Tribune Editorial denigrates DeLay/Christian Zionists

[never cry wolf]

The very conservative Chicago Tribune had an editorial today bringing to light what I am sure many Mid-westerners did not know about Ton DeLame and his Zionist movement.

Voter by voter, people are getting educated.

(snip)
There aren't many Jews in Texas' 22nd Congressional District, so political grandstanding doesn't explain House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's recent trip to Israel, where he gave a solidarity lecture in the Knesset. In his talk, he struck a harshly partisan note, saying, "the prospects for peace are the responsibility of the Palestinian Authority" and framed Israel's struggle in Manichean terms. One legislator joked, "Until I heard him speak, I thought I was farthest to the right in the Knesset."

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DeLay--who is known in Washington as "The Hammer" for his hard brand of politics--has denounced the nascent Palestinian state as "a state of terrorism." In his Knesset speech he compared the Palestinians' current capital, Ramallah, to Auschwitz, Pyongyang and the Gulag.

(snip)more.....

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0308010290aug01,1,5937076.story?coll=chi-newsopinion-hed

[AGiordino]

1. Also covered in LA Times

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-tomdelay1aug01,1,960155.story?coll=la-headlines-oped-manual

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DeLay knows only one way to make policy — by going for the throat. The Texas Republican first won his House seat in 1984 by blasting the environmental regulations that had bedeviled him as a pest control executive. This year, DeLay, a long-time gun enthusiast, predicted that the federal assault weapons ban would expire this year, a prediction he can ensure by not calling for a vote on the ban's reauthorization.

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Still, DeLay's speech to members of Israel's Knesset on Wednesday while touring the Holy Land took his my-way-or-the-highway approach much further. The Bush administration's "road map" to peace rests on cease-fires, a halt to Jewish settlements in Palestinian territories and Palestinian statehood. DeLay's vision for Israel does not. His Christian Zionist religious belief holds that a Jewish Israel is necessary for the second coming of Jesus Christ and the "rapture" that will deliver Christians into heaven. That view abjures negotiation since compromise by Israel would interfere with the fulfillment of the prophecy.

DeLay told the Knesset members that Israel is in a pitched battle pitting good against evil that will "cost money and blood, but we're willing to pay." As for the compromises that President Bush is so ardently seeking, the Texan said, "There is no middle ground, no moderate position worth taking."

The House leader, speaking in his official capacity, did nothing to separate his personal beliefs from this nation's foreign policy, whether or not those beliefs are explicitly religious.

[never cry wolf]

2. i think your article is scarier than mine

what insanity has taken ahold of this great nation??

[xchrom]

3. the same as the one that took

hold of osama

[phillybri]

4. Delay is a freaking lunatic....

He scares the shit out of me....

[pansypoo53219]

5. could we get

Delay impeached?

[Julien Sorel]

6. First Gingrich, then DeLay.

Are there any normal Republicans in Congress? Don't they have actual human beings they can put forth as representing the leadership of their party?

[Lastgasp]

7. Right you are, BillyB . . .

. . . and DeLay is far more hateful and mean spirited than Newt ever was. DeLay is the Son of Darkness.

[Loonman]

8. DeLay is out of hand

He's not being a majority leader, just a bomb throwing(figuratively)lunatic.