Israel to World: "Suck It."

Wish nobody had reported on what was being omitted at the climate change conference in Copenhagen because that ain't news.

it's not like the ppl they're quoting are particularly newsworthy -- kerry they get on an old quote w/ questionable relevance, and they mention gatekeepers which is timely, but look at the ppl who make up the bulk of the article:

Alon Liel, a former director general of the foreign ministry in Jerusalem and a former Israeli ambassador to South Africa
David Aaron Miller – a negotiator in efforts by the Clinton administration to broker an Israeli-Palestinian agreement and an adviser on Middle East policy to six US secretaries of state
S Daniel Abraham, a US billionaire, confidante of American and Israeli leaders, and founder of the Center for Middle East Peace in Washington
Martin Indyk, a former US ambassador to Israel and now vice-president of the Brookings Institution

Yeah none of them have a valid opinion

you've convinced me gukbe. peacelovethegap.

No doubt. Actually only posted it because it was throwing "apartheid" around.

Not sure what I was meant to be convincing you of, mind.

netanyahu apologized to erdogan over the flotilla raid!

& agreed to compensate families to boot. good lord.

Israel to World: "Sorry, we fucked up"

i'm into that decision

Just 36% of Americans younger than 30 sympathize more with Israel, while 19% sympathize more with the Palestinians. A relatively large share of young people (37%) either offer no opinion (34%) or say they sympathize with both sides (3%).

http://www.people-press.org/2013/03/19/public-remains-supportive-of-israel-wary-of-iran/

https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/315579678138175489

netanyahu apologized to erdogan over the flotilla raid!

― max, Friday, March 22, 2013 3:36 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

& agreed to compensate families to boot. good lord.

― ogmor, Friday, March 22, 2013 3:40 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

according to ben shapiro, bibi was "bullied" into doing this by mean ol' Obama

i'm sure it was in both country's interest to repair diplomatic relations, esp re syria + iran situations

it was wise bullying at worst.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-03-30/israel-begins-gas-production-at-tamar-field-in-boost-to-economy

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/01/israel-jails-conscientous-objector-eighth

http://www.opisrael.com word is that this was a hacker site attacking israel. so israel hackers took it over and now it plays hatikvah.

http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/04/opisrael-hack-versus-counter-hack/

Thought this was very, very good on both sides:
http://intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/past-debates/item/793-israel-can-live-with-a-nuclear-iran

I have gradually come to like Jeffrey Goldberg less and less and I thought he sounded a bit hysterical here, but the other "against" guy was very good, as were the "for" guys.

I have gradually come to like Jeffrey Goldberg less and less < so otm

I feel like there is a slightly unhinged man underneath his veil of reasonableness.

also he doesn't seem particularly bright

i thought you loved him?

i liked him a few years ago but i've since gotten really tired of his shtick

yeah his arguments were kind of wandering all over the place. It was like "You literally think that Iran will nuke Israel within three years?" "Absolutely." "Well what basis do you have for that." "Look, no Israelis are going to want to stay in Israel so it will stop being a Jewish state." "But what can Iran do differently than it could before?" "No one is going to want to invest in Israel."

i think he leans heavily on his access. his thinking on middle east issues tho are often just MOR DC centrist CW - i don't think he demonstrates a lot of insight into middle east politics or events. maybe he used to be better, idk, or maybe i got older

this is pretty much where against the motion won, i think

And all of these problems with launch on warning -- now, I quite take the fact that these regimes don't have the controlled mechanisms, the command and control or even the technologies that will make this a safer world. And so I fully acknowledge that there's an element of risk there. I fully acknowledge that Israel shouldn't live with a nuclear Iran if there's a better option. I'm just arguing that there may not be a better option.

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/11566_10151377952296409_1118235419_n.jpg

No end to Truman's embarrassments.

i miss the days when banner headlines were like 20-30 words

ugh... please stop?

can we stay the fuck out of this as well?

I think it's too late, plans seem to have been already made.
Israel are the cocky little kid that starts a fight then lets the bigger kid step in and finish it.

oh don't be such drama queens: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/31/world/middleeast/syria-says-it-was-hit-by-strikes-from-israeli-planes.html

I think it's too late, plans seem to have been already made.
Israel are the cocky little kid that starts a fight then lets the bigger kid step in and finish it.

― not_goodwin, Saturday, May 4, 2013 3:35 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not really. Israel did this in 2007 as well. They struck a shipment of arms that was headed for hezbollah, not a stationary target.

I would say it's unlikely this is aimed to open up a wider war, although you never know

the scheme is set, likud will soon use false flags to occupy all of transjordan

lol

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/israel-should-seize-the-arab-leagues-offer-8604933.html

Good news

Stephen Hawking joins academic boycott of Israel

Israel probably still ain't gonna give a fuck. They didn't give a fuck about the Pixies.

Israeldgaf

no no no, they got really angry about it

What a dick:

http://www.haaretz.com/mobile/.premium-1.562552?v=12AF99EAF04CD4FBDE3AF193EBF1FE32

i think he should go, but apparently the price tag is not just a blow-off - security detail for bibi was going to run into the millions, versus the $100k it'll cost to send 5 ministers instead.

Yeah, I bet he could have found the money. It's a one-time only funeral of a major political figure that dozens of other major political figures will be attending. Without knowing the guest list, if I were PM of Israel I think I'd rather be counted among the people going than the people not going.

Plus, you know, Bono and Oprah will be there.

Jeffrey St Clair revamps a 2001 essay by himself and Cockburn on Sharon the terrorist:

An official
 Israeli commission of inquiry–chaired by Yitzhak Kahan, president of Israel’s
 Supreme Court–investigated the massacre, and in February 1983 publicly
 released its findings (without Appendix B, which remained secret). The Kahan
Commission found that Ariel Sharon, among other Israelis, had direct responsibility 
for the massacre. The commission’s report stated:

“It is our view
 that responsibility is to be imputed to the Minister of Defense for having disregarded
 the danger of acts of vengeance and bloodshed by the Phalangists against the 
population of the refugee camps, and having failed to take this danger into 
account when he decided to have the Phalangists enter the camps. In addition,
 responsibility is to be imputed to the Minister of Defense for not ordering 
appropriate measures for preventing or reducing the danger of massacre as a
 condition for the Phalangists’ entry into the camps. These blunders constitute
the non-fulfillment of a duty with which the Defense Minister was charged.”

Sharon refused 
to resign. Finally, on February 14, 1983, he was relieved of his duties as defense 
minister, though he remained in the cabinet as minister without portfolio.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/01/17/sharon-the-terrorist/

I really wish I believed there was anything behind these words.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/israeli-leaders-cry-foul-over-kerrys-boycott-warning/2014/02/02/fcf097e0-8c41-11e3-9ed8-259977a48789_story.html

One of the major players in the worldwide drug industry is Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd., an Israeli company. According to its website, Teva fills 1 out of every 6 generic prescriptions in the US and Canada. Generic drugs, in 2012, made up 84% of all prescriptions filled in the US. So in the US, 14% of all prescriptions were filled by an Israeli company. If you live in the US and you bought 7 prescription drugs over the course of the year, chances are that one of them was made by Teva.