C-Span - House of Rep - What is all this Israel blessing game?

[LittleApple81]

Palestinians the devil, Israel the angels.
Why so much bias?

Edited to correct: it was at the beginning of the House session.

[meegbear]

1. What's going on?

Please elaborate.

[LittleApple81]

2. This is the period when Senators talk about anything they want

for a minute at the beginning of the session. At least 4 senators, both Republican and Democratic, were condemning Palestine and saying that Israel needs to defend itself. Cited dead children on the Israeli side, etc. etc. Defending freedom, democracy, etc. etc. United States must stand united with Israel against bad, bad, bad Palestinians.
Why don't we ever get pictures of what has really happened to Palestians?
I agree that Israel has a right to exist. But taking such a partial view of the situation is really not what America should be doing.

[edzontar]

4. This is Whoredom, pure and simple...

Pandering for buks and votes, these politicans care NOTHING about the loss of innocent life on EITHER side.

They are monsters.....

[diamondsoul]

3. At least one member of the House did it yesterday

as well, and I think he was a Republican. He was griping about the loan guarantees, and I suspect that's what the Senators are on about too.

Personally, I think those who have some sort of stake in our ties to Israel are scared to death right now. We've got several Presidential candidates saying this crap has to end and that the US needs to take a position toward making that happen. The more I watch and listen, the more firmly convinced I become that it's the military industrial complex having a hissy fit because the public sentiment is turning on it.

That became clear to me when I saw the appropriations discussion in the Senate for nuclear weapons research. Here's this Republican trying to tell Americans that somewhere in the range of 100 "pits"(research and testing facilities) are needed to maintain our existing stockpile of nuclear weapons. I wish he could have told me WHY we need to maintain them at all, much less research new ones.

As long as there is violence in the ME the military complex has an excuse to be prepared, and even to intervene when it suits them. If the violence ends, there goes one of their prime sources of moneymaking efforts.