Here’s What You Get When You Don’t Agree With Israel’s Policies
From: Roger
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 9:30 PM
To: Alan
Subject: (no subject)
Your position on the Israel war should cause some Jew to stuff your yamika up your ass.
From: Dorrie
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 9:35 PM
To: Alan
Subject: GOOD RIDDANCE!
Whether YOU know it or not, you made a total FOOL of yourself on tonight’s Hannity & Colmes show, during the segment with Aaron Cohen!
How can a JEW be as ignorant as you appear to be?! Are you putting on the guise of “stupid”?!
I am a Jew and I’m FED UP with you! Get off the air. STAY off the air! Go sell shoes or used cars because you are too ignorant to have a real opinion on anything!
From: Leonard
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 9:38 PM
To: Alan
Subject: Israel
You have sunk to new low. An apologist for Hamas. You might as well be working for Al Jazeera. maybe you do. Another sell-out leftist clueless Jew. You are repulsive. You can’t get off H&C soon enough. You go live on the border of Israel and Gaza. Never happen just as you did not visit Iraq. You are a disgusting coward who only thinks about party. people are celebrating the departure of another failed piece of shit from the airways. Bye Bye wooden puppet.
From: Joan
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 9:44 PM
To: Alan
Subject: You
You are not only an ugly person, more importantly you are constantly and totally obnoxious. And you are an appalling anti-semite. I suppose if Mexico started shooting rockets into the U.S. that you would say we should do nothing about that. You are a total jerk. The only reason I listen to the show you are unfortunately a part of is that I like to listen to Sean Hannity, who at least makes sense. Then I have to put up with you. I can’t stand you and I can’t wait for you to leave the show. I don’t know how Sean Hannity can stand to be in the same room with you but it’s no wonder he sits as far away as possible from you. Why don’t you go work for the NY Times. Then you can go under when they do.
From: Erv
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 9:49 PM
To: Alan
Subject: Alan, Regardiing ISRAEL…
You just don’t get it, schmuck.
Israel is a sovereign state and HAMAS is a terrorist organization. As such, Israel has every right to defend its citizens, and if that means destroying Hamas – so be it.
With a viewpoint like yours regarding Israel, have you ever considered becoming a United Nations bigwig?
From: Dove
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 10:10 PM
To: Alan
Subject: when are u leaving?
BEFORE U LEAVE I WANTED TO TELL YOU OF ALL THE PEOPLE THAT I HAVE WATCHED ON T.V. I’VE GOT TO TELL YOU THIS. I THINK YOU ARE THE MOST VILE, LACK OF KNOWLEDGE, UN-SKILLED, ANTI-CHRIST, DISGRACE, TERRORIST LOVER, AND YOUR IGNORANCE IS SO SAD. I CAN NOT BELIEVE THAT A SCUM LIKE YOU COULD EVER GET ON T.V.
YOU HAVE TRASHED THE DECENT .
AND LOVED THE TRASH.
ANYONE WHO TAKE’S THE TERRORIST OVER ISRAEL, IS A EVIL AND VILE PERSON.
THANK GOD YOU ARE LEAVING.
From: Robert
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:30 AM
To: Alan
Subject:Alan,
I know you will try and humiliate me for saying this but, I see the surge of antisemitism and your criticism of Israel and can only think “Hitler.”
You are putting youself in the same boat as Hitler for condemning the Jews for going on the offensive to protect themselves. Thank you for giving us the Liberal side, it is good to hear what we don’t want to hear.
Colmes, please ignore those who know not but to hate, those who prefer propaganda and insist on violent reactions to pacifist pleadings. Their little brains are stretched so thin and their hearts are three sizes too small. Plus, it’s yucky out.
Please just know that there are so many out here who look on you as a hero, much like Maddow and Colbert and any other that has the cojones to research and speak the truth even when its not part of the talking points.
The truth may eventually set us free, but you will have paid the price of our ransom. Thank you, -L
PS- As far as Israel & Palestine go, since both deserve security, isn’t it possible that Hamas could step down and in return Israel vow full Palestinian statehood? There has to be a way forward that doesn’t keep setting us all back a thousand years…
January 7th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
What I find amazing is that if anyone one of these people, happened to be born and raised in the Palistinian territories, they would support the worst violence from Hamas.
These are the people who would have supported Hitler, the Klan, the IRA, or al Qaeda, IF they were they represented THEIR tribe.
In other words, people who need to believe that THEY are 100% right, everyone else is 100% wrong, therefore, any and all brutality is justified.
January 7th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Then you can see why the israelis are using force to defend their homes.
Not all palestinians support hamas.
January 7th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
OLD LEFTY, that’s quite an ideological/stereotypical leap you made there. The basis for your argument?
January 7th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Jared (I),
The basis for my argument is after 50 years, I find that most people who see in black and white, OUR side good, THEIR bad, feel that way not matter what side they are on.
Look at the ugly comments: If you replaced ‘Alan’ or ‘liberal’ with ‘Jew’, it would be the ugly rhetoric coming from radical Islam.
They are the extremists….both sides have them.
January 7th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Both sides have extremists, but one has to wonder, how much land do the arabs need and why does it have to come from israel?
If they believe what mohammed taught, then they would believe that they were given the land they were supposed to have, and that the land of the jewish people was given to them rightly by abraham.
And why do we only hear outcrys from arab countries about the plight of the palestinians when israel decides to carry a big stick? Where are their tears when there is peace?
January 7th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
OLD LEFTY,
Good points, all. No doubt ignorance and obvious hatred has shown brightly in the emails sent to Alan.
I remember something someone told me once after I got upset at some dumb comment another person made at a business meeting: we must learn to be patient with those who do not understand the game, guiding them to the truth, with the truth…
but then Aristotle would ask: “What is truth?”
January 7th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Blissful,
I am by no means taking sides as this issue is to complicated to easily apply the ideology of right and wrong to in my perspective but. I live in a fairly rural area of california. If it was to be suddenly mandated that the county I live in was the homeland of a different group and me and all of my fellow citizens were to move to the next county. While there may be plenty of room for us over there it would still make me increadibly mad. Let a couple of generations pass and my ancestors would probably still be holding a grudge but now not at the same people who booted us but there ancestors. Sadly I don’t have much hope that the conflict over there will ever be solved.
January 7th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Blissful makes a good point. Why don’t the Arab states make room for the Palistinians, give them some of their land. The own most of the Mid-east. Israel just owns a tiny piece. I don’t believe that Israel should give up any more of their land.
Let’s see some critisima of the Arab nations here. There is a heck of a lot of blame to toss their way in this. Why do the Arab nations support terrorism?
January 7th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
geez louise, my spelling,grammar and typing stink today
January 7th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
I usually blame my spelling and grammer mistakes on the keyboard Blissful. Works for me. lol
January 7th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
“”Why do the Arab nations support terrorism?”"
I expect because it worked so well for Jewish terrorists in the 1940’s…It got them the better chunk of Palestine in fact.
“In other words, people who need to believe that THEY are 100% right, everyone else is 100% wrong, therefore, any and all brutality is justified.”"
You bet. – “The Myth of War 101″
January 7th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
You are and continue to be not only an idiot but a fool. You couldn’t see the truth when it is in front of your face … and have proven it over and over again.
Glad you are going … you will not be missed!
January 8th, 2009 at 1:07 am
D, you just crossed a line, buster.
I’m conceding idiot but I will not have you call Alan a fool.
Sincerely,
The only sober guy left on this site
January 8th, 2009 at 1:11 am
hello alan~~~
not too long ago you commented that you wanted to have shows with liberals, all the right-wing spew was getting to you.
well, too often i have noticed, when folks with something positive and liberal to share call you, you’re quite dismissive and un-entertainingly kind of rude. e.g., when a caller tried to share about a number of israeli peace groups with you & us, you cut him off. that is never the case, however, when someone is your invited guest ~ even if what s/he says is wacko (like ann coulter). in those scenarios, without exception (that i’ve ever heard), you bend over backwards to be the perfect gentleman. it seems as if there is a caste system in your head.
i don’t think you realize that you play a jekeyll & hyde on your show, but it’s what i’ve observed over many months of listening, which i do, for those moments when an intelligent, thoughtful, progressive, edifying as well as entertaining dialogue (or monologue) actually happens. the rest of the time i just have to wonder why your attitude is so needlessly disrespectful and un-listenable. what is accomplished by turning off your base? or do you really only want to engage with
those whose perspective is at odds with yours, and the hell with the rest of us who may be more in agreement
with you than not? it’s hard to take your longing for intelligent liberal conversation seriously, if you believe that liberal listeners who call have little that’s worthwhile to discuss.
perhaps it might help to try to actually hear and understand what they’re saying! maybe you’re just missing the boat at times when it comes to absorbing and processing non-wacko input.
how can we even dream of peace anywhere when our own interactions serve to defeat the possibility?
thank you for reading this and thinking about it ~ if you do…
sincerely~~~
joyce
tucson, az
January 8th, 2009 at 2:02 am
Thats Alan on the left in the pic…
January 8th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
11 Israeli’s dead…over 700 palestinians dead, including CHILDREN. There is no comparison to launching missles in Israel where NO ONE IS KILLED to Israel launching major attacks that kill hundreds. I’m sorry, I am for Israel and their right to exist, but they are wrong for what they are doing now. JMO.
January 8th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
wrong for defending themselves?
How many times would you let someone punch you in the face before you hit them back?
January 8th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Terrorism is in the eye of the beholder. To the Jewish population in Israel who have lost loved ones, the Palestinians are the terrorists. To the Palestinians who have lost loved ones, Israel is the terrorist. Do we honestly not believe that there are those in the world who view the United States as a terrorist?
January 8th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
SUSAN, thanks for the update on the world hating the US
JEN, since you’re the expert on the tactics of war, how would you handle such a thing? In all of history, the best way to defeat an enemy is to eliminate their war resources; unfortunately, Hamas has decided it will hide their resources behind schools, hospitals, mosques, etc. Cowards who know that innocent people will be killed, and then use that as propaganda against Israel.
BLISS, excellent analogy.
January 8th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Jared: Did I say the world hated the US? What I did say was that there are SOME in the world who would view us as terrorist.
January 8th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Colmes,
It’s great that you want to be with like minded souls but I agree with bliss how many times would you take a punch before you struck back but then again you like getting the snot kicked out of you such as every time Carl Rove, Dick Morris, Oliver North, Newt Gingrich etc. etc. kick your ass on national T.V, so now you want to pick up your dolls and go hide. As a raging liberial I would have thought you would be screaming at the top of your lungs about the injustice of it all,I think you like the attention of being the village idiot.
Jewish people have the right to protect themselves however they deem suitable, I can’t belive you don’t feel a little bit of that famous jewish guilt about some of the things you have said about Isreal and their plight
January 8th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Nice.
Or without specifically picking on the Jews (not that they don’t deserve it, I mean, they are Jews after all) one could say that terror is a tactic that has been used throughout history when a much weaker group is in conflict with a stronger one.
The operative word is tactic, which is why the ‘War on Terror’ is so idiotic. We have declared war on a tactic. I expect our next war to be a ‘War on Pincer movements’.
I guess it makes as much sense the War on Drugs, where we have declared war on our fellow citizens.
January 8th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
“”e.g., when a caller tried to share about a number of israeli peace groups with you & us, you cut him off.”"
It seems like that sometimes, Joyce, I agree…but I think maybe you’re forgetting the format of the show. It’s not a platform for people to call in and give a speech, or talk about various groups and organizations, no matter how wonderful they are. Alan HAS to keep the show moving, and so, yes sometimes he is abrupt…but I disagree with your discription of him as disrepectful.
I believe it’s more disrepectful to call in toe a fast-paced show and use up everybody elses time to try and preach a sermon, even a good one!
Now CBC has a show called cross-country check-up where you can do just that, but of course it’s heavily screened, but if you get thorough you mention your groups all you want.
January 8th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
“”but then again you like getting the snot kicked out of you such as every time Carl Rove, Dick Morris, Oliver North, Newt Gingrich etc. etc. kick your ass on national T.V,”"
How odd, Jim, that you have interpreted the exchanges this way. In fact I can assure you that most ‘thinking’ Americans find a few well-placed and well-thought out comments from Alan Colmes to be of more value that a 10 minute tirade from the likes of Morris and his ilk…
I supoose there are still a few, like youself, that thinks the louder they shout, the more they win the debate. In fact, the opposite is true.
All the shouting and hot air and blustering and falsehoods from the right couldn’t stop the change in the mood of the US in 2008.
Perhaps it’s time for the GOP and the far right to abandon this sophomoric debating style…
…nobodies listening, apparently, except maybe Jim…
January 8th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
So UM Cara, you are basically saying the the terrorists are weaker than the women and children that they continually blow up in shopping centers, churches, diners, etc…?
If they were REAL MEN they would try attacking military bases.
January 8th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Willy,
I wasn’t weighing one groups manliness against another. I’m saying that throughout history people have adopted terrorist tactics when they are fighting a better armed force. Terrorism is essentially a force multiplying tactic.
Do you disagree?
January 8th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
I know this is politically incorrect, but probably they would attack military bases if they also had fighter jets and bombers.
Aren’t the Israelis using white phosphorus?
That’s a banned chemical weapon.
Again,
” Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.”
~A pirate, from St. Augustine’s “City of God
January 8th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
I understand the concept of fighting a better armed force, but you don’t defeat them by murdering their women and children.
Where I come from if you kill our innocents, (on purpose) as the terrorists do then you had better be prepared to pay the consequences. And I mean going after the terrorist with every military means you have and beat them into submission till they surrender or are eradicated.
January 8th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
I found this on Wiki
It has rocket attacks from Gaza against israel for JUST 2008. This only solidifies my belief that israel is doing what anyone in their right mind would do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rocket_and_mortar_attacks_in_Israel_in_2008
January 8th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
I understand the concept of fighting a better armed force, but you don’t defeat them by murdering their women and children.
Where I come from if you kill our innocents, (on purpose) as the terrorists do
I’d be willing to bet that the U.S. has on occasion launched an attack where they knew innocents would be killed.
January 8th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
‘….they knew innocents…’ should read ‘…we knew innocents…’
January 8th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
I have seen that quote before Lefty. But isn’t a pirate a criminal? Does the police go to a gang shootout with only a couple of officers? No, they go in with enough force to put down the situation. The more force the better. You have to overwhelm the enemy in order to stop hostilities. You must force them into surrender.
It is easier to defeat pirates with a fleet. The pirate is an old form of terrorism.
January 8th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
I am sure that is true Cara, but when the bad guys are hinding among the innocents and are hiding weapons in the homes of innocents and in places of worship, then, whether you like it or not, those places become targets. Unfortunately this happens in every war or conflict. It happened in WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq.
“WAR IS HELL” Wasn’t that said for a reason?
January 8th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Where did the idea come from that you fight nice to win?
The pirates that are popular these days chase cruise ships and take over ships filled with oil and other riches all the while thumbing their noses at everyone around them.
January 8th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
Goodnight guys, gotta go.
January 8th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
I am sure that is true Cara, but when the bad guys are hinding among the innocents and are hiding weapons in the homes of innocents and in places of worship, then, whether you like it or not, those places become targets.
I was alluding to the two nukes we dropped. I guess you could say the bad guys were hiding in those huge cities we destroyed, but I’d say it was more than that. We were targeting civilians. Women and children. (And their children’s children’s children, w/ all the radiation)
Yea, war is hell. But if we look at all the people using a certain tactic as devils, we aren’t going to get out of that hell until we kill all of them. We need to get away from this thinking that because this or that group is using terrorist tactics they are evil and we must destroy them. Better to actually understand what the hell we are fighting about, and try to deal with it.
It may require a lot of killing before it is over (as in WWII in Japan), but at least we can hope to come to an end point short of annihilation of one of us or the other.
January 8th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
I know you are gone, Willy, but the point of the quote is that the emperor is AS much a terrorist as the pirate, and that the pirate is only called a terrorist because he does not control a state.
In others words, if fifty innocent people are killed by the emperor or the pirate, you call the one with the power and the army an emperor and one with primative weapons a terrorist.
The Palistinians call Israel terrorists.
I believe it is VERY rare that one side is all good and the other is all bad, but many need to believe that.
January 8th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Hey Alan – I’ve been following your commentary on Israel and really disagree with everything you have said so far. Israel must obliterate Hamas in the same way that America must obliterate Al-Qaeda. There’s actually some interesting comments posted about you on my website in my latest article on Israel. I really think you should read it. It may make you think. Feel free to respond to the comment about you.
January 8th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
“” Israel must obliterate Hamas…”
Why on earth would you think Alan Colmes, or any other intelligent American, would be interested in your “site” or in fact anything you have to say, with this attitude?
I know I’m not.
Unless it was to play some sort of drinking game.
Every time A.D. says something ridiculous, do a shot. Every time they say something hateful, or encourage a soveriegn nation to “obliterate” a fairly elected gov’t, do a shot.
As A.D.’s site gets shut down for hate-speech, do a shot…
January 8th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
150,000 civilians killed in the Dresden carpet bombings, anyone?
January 8th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
I believe it is VERY rare that one side is all good and the other is all bad, but many need to believe that.
Posted by OldLefty
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I agree that that pure good and pure evil are rare. as far as many need to believe that …..
Israel must obliterate Hamas in the same way that America must obliterate Al-Qaeda.
Posted by A.D.
Your point is proven.
January 8th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
You are a pleasant man and are trying your best on TV, but you just belong to the wrong party. Barak is going to do us all in, and he will still blame President Bush who kept you safe all these years. So much for the respect you have for your President. What good is Barak and all his news media friends if we are all attacked and dead, tell me who’s fault will that be. I really believe that you are a kind man, just not well informed. Good Luck. M.
January 9th, 2009 at 12:33 am
You are like the jews who worked for the Nazi’s & led the other jews to the ovens in hopes of being spared. Pretty bizarre how you only critique Israel, but don’t put any blame on the radical Islamists. If it were up to you there wouldn’t be an Israel right Alan?
January 9th, 2009 at 1:01 am
After reading much of the posts on here, I must assume most on both sides are basing their opinions on a news source, not personal knowledge. With that in mind, I have to interject my experience while in Isreal. While Isreal has not been perfect, they have been the ones constantly at the peace table. They have all the power needed to force each and every Palestinian out of the country, yet have show great restraint. Even after numerous breeches of peace treaties by Hamas, they have shown restraint and returned to the table, even giving up much of the Gaza strip forcing their own settlers out. And yet once again, Hamas launches missles and sends women, children, and non military men into populated areas filled with women and children to blow themselves up. Then they give a chunk of money to the dead suicide bombers family. Hamas has had no problem breaking treaties, killing innocent civilians, and even killing their own kind who disagree. If anything, they deserve much more devestation than Isreal is giving them now. There may be no innocent parties in this matter, but by far, Hamas bares the majority of the blame in this action and for the suffering of their own people!
January 13th, 2009 at 1:47 am
ALAN, IS THIS THE BEST A SMALL HANDFUL OF IGNORENT OF UNINFORMED GOP HATEFULS CAN DO—-DO THEY NOT REALIZE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN AND IN VERY VERY SIMPLE LANGUAGE….IT,S OVER FOR THE THIEVES!!! SO VERY HAPPY THEY COULD NOT FIND THE WAY TO STEAL THE ELECTION AGAIN AND AGAIN: FINALLY HONESTY !!! LEA
January 28th, 2009 at 4:33 pm