Greenwald: Rutten, Ahmadinejad, Biden, Palin

In Salon Radio: L.A. Times' Tim Rutten on Ahmadinejad Glen Greenwald notes the following:

UPDATE: On an obviously related note, this was the exchange I found most striking in last night's Biden-Palin debate:

BIDEN: Gwen, no one in the United States Senate has been a better friend to Israel than Joe Biden. I would have never, ever joined this ticket were I not absolutely sure Barack Obama shared my passion. . . .

PALIN: But I'm so encouraged to know that we both love Israel, and I think that is a good thing to get to agree on, Sen. Biden. I respect your position on that.

They don't just consider Israel an ally. They don't just both support Israel. No, that's woefully inadequate. Instead: Biden has a "passion" for Israel and is its best friend, while Palin declares how excited she is that they "both love Israel."

They "love Israel"? I'm asking this literally, not rhetorically: is there any other country in the world where presidential candidates are required to -- or even could -- proclaim their "passion" and "love" for another country in a national election? And other than Israel, is there any country for which candidates for the American presidency could get away with proclaiming their "passion" and "love"? It's not exactly healthy or rational for someone who wants to lead one country to swear their fealty, passion and love for another.

The whole blog entry is worth reading while listening to the Rutten interview is also extremely interesting even if Greenwald needs to work on his interviewing technique.

Does "love Israel" mean that the USA continues to send billions of dollars to Israel even as the US banking system collapses, the US economy goes into recession, and Americans are put out on the street via home foreclosures?

The USA has spent trillions of dollars on Zionism. Now is definitely time to recoup some of that money by liquidating Israel and seizing the assets of Zionist terror supporters and corrupt Wall Street bankers. These two groups are not disjoint. Henry Paulson used to be CEO of Goldman Sachs. He had no problem with the tanking of Goldman competitor of Lehman Brothers. but rescued AIG on which Goldman depended.

Warren Buffet, who is a big non-Jewish booster of the State of Israel and who has made tremendous amounts of money by investing in US-subsidized Israeli corporations that steal customers and jobs from American businesses, is heavily invested in both Goldman Sachs and AIG.
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