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Hanin Zoabi is still my heroine…!
As Emptywheel noted today…
Senate Passes Defense Authorization
…Senator Franken sent out a statement explaining his no vote. It ends, “Today is the anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights, and this wasn’t the way to mark its birthday.”
Folks, having just watched that latest Clown car pile-up in Sioux City, those War Drums are truly deafening…
I would vote for Ron Paul if he were the Repug candidate, naturally, Hell would have to freeze over first…! But, to truly put it into it’s proper perspective, Philip Giraldi, had penned another masterpiece today…
The Inevitable War With Iran
One might regard the pledges made to Israel and its friends in the United States by aspiring presidential candidates as pro forma and vaguely amusing, but that would be a mistake. Policy commitments, even if they are lightly entered into, are a serious matter with real-world consequences. At the moment, the obligation to Israel goes far beyond the willingness to give Tel Aviv billions of dollars in aid and unlimited political cover each year. Every Republican candidate but one has affirmed that Jerusalem is the undivided capital of a “Jewish state,” the precise formula demanded by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and each has affirmed his or her eagerness to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which would end forever any chance of actual peace talks with the Palestinians and would also invite a violent reaction against Americans in many parts of the Muslim world. Michele Bachmann has even found a private “donor” willing to pay for the move. Newt Gingrich, who would shift the embassy to Jerusalem within his first two hours as president and who has also promised to name John Bolton as his secretary of state, has meanwhile discovered that the Palestinian people do not actually exist, which certainly solves the problem of the two-state solution or any solution at all. They were invented by hostile Arabs and are out to destroy Israel…
You really must read that entire article…!
Bloody Bill Kristol is truly bringing the leather… Kristol is going to ‘punch’ Obama administration…
Now, MJ Rosenberg, also penned a Must-Read…
The ‘Israel Firster’ brouhaha
Israel’s hawks don’t have their country’s best interests at heart.
…I wonder what happened to Israel – by which I mean the actual country and its seven million people.
It still exists, thank God, but one would hardly know it from the way its supposed supporters discuss it in the United States.
Take the brouhaha last week that started with this article in Politico. Its thesis was that some leading progressives are no longer part of a “pro-Israel” consensus and are trying to move the Democratic Party in an anti-Israel direction.
This would, of course, be big news, if it were true.
But it isn’t, and the only evidence presented in the piece is that many progressive bloggers oppose a preemptive war against Iran. Additionally, some argue that many of the people who promote military confrontation with Iran – and oppose diplomacy – are following Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s lead on the issue…
…‘Netanyahu firsters’
Can anyone argue with the assertion that, for neocons, Obama is always wrong and Bibi is always right? Not only that, they denounce those who dare criticise Netanyahu over anything while never ever letting up on Obama. How can it be that the prime minister is always right but the president is always wrong?
But I need to offer a clarification. By the term “Israel firster”, I do not mean that right-wingers and neocons who advance bellicose Middle East policies are putting the interests of Israel first.
Far from it. They are putting the interests of Binyamin Netanyahu and his hardliners first. After all, if they were putting Israel first, they would not be promoting policies (such as war with Iran or the perpetuation of the occupation) that could very easily lead to Israel’s destruction or, at least, to the loss of its Jewish majority.
The people I call “Israel firsters” are, in fact, Netanyahu firsters…
McClatchy asks the timely question… ‘Who’s a terrorist?’
Bibi answered that question right quick… Violent Settlers Not ‘Terrorists’ Agrees to Calls for Military Detention for Suspects…
Fascism has marched in bearing the cross/menorah, folks…!
*gah*
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Thank you Sen. Franken.
Here’s an interesting history of the Likud party:
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2009/3603brit-imps_created_jabotinsky.html
WW III is the next step in re-asserting Oligarchical total control, and eliminating that nasty, presumptuous, interfering middle class once and for all.
The dupes/stupes in the Likud Party are dutifully strapping the nuclear suicide vest to the state of Israel while U.S. military brawn in the Middle East awaits The City’s brain for “bombs away!” instructions.
It’s going to be interesting to see how many repubs will choose ron paul or huntsman.
Seems like anyone that detests the endless wars and fear-mongering, or is disgusted with absolute fealty to another nation/their leader is getting plenty of help to decide. Romney is as bad as Newt.
Obama/Netanyahu, good-cop-bad-cop.
It’s been the same plan for nearly a hundred years, Israel is the West’s foot-in-the-door, the camel’s nose-under-the-tent, …
The people responsible for crashing the world economy are the same ones who long ago planned to never leave the ME until all it’s oil was consumed.
The British gift of Palestine to the zionist interests was just the thing to ensure the never ending presence of western hegemony.
Netanyahu is nothing so much as America’s bully ambassador to the ME.
The advocacy of a third war in the Middle East alone should be capable of sinking any of the presumptive GOP presidential candidates next November, except that Obama’s fear of the Likud leaning Israel Lobby might just lead to a suppression of the issue during the run-up and the presidential debates. That a GOP president will take us into another war, I fear, will not be heard by the left. Now that’s the ‘gah’ here.
Thanks for pulling together these great resources, Tut.
Mocking and bashing the Rs seems to be considered quite sporting these days as the R Party Division of the RuleByFool American One Party struggles to get someone over the Finish Line to take on the D Party Division and Barack Obama — the guy who as POTUS delivers more R Party dogma/results than any real R could have since 2009.
It is certainly amazing how this R vs. D flimflam gets,gains and keeps traction as we Americans careen deeper into a Greater Depression while American Militarism and Corporatism is primed and pumped up like it is still 1957 in the good’ol USA.
Fun as it may or must seem for the D-Bots and O-Bots to throw derision at the Rs it would be more on point to keep in mind what party is actually now running the WH.
Barack Obama(D) as POTUS decided to not go after Bush,Cheney or the next five,ten,fifteen or twenty five R run WH doers G.W.Bush and R.B.Cheney installed and let run the WH from Jan. 2001 onwards to Jan.2009. Way to go DINO Obama.
So how did that all work out? Who decided to not look back on the Bush/Cheney WH war crimes/graft/cronyism years and do some major clean outs?
Barack Obama(D)— thats who.
One can go on and on pulling up example after example of what Barack Obama(D) has done as POTUS that if a R POTUS had done it the O-Bots and D-Bots would have been all over that like white on rice. Credibility? Doesn’t smell like it to me. How about to you?
Meanwhile all this R Party mockery and eye poking that is being paraded up and down sites like Dkos,Huffpost,Salon and Think Progress sites also pops up here at FDL often enough then too. What? –just in case anyone manages to avoid DK,HP,Salon and TP shoveling of the O-Bot/D-Bot RahRahRah and how clownlike the Rs are.
We already have a POTUS who claims to be a D and a D Party run WH.
It would be more useful to put political pressure on this D POTUS and this D Party run WH for doing what is needed and stopping with the DINO BS while doing R themed politics so the Rs can keep pulling to the Right of BatShitCrazy. If not why not?
What is the problem with making this so called D Party run WH and this D POTUS do what evidently the R simply are too politically malfunctioning to see or respond to according to the R Mockers?
Barack Obama has had since Jan.20,2009 to be and do what he has not been or done. Recent days bringing to the fore more of Barack Obama’s rotational deception,betrayal and arrogance.
Yet despite all this there are those who just want to vote Barack Obama back in again to do as a DINO what the Rs cannot do.
There is some truly serious disconnect going on these days.
Voting Barack Obama back into the WH in November 2012 is a real bad idea.
As for whatever TelAviv now is intent on doing/intends to do TelAviv is beyond the yellow lights,caution lines,flashing red lights and Stop And Turn Back Now Last Warning signs.
Too bad Barack Obama has not done what needed to be done to curb TelAviv and to fully condemn/challenge what TelAviv is doing across Palestine.
At this point Barack Obama however has become an American War Criminal and by rights should be forcilbly removed from the Oval Office. Then shall we look into Obama WH sweetheart Wall Street politics? Or how much are US taxpayers were or still are being looted of by Big Banks? Or who wants to strangle MC and SS? Gosh darn good thing there is a D in the WH. Odd it is how the D who is now in the WH seems to line up with the Rs on this stuff — time after time after time.
But by all means do keep mocking and bashing the Rs. That is really going to move the ball downfield with Barack Obama (D)– the guy who has been in the D Party run WH since Jan.20,2009.
TelAviv plays B.Obama and HRClinton like two fiddles any day of the week and one need not dwell on what awaits Iran as Barack Obama plods towards November 2012 or what very likely will follow a Obama WH win in November 2012.
But let’s get all up and down on the Rs. Those clowns. Those posers.
It is so sporting don’cha see?
So…. vote for Barack Obama again …….becuz Obama is a D and not a R …. there’s some flawless logic if ever there was or were.
Nevermind Obama being a DINO. Just be happy…dammit.
Ask any O-Bot or D-Bot–they will happily shovel Obama’s Happy BS.
As for Bibi and TelAviv? Just look at a map or globe and see how big Israel is compared to USA size wize. Or check out the total population counts of these two nations. Clearly the USA needs to do what TelAviv wants or the consequences would be just awful as TelAviv mounted full attack across the USA.
Ameriacns defy TelAviv at great peril. Tread lightly or suffer.
Good thing we have a stalwart and really smart D Party POTUS in the WH in WashingtonDC to keep TelAviv in place and inside the lines.
Can you imagine what a real R would do differently? TelAviv would just get away with lots of bad stuff and then just go do some more. Not with Obama! Lucky us.
Lucky us. Lets go bash some Rs! It’s so much fun! And so useful too!
I’d say your analysis is 99.5% right on, except that as I see it, Obama and Bibi are working for the same bosses.
We’re left wondering because, as a people, we don’t realize who those bosses are.
Yet.
It does look as if we’re starting to ask, and that’s a good sign I guess.
Funnily enough, FDL and its readers are often attacked for being too harsh on Democrats. Your mileage may vary.
Step by step, U.S. foreign policy is alienating even friendly countries and giving sustenance to those who would like to see it’s downfall as the hegemonic power of the world.
One can see why Obama was so clear in speaking about the U.S. interest in Asia from this article:
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-12-11/iran-oil-sanctions-set-to-shrink-circle-of-foreign-buyers.html
Hopefully the day will come when the U.S. just says Israel just isn’t worth the trouble.