My mother’s an immigrant of 20 years (I’m first gen born and raised American myself) and I appreciate every immigrant that comes here.

Except for the illegals… but that’s another story.

Chaz706 on April 21, 2009 at 7:26 PM

As legal I know how much difficult and expensive it can be to get a greencard so I sympathize with the illegal ones who come here from poor countries. But I also understand why illegal immigration upsets you, hey I get upset when I look for a job and a lot of the ads ask for bilinguals. I don’t even have the right to be upset, it makes me feel a hypocrite.

Anyway if you choose to make the huge mistake of moving to the Middle East, let me know if you need help or some useful tips like: Where to find the best hummus, what not to do on memorial days, how to argue over a price and my favorite, how to avoid being depressed without using any kind of chemicals. The last one is tricky :)

Michelle Dubois on April 21, 2009 at 5:13 PM

My mother’s an immigrant of 20 years (I’m first gen born and raised American myself) and I appreciate every immigrant that comes here.

Except for the illegals… but that’s another story.

I love Israel, I just can’t stand the neighbors. True, some Canadians are annoying but they make much better neighbors, and I love Mexicans :)

Michelle Dubois on April 21, 2009 at 5:13 PM

Well, I hope you’re right, and we’re glad to have you.

We should give the Palestinians another $900,000,000, and then the Moslems will accept Israel’s right to exist.

Not even close.

all that would do is give you an opportunity to give them more money to think about the possibility.

Where will you go? Israel seems to be the last developed nation not determined to participate in its own demise. I’m sometimes tempted to move there myself.

jazz_piano on April 21, 2009 at 4:33 PM

Don’t forget Texas.

I moved to America 10 years ago, and to be honest it would have been much easier for me to move to Britain since I was eligible for citizenship but what’s the point? Europe slowly becomes an extension to the Middle East, with France and Britain in the lead.

There are 300 million reasons for me to believe that genocide would never take place in the USA. I moved here because I truly believe it’s the greatest nation in the world. I had the liberty of traveling all over the world so I allow myself to state it as a fact :)

I love Israel, I just can’t stand the neighbors. True, some Canadians are annoying but they make much better neighbors, and I love Mexicans :)

Here’s obscene: The President of the United States ‘entertaining’ Jordan’s King Abdullah on Holocaust Remembrance Day. Outrageous!

Why is that obscence?

1. Jordan is not responsible for the Holocaust.
2. Jordan is at peace with Israel.

From Jew hating holocaust deniers to a survivor of the camps no less. Anyone still think the UN has a place?
Here we are now in the United Nations, an organisation created as a response to the atrocities of the Second World War and we have to protest a…

Don’t try parsing the logic: Why Iranians would consider “Nazi” an epithet, especially given Dinner Jacket’s revisionism on genocide, isn’t clear.

I tried. It made me tired.

People say I’m too pessimistic, but history taught me that you better leave while you still have the chance.
Michelle Dubois on April 21, 2009 at 4:25 PM

Where will you go? Israel seems to be the last developed nation not determined to participate in its own demise. I’m sometimes tempted to move there myself.

The problem in working behind the scenes is that you never know until years afterword. Pope Pius XII suffered public scorn for the rest of his life for his so-called collaboration with the Nazis during WWII. We now know that he worked very hard behind the scenes against the Nazi war on the Jews.

Aryan has been pirated.

If I understand it correctly, Zionists run out of room to pioneer once Israeli territory is developed and populated by Israelis.

There’s more to the story.

The other native populations do need consideration. And the Palestinians who never did have their own country but roamed through territories “owned” by various others want now what Jews were given, their own “nation” regardless of the fact that they refuse to be civilized and get along with anyone, themselves included. Note well: NO Arab nation is willing to bequeath any property rights to the Palestinians. But the UN will attempt to coerce Israel to relinquish more than Israel already gave most generously (and in many ways, foolishly, losing national security).

I may be wrong, but that is my understanding.

Finally, if the Palestinian Muslims were to be “given” their own “state” then the same should apply for the region’s native Coptic Christians.

Before you castigate Rahm perhaps you may want to consider the possibility that he is a Mossad Agent of influence. You wouldn’t expect him to act like an out-and-out Zionist. It would blow his cover.

jerryofva on April 21, 2009 at 3:59 PM

If that were the case, I’d applaud the man.

Check into why the name was changed in 1935 for one of those historical footnotes nobody talks about any more. It doesn’t fit the narrative of poor Iran defending itself from big (but actually tiny) bad Israel.

The naming conventions for Persia (aka Iran) changed in 1935. The suggestion for the name change from Persia to Iran is said to have come from the Persian ambassador to Germany, who was a Nazi sympathizer. In 1935 Germany was ruled by Hitler. Aryanism was equated by the Nazis as the highest level of human civilization, in an article of faith based on a vulgar Hegelian hyperbola. Apparently the Persian ambassador was persuaded by his Nazi friends that Persia would be better off as an ally of Nazi Germany. Moreover, he became convinced that the country should be called by its Persian name, Iran, in Western languages. This was to signal a new beginning and bring home to the world the new era in Iranian history, one that would emphasize the Aryan aspect of its people. The name Iran is a cognate of the old word Aryan. The Persian Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent out a memo to all foreign embassies in Tehran, requesting that the country be called “Iran.” Unfortunately “Iran” sounded alien to non-Iranians, and many failed to recognize its connection with the historic Persia. Some (Westerners) thought that it was perhaps one of the new countries like Kuwait or Jordan carved out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, or like Pakistan, carved out of India. Even today many confuse Iran with Iraq.