On December 8 Gov. Ron DeSantis signed an executive order declaring the Council on American-Islamic Relations a foreign terrorist organization. CAIR, as it is called, was founded in 1994 in Washington DC. It has chapters in 20 states, among them CAIR-Florida. It is an American civil rights and advocacy organization that has been condemning terrorism, anti-Semitism or any form of bigotry for three decades.
You cannot say the same about DeSantis, who continues to vilify large segments of the state’s population–non-heteros, migrants, minority voters, anyone who supports Palestinians, and now Muslims.
The executive order against CAIR suggests a comparison. Imagine an organization that acts as the travel agent and tour guide for all-expenses-paid trips for American politicians from Congress to school boards. Those grafters go to a foreign country at the organization’s expense, get wined and dined, whore around, hopefully on their own shekel, listen to rah-rah lectures about the country, meet its criminally indicted prime minister, and are told why it’s important to support the foreign country as it carries out a genocide with American weapons.
You could call the grafters friends of genocide. Governors would have good reason to draft executive orders condemning the organization bribing the politicians, if not condemning the politicians themselves. We don’t do that of course, because the country indoctrinating our politicians is Israel, and the organization bribing them is the nonprofit arm of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which calls itself “America’s Pro-Israel Lobby.” It is one of the most powerful lobbies in the United States. Members of Congress who don’t bow toward its Kaaba tend to have short careers.
It’s also because of organizations like AIPAC that it’s become so much easier to dehumanize Palestinians, deny Palestinians the right to exist, deny them a country, keep them under the harshest martial law on the planet and judge their lives disposable. It’s what made the mass murder of 70,000 Palestinians in Gaza over the last two years possible. Thanks to organizations like AIPAC, it’s between hazardous and illegal to criticize Israel without being called an anti-Semite, a Hamas sympathizer, a friend of terrorism.
According to its tax filing, AIPAC had $156 million in 2024 revenue. The national CAIR Foundation showed revenue of $9.4 million in 2024. CAIR Florida? $1.2 million. DeSantis said he welcomed a lawsuit by CAIR because it would give him the authority to obtain the organization’s financial records. He will find a lot less there than in his wife’s drawers at Hope Florida, the charity she leads where a single seedy “donation” was nearly 10 times the entire budget of CAIR Florida.
CAIR does not organize bribing trips. It does not take members of Congress, journalists or anyone else to Gaza to tour Israeli atrocities, since Israel bans prying eyes from entering Gaza and murders journalists who do. CAIR does not lecture anyone about supporting the mass-killing of a people, as AIPAC’s support for Israel’s prime minister and his wars imply.
CAIR is among the rare voices that speak against bigots like Randy Fine, who also thinks Palestinians are nuke-worthy idiots and Muslim members of Congress should be purged, and against a president who calls an entire people garbage. To the meager extent that it could, CAIR has supported campus demonstrators protesting American complicity in the genocide of Palestinians, until the protesters were called anti-Semites and silenced, especially in Florida, where the Legislature in 2021 criminalized all sorts of protesting methods that in most other states are still protected under the First Amendment.
DeSantis’s executive order is another muzzle, though a sleazy one. It is replete with errors of fact, history and geography, in one section hilariously calling the entirety of Israel “Judea and Samaria,” thus reducing Israel to the occupied West Bank. It recycles slop about the Muslim Brotherhood and the “Palestine Committee” that’s been sewering between right-wing quags for decades. It gives its AI authorship a black eye.
The order reads as if it were written by the same racists who gave us the Protocols of the Elders of Zion but in reverse, the way Chaim Weizmann, the famed Zionist and first president of Israel wrote of “the treacherous nature of the Arabs,” describing the Palestinian Arab–in a letter to that other bigot Arthur Balfour no less–as “dishonest, uneducated, greedy, and as unpatriotic as he is inefficient.” It is the language of dot-connecting conspiracy theories. It demonizes Muslims and puts them in danger no less inexcusably than the language of anti-Semitism. It sets up any other non-profit for attack by the state if its advocacy violates maga-chartered dogmas.
A governor has no authority to designate anything or anyone a foreign terrorist organization. But the executive order is the red Miata of flaccid power, pumping up the faithfuls with anabolic hate when substance fails. DeSantis has exhausted the migrant smears, the LGBTQ smears, the woke smears, and signing death warrants is clearly not giving him the lift his elevator shoes no longer do. He needs a new target. Muslims are it. بسم الله
Pierre Tristam is the editor of FlaglerLive. A version of this piece airs on WNZF.
JC says
Not going to lie, having a Lebanese sided more with the Palestinians is some of the stuff you can’t make up to the point it is laughter.
For those who don’t know, Palestinians are discriminated heavily in the author’s home country. I guess when you have a group of people who for decades keep screwing things up and try to overthrow governments, you will get the point that no one gives a shit about them anymore (which is the real thought about these people in the middle east, not in the western world).
Regarding AIPIC and CAIR, they are doing things legal. I am not too sure where the FL State Government have a say in these matters, so I think the lawsuit might be valid.
Allyn Susan Feinsetin says
CAIR was established in the United Sates by the Muslim Brotherhood organization. It was predictsably disingenuous how Ilhan Omar made a big speech at CAIR, crowing about how the organization was first established in the US in reaction to Muslim discrimination and Hate Crimes that Omar stated were the result of the 9/11/2001 terror attacks. In fact, CAIR was first established in the US in the 1990’s. So, it seems that both the truth and basic math are subject to revision by “Anti-Zionists”.
Any accusations you sling at AIPAC are, as might sadly be expected, pure Projection.
Deborah Coffey says
Spot on again, Pierre…and, I am of Jewish heritage. We cannot underestimate the hatred of the White Christian Nationalists. Their lust for power is limitless, wrapped in lies, lawlessness, and covered in bigotry…playing to the lowest of the low who are just as guilty as they are. AIPAC has been on a retribution campaign just like Trump’s, unwilling or unable to find forgiveness, and also controlled by its lust for power. History tells us how these things end….
JC says
That’s cool, go join CAIR and tell us your thoughts. Sooner or later these groups won’t even want you since you have Jewish Heritage. In my time I was part of some social groups where it was mostly run by Arabs. Once they found out that I was Jewish I was given the boot, with their reasoning that they don’t allow Jews period.
Pierre Tristam says
That’s funny JC. You realize that you spend your eternity commenting here at a site run by an Arab. You might want to polish that stereotypical smear off that boot.
JC says
Yes, the same Arab who wanna be friends with the people who partly ruined their home country and help jump start your country’s civil war. Get real dude, I made another post here as soon as the article was published criticizing your stance on this issue. I already know your background and I will continue to criticize your stance. Except for you, I never personally know any other Lebanese who even gave a shit about these people (which is about 15-20 people). In fact as you know, a lot of Lebanese hate the Palestinians with a passion.
Pierre Tristam says
No disagreement here, and I have written about the immoral treatment of Palestinians by the Lebanese government. It is also true that Palestinians were primarily the reason for the 1975 civil war, they demolished the country, I think a couple of the rockets that hit my apartment building had their signatures (fortunately we were in the back, rather han on the side of the building facing the Green Line), they’re the reason I was eventually driven out. I grew up despising them. But it was also the Lebanese government, particularly President Charles Helou, who in 1969 signed the Cairo accord, the worst accord since Munich in 1938, allowing the PLO to set up shop in Palestinian refugee camps and operate out of Lebanese soil against Israel. That enabled the state within a state that the PLO became until Israel’s mini-genocidal invasion of 1982, which drove out the PLO so Hezbollah could sill the vacuum. Israel welcomed Hezbollah at the time, the very same way it funded and developed Hamas, thinking Hezbollah was better than the PLO, just as it thought Hamas was better than Fatah. Wrong on both counts of course. Point being that no one’s hands are clean in this, and that in the end, for all the destruction the PLO caused in Lebanon, Palestinians=–people like you and me–did not ask for any of this, and Lebanese bigotry doesn’t lessen the imperative to recognize objectively who is at the bottom the shit pile and who is owed a country. Palestinians, on both counts. I have grown out of my own bigotry for Palestinians. I wish you would, too.
JC says
Not going to happen regarding my “bigotry” on my end:
* I lost relatives from Palestinians terrorists in Israel, they were minding their own business and boom. Even lost a relative from the Oct 7 attacks.
* I previously went into businesses that were run by Palestinians who told me up front we don’t serve Jews, Israelis, Zionist and we don’t want them here. They even have the signs in their businesses upfront saying they refuse to serve to these group of people.
* I personally been attacked a few times by Palestinians when they found out that I was Jewish. I had to stop wearing my Star of David in public because I keep getting hit with rude comments or being attacked. I don’t even want to even talk more about those experiences.
* Growing up when you hang out with other arabs who aren’t Palestinians, you will discover the borderline hate for the Palestinians from other Arab groups.
* Studying the history no hand is clean, but I put a lot of blame on the Arab League and the PLO for a good part of the mess the Palestinians are in.
* Hearing some Palestinians keep talking about being a victim but not making the right decisions to stop the fighting and let’s do a two state solution. Oh wait, the Arab Nations refused this agreement with the UN back at 1948 and boom, the Civil War and then the first Arab-Israeli war. Everyone keeps talking about Nakba, but people keep forgetting that most of the Arab Nations booted out their Jews post 1948. But yet when I bring up that point, I get told by multiple Palestinians that who cares about the Jews who were kicked out of the Arab Nations, that isn’t a terrible moment.
–Fun fact: Those Jews who got kicked out of the Arab Nations later came to Israel, and started the path of turning Israel from a Left-Wing Nation into the Right-Wing Nation run by the current Likud Party.
Now with all the issues above I get told often to drop by “bigotry” to these same group of people who hate my guts? Never. End of the day, Hamas controls Gaza and any issues of the Palestinians living in Gaza including why they are living like crap should be mostly blamed on Hamas. You can also put the blame on Israel on this part as well, but most of the blame is on Hamas.
From decades of terrible decisions the Palestinians did, to personal attacks on me and my family from these people, you might understand why some people like me will always be jarred about these people until it is time for me to leave the earth. It gets even more toxic when the few Palestinians who were super nice to me were the Palestinians Christians who left the West Bank since the Palestinians Muslims were driving them out. Now those are the Palestinians who hate the Palestinians Muslims and they went on and on about it.
You will most likely agree that even Lebanese don’t like each other, that I learned from growing up with Lebanese people (Which are some of the nicest people I met from the region, even if they have ultra valid reasons to hate Israel and Israelis in general. Can’t blame them).
PaulT says
Inconsistency is rife while tribalism, along with religion causes eternal strife and endless atrocities.
How can (ultra orthodox) Israeli settlers,claiming West Bank land their ancestors effectively lost after war and occupation in the Roman invasion in 2nd century CE, have more ‘Right of Return’ than a Palestinian whose grandparents were displaced from their lands in Mandstory Palestine.duribg the Nakha, the 1947/8 civil war.
The focus of that conflict was a ‘grab’ of Arab land and was started by Zionist militias. They didn’t like the borders of the proposed UN Partition Plan so armed gangs drove Arabs from their homes and farms..That greed for land created the ongoing refugee crisis and conflict.
But the point of Pierre’s article is that AIPAC through lobbying and donations to American politicians of both parties, has purchased virtually unconditional Congresional support for the Statr of Israel. Then the US government turned a blind eye to atrocities committed in Gaza by the IDF against Palestinian non combatant men, women and children.
Total war, arguably a disproportionate reprisal for even those evil atrocities comitted by Hamas militants, generally acknowledged to be a terrorist group.
We had hoped better of Israel.
JC says
Fun fact: Arabs and Zionist kicked each other out of their lands during 1947/1948, and both sides did some terrible crap with each other (this is a fact, no side is innocent). Also regarding the UN Partition Plan, Jews accepted the plan (which was originally mostly desert land), but not the Arabs or the Arab Nations surrounding it. This jump start the crap in 1947/1948. Please get your history right on that part.
Regarding the deaths in Gaza, blame that on Hamas. Hamas like most of the terrorist group in the region know that if they hide their operations and stuff in areas heavy of people and the IDF blows them up, it will get tons of Palestinian Deaths that can turn the tie of public opinion against the Israelis and more positive thoughts towards the Palestinians. Then again, follow the money. How the top leaders of Hamas are ultra rich while the folks in Gaza are poor as crap? Hamas of course are taking money left and rid that should be for Gaza but instead only goes to them. All those donations that are going to the folks in Gaza? How do we know it is actually going to them? Real questions should be answered when why the leaders of Hamas and the PA in the West Bank are rich as hell?
Also please check your spelling and your formatting. You keep mistyping your responses on top of not using paragraphs with spacing. It makes your responses more or less a giant wall of text.
Laurel says
It is shameful that our politicians spend an inordinate amount of time spreading hate and bigotry, and stirring up American citizens’ anger. Have they nothing better to do?
Pogo says
It is what they do. Over time, a record is established. And always, the rest of us live with the results.
The chattering class picks and chooses; pose as “public intellectuals” — some with sincere pomposity, others with false humility. Most are an intentional mixture of those that they claim is just their true nature.
Back to the amen channel, where seldom is heard — an unwelcome word, e g., what nationalist factions employ child soldiers?
Maybe if I don’t include a link, you may actually be allowed to read this.
Laurel says
Pogo: I do so enjoy your writings, along with Pierre T., Ray W, Sherry, Skibum and others. Y’all push me to learn more! You, are a poet. Pierre is a wordsmith. Ray W provides unbiased facts. Sherry and Skibum won’t allow bs. So good to be here!
Pogo says
Thank you, I agree with ALL you said — your own contributions are substantial and substantive.
Happy Holidays
David Jolly 2026
Sherry says
Thanks Laurel! Right back you ya! I would say of you that you are the one doing her level best to pull the worst Magas away from the edge. You try to reason with them, forgive them and beg them to come back to reality.
Here’s sincerely hoping that, between us all, “something” influential is getting through to some of that group.
Happy Holidays and here’s to a much better 2026! Looking forward to the “Blue Wave” in November!
Laurel says
Sherry, Pogo and others: Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year to y’all too! It will get better, eventually.
When we first moved to the Hammock, it was very quiet, usually, and one of the local churches would play carillon music that would stream through the oak trees. Times changed, people moved in with their commercial lawn care, and trees came down for the new “growth.” Tons of strangers and noise everywhere! The carillon stopped for years.
But guess what? The carillon is back! A clock “chimes” beautifully on the hours, and music can be heard again!
I have hope, and hope y’all have a wonderful 2026, and a holly, Jolly, Christmas!
PaulT says
Spot on as usual Pierre. Lets hope the CAIR lawsuit prevails even this age where a lot of recently appointed judges have a blatant political taint.
I understand that AIPA’s vast funds are spent by lobbyin to buy the minds of Federal politicians and of course the media to ensure support of Israel regardless of that country’s crimes.
The vilification of CAIR by DeSantis and the Legislature is not a direct result of donations from.AIPAC though quite a few wealthy AIPAC donors have also supported DeSantis PACs, So the outlawing of CAIR in Florida may just be down to Ron’s Christo-Facist bigotry.
I wonder about the anti Islam, anti Arab contributors like JC and Ms Feinsetin.
Have they ever lived in the Middle East? Have they worked and socialized with Palestinians and other Arab nationals, or even any ‘non American third country nationals’. Or is their visible bias based purely on heresay, innuendo and third hand exaggerations.
There are bad actors wherever you are regardless of their purported religious affiliation or racial origins. It’s important to recognize that the bad actor’s actions, though newsworthy, do not define the attitudes of whole communities or ethnic groups most of whom are just trying to survive, to live their lives.
To do that is bigotry.
Laurel says
The vast majority of bigotry comes from people who have no associations, and little knowledge of, the people they are bigoted against.
Sherry says
Good Morning Laurel,
Couldn’t agree more!
JC says
Hey Paul, I did spend some time in the middle east, and I been part of various areas within the US with heavy population. This also includes Palestinians heavy areas as well. I posted another post here that talked about the attacks the Palestinians did to me and my family, but that was responding back to PT comments. Excluding my direct history with them, here’s my general experience with them:
* Palestinian Christians don’t like the Palestinian Muslims at all.
* The Palestinian Muslims in my experience here in the Middle East and in America are heavy social conservatives, with their upfront homophobia and men having the dominant role in the household. Women role is mostly limited unless the husband is ok with the women having jobs and being independent. This is similar to most Arab cultures as well.
** When a Palestinian Muslim American becomes more American like everyone else and goes against their family teachings, they normally get the boot from their families. I feel sorry for them if they turn out to be LGBT since that is a major no-no in Palestinian Muslim culture and in most Arab cultures period. However, if they live in America they don’t need to repeat the sins of their parents.
* Other Arabs groups also don’t like the Palestinians that much, but they don’t want to say it upfront since they will look like a traitor to their friends. Give them some Arak and they will start speaking.
* In most Arab/Muslim enclaves, the culture is dominate conservative. Here’s a perfect example of the culture clash up in MI when a Muslim Majority City Counsel do what social conservatives do best: https://archive.ph/cMGLi
** Too many progressives keep supporting these groups of people, but knowing the Muslim social conservative culture they are against the liberal/progressive ideals. Just seeing Queers for Palestine is insulting, since the LGBT activity is a big no-no in Muslim culture regardless of location.
* I was up in Jacksonville a long time ago at a Muslim restaurant. A LGBT person with rainbow flag shirt and tattoos came in. The waitress who was wearing the hijab politely told that person that they need to cover up their tattoos and the rainbow flag shirt since the restaurant was run by social conservative muslims and anything related to LGBT or tattoos are not accepted in their establishment. The person was angry but left, after making a statement of their people helping their people against GWB back in the 2000s.
** This part above was not shocking, tattoos are a big no-no in Muslim culture and so is the LGBT lifestyle. I tell friends who visit these conservative Muslim businesses to not reflect anything LGBT or even showing a crazy amount of tattoos.
I can go on and on, but that’s part of my general experience.
PaulT says
Hi JC
I have no experience of Muslim or for that matter any minority neighborhoods or groups in the US. Unless you include liberals who in Florida seem likely to become an endangered species.
I can, however, relate to the reality of ethnic groups clinging together in lands foreign to them which I suspect happens all over the world.
I lived and worked in Saudi Arabia for some years latterly for a a big Saudi owned construction company. It felt a bit like the United Nations and I’ve never tried to count the number of nationalities I worked and socialized with. But society in that very stricly Muslim country was extremely hierarchical almost as if people were ranked by country of origin. Saudis on top of course but the Palestinians certainly weren’t at the bottom, nor were they disparaged, at least not where I worked. As a Briton I was certainly a farangi or perhaps Al Faranji, which seemed fair enough. The co workers in my department were Brits Americans and Irish. Palestinians, Syrians Thais and Fillipinos. We had two factory run by Finns with a Yemeni workforce while our admin staff were mostly Iraqi, our secretarial staff from Pakistan. And our sub contractorswere Korean,
But we muddled along together pretty well, no ethnic strife that I saw..
After the desert I found myself working in the Caribbean for nearly ten years. Ethnic groups still hung together but once again we tolerated each other and worked and played together.
I ended up living in the US nearly 30 years ago and was surprised by the disdain and the putdowns aimed at me and the tension I sensed between the differing social levels and ethnic groups.
Perhaps Americans are more commpetitivet which may result in insecurity, uncertainty over who to trust and who to fear. Perhaps that filters down to us immigrants, whether resident or naturalized citizen and as a result the groups cling together and become more competitive, more protective perhaps more suspicious of each other.
Sherry says
Thank you Paul T.! Happiest of Holidays!
We have experience much the same thing in our extensive travels. Close minded grudge holding only rots you from within! There is most certainly way too much of that kind of insecure, fear filled negativity in the US!
Allyn Susan Feinsetin says
So, pointing out that Jews have a right to defend their existence in the one sole majority Jewish nation on earth (that just happens to be the historical homeland of the Jews) is “anti-Arab”?
What I kinow–and what a loot of the articles on this site and the comments that follow show, is that for many “Anti-Zionists”, the existence of that one majority Jewish nation will always be just one too many to bear. And it has nothing to do with people being “Anti-Arab”.
Once again, Projection noted.
Sherry says
@allyn,
As a very spiritual, Buddhist, woman who was once married into a Jewish family, and who still has many jewish friends and extended family, I simply do not see a “righteous” point to this “Genocide”. To me, this is all murder and atrocities committed all in the name of “My God is Better Than Your God”! Just look at the history of “religious” wars which result in “human’s inhumanity”! When will the human race learn from horrific history? When will the human race learn to embrace and love one another as equals, as one human family?
What is obnoxious to me is your “superior” attitude towards other human beings. I most certainly do not hear anyone in my circle of friends and family speaking the way you do. My relatives who actually live in Israel find Netanyahu to be corrupt, inhumane, power hungary, and dangerous. They tell us that many Iraelies think he should be in prison.
When you speak of Jewish Rights to some kind of historical homeland. Was that your “superior” God that held the “deed” to that land for the Jews until their return? Just what gives Jews the almighty right to kick out the “non Jewish” people living on that
land to begin with?
And now, your complete insistence that we should all just deny what we see and think of the Gaza genocide because what? Hamas started it. The Gazans elected a terrorist organization. And whatever kind of tripe you are trying to sell.
How incredibly hypocritical that the same people who suffered the unspeakable atrocities of the Holocaust are now inflicting something very similar on those living in Gaza!
JC says
@Sherry,
End of the day Gazans elected Hamas, who mission is to kick out out the Jews from Israel by any means. That’s what they teach their followers. Oh yes, being Buddhist in Gaza and West Bank can put a target on your back, since minority religions aren’t welcomed in both areas.
I wonder if your relatives in Israel are all voting for the Left-Wing parties, which more/less doesn’t even have political party anymore in Israel. You know the Left-Wing is so weak in Israel that they have to call themselves Centralist to even get votes in Israel now.
Laurel says
Yrump accepted a bribe jet by the very people who support Hamas.
Sherry says
Excellent Point Laurel!
I’ll also point out that Israel/netanyahu financially supported Hamas for years!
The Government of Israel has been involved in assisting or empowering the Palestinian political and military organization Hamas at various points in its history.[1][2][3][4][5][6] This support continued during and in spite of active military hostilities between the two sides.
During the 1970s, Israel began providing support to Ahmed Yassin, a Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood leader who controlled a network of Islamic schools, mosques, and clubs, in order to weaken the secular nationalist Palestine Liberation Organization.[2] It continued to encourage the expansion of Yassin’s network during the first year and a half of the First Intifada, as the network re-organised into Hamas. This support lasted until 1989, when Hamas launched its first attacks on Israelis, leading to a significant crackdown against the organisation.[7] Multiple Israeli officials have acknowledged Israel’s role in strengthening Yassin’s network.
In the late 2010s and early 2020s, Israeli officials encouraged Qatari support for Hamas,[8] especially by way of approving the transfer of large sums of financial aid by Qatar’s government to the organization.[9] Several Israeli intelligence officials have cited Qatari money as a contributing factor to the success of Hamas in leading the October 7 attacks in 2023;[10] Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called the notion that Israel strategically propped up Hamas “ridiculous”, and stated that Qatar’s aid transfers to the Hamas government had been approved for humanitarian reasons.[11]
JC says
Sherry, are you dumb to the point you are copying and pasting a web article where the footnotes are left in your comments? Kind of hard to take your seriously when you can’t even format your responses right.
Laurel says
JC: It’s quoting facts. One should not reformat a quote. If you are searching for a grammatical error, it would be the lack of quotation marks. Sherry is hardly “dumb,” but apparently, calling her so, is like an aspirin for you. You felt better, didn’t you?
Sherry says
@ jc. . . . NO. . . Who happens to be elected and politically “In Charge” does NOT always reflect the “Will of The People” in that nation!
I sure as hell didn’t vote for that monstrous abomination named trump, AND according to the vast majority of current polls, well over 50% of the US citizens do NOT approve of trump as President!
Since trump has “MURDERED” over 100 people from Venezuela without “Due Process” for “suspected” drug trafficking, am “I” to blame for those murders??? Does Venezuela now have the right to “MURDER” ten times as many civilian US citizens because of what trump has done?
No need to reply. . . those are rhetorical questions to make a point.
JC says
@Sherry, no you miss the point. Do not bring in Trump or South American into this since I didn’t bring up both points at all. Gaza = Hamas, you can’t split this up at all. If you are too triggered to not understand this fact, then I can’t help you.
Sherry says
You know what JC. . . one of the the last things in this world I would ask is for some maga indoctrinated chauvinistic fool who doesn’t even know what an analogy is to “help” me! Really? LOL! LOL! LOL!
JC says
Just a FYI I didn’t vote for Trump and I am not MAGA. Trump is just an old school NYC Democrat that sucks. I didn’t vote for him at all, and with regards to this conversation bringing him up doesn’t make sense. Try to keep on topic, it would make your responses more creditable.
Laurel says
Sherry: You got it! Well said. How are the Palestinians to raise food, and survive in the rubble left them? It’s intentional genocide.
JC says
They can start by the following:
* Uprise against Hamas and get rid of them.
* Stop teaching to kill all the Jews.
* Stop attacking minorities and LGBT folks.
* Stop looking like a victim and actually want peace like Egypt and Jordan did and have a government where the people on top steals all of their money and leave them poor.
Very simple, if they do these things Israel would remove of the Blockage and even Egypt and Jordan might tolerate letting more things cross their borders into Gaza and West Bank.
Laurel says
Or, Israel could back a two state system, and they could leave each other alone. Nah, never happen.
Sherry says
Right On Laurel!
Also, thanks so much for jumping in to counter the drivel from jc! I’ll not be wasting my treasured time on just another radicalized, far right winged troll.
Pogo says
@A man of letters proclaimed
… Calling CAIR Terrorists While AIPAC Buys Genocidal American Policy…
You left out The Merchant of Venice; and the humble beggars of OPEC.
Deport maga says
Republicans terrorist deciding who they declare terrorist lol. Antifa ,human rights organizations.. republicans are the terrorist!
Ray W. says
Bigot, as defined by Merriam-Webster, means:
“a narrowly-minded person who obstinately adheres to their own opinions and prejudices
especially : one who strongly and unfairly dislikes or feels hatred towards others based on their group membership.”
I condemn the murderous religious extremist Jewish settlers who are trying to ethnically cleanse all of Palestine from the river to the sea just as much as I condemn the religious extremist Hamas terrorists who are trying to ethnically cleanse all of Palestine from the river to the sea.
There are three plagues upon mankind:
Nationalism
Racism
Religious extremism
The region long known as Palestine, including Israel, is infected by each of the three plagues. The region comprises some of the most despicable people on the planet.
The extremists on both sides know who married outside the faith; they know who murdered who; they know who snitched on who. Time of offense does not matter. Centuries do not matter. Vengeance and retribution are the price of entry to the groups. The law of the debt of blood vengeance blankets the land. The cries of the just go unheard.
When Hamas terrorists recently went door to door throwing grenades into Jewish homes they were channeling the Jewish soldiers who, in 1948, went door to door in an Arab village throwing grenades into Palestinian homes.
For the past century, some of the best minds of their time tried to bring peace to Palestine. None succeeded.
One does not reason with a Jewish religious extremist murderer any more than with a Hamas religious extremist murderer. The law of the debt of blood vengeance weighs too heavy on their minds. Reason cannot cure such plagues.
As an aside, the Israeli government just announced plans for seven new West Bank settlements.
Laurel says
Bullseye!
Ah, yes. Where have I heard “retribution” recently?
Sherry says
But Ray,
She said sarcastically: Didn’t trump just settle each and every dispute in the middle east? There’s no more conflict, right? Everyone is extremely happy with the outcome of trump’s genius “deal making”, right?