Who's this Lebron guy, anyway?

One of Carolyn Maloney's consultants once bragged to me about her shameless ethnic pandering, promising Carolyn would be on the first tank if the Greeks ever invaded Macedonia (for the War Crime of having the nerve to call itself Macedonia)--a very popular position in Astoria.

But in Reshma Saujani, Carolyn Maloney has surely met her match in stooping to conquer.

At a time when longtime supporters of Israel like Gary Ackerman and Jan Schakowsky risk their political careers by daring to tell the truth that retaining the West Bank is a demographic time bomb in which Israel will inevitably be buried by obstetrics, and that further expansion of settlements means further ensnaring oneself in the deathtrap, this supposed intellectual embraces the millenarian position of snakehandling born-again yahoos.

Is she trying to prove she's not a Muslim? Does she figure she can take those Queens South Asian votes for granted, so now she's going after Grand Street? Is there no expedient to which this woman will not stoop?

Reshma, real friends of Israel do not embrace the suicidal policies of those who know no solution but that G-d will find a way. Supporting expansion of settlement is a solution all right--The Final Solution. Saujani on Settlements, PAC Money - WNYC beta.wnyc.org.

There are plenty of good reasons to doubt we will able to achieve peace, but please bear these words in mind:

"Israelis, rightly, look at the past and have skepticism about what’s possible. They see the enmity of neighbors that surround them in a very tough neighborhood. They see a track record of attempts at peace where, even when concessions were made, a deal could not be consummated. They see rockets fired from Gaza or from areas in Lebanon, and say to themselves that the hatreds or history are so deep-seated that change is not possible. And yet, if you think back to the founding of Israel, there were a lot of people who thought that that wasn’t possible either. And if Herzl or Ben-Gurion were looking at Israel today, they would be astonished at what they saw -- a country that’s vibrant, that is growing economically at a extraordinary pace, that has overcome not just security challenges but also has been able to overcome challenges related to geography. And so that should be a great source of hope," - President Barack Obama. Quote For The Day - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com