On Mar 16, 9:24*am, wrote:
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:09:29 -0700 (PDT), riverman wrote:
On Mar 16, 9:40*pm, wrote:
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:35:36 -0500, Ken Fortenberry

wrote:
wrote:
A little lesson for ROFF....

Here was a guy who, for many years, honestly adhered to one political philosophy
and in a short period of time, did an about-face. *Does it matter from which he
came to which he went? *No, not in my opinion because he, from all I could tell,
put some thought into his decision, weighing the good (and the bad) in the
former and the good (and the bad) in latter, and made a personal decision. *Was
he right or wrong? *

Yeah, probably....

IAC, RIP Ron...

What's the lesson ? Is it that 9/11 scared the liberal out of a
Jewish guy or that the GOP is a better friend to Israel during
turbulent times ?

Nope. *And neither happened with Silver. *He still believed in and supported
many "liberal" causes and organizations, but if you will, apparently found the
hypocrisy in the Dem party and its "circles" to be less than that of the GOP and
its "circles."

And why would roff need either of those lessons ?

At any rate, he was a good actor.

Alav ha-shalom.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20046.html, for one.

Andhttp://www.onejerusalem.org/for another. Read the comments and
articles...any of them.

I just went to the site, clicked on his obit there, and saw "0" comments. *IAC,
I'm not sure of your point. *I don't deny he was a supporter of Israel and other
Jewish causes.

TC,
R





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Like too many in the US, Silver's liberalism did not prevent him from
turning a blind eye to the active campaign underway to ethnically
cleanse Palestinians from Palestine and Israel. It's the same kind of
liberalism that cannot bear the mention or to look at the photos of
children horribly burned and disfigured by American financed white
phosphorus shells fired into their apartment houses and schools in
Gaza. Its the same kind of liberalism that cowers to "the" lobby, and
is afraid to support those many Israelis and Americans who are
fighting against the persecution of the Palestinians.

I wish Silver well in the next world, like us all, he had his flaws,
his conflicts, and his high points. RIP

Dave