From the Times, Lieberman says Israel is "family":
“Let’s cut the family fighting,” said Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, independent of Connecticut. “It’s unnecessary; it’s destructive of our shared national interest. It’s time to lower voices, to get over the family feud between the U.S. and Israel. It just doesn’t serve anybody’s interests but our enemies’.”
Did you see how McCain used the exact same “family spat” metaphor? Is this straight off an AIPAC talking point memo handed out to sympathetic congresspeople?
Ever since the 2008 presidential election campaign, it was publicly clear that McCain said whatever Lieberman told him to say.
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sort of like that racist cousin, who lives in a bad neighborhood, and has tons of firepower to defend him from the evil forces outside their kitchen window.
Lieberman/McCain lovefest for cousin Israel:
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I just love twenty-minute colloquies in “The World’s Most Deliberative Body™”! That the participants are Lieberman and McCain is double fudge frosting on the cake!
If Israel is family, it’s time to file for divorce.
There are members of my family that I don’t speak to or deal with because they’re nasty, vicious, toxic and harmful.
hmmm … let’s take this “family” analogy a little further:
The United States allowed Jews to emigrate here from the beginning of its existence and to live their lives in freedom … and once the U.S. Constitution was enshrined have no barriers to their worship or freedoms nor ability to participate in the political process.
So we as a nation took jews into our home. Fast forward a couple centuries and these guests we’ve invited in now controls much of the content on the tv and radio and sometimes monitors (but has the ability to always monitor) the phone and computer (Amdocs, Comvers), loots our wallet (Treasury) to send money to relatives overseas that stir up trouble with their neighbors over which then redirects hatred back to our house so that now we are not safe … they effectively put themselves into positions of power within our community to the point that they are vastly overrepresented in terms of their percentage of the population and pursue policies (which they often direct) which are in service to their “home” nation.
America as an idea is quite noble – in practice it lets dedicated radicals hijack its goodness, this case the subset of zionists among jews and Christo-fascist Rapturists
Well, maybe we should remedy the remedial affirmative action further by getting rid of sticks in the mud like Kucinich and Paul? Otherwise, Witty will still be plagued by nightmares of rabid redneck and ghetto anti-semites pouring out of his mailbox just when he feels he’s too old to hat out for Israel, too fond of his home?
Here’s Stephen Sniegoski’s (author The Transparent Cabal*) take:
“Biden Affair Undercuts Two-State Peace Charade
The Biden affair in Israel brings out an obvious fact that back and forth debates on Israel’s actual intent tend to obscure. In short, whether Israel intended to humiliate the US or not, it does intend to continue building homes in East Jerusalem. Moreover, the Obama administration is politically unable to make an effort to stop the new settlement construction, but does not want it to be so blatant. The Palestinians, however, will never except a “state” that does not include East Jerusalem.
As Israeli writer Uri Avnery points out: “That is clear to anyone who has dealings with this region. No peace without an independent Palestinian state, no Palestinian state without East Jerusalem. About this there is total unanimity among all Palestinians, from Fatah to Hamas, and between all Arabs, from Morocco to Iraq, and between all Muslims, from Nigeria to Iran.”
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Avnery goes on: “Quite simply: anyone building in East Jerusalem and the West Bank is announcing in advance that there is no chance for an agreement. After all, no sane Israeli would invest billions in a territory he intends to turn over to the Palestinian state.”
Obviously, Obama and his Middle East advisors know all this. The peace talks are thus nothing but a charade—providing an image that the Obama administration is working for a just peace in the Middle East. From the perspective of image, the Israeli announcement of increased settlement building during Biden’s visit was embarrassing. But the Israeli announcement did not change the reality. Settlement building is a reality that the Obama administration is not able to stop–which means that there will be no two state solution.”
* link to home.comcast.net