Opinion  Ben-Dror Yemini
When hypocrisy becomes anti-Semitism
Ben-Dror Yemini
Published: 20.02.19, 18:53
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1. Let's get some facts straight
Stan ,   Israel   (02.20.19)
Yemini claims that BDS is anti-Semitic.There are anti-Semites who support BDS but there are many people including Jews who support BDS which is against the occupation and which demands that Israel withdraw from the occupied territories.

Yemini claims That AIPAC is against the settlement of Jews in occupied territories. In the last decade I have not read one word of criticism of Israel's government by AIPAC in matters concerning the occupation.No pressure has been brought on my government to change its ways concerning the occupation. No demand that Israel should seriously sit down with the Palestinians and finally end this conflict. If Israel would spend just 10% of the time and money that is spent on fighting BDS we would have had peace long ago.

AIPAC does not control members of Congress. It is a very strong lobby but it does not control Congress. Quite a few years ago I read an article where it was explained that many members of Congress receive donations for their election campaigns from Jewish members of their communities. The donations given by these people are usually very substantive and play a very big part in helping members of Congress to be re-elected..
It was only after I read this article that I was able to understand how it is that no American government has ever really twisted Israel's arm into making a serious effort to reach peace.
2. 50 years of occupation are destroying Israel's morality.
Stan ,   Israel   (02.20.19)
There are those who will say that the Palestinians had many opportunities to achieve a state of their own. This is true in addition there are people who say that even after the peace agreement was signed by Rabin and Arafat, the Palestinians were the ones who caused it to collapse. The truth is that two messianic Jews destroyed the possibility of peace. Dr Baruchl Goldstein walked into a mosque in Hebron dressed in army uniform and carrying an automatic weapon. As hundreds of people knelt in prayer, he opened fire killing 29 including six boys under the age of 14,and wounded 125. 2 1/2 months after this massacre Hamas began placing bombs in buses by means of suicide bombers as well as in various places around Israel. This terrible act by Hamas was not an initiative but a reaction to what had been done by Baruch Goldstein.
The second man was a religious student of law. Who with rabbinical approval murdered Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

For those who do not know the facts, after the Six-Day War in 1967 a movement of messianic Jews became active. They saw the victory as a sign from God that he has given us all the land from the Jordan River to the Suez Canal. This messianic movement gave rise to her Jewish terrorist organisation which began in about 1982 attack and kill Palestinians. They too worked with rabbinical approval, and were finally captured by the Shin Bet shortly before they carried out their plan to blow up the mosques on the Temple Mount
3. Hypocracy
Ned Sadeh ,   Commack   (02.20.19)
Bravo for a factual and great article about the hypocracy that surrounds Congresswoman Omar and the silence of the Democratic Party towards anti-Semitism.
4. Retired
Alan ,   Tel-Aviv   (02.20.19)
Another hypocritical foul mouthed Muslim spewing her rant.
5. Omar is an Islamist
C   (02.20.19)
as an islamist, omar hates america and israel.

omar represents the the red-green alliance movements, the alliance
between marxists and islamists..
6. Omar and Tlaib...
manic drummer ,   Haifa   (02.20.19)
...are two of the top 5 reasons the Dems will lose in '20.
7. Send the terrorist back to Somalia where she belongs
Mark Sherry ,   Lewiston, Idaho   (02.20.19)
People like her have ruined America.
8. because she wears a hijab
jore ,   la   (02.21.19)
9. You let a piggy in your living room and complain about the
(02.21.19)
smell?!
10. This why Jews shouldn't " vote democrats?
Avram Goldsmith ,   Toronto -Kiriat Gat   (02.21.19)
11. American politics runs on corporate money and
Shachar ,   Eilat   (02.21.19)
rich lobbying groups. Everybody takes money and everybody accuses others of taking dirty money. ...that is how it's always been. All the kettles are black in the same measure. Omar is doing exactly what everyone does there...serve her donors.
12. Rescue Ilhan from the Active Measures Ideas
T54   (08.18.19)
In the old days, they were the useful idiots.

Now, it is better to describe it as victimhood of the Russian Active measures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_measures
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