Posted on April 22 at 9:09 a.m.
Brenden is a beast. I've known him since we were little kids and he has always been a good guy. Self better take him to every game next year.
Posted on April 21 at 2:44 p.m.
I won't be sad to see Arthur go, simply because he can't pass. I wish we could have kept Julian and gotten rid of Darrell, but whatever.
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Posted on April 14 at 4:56 p.m.
To those who oppose the Israeli State, I ask only this: where are they supposed to go? Where do you want the 6 million Israelis to go? Understand that at this point, a huge percent of those people were born and raised in Israel. If you so ardently deny the right of the Jewish state to exist, where do you propose we send these people?
Posted on April 14 at 2:40 a.m.
Simon-
Like I said earlier, both sides are at fault, but the stance taken by the author and his supporters is wrong. Of course the biggest hindrance to peace is the presence of the IDF, but what do you expect the Israelis do? If Israel does not maintain a strong, ready military, they will be destroyed. Maybe if the Palestinians stopped blowing things up they'd be taken a bit more seriously at the negotiating table. I do not sympathize with them.
Posted on April 13 at 11:05 a.m.
Broken_Oranges- What have the Palestinian people done to help the situation? Have they tried to peacefully talk with the Israelis to come to a solution? Why did they reject the proposed 2 state solution of the Oslo accords? You need to do some homework before you bring your tired, weak arguments to a forum regarding the situation in the middle east. You have no understanding of how things work over there. Ignorant moron.
Posted on April 11 at 11:29 a.m.
Beadew- I'm not really sure what facts you are basing your arguments on. Hamas' own charter calls for the destruction of Israel and every attempt at a peaceful settlement to the problem has been rebuked by the hard-line Palestinians. Hamas has not brought about any sort of reform for the people and has done nothing other than sponsor the death of members of both ethnic groups. By firing Katyusha rockets and endangering Israeli citizens, they provoke a response from the IDF, resulting in Palestinian casualties.
It is a complete fallacy to believe that Hamas has done anything beneficial for the Palestinian people other than making their leadership wealthy.
Once again, you have a clear misunderstanding of the Middle East and more specifically the Israeli/Palestinian peace process. Please, go educate yourself before you continue to make baseless accusations and comments.
Americans have a moral duty to demand justice for EVERYONE, not just the Palestinians. You seem to argue that they are innocent in this process, when it is clear they are not. In fact, prior to World War 2, when Jewish immigration to Palestine was peaking, the future Israelis and Palestinians got along just fine. However, it was after the creation of the Jewish state that hostilities start. However, you seem to forget that there never was an independent nation of Palestine. It was a British Mandate and before that was an Ottoman mandate. Don't fool yourself into believing that these people owned the land and were prospering under British rule.
If the Israelis put down their weapons tomorrow, Hamas and Hezbollah would wipe them from the face of the planet. However, if the Palestinians were to put down their weapons tomorrow, the conflict would be done.
Once again, please try not to be so ignorant.
Posted on April 11 at 9:41 a.m.
Once again, you clearly misrepresent the situation in the region. I'm certainly not arguing that the Palestinians enjoy a great life (most people in the world don't.) however, you place the blame on the Israelis instead of pointing out that Palestinian leadership has been just as bad. Yasser Arafat embezzled obscene amounts of money from the Palestinian people while he was running the PLO and Hamas' charter declares their intention to destroy Israel. Josh, maybe it would be best for you to stick to creative writing and leave the political punditry to those who are informed of the situation. Your columns on the Israel/Palestine conflict show that you have a very clear misunderstanding of the geopolitics of the region. As far as you being an Anti-Semite or not, I would certainly hope that you are not an Anti-Semite, but its not entirely clear that you aren't. If you so strongly favor the dissolution of the State of Israel, what do you propose we do with the Jews who live there? I'm interested in hearing your rebuttal.
Posted on April 24 at 4:26 p.m.
As the grandson of two immigrants of different backgrounds, I think I can offer a new perspective. One grandmother was from a latin country, but came from a tremendously wealthy family that could afford for her to learn 7 languages (one was English). She immigrated to the United States to marry my grandfather and worked hard to integrate into American society.
My other grandmother was uprooted from Poland in the 1920s and moved to New York City, like most European immigrants. Her family spent a generation in the ghettos of NYC, learning English and trying to become American. Her mother and father took classes every day and forced their children to practice English. They stopped speaking Polish by the time my grandmother was 10.
These narratives relate to the current state of affairs with immigration because a number of illegal immigrants choose not to integrate into American culture, bringing instead their own language, customs and keeping their money. The reason many Americans dislike the hispanic immigration is because they choose to speak English and force a number of entities (both public and private) to pander for business by putting signs in spanish. In additon, these people do not stay and bring culture to the United States. Instead, they send their money home live in isolated barrios.
If hispanic immigrants and the United States people really wanted to help the situation, they would help Mexico (and the rest of Latin America) turn itself around. Clearly, a number of these people do not want to live the "American Dream" like so many of their immigrant predecessors, but instead choose to be very nationalistic. Instead of dealing with migrant rights, we should protect the rights of naturalized citizens and legal migrants, putting their tax money to productive use to help conduct nation building in Latin America.
If you look at the city of Miami, you can see a successful example of hispanic immigration blending with typical American culture. Miami combines elements of white, black and Cuban culture and embraces the Cuban culture, because so many Cuban immigrants chose to become "American". There IS a fundamental difference between your typical "Mexican" and a Cuban or Asian or European or African immigrant.
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