Obama: Israeli settlements ‘have to be stopped.’
Obama: Israeli settlements ‘have to be stopped.’
Haaretz reports today that “Israel has moved ahead with a plan to build a new settlement in the northern West Bank for the first time in 26 years, pursuing a project the United States has already condemned as an obstacle to peace efforts.” In a much-anticipated press conference today with Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, President Obama said that new Israeli settlements “have to be stopped”:
OBAMA: Now, Israel is going have to take some difficult steps as well. And I shared with Prime Minister the fact that, under the road map, under Annapolis there’s a clear understanding that we have to make progress on settlements, that settlements have to be stopped in order for us to move forward. That’s a difficult thing to recognize, but it’s an important one. And it has to be addressed. I think the humanitarian situation in Gaza has to be addressed.
Watch it:
Speaking to AIPAC last month, Vice President Biden and Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) also called on Israel to freeze settlement activity.
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lemmie guess, “isarael has the right to exist and settle in illegally occupied land” right, os?
May 18th, 2009 at 3:39 pm? have followed your writing for a long time.really you have given very successful information.
May 18th, 2009 at 3:40 pmIn spite of my english trouale,I am trying to read and understand your writing.
a?k oyunlar?
And ? am following frequently.I hope that you will be with us together with much more scharings.
I hope that your success will go on.
OS Says:
So, it’s ok for hamas to slaughter women and children, obama?
Totally idiotic. The gigantic leap of your so-called “logic” gives you zero credibility.
May 18th, 2009 at 3:41 pmOS = overtly stupid
May 18th, 2009 at 3:42 pmi love assclowns like OS who wave the flag of freedom when “democracy is on the march” through iraq but squeel when people like hamas are elected. which is it clown, do you support democracy or don’t you?
May 18th, 2009 at 3:43 pmBozo The Neoclown Says:
i love assclowns like OS who wave the flag of freedom when “democracy is on the march” through iraq but squeel when people like hamas are elected. which is it clown, do you support democracy or don’t you?
Like most neocons, OS supports illegal occupations.
May 18th, 2009 at 3:44 pmAs reported by Haaretz:
After making a joint statement, Netanyahu spoke to Israeli reporters at the president’s guesthouse at Blair House, saying that “it was a good meeting, friendly. There was a deep commitment to relations with the U.S., with whom we have a special relationship.”
“Another thing was Iran,” the prime minister continued, “a topic which consumed most of hour private one-on-one meeting. It was clear that he [Obama] understands the extent of the problem, for the world as well as for us, and he is committed to preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.”
“In regard to the settlements, we decided that this is something that needs to be implemented through commitments on both sides,” Netanyahu added. “Israel has dismantled settlements and the Palestinians were supposed to dismantle terror infrastructure. In Gaza, we dismantled settlements and got huge terror infrastructure in return.”
This dampens any optimism TP’s headline brought me. Israel will make their typical unreasonable demands and use that as their excuse why they shouldn’t have to comply and will just go on expanding and creating settlements in the West Bank. Those settlements…grrrrrr
May 18th, 2009 at 3:45 pmSo, it’s ok for hamas to slaughter women and children, obama?
May 18th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
Exactly the same as it okay for the israelis to slaughtrer Gazans, I reckon…
The Israelis intend to ethnically cleanse Palestine. They cannot accept any kind of a Palestinian State now, because it would mean they would have to begin to return to Arab sovereignty a lot of the resources–mainly water from the Jordan–which they have systematically been looting for 42 years.
Plus, I heard top Bibi advisor, Dori Gold, on NPR this morning say that the Israelis would never negotiate on settlements…
May 18th, 2009 at 3:46 pmWhat I find amazing is the economy with which OS composes his posts. He gets the maximum amount of stupidity in the minimum number of words.
It’s really like a poetry of Stupid.
May 18th, 2009 at 3:49 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Fs73XZqm8
May 18th, 2009 at 3:49 pmThere’s one almost-guaranteed way to get ‘em to stop settlements:
Threaten to withhold the billion bucks/month the US sends Israel…
May 18th, 2009 at 3:49 pmralph the wonder locust Says:
What I find amazing is the economy with which OS composes his posts. He gets the maximum amount of stupidity in the minimum number of words.
It’s really like a poetry of Stupid.
The laureate of stupid?
May 18th, 2009 at 3:51 pmWhich is illegal as long as Israel has nuclear weapons but is not signatory to the NPT.
May 18th, 2009 at 3:51 pmI meant the billions are illegal, not the withholding of them.
May 18th, 2009 at 3:51 pmHamas totally sucks, but then Dawa isn’t too far behind in suckiness.
May 18th, 2009 at 3:53 pmDoes “OS” stand for “one sided”? Apparently, this troll can not accept the possibility that in a dispute BOTH sides can be BOTH right and wrong.
May 18th, 2009 at 3:57 pmAIPAC says: “How anti-semitic of the president.”
May 18th, 2009 at 3:58 pm“Complete diplomatic failure.”
Sounds like the eight years of Bush.
May 18th, 2009 at 4:00 pmOn a recent visit to Israel, I got the distinct impression that:
- Israel expects to attack Iran if the US does not act
- Israel will never release land to another state, not when that state has attacked them before
- the settlements will continue
Israel is in a state of war. Not the phony trumped up wars we have as the US. A real war where people are shooting at them in their homes.
May 18th, 2009 at 4:03 pmSo Israel has a need to build illegal settlements in Gaza and the West Bank because… uh, because they claim Iran will have a nuclear weapon?
Makes as much sense as the USA invading Iraq because of an Al-Qaeda attack.
May 18th, 2009 at 4:04 pmOS
My GOD you are stupid. You are such an ignorant, brainwashed punkass troll that it is sad. Dont you ever despair about how stupid and pathetic you are? Just go kill yourself. You are wasting precious oxygen that a lifeform capable of higher brain function could be using
May 18th, 2009 at 4:05 pmOh look, the spammer is now spamming AND lying.
May 18th, 2009 at 4:05 pmNow that’s a familiar refrain:
September 16, 1998 Boston Globe
If Israel wants peace, it will need to stop settlements, end land seizures, and offer the Palestinians a larger percent of the occupied territory…
February 6, 1999 Seattle Post Intelligencer
Israel stood alone at the UN General Assembly yesterday, defiantly defending its settlement policies…
April 30, 2000 Jerusalem Post
Peace Now called on Prime Minister Ehud Barak to clamp down on settlement construction and implement the building freeze he imposed in Judea…
May 23, 2001 Christian Science Monitor
“The pressure to stop [or] pause in settlement expansion must come from within the Israeli body politic.”
April 29, 2002 Chicago Tribune
Israel is under international pressure, including from the United States, to stop settlement growth
June 4, 2003 The Times UK “Stop settlements now, Bush tells Israel”
“Israel has got responsibilities,” Mr Bush said on the eve of today’s historic Middle East peace summit. “Israel must deal with the settlements.
May 26, 2005 USA Today
Bush said Israel should “stop settlement expansion” and help “improve the daily lives of Palestinians” by easing checkpoints.
It’s also patently laughable as Israel announced a new settlement today. Apparently Israel wants land more than peace.
May 18th, 2009 at 4:06 pmIsn’t VanWinkle Vanilla Ice?
May 18th, 2009 at 4:07 pmThe settlements are FLAT illegal according to the fourth Geneva convention on occupation. FLAT OUT.
May 18th, 2009 at 4:08 pmVanWinkle65 Says:
You wingnuts have absolutely nothing on Obama so you nitpick like sore losing sissies. VanWinkle65 Bin Lyin along with the Bush Crime Family. Go worship your daddy Darth Cheney fool!
I’m glad to see Obama standing up to Israel – they need to do the right thing. I’ve lost so much respect for Israel because they bomb women and children too – OS.
May 18th, 2009 at 4:08 pmConservativeForProgress Says:
Sounds like your GOP?! Absolute failure.
May 18th, 2009 at 4:09 pmConservativeForProgress Says:
Summit turns out to be a complete diplomatic failure.
Are you talking about Bush’s Annapolis conference? As far as I know that was the last ’summit’ and yes it has been a complete failure so far.
May 18th, 2009 at 4:10 pmOS Says:
So, it’s ok for hamas to slaughter women and children, obama?
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This sure is a bold, irrational leap into complete inanity.
May 18th, 2009 at 4:10 pmJust imagine that you live in a country that is 20 miles wide. On one edge, in the hills, are people that have been trying to kill you for decades. The other edge is the sea.
Farther away is another, very large, country that says you should be pushed into the sea. They finance the terrorists in the hills right over there in plain sight. And now they are developing nuclear weapons ….
May 18th, 2009 at 4:10 pmolepi
Who is going to push the 4th strongest military power into the sea, and how are they going to do this?
May 18th, 2009 at 4:15 pmolepi Says:
Just imagine that you live in a country that is 20 miles wide. On one edge, in the hills, are people that have been trying to kill you for decades. The other edge is the sea.
Farther away is another, very large, country that says you should be pushed into the sea. They finance the terrorists in the hills right over there in plain sight. And now they are developing nuclear weapons ….
… of course, you already have illegally stockpiled 200 nuclear weapons by that time, and have restricted food and basic supplies to the population of the people located between yourself and the sea. Let’s not forget you have bombed them again and again, with illegal weapons even, and have built a lot of communities in their territory while demolishing their own communities.
Oh, and you receive billions of dollars from the US each year, in order to buy more weapons and build more communities in those neighboring areas.
May 18th, 2009 at 4:16 pmolepi – what? Do you think you are speaking to children?! Is that how they brainwash the children in Israel?
May 18th, 2009 at 4:19 pmThe Israelis have been selling stolen Palestinian homes and land to foreign investors. Be careful if you watch this video. It might raise your blood pressure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_BF8pbEkvs
May 18th, 2009 at 4:19 pmolepi Says:
Just imagine that you live in a country that is 20 miles wide. On one edge, in the hills, are people that have been trying to kill you for decades. The other edge is the sea.
May 18th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
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Ok, done.
That was a fun exercise.
Now, what does that fictional situation have to do with the Israel/Palestine issue?
May 18th, 2009 at 4:20 pmConservativeForProgress Says:
Translation: No agreement reached on anything of substance. No agreement on Iran. No agreement on Palestinians. No agreement on settlements. Summit turns out to be a complete diplomatic failure.
Ya just can’t negotiate with those darned terrorists.
May 18th, 2009 at 4:21 pmFarther away is another, very large, country that says you should be pushed into the sea. They finance the terrorists in the hills right over there in plain sight. And now they are developing nuclear weapons ….
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May 18th, 2009 at 4:21 pmSounds like Nicaragua and about a jillion other places except for the fact that we already had the nukes…
“Israel has dismantled settlements and the Palestinians were supposed to dismantle terror infrastructure.”
As long as Israel can continue to get away with their illegal and outright theft of Palestinian land for their ever growing settlements, they care about nothing else. They have done everything in their power to keep the Palestinians living in extreme poverty. I hope Obama is far more forceful with Israel because it is high time for Israel to be put in their place and realize they are deliberately killing any chance at peace.
May 18th, 2009 at 4:21 pmolepi, why the sweat? If God says Israel is yours, no problem.
May 18th, 2009 at 4:23 pmIn November 1947 United Nations decided on partition of Palestine into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and a UN-administered Jerusalem. Partition was accepted by Zionist leaders but rejected by Arab leaders leading to the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine. Israel declared independence on May 14, 1948 and neighboring Arab states attacked the next day. Since then, Israel has fought a series of wars with neighboring Arab states, and in consequence, Israel controls territories beyond those delineated in the 1949 Armistice Agreements. (wiki.com)
This above wiki article seems to be why the Arab states hate America (the west) and others that support us.
Any thoughts TPers?
May 18th, 2009 at 4:27 pmUnless, of course, you took the land by military force and convinced yourself that was what God wanted. And have had to use said military force to hold it for 60 odd years but that couldn’t be because it wasn’t given to you by your god.
Nor does the idea you are using tactics that were used against you in claiming said territory as a justification for holding it mean anything than divine approval.
May 18th, 2009 at 4:29 pmIsrael is in a state of war. Not the phony trumped up wars we have as the US. A real war where people are shooting at them in their homes.
Yep. That is what happens when the Jewish nation was placed on real estate which was already home to the Palestinians. What would you do if your neighbor slowly, but surely started aquiring parts of your property? Would you just let them or maybe try and do something about it? You cannot take land which does not belong to you just because the Bible says this is your real estate.
The Israelis are over-reaching most of the time, and when they attack, they almost always use much more power than would be necessary.
May 18th, 2009 at 4:31 pmolepi Says:
Israel is in a state of war. Not the phony trumped up wars we have as the US. A real war where people are shooting at them in their homes.
May 18th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
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Yeah – a war they started. And a war that nets $4 billion in annual profits for the 600 companies comprising Israel’s rapidly-growing defense and security industry.
Peace with Palestine would really hurt the bottom line, you know.
May 18th, 2009 at 4:31 pmrightwing-leftwing Says:
Any thoughts TPers?
May 18th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
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Yeah – an illegal land-grab is still an illegal land-grab. What’s your point?
May 18th, 2009 at 4:32 pmIsrael is a terrorist country!
May 18th, 2009 at 4:32 pmOS Says:
So, it’s ok for hamas to slaughter women and children, obama?
1) and when did President Obama say anything like that?
May 18th, 2009 at 4:36 pm2) what women and children have Hamas slaughtered?
3) it’s Israel that is guilty of slaughtering women and children not Hamas.
I applaud President Obama for seeing Israel for who they really are. I hope that he follows up by revoking aid money and weapons shipments to Israel. As long as we continue to sell them weapons (with the money we give them), we will be complicit in the terrorist acts Israel commits on the Palestinians.
May 18th, 2009 at 4:38 pmOS, Obviously Simpleminded?
May 18th, 2009 at 4:38 pmOver sixty years of stealing Arab land and Arab water: your Zionist imperialist colonial occupation in the Middle East.
May 18th, 2009 at 4:39 pmolepi Says:
Israel is in a state of war. Not the phony trumped up wars we have as the US. A real war where people are shooting at them in their homes.
Would you like to provide proof of this? Other than Hamas occasionally lobbing a missile into a field somewhere in Israel, I have read nothing about them shooting people in their homes. I have read plenty about Israel blockading the Palestinians from being able to get food and medicines they need and remember the last time they invaded Gaza where they killed pretty close to 1,000 where their so-called death toll was maybe 5.
May 18th, 2009 at 4:40 pmSo when the side you support kills women and children, it is unfortunate collateral damage but when the side you don’t does it is slaughter?
Is this like that freedom fighter versus terrorist thing?….
May 18th, 2009 at 4:40 pmOS Says:
So, it’s ok for hamas to slaughter women and children, obama?
This is the straw-man of all straw-man arguments. Is that all what you Right-wingers got? Straw-men?
May 18th, 2009 at 4:41 pmConservativeForProgress, isn’t that a twofer?
A moron and an oxymoron.
May 18th, 2009 at 4:43 pmchiroptera toasterhead #47,
No point however, I’m just trying to understand how this all started (the source of the debate). By posting the source, I’m hoping to bring understanding to the current issues for myself and others reading.
To me, it seems that the Arab countries are pissed off about the 1947 decision and Israel keeps poking the stick in their wounds of 60 years or so. That’s what I’m trying to understand is all.
May 18th, 2009 at 4:45 pmAccording to neocon logic we should all give our property back to Native Americans and head back where ever it is our ancestors came from.
May 18th, 2009 at 4:47 pmolepi Says:
On a recent visit to Israel, I got the distinct impression that:
- Israel expects to attack Iran if the US does not act
And if they attack, they will be on their own when Iran retaliates. I seriously doubt that President Obama will offer them aid. Iran is no threat to Israel, whereas Israel is a huge threat to Iran. Israel has nukes and they may just be crazy enough to use them. If they do, they will become the pariah in the Middle East and they will have many countries calling them the enemy.
- Israel will never release land to another state, not when that state has attacked them before
And Israel hasn’t attacked the Palestinians? How many times have they invaded Gaza in the last couple of years? How many Palestinians have they killed? And how many Israeli’s have been killed? You can get your answers here:
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/
- the settlements will continue
I expect you are right on that one. And Israel will find themselves more and more outcast from the world community. They have very few defenders these days.
I am very happy that President Obama is taking a realistic look at Israel and assessing them for who they really are.
May 18th, 2009 at 4:49 pmrightwing-leftwing Says:
To me, it seems that the Arab countries are pissed off about the 1947 decision and Israel keeps poking the stick in their wounds of 60 years or so. That’s what I’m trying to understand is all.
I think that’s an oversimplification of the whole situation.
Some Arab countries may be pissed off about the ‘47 decision, some may be angry at the Israel-USA alliance because they have grievances of their own against the US which they’re using to attack Israel, some may be angry at the current issues such as settlements and the Lebanon and Palestine wars.
Some others may care nothing at all about the Palestine situation, but they’re attacking Israel’s politics in order to increase their (those Arab leaders) popularity in their own countries. I don’t think we should lump all “Arab countries” together in order assign them one single motive.
May 18th, 2009 at 4:50 pmSigh. “in order TO assign them”
May 18th, 2009 at 4:51 pmIsrael is a sovereign state with all the ambitions associated with sovereign statehood. It has territorial ambitions upon the possessions of a vastly dispossessed, greatly out-gunned, much poorer, fractured, un-stated group of refugees.
Israel wants–NEEDS-to ethnically cleanse Palestine, because it has NO INTENTION of EVER granting any kind of meaningful state-hood to the Arabs they displaced.
Israel has no intention of relinquishing ANYTHING it has stolen from the Arabs since 1967: no territory, no settlements, no water, no cities, NOTHING.
NONE. ZERO. NADA. NICHTS.
Got that?
Okay, so that means continued conflict.
With the U$ofA supporting the aggressor…
As Chomsky has often noted: The best thing about a peace processs is that, as long as you have one, you needn’t have peace, and you can persevere in whatev er it was you were doing when the process began.
May 18th, 2009 at 5:03 pmSo if Native Americans ever decide they want back their land, land which was outright stolen from them and settled by whites, and they start endless terrorist attacks, suicide bombing of malls, and launching rockets into towns all around their reservations, I guess you all feel the whites there should simply give the land back, move away, stop building anywhere near N.A. lands, and let them have their own country again.
Why should Israel give anything back? The arabs shouldn’t have attacked them to begin with if they didn’t want to lose land. And if the arabs feel so badly for the poor, poor Palestinians, wouldn’t you think one of their much larger countries would offer them a homeland?
You guys are funny. Most of the arab countries in the M.E. would be glad to put you to death for the viewpoints you hold, including allowing women to show their elbows in public, religious viewpoints other than their own, rights for gays, and anything else outside their sharia law. I don’t shed any tears for them.
May 18th, 2009 at 5:29 pmGood for you not that a give a shit about your crying spells…
May 18th, 2009 at 5:32 pmSo, it’s ok for Israel to slaughter women and children, OS?
May 18th, 2009 at 5:34 pmLuis Chapulin M @ 60,
I agree that I oversimplified the whole situation (it has been 60 years in the making). That post was my starting point.
I think this whole issue comes down to one thing: When religion is involved, this is what you get – war.
I do sometimes have to look at Israel in a simplified way: When you have two kids arguing about one toy, what does the parent do? The parent takes the toy away from both kids – problem solved. Let them cry about it or put them down for a nap.
May 18th, 2009 at 5:35 pmEmTee Says:
So if Native Americans ever decide they want back their land, land which was outright stolen from them and settled by whites, and they start endless terrorist attacks, suicide bombing of malls, and launching rockets into towns all around their reservations, I guess you all feel the whites there should simply give the land back, move away, stop building anywhere near N.A. lands, and let them have their own country again.
Why should Israel give anything back? The arabs shouldn’t have attacked them to begin with if they didn’t want to lose land. And if the arabs feel so badly for the poor, poor Palestinians, wouldn’t you think one of their much larger countries would offer them a homeland?
The Palestinians have a homeland already; it’s just that someone else is currently squatting in it.
Your parallel to Native Americans is an interesting question, and you can certainly make a case that they deserve reparations for being dispossessed. You do know that there are living Palestinians who were thrown off their land in 1948? That it’s not a question of something that happened a few hundred years ago, but actually happened in their lifetimes?
By what right did the Israelis stake claim to the better part of an entire nation — and remember this is prior to any “attack” by Arab nations.
May 18th, 2009 at 5:36 pmObama says…” Israeli settlements ‘have to be stopped.’”
I couldn’t agree more! My Question…HOW???
May 18th, 2009 at 5:44 pmEmTee Says:
So if Native Americans ever decide they want back their land, land which was outright stolen from them and settled by whites, and they start endless terrorist attacks, suicide bombing of malls, and launching rockets into towns all around their reservations, I guess you all feel the whites there should simply give the land back, move away, stop building anywhere near N.A. lands, and let them have their own country again.
May 18th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
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The treatment of Native Americans by the United States for most of the past 300 years has been nothing short of horrific, so do not infer from my comment that I am in any way downplaying their hardships and suffering.
However. There are some key differences that render your analogy ludicrous.
Native Americans, on reservations and integrated into U.S. territory, have full rights as citizens of the United States.
Native Americans have the right of representation in Congress and the executive branch of the U.S. government, as well as state governments.
Native Americans are not multi-generational refugees in the U.S. and neighboring countries.
Native Americans have full control of their reserved land, and have full access to legal channels with which to protect their claims from settlement-building or resource grabs on their land.
Native Americans are not subject to military checkpoints and roadblocks between their towns and villages.
Native Americans do not have to wait for hours to travel between reservations and U.S. cities.
Native Americans do not have to deal with a concrete apartheid wall that snakes through their reservations and cuts them off from their land and villages and schools and hospitals.
Native Americans are not subject to collective punishment via white phosphorous and unmanned drone strikes.
Native Americans are not subject to indefinite imprisonment and torture for their political views.
But, yeah, other than that, you’ve got a point.
May 18th, 2009 at 5:45 pmBOY DID YOU MISS THE POINT. Palestinians were the Eursopeans in the equation. While Israelites had inhabited this land at one point the land was subsequently settled by others. Then we decided to take the land away from the Americans and give it back to the Native some of whom had never even lived on the continent. Get it?
May 18th, 2009 at 5:53 pmLet’s wait and see how long Obama can hold onto this position until he buckles and backs down under the screws AIPAC is going to drive in his direction for being so anti-zionist.
May 18th, 2009 at 5:54 pmWhat did George Bush & Dick Cheney do to broker peace between Israel and Palestine? *cupping ear to listen for answer* I knew it! They did nothing! In fact, these two ‘good Christians’ used Israel as their reason to attack Iraq and to threaten Iran! Spit.
May 18th, 2009 at 5:57 pmHere’s someone who would disagree with your fantasy that Native Americans are well-treated in our “modern” world. Go ahead and drop him a line and ask how the American justice system handled his case, and his false imprisonment.
Leonard Peltier # 89637-132
May 18th, 2009 at 6:04 pmUSP Terre Haute
U.S. Penitentiary
P.O. Box 12015
Terre Haute, IN 47801
Robert M. Says:
Here’s someone who would disagree with your fantasy that Native Americans are well-treated in our “modern” world. Go ahead and drop him a line and ask how the American justice system handled his case, and his false imprisonment.
May 18th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
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I don’t recall stating that there are not exceptions. There are certainly plenty of cases in which individual Native Americans, as well as entire tribes, get royally fucked by the U.S. government. Peltier is one of them. I’m well aware of that.
Multiply his case by 8,400 and you’ll have the number of Palestinian political prisoners being held unjustly by Israel.
May 18th, 2009 at 7:06 pm75
Go away blogwhore
May 18th, 2009 at 8:22 pmJews are great people. Zionists zealots, however, are not. Maybe I’m a little Fox Mulder’ish, but I worry about my President’s safety not only because his skin color but also because of angry Zionist zealots.
May 18th, 2009 at 9:00 pmIf you all get a chance, go to haaretz.com
Does Netanyahu look evil and disdainful of Obama to anybody else?
May 18th, 2009 at 9:15 pm*RE: Haaretz reports today that “Israel has moved ahead with a plan to build a new settlement in the northern West Bank…”
*NETANYAHU’S FATHER: “The Bible finds no worse image than this of the man from the desert. And why? Because he has no respect for any law. Because in the desert he can do as he pleases.” …..
….”The two states solution doesn’t exist. There are no two people here. There is a Jewish people and an Arab population… there is no Palestinian people, so you don’t create a state for an imaginary nation… they only call themselves a people in order to fight the Jews.” – Benzion Netanyahu, 2009
SOURCE OF NETANYAHU’S FATHER’S WORDS – http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2009/04/04/bibis-fathers-answer-to-the-arab-problem-hang-em-in-the-town-square/
May 18th, 2009 at 11:20 pmBelow are the top 10 cities visited by members of congress from 2005-2008. The Sesame Street song lyrics, “One of these is not like the others” comes to mind.
Rank City Number of Trips
May 18th, 2009 at 11:30 pm1 New York, New York 306
2 Baltimore, Maryland 242
3 Las Vegas, Nevada 156
4 Cambridge, Maryland 128
5 Tel Aviv, Israel 126
6 Boston, Massachusetts 124
7 Chicago, Illinois 113
8 Los Angeles, California 89
8 Atlanta, Georgia 89
10 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 81
Congress always follows the $$$ ….. hmmmm.
May 18th, 2009 at 11:43 pmsex
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May 19th, 2009 at 5:55 amMore settlement expansion = less US aid.
More Israeli threats = less US aid.
Less co-operation = less US aid.
Less respect = less US aid.
More killing = less US military co-operation
More arrogance = more eventual humiliation and climbdown
May 21st, 2009 at 2:58 pm