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More Demagoguery from Netanyahu on the eve of an ELECTION in Israel.
I am SHOCKED, SHOCKED I TELL YOU.
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Is the argument for emigrating to Israel that I will be less likely there to be attacked by someone who hates Jews?
Or is it that I’ll be a smaller part of a larger group target, thereby decreasing my individual chances of getting slaughtered?
The second seems the more realistic argument, but neither convinces me to leave where I and my ancestors have lived for 150 years.
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Someone already pointed this out, but the fact that Netanyahu is both:
- Urging Europeans to emigrate to Israel, the only place Jews can truly be safe; and
- Addressing the U.S. Congress to warn us that Iran is around the corner from blowing up Israel into oblivion;
shows how shameless this man is.
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So Israel is the only place the Jews can be safe and Israel is facing an existential crisis should Iran get the bomb.
Glad we sorted that one out.
Conservatives do a good act of being tough guys but really they are cowards wetting their pants in fear at the thought of any threat.
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Because fear is the time-tested prescription for peace and security.
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Is this in order to justify stealing more land and building settlements?/
Or does he need more donors outside of these…
or out of his playbook…
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Mine haven’t been here quite as long, but ditto. And of course, this is a message less to Europe’s Jews (though he’d love to boost the Jewish population of Israel to fight that demographic time bomb Israel’s right is just beginning to realize isn’t some left-wing lie) than to Israel’s Jews: only I am fighting to save our people, you’re only safe with me. Which is funny, in a break-my-heart sort of way, because in decades of right-wing Israeli leaders who I’ve long maintained are the greatest threat to Israel’s existence, he’s by far the most likely to bring on its destruction.
And again, because his speech here isn’t a done deal yet:
- I hope any Jews here especially have already contacted their Dem reps about this; the non-Jewish ones need to know where most of us stand, and it isn’t with Bibi.
- If you haven’t yet, PLEASE call your nearest Israeli consulate and voice your outrage about this political stunt; the last thing Israel needs is to become a partisan issue here. Haaretz reports that those calls are having a real impact back home; it’s long past time they heard from American Jews who aren’t right-wingers.
- And finally, if you want an effective counterweight to AIPAC, do look into J Street – the more support they can show, the greater their influence will be, and the sooner we can relegate the neocons in both countries to the fringes of our politics where we need them to be for both our sakes.
[I cannot believe this comment system isn’t letting me edit a comment, and now isn’t letting me re-post but making me create new ones…like my blood pressure isn’t high enough over Bibi…]
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So far Netyanyahu has Boener on his side and maybe the Kocks. Quite the collection of dicks if ever there was one.
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And then what? Steal more Palestinian land for settlements to house them. The best thing Israel could do for itself is to get this guy out of office and let the peace process restart in earnest.
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The only safe place for Jews is Israel? I thought they were surrounded by existential threats. I would argue that the US is probably the safest place for Jews.
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There isn’t room for the current citizens of Israel.
I might be wrong, but I don’t think that Israel is a big issue to the John Birch-suckled, libertarian Kochs.
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And because of that, my suggestion that the Jewish national homeland/State of Israel be relocated to North America is only half in jest. It would break the prophetic nexus of fundy Xtianists and Zionists to Jerusalem and the restoration of David’s kingdom, which is a major reason for Israel’s post-'67 troubles. Heck, Disney could even build them a nicer Third Temple theme park here than what could done on the Temple Mount, with less bloodshed and ample parking to boot!
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I remember when Truman recognized Israel so long ago. I was a young girl, so pleased that our country would stand up for the little guy, after the disgraceful behavior this country and other world powers exhibited during the war. I carried those good feelings with me for many many years and always backed up a strong safe Israel foreign policy.
But this guy. I’ve never seen anything like him. Leaks secrets, disrespects our President, kicks half our country in the balls, and expects us to continually save his ass. What’s his problem? He’s a natural-born war monger, just like all the rest of the republicans.
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But the radical right is and these guys are part and parcel.
Putinesco.
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Heh. Oddly enough, before 1967, the most religious Jews didn’t even particularly support Israel, because it was actually a largely secular (socialist!) though obviously culturally Jewish endeavor, focused primarily on the people rather than the faith. But then came the “miracle” of the six-day war, which the religiosos saw as a sign from God; they’ve been taking it over ever since. A friend of mine always thought the Allies should have carved out a slice of postwar Germany instead; while I confess to some susceptibility to what she called “the romance of the land” (the ancient prayer has been “next year in Jerusalem” since the dawn of the diaspora), I think there was a lot of wisdom in that idea.
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Bibi is as dangerous and as megalomaniacal as Putin.
If I understand the FRW"c"NJ (far right wing “christian” nut job) theology, they believe all Jews need to be in Israel so that they can be given a chance to convert before the second coming. So it seems that Bibi’s blood lust is so great that he is willing to do “christianists” bidding. Interesting.
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