I think it’s absurd actually. This country is responsible for a lot of disgusting deeds way before the first pocket of Jews arrived. I believe that the power structure allows Jews to control the discourse about Palestine because they believe it is in the best interest of the United States to continue to have America’s pit bull in the region as an ally and they don’t want to take the blame for what that means: ethnic cleansing, land theft, extrajudicial assassination, routine violation of human rights, illegal detentions, etc.

“Your comments on Sotomayor make no sense. Associating with LaRaza alone should bar her from being on the Supreme Court. Combine her group associations with her repeated "wise Latina" comments and biased ruling in the Ricci case, and the case against her should be a slam dunk.”

I am not afraid of wise Latinas nor am I afraid of La Raza. I think minorities should empower themselves, if that means joining La Raza then so be it.

***Also, I felt that way before I stumbled upon Phil and Adam or any other Jews so you can't blame them!

Todd, have you ever eaten at a restaurant? Stayed at a hotel? Needed to utilize a house cleaning service? I have and I don't think I have ever stayed at a hotel and not had a Mexican woman show up to clean my room. Very hard to go to a restaurant in California and not find Latinos working the kitchen and the mops. But I am not complaining, I don't have the same views on immigration as you do. I live in occupied Aztlan.