Here's something of interest
William Kristol has made the following boast
Has support for Israel become the new GOP litmus test?
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/28/u...er-for-speech-on-benjamin-netanyahu.html?_r=0
There is no ideological connection between republicanism and the survival/well-being of Israel, Israelis, or specific political parties in Israel like the Likud.
The GOP interest in Netanyahu is purely financial--GOP pols get paid big $$ by AIPAC, so they do what AIPAC tells them (i. e. cheerlead for the Israeli right-wing).
If these same GOP pols were paid substantially more $$ by CAIR (Council of American-Islamic Relations) or J Street, their allegiances would shift to being against Netanyahu and his goals.
Would you care to link to the Ukrainians who think that the treaty does not apply in this case.
Of course the aggressor that has breached the agreement would say they are justified. Of course the weak and gutless Obama would say that the treaty does not apply. If it meant he had to do something brave, he would run away faster than Hussein Bolt.
The Ukraine had defined borders and they entered into an agreement to maintain those borders with the USA. The USA reneged on that agreement to, once again, abandon one of its allies and another of its commitments.
It is common in the world today that our enemies do not fear us and our allies do not trust us.
As a country under the feckless leadership of the weak kneed Obama and erratic policies, we have earned both positions.
There is no ideological connection between republicanism and the survival/well-being of Israel, Israelis, or specific political parties in Israel like the Likud.
The GOP interest in Netanyahu is purely financial--GOP pols get paid big $$ by AIPAC, so they do what AIPAC tells them (i. e. cheerlead for the Israeli right-wing).
If these same GOP pols were paid substantially more $$ by CAIR (Council of American-Islamic Relations) or J Street, their allegiances would shift to being against Netanyahu and his goals.
And Arabs have given massively to Democrats, most covered in the media lately the Clintons.
There were Muslims living in what is now Israel before there was an Israel. What exactly do you think happened that those people ended up in Gaza?
Despite there now being 5 MILLION 'palestinian' 'refugees', (out to a 4th Gen) almost NONE of the original 700,000 Survive.I never said that you said you didn't want the Palestinians to return to their homes. Here's what you did say
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http://www.debatepolitics.com/polls/220418-has-support-israel-become-new-gop-litmus-test-22.html#post1064486057
You have no understanding of what went down in Kiev the fall of 2013!
I never said that you said you didn't want the Palestinians to return to their homes. Here's what you did say
MildSteel said
You responded
Here it is right here
http://www.debatepolitics.com/polls/220418-has-support-israel-become-new-gop-litmus-test-22.html#post1064486057
So let's just make them citizens-in-place of wherever they are
The Arab regimes in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Jordan are totally anti-Iran and most likely support Netanyahu and his goals.
What would make a difference is donations from groups w/pro-Iranian sentiment and/or anti-Likud sentiment (i. e. J Street) to GOP pols' coffers.
Despite there now being 5 MILLION 'palestinian' 'refugees', (out to a 4th Gen) almost NONE of the original 700,000 Survive.
There is NO "Right of Return" for them, nor for others (ie, Millions of 1947 India/Pak partitioners, or 2 Million 1945 Sudeten Germans)
And of course, due to their population Explosion, Most would have had to move a few miles anyway.
NO FURTHER than they live now!
So let's just make them citizens-in-place of wherever they are: the Next NON-descript Arid hill in 'paleshtein' or Jordan or Syria or Lebanon. It's not like they're exiled in Iceland.
The same way All other post WWII refugees got absorbed.
IF you would like further History I suggest...
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http://www.debatepolitics.com/israe...yahu-you-don-t-speak-us-6.html#post1064472920
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The Palestinian Arabs were not responsible "in some bizarre way" for what befell them in 1948. Their responsibility was very direct and simple.
In Defiance of the will of the International community, as embodied in the UN General Assembly Resolution of November 29th, 1947 (No. 181), They launched Hostilities against the Jewish community in Palestine in the hope of aborting the emergence of the Jewish state and perhaps Destroying that community. But they Lost; and one of the RESULTS was the displacement of 700,000 of them from their homes.
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Most of Palestine's 700,000 "refugees" fled their homes because of the flail of War (and in the expectation that they would shortly return to their homes on the backs of Victorious Arab invaders). But it is also true that there were several dozen sites, including Lydda and Ramla, from which Arab communities were expelled by Jewish troops.
The displacement of the 700,000 Arabs who became "refugees" - and I put the term in inverted commas, as 2/3's of them were displaced from one part of Palestine to another and not from their country (which is the usual definition of a refugee) - was not a "racist crime" .. but the RESULT of a national conflict and a WAR, with religious overtones, from the Muslim perspective, launched by the Arabs Themselves.
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...And it is also true that mid-way in the 1948 war the Israeli leaders decided to bar the return of the "refugees" (those "refugees" who had just Assaulted the Jewish community), viewing them as a potential Fifth column and threat to the Jewish state's existence. I for one cannot fault their fears or logic......
and Stop abusing these 'Israel Polls' in a section where it shouldn't be discussed, so you can use/Abuse the opportunity make these 'drive-by' by Goofy/Wrong Allegations. (incl Sharon)
If Ukraine had a border and a different country violated that border, that seems like it's pretty much the main part of the story.
If Ukraine still has a border and Russia is invading/has invaded right now, that seems like a continuation of the same story.
Would you care to explain why this invasion is unlike others? Compare and contrast with the Nazi invasion of the Sudetenland.
No, I don't think so.Has Jordan, Syria, Iran, Iran, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Egypt or Afghanistan offered the "right to return" to Jews?
It is noticeable that Saudi Arabia has never offered to annex the Palestinian zone to becoming part of Saudi Arabia, have they? They no more want radical Islamic militants than does Israel to be voting citizens.
Glad you agree to a Palestinian state based on pre 1967 borders! YAY!!!!!! :lamo
If Ukraine had a border and a different country violated that border, that seems like it's pretty much the main part of the story.
If Ukraine still has a border and Russia is invading/has invaded right now, that seems like a continuation of the same story.
Would you care to explain why this invasion is unlike others? Compare and contrast with the Nazi invasion of the Sudetenland.
Sure, it's not an invasion!!! From the Council on Foreign Relations
But this account is wrong: the United States and its European allies share most of the responsibility for the crisis. The taproot of the trouble is NATO enlargement, the central element of a larger strategy to move Ukraine out of Russia’s orbit and integrate it into the West. At the same time, the EU’s expansion eastward and the West’s backing of the pro-democracy movement in Ukraine -- beginning with the Orange Revolution in 2004 -- were critical elements, too. Since the mid-1990s, Russian leaders have adamantly opposed NATO enlargement, and in recent years, they have made it clear that they would not stand by while their strategically important neighbor turned into a Western bastion. For Putin, the illegal overthrow of Ukraine’s democratically elected and pro-Russian president -- which he rightly labeled a “coup” -- was the final straw. He responded by taking Crimea, a peninsula he feared would host a NATO naval base, and working to destabilize Ukraine until it abandoned its efforts to join the West.
John J. Mearsheimer | How the West Caused the Ukraine Crisis | Foreign Affairs
Sounds like the rationalization for Israel holding on to captured territory in the wars against Israel, doesn't it?
Most Democrats support Russia seizing Crimea. I have not read ONE Democrat, ever, demand that Russia give "a right of return" to evicted Tartar Muslims. Have you? In fact, Putin announced he was going to deport more - saying it was for their own safety.
Palestinians should be deported to Saudi Arabia and Syria "for their own safety." Then everyone would be happy. Muslims would have their exclusive countries (note the plural) and Jews would have their one tiny little country. Muslims having 99.99% of the land and 99.99% of natural resources of the region seems fair to Muslims.
I missed the compare and contrast to the Nazi invasion of Sudetenland.
Democrats have a selective morality and sense of right and wrong. If the person involved is a Democrat, then they can do no wrong. If that person is a republican in exactly the same situation, the reverse is true.
Why would you cite partisan hacks as the gauge of right and wrong, lawful or illegal, good or bad. They can see nothing but the letter that follows the name of the person giving them their direction.
No, we're talking about an entirely different region.
You mean your exact opposite standards against Jews.
You describe all partisans whether democrat or republican.
Wrong as two left shoes. It is indeed a U.S. interest because it does support stability in the Middle East. Why? Because Israel wants to maintain a state that is Jewish in nature, so it is not going to expand Israel to make the Palestinians part of it. For this reason, there is no way forward but a two state solution.
There will not be a stable Middle East until the Palestinian issue is resolved. There are far too many Arabs and Muslims in the Middle East who perceive that Israel's mistreatment of the Palestinians is part of a larger pattern of behavior that has been hostile to not only the Palestinians but Muslims in the Middle East by Israel and the U.S. as well. The U.S. needs to divorce itself of its past in the Middle East and cannot do so until this issue is resolved.
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