Terrific speech by Netanyahu to Congress

[Vigilante]

 

[eagle1462010]

 

[Lakhota]

 

[georgephillip]

 

[eagle1462010]

 

[Lakhota]

 

[eagle1462010]

 

[Where_r_my_Keys]

Isn't it wonderful how consistent Kerry is?

He was a traitor to the United States in 1967 and he's remained a traitor to this very day!

 

[CMike]

Your graphs are inaccurate, since "palestine" was part of the British empire.

The arabs didn't accept the UN partition. Instead, they invaded Israel for the purpose of destroying it.

They are entitled to nothing.

They should have accepted the partition in the first place. Now they have no claim.

 

[CMike]

Netanyahu was utterly fantastic.

He truely is a patriot to Israel and western civilization.

 

[Vigilante]

 

[Vigilante]

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Ongoing now. Tune it in.

He is describing the history of people trying to annihilate Jews, reciting quotes from Iran's recent leaders saying they want to do exactly that, pointing out example after example of Iran and other dictators reneging on their word to play nice and restrict their nuclear research... all in the last ten years.

He stated flatly that the greatest threat to the United STATES and Israel, and the rest of the world, is a marriage between a fanatic militant Jihadi state, and nuclear weapons.

Pointed out that just because Iran is helping us fight ISIS, that doesn't mean they are our friend. They and ISIS are competing for the title of Supreme Islamic Jihadi State. "If you defeat ISIS but let Iran get the Bomb, you win the battle but lose the war."

And he hasn't said a word about attacking Iran or any offensive military operations by the West.

Tune it in.

Why can't Western leaders be this cognizant and frank?

I agree. His speech was inspiring.

 

[georgephillip]

Your graphs are inaccurate, since "palestine" was part of the British empire.

Mandate Palestine contained 650,000 Jews and 1.3 million Arabs in 1948, and Jews owned about 7% of all the land between the River and the sea. You're conflating political control with private ownership of land and water resources.

 

[georgephillip]

The arabs didn't accept the UN partition. Instead, they invaded Israel for the purpose of destroying it.

The UN violated its own charter when it failed to call for self-determination in Palestine in 1948. Free elections open to all Semites living there at that time would not have resulted in a Jewish state. The Arab armies entered the fight after Jews began a massive episode of ethnic cleansing that resulted in over 700,000 indigenous Palestinians being forced from their homes, businesses, and bank accounts which were then given to Jews from Europe. Had the Arab states not intervened, Israel would have stolen the rest of Palestine in '48 instead of waiting until '67.

 

[georgephillip]

Isn't it wonderful how consistent Kerry is?

He was a traitor to the United States in 1967 and he's remained a traitor to this very day!

 

[TemplarKormac]

Isn't it wonderful how consistent Kerry is?

He was a traitor to the United States in 1967 and he's remained a traitor to this very day!

Such an utterly senseless post. Is your hatred for Isreal so strong that you make posts like this? Back at ha pal.

 

[georgephillip]

Such an utterly senseless post. Is your hatred for Isreal so strong that you make posts like this? Back at ha pal.

Does it matter if Kerry's distant ancestors picked the family name from a map of Ireland because they were ashamed to be Jews?

 

[TemplarKormac]

Such an utterly senseless post. Is your hatred for Isreal so strong that you make posts like this? Back at ha pal.

Does it matter if Kerry's distant ancestors picked the family name from a map of Ireland because they were ashamed to be Jews?

What does that even mean?

 

[TemplarKormac]

Your graphs are inaccurate, since "palestine" was part of the British empire.

Mandate Palestine contained 650,000 Jews and 1.3 million Arabs in 1948, and Jews owned about 7% of all the land between the River and the sea. You're conflating political control with private ownership of land and water resources.

And I quote, from Benny Morris (whatever view you have of him is irrelevant to this post):

"I spent the mid-1980s investigating what led to the creation of the refugee problem, publishing The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949 in 1988. My conclusion, which angered many Israelis and undermined Zionist historiography, was that most of the refugees were a product of Zionist military action and, in smaller measure, of Israeli expulsion orders and Arab local leaders' urgings or orders to move out. Critics of Israel subsequently latched on to those findings that highlighted Israeli responsibility while ignoring the fact that the problem was a direct consequence of the war that the Palestinians - and, in their wake, the surrounding Arab states - had launched."


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