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People who aren't stealing other people's homes are a lot less likely to be hit by rocks.
It's all easy when you're the one with all the guns.
The IDF also wears facemasks when they sally forth to commit war crimes, to conceal their identities from any possible international criminal court that may one day call them to account. As no Israeli court ever will.
How can you call someone an antisemite "without malice?"
I sure hope this Hector fellow gets hung high to dry.
Now we'll hear all about the "constant rocket attacks for no reason whatsoever."
Not just undisciplined and badly trained. The IDF is run by a political establishment that pisses its pants at the thought that one of the "boys" might be killed or, God forbid, taken prisoner, and thus operates on such permissive rules of engagement that during Massacre Cast Lead, almost half their deaths came from their own indiscriminate fire.
In short, the IDF is a pack of cowards afraid to face enemy fire, and whose commanders do everything possible to keep them out of harm's way.
When the Saudis come to town and don't want to be served by Jews, what happens?
And Israelis tell him, "Stay home!"
Israelis have a lot of practice at spotting slimeball politicians. They have enough of their own, they don't want ours.
That's the entire point, Mazella. Katsav has no support in Israel and most Israelis think he deserves to go to jail. So what's with Bronner?
Your digression is relevant. How do you think Iranians will react after their cities are bombed by the Great Satan? Even Iranian Jews will rush to arms, and unlike the current generations of Israelis and Americans, they know what war means.
You've taken a poll, eee? I doubt it. Because any poll would reveal that 6 million Jews of Israel don't think alike on any subject.
You are going to find yourself outside it, too, eee. How miserable you will be out there on the street with the door locked, while the real Jews spit on you as they go inside.
I would have to agree with you, American. These are dark days.
Ackerman is an AIPAC tool - one of many in Congress.
Attacks on JEWS?
It was attacks on Muslims that proliferated after 9/11.
Hey, I had one of those in the 1970s! Loved that car!
It's positive in a way, as it shows that pressure actually can be successfully brought against Israel - on some matters. If only more pressure could be applied.
I hope Germany will at least get PAID for the sub. If Germany goes bankrupt, we'll have a lot more to worry about.
Maybe Arabs should start paying $billions in subsidies to Israel.
Here he goes again, hijacking another thread out of jealousy that someone else was chosen to be on the masthead here, and not himself.
If you've seen the Woody Allen film "Radio Days", you should recall the scene where the young narrator and the other Jewish kids run around the streets with the boxes, soliciting money for Palestine. And later he steals the money out of the box to buy a secret decoder ring.
Never underestimate the spinelessness of the slime mold in the White House.
Netanyahu has already made more concessions to foreign pressure than Lieberman likes. The US govt has already officially condemned the legislation. This may be the showdown.
The 2 was never my idea.
The "ests" are redundant. "Dum vita spes" is sufficient, and better Latin.
I would like to think it is to mobilize the African American community against the KKK with six-pointed stars.
US Jews should be more exposed to the really vile things that Israelis say about Yoffie, and by extension about all Reform Jews.
Krauss, I entirely agree.
I'm not sure everyone realizes what a game-changer Hillary's remarks are, especially if she doesn't recant. No one respects Abe Foxman. A LOT of Jewish feminists respect Hillary. They're going to listen. They're going to listen to her when they wouldn't listen to the likes of Mondoweiss.
And this is why I don't get bent because she doesn't mention the Palestinians. The American Jewish population isn't going to be moved by sympathy with the Palestinians. It's going to be moved by the backlash against what Israel is becoming, which is a thing that doesn't recognize them as fellow Jews.
Hillary has always been Saban's girl, and it's Haim she'll listen to, not talkbackers on Ynet. Fact is, Abe Foxman has effectively declared open season on Israeli antidemocracy, which gives a license to people like Hillary. If the Zionist lobby starts branding Hillary as anti-Israel, it's going to cause even more cognitive dissonance among US Jews than her actual remarks.
And the Obama administration then chided the Palestinians for "leaking" the news that they had turned in the proposals.
The ad campaign stupidly ignores the possibility that intermarriage might bring MORE Jews when Israelis return with their Jewish spouses. And even children.
If Israeli expats become more religious overseas, that contradicts the assumption that you can only be religious in Israel.
Those were lies, they always were lies, and everyone knew they were lies.
I'm still surprised Pletka would come out so openly with the truth, when the neocons have yet to admit the real reason behind the Iraq attack.
I wish Americans COULD see the real faces of Israel.
Look at that Yuli Edelstein. No big kippa. No yard-long payot. No long scraggly beard. It seems like the Lobby is ashamed of the settlers who look "too Jewish." Kind of antisemitic of them.
It means "annointed."
But burning children alive in their beds and blowing them into bits is just "defending yourself?"
It's because we've seen so many of you here before, always saying the same thing.
But you are wrong to say that most Israelis understand why Palestinians fight. Most Israelis are steeped in racist lies from birth and firmly believe that the Palestinians are aggressive demons who mean to "kill all the Jews."
Because Israel has already taken everything Palestine could conceed.
The Israelis, with all their guns, will turn on the Palestinians. As they already are doing.
This is interestingly relevant
link to haaretz.com
As often happens, the note about the "correction" draws more attention to the fact thatn the original statement.
Where the article actually needs correction is on the timeline, which states that the refugees fled AFTER the declaration of statehood in 1948, when most of the Palestinian population had already BEEN EXPELLED.
If the Flat Earth society complains about the space program, would the NYT censor its coverage?
Diversion is all they've got.
I kinda wonder what this one says:
link to youtube.com
Israel has now pulled the ads.
I agree. Phil is foolish to place any trust in Blitzer.
The news of Paul's exclusion will draw more attention to his position than any remarks he would have been allowed to make there.
They're still around, Abu Malia
Out of all the corrupt government entities in the US, Louisiana is right up there at the top.
I agree totally with Dan Crowther. Americans can't whitewash our own history if we criticize Israel for whitewashing its history. The rich and powerful will always prey on the less powerful, whenever they can get away with it. Only information and action can stop them.
That hides it away nicely.
The Israeli diamond trade is fading, moving overseas in search of cheaper labor.
A Potemkin settlement? Maintained by Birthright as a stop for all the tour busses.
I recall the Nazis had a Potemkin concentration camp that they would show visitors to convince them the Jews were really being treated well.
This is what happens when ignorant XtoZionists try to write their own resolutions instead of getting an official script from AIPAC
Then you wouldn't have Rick Perry claiming that Yassir Arafat was an "Israeli," which I'm sure that Israel wouldn't be happy to see.
But when they succeed in having her removed from her position, no one will be allowed to point out that this proves the control Jewish Zionists have over the contents of the media.
"Not open to just anyone." No, only to Zionists.
How many of these are women who slither out of service by claiming to be religious?
Or however Bar Rafeali managed it.
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The rabbi says it's better to die than listen to a woman sing.
If she sang in Israel for the IDF, half the audience would walk out.
NATO isn't worth saving. What is the Afghanistan adventure but an excuse to give NATO a reason to exist?
I would comment about this, but since my comment would not be posted, why the hell bother?
The story as I understand it is that Israeli Jews will be nervous if they think Iran MIGHT develop nukes that MIGHT be used against Israel, so they MIGHT emmigrate to somewhere safer unless Israel starts a war and blows up the entire mideast. So to make sure Israeli Jews aren't nervous enough to leave the country, Netanyahu spends every day fearmongering the "Iran threat."
Teta - it depends on the context. There's one definition of Jew for the Law of Return and then there's the halachic definition, which is something else. The Israeli Interior Dept is under the control of the religious and has been deporting quite a lot of Russians who aren't Jewish enough for them, who can't find their maternal great-great-grandmother's ketuba.
And demanding compensation for it.
I think the Russians are not considered Jews.
Interesting that the XSU isn't considered part of the "Western world." Which is usually a synonym for "white people."
MRW: Links? Citations? Evidences?
teta - those are the wrong Jews. Christian Zionists don't support Jews, they support the "Jewish state." In short, they support moving all the Jews out of the US in a vast campaign of ethnic transfer so they can all be incinerated at the End Times, a campaign that will leave the US Judenrein (and Muslimrein, too, they're working on that) and a Christian State.
Who knows? Maybe the XtoZionists will convert to Judaism and move wholesale to Israel.
Howabout the Jews in Israel who are working against the wellbeing of Jews worldwide? Maybe they should be the ones run out of the tribe.
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Neither would eee. In Beit Shemesh, they would throw stones at eee's daughter and call her a whore. In Beit Shemesh, eee would not be a "fellow Jew."
I feel the urge, strongly. But I don't DO it.
Eda Haredit doesn't count you as a fellow Jew, either, eee.
He should move to Israel and learn to spit.
And the assassinations.
It may be penetrating the mainstream, but it has yet to penetrate Congress.
Let us know if you get any reply from Lewis.
Actually, the Teheran conference notwithstanding, Neturei Karta is still within the mainstream of the Eda Haredit. This was why they felt they had to denounce the participants, because on Zionism in general, they are in agreement.
Ha'aretz just had an interview with one of the Israeli state chief rabbis, who denounced the religious courts of the Eda Haredit that refuse to affilitate with the state rabbinate, because they refuse to recognize the state of Israel.
Much more Jewish than eee.
eee lies out of his own mouth:
the Eda Haredit, which has traditionally been chaired by the head of the Satmar hassidic sect, the ideological parent of Neturei Karta, has so far refrained from issuing an official cherem (excommunication) against the participants in the Holocaust denial conference and those who support them.
This will set off 3e! Deploy spit guards!
Ynet, as usual, is spreading lies, as Juan Cole explains.
And the "courts" that rule the lands don't belong to the Beouins are a lie in themselves.
I suspect that first thing tomorrow the Butterball company will be talking to their lawyers.
Kosher certification has become a racket, part of the yeshiva full employment act. They don't hand out those certificates for free.
I dunno. It's a question of fraud. If I claim that my chickens are organic but they don't meet the standards for organic production, I'm defrauding my customers. Why not the same for halal and kosher chickens? Seems like a proper function of the government.
iirc, halal slaughter allows a limited stunning that renders the animal unconscious but not dead, which is more humane than kosher slaughter, which does not. Otherwise, the processes are the same, given that halal laws were based on Jewish laws.
The schochet does indeed say a prayer at slaughter.