Discussion for article #228443
I would suggest that Bibi check out the comment sections of any blog or newspapers here in the US. We are not with him. As he builds more and more settlements he’s isolating Israel and moving further and further away from the support that Israel used to have. He’s as much of a rightwing nut job as those here in the US. Thankfully, they too are getting smaller and smaller.
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Oh please. Yes it’s true that the United States has some genocide on it’s palmarès. Yes we too took our land from it’s rightful owners… Hmm, maybe Netanyahu is righter than we want to admit.
But does that mean that we need to support such actions in the 21st century?? I think that the settlements are against both the interests of the United States and against Israel’s own interest. In such an atmosphere it’s no wonder desperate Palestinians are lobbing bombs across the apartheid wall.
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The phrase that comes to mind is “chutzpah”. It takes chutzpah for the Israeli Prime Minister to lecture the US on American values.
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As an American, I’m getting pretty fed up with the arrogance of Israeli leaders and many of their supporters here in the U.S. The US gives them billions of dollars in aid every year and pays another kind of price like on 9/11 for being their biggest supporter. The issue of settlements is one of the most glaring examples of Israel pursuing policies that make them unpopular in much of the rest of the world and contribute to never-ending conflict in the Middle East. It’s unacceptable for Netanyahu to demonstrate such an arrogant sense of entitlement in addressing the citizens of this country.
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“…The idea that we’d have this ethnic purification as a condition for peace…”
If there’s one thing you can always count on Americans to do, it’s bargain for ethnic purification.
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The tail can only wag the dog for so long.
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Netanyahu has way too many friends in GOP neocon/evangelical world and some on the Democratic side too, but what he does not have is strong support from actual American voters, he oozes arrogance.
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With each comment Bibi further alienates the American people until they finally get to the point where they say, "Go it alone, Israel, no more aid, no more military assistance, no more caring if you survive as a nation or are pushed/bombed into the Sea.
So keep opening your big, fat, stupid mouth, Bibi, because all you’re doing is moving the US on a path AWAY from Israel and their illegal activities.
The rest of the world already hates you, do you want the US to join them?
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hubris as well. this poisoning of the well cannot be undone.
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What is the story about the subsidy that the Israeli Govt supplies for land/housing for its non-Jewish people? Are Palestinians and Arabs in Israel getting the same financial benefits and motivations? Somebody who knows, please inform.
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Course’ occupying and seizing other people’s land IS pretty much as Murrikan’ as apple pie! Was that his point? ~Meh!~
The warmongering wingnuts are in power now in Israel and just want us to be just like them. He is Israel’s Dubya’.
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How in the hell can someone who isn’t an American preach about his knowledge of “American values.”
GFY.
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Netanyahu goes against Jewish values.
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Netanyahu and the Likud are convinced that Israel needs no friend in the world other than the neocon right wing of the Republican party, and the neocons are convinced that the US needs no friend in the world other than Israel. Both groups are relentlessly trying to prove this theory by alienating everyone else in the world. So far it hasn’t gone well for either side. We’ll see what happens next.
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Bibi, how long do you want American aid to continue?
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No, Bibi Is Israel’s DICK (Cheney)
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What exactly are “Jewish Values?” I have a pretty good idea from observing them for quite a while, but I’d like to hear someone explain it. Because what I have seen in terms of those “values” are not very nice.
As a Jew and a Zionist, I am saddened to have to say that Bibi’s philosophy is against Jewish and, I should hope, Israeli values.
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American values like…Manifest Destiny?
PS: Number one baby name in Israel is Mohammed. I think he is in protect-the-legacy mode -he did so much for Israel- let someone else clean up the mess he facilitated.