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Glenn Beck Gives Keynote Speech In Israel Rally And Then Heads Straight To South Africa For Global Tour

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Today in the Davidson Center in Jerusalem, Glenn Beck spoke to a sold out crowd of 1,700 (as well as 3,000 watching at a viewing station nearby) and gave the keynote speech closing out his Restoring Courage Rally. He quoted from the Old Testament, denounced the “cold hearts” of the “bureaucrat at the United Nations,” and pledged his support to the nation of Israel. He then, surprisingly, announced that his time abroad was not over as he would spend the rest of the week traveling to two more continents before returning to his new headquarters in Texas.

The contents of the speech (full text of which you can find here) would mostly be familiar to Beck’s ardent followers as he discussed the murder of the Fogel family, the courage of the citizens of Joplin, Missouri, and the perceived cowardice of the global community in respect to Israel. He also pointed out his recent track record in predicting disasters and compared that to the one he currently sees happening:

“For the first half of my life I did very little. I was the stereotypical American that believed two oceans would forever shelter me.

As a radio and TV commentator, my job was little more than pointing out the problems. And I did. I saw what I thought were obvious things, and I made obvious observations.

I saw the interviews of Osama bin Laden, and so in 1999, I said he will attack New York again. He did.

I saw the unreal expectations of ordinary Americans in 2006, and so I said – there will be a crash in the housing market. It can’t keep going up. And it crashed.

I saw the global financial markets ready to seize up in 2007… I saw the coming unrest and riots in Europe in 2008.

It didn’t take a prophet to see these things – all you had to do was recognize that evil exists and evil was going unopposed.

And so this year, when I saw Tunisia’s and Egypt’s rulers crack and fall and the world called it the Arab Spring, I said: Where could this be going? And behind these revolutions was a familiar force, a force that will place those nations under a new pharaoh. And that force, I said, would come up to the borders of Israel. And so it has.”

The South America stuff, however, was new.

“Let us begin here: some people call Israel an apartheid state. I reject that. And so immediately following this program I will fly to South Africa, which is where apartheid actually existed. I will broadcast from Cape Town tomorrow morning to remind the world what the evil of apartheid really looked like.

And I will learn from the people who conquered the hatred, ignorance and bigotry and who chartered a peaceful course for a new South Africa.

Then on Friday I will fly to South America to plead the case of human responsibility to a group of nearly 5,000 local leaders from all over the continent and ask them to join me in standing in defense of Israel, the Jewish people and responsibility.

Finally on Sunday, I will speak to 5,000 Americans in Dallas, Texas. I have chosen to end my week in the town where I will headquarter the charitable division of my company, Mercury One. Dedicated to the idea that one man, inspired by one God, makes a difference. This trip will end where a global moment begins.”

While this year’s rally didn’t seem make the all-encompassing media splash of the one last year (the lack of ways to view it for free probably had much to do with that), it certainly seems to have been a rousing success for Beck and his fans as he begins the next stage of his career.

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  • Limpbaals

    2 apartheid nations in a row!

  • Anonymous

    Well done .

  • Michelle

    Jon, I think you should’ve highlighted this:

    Praise From a Sheikh David Brog, the
    executive director of Christians United for Israel, read a letter that
    a Hebron sheikh had sent to Beck applauding him for arranging the rally
    and informing him that “my heart and soul feel connected to you.”

    Pretty impressive, no?

  • The Dweller Ysul

    Megalomania, much?

  • Jooce81

    yawn

  • B W

    If only Beck wasn’t screaming about how the sky was falling every minute of the day, people across America would take him more seriously, because, love him or hate him, he does give a little inspiration now and then.

  • Exgoper

    Wow. Didn’t realize this guy was still alive.

  • News Of The World

    Glenn Beck.  Tee hee!  Silly turd!

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    Beck thinks he’s some kind of evangelical minister? He’s always predicting gloom and doom so he might be.  

  • Re-Elect Obama 2012

    “He quoted from the Old Testament”

    Hasn’t the the Old Testament been superseded, due to its violent content?

    P.S. I had to laugh at this quote from Boomer Esisason regarding Tim Tebow, particularly the “God-fearing” jab:

    “Just because he’s God-fearing, and a great person off the field, and was a winner with the team that had the best athletes in college football, doesn’t mean his game is going to translate to the NFL.””

  • Laurence Glavin

    He’s going to South Africa, where it’s still winter, and declare global warming is a hoax.  Wait till he gets to Dallas!

  • Alexandra

    Hmm, yes Glenn Beck apartheid is alive and well and is exactly what Israel is doing to Palestinians. No way to spin it my friend. 

  • Hugo Daun

    Damn it!

    Did I miss the whole pillar of fire thing?

  • http://impossibledreamsmedia.com Chris Jones

    The majority of media outlets in Israel covered the rally honestly and fairly which was good to see.

  • Anonymous

    “And that force, I said, would come up to the borders of Israel. And so it has.”

    Wow, Beck predicted violence in the middle east?

    GLENN IS AMAZING!!!!

  • Re-Elect Obama 2012

    Coming from you that must mean they were biased as hell.

  • People open your eyes

    After the dust is settled the jokes are gonna be on you people, those who mock Glenn Beck… If you havn’t yet nticed  Almost everything Glenn Beck ever said or says came or is gonna come to pass in near future

  • ROTFLMAO

    BOMBSHELL!!!

    GET YOUR BEST PEOPLE ON THIS AND REPORT BACK TO US
    IMMEDIATELY!!!!!

    NOW !!!!!

  • insideguy

     And then Glenn predicted that the day of tuesday would come after the day of monday. Alas now Glenn is going to leave Israel the social democracy he loves so much that has national health insurance,and other social programs he so loves. Now he is going to  South Africa and talk with the gazelles and Lions. But is he going to fly? No he is going to travel by sea in the mouth of a whale.

  • Whit

    Sorry Jon, but I wouldn’t agree with the bit about this about this being a rousing success.

    OK, some nice scenery, but look at the shots of the crowd.  A bit smaller than the last rally, no?  And the other predicted audiences for future speeches — 5,000?  Reminds me of a line from the classic “This is Spinal Tap”:

    INTERVIEWER: The last time Tap toured America, they where, uh, booked into 10,000 seat arenas, and 15,000 seat venues, and it seems that now, on their current tour they’re being booked into 1,200 seat arenas, 1,500 seat arenas, and uh I was just wondering, does this mean uh…the popularity of the group is waning?
    BAND MANAGER: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no…no, no, not at all. I, I, I just think that the.. uh.. their appeal is becoming more selective.

  • Anonymous

    I love that rather than deal with the issues people bring up regarding Israel, Beck simply just talks about South Africa.

    Charlatan.

  • Anonymous

    Glenn Beck is a treasure, Pat even more so.

  • Anonymous

    What happened to the Caliph and the Caliphate? Please Glenn, you must tell me, I beg you, is it really true I have to prepare myself for the coming of a new Pharaoh??? I bought all the Anti-Caliphate stuff? Can I use it also against the Pharaoh?

    I worship you Glenn, you are the wisest of wise man, a prophet, a saint, so courageous that you face devils like Jon Stewart without being scared of their phony wit and superficial intelligence. 

  • Anonymous

    Wrong.

  • Anonymous

    Wrong.

  • Anonymous

    Point?

  • Anonymous

    Huh?

  • Anonymous

    It’s on dvd and blu-ray.

  • Anonymous

    Where did he deal with the criticisms of Israel?

  • Anonymous

    Is this the best ya got?

  • Anonymous

    Dumb.

  • Anonymous

    That’s original.

  • insideguy

    I thought it was pretty good:)

  • DEFENDER-90

    What 2 apartheid nations?? Not Israel,they allow all non Jews ,Christines,MUSLIMS and Women the right to vote,serv in the Knesset,military own property.And it can not be South Africa, just ask black president Jacob Zuma or fomer president of south Africa Nelson Mandela.

     

  • Socratease

    No I think his point was that once the Egyptian government was overthrown in what you fools gleefully call the “Arab Spring,” the Sinai Peninsula was no longer going to be a buffer zone for Israel. And voila: from whence did those Palestinian gunmen who attacked Israeli civilians last week come into Israel? Couldn’t be the Sinai, could it? You can revel in the fact that you got 5 idiots to thumbs up your comment, but that doesn’t mean that it adds anything substantive to the matter at hand. In fact, that you resort to sneering and ad hominems in the face of this valid point proves that you’re an ideologue who doesn’t care about the truth of the matter– that is, that Israeli is more threatened now by Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, and even Egypt. You would be alright with the U.S. doing nothing to help them?

  • Huladeb

    Wrong.

  • Norbit

    Dr. Martin Luther King, make room at the mic for one of your disciples…Mr. Glenn Beck.

  • insideguy

     Oh jeez

  • Anonymous

    What are you, 10 years old or gay?

  • Anonymous

    Haven’t the Israeli people endured enough for the past 65 years? Beck needs to go away!

  • Anonymous

    Glenn Beck didn’t go to Israel to criticize it, he went to champion it. You must be thinking of some left-wing, anti-Semitic loser that hates Israel. That’s not Glenn Beck.

  • Anonymous

    So how was I wrong when I said, and I quote: “I love that rather than deal with the issues people bring up regarding Israel, Beck simply just talks about South Africa.

    Charlatan.”

    Please enlighten me.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek Bulk Vanderhuge

    How is Beck any different from anyone else in the media? Most of the media spends all of its time fear mongering about Republicans. You’re probably fine with that though, right? 

  • insideguy

     Well in fact he probably should criticize it because Israel has a social economic system that he says he despises. You know national health care,paid maternity leave,payment by the government for having children,free college education.and strong unions. Plus they are the biggest moocher of american tax dollars in the world,pulling in almost a trillion dollars in aid,which is only increasing as time goes on. Funny how he likes the socialist commies in Israel but cant stand those kind of people in the United States.

  • Norbit

    While Obama treats Israel like a facial wart, Beck, on the other hand, is bringing the Conservative message to a politically abandoned nation!
    Jewish contributors may have to choose between saving the Democratic Party - or the State of Israel!

  • Norbit

    While Obama treats Israel like a facial wart, Beck, on the other hand, is bringing the Conservative message to a politically abandoned nation!
    Jewish contributors may have to choose between saving the Democratic Party - or the State of Israel!

  • insideguy

    Oh plus they have a 45% tax rates on people who earn more than 450,000 dollars oh my god what a commie country! Not to mention a VAT tax(value added tax). I cant believe Glenn would support this system. Oh wait wait he doesn’t talk about that. See he likes to talk about the europeans and how they are socialist commies, but now since its israel well its ok because they are god chosen people.

  • insideguy

     naaa they wont Norbit because im sure you have plenty of money to give Israel

  • insideguy

     naaa they wont Norbit because im sure you have plenty of money to give Israel

  • Anonymous

    Just another Beck wacko,,,,,,,,,,, at least you have to pay to watch him now. Go fill your “prophet* pockets. LOL

  • insideguy

     Also check this out Norbit during the Obama administration money to Israel has increased every year since he’s been in office. Wow Obama must really like giving money to a country he doesn’t like,and he keeps on giving them more! What a anti-semite he is.

  • Anonymous

    Everyone sees the anti-Israeli hate in so many areas of the middle east and elsewhere, I’m glad Beck is showing that christians support our Israeli allies.   Ignoring hate against jews can NEVER be allowed to go unchecked again in our lifetime and beyond. 

  • Anonymous

    Not sure if you know this, but most of the Jews in Congress are Democrats.  There goes your theory.  

  • Anonymous

    Not sure if you know this, but most of the Jews in Congress are Democrats.  There goes your theory.  

  • Anonymous

    Doesn’t look like Beck is well liked in Israel from seeing all the protesters there.  

  • Re-Elect Obama 2012

    You do know that Nazi Germany was a Christian nation, right?

  • Anonymous

    Glen Beck is still a nut-case and I’ll bet that Fox News is glad he is off their network.

  • Anonymous

    Thats no way to talk about Al Sharpton, You racist white ho devil!!

  • Anonymous

    So glad that they asked him to do a few specials for them.

  • Anonymous

    You do know, that the NAZI’s weren’t in any way a Christian political movement, don’t you. Many of their leaders and philosophy were hostile and dismissive of it.

  • Anonymous

    That’s kind of his point, Einstein.

  • Anonymous

    Money given to everything has increased during the Obama Administration.

  • Anonymous

    So when the Muslim Brotherhood takes over Egypt and proclaims their desire to unite the Islamic world into a new Caliphate, which they have been proclaiming repeatedly, you’ll come on here and admit you are a total twit, right?

  • Anonymous

    If they can do it without going broke, that would be great. However, I suspect your claims are incomplete.

  • Anonymous

    It’s lame.

  • Anonymous

    Wow, how insightful.  Pointing out that germany is primarily christian is like pointing out that the sky is blue.  Both obvious and useless.

  • Anonymous

    You are not up to speed. Beck just said: “And so this year, when I saw Tunisia’s and Egypt’s rulers crack and fall and the world called it the Arab Spring, I said: Where could this be going? And behind these revolutions was a familiar force, a force that will place those nations under a new pharaoh.”

    FYI, when the Pharaohs ruled there was no Islam. Beck is lying btw. During the Arab Spring he driveled about the Caliphate which is going to be founded by a coalition of Muslims and Communists.

    And today it´s a new Pharaoh. ROFL.

  • Anonymous

    “You think our system is insane, you should see thier system! But you know what? The Israelis are free, they’ve designed their own democracy and they are flourishing.The same goes for Japan and Germany: We may disagree on structure, politics and policy, but each of these systems reflects the same principals-life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

    Glenn Beck, in “The Real America:Messages from the Heart and Heartland ”

    But Israel’s problems are very similar to ours. For example:
    • They’ve got a political system that’s crippling the country. We’ve got one of those, too. Israel has three major political parties and the way it works is kind of like how the coalitions are made on the show “Survivor.” They don’t really care which side it is; they look at where power can be formed and then co-opt whichever side it is.
    • Their welfare system is threatening to collapse the economy. Almost 20 percent of Israeli men aged 35 to 54 aren’t working; 27 percent of Arab men and 65 percent of Orthodox Jews don’t work, mostly because they opt for a life of “state-subsidized religious study.” It’s bankrupting the system and these people living off the state end up being political pawns.

    http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/41435/

  • Latin2

    lol…typical stupid Liberal that doesn’t know that both countries don’t have apartheid.

  • Fseedo

    Israel allow only Jews the right of residency, withdraw citizenship, ids, and ownership from non Jews. Israel builds roads and colonies only for the Jews in the west bank. Israel consider non Jews as second and theird class citizens. Nelson Mandela also said: We consider ourselves to be comrades in arms to the Palestinian Arabs in their struggle for the liberation of Palestine. There is not a single citizen in South Africa who is not ready to stand by his Palestinian brothers in their legitimate fight against the Zionist racists.

  • Fseedo

    “The so-called ‘Palestinian autonomous areas’ are bantustans. These are restricted entities within the power structure of the Israeli apartheid system.”
    - Nelson Mandela

  • insideguy

     Ahh so Obama is being sneaky evil when he gives money to Israel. Gosh he is so smart.

  • insideguy

    lol ok Lemming no sense of humor for you!

  • insideguy

     Calvin I wanted to reply to your post above but couldn’t. If you read that paragraph from Glenns book above don’t you see its filled with contradictions to almost everything he’s ever said?

  • TXarc

    When you are too crazy even for Fox News, well, that tells you all you need to know about Beck.

  • Anonymous

    You mean all 30 of them from one radical leftist organization Peace Now?

  • Anonymous

    Beck left Fox to start his own network; no primary source says otherwise.

    Your characterization is invalid.

  • Anonymous

    Thank you!

  • Anonymous

    Looked more like hundreds from the footage I saw.  

  • Anonymous

    Hey look.  It’s one of those guys Beck talks about.

  • Anonymous

    Hyperbole much?

  • Anonymous

    Examples?

  • Anonymous

    You failed to address his point.

  • Anonymous

    That was funny?

  • Anonymous

    I thought congress controls the purse strings, not the President? Obama is not a great friend of Israel’s. http://frontpagemag.com/2011/07/22/barack-obama%E2%80%99s-top-ten-insults-against-israel/

  • Anonymous

    laugh it up fuzzball.

    What’s going on in the Mid East and N.Africa right now is akin to the revolutions in Europe circa 1848.  Most were themselves unsuccessful, but the changes they occasioned spelled doom for the entire political system that then held sway.

    To look upon the Arab Spring at this point and laughingly decry Beck’s prediction as unfulfilled is the height of ignorance.  I mean, you could actually look into what’s been happening since Jon Stewart (or whatever comedian best informs your opinions) declared mission accomplished and turned the cameras off, you could examine the different forces that are in play ready to pull their society in one direction or another, but that seems to be beyond you.  I wonder if those who issue your style of criticism have the capability of looking more than 2 days into the future.  Do you also have object permanence issues?

  • insideguy

    so the democratic congress in obamas first two years decided to give Israel more money. I think Obama has taken a more even handed look at that situation,but is still a big supporter of Israel.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, ok, I think you went just a bit off the reservation.  For right now, he’s a guy with a TV show and a decent opinion.

  • Anonymous

    Shall I give you links to the Jewish sites that think Beck is the worst possible friend to have? Some are liberal Jews, and some are conservative Jews who fear that Beck wants to claim Jerusalem for Christians. Conservative Jews don’t want Christians proselytizing in Jerusalem, and are concerned that some of Beck’s follower/supporters expect Jews to convert at the time of the apocalypse.  

  • Anonymous

    Chicken Little Beck hate Socialists.

    The TeaBagger Cult should ask why does he love Socialist Israel?

    That might be a bit much…their heads will probably explode with a couple steps of critical thinking….

  • Anonymous

    Which does not change the fact that the administration is as supportive of Israel as any previous administration was.

  • insideguy

    Because his message on a regular basis is that socialism and high taxes are the way to ruin and tyranny. Yet in his book he says its ok that Israel and european countries are ok following this path because they have freedom,and can pursue life,liberty and the pursuit of happiness. How under his philosophy could these countries possibly pursue that? With high taxes,high regulation,and high govt expenditures?  He has expressly warned that this is not the way to these things. He warns of a socialist revolution and tells you about the dangers of it,then uses the examples of europe to try and prove his point. He is wrong and I disagree with him in every way yet he is a walking talking contradiction in almost every way. 

  • Anonymous

    That is a promise from me. As soon as the Muslim Brotherhood takes over even one country, I will go there and praise Glenn Beck for being right, even if I am shot down for doing that.

    (((I’m safe. None of that is gonna happen, especially the Caliphate part.)))

  • Anonymous

    Then you must have viewed it through a kaleidoscope.  Sources on the ground number the protesters at three dozen.  And this is from their extreme left.  Just a short while ago, their social justice crowd put 150,000 people in the streets.

  • Anonymous

    The part I laugh at most is the idea of Muslims and communists getting together. That is flat out insanity.

  • Barty

    Hilarious drivel. Straight out of ’Preachin’ for Dummies’. This deluded guy thinks he’s leading some kind of global movement.

  • Anonymous

    Hit my link, then, if you would, in response to FreeCommonSense.  I mean… they’re on tape telling people that’s what they’re doing.

    But you’re free to laugh all the while, just the same, if it makes you feel better.

  • Anonymous

    Sold out crowd of 1,700.
    I saw other articles that mentioned the 300 empty seats in the 2,000 seat arena.
    3,000 watched on a big screen nearby. That was free to watch.
    Rabbis and politicians who had promised to attend or speak cancelled out.
    Just like a year ago, nothing world changing came of it.
    Another flop. 

  • Anonymous

    Seen any yet? Any scheduled?

  • Anonymous

    “Because his message on a regular basis is that socialism and high taxes are the way to ruin and tyranny. Yet in his book he says its ok that Israel and european countries are ok following this path because they have freedom,and can pursue life,liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

    He said Israel, Japan and Germany. There was only one European country in there. He didn’t say anything like it’s OK that they’re following those paths.

    “How under his philosophy could these countries possibly pursue that? With high taxes,high regulation,and high govt expenditures?  He has expressly warned that this is not the way to these things.”

    If they want to be truly free, they shouldn’t have those things. They are still free though, just not to the degree that we are. There’s not just free and not free. There’s varying degrees of freedom.

    “He warns of a socialist revolution and tells you about the dangers of it,then uses the examples of europe to try and prove his point.”

    I’m not sure I follow-he’s not supposed to show how crappy universal healthcare in Europe can be in order to show the dangers of socialism?

    “He is wrong and I disagree with him in every way yet he is a walking talking contradiction in almost every way.”

    He seems like he’s been fairly consistent to me.

  • Anonymous

    Did you take a look at the link I provided?

  • http://MsUnderestimated.com MsUnderestimated

    Where’d you get your news from, Cynthia McKinney?

  • Anonymous
  • Ganymede

    I can’t stand Glenn Beck and its gratifying that his megaphone has shrunk since his ouster from FOX. But I’m glad I watched his speech in Israel. Beck is making one, and I hope, final stab at becoming a world leader. Most Israelis are peace loving and know that they eventually have no choice but to work something out with their Arab neighbors. Beck is there just to stir the pot and institute his quest for fame and glory and lots of money.He’s attracted a small segment of the Israeli population who are the hardliners of Israel. Der Fuhrer Beck is a very charismatic, mesmerizing fellow but his message is egotistical and intellectual rubbish. Nevertheless, his speech was a bravura performance which will, as usual, appeal to the thoughtless and heartless people who think Beck to be a God.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Does Beck realize that radical communists like Nelson Mandela conquered apartheid?

  • insideguy

    I guess you don’t see the nuance to his stick. Germany is a socialist democracy and have national health insurance. Israel is as socialist as all most any in europe. Back to my point. He warns of the evils of a country that pursues these socialistic policies yet supports a country that pursues these polices. He abhors welfare but Israel is our biggest welfare recipient. He just doesn’t warn of of socialism in oh they have a crappy healthcare system way. He warns of it as the downfall of humanity way. The end of freedom way.  He calls out men like Van Jones who would be considered a moderate in any european country, Canada, or Israel, and calls him a danger to our country. How can people like him be dangerous but fine for a country like Israel or Germany? I guess what frustrates me is he talks about topics in a narrow and selective way to an audience that only see black and white. 

  • insideguy

     I think you hit the nail on the head there is no difference between these two frauds

  • Anonymous

    Looks like the “Arab Spring” in Egypt is shaping up just the way the leftists envisioned with Obama’s friends, the “moderate” Muslim Brotherhood threatening to kill Jews:

    (INN) — The Muslim Brotherhood has threatened to kill Israel’s ambassador to Cairo if he does not leave the country. The radical Muslim group has been leading daily protests at the Israeli embassy in Cairo, demanding the expulsion of the envoy and a break in relations between Egypt and Israel.
    Hundreds of demonstrators surrounded the embassy Monday as armored military and police officers prevented them from repeating Saturday night’s incident when rioters broke down the gate. One firebomb smashed through a front window of the embassy’s office.One anti-Zionist, now referred to as ”Spiderman,” became an instant hero throughout Egypt by scaling the multi-story wall and replacing the Israeli flag with one of Egypt. The Israeli flag was burned.“Revolution,” cried out Muslim Brotherhood activists. “Revolution is stronger than the Zionist attackers. The entire Egyptian people are Hamas.”One hostile placard threatened that the ambassador must “get out [of Egypt] or die here.”The demonstrators also proclaimed, “Oh Zionist traitor, blood and fire are between you and us.“ They charged that “Zionists mock us with calls for peace, and their principles offend Muslim.”The refusal to use the word “Israel” is similar to the policy of Iran, Hamas and other Muslim terrorist organizations.

  • insideguy

    Calvin that article is so blatantly bias its laughable. 

  • insideguy

     Heres my confusion on this Arab spring idea Oxy. What would you have Obama do? Did you what him to throw his support behind the ruler of Tunisia and Mubarak of Egypt? Do you conservatives want him to prop up a new government in these countries? Do you want him to not comment on these events at all? Please explain how you would like President Perry to handle this situation.

  • Anonymous

    But I’m glad I watched his speech in Israel.

    It was only available on GBTV.  Glenn thanks you, and all the other obsessed lefties, for your money.

  • Anonymous

    I admit that I have not been considering the European revolutions circa 1848. I just now looked them up as a refresher on the situation and reminder that many of our political “isms”  were formed during that time in Europe.

    I somewhat agree with this:

    What’s going on in the Mid East and N.Africa right now is akin to the
    revolutions in Europe circa 1848.  Most were themselves unsuccessful,
    but the changes they occasioned spelled doom for the entire political
    system that then held sway.

     
    Here is where I (roughly) quote Mark Twain: “History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”

    There are significant differences between the European rebellions then and the Middle East rebellions now, but if you insist on using those European examples, then I rejoice in reminding you that the result was not more dictatorship and power to Kings or Caliphs. It was greater power to the lower classes, and all of Western Europe grew closer to the democracy that we had already formed in the US! The authority of Kings and Barons was undermined, and that is a good thing.

    Why should we not believe that the Arab Spring that stated this will not result in the same loss of power to the potentates and gain of power for the very large underclass of the Middle East?

    Because Glenn Beck told you so? We have not yet seen one political prediction from Glenn Beck come true. There is no increase in violence against Israel. In fact, if you are willing to look at the history in that specific matter, you will see that things are extremely quiet in comparison. 

    I’m betting they will stay that way as the Muslim countries of North Africa concentrate on working out their own new-found freedoms.

    As for a united Caliphate, the important factor of Arab culture that you ignore is tribalism. A Pan Arab Union has been tried and has failed. Muslims have killed more Muslims than Christians or Jews.

    Muslims and communists sharing power? Impossible! What is the penalty for renouncing Islam? Death. What is the core belief of communism? There is no God. Communists believe that religion is the greatest scam that the ruling classes ever imposed on their fellow man.

  • Anonymous

    The first flop, as you intone, had near half million people attend and portended a significant reversal in political power that same year.

    The second had seating for just a select audience.  You may think to set the bar at a pillar of fire, and say that no less than that may be considered a flop, but Beck obviously had different criterion.

    I thought we went over this.

  • South East Asian

    I’ve done some reading of the comments from posters of haaretz, jpost and ynetnews..

    It seems like the only israelis that are supporting glenn beck are those more conservative religious jews.

    The younger more secular jews despise and hate him him to the extreme and thinks that it sends out a wrong message to people around the world by welcoming him.

    Interesting.

  • Anonymous

    First, you said above ( for some reason I can’t reply to that specific comment) that the article I provided is so biased that it is laughable. For the life of me, I can’t figure out how the facts are biased. Every single one of those things happened and they speak for themselves. Explain how the article is biased.

    How is Europe doing by the way? Last I heard, not so good. As far as Israel goes, they are still a democracy. The only genuine democracy in the ME. And they’re practically being set up to be like lambs to a slaughter. We need to support them.
     

  • Anonymous

    I repent for calling the belief that Muslims and communists will share power insane. It is merely ignorance.

    Why did the Soviet Union (Russia) invade Afghanistan? Afghanistan had no know oil, natural gas, gold, or other mineral resources to speak of. (Large deposits of rare earth elements have recently been discovered, long after Russia was kicked out). Afghanistan is landlocked. It is not an economically viable route for an oil pipeline, as some conspiracy theory people still believe. Afghanistan is a dead end economically and politically. We all know that now.

    But Russia invaded in 1980 anyway because a 1978 coup by leftists had taken over the country and within two years had collapsed. The Russians installed their own communist leader, and finally gave up 9 years later.

    If Glenn Beck ever mentioned that modern and more culturally appropriate (by 100%) example of communist and Muslim compatibility, I have not heard it. Have you?  

    I say again–a Muslim cannot become a communist or form a government with a communist. Allah forbids it.

  • insideguy

     Calivn I wouldn’t worry about Israel, this is what gets me. In 1948 they were attacked from all sides by multiple arab nations,at the time Israel barely had a military and they kicked the arabs ass. In 1956 during the suez crisis again war broke out and Israel kicked ass. Again in 1967 Israel destroyed the arab armies that were thrown against them and took more territory to boot. Again in 1973 attacked by four different arab armies with over 100,000 troops and Israel crushed them. These were armies backed by soviet technology and training and they were wiped out. Since that time Israel has been involved in other major and minor military conflicts and never once were they in danger of losing. None of these countries that surround Israel are a serious threat to their security with the exception of Iran. But they would also lose in a conflict with Israel because even if they could somehow get an advantage the United states and european allies would wipe them off the face of the map. This is fear mongering by Beck pure and simple.

  • Anonymous

    Yup. Two really spooky dudes there! I now tremble in fear.

  • Anonymous

    Actually, what came of the revolutions of that period in most countries were only an undercurrent of those political ideas you list but a counter reaction in the prevailing power structure towards absolutism.  For the most part, those undercurrents didn’t find full expression until after the ruinous first world war, launched and fought by those authoritarian rulers.  Another failing of the analogy, obviously, is the absence in 1848 Europe of wide swaths of the populace deeply committed to a distinctly hard line religious fundamentalism under the guidance of leaders all too willing to resort to war and terror in support of their agenda.

    I put forward the analogy simply for the point that great chances are afoot from the street.  But what starts on the street rarely ends with the idea that run through them.

    As to what lengths you’re willing to go to deny Beck’s analysis, at least in regards to Israel, you’ve missed that just several days ago in cross border incident launched from Gaza the Egyptian sided with the perpetrators.  Things have been “quite” in comparison for the fact that Egypt under Sadat and Mubarak had been upholders of the peace.  Egypt, of course, being the most militarily capable, would be the leader but not the only partner in any upcoming war.  But that’s only one possible route.

    I’ll make this next point as many times as I can.  Freedom is not the absence of some brutal dictator oppressing people, but a well supported set of ideals – ideals that aren’t prevalent in most countries of the region.

    As to the point of shared bedfellows (a basic concept), again you deny the video in provided (one of several that can be found) of those very groups helping one another.  Not for the long term, nor has anyone ever maintained such.  Beck certainly hasn’t.  But for the short term goal of destroying their independent paths to power.  Once accomplished, they plan to turn on each other – as each well knows.  Communist vs Islamist.  Just to be clear, neither one is palatable, or desirable.

    PS, I’d started a response in the other thread but lost it – I’ll get to it tomorrow

  • Anonymous

    Israeli Legal Group Credits Rick Perry With Helping Effort To Stop Gaza “Freedom Flotilla”

    (Jewish Weekly) — Believe it or not, Texas Gov. Rick Perry had a hand in preventing those pesky Gaza-bound “Freedom Flotillas” from ever reaching Israeli waters.Perry, a devout Christian who loves the Jewish state, has taken many trips to Israel — more than any other Republican candidate, in fact. While on one of those tours, Perry met Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, co-founder of Shurat HaDin, an Israeli law center.“I once spoke at a mission that Perry took part in, in Israel,” Darshan-Leitner recently told Commentary’s Alana Goodman. “And he approached me and said, ‘I love what you do. It’s amazing what you do. If you ever need help combating Israel’s enemies, I’m here to assist.’ ”Perry made good on that promise in July, when a cohort of liberal activists boarded a Gaza-bound aid boat with the goal of breaching Israel’s maritime blockade of the Gaza strip.Several of the activists aboard the flotilla happened to be Americans, and upon realizing this, Shurat HaDin’s crack lawyers took action, according to Goodman. They charged that the U.S. citizens were in violation of the Neutrality Act, a law that prohibits Americans from participating in hostile acts against allied countries.“So we approached the Attorney General of the United States to fix it,” Darshan-Leitner told Goodman. “And we also got Gov. Rick Perry to write a letter to [Attorney General] Eric Holder.”Ultimately, nine of the 10 boats that participated in the Israel-bashing exercise never made it to the Jewish state, thanks in part to Gov. Rick Perry.

  • insideguy

    some european countries are doing good some not so good; Whats your point? All of them are far more socialist than we are. Germany and France are just two examples of countries whose economies have done better than ours the last 10 years. Yea you could point out countries that aren’t but so what? Canada has had better economic growth than we have in the last 10 years. So have the scandanavian countries. Europe as a whole has some problems because they decided to tie all of the countries into the same currency which has been a fiasco.  And that article is absolutely biased the guy is totally anti obama matter of fact let me do some research on that clown. Thats like reading an article about George Bush written by Mike Malloy.

  • insideguy

    I have no idea what that article has to do with the question I asked you.

  • Anonymous

    I’m short on time, so as a quick hit, the Soviets invaded Afghanistan on invitation, but it’s geopolitical goal was, as ever, to influence the countries it bordered.  It would put them in proximity with India, a 3rd way power they sold military hardware to and wished to be a client state of theirs.  Landlocked and stymied at chokepoints, their national goal for centuries has been to break out into the greater world via sea routes and to aquire allies (or conquests) what can help them accomplish this.  Off the top of my head, sometime around WWI they swung a deal with England to divvy up Iran (Persia) with much the same goal in mind until England goosed nationalism and Iran came into the western sphere.

    Russia, under the czars and later communists, had dominated many tribal Islamic peoples since the the early 19th century.   I’m sure they believed they could simply walk in and do it again, especially with that vaunted military of theirs.  Afghanistan, to them, was simply a means to an end and they didn’t think it out before acting.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, actually, there’s quite a bit of difference.  Yet Illusive_man was correct to point out that Staci’s characterization is much closer to the good Reverend, an ACTUAL religious leader with political opinions, who, being a leftist, she would likely be much more reticent to criticize.

  • Anonymous

    As you can see, Perry has taken a proactive pro-Israeli position. Obama, Samantha Powers and Bill Ayers have sided with the Muslim Brotherhood which would be an anti-Israeli position.

    You did ask about Perry and how I’d like to see him handle the situation and I gave you a direct example of how he reacted to a related situation. Pro-Israeli, just like Mubarak was.  The American leftists immediately sided against Mubarak and it didn’t have as much to do with Mubarak as it did their ingrained anti-Semitic views, just as they organized the terrorist flotilla which Perry helped thwart. There were many, many first tier Obama supporters organizing the thwarted terrorist flotilla. 

  • Anonymous

    Invitation?
    Pure BS.
    Desperate begging for support by the communist dictator everyone hated is the truth.
    Proof? Nine years of attacks by the Afghans that drove the mighty Russians out.
    Expansion, I know all about. But again, Afghanistan is landlocked and devoid of anything but hostile tribes.
    If the communist dictatorship that started in 1978 had any chance of survival, Russia would not have needed to invade for effective control of that neighbor.

    For when you come back, why are Chechens terrorizing Russia?

    Hint. Chechens are Muslims, and they started resisting when their men were drafted to fight in Afghanistan.

  • insideguy

    But regardless oxycon Mubarak was going and you can fantasize about what a republican “may” have done to keep him there but there wasn’t much a us president could do. And if we moved in there to prop him up it would have been so bad it would not even have been funny. The idea that perry took a pro israel position once on a flotilla directed toward palestinian militants has nothing to do with how a president is suppose to react to this arab revolution in the middle east. Once again I direct you to my statements below. Egypt even when it was organized and had a massive powerful military under different leaders was crushed in four major wars with israel. There is no reason to think Egypt could or would get organized and powerful enough to harm Israel in any serious way.

  • insideguy

    No difference in my eyes both have radical views both claim to be religious one is left  wing one is right wing

  • Tucsonense

    Really, REALLY????

  • Tucsonense

    what a joke!!!

  • Anonymous

    The American Jewish community was prominent in its absence.http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/glenn-beck-don-t-come-back-1.380534

  • Anonymous

    Beck is the one who brought it up.

  • Anonymous

    Beck brought it up.

  • Anonymous

    I saw that one woman said she took money from her retirement fund to be there, and another woman took money from her kids’ education fund. Sad. Do they both think there will be no future in which one retires and the other’s kids will have a college to go to?

    Then I saw another article that said Beck’s staff asked reporters to not interview people going to Beck’s Rally. That is suspicious in itself.

  • Anonymous

    He is only af few decades too late to be amazing.

  • Tasmeister

    glenn beck is a bully and a jerk.  he found out the being mr. america will make him money so now he pounds his chest and shouts “look at me I am the greatest I have all the answers and I will even cry for you”  God help his soul and give yourself a break.

  • Tasmeister

    OMG you ass hole

  • Anonymous

    Beck feeds on your paranoia every time he has a meal. You guys are the only reason he still has an income.

  • Anonymous

    Beck feeds on your paranoia every time he has a meal. You guys are the only reason he still has an income.

  • Tasmeister

    hey is this the glen neck that made fun of a female DJ from another station for having lost her baby at 6 mos.  you guys should ckeck out this jerk….really!

  • sam

    hahahah PEOPLE OPEN YOU EYES!!!

  • Tasmeister

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH HE IS A JERK!

  • Tasmeister

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH HE IS A JERK!

  • Tasmeister

    omg YOU JUST DIDN’T JUST SAY THAT

  • Anonymous

    Considering what what great things Beck seems to promise for each rally, I say yes, he is flopping like a fish out of water. He is fading like any other fad.

    I’m only playing with you Beckerheads as I watch him lose at least half of his audience each succeeding year.

  • Anonymous

    I saw that stuff when his departure from Fox was announced. I’m asking whether anything has come of it yet. Even a specific future date would do. It will have to be in the next four months, because that is when the contract runs out.

    I say Fox had to say something like we see on that link to avoid being sued for breach of contract. If they really “liked” him, he would have been on the air on Fox until January 1, 2012. They couldn’t afford that, but they couldn’t fire him publicly.

    Saying something nice and vague  was the easy way out for all concerned, and there was probably a big settlement for Beck, too, but you and I won’t hear about that.

    We will know for sure at the end of December.

  • Anonymous

    Interesting tidbits.

    No sign of American Jews among Beck’s audience in Israel. shouldn’t’ they be every bit as interested in Beck’s support  for Israel as the Christians?

    No confirmed sighting of any American politician at Beck’s rally. (Rumors that Cain showed up, but not confirmed.)

    I cannot find any mention of it on Fox News. Why not? I have googled for it. I find it on Fox’s website, but no mention of it on Fox TV.

    Anybody seen it there?

  • Anonymous

    Link? Date?

  • Anonymous

    When the communist caliphate lead by a Pharaoh rises, get back to me.

  • Anonymous

    And rejected it. You know he didn’t invent the notion, right?

  • Anonymous

    Arabs can walk the streets of Israel in peace. Jews can’t walk the streets in Judea and Samaria. Or Gaza. Israeli apartheid, my ass.

  • Anonymous

    Where’d you see that?

  • Anonymous

    Hasn’t the the Old Testament been superseded, due to its violent content?

    Ask a Jew. They call it the Bible.

    http://tinyurl.com/q5qmy

    If ignorance is truly bliss, you must be ecstatic.

  • Anonymous

    Why, because he’s white?

  • Anonymous

    No, we’re the only reason Obama has an income.

  • Anonymous

    Yup. That’s about it.

  • Anonymous

    So you missed that part where he talked about Israel being called an apartheid state? Idiot.

  • Anonymous

    Right, and Hezbollah will never take over a country either! Especially not after something so glorious as the Cedar Revolution, right?

    Wake up, Dude. http://tinyurl.com/4ype9zs

  • Anonymous

    Ha. I’m pretty sure you didn’t vote for him. But you are right since I’m sure you pay taxes as a good American citizen. However, the subject is Beck and the Beckoning to Israel.

  • Anonymous

    I’d especially like to see the moronic conservative Jewish sites. Please link those.

    MK Danny Danon said it best: “When the messiah comes, we’ll ask whether this is the first time or the second time. In the meantime, we have a lot in common. We don’t need to argue about it today.”

  • Anonymous

    We will see. :-)

  • Guest

    Well, gee whiz! I wonder why Arabs would garner any hatred for Israelis?

  • Anonymous

    This one summs it up best:
    Right wingers are furious that he has been given
    permission to stage his show near the Western Wall in Jerusalem, the
    most sacred place for Jews. The Christian content of Beck’s rally has led some to describe it as a “modern day crusade”.
    Israel’s
    left are equally furious, but they take issue with Beck’s politics –
    his inflammatory views on the Arab world – rather than his religious
    views. “This is a person who seems to support Israel, but he is a fanatic,” Etai Mizrav of Peace Now said.
    http://blogs.news.sky.com/middleeastblog/Post:3f7f885a-46c1-46b6-a326-291d8342d5ec

    Beck’s unabashedly pro-Israel, anti-Muslim rhetoric has endeared him
    to some on Israel’s far-right. But religious figures and left-wing
    politicians have come together in an unusual alliance appealing to
    Israelis to shun his embrace.

    Religious Jews are worried he is here to spread the Christian
    gospel, while dovish Israelis reject Beck’s support for West Bank Jewish
    settlements and his criticism of peace efforts.
    Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/08/24/3858414/glenn-beck-hosts-rally-in-old.html#ixzz1W3FL2AQ9The rally was applauded by some conservative Israelis but was received with mixed emtions in much of the Jewish community.http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/24/glenn-beck-hosts-pro-israel-rally-in-jerusalem/The NYT noted that Beck “has been embraced by much of the
    Israeli right for portraying the Israeli-Arab conflict as a struggle for
    the survival of Western civilization. But many in the Jewish
    establishment have a conflicted relationship with Mr. Beck, finding his
    overuse of Holocaust imagery distasteful and some of his venting too
    provocative.”
    Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/glenn-beck-israel-2011-8#ixzz1W3GjKtZS

    Glenn Beck exploiting Israel

    Op-ed: Fired Fox commentator intends to use Israel as prop in his effort to get back on top http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4110012,00.html

  • Anonymous

    I asked for the right wing sites. Got any?

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Yes, we will. In fact, if you pay attention, you can watch as it happens.

  • Anonymous

    Another great, proud Murcuhn.  Let us pray!

  • Kderykrodwell

    Hey are Jews treated in Palestine?  Oh… right….

  • AliveStillKickin

     Kinda’ like Obeelzebub….losing his “audience”.
    Beck has more of a chance to become Head of the DNC than Barack has to be reelected.

  • AliveStillKickin

    He just likes Israelis more than Muslim terrorists….Stupid.
    Insideguy…..huh?
    Inside WHAT?
    Obama’s rectum?

  • Anonymous

    That wooed be your job to show me. I found neutral sites, not left wing sites.

  • Anonymous

    Two days before the rally, a uniquely Jerusalemite commotion
    threatened to do away with the musical accompaniment altogether. Eli
    Yaffe, the choirmaster and conductor of the Great Synagogue’s Choir,
    which was to accompany Fisher for the Israeli national anthem and other
    tunes, grasped the Christian nature of the event and hastily backed off.
    With him went 16 performers, all of whom are to sing at the synagogue’s
    High Holy Day services next month.

    It then fell to Meir Briskman, a young acolyte, to improvise a
    replacement group with hours to go. One of the bass singers on stage
    with Beck was Steven Timoner, 39, a graduate of the Yale Conservatory
    and a Chicago native who is now married to an Israeli and living in
    Jerusalem. He made $500 for the gig. From his perch, he could see that
    people gave Beck “scores of standing ovations.”

    “I think he gave a decent speech,” Timoner said, smiling. “Look, it
    was very good. It was coherent. He had a real message. It was nothing
    like seeing him on TV, where he’s just, um, a moron.” http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2011/08/25/glenn_beck_israel_rally

    That about sums it up.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Todd-Scheller/100000832449863 Todd Scheller

    Where exactly are the borders of Palestine?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Todd-Scheller/100000832449863 Todd Scheller

    You are correct, both countries do not have apartheid now. Read Becks comment again about South Africa: “And so immediately following this program I will fly to South Africa, which is where apartheid actually existed.” That is called Past Tense meaning South Africa use to have it. Are you now denying the struggle of Nelson Mandela?

  • Sandie

    Don’t freak out now, but there are more than one million Arab Palestinians in Israel who  chose to continue to live under Israeli sovereignty in the Jewish state of Israel rather than choosing to live under the all-too-unfortunate oppression which is the lot of their Arab and Muslim brothers throughout the Middle East.   One of the justices of Israel’s Supreme Court is an Arab Muslim; so is a minister in the Israeli cabinet. Arabs are active in Israeli commerce, media, education, and law.They have equal rights under the law , can vote, l can worship freely,  are entitled to the full same state education as all other Israelis, and are members of the Israeli parliament and ministers in the government.

    http://www.middle-east-info.org/gateway/arabsinisrael/index.htm

  • Sandie

    Guess ol’ Nelson isn’t always right .

  • Anonymous

    Obvious tools/trolls from media matters blogbank. They usually employ the idiots who don’t know enough to challenge the talking points. Education is a powerful acquisition, and useful in the war on ignorance.

  • Anonymous

    Is there somewhere I can contribute to keep Glenn “on the road”?
    How about a fund to revoke his passport? While he is gone?

  • Anonymous

    Invitation?
    Pure BS.
    Desperate begging for support by the communist dictator everyone hated is the truth.
    Proof? Nine years of attacks by the Afghans that drove the mighty Russians out.
    Expansion, I know all about. But again, Afghanistan is landlocked and devoid of anything but hostile tribes.
    If
    the communist dictatorship that started in 1978 had any chance of
    survival, Russia would not have needed to invade for effective control
    of that neighbor.

    For when you come back, why are Chechens terrorizing Russia?

    Hint. Chechens are Muslims, and they started resisting when their men were drafted to fight in Afghanistan.

    What part is BS?  How do you think communist dictators suddenly just pop up without indigenous support?  How is it impossible to think a Muslim Marxists could exist when
    some of those same people in the streets of Egypt this day are described
    as socialist or the like?  This point is more difficult to get across
    to people who’ve yet to admit that “socialism” isn’t some weird insult
    but actually a socioeconomic theory, related to a political philosophy. 
    From all appearances, in earlier debates, you’re not that person.

    The
    world preceding the 1978 Afghan revolution wasn’t the world we have
    today., even – it was even more dangerous.  Marxism was a popular idea
    back in the day when a superpower seen by many as being in the
    ascendency was actively pushing it and supporting Marxists “in the
    field,” so to speak, wherever they could find an opposition to a ruling
    party.  Proof cannot be found in the Soviets having lost a war in ignorance of the conditions which were prevalent upon that wars beginnings.  That’s like saying “kingship” as a form of government was demonstratively wrong, and the proof is they were defeated.  No, no it wasn’t.

    In partial answer to your inquiry over why the Chechens are now such a problem for Russia, and also what helped bring down the Soviets in Afghanistan, is something that’s bound to open up an entirely new line of debate.  Vitality.  The Soviets demonstrated particularly poor timing in launching the
    Afghan War when they did (as perhaps did we).  Vitality in a culture (a people, religion) grants it a resiliency, and an ability to overcome enormous obstacles.  It’s a morally neutral concept, and can be used for good or bad.  When we have it, its expressed as American exceptionalism, or the Monroe doctrine.

    And yeah, this is the abbreviated version.

  • Anonymous

    What’s that?  That the left proved it can scare people off using bully tactics but that when a neutral observer, despite holding lazy, per-conceived notions, is exposed to what Beck has to say on a daily basis he comes off well?

    Reading between the lines, that’s some pretty good observations to take from a Salon piece in which practically every data point was designed to detract.  But one must never forget to pull out and see the lines for what they are.  Nobody who reads the article can think it’s a credible, unbiased source from which to form an opinion.  Used to reinforce a negative one?  Sure.  But those honestly seeking the truth know the difference.

  • Anonymous

    Every article I found, even the most neutral of them, said that both far left and far right Israelis saw Beck as being in Jerusalem for his own purposes, or for Christian purposes, not for the benefit of the Israelis. Only a very few Israeli politicians wanted anything to do with Beck, which is appropriate because few Israelis had even heard of him before.

    Bully tactics? You mean like Invasion by Invitation, Soviet style?

  • Anonymous

    http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/anglo-file/glenn-beck-rallies-draw-support-from-diffuse-ideologues-1.380733

    Many Israelis find something to like in what the U.S. commentator calls his steadfast support for Israel, while free-market advocates here, Anglos among them, say his ultra-capitalist views jibe nicely with their own.

    Moshe and Yafah Sharon, Americans who immigrated here 22 years ago, came from Jerusalem for the Caesarea concert and called it “a tremendous show of solidarity”, believing Beck’s philo-Semitism to be authentic.

    “We shouldn’t be so cynical, that anybody who we hear loves Israel,
    right away assume that it can’t be, it must be something else,” said
    Yafah.

    . . . [R]ally attendee Paul Segal, who immigrated from Denver four years ago and now lives in Efrat.

    Segal said that he came to the concert to support the Christian Zionists, who in turn support Israel. “I believe that they’re doing this very sincerely,” he said. “They don’t have ulterior motives, I think it’s genuine.”

    I only looked for 2 minutes.  And Haaretz is generally seen as a left of center paper.

  • Anonymous

    Fair ’nuff. Beck says this cost him about a million dollars a day. He got some support, nobody died, and there were no major embarrassments. Isreal seems to be no better or worse off. No minds were changed, except for those who pulled out at the last minute.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000447312471 Mac Macaroo

    “If you havn’t yet nticed  Almost everything Glenn Beck ever said or says came or is gonna come to pass in near future”

    …except the things that didn’t and won’t.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000447312471 Mac Macaroo

    Shopping, are you?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Victor-Tiffany/100001320367593 Victor Tiffany

     Glenn Beck’s speech in Jerusalem was laughable.
    No, really, literally laughable if it weren’t so hypocritical, at least on one point (AGAIN!)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Victor-Tiffany/100001320367593 Victor Tiffany

    If you’re “honestly seeking the truth” as you claim here, why are you defending a proven liar?

    http://glennbeckreport.com/glenn-beck-lies/

    That’s not my site; but it’s the most dense list of lies available on a single webpage.  I’ve documented others.

    While I’m at it, there is not such thing as an “unbiased source.” Humans have bias. Choosing what words to use to describe a story, what stories to tell, etc. all result from a bias of one sort or another.

    The way to form an accurate opinion is from multiple sources, some from the left; some from the right. The network that tries to do this most consistently is CNN. From the direction of MRC, they appear to have a liberal bias; but from the far left, CNN is corporate media bent on conserving the status quo. We see far right Tea Party types on CNN, for example, but how often to you see the far left, Communist types on CNN?

    The difficulty comes from comparing an honest source trying to accurately describe an event such as Beck’s latest self-promotion effort with a dishonest source. 

    World Net Daily, for example, is dishonest. Fox to a lesser degree is dishonest. The National Review and Commentary Magazine are biased but honest for the most part.

    Most people listen to the source that tells them what they want to hear, rather than what the honest facts are. Only this explains why anyone would listen to and believe Glenn Beck. Only this explains the freaks who still believe that 9-11 was a false flag operation. It happens to people on the left and the right.

    I’ve made clear on Beck’s site, before being banned for stressing that he was a coward for not debating Van Jones, that this is not an issue of ideology. I voted for Ron Paul in the Republican primaries in 08. I have a civil libertarian orientation, but a progressive view of corporations (that are not people).

    Paul is honest and decent for the most part. His libertarianism is authentic and consistent. Beck’s propaganda is dishonest and hypocritical.

    You want to support Ron Paul; we can have a respectful debate about the roll of gov’t in the economy. You want to support Glenn Beck, then you are not deserving of respect. If you honestly seek the truth, then your BS detectors should go off listening to Glenn Beck. Do you hear his lies, or do you believe what you want to, no matter what the facts?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Victor-Tiffany/100001320367593 Victor Tiffany
  • Anonymous

    Face it, your bitterness stems from Beck envy. You wish you could travel the world delivering your message, but the only problem with that is no one wants to listen to an overinflated gas bag like you.

    This statement you posted is a perfect example of how you tell half a story and put your opinion into it and call that the truth. Where I come from that is known as lying. You want to substantiate your claims or just be a lying ignorant loudmouth? What’s it going to be?

    I think you are disgusting and a bottom feeder.

  • Anonymous

    He’s the lying ignorant loudmouth.

  • Victor Tiffany

    Yes, I have “envy” of a liar, hypocrite and reactionary propagandist.

    I would be ashamed of saying the nonsense that comes out of Beck’s pre-enlightenment mouth.

    If you want to call taking something out of context a “lie,” then you must call Glenn Beck a liar quite often.  Oh, that’s right, you turn blind eyes and deaf ears toward the very points you want to call me on.

    I think that you are gullible and a tool for the religulous and anti-science troglodytes. 

  • Anonymous

    “I could offer more if I could provide more than two links per comment as allowed by the administrator of this site.”

    Why let that stop you? Bring it on big boy. You never followed any rules before. You are all talk and no proof. Documentation is everything and you have none but your own self serving site plugs to offer.
    Without actual facts such as legally acceptable evidence that what you claim is true gives those claims a hollow ring, not unlike your head.

    You have only opinion and not fact – and you know what they say about opinions.

  • Anonymous

    Vicky, Vicky33, Vicrot, VicTROLLa, Victorrhea, VicTROLLa the Hut, Vivian, Victocchio… by any other name is still a liar, regardless where he posts.

  • potvin

    I’ll leave that to left-wing pervs like yourself.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Victor-Tiffany/100001320367593 Victor Tiffany

    Your sleazy campaign of smear has been documented:

    http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2011/07/smearing-of-glenn-beck-review.html

    What motivated me are the many lies that Beck told, just as I’ve explained many times in the past. You still cannot defend Beck’s lies, so you stupidly and childishly attack the messenger.  Explain any of this long list of lies:

    http://glennbeckreport.com/glenn-beck-lies/

    You won’t; you can’t which is why you choose to attack me personally instead.  It’s the typical reactionary response to information that you don’t want to hear: attack the messenger and ignore the message.

    Below, Bobby uses the same tactics on here.  He is basically name calling, and he can never point out any examples of what this base reactionary supporter of Beck claims because there are none.

  • Anonymous

    Incredible! You are even lying to yourself. You claim to be a Republican, yet you take the most extreme liberal views and run with them like you are trying to catch the train before it leaves the station. You are really putting forth a lot of effort into cranking up your metamorphosis machine. You are a straight up liberal and a bigot and we witness this daily. You are Ed Schultz in a Victor suit.

    You have no salient points in favor of your product, so you resort to denigration of your competitors. It is basic and apparent your product – (your fraudulent Glenn Beck Review) has no merit or truth in it. When all you can do to support your campaign is crap on the competition, is it any wonder that only a few fools are buying it?

    You really are Ed Schultz in a Victor suit, and brother everyone can see right through you and your lies. That is why you never made it past the Republican Party committee to the ballot in 1992. You keep lying to yourself but that is the real story of Victor Tiffany, failed candidate, failed – failed – failed, and a lying fraud to boot.

    It isn’t a campaign of smear – that is what you do – it is merely showing the liberals you align with that you are not even about the junk you write – it is about lying to us, lying to them and lying to yourself.

    And that’s what it’s all about – Hokey Pokey.

  • Anonymous

    You are no messenger – you are a fraud, your site is twisted lies wrapped in fraud, and I don’t answer liars and frauds.

  • Anonymous

    Gee you must be as smart as the seventh moon of Jupiter. That’s a big rock in a vacuum rotating around a gas giant. Your opinions are based on propaganda and liberal smears. That’s ok though, you are entitled to your opinions but you should state they are opinion instead of presenting them as fact.

    Your lies are old but you say them well.

  • Anonymous

    You really are this stupid, aren’t you?

  • Anonymous

    You really are this stupid, aren’t you?

  • Anonymous

    Contrary to your lies the move to GBTV was not a dismissal. There is an abundance of knowledge from credible sources on this subject that counter your insipid claims.

  • Anonymous

    Why would they be happy with the associated drop in ratings for that time slot. The fact is they would not and are not. Only malcontent liberals think this is a story or a subject worthy of continuation.

  • Anonymous

    ” If they really “liked” him, he would have been on the air on Fox until
    January 1, 2012. They couldn’t afford that, but they couldn’t fire him
    publicly.”

    More of you lies and suppositions being substituted for the facts. Glenn made the decision to leave, not Fox. Your other speculations are your opinion. You need a disclaimer:

    Disclaimer for Devils_Spawn – No facts or evidence were harmed in the making of this opinion. Any similarity between the opinions expressed here by this individual and the actual truth is imaginary.

  • Anonymous

     You are terrible at documentation. You have the comments of five people “documented” there, yet not once do you include the comment that they responded too. Seven of the posts are in reply to Guest. Are you now accepting responsibility for all comments that are posted by Guest? Why the lies of omission from you Victorrhea?

  • Anonymous

    I prefer to say I really am that aware.
    Beck has nowhere else to go with his gloom and doom scenario, and more and more people are getting tired of it.

  • Anonymous

    @doodaddio:disqus Fox ignored Beck’s Isreal event. No American politician admits to attending the event. There is still no sign of a Fox/Beck collaboration.

    You Beckerheads must be getting desperate.

  • Anonymous

    You forgot to add – “in my opinion”.

  • Anonymous

    OK.

    In my opinion.

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