Some things are non-negotiable

Submitted by Zerubbabel (United States), Feb 25, 2007 at 10:17

>>>Rather we should engage them (opponents of Israel's legitamacy) at every opportunity and show them for what they are,<<<

By giving them a voice before Congress you give them legitimacy. There is a tacit framework of assumptions that the American people want our government to confine themselves to. Pipes referred to decades of polls to establish this pro-Israel assumption. Do we want to consider the anarchist's perspective with each bill passed? How about the neo-Nazi's? This is a good thing, lawmakers need to stay focused because most of them have attention deficit disorder.

Engage them in the media and at the university level, not in Congress.

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