Comments on: A mind is a difficult thing to change: (Part 7A: Jenin, Jenin)

By: Truth, Honor, Hot Iron And Cold Water, « Sigmund, Carl and Alfred

Truth, Honor, Hot Iron And Cold Water, « Sigmund, Carl and Alfred — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:33:36 +0000

[...] A Mind Is A Difficult Thing To Change, Part 7A, Jenin Jenin and Part 7B, The Vietnam Photos Revisited, are two of the most posts documenting Neo’s [...]

By: Lost In Space And Time « Sigmund, Carl and Alfred

Lost In Space And Time « Sigmund, Carl and Alfred — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:22:36 +0000

[...] January 18, 2008 While many current events continue to be laundered in the spin cycle, none has been so reworked as the myths and fables of Palestinian failures and deceit (see Neo-neocons excellent A Mind Is A Difficult Thing To Change: (Part 7A: Jenin, Jenin). [...]

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:15:24 +0000

I listened to the playback of Bush’s 2005 January speech, made days after the advent of the Iraqi elections and the purple fingers motiff. While Bush mentioned generally those seeking to undermine the war, he neither named those people, Kennedy, Byrd and Pelosi for example, nor did Bush tell the American people what they can do to counter Senatorial corruption and defeatism except “don’t give into despair”. As a guide on resisting enemy propaganda, it lacks a certain number of details.

By: Vince P

Vince P — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:53:24 +0000

He died of AIDS. The Palestinians speak openly about it. There’s a MEMRI clip about it.

By: Gray

Gray — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:34:03 +0000

Wanna solve a mystery? Try and discover what Arafat died of.

By: Grizzly Recare

Grizzly Recare — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:20:26 +0000

I lost faith in the MSM some time ago as well. Jayson Blair and Eason Jordan taught me to be skeptical, Dan Rather put the final nail in the coffin… After Rathergate I started to take a more critical look at the local newspaper I read daily. Guess what! I found more and more information that was suspect at best. I finally gave up and canceled my subscription to the local newspaper. It’s funny that a received a call from the subscription dept at the newspaper a few days later. They wanted to know why I canceled. I responded that I was looking for an information source that was more forthcoming. I won’t repeat what the subscription rep told me…

As for the ME. I’ve been married to a woman of Lebanese ancestry for nearly 28 years. I’ve heard many, many stories over the past 3 decades but the one constant is greed and how greedy some Arabs are.

IMHO the Israeli/Palestinian situation will only be solved when the money dries up. I’ve even heard of the situation referred to as the “Arafat Model” referring to the plunder of foreign aid for personal gain. I believe that the cycle of violence will continue until the foreign aid ends. It seems that war and violence has become very, very profitable (at least for a handful of people)…. My concern is that the “Arafat Model” is spreading throughout the region given the last year’s events in Lebanon and in other areas of the ME.

For those of you who don’t know, Arafat died a very, very wealthy man. It doesn’t take much of an imagination to guess where all the money came from.

My impression of middle easterners is that the vast majority of them are wonderful people. Unfortunately, there is a handful of greedy psychopaths that drive the violence, combined with a woefully ignorant western press that almost refuses to tell the truth.

By: Esther

Esther — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:02:54 +0000

The Jenin “massacre” was the catalyst for me finding out what a blog was. I knew very well our soldiers would not have massacred anyone, but nobody in the MSM (even the Israeli press, until later on) seemed to have that side of the story. Googling frantically, I found LGF and a few other blogs who were in the process of uncovering the few media links to a sane perspective.

The rest, as they say, is history .

By: Tom Grey - Liberty Dad

Tom Grey - Liberty Dad — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:22:27 +0000

Has it really been 2 years since such a great installment?

Some commenters are still here — Michael Totten is even better than ever in Iraq!

Why not ask Roger Simon, or Michael or somebody, about making your Change articles into a Pamphlet?

They are fantastic — they might make a great hyperlinked novella, too…

By: Sergey

Sergey — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:33:58 +0000

In his address to nation after 9/11 Bush sounded like Churchill. Now he sounds like Chamberlain: I bring you peace! What happened to this man? Why he can not understand that in existential struggle (You with us or you against us) no intermediators with peace proposals are possible?

By: Sergey

Sergey — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:22:03 +0000

The whole thing with “Road Map” is based on factually wrong assumption that Palestinians really want their state coexisting with Israel. But nobody from Palestinian side ever declared this in public or otherwise. Quite the contrary, all prominent Palestinian liders thousand times declared that they want Palestine state instead of Israel. Why such obvious fact is permanently ignored by US lidership? Is it hypocrisy or ideological blindness? May be, we learn this only after US get rid of Saudi oil dependance.