Iran is a land of contrasts
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Monday, 18 November 2019 16:48 (four years ago) link
Just stunning work by the Bush administration. Spend a couple trillion dollars and kill a couple hundred thousand civilians so that Iraq can become a client state of Iran.
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 18 November 2019 19:24 (four years ago) link
Experts on the Ian Masters news program were talking about this as early as 2002. Iraq is a majority Shi'a country, many of whose leaders had spent years in Iranian exile; and Iran a neighboring hedgemon that has taken the indirect/subterfuge approach to regional politics for centuries. Installing Ahmad Chalabi and other Western affiliated INC exiles to govern was always a fantasy that only neocons were indoctrinated enough to believe.
― Self Disabuse (Sanpaku), Monday, 18 November 2019 20:46 (four years ago) link
no gov't for Benny. Time for yet another election!
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 20 November 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
Not necessarily - indictment coming down tomorrow supposedly which could mean Likud minus Bibi aka potential gov as minor partner
― Mordy, Wednesday, 20 November 2019 18:11 (four years ago) link
indictment meaning Bibi would step aside? or would he have to be removed/challenged from within the party?
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 20 November 2019 18:14 (four years ago) link
Either potentially I imagine depends on whether Bibi and Likud think he can beat it?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 20 November 2019 18:16 (four years ago) link
Bibi is getting all Trumpy like in his criticisms re attorney general he appointed. Bibi's status could get get ruled upon by Israel Supreme Court
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 November 2019 14:14 (four years ago) link
so sick of this left wing anti semitism from uh Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit
― jesus is zing (symsymsym), Friday, 22 November 2019 16:32 (four years ago) link
"Channel 13 News reported that Hollywood producer Milchan, the central figure in Case 1000, told police that he attended a dinner at the Prime Minister's Residence in which Netanyahu's wife lashed at the Adelsons, telling them, 'You are spilling my blood, you are all spilling my blood.” Sheldon Adelson reportedly responded: "Calm down, we're doing the best we can. I lose 40 to 50 million dollars a year [on Israel Hayom]. … We regularly write in your favor and you keep shouting at me."
Another report from Channel 12 involving testimony from Case 2000 quoted Miriam Adelson as saying that Sara Netanyahu “once told me that if Iran gets nuclear weapons and Israel is wiped out, I’ll be to blame, because I’m not defending Bibi.”
Both the prime minister and his wife complained about their coverage with the Adelson newspaper’s former editor in chief, Amos Regev, both in person and in “screaming phone calls.”
Eventually, Miriam Adelson said, she and her husband got fed up and stopped visiting the Netanyahus."
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-netanyahu-israel-indictment-cases-charges-1.8160019
― jesus is zing (symsymsym), Friday, 22 November 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
Still think they should name the US Embassy after Adelson, who effectively paid for it with his own money
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 22 November 2019 20:01 (four years ago) link
warming up to bibi and sara reading that anecdote
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 22 November 2019 20:04 (four years ago) link
does any other asshole world leader have such an affectionate nickname that both his supporters and haters use?
refuse to call this piece of shit "Bibi"
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Friday, 22 November 2019 20:24 (four years ago) link
my dad (a chilean exile from the pinochet dictatorship) and i sometimes jokingly refer to pinochet as "el tata" (grampa) so i don't mind calling netanyahu bibi
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 22 November 2019 20:27 (four years ago) link
Dubya?
― jesus is zing (symsymsym), Saturday, 23 November 2019 03:48 (four years ago) link
This thread is not getting used that much. Do we start a 2020 one, anyway?
We can discuss>
Netanyahu wants temporary immunity
Predicting how Iran will respond to the US action.
Complexity of knowing that Soleimani was responsible also for crushing Iranian and Syrian opponents of dictators in addition to Americans who never should have been in Iraq, but determining that if an outside force takes action against him without authority, that end result may still not help poor folks who were suffering in those countries, or help Western powers either
― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 January 2020 19:20 (four years ago) link
i think a new thread makes sense. it got over 200 posts and i definitely used it last year for things i'd otherwise be bumping this thread to post
― Mordy, Friday, 3 January 2020 19:47 (four years ago) link
Any new title ideas for thread? I see an older Iranian thread is getting use now
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 4 January 2020 21:03 (four years ago) link
We're talking about sand and death
― The dead swans lay in the stagnant pool (Sanpaku), Saturday, 4 January 2020 21:24 (four years ago) link
"We're talking about sand and death-- Middle East, North Africa and other nearby Political Hotspots 2020 " works for me
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 5 January 2020 06:10 (four years ago) link
"We're talking about sand and death"-- Middle East, North Africa (MENA) and other nearby Political Hotspots 2020
New thread started
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 5 January 2020 22:08 (four years ago) link