Thread: Jerusalem families waiting for US action

Edited on Mon Aug-17-09 10:57 PM by ProgressiveProfessor Being anti Israel does not make it progressive. The real world is not that binary

They are disdainful of such a concept and have great vitriol for any attempts by Obama or, for that matter, Abbas, in that particular direction.

While I was sitting here wondering to myself how many people would believe they had a handle on my politics and my occupation if I changed my username to 'Right-leaning Astrophysicist', I did think that you were being too hard on the mods. They definately don't encourage demonisation of any ethnic, religious or cultural group, and my experience has been that they do quickly delete posts that contain bigoted or hateful comments....

Edited on Fri Aug-21-09 07:40 AM by shira In fact, Hamas and Fatah are about as REGRESSIVE as it gets. EI's articles are not significantly different than the state-run newspapers within Gaza and the W.Bank and that's a fact. ========== Going further, Likud's platform that is without question rightwing but also democratic in general, is at least 10x more "progressive" than the Fatah/Hamas party line (that makes any...

EI wouldn't want that.

Or its writers. They've been backing the Dark Side ever since our party dared to defy them and not nominate Scoop Jackson for president...thirty-seven freaking years ago. Before that, Commentary cheered for Daley and the cops in Chicago. And they loved them every bomb ever dropped on Vietnam. And after that they loved them a mess of Contras.

that could be considered "progressive" or worthy of the title of "professor" or "historian" as its previous but widely discredited nick used. Maybe the "professor" can pont to one or two posts that are marginally progressive in some slight way at best, and since I don't read all of DU, there may be one or two, but none I've noticed so far. But this is the one forum where the moderator...