Norm Ornstein is a butt-head.

Lets make this a hate letter about Norm Ornstein with added commintary

You say Norm is a smart man but either he is a neo-Zionist or has his head stuck up so far up his arse that he has dumbstruck me. I have listen to you show since near the beginning. I was there for the O’Franken hour, the loss of Katherine Lanpher and now have been impressed by your rational view about the Israeli attack on Lebanon. As everyone has agreed, Israel has a right to defend itself, but so do the Palestinians.
Norm, most American media, those propagandized by said media, and those in Israel (also subject to propaganda) acts like this started in isolation. It is important that every nation in the world has condemned the actions of Israel, as you have, and demanded an immediate cessation of aggression by Israel the instigator of the current trouble. As you have pointed out many times this stretches back to 1948 when Israel was created out of European guilt. Israel has earned the right to exist as a nation where it is. But the Palestinian are an occupied people, Israel intends to keep them weak, or at least the leading neo-Zionist like the near-dead Sharron, so Israel can have the land “granted it by god”. The Israeli pull out of Gaza was not a peace offering it was a passive aggressive action intended to show the Palestinians how unimportant they are.
The Wall, much like the one in East Germany, is intended to deprive the people who have lived on the land, give to them by the UN, the same people who gave Israel its legal right to exist. A nation that did not need to use terrorism when I could use its army to pacify the occupied territories that is have been constantly and rapidly setting up settlements. IT’S NOT THEIR LAND!! On wonders why the conflict continues. Israel had a right and a genuine fear prior to 1973, having soundly and finally defeating its neighbours its right to exist was moot. It could have taking that opportunity to try and create the nation of Palestine, but it got greedy, and lost the moral high ground. Israel is subjected to terror because if have earned the right as an aggressive occupying power.
This latest trouble began a little over a month ago, when faces with mass arrests and no other means to resist, Humas operatives “detained” a Israeli soldier with the intention of trading his freedom for that of several innocent Palestinians the Israelis had “detained”. This is something done before, even by the Sharron, the Butcher of <>. The current governments response was…well not to put to fine a point on it, it freaked!
It did not perform surgical incursions to reclaim its solder, an acceptable tactic. No instead its started bombing Gaza, hitting its infrastructure; cutting electricity which in turn knocked out water: it get very hot in Gaza during the Summer think about how hot it feels here, then multiply it by a factor of 10. Israel arrested a large portion of the Palestinian Authorities government, something near unprecedented in modern history.
In the midst of the terrorizing of the citizens of Gaze, seeing Israeli’s actions as collective punishment, a war crime, the Pro-Palestinian Hezbollah came to the aid of is brother and “detained” some soldiers on northern boarder. In response, Israel again FREAKED!!!.
It has done to Lebanon (who is also an economic competitor: good reason to destroy its infrastructure and ruin its tourist industry) what it has done to Gaza, there just are more witnesses (I discount the popular press as most people do), real people not abstract “them”.
Norm is out to lunch or worse. He sounds like a Rush Limbaugh for Israel. If Israel is lucky, and it never has been in the past, it will succeed and so abuse its neighbours and its captives (the Palestinians) they will act like whipped dogs and meekly subject to Israeli overlordship. What I fear will happen is it will provide martyrs for the cause and lead to the destruction of Jerusalem, not by an army or even a revolution, but one lone man seeking revenge on Israel in the form of a nuclear bomb. Remember the only ones more insane than the Israeli military are the radical terrorist groups they are trying to defend Israel from, and defend badly they are.
I do not want Israel to disappear, it has a right to exist, and exist in peace. If only it could see that it is the greatest cause of its own insecurity. Much like you Americans have done for your self by abandoning Afghanistan and invading Iraq. Birds of a feather I guess. I hope my analysis is wrong and Israel and its neighbours find peace, but that still doesn’t change my opinion that on this issue Norm Ornstein is a butt-head.

Don from Canada
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