tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post3923793330154641198..comments2024-01-02T02:18:30.960-08:00Comments on Israel Thrives: The Obama Administration's Opposition to Jewish History (Updated)Mike L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-41578170298954792712014-01-26T17:48:27.789-08:002014-01-26T17:48:27.789-08:00*but they don't look like your average CEO, so...*but they don't look like your average CEO, so they get a pass...JayinPhiladelphiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556212008313470286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-60114967366904285282014-01-26T17:45:16.942-08:002014-01-26T17:45:16.942-08:00But that can't be, Mike! I hear tell a good n...But that can't be, Mike! I hear tell a good number of such folks are 'anti-imperialist'... ;)<br /><br />(Yes, there is simply no other way to correctly describe the aims and practices of Islamists throughout the region over the past 13 centuries; it is quite simply one of the world's oldest, and most racist and bigoted, imperialist movements in history)JayinPhiladelphiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556212008313470286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-74577501143336935942014-01-25T09:41:31.077-08:002014-01-25T09:41:31.077-08:00That single word sums it all up, actually. Your l...That single word sums it all up, actually. Your last two paragraphs pretty much hit it spot-on, as I see it.<br /><br />I do not believe the president has any nefarious intentions when it comes to Israel, it's just that they're operating on wildly incorrect assumptions and understandings of history, and therefore, pardon my language, bumbling around like fucking idiots as a result.<br /><br />They seem to be at the same stage of enlightenment in this conflict as bloodletters were to medicine.JayinPhiladelphiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556212008313470286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-46507507710884146932014-01-22T22:10:38.012-08:002014-01-22T22:10:38.012-08:00This is the paragraph in question from the New Yor...This is the paragraph in question from the New Yorker piece:<br /><br /><i>“With respect to Israel, the interests of Israel in stability and security are actually very closely aligned with the interests of the Sunni states.” As Saudi and Israeli diplomats berate Obama in unison, his reaction is, essentially, Use that. “What’s preventing them from entering into even an informal alliance with at least normalized diplomatic relations is not that their interests are profoundly in conflict but the Palestinian issue, as well as <b>a long history of anti-Semitism that’s developed over the course of decades there</b>, and anti-Arab sentiment that’s increased inside of Israel based on seeing buses being blown up,” Obama said. “If you can start unwinding some of that, that creates a new equilibrium. And so I think each individual piece of the puzzle is meant to paint a picture in which conflicts and competition still exist in the region but that it is contained, it is expressed in ways that don’t exact such an enormous toll on the countries involved, and that allow us to work with functioning states to prevent extremists from emerging there.”</i><br /><br />I have to say, Doodad, you know very well what I think of Obama when it comes to the Jews and the Jewish state, but I cannot hang him for this one. Certainly, I wanted to. But, sadly, I cannot.<br /><br />It comes down to a single word, "decades."<br /><br />If he had said "centuries" then he would have demonstrated some small understanding of the history of the Jewish people under Arab-Muslim rule.<br /><br />But I think that we have already established that Barack Obama has very little understanding of what he is doing as he blunders around the Middle East.Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-34669420900442580952014-01-22T17:54:49.571-08:002014-01-22T17:54:49.571-08:00I"n an interview with The New Yorker magazine...I"n an interview with The New Yorker magazine, Obama described the Muslim hatred of Israel as byproduct of recent fights, not as a consequence of Islam’s doctrinal objection to any Jewish government."<br /><br />heh<br /><br />http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/21/muslim-anti-semitism-is-only-decades-old-obama-claims/Doodadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03349941094682080146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-6892945100410377672014-01-22T07:45:04.287-08:002014-01-22T07:45:04.287-08:00I read your comment right after I made my update.
...I read your comment right after I made my update.<br /><br />Good for the Simon Wiesenthal Center.Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-1910834817982741442014-01-21T17:20:36.584-08:002014-01-21T17:20:36.584-08:00Score one for the good guys!
Sometimes the bigotr...Score one for the good guys!<br /><br />Sometimes the bigotry is so rank, so blatant and raw, that, under pressure, even the bigots must relent.<br /><br />Time to keep up the pressure to expose and shame the bigots that abuse the UN to promote and hide their bigotry.<br /><br />http://www.timesofisrael.com/unesco-exhibit-on-jewish-ties-to-israel-rescheduled-for-june/?fb_action_ids=1392910384301645&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582oldschooltwentysixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15672887176887940797noreply@blogger.com