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1. 1 day ago on Michael Ramirez

   Hmm. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy.. a “thinktank” with close ties to AIPAC. and like that PAC, is an integral part of the pro-Israel lobby in the United States. Hardly an unbiased source.

2. 2 days ago on Michael Ramirez

   Once again you sho your Islamophobic bias, your ignorance of the history of that region and of both the Koran and the Israeli incursions into historic Palestine. I’ve read some of your previous posts, and you fit right in there with those other Progressives except for Palestine.

3. 3 days ago on Michael Ramirez

   Yes, but for more than 85% of those “eons”, Jewish presence was minuscule at best and for extended periods of time was all but non-existent. The 1st Jewish diaspora came about when the Assyrians conquered the whole of Israel in 722 BCE and carried the Ten Tribes away into captivity, thus causing the section of the Hebrews known as Israel to disappear. The remaining Jews of Judah met the same fate when the Babylonians invaded their land and also carried them away. There doesn’t seem to be any historical evidence of any of descendants of the Ten Tribes returning to Palestine, but when the Persians took over the Babylonian Empire in 538 BCE, they allowed some, but only some of the captive Jews to return to Jerusalem and rebuild it. They managed to develop a modicum of independence and even fought two unsuccessful wars of revolt, one in 70 AD and one in 135 AD, against the Romans who had taken Jerusalem in 63 BCE from the Armenians. As a result of the last war, the final Roman punishment was to destroy Jerusalem completely and disperse the entire Jewish population to the far parts of the Roman Empire. Thus, the official Jewish connection with Palestine came to an end in 135 and was virtually non-existent for the next 1800 years.

4. 3 days ago on Wizard of Id

   Where I grew up, they called that kind of fishing lure a Dupont Plug. “Hey buddy, pass me another stick of bait”.

5. 3 days ago on Michael Ramirez

   I find it interesting that you bemoan the fact that the so-called Gen Z know so little of the “history of the region” while presenting one side of the narrative while totally ignoring the other, and then using that account with either implicit or explicit intent to justify the genocidal actions of the Israeli government, which have resulted in well over 30,000 Palestinian deaths with over 3/4 of those being women and children.

6. 8 days ago on Michael Ramirez

   There you go again. Using facts and rational thought. Don’t you realize with whom you are dealing?

7. 8 days ago on Bill Bramhall

   Wow! What a well-thought-out, carefully-articulated, typical MAGAt response. S/

8. 8 days ago on Clay Bennett

   Huge difference between a “progressive court” and a regressive neo-fascist court!

9. 8 days ago on Robert Ariail

   You haven’t “got it” yet, but heaven help us if those like you ever do.

10. 29 days ago on John Deering

    Ah, yes. Steve Bannon, Grigori Rasputin incarnate.