I do not understand why this is acceptable.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
It’s going to get worse as Israel continues down its apartheid path. Netanyahu is a far-right politician on his own, but it’s been noticeable over the years how much father right he’s gone in pandering and forming governments. What follows if he’s indicted/removed is worse. And no end in sight.
And our government says this:
Make no mistake, it’s better politics to argue for increased ruthlessness:
link
Recent polling:
Yet another instance confirming that one should never, ever imagine you’ve seen the limit of the depths of their depravity.
You’re right–it’s going to get much worse. I fear a renewal of terrorist attacks in the West which the Trumpists will exploit to their ends.
Of course they’re cynical and low enough to exploit such things, but no evidence that would work (yet). I’m less concerned with what will theoretically happen here and more concerned with what’s happening to Palestinians right now, and how there doesn’t seem to be anything stopping Israeli politics trending so far right that you have “far right” and “fascist” parties to choose from.
Meanwhile, the entire global order is moving underneath our feet. Alliances are shifting, some more slowly than others. And these fires are giving way for a rising global far right alliance.
Remember when Netanyahu was invited and gave an anti-President Obama/Diplomacy speech on the floor of U.S. House of Representatives to a standing ovation….the world is paying for that right now.
How many Democrats boycotted that speech?
Quite a few.
https://www.cnn.com/2015/02/26/politics/democrats-missing-netanyahu-whip-list/index.html
. . . Starr’s immortal anthem
[slight poetic license taken with lyrics]
At least now we know why Trump was so hot to trot to move the embassy,
. . . will make a fart-in-a-hurricane’s bit of difference.
an emboldened bibilicious erectus could make his move to consolidate territory when the shiitehämmer (B-61’s) drop on the persian peril and axis of weasel.
From the article:
Near Gaza City, a voice on a loudspeaker urged the crowd forward: “Get closer! Get closer!”
Officials from Hamas and other militant factions addressed the worshipers, urging them into the fray and claiming — falsely, to all appearances — that the fence had been breached and that Palestinians were flooding into Israel.
“America is the greatest Satan,” said a cleric, holding his index finger in the air as hundreds of people did the same. “Now we are heading to Jerusalem with millions of martyrs. We may die but Palestine will live.” The crowd repeated the chant.
As the cleric spoke, more smoke rose in the sky behind him, and worshipers peeled away and began to walk toward the fence.
Khalil al-Hayya, deputy chief of Hamas in Gaza, said at a news conference that the purpose of Monday’s demonstrations was to “powerfully confront the embassy deal” and to “draw the map of return in blood.”
Is this a surprise when the United States is enabling the Israeli grab of Jerusalem? The Palestinians know they’ll never get a fair shake. Jews were persecuted and exterminated in Europe. Therefore, they needed to have a homeland in Palestine. Only in the most bigoted of worlds is this perceived as fair.
Beyond that, Israel shows no restraint. It gives the impression of preferring to kill Palestinians.
All they have is their bodies.
Unfortunately, at least some of the people shot in the legs ended up having an amputation. The IDF has certainly wildly overreacted (no surprise) but frankly Hamas is a deeply cynical, nasty outfit.
I’m a Jew and a Muslim. Was born Jewish and still am. At the same time, I discovered Sufism, the mystical branch of Islam, and through that doorway, Islam itself. They are not in my view different religions.
Moreover, Israelis are overwhelmingly secular and Sephardic Jews are all but genetically identical to Arabs. These artificial lines that people draw are beyond irrational. It makes no sense to be killing each other.
I wish the Palestinians would all convert to Judaism and demand a right of return. How would Israel then justify keeping them out while giving a home to secular Jews from around the globe? They should also quote the Torah, which says numerous times “But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt”
“I wish the Palestinians would all convert to Judaism and demand a right of return.”
The don’t need to:
Genesis 12:7 – And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto him.
Ishmael, from whom came the line of Arabs and Islam, although born of Hagar, was Abraham’s seed. Both Ishmael and Isaac buried Abraham in the cave of the Patriarchs.
Some, and I don’t want to use the terms Jews or Israelis to characterize them, claim Biblical justification for an exclusive claim on the land on which Israel sits.
And I believe its based in part on this:
Genesis 25:5 – And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.
Abraham may have given all that he had, but God had already given the land to Abraham’s seed, including the line of Ishmael, the Arab Muslims.
Think about that in light of all the killing that’s going on over there. And there’s nothing “biblical” about it.
What’s happening over there is barbarism, plain and simple. And its only happening because with this move, intended to provoke, our president has given the green light and his “blessing” of this barbaric behavior. In his tiny, warped mind, the only thing that matters is “toughness” which, to the thug is translated as violence and control. If they could kill every list Arab over there and then claim “peace” I believe they would.
His followers and this MF has the nerve to claim for himself a Nobel Peace Prize?
Since his followers are firm believers in “the least White Man” mythos, OF COURSE, the Orange Shit Gibbon deserves a Nobel Peace Prize…the academy gave one to that usurping n^#%er!!
Hey, when you’re running an empire you gotta do like the Romans did; as Tacitus put it:
ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant
“Where they make a desert, they call it peace.”
. . . desperate people to desperate actions?
Wow, who coulda predicted?
Then, of course, there’s the VERY long-standing deliberate provocation of Israel’s settlements policy, which I can’t see as anything other than a very deliberate thumb in the eye of every Palestinian, lasting decades now.
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