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Hard to imagine?
Reader comment on item: Israeli Leftists Plead for U.S. Pressure on Their Government

Submitted by Marc Segan (United States), Dec 27, 2007 at 14:43

While I agree strongly with the rest of the article, I have to take issue with the comment 2 afterward, which says: "It is hard to imagine the intellectuals of any other state acting in like fashion."

Really? How about the U.S.? The American left (and probably the isolationist "right", if it can be called that) has expressed all kinds of wishes regarding Iraq, Iran and the GWOT in general that would likely involve the country being compelled by external forces (indeed an undemocratic wish) to change course in one way or another. Whether it's the UN, the EU, our enemies for that matter -- we've all heard their hopes for America to get its comeuppance, the smirky employment of concepts like "blowback" (we had it coming, etc.), sentiments that are probably even worse than undemocratic, in fact.

What's shocking in the case of these Israeli intellectuals is what's at stake if their prescriptions were ever followed.


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last time I checked Israel was an independent state. [68 words]Phil GreendAug 8, 2009 14:02
Take a number! The British first "raped" Israel more than 85 years ago. [770 words]DrRJPJan 13, 2008 16:49
accommodating elites [62 words]lucy chambersDec 30, 2007 17:46
Ms. Rice must have been amazed [111 words]Ken BesigDec 30, 2007 01:45
Unfortunately, Landau Is The Voice of Israel [79 words]Dan FriedmanDec 28, 2007 16:15
The treasonable comments of A.B. Yehoshua [96 words]MHLJan 8, 2008 08:38
A.B. Yehoshua Comments "treasonable" ? [122 words]Dan FriedmanJan 8, 2008 22:22
The Silent Majority [279 words]Rebecca MouldsDec 28, 2007 15:02
Landau's comments to Rice [85 words]Vivian FlammDec 28, 2007 11:30
Haaretz has lost all legitimacy [86 words]JuanitaDec 28, 2007 10:52
It Happens Almost Every Day, at Home & Abroad [444 words]Steve RalstonDec 27, 2007 23:47
brilliant morons [151 words]Norman ElmerDec 27, 2007 23:23
Don't ever read left wing papers. Ever. [17 words]Vladimir JabotinskyDec 27, 2007 22:00
Intellectuals Are PIGS [52 words]David S. LevineDec 27, 2007 21:31
hard to imagine ? [41 words]Doug SchnickDec 27, 2007 21:17
Landau wants to be raped [125 words]RafiDec 27, 2007 18:19
Upset over leftists [181 words]Mark KatzmanDec 27, 2007 17:59
Israel has already been raped [57 words]Sheree RothDec 27, 2007 16:15
treason by another name [242 words]rodney allsworthDec 27, 2007 15:18
begging to be raped. [93 words]Michael KennedyDec 27, 2007 15:11
Two Things
[w/response] [111 words]
SmDec 27, 2007 15:08
Landau is a failed citizen and Israel is a failing state [191 words]YosefDec 27, 2007 14:59
"Landau" [25 words]steven LDec 27, 2007 14:56
Mistranslation [46 words]Vic RosenthalDec 27, 2007 14:46
⇒ Hard to imagine? [157 words]Marc SeganDec 27, 2007 14:43
Hard to imagine intellectuals as traitors?
[w/response] [44 words]
Charles MartelDec 27, 2007 13:23
Two states [55 words]RTMJul 19, 2008 00:46
I think intellectuals really, aggressively, deliberately betraying their country is a common thing [97 words]Charles MartelFeb 25, 2009 14:12

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