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June 3, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 3, 2010, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's a guest host today.
It is a guest host today.
I always feel the need when I sit in for Rush to make the first few minutes of the program really, really, really good because of the whole guest host thing.
A lot of oh, Russia's it on, it's time to go do something else or listen to something else or turn the iPod on or something else.
It is guest host day.
Guest hosts have to work harder than Rush.
We just have to, because everybody knows Russia's good, and even if you're not entertained by what Russia's saying, at any given moment you know that he's likely to say something that's going to entertain and inform you in a second.
We guest hosts, we don't have any of that benefit of the doubt.
Then we've got the problem that you get us all mixed up.
Do you understand how much email I get every time Mark Davis says something that some of you don't like?
I get all of his stuff.
Now I don't know if he gets my stuff.
The fact that we're all named Are there any other than Walter Williams, are there any guest hosts that aren't named Mark anymore?
I think we all are.
We've got Mark Davis, we've got Mark Stein, we've got myself.
I'm the guy from the Midwest.
Stein's the guy from we can't figure out where he's from.
He sounds like he's from England, but he lives in the backwoods somewhere.
He I love Stein.
Stein is one of my favorite conservative writers.
He does a great job on the program.
Mark Davis is very, very good.
And then there's me.
None of us are rush, but I will attempt to fill in and do my very very best.
When I go out and do public speaking, I always start with a joke.
I got a joke I can start the program with today.
Joke.
Four guys go into a holding cell in jail.
One of them murdered three people.
The second one raped five women.
Third guy ran a Ponzi scheme and bilked investors out of one billion dollars.
The fourth guy ran a red light.
One of them gets the death penalty.
The fourth guy.
Who is the fourth guy?
Now don't call in with any answers here.
We don't have any prize.
Russia doesn't give away prizes too.
This is what we have to do in local radio, you know.
If you're the 87th caller, we'll give you a six-pack of Coca-Cola or whatever it is.
Well, you don't do that here on EIB, huh?
You don't give away prizes or anything like that.
It's liberating not to have to give away prizes.
So you may as well not call in trying to figure out who the fourth guy is, because we don't have anything to give you.
We have that T that shirt that might not fit me.
We could give away that.
What's Belling doing with my program?
He's giving things away.
Doesn't he understand that he's not in Milwaukee anymore?
Yeah, I kind of understand that.
Who is the fourth guy?
I'll repeat the joke.
First guy murdered three people.
Second guy raped five women.
Third guy ran a Ponzi scheme, built investors out of a billion dollars, fourth guy ran a lead red light.
He's the guy that's sentenced to death.
It's terrible criminals all around him.
He did something wrong, not the end of the world, but he gets the death penalty.
He is held with standard higher than these terrible, brazen, awful people.
The fourth guy is Israel.
This is the way of the world.
The fourth guy is Israel.
The other three guys, the tyrants, the terrible people, they got probation.
The fourth guy gets the death penalty.
The condemnation that's going on of Israel over this.
They keep saying failed raid of this flotilla.
I'm don't know why it failed.
They got on there.
They stopped the ships, killed some bad people.
The criticism of the failed flotilla raid is typical of the standard that goes on in our world with regard to Israel.
Israel and the United States are the only two countries on the planet held to the standard that you can't ever do anything wrong.
You can't ever kill anyone, you can't ever take any kind of action that would be deemed to be aggressive.
And if you are, the entire world will rip you and say that you are terrible.
You've got to consider what's happened in the last several days here.
Russia is condemning Israel for killing its own people.
Think about that one for a moment.
Russia is condemning Israel for killing its own people.
Joe Stalin's Russia.
Heck, Vladimir Putin's Russia.
This is the country that only a couple of years ago invaded Georgia just for the fun of it.
They needed to get they needed to burn off some steam.
Let's go into Georgia and kill some Georgians.
They are condemning Israel.
Remember the muted tones of the rest of the world when Russia invaded Georgia.
Well, you know, there's a territorial dispute.
Who are we to judge?
This is not really an international crisis.
This is just between Russia and Georgia.
There's lack of clarity over where the boundaries are.
This is disputed land.
We can't say anything about that.
Let's stay out of it.
Let's not butt into that.
But Israel's not accorded that.
Russia can go into Georgia and slaughter people for no evident reason at all, when the Georgians aren't posing them any threat.
But Israel takes action, whether it was excessive or not, in defense of itself, trying to stop weapons from being smuggled into terrorists in Gaza, and they have committed the worst atrocity of all time.
Find a nation in the last three years that's done anything, for which it has received anywhere near the amount of criticism that Israel's gotten in the last three days.
Iran condemned Israel for this.
Iran.
How many Iranian citizens have been jailed since the democracy protests of last year?
Jailed and by the way, disappeared.
When does Israel do that?
Everybody that Israel locks up, they keep a record of.
The Palestinians that are grabbed for terrorist activities.
They're on record.
They're accorded, due process in Israel.
They're held, everybody knows about it.
In Iran, they just disappear.
In the meantime, Iran.
Winking at the world, flipping off the world, developing nuclear weapons, lying about it without even attempting to make it a good lie.
Well, it's for our electricity program.
Yeah, right.
Where's the condemnation of that?
The entire world that is so ready to rip Israel hasn't done a thing about the proliferation of nuclear weapons to rogue states, terrorist states like Iran.
Iran still stones women for violating whatever passes for Iranian law these days.
Stoning and torture are still accepted because our law calls for it in Iran.
Where's the condemnation of that?
From anybody.
And I don't even necessarily mean France.
A country that doesn't have a moral compass.
Canada doesn't even weigh in on this.
The United States barely weighs in on this.
We wouldn't criticize Iran when they were wiping out their protesters after they stole the election.
But Israel killed a few people after it tried to stop a ship that was violating an embargo that was in place for four years at wow, this is the worst thing that's ever happened.
North Korea.
North Korea.
Think of the amount of misbehavior we've had out of that country in the last 50 years.
Silence from the rest of the world.
How about China?
Whatever did happen to those people who were at to meet Tiananmen Square.
They're all gone.
Nobody can find anybody who was there.
A million people supposedly there.
None of them exist anymore.
They've all been forgotten.
They've all been wiped out.
The Chinese government, which still places limits on family size, can't criticize them.
Not our business, not our place.
But boy, Israel.
Israel.
Israel does anything bad.
The condemnation of the world rains down.
Bunch of Palestinians who are allowed to live in Israel.
Go into a shopping center.
Blow it up and kill 20 civilians.
What's the reaction of the world?
Well, it's understandable because they're a grieved.
That's okay.
Every Palestinian murder of an Israeli citizen, civilian, not engaging in anything wrong other than being a Jewish person who lives in Israel.
That's acceptable, and every time they do it, it just calls the need for more peace talks so we can settle this thing.
The Palestinians and fellow Islamic terrorists have been rewarded for inhuman uncivil behavior forever and ever and ever.
But whenever Israel does anything that anyone has the slightest amount of disapproval of, they are condemned in terms that are reserved for nobody else ever.
This was a terror port.
Gaza is the home base for the segments of Hamas and Hezbollah that want to wipe out all Israeli Jews.
There's been an embargo in place for four years.
Humanitarian aid has gotten through forever from Egypt.
Israel has long suspected that some of these so-called humanitarian efforts are merely attempts to bring in weapons and bombs to the terrorists in Gaza.
So they went to check what was going on on one of those ships.
They met resistance, and soldiers who had guns shot back.
Did they overreact or not?
I don't know.
What I do know is that Israel, which ceded control of Gaza to the Palestinians, without any end of the violence there, has merely said you can't come in to this port.
We have an embargo.
It's these ships that violated the embargo, the Israelis who still have some governing authority off their own shores, went to board those ships and they were set on.
They were attacked.
Again, did they overreact?
I don't know.
I'm okay with what they did.
Maybe you're not.
But to get the kind of reaction, why, this is the worst diplomat, it's being called the worst diplomatic crisis in 30 years in Israel.
Christoph, Nicholas Christoph, New York Times today.
Listen to this.
Israel under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems locked in a self-defeating dynamic in which it feels misunderstood and gives up on international options.
It lashes out with force in ways that undermine its own interests.
It is on a path that could eventually be catastrophic.
Israel is on that path that could be catastrophic because Israel occasionally fights back.
What is catastrophic is that Iran's sitting over there ready to nuke them off the planet, and millions and millions and millions of Muslims don't think that they should be there at all.
They are under siege.
People want to kill them just because they're Jewish and they're in Israel, but they may be threatening themselves by these what a ridiculous analysis.
He goes on.
There's no question that Israel faces existential threats.
Oh, okay, thank you.
Thanks for granting us this.
That should make its leaders focused above all on two things.
An Arab Israeli treat ah another Arab Israeli treaty.
That'll fix everything.
And pressure on Iran to drop its nuclear program.
Oh, who thought of that?
What a great idea.
Let's put pressure on Iran to drop its nuclear program.
That hasn't been tried.
Well, what this means is that Israel is going to have to get back to the peace table, negotiate more, and give the Palestinians more land and agree not to build any settlements, and then everything will stop.
It won't stop.
Israel has been doing what the Nicholas Christophs of the world have wanted it to do for 30 years.
Take that back, 40 years.
Ever since the mid-70s, they've been holding peace talks and signing agreements and shaking hands.
From Washington to Ohio to the Middle East to Sweden.
They've been making deal after deal after deal after deal after deal.
Yet the Palestinians and other Muslim nations want to keep knocking them off.
Nothing has changed.
They've bent over backwards.
In the meantime, They are more unpopular than ever.
They've been orphaned by everyone.
It's just wrong.
My name is Mark Belling, and I'm sitting in for Russian law.
Mark Belling sitting in for Rush.
The phone number is 1-800-282-2882.
1-800-282-2882.
And another thing.
Nobody anywhere ever defends Israel except a few conservative talk show hosts like Rush and fundamentalist Christians.
Find the third group.
It's certainly not American Jews.
They're utterly silent.
It's not Jewish political leaders in the United States.
Find one of them that ever supports or defends Israel.
They don't exist anymore.
Israel has been orphaned.
It has no supporters left.
The Obama administration has taken a stance toward Israel that is now neutral.
American Jews have written off Israel.
They are more loyal to the Democratic Party than they are to the state of Israel.
It's just true, by the way.
The Democratic Party has written Israel off.
The liberal movement itself sees Israel as the bad guy, yet American Jews continue to support that movement and that political party, even though that party has written off Israel.
American Jews, I think, don't care what happens to Israel.
There's no sign, at least, and when I when I say American Jews, I mean the majority of them.
There's no sign, at least that they do.
Baldwin, New York, and Don Dany are on EIB with Mark Belling.
Yes, uh Mark, I want to thank you guys for uh giving us the truth.
I'm going to tell you what I told your uh call screener a couple of weeks ago when uh Mr. Netanyahu was uh basically snubbed at the uh state dinner by our president.
I was so outraged.
I called the U.S. uh I called the Israeli embassy and I let them know in no uncertain terms that uh this administration does not represent what the uh people of the United States feel toward Israel, and I would encourage all your callers to do the same thing.
Uh my uh heritage going way back is Polish.
And what uh the president did uh with the missile defense debunking that uh President Bush put up in the first place, uh, that was a good example of what I used when I called the Israeli.
Yeah, I mean, what's happened is that because is everyone knows Israel is a democracy.
They change leadership at a whim.
They throw people in, they bring other people they bring others out.
They take a stand in which they hold themselves to a higher moral standard than their enemy.
We all know that.
Therefore, what's happened is the entire world has set a bar for Israel in terms of its own behavior that no one could ever clear, and that bar is way higher than we set for anyone else.
We have uh our country has been allied with nations far worse than Israel, and we've rationalized like Saudi Arabia, for example.
We've rationalized it by saying we need the oil.
We can't go out and expect everybody in the world to be as good as us.
Sometimes you have to deal with other nations.
We deal with China all the time.
We have strong relations with China for economic reasons and out of matters of necessity.
We even engage the Russians.
We deal with almost everyone, including a lot of countries that do things that are very, very hard to swallow.
It's necessity.
But Israel is held to a completely different standard than all of them.
The entire world gives them that same standard.
And I've got to think that there might be a reason for it.
Why is Israel held to a completely different standard?
Could it be because Israel is Jewish?
I mean, I think in the end it always comes back to the same thing.
It's anti-Semitism.
And I don't care whether it's Americans that write them off, Muslims that want to kill off all Israeli Jews who want to end the existence of the state of Israel.
It's because they're Jewish.
Jewish people have been the world's scapegoats from the very beginning.
Take a look at a map of the Middle East.
Israel is a speck.
It's a dot.
Israel is the only nation in the world in which Jews make up the majority of the population.
There isn't another country that is predominantly Jewish.
Almost every other major religion is the majority population in a number of nations.
All the Jewish religion has in terms of being in a majority is this tiny small state of Israel.
And you can argue, well, it was stolen from the Palestinian people.
If it was stolen from anyone, it was stolen from the Egyptians.
You can argue that they don't have any right to be there.
You can say that about almost anyone.
You could say that about us with regard to Native American Indians.
The fact is they're there and they are hated.
And it has to come down to what their religious beliefs are, because there's no other rational explanation for why the entire world sets a standard for Israel that it would never apply to anyone else because nobody else would be able to meet that standard.
I'm Mark Elling in for Rush.
I'm asking the question, why must Israel be saintly in a world of sinners?
Now, a lot of people think that the United States is despised by Islamic fascists simply because we have aligned ourselves with Israel.
I don't believe that.
There is a way of testing it, I suppose, and that is to allow Israel to be exterminated.
I believe that once the Israeli problem is ended by Muslim extremists, they'll find another problem and it'll be us.
Without regard to that, why isn't Israel allowed to be as mean and rotten and nasty as everybody else?
Why can't they do that?
By the way, this embargo they've had in places for four years.
You know why they have an embargo on Gaza?
They have an embargo in Gaza because they don't want to allow foreign influences to bring bombs and weapons in to Gaza to arm the terrorists there.
That's why it's there.
So they have this embargo.
This flotilla openly is planning to defy it.
What were the Israelis supposed to do?
Not board the ships?
Just pretend that their embargo doesn't exist.
It's ridiculous to say that they didn't have the right to board the ships.
And once they got on the ship, what are they supposed to do?
Allow themselves to be attacked.
Imagine the reverse situation.
Imagine if it was our own nation.
Imagine if we blockaded certain areas from rogue foreign ships being able to come in, which would be just about everywhere on our shores.
And United States officials tried to board one of those ships and they were attacked.
We hold them to the standard of not being able to do anything.
And in this instance, you're talking about ships that were heading to a terrorist enclave, which is what Gaza is.
Let's go to Cleveland and Bob.
Bob, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
Yeah.
Um I I just have to condemn Israel.
They could have uh disabled the ship's propellers, towed it to shore, and handled it in a way that wouldn't have made world headlines and hurt our fighting men in Afghanistan and Iraq.
That's I think Israel.
They could have done that.
Can I speak?
I allowed you to speak.
I made it.
How do you know?
Is that how afraid you are of the people who are not.
Well you know I'm not going to allow you to finish your words.
By the way, this is typical uh let's pick on the guest host stuff.
You wouldn't have said that to Rush, would you have?
You know, yes, I would have been.
And you know, you have a reverend right complex where you immediately have to turn to the race card or the hate card.
You know, it's like listening to the.
No, I waited 15 minutes.
I waited 15 minutes before I brought up the fact that Israel the Israelis are Jewish.
No, I allowed you to make your point.
Now make your next one.
Well, my point is look, Israel wants these kinds of incidents in order to isolate us because we support Israel so strongly diplomatically and with monetary funds.
They this is Israel's way of separating us from our Arab allies who would help in our Arab and Muslim allies who would help us in our fight against terrorism.
And let me just give you an example.
So Israel did this so that we wouldn't get along with other Arab nations.
That was their motivation.
With other Muslims, that it would that it would create because we would have to support Israel because Israel's str uh uh grip on our Congress.
Israel has we have to support Israel no matter what they do.
What grip?
You never heard of the Israeli lobby?
I'm I I'm I will honestly find the Israeli lobby.
This is the guy who said that I wouldn't allow him to speak.
I I really, since Obama became president, can't detect any indication that our policy toward the Middle East is anything other than that of neutrality.
We have encouraged nothing but this constant business of peace talks.
We have done nothing to deal with the growing Iranian nuclear threat.
We've stood by and done absolutely nothing about that.
I don't see any in any sign that our current policy is biased toward Israel at all, which by the way, it should be.
Israel Israel is an a Israel is an ally of the United States.
That still ought to mean something.
But whether it does or it doesn't, the point that I'm making is that the standard that is applied to Israel is never applied to anyone else.
Can you imagine if someone tried to bring in unauthorized material into Hugo Chavez's Venezuela?
What the Venezuelan thugs, what the Venezuelan thugs would do, and if somebody did try to do that, if humanitarians were trying to bring in supplies to the people of Venezuela who have been oppressed by Chavez and Chavez killed them, the condemnation from the world would have lasted for twenty five seconds.
But when Israel does something that may or may not be a parallel it's treated as one of the greatest atrocities of all time.
The reaction is disproportionate and I think you know it.
It's it's disproportionate because we Israel is supported by us.
No matter what Israel does we get the blame.
I mean it's like it's like they That's correct.
We get the blame.
Is that blame justified?
You would think Israel would be a little more prudent in their actions if they know they're going to hurt their best ally in the world.
And they're the they're gonna hurt our fighting men.
So what should Israel do cons what should Israel do not war for a should should Israel simply leave its leave the nation and leave what do you want them to do?
What do you want to say one is one who was told you're gonna during nineteen the nineteen seventy three Yom Kipper war when I was in a Marine Corps infantry unit was told get ready you're gonna go to Israel and I would have proudly helped the Israeli what do you want Israel to do?
I wanted Israel to handle that situation in as low a publicity way as possible.
That's all I ask Israel to suppose they did not go out there looking to flex you want to answer any of my questions let's suppose they did let's suppose they did.
Let's suppose they disabled the propeller and allowed the uh ship to sitting sit there adrift what do you think would have happened then?
I think it would have been the incident would have turned into non incident.
And what are the people on the ship and do you think another a few more ships would come?
Totally sure.
And do you think eventually some of them might have bombs on them they have bombs?
If they have bomb on them you mean those people are gonna you mean all those humanitarian the people on the ship I mean the second blow themselves up no I mean bring Israel is concerned that arms are going to be brought into Gaza.
We all know that the only point that I'm trying to establish here is that Israel should not be expected to hold itself to any standard of behavior than anyone else in the world.
Thanks for the call Bob now he wanted to and I I wanted that debate he wanted to ask me why we should put up with Israel doing things that put us in a bad light because we are their ally I don't know that we are their ally anymore.
I don't see any evidence that American policy is biased toward Israel at all.
There's no evidence of it as for what the Israelis should have done we can second guess that forever.
What I am saying is is that they should not be held to a higher standard than anyone else when you consider the reality that there are People who want to have them exterminated.
As for the impact on the United States, I don't see any impact on the United States because we never do anything anymore to support Israel.
To Hammondton, Ohio and Dan, Dan, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
Yes, sir.
How are you today?
I'm great.
Great.
Answer that phone call.
I feel so praying for that guy.
Israel is our ally, our number one, and we need them.
Now, there's since the beginning of time, I'm jumping real quick here.
There's been this um anti-movement between Christianity and anti-Christianity.
And that's what this whole thing is about.
As you watch as our country's progressing, there's a movement against Christianity, and it's taking it out of the country.
And um I can go on well, I'll go on a little bit.
Um, our president, when he gave his inaugural speech, and I listened to Well, tie this into Israel.
I you're I know you're trying to make a point between the Christians.
Okay, well, first of all, Israel didn't ask for any kind of publicity.
They're going ask them over the part of the world.
They deal mainly with their governments with religion, not like over here.
There's an anti-movement against religion against the Jews to annihilate them because they want them out.
But the problem is, if you read the Bible, Israel's God's people, and you're not, and they have guys.
There's a political dynamic to this.
And that's what he's driving at with this call.
The Christians in America support Israel, and there are biblical implications for that.
It means something.
For that reason, I think a lot of Jews have been distrustful of the support that they get from fundamentalist Christians.
I understand that.
I accept that.
I'm merely looking at this from the perspective of imagine that this was a dispute anywhere else.
Imagine that any other nation was targeted for extinction by so many people.
To suggest that they can't do anything to defend themselves or protect themselves would be ridiculous and absurd.
But again, the whole reason that this is started is because Israel itself has bought into this false promise of the peace process.
They've bought into the notion that if we give the Palestinians Gaza, the Palestinians will be happy.
If we give the Palestinians the West Bank, they'll be happy.
They have Gaza, they have the West Bank, they're still not happy.
You could give the Palestinians and other Muslims all of Israel other than four blocks in downtown Tel Aviv, and they'd want those last four blocks.
Israel is targeted for extermination.
And we in the United States are either going to support Israel or we're not.
But when you are targeted for extermination, it is not unreasonable to expect that you will do at least some things in an attempt to defend yourselves.
And when you do some of those things that may go a little bit too far.
Maybe you ought to be cut at least as much slack as we cut Hugo Chavez or the Chinese or Putin or any number of the world's tyrants that we have to deal with from time to time.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
New Israeli tack needed on Gaza, U.S. officials say that's the headline of today's New York Times.
Well, maybe they need to drop the whole notion of the blockade.
Well, what new tack do you want them to take?
What are they supposed to do?
How long do they have to keep dancing with Muslim extremists who want to wipe them out?
What is the new tack?
What is the new approach?
And let me bring this right down to earth, right here in the United States.
We all know that at some point, Iran's going to have the bomb.
Every day they get closer.
President Obama has given up trying to stop them.
He thought he could work with Akhmadinejad.
It's the reason he was so unwilling to criticize the Iranian government when it stomped on the protesters during the pro-democracy demonstrations last year.
They're not working with him.
Ahmadinejad ridicules Obama in the same way that he ridicules Bush.
They go around our own deals.
They're working toward enriching uranium and developing nuclear weapons.
We all know that.
We all know there's a very real chance that those weapons will then be given to terrorists or used by Iran itself.
Even President Obama, when he was running for president In 2008, called that a game changer.
He said that was his term, which I thought was odd, but he used it 19,000 times.
It's a game changer, and of course we can't allow that to happen.
Well, he is going to allow it to happen.
The Israelis are freaked about this.
They're terrified at the notion of Iran having nuclear weapons.
Well, what if they decide to do something preemptive about it?
I mean something that would make this little raid on the flotilla look like a party in the park.
What if they decide to attack Iran and wipe out its nuclear facilities?
Something far more aggressive, something that could be far more deadly in terms of loss of life, something that's clearly an act of war.
When you launch weapons on another nation's soil, that is an act of war.
What was going on here was merely an enforcement of an embargo in their own nation.
What will the world's reaction then be?
If they're having a cow over this, imagine then.
Now people who worry about what's the Islamic reaction going to be, the caller who suggested that this is going to inflame the Taliban and Afghanistan and others that we are fighting.
That's just silly.
You don't need to come up with raisins to have Islamic extremists hate us in the United States.
They've got a long, long, long laundry list.
They've hated us far before far longer than what happened with regard to the raid of this flotilla.
The point that I'm making is that since the United States apparently isn't going to do anything militarily or even diplomatically to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, it is very possible that Israel is going to do something.
You think we're in a precarious situation now.
If we're going to toss our cookies over this little attack on this ship, imagine the situation if the world is on the precipice of World War III.
Well, we should tell Israel not to attack.
Israel's government, at least the current regime led by Netanyahu, is not going to sit by and allow Iran to make a first strike against them that could wipe them out.
They are so small that a single nuclear attack could destroy that nation.
The mere threat of it could destroy that nation.
We better decide what side we're on here.
Instead, the Obama administration wants to keep thinking that if we have another agreement and another agreement and another agreement, that things will get better.
We've had zillions of agreements in the Middle East.
Things have never gotten better.
It would be very, very, very nice if we could all get everybody together and make peace.
It did work in Northern Ireland, one of the few places that it has worked.
There's no sign it's going to work in Israel.
The Israelis face a real threat.
It is a threat to their existence.
They have a right to defend themselves.
As for the US and the United States, if we don't decide what side we're on pretty soon, we're going to be forced to intervene after there's been an attack on Iran.
It's not a pleasant thought.
But if President Obama can't handle an oil spill in the Gulf, imagine the mess he's going to deal with if Israel commits an act of war against Iran.
I'm Mark Elling sitting in for Rush.
Mark Belling sitting in for Russia.
I wonder what would happen if a bunch of Israelis went into Iran illegally to give aid to the pro-democracy supporters there.
What if the Iranian army might try to stop them or if they just allow them to walk in?
And if they did anything, of course, Israel would be accused of being provocative for trying to go into Iran in the first place.
There's never any standard of accountability ever held ever applied to anyone else.
Joe in Boston, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Mark, great show.
I want to make a point real quick.
We've got Turkey with an Islamist leader named Erdogan who backed and implicitly endorsed this mission to break the blockade in order to potentially set the ground for smuggling arms.
He's now in bed with the leader of Iran, and being a member of NATO, this is a great security risk to our NATO alliance.
I feel that we've added a lot of Eastern European countries to NATO.
It's time to kick one out, and Turkey's a prime candidate.
Well, we always talk about Turkey being an important strategic ally because Turkey is Islamic and Turkey is an ally of the United States.
You know, President Bush said after 9 11 that you were either for us or against us.
And there are a lot of nations right now, never mind Israel, that we don't know if they are for us or against us.
The Turkish situation, I admit, is very, very hard to deal with.
As for the overall problem that Israel faces, you've got to understand that Hamas controls Gaza.
Gaza is the site by which rockets are fired into Israeli neighborhoods.
They have every right to try to stop weapons from getting in there, and they wanted to make sure that this flotilla wasn't the first attempt to do so, or at least the trial run.
For that, maybe they should be criticized, but this level of condemnation is morally wrong.
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