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2011-09-07 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Gates's negative comments on Netanyahu: Why now?
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Posted by trailing wife 2011-09-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top

#1 A declaration that Israel is on its own when push comes to shove dealing with Turkey?

(yeah, like they weren't on their own before)
Posted by SteveS 2011-09-07 00:18||   2011-09-07 00:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Perfidenous behavior. We've now surpassed even the Albionites having taken it to an entirely new level. No training wheels needed for Gates and Obama. Netanyahu has evidently made the notification phone call. Likely to get much worse as Israel prepares to bitch slap a few of these goat buggering urchins.
Posted by Besoeker 2011-09-07 00:33||   2011-09-07 00:33|| Front Page Top

#3 9/20
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-09-07 00:40||   2011-09-07 00:40|| Front Page Top

#4 I was hoping for June 7th quite frankly.... 30th anniversary of Opera and all of that. I'll settle for the 20th however.
Posted by Besoeker 2011-09-07 01:45||   2011-09-07 01:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Greenberg/Carvill/Shrum have been trying to use their astroturf process to put a leftist in power in Israel. This is just more of the same. Bibi doesn't take orders from this failure of a POTUS
Posted by Frank G 2011-09-07 10:05||   2011-09-07 10:05|| Front Page Top

#6 Israel should have plans to reorganize their neighborhood the next time they are pushed into war. Expel local populations if required.

Better to be considered a villian short term and have security than to have the continual blame and escallating body count they've suffered for the past few decades.

Until then say the nice things and do what has to be done. Similar to the Arab policy of doing one thing and saying another.
Posted by rjschwarz 2011-09-07 10:07||   2011-09-07 10:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Gates is smoking O'Buttwipes pole. The whole crew should be in the dock for treason.What does it take before we pluck the chickens and heat the tar?

I wonder if there is a way for the next president rescind the O'Buttwipes pardons by EO, then try the whole lot.
Posted by Secret Asian Man (New Delhi) 2011-09-07 10:25||   2011-09-07 10:25|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Secret Asian Man (New Delhi) 2011-09-07 10:34||   2011-09-07 10:34|| Front Page Top

#9 # 6 is going to get his wish sooner than most think. I hope the Israelis are of the same mind -- Gaza, Sinai,southern Lebanon, the Golan and the West Bank, all will be in play. Likely to be very bloody no matter how quickly Israel moves, unlike its dreadful performance in Lebanon in 2006. The unknown is whether WMD will be used. If Syrians and Iranians go for the gas, Syria will be reoccupied in part by Turks as the country disintegrates. It could get that bad. Eastern tribes in Syria will link with Sunna cousins in Iraq.
Posted by Elmavinter Grairt6233  2011-09-07 12:17||   2011-09-07 12:17|| Front Page Top

#10 "An ungrateful Ally" is merely a response to our schizophrenic and imbecilic political class that includes this idiot Gates.

If you were the leader of any nation, you would be looking at the US in a suspicious manner. Especially with that stupid pitiable dung-assed President from HELL we have.
Posted by newc 2011-09-07 12:39||   2011-09-07 12:39|| Front Page Top

#11 The Obama administration, through leaks and various on-and off-the-record statements by various officials over the last three years, has made clear that it feels that with the US giving Israel so much in terms of security assistance and diplomatic cover, it should not be so much to ask once in a while for something in return

This approach always worked in Chicago.
Posted by JohnQC 2011-09-07 13:33||   2011-09-07 13:33|| Front Page Top

#12 Again, PLENTY of commenters here said, ON MANY, MANY OCCASIONS, that this man was the bestest, most wonderfulest SecDef of ALL TIME. Whahappen?
Posted by M. Murcek 2011-09-07 18:55||   2011-09-07 18:55|| Front Page Top

#13 What happened? Gates did the bidding of his master.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2011-09-07 19:07||   2011-09-07 19:07|| Front Page Top

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