Today, Mitt Romney released the following statement on the death of Benzion Netanyahu:
I extend my sincere condolences to the family of Benzion Netanyahu. Not only was he the father of my friend Benjamin, the Prime Minister of Israel, and the father of Israel’s hero of the Entebbe raid, Yonatan Netanyahu, he was also a distinguished historian and leader in his own right. This is a loss for all of Israel and for all who care about Israel.
Nothing up at the White House website yet.
ccching for Romney.
Obama team running “forward”
link to huffingtonpost.com
If Americans and the Obama administration look “backwards” and acknowledge the hundreds of thousands dead, injured, torture in our name, etc we may all turn into pillars of salt or something
Kathleen, was Kathleen taken on huffpo, or was it the other way round? Or is it just a coincidence?
(BTW like the comment)
link to huffingtonpost.com
yep
Takes a leader to know one.
A wet kiss for Sheldon
RE: “I extend my sincere condolences to the family of Benzion Netanyahu… This is a loss for all of Israel and for all who care about Israel.” ~ Mitt Romney
SEE – Bibi’s Father’s Answer to the ‘Arab Problem’: Hang’ Em in the Town Square, By Richard Silverstein, Tikun Olam, 4/04/09
ENTIRE ARTICLE – link to richardsilverstein.com
larry defner: The late Benzion Netanyahu’s appalling views on Arabs
link to 972mag.com
Interesting that he stereotypes Arabs as “the man from the desert”. For well over a thousand years the vast majority of Arabs have been farmers or city folk. Hardly any of them were Bedu. The average modern Arab doesn’t know one end of a camel from the other. (Which can have very unfortunate consequences.)
@ RoHa,
Never heard about ‘Breadbasket-On-Wheels’ from the desert or ‘Babylon Dessert’ from a much colder place op north?
No. What are they?
Excessive gloating and joy over someone death are the signs of anything but the liberalism and progressive mind. Should’ve just ignore it, but you couldn’t hold yourself, Phil? Ben Zion Netanyahu was one of the greatest Jewish leaders and scholars, building Israel and giving his country and Jewish people more than all of you combined here.
“Excessive gloating and joy over someone death are the signs of anything but the liberalism and progressive mind.”
Perhaps, but Benzion Natanyahu was a vile excuse for a human being and the world is a better place now that he is dead. There is nothing illiberal and non-progressive in recognizing evil such that this person was and being thankful that humanity is no longer subject to this evil.
Should we dance and sing because of the death? Perhaps, perhaps not.
But I do know that those Palestinian parents who won’t suffer the deaths of their children or have those children become orphans, because of the wicked ideas of this evil excuse for humanity (see, quotes, above), can hug them a bit tighter tonight knowing that this twisted bastard is dead.
Good riddance to worthless trash.
Even the obituary for Ben-Zion Netanyahu that the Washington Post printed in its paper edition this morning mentions one of the elder Netanyahu’s more notorious quotes:
It’s an AP piece by Aron Heller, but the neoconservative Washington Post ran it.
ouch…facts and proof of deep racism
Yuk!
That comment summarizes your entire essence, Annie.
It summarizes your entire essence, zio, that you can take issue about what anyone says regarding this evil troll.
I don’t think I’ll ever understand you, dimadok, but this comment seems very strange. Annie left a link to +972 in which there is a record of an interview of Benzion Netanyahu in which Derfner uses the word “appalling”. Here is one interchange from that interview.
Q: You don’t like the Arabs, to say the least.
A: The Bible finds no worse image than that of the man from the desert. And why? Because he has no respect for any law. Because in the desert he can do as he pleases. The tendency toward conflict is in the essence of the Arab. He is an enemy by essence. His personality won’t allow him any compromise or agreement. It doesn’t matter what kind of resistance he will meet, what price he will pay. His existence is one of perpetual war.
You don’t find that appalling? If you don’t I guess we know about your entire essence.
straightline, originally i left a little yelp i had crossed out w/html tags (the s/s) and dimadok immediately came along and lectured me so i removed it. that is what he is referencing. it was in poor taste.
Annie, you should have left it. Poor taste or not, let’s not kid ourselves and pretend that the world lost a good person — or even a half-decent human being — today.
what about those whom wandered the desert for 40 years, that were not arabs, or the fact that moses received the ten comandments from a hill top in saudi arabia, they did a roundabout. They also ate mena which fell from the sky & when thirsty a rock was split in two to provide a small lake for them to drink. Sounds like ET had a hand & not a god. But however the point is they wandered for forty years in the desert, beit by choice or not, that makes them the same, they are not nor have ever been “chosen” except for by mankind, in which a bias person with intent wrote the story which is only from the books that were included in the bible, not all the books why, it would probably show the truth. Today that truth can be seen in many forms
” they are not nor have ever been “chosen” except for by mankind” Jewish men chose themselves and said they talked to god. Aye yi yi
I’m angry that my tax dollars are used to keep Dick Cheney alive. I think his first heaqrt attack made him afraid of death. Those who accept death, their own and others as a condition of life, become more empathic. Those who fear death become either ineffectually neurotic or sociopathic. The latter is Cheney’s dark side.
So during WWII Benzion Netanyahu was touring the US to promote … Zionism.
And did not his son recently accuse the US of not helping Jews during WWII?
I pay no respect, in life or in death, to any man who changes his name to suit his colonial ambitions.
I bet’ Natanyahu’ senior’s last words were: Pass the bucket, son.