Elizabeth Warren attends AIPAC event where Lindsey Graham smears Arabs

We keep a close eye on Senator Elizabeth Warren because she has a very progressive base inside the Democratic Party, will maybe run for president, and has undertaken a balancing act on Israel: supporting Israel’s “right” to shell schools and hospitals during the Gaza onslaught last summer, for instance, but also not signing on to hawkish Senate provisions re Iran, the Palestinian statehood initiative, and Hamas. Oh and she visited Israel last fall and met with the rightwing prime minister of that country.

The other night she was at a dinner for leading Israel lobby group AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, in Boston, at which keynote speaker Sen. Lindsey Graham said that “Everything that starts with ‘Al’ in the Middle East is bad news.” As someone pointed out to Graham later, Al means “the” in Arabic…

Uri Blau the renegade Israeli journalist broke the story:

[Graham said,] “Al Qaeda, Al Nusra, Al Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula… Everything that starts with ‘Al’ in the Middle East is bad news”…

Attending the dinner were Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, Governor Charlie Baker, and Israeli Consul General for New England Yehuda Yaakov, who posted pictures and comments about the event, according to the report.

It has been picked up in Haaretz but not the New York Times or Boston Globe. Why do we have to read about the doings of the Israel lobby in the Israeli press, not the American media?

I’ve called Senator Warren’s office for comment.

Thanks to Peter Feld.

 

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It’s intolerable~ there’s no daylight between any of them.

From your link:

“Warren, in defending her vote to send funds to Israel in the middle of its war with Hamas, said she thinks civilian casualties are the “last thing Israel wants.”

“But when Hamas puts its rocket launchers next to hospitals, next to schools, they’re using their civilian population to protect their military assets. And I believe Israel has a right, at that point, to defend itself,” she said.”

How does she feel now that the BTS report is out in all of its ugliness? Well, we know. She goes to pay her respect to Israel via AIPAC. She’s worse than PEP at this point.

I’m still holding out for Jim Webb.

Lindsay Graham is considering getting aboard the Republican clown car for 2016.

Graham and McCain keep reminding me of the 1958 record Witch Doctor, Graham as Alvin(hoof in mouth), McGoo as Theodore(chubby impressionable goof ball) and now Warrren fills the Simon (tall intellectual) character. “Oo-ee, oo-ah-ah, ting-tang, walla-walla, bing-bang”.

Is it just “the” that he has a problem with? Or all definite articles?
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/lindsey-grahams-unfortunate-beef-the-word-the

Somehow this fits this topic:

“How Jewish Orthodox money is reshaping Republican politics

Republicans beginning to aim for new breed of Orthodox Jews, who are angry at Democrats’ policy toward Israel.

Democratic and Republican presidential candidates have long appreciated the importance of tapping into the pool of Jewish donors, who are among the most generous political contributors in the nation.

But until recently, Orthodox Jews have been an elusive target.

Like their Democratic counterparts, Republican candidates chose to go after more secular — albeit more conservative — Jewish donors, many of whom were hawkish on Israel; a demographic embodied in the old-line Republican Jewish Coalition, founded in 1985.

But now, Republican hopefuls from the right end of their party’s spectrum are beginning to discover the potential of a separate new breed of Orthodox Jews — wealthy enough to make significant donations, secure enough to pronounce their conservative social preferences and fueled by their anger at the Democratic administration’s policy toward Israel.

The emergence of these new donors has moved libertarian-leaning candidate Rand Paul to take interest in the Talmud studies of yeshiva students; it has motivated Ted Cruz to read up on the weekly Torah portion, and it has sent Jeb Bush to a Modern Orthodox high school to celebrate Israel’s independence day. Outreach to the Orthodox community is no longer a novel idea in the Republican camp — it has become a must.

Tevi Troy, a former official in the administration of George W. Bush and a leading voice among Orthodox Republicans, described the dual attraction Orthodox donors have, especially to candidates on the right end of the Republicans’ already conservative spectrum: “Orthodox Jews like the story Republicans have to tell on Israel,” he said, “and at the same time they’re not frightened by the Republicans’ social agenda.”

Described by some as “Modern ultra-Orthodox,” these potential new donors and activists are, according to a longtime Orthodox political operative, typically “very successful in business, very prosperous, with a yeshiva background and deeply involved in public life.”

It’s a description that fits Richard “Kasriel” Roberts perfectly. Roberts, who is now viewed as the biggest Orthodox name in Republican political giving, lives in an ultra-Orthodox enclave of yeshivas and synagogues in Lakewood, New Jersey. In the previous presidential election cycle, he gave $750,000 to the pro-Romney super political action committee Restore Our Future and $1 million to Treasure Coast Jobs Coalition, another Republican Super PAC. His total political giving in the 2012 elections exceeded $2 million.”………

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-features/1.655307?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Can someone please explain what has anybody’s knickers in a twist, and why anyone that is an Orthodox Jew is “angry at Democrats’ policy toward Israel.”? I see the same old obeisance.

I guess Senator Graham thinks algebra (from the Arabic “al-jabr”) shouldn’t be taught in schools.