World Affairs - Politics & Opinions, page 4.

Seriously, I want to know.

I have been listeining to Glenn on and off for about 10 years or so I think, and I have listened to him gradually change from conservative with repulican loyalties to a borderline, if not full, libertarian. His thinking process, while it changed slower, was very similar to my own, with the exception that his personal faith and family have made his thinking a little different. It was interesting to listen to that process and hear it develop, thinking all the time that he was almost there, since he is about 3-4 years behind my own philosophical transition.

There are things we disagree on: Immigration, the intelligence of Sarah Palin and Bush, and some of the religious based stuff, but overall I find his input useful and enlightening, I find his humility a pleasant change from most talk show hosts, especially the more conservative ones, and I find his accuracy on a variety of things, such as economic predicitons, to be uncannily high, particularly for a so-called crazy person of conspiracy theorist as he is often labelled. Many of my friends are horrified that I even listen to him, I was told recently to "stop drinking the cool-aid". Thing is, I listen to everything. I alternate between NPR and AM1140 in richmond, I read the Times Dispatch and the NY Times. I research online and through typical news sources. If I am drinking the cool-aid, its a batch a made myself.

An Arab member of the Knesset who goes all the way to the US and Canada to tell university students and professors that Israel is an apartheid state is not only a hypocrite and a liar, but is also causing huge damage to the interests of his own Arab voters and constituents.

If Israel were an apartheid state, what is this Arab doing in the Knesset? Doesn't apartheid mean that someone like this Knesset member would not, in the first place, even be permitted to run in an election?

Fortunately, Arab citizens can go to the same beaches, restaurants and shopping malls as Jews in this "apartheid" state. Moreover, they can run in any election and even have a minister in the government [Ghaleb Majadlah] for the first time.

In this "apartheid" state, the Arab community has a free media that many Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip envy. Ironically, an Arab newspaper in Nazareth or Haifa that is licensed by Israel enjoys more freedom than the media controlled by Hamas and Fatah, as well as most corrupt Arab dictatorships.

Forget Michele Bachmann's demand that we investigate which Representatives and Senators are real Americans. Forget Liz Cheney's desire to smoke out all those al Qaeda loving Department of Justice employees. What we really need to do in full-blown McCarthy style is to weed out the whack jobs!

Daniel Kurtzer, a former U.S. mediator and ambassador to Israel and Egypt who served both Democrat and Republican presidents, took a more skeptical view. He said it's "not understandable why we would now have them sit in separate rooms and move between them."

"I have been disappointed this past year with the lack of boldness and the lack of creativity and the lack of strength in our diplomacy with respect to this peace process. We have not articulated a policy, and we don't have a strategy," Kurtzer, who advised Obama's presidential campaign, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week.