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It’s hard for me to believe this has not sparked more outrage among those who frequent the FDL blogs. Or this.
In the meantime we’ve got Rahm trotting out the concern Obama has for the ‘deficit’; anyone else see the writing on the wall? ("words of the prophets are written on the subway walls’).
There ought to be 150 decibel screaming to have Geithner replaced given the evidence and we ought to be also screaming about the obvious abandonment by the ObamaRahma Admin about the lack of transparency it is displaying.
Add the the above this
-but ANOTHER example of Israel thumbing it’s nose at it’s greatest benefactor and without whose support it would cease to exist-and the formula for ‘perpetual war’ is reinforced.
Sheesh. Did y’all really want a Bush lite?
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LEMMINS DON”T SCREAM AT THEIR LEADERS, BUT FOLLOW QUIETLY OVER THE CLIFF.
“Jerusalem is Israel’s capital and will remain as such,”
They’re not going to change their position on that, not ever. Time for the world to learn to deal with it.
“Time for the world to learn to deal with it.” ; yes, let’s deal with it by making it an internationalized city under the auspices and rule of the U.N.
Just going to take it away from them and make it into what you think is best? George Bush would approve…
“Just going to take it away from them and make it into what you think is best?” ; How the hell do you think Israel was established? Exactly the same way.
Yep, pretty much. And of course having Jerusalem as an international city was the original plan as well.
No other state in the world has had the chutzpah to declare a city its “eternal capital.” But I guess you can do that with G-d on your side.
“They’re not going to change their position on that, not ever. Time for the world to learn to deal with it.” — really, Grumpy? That’s an unusual standard. Does the world have to “deal with it” every time a country makes a statement about territory (e.g. “Tibet is a part of China”, “East Timor is part of Indonesia”, etc. etc.)? Or is that only true for certain Special countries?
“Just going to take it away from them and make it into what you think is best?” ; How the hell do you think Israel was established? Exactly the same way.
So if you do exactly the same thing now, doesn’t that put you in exactly the same moral position?
“”Fools,” said I, “you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you”
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells of silence
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said “The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sound of silence ”
http://sglyrics.myrmid.com/sounds.htm
43 years later, the silence is even more deafening; despite all the technology.
“Gideon Levy: Israel is in a “coma” and needs outside help to get over its addiction to the occupation.
I think that Israel needs an adult who will save it from its own addiction to the occupation. It needs a guide who’d push or lead or any other way to take us out from the impossible situation that we are stuck in. And therefore I think that this balance of power, this really twisted relationship between the United States and Israel, which is unprecedented—there’s no country in the world that reacts like Israel vis-à-vis the United States vis-à-vis independence from the United States—I think that this is not a healthy pattern. Israel is addicted to the occupation because it benefits a lot from the occupation economically and politically, and above all because it doesn’t pay any price for the occupation.
J Street is a wonderful initiative, very promising, but still the power of AIPAC, of Anti-Defamation League, and other organizations is still very, very strong. And I don’t think it’s a question of months or years that this will change dramatically. Israel is so much not willing to make peace, someone has to push Israel, and the only actor who can push Israel is The United States. ”
http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=4478&updaterx=2009-11-17+05%3A35%3A13
“Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon deplored the Israeli Government’s decision today to expand Jerusalem’s Gilo settlement, stressing that it was built on Palestinian territory occupied by Israel in the 1967 war. “The Secretary-General reiterates his position that settlements are illegal, and calls on Israel to respect its commitments under the Road Map to cease all settlement activity, including natural growth,”
Last month he stated that Jerusalem must be the capital of two States – Israel and Palestine – with arrangements for the holy sites acceptable to all, if peace in the Middle East is to be achieved. ”
http://www.paltelegraph.com/palestine/west-bank/2876-un-qisrael-should-respect-its-commitments-stop-settlementsq
Does the world have to “deal with it” every time a country makes a statement about territory (e.g. “Tibet is a part of China”, “East Timor is part of Indonesia”, etc. etc.)? Or is that only true for certain Special countries?
Or like California is a part of the United States? It’s not so much about special countries: it’s about whether or not there’s anything that can be done in a practical sense. In the case of Tibet, to use one of your examples, it’s been 50 years. Any progress?
When it’s something you can’t change, “just deal with it” is really your only option.