Why is Israel the good guys????

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you do know that the Jewish lobby is a strong force in steering US policies?

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It's true. I was raised Jewish, and if you piss me off I'll contact my personal Jewish lobbyist. He'll sic the Elders of Zion on your sorry ass so fast your head will spin.You'll be out on the streets within two weeks. Guaranteed.

I don't deny for a second that there are pro-Israel lobbyist groups, run by Jews. It's this "Jewish Lobby" business that gets my goat, as though the Jews of America are banding together in a shadowy conspiracy.Probably the result of having to explain to people most of my life that no, I don't control the media, and no, I don't control the banks, and no, I certainly don't have fucking horns. (Honestly... had to explain that last one to an especially thick girl once who was meeting her first Jew.)How come black people got the "enormous wangs" stereotype, and we got the horns?Anyway... there's also way too much automatic association of "Jewish" and "pro-Israel" in America. No people, honestly... if you have a problem with Israel, your problem is with Israel. Not with Jews.

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I am not shedding any tears for you! You got horns? The myth is that Jews have tons of money.

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So black guys got enormous wangs, and Jews have tons of money. According to stereotypes about chicks, that makes you guys the best babemagnets on the planet.

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One quick glance at my apartment, and any woman will know the stereotype is a vicious lie.

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I'm English-German. You know what that gets me? A humorless world domineering beerbellied fatass with bad teeth, who doesn't know how to have sex!

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At least the English part makes you charmingly befuddled, and the German part makes you intimidating!So that makes you... I dunno, intimidatingly befuddled?If it helps, my mother is Jewish-American, (probably eastern-European descent,) and my father is half-Irish/half-English, half-Catholic/half-Protestant. (He had a delightful childhood.) I don't know where to start hating myself...

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I agree... it's just too bad that the pro-Israel lobby fosters that illusion as much as anti-Jewish bigots do. Actually they do it more so.

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You're absolutely right, and it annoys the crap out of me when people make the anti-Israel = antisemitic argument.[This message has been edited by Dan Carroll, 10-24-2003]

Yeah... I think of my Dad's family, and all I can picture is the Family Guy bit where Lois says, "your grandfather was never comfortable with the fact that I'm not Catholic."The scene cuts to Peter and Lois' wedding, as they leave the church. We see their car, which has the "just married" sign on it, and below is a crudely written cardboard sign which reads, "to a protestant whore."

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It was like watching a star trek episode where one set of aliens try to understand the rituals of another set of aliens. Hilarity ensues.

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I love moments like that. At my brother's wedding, they played hava nagila, and hoisted my brother and his wife up on chairs. Watching my sister-in-law's VERY Catholic family try and pick it up as they went was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. (In a charming "oh! Other cultures! How intriguing!" kind of way.)

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What was bizarre to me is that they did so even though he was clearly hung as well as me (once they got a look) AND he wouldn't go down on them.

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I'll never understand why 1) a guy wouldn't go down on a girl, or 2) why a girl would stay with a guy who won't go down on her.

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Then you seriously would have gotten a kick out of that funeral. The priest actually started getting irate and saying very loudly "NOW YOU CAN READ THE NEXT LINE... NOW. PLEASE READ THE LINE... OKAY I'LL READ IT AND YOU READ WITH ME, BUT NEXT TIME..."

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Never fuck with a Catholic priest.That's not an altar boy joke. Honest....Okay, I think we're skirting the edge of derailing the thread now...