Discussion for article #234568
I would not trust Bibi to give me tomorrow’s weather.
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Yes and good on this President. Me thinks Bibi stepped in it
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Mr. Netanyahu’s actions over the years have spoken louder than his rhetoric – and more truth.
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Nobody in the world likes Netanyahu outside of Israel and the lunatic right wing fringe in America. He decreases Israel’s standing in the world.
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“…we can’t just in perpetuity maintain the status quo, expand settlements.”
So let’s stop maintaining the status quo starting right now.
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Or yesterday’s.
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I commend the President for calmly, rationally, and decisively pointing out the full implications of Bibi’s and Boehner’s and Cotton’s vile demagogic assholery.
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And I certainly wouldn’t buy a used car from him.
And I certainly wouldn’t loan him money, even if he were close family.
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I Hope this is true. I would love to see Obama spit right in his face
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Oh, wow, what is that splattering noise? Could it be right-wing heads exploding?..
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A very scathing opinion here . . .
Haaretz - Opinion
By James Besser   | Mar. 20, 2015
Israel chooses the path to apartheid
It was once possible to argue that Israel’s policies were not the same as apartheid because their stated goal, however imperfectly pursued, was to end the occupation. After Netanyahu’s reelection, this is no longer the case.
In my quarter century as Washington correspondent for Jewish newspapers, I frequently defended Israel against charges that it had created an apartheid system in the West Bank. But this week’s election, with Benjamin Netanyahu poised to serve another term with an even more hardline coalition, means that apartheid is the path Israeli voters have chosen. The inevitable results will include even greater international isolation for the Jewish state, a boost to efforts to apply boycotts and sanctions, diminished support from American Jews and endlessly intensifying cycles of violence.
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He [Netanyahu] was returned to power despite his attempt to shore up support on his political right by coming to Washington and undermining the relationship with Israel’s most critical ally, the United States, and by giving a huge boost to Republican efforts to make support for Israel a political wedge issue instead of the bipartisan cause it has always been.
He was returned to power despite the ugly attempt to scare voters with the specter of a big turnout of Israeli Arabs.
And he was returned to power after his crystal clear rejection of Palestinian statehood and the territorial compromise that most of the world believes is the only way to ensure a peaceful future for a democratic Jewish state. There were reports this week that Netanyahu was attempting to walk those comments back, but his credibility on the issue of Palestinian statehood, never strong, is nonexistent.
In the absence of any willingness to work toward a Palestinian state in the West Bank, the future is clear: continuing occupation with no effort to find a way to end it, accelerating settlement construction and a hardening of policies toward Palestinians in the West Bank.
In other words, apartheid.
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James Besser was Washington correspondent for the New York Jewish Week and other Anglo-Jewish newspapers for 24 years before his retirement in 2011.
~OGD~
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Bummer Bibi Boo Boo Blunder
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Bibi flipped and flopped just to garner a few votes. He wasn’t sincere in the least. If he were he’d have acted on the 2 state plan looong ago. Instead he allowed more illegal settlements.
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Nicely done OGD
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I’m tired of the U.S. getting jerked around by these racist, and yes fascist, pigs. Fk Bibi, and fk Israel.
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Yes he did and then he said the opposite in an interview with Andrea Mitchell who surprised me by asking him how he could be trusted after claiming to be in favor of a two state solution then on the eve of the election said he wasn’t and then a few days later claiming to be committed to it. The man is a pig, As Axelrod said, Bibi will do whatever is in the best interests of Bibi - too bad the Israelis don’t know that.
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The Israeli voting public should know by now. If not then they’re incredibly dense.
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The next security council resolution might be interesting. The blanket veto should end.
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“Obama, who placed a telephone call to Netanyahu on Thursday”
Now it’s fixed…pretty sure there was nothing congratulatory about the call.
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