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Post by jdredd on May 9, 2014 21:43:33 GMT -5
www.thenation.com/blog/179758/whats-behind-rand-pauls-israel-feint"Of course, for Paul, who has recently been courting the GOP establishment’s money men, a pleasant day with Murdoch isn’t likely to solve all of Paul’s problems with the pro-military, hardline faction of the GOP and its Israel lobby allies. (You’ll recall that when Chris Christie, Jeb Bush and other centrist contenders, who also style themselves as believers in the traditional GOP version of a “strong” foreign policy, attended the “Sheldon Primary” dog-and-pony show in Las Vegas organized by billionaire Sheldon Adelson and the Republican Jewish Coalition, Rand Paul was not on the guest list.) But Paul is making gesture after gesture in their direction. Whether or not such gestures will alienate the fervent anti-intervention Paul contingent in the GOP isn’t clear yet, but he seems intent on testing it out." That's what's so contemptible about the GOP's new move toward Libertarianism. It's all talk. They will embrace the financial free-for-all of Libertarianism, because that's what they've always believed in, but will jettison the backing off from world affairs and continue to support laws against recreational drugs and women's reproductive rights, and will never ever mention Libertarianism's belief in open borders. GOP hypocrisy...what else is new?
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Post by jdredd on Jun 11, 2014 22:30:01 GMT -5
IN my neverending quest to figure out which party panders the most to Israel, I am now even more confused. I thought the GOP had the Dems beat by a long run, but now GOP voters in Virginia have sh*tcanned the guy I believe was the single Jewish GOP member of the House. I know the GOP has been trying to attract Jewish voters, but I don't think this will help.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 9, 2014 16:27:57 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2014/08/09/opinion/president-obama-thomas-l-friedman-iraq-and-world-affairs.html?&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region®ion=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region&_r=0“It is amazing to see what Israel has become over the last several decades,” he answered. “To have scratched out of rock this incredibly vibrant, incredibly successful, wealthy and powerful country is a testament to the ingenuity, energy and vision of the Jewish people. And because Israel is so capable militarily, I don’t worry about Israel’s survival. ... I think the question really is how does Israel survive. And how can you create a State of Israel that maintains its democratic and civic traditions. How can you preserve a Jewish state that is also reflective of the best values of those who founded Israel. And, in order to do that, it has consistently been my belief that you have to find a way to live side by side in peace with Palestinians. ... You have to recognize that they have legitimate claims, and this is their land and neighborhood as well.” IMHO, this is Obama being racist and classist. Obviously, those dirty Palestinians couldn't have done what the Zionists have done, could they?
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Post by jdredd on Feb 3, 2015 2:52:22 GMT -5
america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/2/2/netanyahu-visit-concerns-american-generals.html"Serving uniformed officers are loath to comment on an inflammatory political question — “You’re inviting me to end my career,” one senior Pentagon officer told me when asked to comment on Boehner’s invitation to Netanyahu, “but, if it’s all the same to you, I’d rather not.” But a senior Joint Chiefs of Staff officer who regularly briefs the U.S. high command was willing to speak bluntly in exchange for anonymity. “ There’s always been a lot of support for Israel in the military,” the officer said, “but that’s significantly eroded over the last few years. This caps it. It’s one thing for Americans to criticize their president and another entirely for a foreign leader to do it. Netanyahu doesn’t get it. We’re not going to side with him against the commander in chief. Not ever.” Uh-oh. Boner's pandering to Israel may be misfiring.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 23, 2015 22:54:35 GMT -5
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/23/benjamin-netanyahu-backers-hint-at-consequences-fo/"Team Barack started strong, but Team Bibi is showing it knows how to finish, as supporters of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pick up steam against those urging a boycott of his speech next week before Congress. About 20 House and Senate Democrats announced early on that they would not attend the March 3 speech, which is being cast as a rebuke to President Obama, but since then only a handful have joined them as pro-Netanyahu advocates counter by hinting at political consequences for the no-shows." The Israel-can-do-no-wrong lobby is obviously stoked about Bibi speaking to Congress. Why shouldn't a foreign leader come to us and try to drag us into their paranoia about a nuclear Iran? What is one more war to us?
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Post by jdredd on Mar 2, 2015 15:41:06 GMT -5
Caught a bit of Hannity this afternoon, and he was practically having an orgasm about the wonderfulness of Bibi. He's this era's rchill. Maybe even Jesus. Oh, wait, not Jesus.
It will be interesting if one of the GOP's top panderers gets into the WH in 2017.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 17, 2015 15:54:07 GMT -5
www.nationalreview.com/article/415475/rchill-our-times-thomas-sowell"When Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress on March 3rd, it was the third time he had done so. The only other person to address a joint session of Congress three times was the legendary British prime minister, Winston rchill. The parallels between the two leaders do not end there. Both warned the world of mortal dangers that others ignored, in hopes that those dangers would go away. In the years leading up to World War II, rchill tried to warn the British, and the democratic nations in general, of what a monstrous threat Hitler was." Tom Sowell is only the 500th rightie to call Bibi a "rchill". I guess "rchills" are also in the eye of the beholder. I've read that rchill was an enthusiatic supporter of Franco's Nationalists in Spain, a position he shared with Hitler and Mussolini. It was only much later he realized Britain was in Hitler's cross hairs.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 27, 2015 23:10:30 GMT -5
www.politico.com/story/2015/08/ted-cruz-donald-trump-anti-iran-nuclear-deal-rally-2016-121812.html?hp=r1_3 "Though they’re rivals on the campaign trail, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are teaming up for a joint attack on President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. The Texas GOP senator’s campaign announced Thursday that he’s invited Trump to join a rally planned at the Capitol soon to pressure lawmakers on opposing the nuclear agreement. The rally is sponsored by Tea Party Patriots, Center for Security Policy, and the Zionist Organization of America. “We are thankful for all their hard work on this effort and will have more details on time, date, and location as they are finalized,” the Cruz campaign said. Trump hinted that an event was coming earlier Thursday, telling supporters at a campaign event in South Carolina: “I think we’re going to do something next week or the week after about the Iran pact” in Washington." I wonder if ck Shumer and Bob Menendez are going to show up and share the stage with Trump and Cruz? They can wear those wacky teabag hats!
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Post by jdredd on Aug 29, 2015 13:46:28 GMT -5
One of my favorite parts of the campaign against the Iran deal is that the opponents are telling us what Iran will do after the 15 years are up (nukes a'flyin!) The reality is that these people don't even know what Iran will be doing 15 minutes from now, let alone 15 years. For all they know Iran could be our biggest ally in the Middle East, like when the Shah was in power.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 2, 2015 12:25:14 GMT -5
So Obama apparently has the 34 senators necessary to ensure a veto of any Congressional rejection of the Iran deal. Israel will not get what it wanted, which was America to go to war with Iran, at least for now. Iran could break the terms of the deal and all bets would be off. But for now, Bibi was unable to manipulate Democrats the way he manipulated the Republicans. Only a few Democrats opposed the deal, and that was mostly for local politics. Sorry, Bibi, I guess you're stuck with bombing Gaza back into the stone age.
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Post by Turk on Sept 2, 2015 19:19:47 GMT -5
So Obama apparently has the 34 senators necessary to ensure a veto of any Congressional rejection of the Iran deal. Israel will not get what it wanted, which was America to go to war with Iran, at least for now. Iran could break the terms of the deal and all bets would be off. But for now, Bibi was unable to manipulate Democrats the way he manipulated the Republicans. Only a few Democrats opposed the deal, and that was mostly for local politics. Sorry, Bibi, I guess you're stuck with bombing Gaza back into the stone age. The 24 day warning was sheer stupidity on the part of Obama otherwise I don't see this as a world changing event. If Bibi doesn't like it then nuke them before they nuke him. I did listen John "The Traitor" Kerry speak. He played the fool he's always been.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 2, 2015 23:08:41 GMT -5
So Obama apparently has the 34 senators necessary to ensure a veto of any Congressional rejection of the Iran deal. Israel will not get what it wanted, which was America to go to war with Iran, at least for now. Iran could break the terms of the deal and all bets would be off. But for now, Bibi was unable to manipulate Democrats the way he manipulated the Republicans. Only a few Democrats opposed the deal, and that was mostly for local politics. Sorry, Bibi, I guess you're stuck with bombing Gaza back into the stone age. The 24 day warning was sheer stupidity on the part of Obama otherwise I don't see this as a world changing event. If Bibi doesn't like it then nuke them before they nuke him. I did listen John "The Traitor" Kerry speak. He played the fool he's always been. Kerry is already in the "Boomer Hall of Shame". And if Bibi thinks he can get away with nuking Iran, he can go for it, for all the good it will do. Just don't try to drag us into the Zionist War on Islam.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 18, 2015 0:27:50 GMT -5
www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/09/17/ann-coulter-comment-jews-gop-debate-israel-relations/32543837/"The GOP debate on CNN was full of zingers, but some of the comments that caused the most controversy were from the sidelines. Conservative syndicated columnist Ann Coulter posted a series of tweets during the GOP debate that many are calling 'anti-semitic." After several candidates addressed the need to strengthen the relationship between the U.S. and Israel, Coulter tweeted, 'How many (expletive) Jews do these people think there are in the United States?" Coulter, who has over 600,000 followers on Twitter, said she was the responding to the plethora of GOP support for Israeli relations, during the second GOP debate held at the Ronald Reagan Library in California. Her Twitter tirade began early in the debate and a string of tweets called out the candidates for what she later called "pandering" to Israel." OMG! Either I'm sounding like Ann Coulter or she is sounding like me! Do you think she read this thread (like "pandering to Israel" is original to me)?
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Post by jdredd on Dec 18, 2018 3:17:53 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/us/politics/israel-boycotts-government-shutdown.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage"WASHINGTON — Just days away from a partial government shutdown, lawmakers are weighing adding a contentious measure to a stymied spending package that would keep American companies from participating in boycotts — primarily against Israel — that are being carried out by international organizations. Critics of the legislation, including the American Civil Liberties Union and a number of Palestinian rights organizations, say the bill infringes on First Amendment rights and is part of a broader effort on the state and federal levels to suppress support for efforts to boycott, divest investments from and place sanctions on Israel, a movement known as B.D.S."
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Post by jdredd on Jan 29, 2019 0:58:39 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/01/28/us/politics/democrats-israel-palestine.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage“The relationship between the United States and Israel is a special one that is rooted in shared values, an important strategic partnership in the Middle East, perhaps the world’s toughest neighborhood, and a mutual commitment to a lasting two state solution,” said Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the fourth-ranking Democrat and a potential future speaker. “I look forward to working with the Democratic Majority for Israel as it advances the unbreakable US-Israel bond into the future.” Mr. Jeffries could also be one of the first beneficiaries of the new group. If there is an effort to take on Mr. Jeffries in a primary, as has been speculated about, officials close to Mr. Mellman’s group indicate that they would come to his defense. Beyond individual races, the more fundamental challenge pro-Israel Democrats are confronting is that many millennials are growing far more wary of Israel and particularly the Netanyahu government. The Pew poll indicated that while 56 percent of voters over 65 sympathized more with Israel than the Palestinians, only 32 percent of those under the age of 30 who were surveyed said they felt the same way."
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