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Netanyahu wants billions more US aid after his advisor calls Pres a Jew hater[W:152]

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JERUSALEM — Just a few days before he heads to Washington to try to mend fences with the White House and secure billions of dollars in U.S. military aid, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appointed a new chief of public diplomacy who called President Obama a modern-day anti-Semite and wrote that Secretary of State John F. Kerry has the intellectual acuity of a 12-year-old.

Netanyahu’s new top media adviser called Obama an anti-Semite - The Washington Post

Fortunately, there are enough conservatives in the US who believe it's the duty of American taxpayers to keep funding Israel even if Israel's govt. officials insult us and/or our leaders :)
 
Re: Netanyahu wants billions more in US aid after his advisor calls Pres a Jew hater

As a Jew, I don't see the point in handing billions to Israel. They're more than capable of taking care of themselves. It's time to cut the umbilical chord.
 
Re: Netanyahu wants billions more in US aid after his advisor calls Pres a Jew hater

If any country wants our protection, they need to pay us. American money belongs in America.
 
Re: Netanyahu wants billions more in US aid after his advisor calls Pres a Jew hater

Fortunately, there are enough conservatives in the US who believe it's the duty of American taxpayers to keep funding Israel even if Israel's govt. officials insult us and/or our leaders :)

What did he say to insult us?
 
Re: Netanyahu wants billions more in US aid after his advisor calls Pres a Jew hater

Obama has done more good for Israel than any US president. In return, he's accused of marching Jews into the oven.
 
Re: Netanyahu wants billions more in US aid after his advisor calls Pres a Jew hater

If any country wants our protection, they need to pay us. American money belongs in America.

There is a certain logic to that. We might want to remember that there are different currencies that payments can be made in.
 
Re: Netanyahu wants billions more in US aid after his advisor calls Pres a Jew hater

Obama has done more good for Israel than any US president. In return, he's accused of marching Jews into the oven.

What good were you thinking of?
 
Re: Netanyahu wants billions more in US aid after his advisor calls Pres a Jew hater

What good were you thinking of?

The Iron Dome, for one, which has saved Israeli lives.
 
Re: Netanyahu wants billions more in US aid after his advisor calls Pres a Jew hater

The Iron Dome, for one, which has saved Israeli lives.

Fair point.
 
Re: Netanyahu wants billions more in US aid after his advisor calls Pres a Jew hater

If any country wants our protection, they need to pay us. American money belongs in America.

I'm of a different mind. I think Israel is in a tough spot, geographically, but if they want financial and military aid they should work with the US to resolve the occupation, stop and/or remove ALL settlement activity, and to de-escalate any future conflicts with the Palestinians. They have the Iron Dome, they are in the infinitely stronger position. There's no need to burn Gaza to the ground every 5-10 years.
 
Re: Netanyahu wants billions more in US aid after his advisor calls Pres a Jew hater

Fortunately, there are enough conservatives in the US who believe it's the duty of American taxpayers to keep funding Israel even if Israel's govt. officials insult us and/or our leaders :)


Has anyone every told you why the conservative evangelicals are so hot on funding Israel?
 
Re: Netanyahu wants billions more in US aid after his advisor calls Pres a Jew hater

I'm of a different mind. I think Israel is in a tough spot, geographically, but if they want financial and military aid they should work with the US to resolve the occupation, stop and/or remove ALL settlement activity, and to de-escalate any future conflicts with the Palestinians. They have the Iron Dome, they are in the infinitely stronger position. There's no need to burn Gaza to the ground every 5-10 years.

Like some sort of final solution?
 
Re: Netanyahu wants billions more in US aid after his advisor calls Pres a Jew hater

Like some sort of final solution?

There needs to be something. Many Palestinians at this point just want voting rights (a One State Solution).
 
Re: Netanyahu wants billions more in US aid after his advisor calls Pres a Jew hater

There needs to be something. Many Palestinians at this point just want voting rights (a One State Solution).

And a large number of the rest including those who the palestinians elected as leaders want not only their own state but the extermination of the Jewish state
 
Re: Netanyahu wants billions more in US aid after his advisor calls Pres a Jew hater

As a Jew, I don't see the point in handing billions to Israel. They're more than capable of taking care of themselves. It's time to cut the umbilical chord.

As a Jew?

But how about the sort of person you actually are, instead?
 
Re: Netanyahu wants billions more in US aid after his advisor calls Pres a Jew hater

And a large number of the rest including those who the palestinians elected as leaders want not only their own state but the extermination of the Jewish state

You put a large group of people in a desperate situation for decades, with no end in sight, this is what happens. I don't excuse it, but lets not kid ourselves. Nothing happens in a vacuum.
 
Re: Netanyahu wants billions more in US aid after his advisor calls Pres a Jew hater

Fortunately, there are enough conservatives in the US who believe it's the duty of American taxpayers to keep funding Israel even if Israel's govt. officials insult us and/or our leaders :)

I don't see why Israel should be punished for telling the truth about Obama and Kerry. In fact, they might deserve a raise.
 
Re: Netanyahu wants billions more in US aid after his advisor calls Pres a Jew hater

Fortunately, there are enough conservatives


You are suffering under the impression that it is a liberal quality to hate Israel because it is the one tiny little state that represents the self determination of the Jewish people.

It isn't. It is simply the quality of a small, resentful person unhappy with their life and looking to blame a small minority for their issues.
 
Re: Netanyahu wants billions more in US aid after his advisor calls Pres a Jew hater

You put a large group of people in a desperate situation for decades, with no end in sight, this is what happens. I don't excuse it, but lets not kid ourselves. Nothing happens in a vacuum.

You say you do not excuse it, but then turn around and do exactly that my intimating they deserve the genocidal antisemitism directed against them.
 
Re: Netanyahu wants billions more in US aid after his advisor calls Pres a Jew hater

I am NOT a Jew. But I have always been, and still am a HUGE supporter of Israel. They are in a very tough situation.

But I got to admit, Bibi and his BS and scare tactics are wearing thin.
 
Re: Netanyahu wants billions more in US aid after his advisor calls Pres a Jew hater

You say you do not excuse it, but then turn around and do exactly that my intimating they deserve the genocidal antisemitism directed against them.

No, I didn't say that at all. Not even close.
 
Re: Netanyahu wants billions more in US aid after his advisor calls Pres a Jew hater

No, I didn't say that at all. Not even close.

You sure did.

You have the fine art of talking out of both sides of your mouth down pat.
 
Re: Netanyahu wants billions more in US aid after his advisor calls Pres a Jew hater

You put a large group of people in a desperate situation for decades, with no end in sight, this is what happens. I don't excuse it, but lets not kid ourselves. Nothing happens in a vacuum.

What about an oven?
 
Re: Netanyahu wants billions more in US aid after his advisor calls Pres a Jew hater

You sure did.

Quote me word for word then, without editorializing.
 
Re: Netanyahu wants billions more in US aid after his advisor calls Pres a Jew hater

What about an oven?

What about stupid Nazi comparisons?? Perhaps if conservatives would quit the obscene Nazi comparisons, they might actually stand a chance of winning more than 15% of the Jewish vote one day.
 
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