Terror apologist woos Denver GOP
A one-issue agitator preoccupied with demonizing Israel and making excuses for Hamas is odd candidate material for Denver Republicans in the race to succeed Andrew Romanoff, writes Joshua Sharf at PoliticsWest.com.
I agree with Sharf’s dim view of the extremist Rima Barakat Sinclair, and we at Backbone America will do all we can to prevent her from securing the GOP nomination provisionally bestowed at a March 1 party assembly.
The author can be reached at John@BackBoneAmerica.net
I believe that Rima Barakat Sinclair has been invited to the Jewish GOP Meeting on March 27, 2008 to introduce herself to the Jewish Republicans. I suggest that you attend and judge for yourself. Does that make sense?
Joel N. Levitt
by joel levitt | Tuesday, Mar 18, 2008 | 9:59 pmI wonder if you folk who seem to uncritcally take at face value Joshua Scharf’s ad hominum attacks on Rima Barakat Sinclair have ever been to the West Bank? Have you ever sat down and spoken with someone who lost their home in 1948 or 1967? Have you ever visited the “Canada Park” where a town, which might have been connected to the Emmaus of Luke’s Gospel, was bulldozed out of existence and its people (Christian and Muslim) exiled? Have you visited Bethlehem and seen the wall and highway that surround it and been through the “security” check points that are more rigorous (and disruptive) than those at the Sterling Correctional facility? Have you spoken with a woman whose brother, discharged from a hospital in Jerusalem, had a relapse in Bethlehem and was held at that check point so long that, even when finally allowed to be transported back to hospital in Jerusalem, he died? Have you spoken with neighbors of a seventy year old grandmother shot for protesting her house being pulled down on her eighty year old husband? Have you been to Jericho, as deep into the West Bank as is just about possible to be, and looked up to see the city the Israelis are building on the hills above it and wondered how it’s possible either morally or legally? Have you even done as much as look at the web site for “B’Tselem, The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights” (www.btselem.org/English/) and looked at the map of the settlements that have destroyed any hope for a sovereign and contiguous Palestinian state? Have you visited the web site and read what Israeli’s are themselves saying about their use of firearms, of beatings and abuse, about restrictions on movement, and the wall? Have you spoken with members of the IDF (including respected officers) who have refused to participate any longer in what they see as Israel’s abuse of basic human rights in the West Bank and Gaza? Have you spoken with a Black, South African priest who is part of the “Christian Accompaniment Team” and heard him say that what the Palestinian’s experience is worse than anything his people experienced under apartheid? Have you heard Palestinian and Israeli members of “Parents Circle”, who have lost children to the conflict, together promoting reconciliation? If you had you might comprehend the truth at the foundation of Rima Barakat Sinclair’s observations. If you had you might understand, as the “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” in South Africa has demonstrated time and again, that speaking aloud the truth for all to hear is the only path to genuine understanding, dialog and ultimately the reconciliation so desperately needed in and between Israel and Palestine.
If the folk slamming Rima Barakat Sinclair haven’t done any of these things then all they offer and invite is one-sided opinion and prejudice in these desperate and human issues…and of what help is that?
by Paul Garrett | Thursday, Apr 24, 2008 | 9:05 pm