The Most Equal Comrade may not have much of a window for achieving his goal of post-Americans living in tar paper shacks before his foolishness gets us all murdered in our beds.We now have open conflict between the U.S. and Israel based on the U.S. backing out of understandings with regard to Israeli refusal to negotiate with the PA if Hamas were part of the coalition.Via The Times of Israel:Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday he is “deeply troubled” by the US decision to maintain relations with the new Palestinian unity government, urging Washington to tell the Palestinian president that his alliance with the Hamas militant group is unacceptable.The blunt language used by Netanyahu reflected the Israeli government’s disappointment and frustration over the international community’s embrace of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s new unity government.Netanyahu has urged the world to shun the government because it is backed by Hamas, an Islamic group that has killed hundreds of Israelis in attacks over the past two decades. But late Tuesday, both the US and European Union said they would give Abbas a chance.Jonathan Tobin points out:In recognizing the fig leaf of a “technocratic” government that is meant to distract the world from the reality that Hamas is now in full partnership with Abbas, the Obama administration may think it has put Israel’s government—which publicly called for the world not to recognize the Palestinian coalition—into a corner. But by discarding its own principles about recognizing unrepentant terror groups, Obama has done more than betrayed Israel. He has betrayed the cause of peace.It’s hard even to begin to describe the destructiveness of Obama’s foreign policy.
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Post-America now pursues an overtly anti-Israel policy
State Department says it will "work with" the new unity Hamas-Fatah government of "Palestine."
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We've been moving towards paper shacks ever since our industries started off shoring in the 70s, company towns that thrived here now thrive, not here, but over there. You blamed the workers.
ReplyDeleteNettie even got somewhat crosswise with Il Papa, if you can believe the press. It appears they don't like one another all that much either.
ReplyDeleteI most certainly did not blame the workers. Where do you get that? I blame the corporate tax rate and the regulatory leviathan.
ReplyDeleteI can very much understand Bibi finding Francis frustrating to deal with.
Correction, your ilk blamed the workers. Unions.
ReplyDeleteNettie is not a very likeable sort, in my miniscule opinion. Israel would be better served by someone more charismatic (with the same goals?).
ReplyDeleteNetanyahu is not an instantly likeable character. He is polite to a fault, but his manner is stiff, his responses robotic and his small, dark eyes are cold and expressionless. His enemies accuse him of being soulless. His friends believe that the death of Yoni, his elder brother, who led the Entebbe rescue operation in 1976 (to save Israeli hostages hijacked to Uganda by Arab terrorists) caused Netanyahu such agony that he blocks out all emotion. He is usually a good talker but now, exhausted and challenged, he has lost his touch as a communicator: he talks at and through you. He also makes no attempt to disguise his loathing of the media which over the last year has tracked him from scandal to scandal and crisis to crisis. Asked what he would have done in another life he looks at me and says, somewhat scornfully: "I wouldn't exchange places with your profession."
ReplyDeleteRead more at http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/confessions-of-a-troubled-man-1252789.html
And, like Billy Jeff the Zipper, he has had sex with that woman, this woman and others, while still married. Not that I judge him for that, but you might.
ReplyDeleteEven though Francis met with Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, his trip wasn't about the Arab-Israeli conflict. It was about Christians.
ReplyDeleteThey're the forgotten stakeholders of Jerusalem: People like the nuns who live on the Via Dolorosa, the road Jesus walked to his crucifixion; the Franciscan priests who maintain the Garden of Gethsemane, where Jesus prayed before his death; and, perhaps most importantly, the shrinking number of Arab Christians who live in Israel, the Palestinian Territories, and surrounding countries. On the Vatican-run website dedicated to the pope's trip, there are several sections about the persecution of Palestinian Christians, emphasizing that they are "faced by an exclusivist Islamic movement that often refuses to recognize Christians as co-citizens with equal rights, equal obligations, and equal opportunities."
Read more at http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/05/pope-francis-holy-land-trip-wasnt-about-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict/371598/
Speaking of nuns, though, bad press coming out of the Emerald Isle.
ReplyDelete"The workers" and "unions" are two distinct concepts. In fact, there is no class of people we can call "the workers." There are only individual people who have chosen to work at particular companies and then were faced with new sets of choices due to decisions those companies made. Free human beings in all the roles in the scenario.
ReplyDeleteThat last remark by Bibi is a major factor in my liking him.
ReplyDeleteHe (Netanyahu, not you) said, "somewhat scornfully." Nice guy, apparently not in it to win friends and influence people, though that is sorely needed by any diplomat. Then again, he really is not a diplomat. One way: his way!
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