Wednesday, 14 December 2011

The battle

Last week, Politico published a piece about how the Progressive MMFA and CAP were fighting with the more mainstream Democrats about Israel. They want to change the party to the Anti-Israel party. The article reported the battle was being led by several bloggers at Media Matters and the Center for American Progress' Think Progress blog.

The piece highlighted several controversial comments that were made on Twitter by MJ Rosenberg and other MMFA and think progress bloggers calling groups that did not share their anti-Israel positions as Israel firsters essentially repeating the anti-Semitic meme of dual loyalty.
Read full article: http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2011/12/simon-weisenthal-center-bashes.html

U.S. authorities are building a politically explosive case that Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group, finances itself through a vast drug-smuggling network that links a Lebanese bank, a violent Mexican cartel and U.S. cocaine users.
http://www.propublica.org/article/government-says-hezbollah-profits-from-us-cocaine-market-via-link-to-mexica

Does that mean an American citizen who uses cocaine can be charges with providing financial support to a terrorist organization?

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