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Netanyahu slams Sweden; says White House criticism 'un-American'
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Published: 05.10.14, 19:37
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1. Give "em hell Bibi!
BUILD BABY BUILD!!   (10.05.14)
We love you Bibi! ignore the Euro trash and the soon to be forgotten El Presidente who is the Muslims representative much to America's horror. KEEP BUILDING IT'S ALL GOOD!!!
2. Obama endorses ethnic cleansing of Jews
CJK   (10.05.14)
it is outrageous that an american president would endorse the ethnic cleansing of jews from their holiest city, jerusalem, seat of zion. obama is following in the footsteps of muslims whose governments forbid the selling of properties to jews on pain of death. the saudis, among others, will not allow the practice of any religion besides salafism in the kingdom. jews are not allowed to enter and no bibles of any kind are allowed in. yet in israel, muslims live freely and practice their religion freely. christians also practice their religion freely and their religious institutions are protected and safeguarded.
3. While striving to decend to....
Gideon Reader ,   USA   (10.05.14)
...Sharpton like levels; the p-Resident of the USA, rehearses his Rev.Jerimiah Wright imitations. (Give him a break. He just lit a yartzeit candle for Morsi) What? He is not dead? Damn! Missed it by this much. Hmmm. Can't run for president again. Going for Zoning Commissioner in Jerusalem.
4. which map
Arn ,   Yehud, Israel   (10.05.14)
I was wondering what map the Swedes were prepared to recognize as the Palestinian State. The one hanging in every "Palestinian: schoolroom shows it to be all of Israel.
5. In the U.S. it it illegal to discriminate
Zev ,   Israel   (10.05.14)
based on race,color,or religion. Why does Obama expect Israel to do so.
6. bibi - now the arbiter of American values
avramele   (10.05.14)
Just because he likes trief veal in a NY restaurant no one can afford doesn't make him the definer of what American values are. In point of fact he is tone deaf when it comes to how Americans think and opinion polls in the states show this to be true. Demographically the future of America is not fundamentalist Christians in Kansas and even in Texas. Wake up Israel, your PM is a shill for a dinosauric Republican right wing.
7. #2
nilsg ,   helsingborg, sweden   (10.05.14)
In what way does reacting to "dozens of settlers" moving into a predominantly Arab neighborhood constitute ethnic cleansing. Please clarify.
8. Shalom from a Republican dinosaur!
ASTRONAUT ,   USA   (10.05.14)
Dear Avramele, tell me, bubelah – if, as you say, the demographic "future of America is not in the fundamental Christians in Kansas or Texas ..." who do you forsee shaping our Republic 20 years from now? Please do enlighten us Right-wing Republican dinosaurs. Shalom v' Shanah Tovah!
9. Let's Recognize Sweedistan.
BUTSeriously ,   Sydney   (10.06.14)
10. Everyone's wrong but Bibi - ha ha
Dan   (10.06.14)
Netanyahu is destroying Israel. We will not survive without international support and he is doing everything he can to ensure we don't have any. And for what? A land-grabbing settler fantasy that guarantees the hostility of our neighbours for generations to come. We can have land or we can have peace, not both; and if we insist on land, we will have nothing.
11. Netenyaho
Al ,   USA   (10.06.14)
It is almost funny that this sorry excuse of a human being lectures the president about what is American while at the same time running an apartheid state and denying the Palestinians basic human rights. I am baffled that the president even gives him a minute of his time. We should be kicking his ass out of here and supporting the Palestinians bid for statehood and dignity or force this stinking criminal to grant equal rights to the people of Palestine.
12. to 7
Jennie Bronstein ,   Israel/US   (10.06.14)
Same way any other citizen of a sovereign country/State, decides to build a home on a land, he purchased & obtained all the permits.. How does one build a home in Sweden ? What settlers you are "talking about" ? Any Israeli citizen, be it Muslim or Jew, can build his home on a legally purchased land, following the laws of the State... You won't succeed spreading lies on this board....
13. the Beev vs. the world.
marvin h.   (10.06.14)
Bivi slams everybody. From the president of the US to the new P.M. of Sweden. He fancies himself as the headmaster of the world. Furious and fuming as he goes. Stepping over associates like Kahalon and Saar. Does he have any friend aside from Meyer Lansky? Oops, I meant Sheldon Cooper oopsie.
14. Good comment
Arnold ,   Loma Linda, U.S.A.   (10.05.14)
I feel Prime Minister Netanyahu's comments regarding this subject are correct. How can you stop building anywhere? All sides to this issue have families, and those families grow over time. Growing families do not wait for different sides of an issue to resolve their differences.
15. #6, Achmedele, realistic analysis is never your strong suit
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (10.06.14)
16. no. 6 - criticism cannot be one sided, it's American value
(10.06.14)
17. This article is not real.
Rich ,   Toronto, Canada   (10.06.14)
The Swedish Prime Minister is only making a show before the Swedish people, who favor recognition of a Palestinian state, that he is taking a strong stand against Israel. It‘s all smoke and mirrors.
18. #7
Sturm ,   EU   (10.06.14)
Just zionist logic.
19. Netanyahu is a great fool for aligning with the tea party
Mark B. ,   Amsterdam / Holland   (10.06.14)
Calling the Obama administration policies un-American is tea party talk. He is echoing his friends in the right-wing of the GOP. America has changed and still is changing, it is not the 1980-ies and 1990-ies anymore. The GOP is increasingly becoming irrelevant in presidential elections. It may temporarely win congress in november but it will lose it again for sure in 2016. But Netanyahu cannot see this from his cocoon. These remarks will cause bad blood in the Dem party for a long time and will backfire strongly, also after 2016, when Obama is gone.
20. 7
CJK   (10.05.14)
i suggest you look up the history of shiloah.
21. Joe McCarthey, Netanyahu, Sheldon Adelson...
Michael ,   Haifa   (10.06.14)
...... and AIPAC should re-establish the Committee of Un-American activities in support of Israeli land theft
22. Sweden's Foreign Policy Institute database
Jerry ,   Sweden   (10.06.14)
@ "Arn", In the Swedish Foreign Policy Institute database "Landguiden" you will find quick and easy information about all the world's countries . "In 1967, Israel took BACK West Bank and West Jerusalem in the so-called Six-Day war...... "
23. To: No. 19
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (10.06.14)
Expounding on American and Israeli politics from your coffee (marijuana) bar in Amsterdam? News flash, sluggo: Obama is viewed as the most incompetent American president in history. But since when does an American president make Israeli policy? Israeli policy is made in Jerusalem. A number of American presidents have learned that the hard way. Obama is just another in a fairly long line of American presidents that think they have Israel on a puppet's string. They don't. If you can ever sober up long enough to see the world as it actually functions, you'd realize that.
24. Raising A Toast To Obama And The Americans
World Citizen ,   the world   (10.05.14)
It's the first thing the USA has done in its own interest in a long time. The Americans are sick of the megalomaniac leader of Israel who has lost touch with the paradigm shift going on in the USA and the world in general. Get it through your head Bibi, the ad hominem attacks and endless whining about anti-semitism are not working. Your silly speeches at the UN are laughed at as soon as the diplomats leave the assembly hall. Anyone with a computer (thanks for building the chip) and the internet can get unfiltered news of Israel's war crimes and violations of human rights. A growing number of US citizens are sick of Israeli trouble making in the Middle East. Hopefully the Americans will do more even more to distance themselves from the policies of your nation,
25. the world will never forgive jews for surviving
CJK   (10.05.14)
the christian world in particular will never forgive the jews for surviving two thousand years of horrific persecutions and genocide. the christians, with rare exceptions, are particularly galled that the jews have regained and reestablished their state and now have a strong army. such jewish impudence is contrary to christian prophesies and theology. hence the pope blames the jewish state of israel for the genocide of christians by muslims. it is evident that there is a quiet but definite conspiracy among christian nations, even those that are today secular, to gang up on the sole jewish state and side with muslims who would never accept their religion nor protect the christians among them.
26. Raising a Toast to Hatred
zadimel ,   Rockville,MD USA   (10.06.14)
Your brain,.or whatever you call it seems to be on a slow decline toward unimpeachable ignorance. The existence of hatred, anti-Semitism, and efforts to destroy the Jews have been around for at least 3000 years and the right to defend oneself,far longer. The so-called "war crimes" and "human rights" violations that you accuse the Jewish State of carrying on are merely the rights of self-defense that all nations have in the face of attempted annihilation by most of its neighbors. The "trouble making" of the Jewish State is in your sick mind,which denies reality.
27. World Ciitizen
zadimel ,   Rockville, MD USA   (10.06.14)
You missed the point of USA's close relationship with the Jewish State:It is in the interest of our nation to support a democracy that has had an acting Arab Israeli as acting PRESIDENT, at least 3 IDF GENERALS, one Arab Israeli supreme court justice, at least one speaker of the Knesset, many Arab Israeli consuls and ambassadors as well as members of the Knesset.I think you get the drift,When one compares with Arab countries,well the history is different,since most of their Jews were forced to flee.
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