[h=1]All 6 Former Israeli Security Chiefs Slam Occupation of Palestine[/h]
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013...vice-chiefs-slam-occupation-of-palestine.html
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013...vice-chiefs-slam-occupation-of-palestine.html
^^^You are living in a world of ideals as you want it, and AS IT SHOULD BE..... but isn't. In the real world we can't get peace until Israel defeats Hamas. More tunnels found today, 3 miles into Israel. Sad to say that the 3 kidnapped and killed students likely ARE MARTYRS that saved many Israeli lives.
Guesser at least you and I agree who is responsible for the conflict. We disagree on the alternatives and how to achieve peace.
Those here who blame Israel and criticize its actions present no alternate course or pathway to peace. Another reason I call them out.
Guesser at least you and I agree who is responsible for the conflict. We disagree on the alternatives and how to achieve peace.
Those here who blame Israel and criticize its actions present no alternate course or pathway to peace. Another reason I call them out.
yidtech @yidtech Well done @BarackObama - you got the headlines you wanted: "Israel Rejects Ceasefire" - all over the globe. You KNEW Israel couldn't accept!
Shame on Kerry: US comes down on side of Hamas
By Vic Rosenthal
John Kerry gets together with Foreign Ministers of Qatar and Turkey to produce Hamas-friendly cease fire proposal
This is absolutely incredible (or, sadly, maybe not). Let me quote Ha’aretz diplomatic writer Barak Ravid, anything but a right-winger:
The draft [cease fire agreement] Kerry passed to Israel on Friday shocked the cabinet ministers not only because it was the opposite of what Kerry told them less than 24 hours earlier, but mostly because it might as well have been penned by Khaled Meshal. It was everything Hamas could have hoped for.
The document recognized Hamas’ position in the Gaza Strip, promised the organization billions in donation funds and demanded no dismantling of rockets, tunnels or other heavy weaponry at Hamas’ disposal. The document placed Israel and Hamas on the same level, as if the first is not a primary U.S. ally and as if the second isn’t a terror group which overtook part of the Palestinian Authority in a military coup and fired thousands of rockets at Israel. …
The secretary of state’s draft empowered the most radical and problematic elements in the region – Qatar, Turkey, and Hamas – and was a slap on the face to the rapidly forming camp of Egypt, Israel, the Palestinian Authority, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, who have many shared interests. What Kerry’s draft spells for the internal Palestinian political arena is even direr: It crowns Hamas and issues Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas with a death warrant.
This is so upside-down that it defies parody. The biggest war criminals on the planet, launch an unprovoked attack against Israel’s civilian population, firing hundreds of rockets from behind the skirts of their own civilians, and prepare a mass-casualty terrorist attack that would rival anything al-Qaeda had been able to pull off. They are stopped only by Israel’s virtually miraculous technology and actually miraculous good luck.
So Israel sends its people’s army into battle, rips thousands of reservists away from their families and their jobs, and starts grinding the enemy down, at great cost. Some of its young men, and some not-so-young ones, will never go home from this war. Tens of thousands of Israelis attend the funerals of two Jewish youths that came to Israel from the safe haven of the US to fight for their people.
Then, along comes the Secretary of State of the United States of America, a representative of the President who brags about the “unbreakable bond” between his country and Israel. But instead of offering the Hamas leadership a trip to The Hague where they would be tried and imprisoned or executed for their crimes against humanity, he conspires with Hamas’ greatest supporters to reward them.
Instead of telling them that either they can surrender or his country will stay out of the way while Israel crushes them like the venomous insects that they are, he tries to throw Hamas a lifeline.
Instead of supporting the historic (if temporary) alignment of Israel, Egypt, the PA, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the UAE against Islamic radicalism, he cleaves to the side of Hamas and the forces of jihad.
ISIS recently announced that Christians in Mosul had the options to convert to Islam, flee or die. Most fled and were relieved of their possessions on the way out.Hamas is slightly less radical in action, but the ideology is the same. Is this what Kerry and Obama think the US stands for?
The Israeli cabinet told Kerry unanimously that the proposal was a non-starter. We already saw the stick that is being used along with the carrot of military aid, when the FAA banned flights to Ben-Gurion Airport in order to pressure Israel. Apparently domestic politics forced the administration to back down, but certainly it has other sticks in reserve. Israel would do well to learn to live without US military aid.
Meanwhile, shame on John Kerry and Barack Obama. Can this be the policy the American people want? I don’t think so.
By Vic Rosenthal
John Kerry gets together with Foreign Ministers of Qatar and Turkey to produce Hamas-friendly cease fire proposal
This is absolutely incredible (or, sadly, maybe not). Let me quote Ha’aretz diplomatic writer Barak Ravid, anything but a right-winger:
The draft [cease fire agreement] Kerry passed to Israel on Friday shocked the cabinet ministers not only because it was the opposite of what Kerry told them less than 24 hours earlier, but mostly because it might as well have been penned by Khaled Meshal. It was everything Hamas could have hoped for.
The document recognized Hamas’ position in the Gaza Strip, promised the organization billions in donation funds and demanded no dismantling of rockets, tunnels or other heavy weaponry at Hamas’ disposal. The document placed Israel and Hamas on the same level, as if the first is not a primary U.S. ally and as if the second isn’t a terror group which overtook part of the Palestinian Authority in a military coup and fired thousands of rockets at Israel. …
The secretary of state’s draft empowered the most radical and problematic elements in the region – Qatar, Turkey, and Hamas – and was a slap on the face to the rapidly forming camp of Egypt, Israel, the Palestinian Authority, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, who have many shared interests. What Kerry’s draft spells for the internal Palestinian political arena is even direr: It crowns Hamas and issues Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas with a death warrant.
This is so upside-down that it defies parody. The biggest war criminals on the planet, launch an unprovoked attack against Israel’s civilian population, firing hundreds of rockets from behind the skirts of their own civilians, and prepare a mass-casualty terrorist attack that would rival anything al-Qaeda had been able to pull off. They are stopped only by Israel’s virtually miraculous technology and actually miraculous good luck.
So Israel sends its people’s army into battle, rips thousands of reservists away from their families and their jobs, and starts grinding the enemy down, at great cost. Some of its young men, and some not-so-young ones, will never go home from this war. Tens of thousands of Israelis attend the funerals of two Jewish youths that came to Israel from the safe haven of the US to fight for their people.
Then, along comes the Secretary of State of the United States of America, a representative of the President who brags about the “unbreakable bond” between his country and Israel. But instead of offering the Hamas leadership a trip to The Hague where they would be tried and imprisoned or executed for their crimes against humanity, he conspires with Hamas’ greatest supporters to reward them.
Instead of telling them that either they can surrender or his country will stay out of the way while Israel crushes them like the venomous insects that they are, he tries to throw Hamas a lifeline.
Instead of supporting the historic (if temporary) alignment of Israel, Egypt, the PA, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the UAE against Islamic radicalism, he cleaves to the side of Hamas and the forces of jihad.
ISIS recently announced that Christians in Mosul had the options to convert to Islam, flee or die. Most fled and were relieved of their possessions on the way out.Hamas is slightly less radical in action, but the ideology is the same. Is this what Kerry and Obama think the US stands for?
The Israeli cabinet told Kerry unanimously that the proposal was a non-starter. We already saw the stick that is being used along with the carrot of military aid, when the FAA banned flights to Ben-Gurion Airport in order to pressure Israel. Apparently domestic politics forced the administration to back down, but certainly it has other sticks in reserve. Israel would do well to learn to live without US military aid.
Meanwhile, shame on John Kerry and Barack Obama. Can this be the policy the American people want? I don’t think so.
I didn’t know where to post this since there are multiple threads for this discussion and I didn’t want to start a new one. Since I’m free to choose, here it is.
"On Sunday, President Obama and First Lady Michelle released a statement thanking Muslim Americans for their many "achievements and contributions " to building the very fabric of our nation and strengthening the core of our democracy.`
http://thesop.org/story/20140729/outrage-obama-declares-muslims-built-the-fabric-of-our-nation.html
When I saw the headline I cringed. Then I thought about it for a moment and realized he actually believes it and just wasn‘t kissing political ass.
If you want to read the rebuke of the century, click the link.
"On Sunday, President Obama and First Lady Michelle released a statement thanking Muslim Americans for their many "achievements and contributions " to building the very fabric of our nation and strengthening the core of our democracy.`
http://thesop.org/story/20140729/outrage-obama-declares-muslims-built-the-fabric-of-our-nation.html
When I saw the headline I cringed. Then I thought about it for a moment and realized he actually believes it and just wasn‘t kissing political ass.
If you want to read the rebuke of the century, click the link.
Here’s one of the lefts favorite people doing his anti-Semite shtick.
Jon Stewart of The Daily Show doesn't much like the tiny Jewish state of Israel. Since Operation Protective Edge took flight, he has indirectly referred to Hamas as "freedom fighters" and judged Israel on a scale of moral equivalency. On Thursday night, Stewart took a new approach by comparing Israel to a violent drug addict, hooked on bombing "shit," with the United States as being simultaneously its drug dealer and rehab sponsor.
Leading into his slanderous insults, Stewart highlighted the recent 72-hour cease-fire deal brokered between Hamas and Israel, a cease-fire the comedian celebrated shortly before cutting to a CNN report suggesting Israel only accepted the cease-fire to "restock" its ammunition supplies.
"They're just running out of shit to blow up," Stewart said, "maybe what happened here is the diplomats tackled Israel while they were reloading."
Stewart then professed false hope the United States will take the chance to make this peace deal work only to have his false hope thwarted by cutting to yet another CNN report saying the United States will resupply Israel with "120 millimeter mortars and grenades." Stewart did not take the news lightly, throwing his hands up in the air while expressing faux outrage.
"We had this," Stewart exclaimed! "Why are we giving them more with the blowing...Guys we cannot be Israel's rehab sponsor and its drug dealer. It's not going to work. Just say 'no'."
Video…
http://www.truthrevolt.org/israel-revolt/jon-stewart-israel-running-out-sht-blow
Jon Stewart of The Daily Show doesn't much like the tiny Jewish state of Israel. Since Operation Protective Edge took flight, he has indirectly referred to Hamas as "freedom fighters" and judged Israel on a scale of moral equivalency. On Thursday night, Stewart took a new approach by comparing Israel to a violent drug addict, hooked on bombing "shit," with the United States as being simultaneously its drug dealer and rehab sponsor.
Leading into his slanderous insults, Stewart highlighted the recent 72-hour cease-fire deal brokered between Hamas and Israel, a cease-fire the comedian celebrated shortly before cutting to a CNN report suggesting Israel only accepted the cease-fire to "restock" its ammunition supplies.
"They're just running out of shit to blow up," Stewart said, "maybe what happened here is the diplomats tackled Israel while they were reloading."
Stewart then professed false hope the United States will take the chance to make this peace deal work only to have his false hope thwarted by cutting to yet another CNN report saying the United States will resupply Israel with "120 millimeter mortars and grenades." Stewart did not take the news lightly, throwing his hands up in the air while expressing faux outrage.
"We had this," Stewart exclaimed! "Why are we giving them more with the blowing...Guys we cannot be Israel's rehab sponsor and its drug dealer. It's not going to work. Just say 'no'."
Video…
http://www.truthrevolt.org/israel-revolt/jon-stewart-israel-running-out-sht-blow
