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Mosby

(16,299 posts)
Sun Feb 16, 2014, 03:00 PM Feb 2014

Man Hoping To Rid Palestine of Jews Calls Israel ‘Racist’

Munich, Germany, February 6 - The chief Palestinian negotiator in talks with Israel has asked the world to “punish” the Jewish state for its racism, as he pursues the formation of a state next door in which Jews will not be allowed to remain.

Saeb Erekat laid into his Israeli counterpart Tzipi Livni, characterizing the government she represents as a “racist regime” whose intransigence has condemned the current round of negotiations to yet another failure to produce even a modest framework agreement, vowing that he and his compatriots would never change anything about their demands.

“I told her in front of the whole world that we will not change our history, our religion or our civilization. We are the lawful sons of Palestine; we will not accept Israel as a Jewish state,” Erekat said, according to the Ma’an news agency. He insisted that the world apply pressure to Israel so that the latter would abandon its claim of attachment to the same parcel of land, its religious connection, and the millennia of documented Jewish civilization there.

http://www.preoccupiedterritory.com/man-hoping-to-rid-palestine-of-jews-calls-israel-racist/

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Man Hoping To Rid Palestine of Jews Calls Israel ‘Racist’ (Original Post) Mosby Feb 2014 OP
Oldest Star Discovered; Palestinians: We Were There First Mosby Feb 2014 #1
I was going to respond... Scootaloo Feb 2014 #2
but wait there's more:We Won’t Throw Israel Under The Bus Till We Get A Bigger Bus azurnoir Feb 2014 #3
That one's stupid. Mosby Feb 2014 #4
yes we see what your idea of humor is very first post on the thread azurnoir Feb 2014 #5

Mosby

(16,299 posts)
1. Oldest Star Discovered; Palestinians: We Were There First
Sun Feb 16, 2014, 03:01 PM
Feb 2014

Canberra, Australia, February 11 – Astronomers in Australia have discovered what they say is the oldest star known so far, prompting Palestinian officials to claim their ancestors inhabited that star long before any Jews came along.

Scientists mapping the southern sky identified SMSS J031300.36-670839.3, as the oldest observed star so far, based on its spectrum of color, which indicated only a tiny presence of iron. The quantity of iron in the universe increases over time as more and more stars produce it when they exhaust their hydrogen. SMSS J031300.36-670839.3 has only trace amounts of the element, indicating its senior status. Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat asserted yesterday that his family moved to SMSS J031300.36-670839.3 eons ago. SMSS J031300.36-670839.3 is located about 6,000 light years away in the Milky Way, the same galaxy as Earth.

“My family was on SMSS J031300.36-670839.3 literally billions of years before there was any such thing as a Zionist, let alone a Jew,” Erekat told reporters in Ramallah. “We called it, uh… we called it ‘Abu Smassa’. Yeah.”

http://www.preoccupiedterritory.com/oldest-star-discovered-palestinians-we-were-there-first/

 

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
2. I was going to respond...
Sun Feb 16, 2014, 03:11 PM
Feb 2014

Then I noticed the interview with the Swedish Chef and the article lamenting that failure to reach gold in the Olympics is a setback for israel's legitimacy.

And the Knesset Inappropriations Bill! That's some humor.

azurnoir

(45,850 posts)
3. but wait there's more:We Won’t Throw Israel Under The Bus Till We Get A Bigger Bus
Sun Feb 16, 2014, 05:07 PM
Feb 2014

By Barack Obama

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: we have your back, Israel. If you ever want to see it again, do as I say. There’s been all sorts of talk of my administration throwing Israel under the the bus. Well, that’s just nonsense. At least until we get a bigger bus.

We’re right behind Israel all the way. That’s the best place to stand when Islamists and assorted other terrorists – we’ll call them “militants,” because who are we to judge, really? – start attacking. And the position offers the best leverage for when we do eventually get that bigger bus, and the pushing has to begin.

Don’t think for a minute we’re not hard at work driving toward a solution to the generations-old Arab-Israeli conflict. We’re all for negotiations; after all, getting Israel to voluntarily destroy itself, or at least abandon its very raison d’etre, is much easier than forcing them to do it. That’s why my man John Kerry is tirelessly shuttling back and forth. He’s on his what, eleventh visit since taking office? The Secretary of State is the one driving the bus; it’s much easier for him if Israel doesn’t start moving around when I chuck her under.

It would be both wrong and counterproductive to come down hard on Israel right now, despite what my fan club at The New York Times thinks. Counterproductive, because it would doom the next Democratic Presidential candidate; wrong, because our insurance policy on the bus doesn’t cover this. It was all part of the Affordable Health Care Act, but something must have gone wrong in the implementation. I left that part to the bureaucrats, so I don’t really know the details.

In any case, Israel can rest assured for the moment that I won’t do anything to compromise their interests. That includes talking tough on Iran, praising the merits of democracy, and ignoring the fact that the man with whom I want them to sign a treaty, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, is holding office illegally and has no constitutionally valid claim to represent his constituents. We’re all about democracy. And consistency.

http://www.preoccupiedterritory.com/we-wont-throw-israel-under-the-bus-till-we-get-a-bigger-bus/

azurnoir

(45,850 posts)
5. yes we see what your idea of humor is very first post on the thread
Sun Feb 16, 2014, 05:39 PM
Feb 2014

in fact the whole blog speaks volumes about a certain type of humor

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