"Israel is for Jewish people only" - Netanyahu

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He just had like three elections in a row that he kind of lost.  It was what happened after the elections that he kind of won.

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Edited September 16, 2020 by visionary

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So much for peace.

 

This (from 2007) is still relevant:

 

Middle East Conflict Intensifies As Blah Blah Blah, Etc. Etc.

 

MIDDLE EAST—With the Iraq war in its fifth year, the war in Afghanistan in its sixth, and  conflict between Israel and the rest of the region continuing unabated for more than half a century, intelligence sources are warning that a new wave of violence in the Middle East may soon blah blah blah, etc. etc., you know the rest.

 

"Tensions in the region are extremely high," said U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker, who added the same old same old while answering reporters' questions. "We're disappointed by the events of the last few months, but we're confident that we're about to [yakety yakety yak]."

 

The U.N. has issued a strongly worded whatever denouncing someone or something presumably having to do with the vicious explosive things that raged across this, or shattered the predawn calm of that, or ripped suddenly through the other, killing umpteen innocent civilians in a Jerusalem bus or Beirut discotheque or Fallujah mosque or whatever it was this time.

 

Click on the link for more

[Cooked Crack]

This guy is supposed to be an adult?

 

 

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[Barry.Randolphe]

On 9/23/2020 at 4:44 PM, Cooked Crack said:

 

This guy is supposed to be an adult?

 

 

 

What a cheap piece of ****....they should have returned his underwear with a chocolate bar stripe down the back

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1 hour ago, Barry.Randolphe said:

 

What a cheap piece of ****....they should have returned his underwear with a chocolate bar stripe down the back

So is he having foreign governments wash his crap for free, and then billing his own government for laundry fees?  If so he’s a thief.  If not, what the hell is the point of all this?

[Barry.Randolphe]

17 minutes ago, Destino said:

So is he having foreign governments wash his crap for free, and then billing his own government for laundry fees?  If so he’s a thief.  If not, what the hell is the point of all this?

 

It's both. 

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The clothes are cleaned for the prime minister free of charge by the U.S. staff, a perk that is available to all foreign leaders but sparingly taken advantage of given the short stays of busy heads of state.

“The Netanyahus are the only ones who bring actual suitcases of dirty laundry for us to clean,” said one U.S. official, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the details of a foreign leader’s visits. “After multiple trips, it became clear this was intentional.”

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“What’s different about this account is that Netanyahu is now being accused of misusing another government’s resources for his dirty laundry — not just his own,” said Eliad Shraga, the founder of the Movement for Quality Government in Israel.

 

Shraga said his organization took an interest in the laundry issue after reports that Netanyahu and his wife took 11 suitcases on a one-day trip to Portugal in December. Netanyahu’s office denied speculation that the suitcases were filled with dirty laundry, saying they included items he needed for his office work.

 

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I always knew he was laundering through foreign entities.

[DCSaints_fan]

That is just ... odd.

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Yair Lapid receives mandate to form Israeli government, oust Netanyahu

 

Opposition leader Yair Lapid has received a mandate from Israel's president to form a new government, putting Benjamin Netanyahu in the most vulnerable position he has faced politically since becoming prime minister in 2009.

 

The big picture: Netanyahu failed to form a government before his mandate expired overnight, but his rivals still have hurdles to clear before they can oust him. That means the political crisis that has gripped Israel over the last two years is far from over.

 

Driving the news: President Reuven Rivlin held consultations with Israel's political parties today over the mandate decision, with both the centrist Lapid and right-wing kingmaker Naftali Bennett putting themselves forward.

 

As expected, Rivlin opted to give the mandate to Lapid, who has managed to get 56 members of the Knesset to support him so far, including the six members of Gideon Sa'ar’s breakaway right-wing party.

 

In a press conference this morning, Bennett said he was determined to prevent a fifth election and would thus work to form a unity government with Lapid and the center-left. He called on all right-wing parties to join the unity government.

 

Lapid and Bennett are expected to resume power-sharing negotiations toward a government that would see Bennett serve first as prime minister for two years before Lapid rotates into the job.

 

Click on the link for the full article

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This is starting to look like how the George Floyd situation jumpstarted changing people's views on race relations. It has been happening for years, but now that there are tons of cameras on the ground showing what is happening, people can't deny what they're seeing with their own eyes.

 

Can you imagine if something like this was occurring at the Vatican?

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Not a good look for Yang to be congratulated by Stephen Miller and Ted Cruz. The left doesn’t forget things like this.

 

Very very disappointed in him, I was a fan of his progressive ideas as candidate but he basically nuked himself in my eyes