US Congress The Next Battleground For Middle East Hostilities?

[Liberty Star]

Or such tensions are normal in US Congressional hearings?

YouTube - Waxman Threatens to Kick Issa Out of Hearing Room (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr3HuRZFbfk)





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Darrell E. Issa (pronounced Eye-suh) (born November 1, 1953) is an American politician and formerly a CEO of a consumer electronics company. Since 2001, he has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the 49th congressional district of California.

Darrell Issa's mother is of Bohemian German descent[citation needed] and his father is of Lebanese descent[citation needed]. Issa was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He grew up in a Jewish[citation needed] neighborhood and worked for a rabbi[citation needed]. Issa enlisted in the Army during his senior year of high school, where he served as a bomb disposal technician.

Middle East involvement

As one of the few Arab-Americans in Congress, Issa has had a significant but sometimes controversial role in U.S. peace initiatives in the Middle East. He traveled to Lebanon and Syria in an effort to negotiate the end of the Syrian occupation of Lebanon. In 2003, he appeared at a Washington rally by Iranian groups protesting against the Islamic government in Iran.[7]

Activist Debbie Schlussel wrote a column calling him "Jihad Darrell", charging that he sympathized with Hezbollah despite its being listed by the U.S. government as a terrorist organization[8]. Issa denied this; he later speculated that Schlussel's column might have inspired an aborted Jewish Defense League plot in 2001 to bomb his district office in San Clemente[9]. JDL leader Irving Rubin was arrested along with Earl Krugel in connection with the plot, which reportedly had focused on other targets before shifting to Issa's office.[10]



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Issa




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Henry Arnold Waxman (born September 12, 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is an American politician. He has represented California's 30th congressional district (map) in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1975. Waxman, a Democrat, is considered to be one of the most influential liberal members of Congress. His district includes much of the western part of the city of Los Angeles, as well as West Hollywood, Santa Monica and Beverly Hills. Before his election to Congress, he served six years in the California State Assembly.

Jewish identity and politics

Waxman is proud of his "strong Jewish identity" and has drawn political conclusions from his exploration of the religion.[9] "Judaism is about acting and doing the right thing, not simply believing in it or mindlessly following ritual," he said in a speech presented by the University of Southern California's Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life.[9] Waxman said he applies Jewish ethical values to his congressional service. He further said that the "Jewish values" of "human rights, social justice, and equal opportunities ... are synonymous with American values," and that such values "are in my opinion closer to a Democratic position." Saying it suffers from "a culture of corruption" and "has become obsessed with secrecy," he accused the American government of having abandoned these values. "(The) Republican leadership ignores presidential rules and norms and has no consideration for custom," he said.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Waxman

[tangent4ronpaul]

> Activist Debbie Schlussel wrote a column calling him "Jihad Darrell", charging that he sympathized with Hezbollah despite its being listed by the U.S. government as a terrorist organization[8]

So is Greenpeace.

:rolleyes:

-t

[Sandman33]

WOW...what a PIG Waxman is. I can't stand looking at his pig nose.

[Liberty Star]

While ago when Times had called Waxman the "scariest man in Washington", anti American lobbies had their bunches in a knicker. It is scary that Dems gave the man who insists on US tax payers funding wars in Gaza such a position.

That Debbie Shlussel chick is a shmuck, she almost lost tongue when terrorist group JDL was busted. They have a track record of terror attacks in the US going back decades:



Alex Odeh was an Arab-American who was killed on October 11, 1985 in a bombing at his office in Santa Ana, California. Odeh was regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. The Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee both condemned the murder. In contrast, Irv Rubin, who had become chairman of the JDL the same year, immediately made several public statements in reaction to the incident that took a different tone.

In February 1986, the FBI classified the bombing that killed Alex Odeh as a terrorist act. In July, they eased away from their original position, saying the JDL was "probably" responsible for this attack and four others, but that final attribution to the JDL or any other group "must await further investigation."

Floyd Clarke, then assistant director of the FBI, claimed in an internal memo that key suspects had fled to Israel and were living in the West Bank town of Kiryat Arba. In 1988, the FBI arrested Rochelle Manning as a suspect in a mail bombing, and also charged her husband, Robert Manning, who they considered a prime suspect in the Odeh bombing. Both were members of the JDL. Rochelle's jury deadlocked, and after the mistrial, she left for Israel to join her husband. Robert Manning was extradited from Israel to the U.S. in 1993.[9]


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Defense_League