Comments on: Is Obama going wobbly on settlements?

By: Senhal

Senhal — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:16:26 +0000

I once visited Ariel's website, in particular its pages aimed at prospective American olim… Just sickening. It left me with very little sympathy for any of the arguments made in favour of the settlers, to put it mildly.

By: dalybean

dalybean — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:50:19 +0000

I hope everyone considers joining the boycott on The Washington Post in protest of their firing of Froomkin, including citing to it, clicking through to it or linking to it. The particular article in this piece was from Reuters anyway. And I would bet any amount of money that they fired Froomkin for writing things about Israel and the Middle East that were not acceptable to the neocons running the Post. This is probably why we see their new hire Ezra Klein getting a little neocon-like in his writing about Iran.

By: American

American — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:31:24 +0000

Time will tell won't it? If Obama does back down on the settlements he will totally blow all his creds with everyone…the Arabs and the Europeans who backed him on this as well. I think Ross was moved because Iran objected to him…won't talk to him….so BO moved him to where he's not likely to be talking directly to any one the WH doesn't give him leave to and he won't be making statements in contridiction to the WH and State Dept.. I don't view it as a promotion, more like give him a title to not entirely slap the zios in the face and putting him in a better padded play pen.

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:59:37 +0000

Of course, I recognize that not all Jews in America and Israel are so wickedly self-serving, but the ones who are not certainly aren't members of any staunch Jewish Zionist caucus that routinely votes Israel billions and has historically granted it free rein to rape, plunder and murder at will. If Obama weren't taking the lead, for example, I doubt any of the Jewish Zionist caucus in Congress would ever have changed their blank check policies to Israel of their own conscience or volition. Like most successful US politicians at the national level, I think they are all conspicuously lacking in conscience.

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:58:32 +0000

In general, I think the Jewish Zionist caucus is comprised of phonies, liars and hypocrites who will massage, finesse and spin whatever situation or course of events with which they are confronted in order to hold onto the maximum amount of power possible while simultaneously giving up as little ground as possible, just like their Jewish Zionist “peeps” in Israel. I don't think what is "right" or "best" for the American collective vis-à-vis Israel ever even enters in to their calculations any more than what is "right" or "best" for Palestinians enters into the calculations of staunch Jewish Zionists in Israel. The question is, "How much can more can we get away with?" [con't]

By: tommy

tommy — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:22:55 +0000

Tell the president you support the dismantling of the settlements and the prosecution of the Americans who inhabit them. Tell the president to suspend all aid to Israel until the dismantling of the settlements is complete.

By: hnorr

hnorr — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:21:34 +0000

> "settlement blocs" … are areas near the '67 borders, that Israel assumes it will incorporate > in any future peace agreement with the Palestinians. In Israeli usage, the settlement blocs include both Ma'ale Adumim and Ariel, neither of which is near the 1967 borders (except in the sense that all of the occupied Palestinian territories are more or less near the Green Line). In fact, both Ma'ale Adumim and Ariel, with their surrounding "buffer zones," roads, walls, and such, cut deeply into the West Bank, about halfway to the Jordan. Considering that the Israelis also want to keep their Jordan Valley settlements and military zones, they're talking about breaking up the West Bank into bantustans even if they pull out of the non-"bloc" settlements (and there's no indication they're prepared even to do that). None of this is to say that Israel has any right to the settlements that are closer to the border, either…

By: Sand

Sand — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:55:43 +0000

You seem in a v. positive mood this morning. You think the Jewish Caucus were giving Lieberman a head smack then?

By: Ira

Ira — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:46:35 +0000

Here is the correct link. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. " target="_blank">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti...

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:34:16 +0000

I don't have much faith in Obama, either. It's a sad state of affairs when Obama's words in Egypt are taken as a stand for American taxpayers and victims of Israel, or against Israel and Zionist subversion. Barack Obama is no Krisztina Morvai! " target="_blank">http://www.jobbik.com/?p=351 " target="_blank">http://www.politics.hu/20090605/outrage-over-obsc...