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In my opinion, the only "chickenshit" lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, because he did not repudiate this statement by one of his staff, immediately, upon the "chickenshit" slur being published in the media....
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Actually, it doesn't matter. All US administrations been screwing Israel (almost as much as they've been screwing Americans). The only diff with Obama admin is that bunch never learned to behave in an adult manner.
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All US administrations been screwing Israel (almost as much as they've been screwing Americans).
That is because g(r)om, the "US Administration" is not American. It is a cadre of closet communists, black nationalists and mooslim apologists. The Champ shares a unique kinship with the likes of tribal fanatics Farrakhan, Wright, Madiba, Tutu, Jacob Zuma, or Mugabe. These people have no use for the west or anyone who comes from the west. The regime's anti-Semitic rant [and that is exactly what it is] is a natural extension of the Champ's evolving attitudes and beliefs, except he really hasn't evolved, he's simply come out of the closet. As he clearly said to Russian Federation President Dmitry Medvedev on an open microphone, "I'll have much more flexibility after my election."
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the 'chickenshit' comment will hurt Obama 's ability in fundraising among his wealthier Jewish supporters in CA, NY and FL
of course, it came on Oct 29 when almost all the fundraising had been completed and those supporters, mostly long time Dems, had already been tapped for $millions
if the Republican's are smart they'll save some $ for a post election documentary on the back stabbing of Israel by this admin
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the Republican's are smart they'll save some $ for a post election documentary
Isn't it cute when someone uses the term Republican and Smart in the same sentence?
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If the Republicans retake the Senate, they need to start undercutting the Administration in foreign affairs, quickly, publicly and hard.
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Actually, it doesn't matter. All US administrations been screwing Israel (almost as much as they've been screwing Americans). The only diff with Obama admin is that bunch never learned to behave in an adult manner.
If that's the case and the US is giving Israel $3b a year, what is Russia, which backs Syria and Iran, doing to Israel?
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Not everyone has your magnificent intellect & erudition Nim. So, be patient and explain it to me in simple terms. The fact about US aid to Israel which most confuses me is the following.
In 1999 Bibi went before US congress asking them to abolish US economic aid to Israel. A few weeks later there was a crisis in USA/Israel relations that, eventually, led to Bibi government's downfall.
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In 1999 Bibi went before US congress asking them to abolish US economic aid to Israel.
That's asinine, like someone asking the government stop sending him checks. All Israel has to do is stop cashing those checks, and those appropriations will go away. The fact is that US assistance to Israel draws flak from Muslims, in part because Israel is felt to be a traditional Arab land where Xinjiang/East Turkistan and Chechnya are not. The Russians have voted against Israel at the UN repeatedly and supply Syria - which has warred against Israel, directly and indirectly, since 1948 - with weaponry. They also continue to oppose sanctions against Iran for its nuclear program. And yet you seem to think that the Russian empire is a better friend of Israel than the US. I understand the pull of ideology that led so many Israeli Jews to spy for the Soviets. But communism is dead, so it's head-scratchingly puzzling as to why a Jew would view Russia as anything other than just another supporter of Israel's enemies. It's mind boggling that Russia, the historical persecutor of Jews, the nation that bequeathed the word pogrom to the English language, is somehow the recipient of such blind loyalty, while the US, which saved Israel from a Russian intervention during Yom Kippur that might have ended the Jewish state, is the target of such hostility. Are you a Russian who migrated to Israel for economic reasons, while claiming made-up Jewish ancestry?
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That'sasinine, like someone asking the government stop sending him checks. All Israel has to do is stop cashing those checks, and those appropriations will go away.
[DAWN] A MONTH ago, Mohammed Yousuf, a prison guard at Rawalpindi's Adiyala Jail, shot and injured the elderly Mohammad Asghar, a blasphemy convict with a history of mental illness.
The internal inquiry into the shooting has brought to light findings that are deeply worrying. It seems that Mr Yousuf spent a little over a fortnight guarding Mumtaz Qadri, the self-confessed killer of Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer. Within this brief span, Qadri succeeded in indoctrinating the guard with his hard boy views on Islam.
Indeed, his powers of persuasion appear to have been such that two other prison guards were similarly radicalised and told to track down other blasphemy convicts nabbed
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[DAWN] THE state is talking to the Taliban again -- but this time in rather different circumstances.
The last time the government tried to negotiate with the banned TTP, it did so from a position of weakness: the TTP was in the ascendant, the TTP was regularly attacking state and society and the TTP was the one issuing preconditions. Now though, as the government negotiates with a breakaway Mehsud faction of the TTP, there are marked differences.
For one, the military operation in North Wazoo Agency has scattered the TTP and denied it a vital base from which to organise and plot attacks against Pakistain.
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[IsraelTimes] A seemingly unstoppable wave of low-grade violence has been plaguing Arab East Jerusalem for the past four months, in what some Paleostinian news outlets are now dubbing "the Jerusalem Intifada."
Sparked by the July 2 kidnapping and murder of Paleostinian teenager Muhammad Abu Khdeir, apparently by Jewish murderous Moslems, the disturbances consist mainly of throwing stones and Molotov cocktails -- haphazard activities reminiscent of the largely spontaneous First Intifada launched in late 1987 across the Israeli-controlled West Bank and Gazoo.
But the "Jerusalem Intifada" has its own unique characteristics, experts say. Namely, it has scarcely spread beyond the confines of the capital, and lacks the grassroots leadership that characterized the two previous Paleostinian uprisings.
"Jerusalem now is a city without leadership," said Walid Salem, director of the Jerusalem-based Center for Democracy and Community Development. He said that all Paleostinian factions operating in the city are weak, and none have issued political communiques in a long while. Both Israel and the Paleostinian Authority have consistently neglected Arab Jerusalem.
The wave of violence that erupted in Jerusalem in July was not politically instigated, therefore, but can rather be dubbed a "children's intifada," led mostly by kids aged seven to 12, Salem opined.
"This phenomenon isn't as widespread as the First Intifada, in which all walks of Paleostinian society participated, young and old," Salem told The Times of Israel. "What pushed them to act was the heinous liquidation of Muhammad Abu Khdeir."
Though the Jerusalem uprising is limited in scope, Israel's political right is exaggerating its magnitude in order to "take Dire Revenge on all Paleostinians," Salem said.
On Tuesday, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat visited the Temple Mount accompanied by police to "gain a better understanding of issues and challenges." A day earlier, Paleostinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah paid a rare visit to the site, declaring that "there will not be a Paleostinian state without East Jerusalem as its capital."
Salem said that unlike the so-called "Jerusalem Intifada" which is largely illusionary, the increased Jewish fervor surrounding the site could "spark a religious war in the entire region."
"They're playing with fire," he said, referring to Israeli visits to Temple Mount, as well as the purchasing of homes in the Paleostinian neighborhood of Silwan.
Hillel Cohen, who researches Paleostinian society and politics at Hebrew University, said that while the Jerusalem violence is markedly disorganized and uncoordinated, it certainly is not confined to prepubescents.
"Clearly there are also 15-year-olds, 18-year-olds and 22-year-olds," he said. In his opinion, the differentiating factor between now and the First Intifada is the question of leadership.
"The First Intifada followed almost a decade of organization, where Fatah set-up institutions such as the Shabiba (the youth movement), the Tanzim (the turban faction) and local chapters, including in Jerusalem. The Democratic Front did the Same, as did the Popular Front and the Communists and the Moslem Brüderbund. When the [First] Intifada began, everyone knew where they belonged. When someone got tossed in the clink Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! , it was clear who would replace him," Cohen said.
"So even a spontaneous outburst can be perpetuated when the structure is in place, but now it's completely disorganized. If the guys feel like it, they go out, if they don't, they don't. When someone gets arrested, they panic because there's no one to fill his place."
PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... could try, at least, to lower the flames; but at this point he seems uninterested to do so. Just a few weeks ago he called on Paleostinians to oppose the entry of Jews to Temple Mount "in all means possible."
The start of the Oslo Peace Process in 1993 and the power struggle that ensued between the local Fatah leadership and the new arrivals from Tunis destroyed the party structures created during the 1970s and and 1980s, Cohen said.
"The Fatah leadership of that time, which would show up immediately upon being called, simply ceased to exist," he said.
[IsraelTimes] Al-Qaeda is using US-led coalition Arclight airstrikes in Syria as a reason to extend olive branches to the renegade Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group, saying the two should stop feuding and join forces to attack Western targets -- a reunification that intelligence analysts say would allow al-Qaeda to capitalize on the younger group's ruthless advance across the region.
Analysts are closely watching al-Qaeda's repeated overtures, and while a full reconciliation is not expected soon -- if ever -- there is evidence the two groups have curtailed their infighting and are cooperating on the Syrian battlefield, according to activists on the ground, US officials and experts who monitor jihadi messages.
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AFAIK the ISIS/ISIL has made up + is now in aliance wid ex-deadly rival, but fellow Qaeda-affiliate AL-NUSRA.
I'm intrepreting this Artic to refer primarily to the other NON-NUSRA QAEDA AFFILIATES, e.g. AQAP/AQIY, AQIM, etc. [Boko Haram? AL-Shabab?]; + in second wid Ayman-the-Z-Man [Zawahiri] led "CORE" Al-QAEDA [Osama's group].
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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