Justin Elliott reports at Salon:
Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has bought Facebook ads trying to, in effect, outflank from the right the Republican candidates on the issue of Israel.
The ad says:
Stand against "zeroing out" aid to Israel
Republican candidates for president Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Newt Gingrich all say they would cut foreign aid to Israel—and every other country—to zero. Stand up to this extreme isolationism and join the call to reject the Romney-Perry-Gingrich plan.
We have hundreds of recipients of foreign aid. Is this the only one that counts?
Whores to the left of us whores to the right here we are stuck in the muddle again.
When will our people wake up?
Facebook;where the vain meet.A dead zone of intellect.
It is a contest of Zionist idiots. But, I have faith Gingrich can win. After all I have already publicly stated on my blog that I think he is going to get the title of nuttiest Israel firster in the world ever. The competition, however, is becoming fierce.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Israeli Firster) total Pep (progessive except for Palestine) Syria, Iran..Pepsi maybe pushing the Dem party even further to the radical right on Israel
I just predicted it on this blog two days ago but I thought it would take a little longer than that to come true. But again, what disturbs me every election is that so many of my friends who understand the Palestine issue will put it aside and vote for a Zionist American sharmoot politician based on other platform issues. And I even have Palestinian friends who do this, Ya LaTiif!
We need to persistently communicate to these politicians that as long as they compete to see who can be the most extreme Zionist, we will vote for neither.
The Libertarian will get my vote, but if you aHbaab (Habibis) have problems with them at least vote Green or write in something.
I agree with you homingpigeon. Truth is, the only GOP candidate who has come and announced to the public generally that he would cut foreign aid across the board is Ron Paul. The other GOP candidates have not said this to the general public to my knowledge, although many within the halls of congress and to their focused base have said they would “start at zero [for all]” as to foreign aid; often adding Israel didn’t have to worry in effect.
Who can stick their tongue up Israel-AIPAC’s ass more? It’s disgusting to see America in the flesh these days.
I wish I could tele-port back to 2004 when I came out of the Democratic Convention saying, “wow, this guy [Obama] is the real deal – he could really take the democratic party in a new, more progressive direction” and punch myself square in the cajones for being such a moron….
Not to worry, he told us all in TV interview a couple of days ago that his job is not to fix things but to give us all a vision of what are country should be. Sorta the antidote to Bush who had trouble with “that vision thing.” Two sides of the same bad coin. Vote Ron Paul.
Strange that Ron Paul was left out. He wasn’t part of the ‘pledge’ yet has advocating cutting foreign aid forever. Anybody who still thinks Paul isn’t a contender has been reading too much MSM. If anything, the Obummer campaign is just using the same tactics those guys used on him. Either way, still evidence of bowing to the lobby’s will
They are all colluding to keep Ron Paul’s name from public consciousness – even when it helps their case.
Iowa will change that.
I sure hope so–at least the two party’s will have to deviate from the script a tad–the one that always dismisses Ron Paul as of no consequence. Even the mainstream media will have to deviate a tad from its identical script.
“We have hundreds of recipients of foreign aid. Is this the only one that counts?”
Apparently so.
I have not heard any other country mentioned in the context of cutting foreign aid–it’s like they don’t exist. Irony is Israel gets biggest chunk and economically does not need any foreign aid–it’s has a better credit rating than USA, yet USA underwrites Israeli debt. The more you look at the “special relationship” the more you realize Uncle Sam’s head is not even attached to his torso. It’s sitting in a jar on a shelf at in the AIPAC building preserved in ziojuice.
Why SHOULD WE continue our financial aid for Israel??
I do not see any reason for that.
So Israel can start us on track to WW3 by bombing Iran?
I will say that it seems unusual that a midwestern Lutheran girl back in the 1974s went to work on a kibbutz after graduating highschool
First, Lutherans are a traditional group and seem less likely to be C.Z.s in religious thought. Second, the mid-1970′s weren’t as big for C.Z. ideas as the ideas seem today. I went to an evangelical middle school for a little bit and there was practically nothing that sticks in my head as following this ideology. Third, the mid-west isn’t a very international place and yet here someone is going around the world for this. I mean, if her view was just to see the Holy Land, why not jsut do a normal visit like most people. Fourth, she did this in highschool, which is even more rare to go around the world to a place that had a big war the previous year.
“She considers herself an evangelical Christian. As an adult, she’s attended both a Lutheran church and a nondenominational Christian church.
Her faith led her to some interesting places. The summer after she finished high school, Michele went to Israel and worked on a kibbutz [Be'eri near Beer Sheva]. The trip was sponsored by Young Life, a Christian ministry. “I always had this love and appreciation for Israel because I was a Christian,” she said. “It’s the foundation of our faith. All of the Bible is about Israel.” She wanted to see the land for herself…
The experience has never left her mind. “If you consider what it was like in 1948,” she said, “and literally watch flowers bloom in a desert over time—I don’t know if any nation has paralleled the rise of Israel since 1948.” A member of Christians United for Israel, she’s one of Israel’s strongest supporters in Congress. One Jewish Minnesota Republican has told me of speeches at local Republican Jewish Coalition events where Bachmann has brought cheering audiences to their feet.”(link to bokertov.typepad.com
You might as well say that the dissident leader Jesus and his followers who became the Palestinian Christians are the foundation of the Christian faith, rather than the official religious community of Israel that they dissented from. Yes, God’s people the Israelites is a foundation of Christianity, but so are Jesus and his followers in the Holy Land, who Christianity also considers God’s people.
But anyway, the midwestern Lutheran’s 1974 highschool kibbutz work seems rare even by present-day evangelical standards.
How does this relate to the topic at hand in ANY way?
Bachmann is not on the list of the three candidates supposedly cutting aid to Israel. Yet each of them came off extremely pro-Israel in their speeches. So I doubt that they will really cut Israeli aid. It seems like this was just a fluke they made- saying they would cut Israeli aid- when in fact they won’t.
The fact that Bachmann is not on the list and the fact that she had this rare experience suggests that strangely she may be the most pro-Israeli-military of any of those mentioned. But admittedly it’s tough to beat Gingrich’s comment about Palestinians lacking a nationality (unlike I suppose the myriad peoples of Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, or Siberia)
It relates because Bachmann is a candidate too and has never to my knowledge once said or implied in any way she’d ever cut aid to Israel. I too found it odd that she went to live on a kibbutz right out of high school in the goy midwest. She’s a hard core conservative Republican yet a kibbutz is straight socialism. I think she thinks the bible says she should support Israel or she will go to hell and she’s aware where big Zionist cash dollar are and who they will go to. A practical religious fanatic. She worked as an IRS lawyer dog, yet now she blasts the IRS code. I think her head is like swiss cheese inside. Open her bread up and the holes are really big. She doesn’t understand herself, so keeps trying to fill the holes but her cheese just doesn’t go there.
RE: “We have hundreds of recipients of foreign aid. Is this [Israel] the only one that counts?” ~ Weiss
MY COMMENT: Apparently so, at least from the standpoint of domestic politics (especially during the year leading up to a presidential election).
Obama’s a monumental TWIT. What a lame strategy. Everyone knows Romney, Gingrich and Perry are in bed with Zionism. The spectacle of Republicans and Democrats clambering all over each other to grovel at Zionist feet is so disgusting I want to vomit.
Americans be damned, because this is really a contest over who loves Israel more, and who will bow furthest and humiliate himself the most for his Zionist master. The U.S. government is owned by a foreign country full of squatting Eastern bloc lunatics.
Thanks to Moon of Alabama “We were just testing it before giving it to Israel for Hanuka because we didn’t wanted them to get a bad drone.” for picking up this one line AP story.
Obama: US Has Asked Iran to Return Downed US Surveillance Drone
WASHINGTON December 12, 2011 (AP)
Obama: US has asked Iran to return downed US surveillance drone
link to abcnews.go.com
Remind me what the difference between the Democratic and Republican Parties are, as of today?
Foreign aid is taking money from poor people in country A and giving it to rich people in country B.
Israel is a failed state and as such deserves trillions…