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In reply to the discussion: Netanyahu to US "Don't ever second guess me on Hamas again" [View all]Iamthetruth
(487 posts)262. Can you show me another group
That has been the target so many times for so many years?
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I Will Do You The Courtesy, Sir, of Pretending You Actually Did Misunderstand My Words
The Magistrate
Aug 2014
#73
I’m a Jew and just posted this on another thread. Have had a few negative replies claiming that
busterbrown
Aug 2014
#121
I know a great deal about it, have been watching and studying it for 50 years......so....
Alameda
Aug 2014
#170
You Would Do Well To Write This Effort Off as A Failure, Sir, And Move On To Other Lines
The Magistrate
Aug 2014
#161
Your Problem, Sir, Is That You are Speaking To a Man With An Excellent Command Of English
The Magistrate
Aug 2014
#267
Withe recent editorial pulled that rationalized justifiable genocide on Palestinians...
cascadiance
Aug 2014
#166
I think so, though I'm not sure how relevant that is to your argument, given present circumstances.
whathehell
Aug 2014
#274
You confused the hell out of me until I figured out this sentence is missing a negative--
Jackpine Radical
Aug 2014
#79
So what you are advocating is that we remain silent on wrong doing, for the worst of
sabrina 1
Aug 2014
#41
I trust you do realize that if critics of the state of Israel were to say what you have just
Douglas Carpenter
Aug 2014
#61
Iamthetruth cleary believes that a cabal of rich Jews will break the Democratic Party if
Douglas Carpenter
Aug 2014
#227
Are you saying that support of Israel is necessary in order to get campaign money from American Jews
tularetom
Aug 2014
#64
Exactly. He is not very good at winning hearts and minds to say the least. That is OUR president he
jwirr
Aug 2014
#230
Israel denies the existence of nuclear weapons, and refuses inspection, refuses to sign agreements
2banon
Aug 2014
#191
Other countries leaders might not care if we live or die, but they care if they do
yurbud
Aug 2014
#260
Yes, that is the question that needs to be answered. If any other head of state were
sabrina 1
Aug 2014
#178
the evangelicals on the right will support him no matter what and the left has no balls
dembotoz
Aug 2014
#76
The left has balls, but the ELECTED "left" is corrupt. Lots of the aid goes to big business. nt
stillwaiting
Aug 2014
#118
in the past, they have apparently threatened to take down the west if they don't get their way
magical thyme
Aug 2014
#117
I haven't been able to find the original article I saw, but here is another one
magical thyme
Aug 2014
#144
A week or so a go, DU was informed that Israel receives funding from the EU as well
2banon
Aug 2014
#186
No, it's not a puppet thing. Here's a quick analogy that struck me about the US/Israel relationship.
Violet_Crumble
Aug 2014
#155
Keep in mind the massive influx of Jews from former SSRs to Israel since 1989.
BlueMTexpat
Aug 2014
#43
The US did rally around Bush. You and I may not have, but the rest of the country did
Patiod
Aug 2014
#211
Obama to Netanyahu.. fuck off asshole, I do what I need to do, get a job and support your own wars.
Autumn
Aug 2014
#10
Dream on, but instead Obama will sign that $225 military aid bill to Israel that
totodeinhere
Aug 2014
#182
Yes, he does, he comes to the US to lobby for that money and does it on a regular...
Spazito
Aug 2014
#35
President Obama doesn't care for Netanyahu, you are conflating his tense relationship with...
Spazito
Aug 2014
#49
I don't buy into 'you have to be Jewish to understand' at all, ties to one's country no matter...
Spazito
Aug 2014
#60
they must be geniuses at using their own people since the Israelis kill so many of them
yurbud
Aug 2014
#23
I was 5 and 12 then. Also, does the fact that others killed Palestinians make it justifiable now?
yurbud
Aug 2014
#115
And, Bibi generously commits war crimes to give Hamas good PR. Right?
Tierra_y_Libertad
Aug 2014
#34
And Obama was elected by the American people, not the Israeli people. So what is your
sabrina 1
Aug 2014
#51
Let the Israeli people, who elected Netanyahu, pay for his massacres. Not us.
Comrade Grumpy
Aug 2014
#90
he admitted Israel was not under threat when Planes were suspended from landing there
JI7
Aug 2014
#143
It can only happen when leaders of major Jewish organizations give the government cover
yurbud
Aug 2014
#89
that sounds like an excuse not a reason. Elsewhere, Americans can be raped and killed
yurbud
Aug 2014
#94
I don't believe he is. He's head of a small country in a volatile region that has
TwilightGardener
Aug 2014
#28
His brother was killed rescuing the Entebbe passengers in Uganda. Care to guess the perpetrators?
WinkyDink
Aug 2014
#71
there's a whole mess of wrong to spread among both sides of this conflict. it's hardly one-sided
unblock
Aug 2014
#33
"Blaming Netanyahu for his choice of words is a very petty thing to compalin" about
whathehell
Aug 2014
#116
i have no loyalty at all to netanyahu. i'm not a fan of the right-wing either here or there.
unblock
Aug 2014
#149
Who needs to second guess? See hospitals, schools, Mosques, for evidence of what he'll do.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Aug 2014
#103
Make that 3.5 billion, we give money to Palestine too, but theirs cannot be spent militarily. nt
mother earth
Aug 2014
#136
Nothing fair at all about aiding and abetting death and destruction. Isn't or shouldn't peace
mother earth
Aug 2014
#234
Unbelievable disrespect for not only our President but our nation. The disrespect to our President
kelliekat44
Aug 2014
#179
Congress wouldn't allow it. It is true we give Billions to Israel annually, BUT
NorthCarolina
Aug 2014
#228
Israel's problem with the Palestinians has been going on long before Hamas even existed
Galraedia
Aug 2014
#226