Juan Cole declared the Death of NeoConservatism in Gaza today

http://www.juancole.com/2009/01/cole-in-salon-gaza-and-end-of.html
Looks like he was a bit premature. As Pat Buchanan says, Congress is an Israeli-Occupied Territory

And such Burris like timing! Just as the UN pulls out of Gaza because of Israeli attacks

Senate to Palestinians: DROP DEAD!

"The Israelis ... are responding exactly the same way we would."

check out 'Sagamore' Mitch McConnell inadvertently hitting one right out of the park (that was his quote in the reuters article).

unfortunately, that IS exactly the kind of sick country we have now--and apparently the kind of mindset that still pervades both houses. when in doubt, invade, blow stuff up, spin the media, and cry patriotism!

disgusting... where ma change at!

I am ashamed that our legislators are encouraging the loss of innocent lives.

Encouraging the Israeli equivalents of Cheney and Rumsfeld as they engage in the Israeli equivalent of our Iraq fiasco is hardly my idea of being "pro-Israel". Quite the contrary.

This is what they are doing with our tax dollars?

what a disgrace the government of this country is.

and you expect them to do anything about bush and cheeny when they praise the same war crimes of israel.

obama has shown too, he is a trojan horse.

wake up people.

This is one that is well worth calling your senators for (to ask how they voted - I'll bet they won't tell you since it was a voice vote - the phone answerer at my senators office even denied that such a vote had taken place).

And even more important to call your house member to tell them how much you care about this. Not that it will make much difference, but you can bet the house members will be deluged with calls from Aipac-bots.

Oh and by the way, this was apparently written by Aipac, since they are the only place that seems to have the text of the resolution (this is prominent on aipac's home page).

Harry Reid is of course the cosponsor. Proving once again what a worthless piece of shXt Reid is.

I know Aipac has written legislation in the past - maybe they could be embarassed with this if it could be proven?

The number of voters who will be angry with what the House and Senate did will equal the number who have posted on this and other leftish blogs. The number of voters who will not vote for a liberal Democrat because of what the Congress did, who would have otherwise voted for that Democrat, is less than half of the number of angry leftish blog posters. Each of those numbers is infinitely less than the total number of voters, AND EVERY SINGLE MEMBER OF CONGRESS KNOWS THAT.

Israel has attacked and killed United States sailors on the U.S.S. Liberty. I have never forgiven them for this. But this is just one manifestation of how they chose to behave. Israel behaves in the most uncivilized fashion in the Middle East and they receive unquestioned support from our Congressional leaders. Well screw our Congress too.

At sixty years old I want to ask just two questions about this matter.

1. Does the state of Israel look at the United States as their second state or does the United States look at Israel as our 51st state?

2. Are we Israels' "bitch" or are they our "bitch".

Why do I continue to be surprised by the human incapacity for shame? I should know better by now.

I would vote for somebody, ANYBODY, almost regardless of anything else who would say, "Our foreign policy will no longer be dictated to us from Israel and South Florida". Ever hear that two wrongs don't make a right? Well Israel DOES have the right to defend itself. Israel should NOT however, have the right to prevent people, (including and especially children), from fleeing and then slaughtering them. Half a dozen civilians killed in a year don't justify hundreds of children being killed and maimed by indiscriminate warfare. The kids didn't "choose" to live there, even if the parents in some cases did. I would also think, that no matter how stupid and conservative a person is, he or she would eventually realize that after 60 years of the same policies yeilding the same results, that it's time to change policy. In a few weeks or months time when this latest round of wholesale destruction ends, the newest class of martyrs will have graduated and the newest class of terrorists will have started school.

This is STUPID of the congress. They are totaly wrong on this.

"I still say if people feel there needs to be a "Jewish state", we should give them New York."

Please, please keep up the hate-spewing bigotry here. My friends and I just love it when Israel-haters look so much like bigoted idiots that no Congressman wants to be seen with them. It's so much easier to persuade Members of Congress that Israel is right.

You want to know when we worry. We worry when people start by acknowledging Israel's terrible, awful dilemma in dealing with Hamas, and add that if Detroit or El Paso had ever been rocketed repeatedly like Sderot by thugs across the border, the U.S. response would have been just as brutal if not more so, and then say they disagree in specific ways with the particular tactics of the Israeli Government. That kind of discourse makes things much tougher for us. Fortunately, few here or in blogoland will adopt it.

I cannot help but think that when the US Government does something like this that the world has a hard time not viewing us as a big, bullying goon defiantly daring the world to "do something about it" not unlike how in the bad old days the USSR would defend the actions of one of it's client states regardless of whether there was any correlation between the truth and the position they were taking on it.

I would like to see a permanent, lasting and real peace where Israel and it's neighbors not only coexist but become good neighbors. I just don't see how killing gets us there. Killing Israelis doesn't get us there. Killing Palestinians doesn't get us there. As Gandhiji said: "an eye for an eye ends up making the whole world blind."