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Call Obama's bluff
Moshe Dann
Published: 13.09.09, 11:22
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31. WHINERS
DK ,   NYC/USA   (09.13.09)
you whiney annoying people need to stop blaming pres. obaba and start looking inward. the current administrations is simply pushing through an israel policy that has been in place since Bush 1! for years you faux liberal leftie tzfoni poseurs rallied against the evil of settlements and the damage israel's right wing has done. now when you are finally called to act upon this platform -- you wimp out and digress into demagoguery and plain old racism. grow up! and then you may finally become a true member of the family of nations!
32. #11
Harold ,   Liverpool, USA   (09.13.09)
The word ANTI-SEMETISM is broken record and please try to stop using it whenever somebody talks the truth. By the way Israel is occupying others land and not Iran and that is the subject we are talking about. Iran's nuclear program is completely a different subject.
33. #20
Harold ,   Liverpool, USA   (09.13.09)
The 20% of Arabs in Israel were in Palestine before the creation of Israel and the other 20% who lived there were pushed out and now they are living in Syria, Lebanon, Jodan and Iraq. By the way I was in Palestine with my mother in 1946 and I still have the cross tattooed on my left arm. It was a very beautiful trip then and I don't know the situation now.
34. #28
Harold ,   Liverpool, USA   (09.13.09)
Are you jealous because I love Spanish Ham. Eat Ham and your sins will be forgiven.
35. #23
Harold ,   Liverpool, USA   (09.14.09)
President Obama, who is your President, earned 63 percent of the American votes and I am sure he never needed votes from people like you and your followers. By the way within one term he can solve many problems in the United States and abroad. The whole world is backing him and are with him except one country i.e Israel.
36. Yes #3
thundercloud65 ,   Oklahoma City USA   (09.14.09)
For the most part yes we do. The important thing to remember is we want a safe Israel that has a future because you have been an ally for decades and we try not to forget our friends. The President has not "threatened dire consequences" at all and I doubt he has forgotten our two country's traditional alliance. Too many people on the left and right in both country's are foaming at the mouth and distorting the situation. What concerns most of us here is where will Israel be in 10 years?
37. Shock #10 just the facts
Gee ,   Zikron Yaakov   (09.14.09)
38. Shocked #10 what 'Palestinian lands'
Gee ,   Zikron Yaakov   (09.14.09)
The land west of the Jordan BELONGS to the JEWS. That is what the UN Charter states, that is what international law states. The Arabs have NO legal claim to any of the land. They lied, the UN lies, the EU lies, the US lies. Very simple I challenge anybody in the entire world to find ONE legal Arab claim to the land. And for those that will attempt to use UNGA 181, read the UN Charter the General Assembly resolutions are not legal. They are recommendations only. That too is in the UN Charter.
39. Obama hasn nothing to deliver but Chamberlain's Ghost.
Steven Wilson ,   Anchorage, Alaska   (09.14.09)
He appeases at every turn....just like the Democratic Party of the United States. He ran on ending the War. Incessant reporting by CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC and every liberal network about the deaths of soldiers every night of the week, just helped push the Democrat's.. anti war mentality. How can this clown change his position? He is backed in a corner without a weapon to defend himself or the United States of America. He can't fight back.....They don't teach you that, when you are doing illegal activities in your dorm room in college. What is totally ironic about the News media's reporting of military deaths in a seven year war, is the total disregard of the soldiers that were being killed every year before the Iraq war even took place. The United States was losing 1000 military men on the roads of the United States in car accidents every year before the war. They have these deaths listed in the militaries death statistics. Did these Liberal networks ever show how sergeant statistic was killed in a Subaru saturday night in a dense fog? Did they report on ensign statistic, that was killed by a drunk driver? I would challenge that these men were killed on the roadsides of Iraq, rather than on roads in the United States. Anotherwords......they, or another servicemen, would have died anyways. You wouldn't hear CNN, ABC, NBC, CNN, or MSNBC report on any of these deaths. Mainly because they didn't give a damn. So how is it that when they want to pursue a Democrat to be voted in.....and to run an anti war agenda.....that they start showing dead servicemen on the television every night of the week. If they don't scream about the viscious deaths in automobile accidents, and needless deaths to our servicemans lives.......what makes you think they really give a crap about the military? All of a sudden they start to care if they don't like a president..... or the party in power? Give me a break. The Democratic Party is at war with the CIA and the Military of the United States. They won't protect their own citizens and have abandoned them. They have abandoned Israel as well.
40. 10# The Jews already tolerated it. The muslims stole their
Steven Wilson ,   Anchorage, Alaska   (09.14.09)
land centuries ago. I think the Jews have tolerated their lands being stolen for far to long. What a nightmare when they get their land back.....oh my word! It's a travesty. It's a bigger travesty, when the Palestinians practice having as many children as possible to take over the area with overpopulation. They don't have a place to roost. Maybe the other muslim countries should tell them to come on over. Hang out in Jordan. Or better yet....maybe Israel should encourage all of Jordan's Palestinians to come to the West Bank....While the Jews move to Jordan. There wouldn't be anyone left in Jordan to begin with, after the mass exodus of Palestinians. I can only imagine all the Mexicans being repatriated to Spain by the indigenous Indians in Mexico. After all.....the land was stolen by the Spanish invaders. Being American Indian.....we see the sins of the ones who invaded our lands also. The difference is, we have learned to deal with it. Israel has every right to their land. The Spanish did their inquisition. They let the Jews know they were not wanted in Spain. Where is a Jew to go? Where is a Jew to live? Maybe back in their home country. The one where they are accepted in... by other Jews.
41. 32# If you really feel that way how about rounding
Steven Wilson ,   Anchorage, Alaska   (09.14.09)
up your countrymen in the United States and taking them back to Great Britain. You can take all the Muslims. Spanish, Dutch, French, Germans, and every other country that has basterdized North and South America. It's always amazing that those who judge are always the biggest contributers of theft of other cultures lands. You are a hypocrite, with a one sided acceptance of the theft, of others lands. Go farther back in History when the Muslims stole the Jews lands in the first place. And it wasn't 1946 you short sided cad. You can't use convenient History to make your case. Get your story straight before you comment. We all know who stole who's land first.
42. Shocked @ 10; If you do not understand issue of settlements
leo ,   usa   (09.14.09)
then how come are you passing judgment one way or the other. Go research the subject first.
43. Nobama and the Obots
catcher22   (09.14.09)
Bibi can do whatever he wants, Nobama O'Bummer will do nothing about it. Obuma had 147 days (mostly absent) as a junior senator, a term in state legislature (which was purchased, btw) and before that he worked for weather underground, and wrote for the black panthers and read muslim brotherhood on the internet. The biggest fraud and abject failure of any politician since Neviller Chambermaid. Obame = Epic Fail, ignore him and move on, while US snoozes in thier flavor-aid coma.
44. Obama's mistake
Sarah ,   Israel   (09.14.09)
Great piece, but one question is easy to answer: Who's side is the Community Organizer is on? His own, of course. No one believes he's on the side of Israel. But he isn't on the side of US citizens, either. Obama is a dictator at heart - he's trying to substitute socialism and bondage for capitalism and freedom. No one who cares about American citizens would do that. What strikes me as odd, though, is that they -- the Obama crowd -- seem to think that if they can topple Bibi's government, they'll get Tzipi Livni, who they think will be "easier to work with" (and they're probably right about that. She would be far weaker than Bibi.) Bur from here, it looks as though if Bibi falls, it will be BECAUSE he capitulated to Obama. And there would be a stronger right-wing government elected in his place -- Assuming, of course, that there's still a country left after a capitulation to the Community Organizer and his monstrous plans....
45. well muslims like obama do come hand in hand
ghostq   (09.14.09)
with extreme left and comunism, there for USA enjoy socialism in the USA, and trust me when I tell you once againe that he got bigger fish to fry and he support inside the usa droped in 80% so soon very soon he won't have time even if he wanted to to the ME. he will stand in corte people will sue the hell out of him for waisting their tax money. and I will say I tooooooold you sooooooo.
46. #10- LAND WEST OF JORDAN RIVER IS JEWISH
Minuteman ,   California, USA   (09.14.09)
#10-Your ignorance is greater than your rudness of the Jews. Accrding the ITNTL law speeled out in the Mandate for Palestine in 1927, all land West of the Jorden rever is part of the Jewish homeland. Arab of Palestine declered all the land as theirs. If the Arabs can build at any location West of the Jordan, Why the Jews should be curtailed? Unless the Arab stop building the Jews should not stop. the question to Spain: When the Spaniard will compensate the Jewish people for the murder expultion and confiscation of Jewsh property in Spain, 500 years ago?
47. Sarah #44 Excellent
Brod ,   USA   (09.14.09)
Sarah, excellent point. You are right on target.
48. To: No. 35
Sarah B ,   New York City, USA   (09.14.09)
Oh yeah? How do you account for the fact that Obama's approval rating has been plummeting like a rock? Most people I know -- all races, all religions, all ethnicities -- who voted for him regret having done so. He needs to stop meddling in international affairs and focus on domestic issues -- health care, unemployment, excessive taxes and the deficit economy. What, pray tell, has Israel to do with that? If anything, America's ties to Israel have been beneficial to the United States. Israel receives a small amount in cash loans, and to date, only two countries have a perfect repayment record: Finland and Israel. No other countries bother to pay back their cash loans. The principal American aid to Israel takes the form of joint ventures and military credits. Joint ventures between the United States and Israel have produced, among other things, the pacemaker, CAT scan technology, MRI technology and PET scan technology. heart catheterization, face recognition software and a whole host of chemotherapy protocols. Israel is required to spend its military credits in the United States -- which (even during times of war) promotes employment in the military industrial sector. I remind you -- or inform you, more likely -- that while the Cold War was raging, Israel provided America with its first look at the Soviet T-72 tank (which was a good thing, because the U.S. did not have shells in its arsenal that could pierce the armor of the T-72). Israel gave the United States its first look at the MIG-21, too. In fact, you would do well to remember that Israel's wars with the Arabs were probably the only thing that kept the Soviets from crashing through Western Europe -- the Arabs used Russian-made weapons and Israel used American-made and Israeli-made weapons and the Arabs always came out on the losing end, despite overwhelming superiority in forces and tanks. I think you need to temper your outrage at Israel with some actual knowledge. Or, simply put: what have the Arabs done for you lately? (Terror doesn't count.)
49. Racism = Conservative
ben Ish   (09.14.09)
this is a broken record in londonistan american yes? Any political dissent is called "racism" by you. objecting to anything obama is "racism" by you. you also deleted 'conservative' from the dictionary and replaced it with 'right-wing'. Soon the word "right-wing" AND "racist" will both be replaced with 'terrorist', thereby deleting dozens of words. Lets see who sounds like a broken record in few years. INTELLIGENCE IS IGNORANCE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY DEBT IS WEALTH Morons. Try informing yourself.
50. Bibi should go for the kill
Blessing Yenton ,   Accra Ghana   (09.14.09)
Obama is a 9 day wonder. The flakes are falling off people's eyes and they can now see who is called Hussain Obama. Imagine how weak he's become within so short a period? Not only is he falling in opinion polls like a heavy stone in a free fall, but now he'll soon start struggling to survive politically. Hit him on the head now that he is getting weaker by the day. Bibi, don't give in to Obama's antics! Think deep and stand TALL. Call his bluff. God bless Israel.
51. to shocked in spain (10)
tiki ,   belgium   (09.14.09)
If this is the ONLY thing you don't understand, you should count yourself lucky. ME politics are a size too big for you and it's better to keep yourselve busy with the question why the Basques are bombing your country time and time agan. Maybe they want something that they cannot get.....like the "pals".
52. Friends Don't Threaten
Batya ,   Shiloh   (09.14.09)
Obama is threatening Israel, so he's no friend.
53. Bush/Cheney evangelical dominionists
AY_Lamb ,   USA   (09.15.09)
are the american reich party - George Lincoln Rockwell - these disgusting geSUSphiles and bushomaniacs ; must be stopped, they only thing that surpasses their love for carnage, is their insatiable lust for possession. They know only to idolize, covet and worship the flesh of their geSUS, which is in fact themselves, take some protein shakes, pound some gentle innocent things, eat some pork, kill, kill, kill, and praise be to the human. launch the porn-nuke exterminate them all, aim for the big plus/cross idol in crawford texass
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