October 3, 2008, - 5:45 pm
On Last Night’s Debate: Palin Held Her Own, But BOTH Clueless on MidEast, Hezbo, Israel
By Debbie Schlussel
Since I’ve been critical of Sarah Palin’s ignorance over the last few weeks, I will also acknowledge that she held her own in the Vice Presidential Debate, last night, other than the ten times that she said “nuke-yuh-ler.” Reminds me of someone else, currently in the White House.
She gave great answers and knew her stuff on everything, except the Mid-East, on which she knew so little, she didn’t notice or attack a gaping mistake by Joe Biden about Hezbollah. Joe Biden was actually to the right of her on Israel, Lebanon, and that region of the Mid-East, and he actually knew more of what he was talking about.
Except the Hezbollah stuff. He claimed that at one point Hezbollah was kicked out of Lebanon. I was wondering what the heck he was talking about, since Hezbollah, from its start in the early ’80s, has always had a significant presence in South Lebanon, though it now dominates much more of the country. I think it’s safe to say I know more about Lebanon than any American blogger not of Lebanese descent, and I just couldn’t believe he said that.
To be fair, Sarah Palin didn’t dispute what he said because she’s even more clueless about the Mid-East and hasn’t a iota of knowledge about Hezbollah, or she would have corrected him in her rebuttal. She didn’t because she’s ignorant of the Mid-East and doesn’t know better about Hezbollah. Lucky us: wrong vs. ignorant, regarding the heart of Islamic terrorism.
Palin’s answer on how she supports a two-state solution in Israel and how she applauds Condoleezza Rice’s pressuring of Israel and apartheid housing policies for Jews in Israel, should tell you something. For all her alleged “pro-Israel” stances and all the gushing by Republican Jews over that, her expressed view on Israel, last night, is actually no different than George W. Bush’s and Barack Obama’s.
Palin claimed that we’ll never allow a second Holocaust, yet she supports the means to help that happen: giving Islamic terrorists Jewish people’s homes for a country. Hello . . .? This is what happens when you have ignorant people running, who are well coached. Coaching can only do so much, not teach you Mid-East history or the long-term goals and methods of jihad.
And let’s face it. None of this is her position, because she doesn’t know much about the Mid-East. It’s the John McCain position, which she was coached to parrot. And that’s bad news, but not surprising to me, since I’ve long noted it on this site.
As I’ve warned and warned and warned, John McCain is gonna be no great shakes on Israel, the Mid-East, Islam, and terrorism. Palin says that pressuring Israel to make “peace” (ie., amputate more pieces of land) with the Palestinians will be a top priority and that she and McCain want to continue in Rice’s step.
Is this really what you want? How is this different from Bill Clinton? From Madeleine Albright?
It isn’t. Israeli Esser Agaroth isn’t impressed. He’s rightfully disturbed.
No matter who is President–as Palin made clear, last night–Islamic terrorists will be rewarded with a state. So much for her continued claims to Katie Couric and Charles Gibson that they would fight Islamic terrorists around the world.
Also, as Biden pointed out, Bush’s policy of free elections to usher in HAMAS and more power for Hezbollah in the Lebanese government has been a predictable disaster, one which Bush pursued . . . in the name of giving Western legitimacy to barbaric Third World terrorists.
Palin has repeatedly insisted that she and John McCain want to spread democracy around the world including the Islamic world, as she told Katie Couric. And she couldn’t rebut Joe Biden on this, because democracy in the Mid-East does not work (except in Israel, which is basically a Western island).
Palin also espoused the BS position of both Obama and McCain, and Bush and Clinton and Bush before them, of moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. As I’ve noted before, this is a big lie. She isn’t the first to tell this lie or the last. It will never happen. Every single candidate elected to the White House, since Reagan, has promised this, but not a single one has lifted a finger to movie the embassy to Israel’s capital. In fact, each has opposed it. McCain-Palin and Obama-Biden will be no different. Don’t be a sucker for this throwaway line of fertilizer.
The bottom line is that neither Palin nor Biden were honest on the Mid-East. Both of their running mates will pressure Israel and create more disasters there in the name of negotiation and peace deals and free elections which elect Islamic extremists.
We expect that from the Democrats. We expect better, but don’t get it from the Republicans.
Either way, Israel is screwed. The so-called “two-state solution” is actually a one-state solution, with that state ending up, eventually to be a Palestinian State, with no Israel left.
Don’t forget, both Biden and Palin–especially Palin–see nothing wrong with Condi Clueless’ outrageous Israel suicide plan. Both praised her.
Like I said, there’s almost no difference in the choice we have in a month.
The biggest threat to Israel is not Sarah Palin who is a sincere friend adn whose instincts are good, the biggest threat is an inbred moron named Ehud Olmerde who needs to be tried for treason and hanged for the dirt bag traitor he is. (I am serious about that.) Olmerde is even more to the Left on Israel than Obama is, in fact he makes Obama sound like Menachem Begin.
Ripper on October 3, 2008 at 9:32 pm