Stephen Walt, well-known for tangling with neocons and the Israel lobby, said last week that it is Israel's most fervent "friends", not President Obama, who are doing damage to their own cause.
I will be scrubbing my "assumption windows" on a regular basis now as a result of having had the honor, pleasure, and privilege of getting to know Christina and Aaron Hopper and call them our fervent friends. .
SPI has mounted a vigorous public campaign to show that it is not Russian, does not share the Kremlin's take on homosexuality and is, as it asserted in a July statement, a "fervent supporter and friend" of those who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.
In response, Val Mendeleev, CEO of Stoli's parent company SPI Group, issued an open letter to the LGBT community, citing the company's position as a "fervent supporter and friend" of the gay community.
"Stolichnaya Vodka has always been, and continues to be a fervent supporter and friend to the LGBT community," he wrote, citing examples of the SPI Group's support for gay events all over the world, including gay pride events in Durban, Tel Aviv and Vienna.
Stolichnaya Vodka has always been, and continues to be, a fervent supporter and friend to the LGBT community.
First, the press release answers accusations that no one ever leveled, saying, "Stolichnaya Vodka has always been, and continues to be, a fervent supporter and friend to the LGBT community".
The slightest modification was a gross error for which he would not pardon even his closest friends, not even his fervent admirer Liszt.
He was a fervent supporter of female emancipation, a friend of the Pankhursts and was actually arrested during one Suffragette meeting.
In college, friends say, he was a fervent supporter of Mao's China, which many people here regarded as a Communist menace.
Klimt was a fervent admirer.
