Amen, Plucky. I’m just hoping he doesn’t decide to provoke some border attack as an excuse to cancel and to inflate his numbers just before the election. I swear I wouldn’t put it past him.
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A social artifact that the OrangeMan has further exposed to the general public.
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Thanks. Yeah, we really need to learn how to repeatrepeatrepeat some simple messages already; that technique has been working in the service of evil long enough.
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Until I read your post I’d never really considered the utter arrogance of believing they can manipulate God into beginning the Rapture. Like, God wouldn’t be all “Bitch, I see you, and I’ll start the Rapture when I’m good and damn ready.”
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Damn fine post.
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I don’t expect my own Senator, Schumer, to decline but where’s Franken? Where’s Boxer or Feinstein or Blumenthal and Wyden?
Ya gotta lead here and make it safe for the non-Jewish Dems.
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What if a controversial figure from another country tried to undermine our President and nobody came?
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Good for you Brian. Glad we have a senator with guts and principles. Many folks may not realize that his MD father was the one who revealed the Tuskeegee horrors…good background for a young man.
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Bibi has made it clear to the Israeli public that he knows how to handle the American system and work it to their benefit:
“America is something that you can easily maneuver and move in the right direction. And even if they do say something, so then they say something… so what? 80% of Americans support us! It’s absurd! We have such support there, and here we’re thinking 'what should we do if?”
“Look, I wasn’t afraid to maneuver [the Clinton Administration]. I wasn’t afraid to confront Clinton. I wasn’t afraid to go against the U.N. What happened with the Oslo Accords?”
This is what Netanyahu is offering in the election. Proof that you can even spit directly in the eye of the American President and still stand in front of Congress lobbying for a foreign policy that is detrimental to the U.S. but good for Israel.
It’s a gamble but if he pulls it off, he’ll not only win the election but he’ll have removed any “for fear of angering the Americans” roadblocks to dealing with the Palestinian situation.
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Yes, it’s hard to believe there are some uppity Jews out there who refuse to be stage-props for that little end-times fantasy.
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I know folks like your elderly uncle but what bothers me is that American Jews seem to have such an allegiance to Israel. What about their allegiance to America first. I understand and empathize their deep feelings but it still makes me crazy.
None needed. In fact, thanks for keeping it up in the myriad new stories on TPM. This needs to be front and center each time. Thanks again.
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I don’t know about that, I know and work with a lot of Jewish folks here in Florida, and while many of them support Israel, they also seem ambivalent, or at least cool, about Israeli politics. And many of them are suspicious of the types of Christian Zionists that Plucky mentioned, whose “support” for Israel is because of their preacher’s insistence on a coming Armageddon that will force Jews to either convert or die.
There’s a pernicious rumor that keeps circulating to the effect that most American Jews hold dual US/Israeli citizenship and therefore have divided loyalties. It’s the same garbage from the bad old days when blatant out-in-the-open anti-Semites perpetuated the stereotype of the “cosmopolitan” Jew who did not feel loyal to any country, but only to Jewish supremacism, and who fostered division to advance that agenda.
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Bravo! The Senator is doing the right thing!
I’d humbly argue that it’s not good for Israel either – both on the policy merits and on the implications for future US support. As I’ve said since the 1980s, the greatest threat to Israel’s existence is Israel’s right wing.
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Makes me that much happier Romney lost.
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If you really want to see more disturbing pictures like this…feast your eyes:
See…in the real world, these world leaders are just like you and me. Though kind of a let-down, if you ask me.
Their allegiance is to America first, chammy, though it’s true that, as @RandyAbraham says, their loyalty has always been questioned in every country they’ve ever lived in, long before Israel even existed (which ironically was a big reason for the Zionism movement in the first place). And the closer you are to the memory and/or the direct impact of the Holocaust, the more understandable it is that Israel would be very important to you, and an emotional issue that might cloud your judgment. That’s definitely the case with my uncle: his long-time liberalism and clarity of thought completely fail him on Israel, so a man who knows you can love America and still hate what the right does to it and in our name (in fact, that it’s because we love America that we hate their destructiveness) is completely incapable of making the same distinction when it comes to Israel. But he’s a decorated WWII vet who’ll be buried at Arlington; his allegiance to this country is beyond question.
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Geez, SR, I was about to eat. Geez…
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I know. Brain bleach! Need some brain bleach here!
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