Follow the money.

p.s. This is a thread from 2006. Die, thread, die!

He has been hassling me for years. He's called me up on my unlisted number. His son once knocked on my door to physically threaten me. His wife rang my doorbell, too, pleading that Israel was killing Arabs. He once encouraged his crappy little dog to snap at my heels — what a pathetic joke. His wife, Betty, sits every day and night in her bathrobe on her deck, chain smoking, yelling into the phone in Arabic, even lying to the police that she is "dying."

Paul is a loser. He is an unemployed wino – I have smelled wine on his breath in the middle of the day. He hardly ever tunes pianos; his piano tuning minivan hardly ever leaves home; and it barely runs. He has no visible means of support. Apparently, he has conned some fellow Arabs and anti-semites into giving him money.

No, Paul, its because Hamas considers Jews the sons of apes and pigs and has vowed to destroy Israel. Its because over 8,000 rockets have been launched at Southern Israel SINCE disengagement.

Yes, Paul is loathsome, and I say that from a position of knowledge.

…Northern Ireland! It doesn’t belong in your list.

Anyone who is not Native American (that’s Europeans, Africans, Asians), living in North America, are occupiers.

If you are not a Native American, when will you be ending your occupation and leaving North America?

Which country will you emmigrate to?

When did you last endure the horrors of long security checkpoints at an airport, infact at airports all over the world, checkpoints to filter out islamofascist hijackers such as those who have been celebrated by the Finsbury Park mosque in London, as “The Magnificent 19″ of 9/11?

Paul larudee is a good friend of mine and, for the record, of many of my progressive Jewish friends here in the Bay Area. I’m sure they would be happy to step forward in support of Paul if that would add some light to the subject, although I suspect you wouldn’t be open to what they have to say anyway.

Paul’s agenda with regard to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is simply to see that all parties abide by international and humanitarian law, as embodied in documents such as the UN Charter and the Fourth Geneva Convention, to which both Israel and the US are signatories. If you had ever troubled yourself to actually visit the Occupied Territories and experienced the oppression, even horrors, of living under occupation for over 3 generations, you might actually experience a transformation, much like that of Anna Balzer. Anna, as you probably know, was once an unabashed Zionist who decided to debunk all of what she had heard of the oppression of Palestinians by visiting the Territories herself and exposing all these anti-Semitic ‘lies’. Lo and behold, she found them to be true ! Now she travels the country as a tireless champion for justice and security for both peoples, often enduring angry, and even threatening, outcries from those lacking the wisdom and courage to seek the truth about the conflict.

So, what about you, Aussie Dave ? Are you willing to actually study the recorded history of the conflict, even if it conflicts with narrative to which you were most likely exposed from childhood ? Are you willing to listen to the voices of those living under occupation, even if it might seriously challenge your belief system ? Do you have the wisdom and courage to do so, it will be difficult at first for you. But, in the end, you will be free to see and speak the truth.

And, most importantly for me, you will learn to appreciate, rather than demonize, good people like Paul Larudee.

Very interesting, especially considering your erroneous assumption that I was taught to believe in a certain way.

Some of us think about things, Mr Anon. Try it sometime.