Israel’s UN amb. called for annexing West Bank, tries to delete evidence

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

http://mondoweiss.net/2015/09/israels-annexing-evidence

Danny Danon, Israel’s new ambassador to the United Nations, has been described by Israeli Labor Party lawmaker Erel Margalit as “a right-wing extremist with the diplomatic sensitivity of a pit bull.” Ambassador Danon boasted on his official Facebook page on April 27, 2011 that he was proposing legislation that would have the Israeli government “annex the West Bank and repeal the Oslo Accords.” The Facebook post was deleted sometime on or after August 28, 2015—after Netanyahu had appointed him Israel’s ambassador to the UN—and the link is now dead. The page, however, can still be seen via an archived Google cache.

The original Facebook status read:

I am preparing a bill to annex the West Bank and repeal the Oslo Accords in order to convince the EU to stop a UN vote on Palestinian Statehood. I am also going to suggest to extend our sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and over the highly populated blocs we have in Judea and Samaria, just to start with.

Right-wing Zionists often use the phrase “Judea and Samaria” to refer to the occupied West Bank.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

1. Another right wing religious assh*le...

Ambassador Danon known for constantly trying to outflank Netanyahu on his right. The New Republic described him as a politician who is “doing everything he can to push his party—and his country—to the right.”

Danon is no stranger to extreme views. In his 2012 book Israel: The Will to Prevail, he repeatedly claims that God gave the land of historic Palestine to the Jewish people as an “everlasting possession.” In Danon’s view, Israel is blessed by God, whereas the US, Israel’s closest ally, is forsaken.

[oberliner]

2. An article about a Google cache of a deleted Facebook post from 4 years ago

That's Mondoweiss for you.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

3. Another dreary, half-hearted attempt to explain away zionism co-opted by right wing Israelis.

When you can't refute the story, attack the messenger.


Right, ober?

[oberliner]

4. There is no story

The article is about a deleted Facebook post from four years ago.

Mondoweiss is garbage.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

5. Did you bother to read the cached facebook post, ober, or did you fall all over yourself

in an attempt to cry "garbage!"

The funny thing is that you can't erase what that asshole wrote, and regardless if it was 4 hours or four years ago it would appear that he is still an asshole right winger: co-opting zionism while others defend it by looking the other way.

Now, I know it's not a quivering heap of parrot droppings in the form of opinion pieces, where we can cry about those evil meanies in the BDS movement, but it appears to be The truth, ober, that this Danny Danon is a fucking right wing asshole that wants to annex what is not legally Israels.

Strange how you want to defend it by pretending that it is irrelevant.




I'm not sure that Bernie would approve.


On edit: this is no different than running interference for right wing assholes in the USA.

How do you explain yourself?

[oberliner]

6. Mondoweiss is garbage

Legitimate news sources have already covered this topic extensively.

Even RW sources like Times of Israel are disgusted:

Danny Danon, dismally, is the true face of Netanyahu’s Israel

Op-Ed: It is hard to conceive of a more short-sighted, shameful and damaging appointment than that of the Likud hawk as UN envoy. Not just for the PM, but for all of Israel

http://www.timesofisrael.com/danny-danon-dismally-is-the-true-face-of-netanyahus-israel/

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

7. Guess what? It was covered once more: seeing how Danny-boy is now the face of Israel at the UN.

Danon is the face of corrupt, expansionist apartheid, and Israel using zionism in this way is beyond shameful.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

9. When you're not kvetching about Mondoweiss, it is 972mag, or Ma'an, or Mid East Monitor...etc.

Gee, I'm really sorry, but I'm not about to become a hapless drone and post OPs about Israeli beauty queens or MEMRI propaganda to make some feel comfortable in their Likrud induced coma.

[King_David]

14. Yep

[geek tragedy]

8. And he'll turn around and cry anti-semitism when people ACCURATELY

note that he is explicitly and unambiguously in favor of apartheid.

But, that's Israel for you.

They voted for this.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

10. And they voted for every other scoundrel party that makes up the right wing coalition.

If left unchecked, the term zionism will be synonymous with these assholes: power-hungry, corrupt, ethnic cleansers, 2-law system, colonizing, land thefting practitioners of apartheid.

[geek tragedy]

12. Eh, Zionism is an anachronism that has already self-destructed.

Religious/ethnic nationalism always turns into something tyrannical.

There was a time when the notion made sense. But they blew it, and it can't be redeemed. They chose settlements over benevolent Zionism.

[TubbersUK]

11. He's despicable

What do you think he's advocating here , in this quote from the TOI article? Ethnic cleansing?

While international consensus speaks of Israel retaining the major Jewish settlement blocs in the West Bank, and the rest going to a future Palestinian state, Danon hopes to “gain sovereignty over the majority of the land” in the West Bank, “with the minimum number of Palestinians,” he said.

[geek tragedy]

13. What we did to indigenous Americans-reservations/Bantustans/open air concentration

camps.

[oberliner]

15. Wow - concentration camps?

That's classy.

[geek tragedy]

16. first used by the Brits in the Boer wars.

As a means by which the colonialist power sought to pacify the local population.

FDR used them too.

But, we can agree to use the term "Bantustans" if you prefer, even though Danon's thetoric verges on advocating genocide.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

17. Crickets...