Israel’s prime minister urged four European leaders to help him undermine a provision of a trade agreement that obliges Israel to respect human rights.
The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, was caught on tape on Wednesday urging four European leaders to help him undermine a provision of a European Union trade agreement that imposes an obligation on Israel to respect the rights of the millions of Palestinians it rules in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
In private remarks to the leaders of Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia that were accidentally broadcast to members of the Israeli media outside the room, Netanyahu was overheard calling it “crazy” for the E.U. to insist that Israel honor Article 2 of an association agreement signed in 1995 which makes trade with the bloc conditional on Israel’s “respect for human rights and democratic principles.”
Recordings of the Israeli leader’s comments, made by correspondents for Haaretz and Israel’s Channel 2 News, were quickly posted online.
Listen to Netanyahu's hot-mic moment with Eastern Europe leaders blasting the EUhttps://t.co/Q7vJ3HuPTq pic.twitter.com/pGcVAyCpq3
— Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) July 19, 2017
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“The European Union is the only association of countries in the world that conditions the relations with Israel,” Netanyahu said, “on political conditions — the only one!”
“We have a special relationship with China, and they don’t care,” he added. “I mean, they don’t care about the political issues.”
“It’s absolutely — may I say — I think it’s crazy. I think it’s actually crazy,” Netanyahu said.
In recent years, Israel has destroyed hundreds of European-financed structures — including schools, playgrounds and solar panels — built to help Palestinians in the occupied territories.
Netanyahu and his ultranationalist supporters have harshly criticized European governments for providing financial support to Israeli rights groups, including Breaking the Silence and B’Tselem, which work to expose abuses by Israel’s military in the occupied territories.
The prime minister and members of his right-wing coalition government have also complained bitterly about an E.U. directive issued in 2015 to clarify that the label “Made in Israel” cannot be used for products from Israeli settlements built in the occupied territories, which are illegal according to both the Fourth Geneva Convention and the United Nations Charter.
After Netanyahu’s complaints were made public, the European Union’s delegation to Israel responded with a statement that it still expects his government to show “respect for international humanitarian law” and make progress towards a two-state solution.
1/2 #EU has deeper, broader relations with #Israel than with almost any 3rd country & we continue to advance them, economic and political
— EU in Israel (@EUinIsrael) July 19, 2017
2/2 Upgrading to next level must be based on our shared values, incl. respect for international humanitarian law, steps to 2-state solution
— EU in Israel (@EUinIsrael) July 19, 2017
Netanyahu’s appeal for help to the four premiers of former Soviet bloc nations — Viktor Orban of Hungary, Beata Szydlo of Poland, Bohuslav Sobotka of the Czech Republic, and Robert Fico of Slovakia — was also notable for his claim that Israel was a bulwark of “European” values in the Middle East.
“Don’t undermine that one European, Western country that defends European values and European interests and prevents another mass migration to Europe,” Netanyahu told the leaders, who have resisted the resettlement of refugees in their countries on the grounds that Muslim migrants could dilute their national character.
In his pitch, the Israeli prime minister seemed to barely sublimate an appeal to the anti-Muslim sentiment of European racists who constantly hype fears about their Judeo-Christian civilization being “overrun” by Muslim invaders.
“I think Europe has to decide if it wants to live and thrive or if it wants to shrivel and disappear,” Netanyahu said. “I am not very politically correct — I know that’s a shock to some of you. It’s a joke: but the truth is the truth.”
“We are part of the European culture,” Netanyahu added. “Europe ends in Israel. East of Israel, there is no more Europe.”
Netanyahu’s private description of Israel as part of Europe, and the recent increase in pressure on Israel from the E.U. calls to mind the analysis of the historian Tony Judt, in an interview published in The London Review of Books shortly after his death in 2010.
Asked by Kristina Boži?, “Is there anything Europe can do to exert pressure on Israel?” Judt’s reply is worth quoting at length:
Israel wants two things more than anything else in the world. The first is American aid. This it has. As long as it continues to get American aid without conditions it can do stupid things for a very long time, damaging Palestinians and damaging Israel without running any risk.
However, the second thing Israel wants is an economic relationship with Europe as a way to escape from the Middle East. The joke is that Jews spent a hundred years desperately trying to have a state in the Middle East. Now they spend all their time trying to get out of the Middle East. They don’t want to be there economically, culturally or politically – they don’t feel part of it and don’t want to be part of it. They want to be part of Europe and therefore it is here that the EU has enormous leverage. If the EU said: ‘So long as you break international laws, you can’t have the privileges of partial economic membership, you can’t have internal trading rights, you can’t be part of the EU market,’ this would be a huge issue in Israel, second only to losing American military aid. We don’t even have to talk about Gaza, just the Occupied Territories.
Why do Europeans not do it? Here, the problem of blackmail is significant. And it is not even active blackmail but self-blackmail. When I talk about these things in Holland or in Germany, people say to me: ‘We couldn’t do that. Don’t forget, we are in Europe. Think of what we did to the Jews. We can’t use economic leverage against Israel. We can’t be a critic of Israel, we can’t use our strength as a huge economic actor to pressure the Jewish state. Why? Because of Auschwitz.’ I understand this argument very well. Many of my family were killed in Auschwitz. However, this is ridiculous. Europe can’t live indefinitely on the credit of someone else’s crimes to justify a state that creates and commits its own crimes.
If Zionism is to succeed as a representation of the original ideas of the Zionist founders, Israel has to become a normal state. That was the idea. Israel should not be special because it is Jewish. Jews are to have a state just like everyone else has a state. It should have no more rights than Slovenia and no fewer. Therefore, it also has to behave like a state. It has to declare its frontiers, recognise international law, sign international treaties and agreements. Furthermore, other countries have to behave towards it the way they would towards any other state that broke those laws. Otherwise it is treated as special and Zionism as a project has failed.
People will say: ‘Why are we picking on Israel? What about Libya? Yemen? Burma? China? All of which are much worse.’ Fine. But we are missing two things: first, Israel describes itself as a democracy and so it should be compared with democracies not with dictatorships; second, if Burma came to the EU and said, ‘It would be a huge advantage for us if we could have privileged trading rights with you,’ Europe would say: ‘First you have to release political prisoners, hold elections, open up your borders.’ We have to say the same things to Israel. Otherwise we are acknowledging that a Jewish state is an unusual thing – a weird, different thing that is not to be treated like every other state. It is the European bad conscience that is part of the problem.
Top photo: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu informs the press about his meeting with V4 – Visegrads countries prime ministers, a press conference in Budapest, Hungary, on July 19, 2017.
Judeo-Christian civilization?
is this right terminology?
I prefer Jewish-christian, with a large J, and a small c noting both the codependence, and the servile nature of Christians who eagerly paytheir lord plenty of lip service and loyalty to it’s clipped putz.
But Judeo is so crypto, by design, that we never think it through. It seems that Latin works magic on the sheeple.
A true scumbag. Fortunately it is only a matter of time before someone takes out this monster.
I agree with you 100%. that son-of-a-bitch needs a good smack down. He’s pure trash.
And, we thought Hitler and Stalin were bad, and they were. The great black American writer, James Baldwin, had a term for Netanyahu and his believers; moral monsters.
Only slightly off topic ..
I knew that Netanyahoo and these Israeli groups couldn’t let Congressional investigations take down Don Jr and spare their favored son…Kushner.
Low and behold, the hearings will now be in private and not under oath!!!
What dirty business all around.?
Excellent ending!!!
Good article, Mackey..and excellent comments.
“In recent years, Israel has destroyed hundreds of European-financed structures — including schools, playgrounds and solar panels — built to help Palestinians in the occupied territories.”
What kind of people do this? It’s like they picked up a Nazi playbook & went to town.
Israeli’s don’t care if they’re seen as barbarians and the technology Netanyahoo talks about has always relied on US subsidies, contracts and or grants.
There was a book deemed very anti semitic in the early 1900’s…that was about Jews taking over the world..I think people like Netanyahoo and earlier Zion nazi’s got copies and thought..hey..great idea!
I am criticizing Zionism..not Judaism.
I will always be shocked that those that suffered, as Jew’s did, could turn around and perpetrate the crimes they have.
Zionist’s behaviours have dried the tears I shed reading Sophie’s Choice, years ago.
Read up on The Synagogue of Satan. Research what is meant by ZOG and ZOG nations. When doing so, please use an independent search engine such as GoodGopher.com or Ixquick or Yandex. The G & Y ones are controlled and manipulated by the ZOGs.
Off your meds today?
The thing about that ‘self-blackmail’ is that it has a shelf life, and it’s fast approaching the ‘chuck it out’ date. Those who were alive, and therefore most likely to feel responsible, during WW2 are ageing out of the political scene, and even their children are hitting that point. At the same time, those who have lived their entire lives with the Israeli regime (and their own countries) abusing, persecuting, and turning a blind eye to the abuse of Palestinians in particular, and Muslims in general, are making up more and more of the population, and those sickened by the casual racism against Muslims are becoming a political force to be reckoned with.
And one only has to look to the UK to see how impossible it is to time the point when the political ‘sure things’ will invert.
Well said! Keep posting such excellent comments. The more people who read them, the better and quicker we can develop a groundswell against the ZOG nations.
Are you doing disinfo ops for Israli intelligence?
“When I talk about these things in Holland or in Germany, people say to me: ‘We couldn’t do that. Don’t forget, we are in Europe. Think of what we did to the Jews. We can’t use economic leverage against Israel. We can’t be a critic of Israel, we can’t use our strength as a huge economic actor to pressure the Jewish state. Why? Because of Auschwitz.’ I understand this argument very well. ”
The above argument had never made sense to me as…
Zionists were co-perpetrators of the Holocaust. But they are not full of guilt, rather they have made themselves beneficiaries of the Holocaust. It is a weapon, a club, that they use to intimidate politicians with. Something to wield for political advantage.
Never forget…(how can you forget when you never knew?)…Zionists were co-perpetrators of the Holocaust and then the co-perpetrators were protected by The State Of Israel with the full force of their legal system.
You can begin your educationby googling:
kastner the verdict of judge benjamin halevi
and read Israeli court records
or better still, jump straight to:
http://www.fantompowa.net/Flame/judge_halevi.htm
he only difference between Putin and Netanyahu is the color of their countries flag.
https://jakobinfo.blogspot.nl/2017/07/holocaust-revisionism-zion-protocols.html?m=1
I spend as much time as I can afford to in Europe, and can attest to the pervasive western European feeling of guilt about what happened to their Jews under the Nazi reign of terror. I seem to spend a lot of time trying to persuade them that the guilt for that is on the shoulders of their grandparents or their parents (if they are over 65), and that their decisions should be based on current European standards. I tell them it is fundamentally hypocritical to criticize human rights abuses by China or Turkey while ignoring those of Israel. So far I have not made much impact, but I am hopeful, because in 2003 I was telling them that they should no longer look up to or trust the US, and now they agree with me.
It is just a matter of time before the civilized world wakes up to the monstrosity of the Israeli regime. When that happens, no amount of US military aid will be sufficient to save them.
What always amazes me about Europeans and white Americans is that they expect, nay demand, that an innocent 3rd party (the Palestinians) to pay for the they crimes that they (Euros) committed against the Jews.
I feel bad for punching you in the face, so to make up for it, I’m going to hold down this smaller, weaker kid, who had nothing to do with my abuse of you, so that you can punch him in the face. There, we both feel better now.
Exactly, but it is not so much the fault of the Europeans as the Americans. Talk about hypocrisy! We turned away ships with Jewish refugees, sending them back to certain death; we knew about the death camps but preferred bombing German cities, killing women and children to disrupting the rail lines that enabled millions to be so efficiently shipped to their doom; then after the war was over we embraced the Zionists and were the principal enablers of the 1948 UN resolution setting up Israel. We, the USA, could have accepted a million survivors without it disrupting our economy, but our own latent anti-antisemitism led to Israel as the preferred solution. We did not care about the Palestinians or anyone else in the region for that matter, save possibly the Saudis, who were not affected.
Europe can probably live without trade with Israel, but can it live without conscience and human dignity?
Netanyahu thinks that conscience and dignity are “crazy”. That is because he has none himself, and represents the faction in Israel that is like him. Thankfully there are still Israelis who want peace and justice for, and with, Palestinians. Europe should reject Netanyahu’s assessment. He’s the crazy one.
Probably?
Did Europe not exist nor prosper before Israel?
Israel must be boycotted until its apartheid regime falls.
If a teenager were to say this in a classroom or seminar room it would regarded as damning evidence of immaturity. For an adult to say it, much less a longtime politician, suggests the mind of a psychopath.
Yeah what’s a little genocide and oppression among neighbors whose land you stole?
See this is the sort of dehumanizing talk that the Nazi’s engaged in and which ultimately allowed for millions of jews and other minorities to be merciless murdered. Netanyahu and with it Israel’s apartheid regime are doing just that but I guess it is ok because they are jews and the US supports them and their victims are arabs/muslims who no one cares about, eh?
Sadly, you’re right. Check out what some thinkers (primarily Primo Levi but others too) have to say about the concept of ‘mussulmann’ in the concentration camps.
https://www.thoughtco.com/muselmann-in-nazi-concentration-camps-1779686
I think theres some deeply unconscious activity lurking there.
Regarding the ‘millions’ ‘merciless murdered’, you might want to check these old US newspapers that claim ‘six million dead’ since the time of the Russian Tsar – http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?state=&date1=1836&date2=1922&proxtext=6000000+jews&x=11&y=17&dateFilterType=yearRange&rows=20&searchType=basic
Netanyahu’s mindset is typical of that of a thug. His chastisement of the EU for requiring progress on the Palestinian-Israeli peace process as condition for trade presumes that the EU leaders are stupid and ignorant of what the Zionist State, under his leadership in particular, is up to in the occupied territories and with the Palestinian people. He also thinks he could hold the EU hostage to Zionist Israeli “technology” that the Europeans may crave. Crazy. Then, he brags about bombing Iranian convoys bound for Hezbollah fighters inside sovereign Syrian territory, ignoring the implications including admission of assistance to and alliance with terrorists inside Syria, in utter violation of Syrian territory. Then, the mere fact that what he thinks differently from what he tells publicly reveals of the contempt he has for the general public as being gullible and malleable indicates his moral callousness and sense of righteousness.
Here’s some information about Israel’s theocratic apartheid state. The BDS movement is having an impact upon Israel.
http://www.redressonline.com/2017/07/report-exposes-abuse-and-neglect-of-illegally-detained-prisoners-in-israel/
http://www.redressonline.com/2017/06/why-has-cyprus-become-an-israeli-province/
http://www.redressonline.com/2016/11/keep-your-kids-away-from-israel-its-dangerous-for-jewish-children-says-american-jewish-father/?
netanyahu is the head honcho of an organized crime and racketeering operation to murder people to steal their land under the color of religion. He has his “crew” in the US scheming to throw Americans into prison if they object.
https://theintercept.com/2017/07/19/u-s-lawmakers-seek-to-criminally-outlaw-support-for-boycott-campaign-against-israel/
On top of that, he has managed to abscond with $38 BILLION of from the pockets of American citizens who have previously been robbed of life (iraq wmd war fraud), liberty (from debt of home valuation fraud by wallstreet thieves), and now he wants to steal happiness and brand the people as CRAZY instead of deplorables.
he belongs in a mental institution for the criminally insane.
Every time that man opens his mouth out poor’s bs & lies. He refuses to except that all human life should be respected. Israel is not superior in anyway & the way the dollar is going they won’t have USA support much longer. Then what Mr Khazar Nuttiyahoo?
Fantastic Robert!
This piece made my morning!
Thank you!
:)
Human and civil rights have not been a priority for the Netanyahu/Likkud faction for quite some time, like forever. “Israeli rights,” yes of course. Raise the banners, beat the drums, “We are the chosen ones..! (and screw anyone who says different…).” This, apparently based upon the assumption that “Israeli” is separate species from, and above, the rest of humanity, much like white supremacists in the US talk about (their) “rights,” perhaps the way Southern slave owners spoke about, perhaps still do, the idea of owning human chattel as *their* inalienable right.
“Political conditions,” right… Let us review the utter banality of evil. Take a look at Mr. Netanyahu and all that he represents and believes and at the very core you will find the bright burning flame of “Me first! Me only!” This is the common strand that links all these great disparagers of human rights.
As I remember, the South African government protested until the end being labeled as an apartheid regime. Right up until it collapsed. Mr. Netanyhau and Likkud surpass even that wretched example, dragging a once proud nation of Israel down with them.
Yeah, of course, those four leaders of Eastern Europe would certainly go along with Netanyahu. He knows his audience.
It seems that as far as it pertains to zionic Israel,
your conscience is what is circumcised.
What about Turkey and Erdogan?
At least if you want some conflicted views about alliances and human rights as well as policies.
AHere are Jewish leaders endangering ( and stealing from) their own community.
Here is an interesting true crime happening now.
The charity set up by Jewish federation’s leadership ..is a kickback scheme with unqualified incompetent leadership.
Similar to the Jewish’ holocaust industry’ as revealed by dr Norman Finklestein, Jewish leadership have created a ‘antiterrorism industry and it is called ‘secure community network ‘or SCN.
Under the guise of protectng Jews from terrorism, its actual function is to steal money for the founders and trustees.
Who are these people? Gerald Silverman of North American Jewish federations(800,000$). Malcolm Hoenlein( 650,000$) of the Confrence of presidents of major jewish organizations. David Harris(1,400,000$) of the American Jewish committe and from my hometown Cleveland Stephen Hoffman(850,000$).
Grants exceed income claimed on public IRS 990 reports. Geraldo Silverman’ s group in 2012 gave SCN 450,000$….the same year SCN claimed 433,000$ total from all sources….and many other Jewish federation’s also gave. One might imagine that with the multiple layers of oversight by highly paid jewish prodessionals this would not be possible….but that is the bullshit they spout to get you to entrust your monies with them.
Paul Goldenberg has an interesting claimed biography if true…but it is not.
https://njmonthly.com/articles/jersey-living/tough-guy-paul-goldenberg/
Which sixth largest American county human services agency did Paul Goldenberg lead as claimed? US Senate whitewater investigation strategist??
Award winning Miami cop?
Consultant on the sopranos??
He and his attorney robert f munoz REFUSE to answer…
Very little is very accurate but the founders and trustees needed someone willing to steal for them…reducing the pool of potential leaders for this important task of protecting the Jewish people…whom they. Alledgedly LOVE and swear to protect.
This will make the William Rapfogels case look small.
More data on request.
Notice the perps silence….when are the resignations…where are the outraged trustees….protecting the crooks.
“The joke is that Jews spent a hundred years desperately trying to have a state in the Middle East. Now they spend all their time trying to get out of the Middle East.”
This should say “European and American Jews.” Middle Eastern Jews, who BTW are treated as 2d class citizens in Israel, don’t want to get out of the Middle East.
The behavior of these right wing Zionist assholes makes me ashamed to be Jewish (culture and heritage, not religion). Israel exhibits the behavior of an abused person: because the Nazis committed genocidal murder against European Jews, the European Jews who run Israel now abuse Palestinians and even more open-minded Jews who oppose their policies. Just like most abusers were abused themselves, except that Israel is not a person and has no excuse for this.
Wow. I think I clicked onto the message board at the Daily Stormer or the David Duke’s fan page.
Wow. Copy-paste hasbara much, girly-boy?
so you are saying you are not a David Duke fan just a homophobe?
No. Israeli men tend to be very insecure about their masculinity because they are cowards.
So now you are blaming your homophobia on others? Face it your outed.
It’s hilarious because five years ago, you were calling people “fags” in internet comment sections. Now, you only whisper it amongst your pals while you accuse others of homophobia online.
Huh? The only one who has been using homophobic terms is you. Now that you got caught you make up lies about me.
Being a liar and a homophobe is no way to go through life WW.
Dez. Do mean that because you are trying to demonize those speaking out against oppression? Then you are right, go to the Daily Storm to post your pro-oppression views.
David Duke and Zero Hedge are their intellectual gurus. The ‘ Euro built structures:.. Schools , clinics etc that were bombed by Israel made fantastic firing points for Hamas ,’fighters’, (and I use the word loosely, cuz evildoers who intentionally blow up school buses and pizza parlors are really just low life assassins) to launch their brave rockets against Jewish kindergartens. Mr. Mackey left out that small detail. As he usually does.
You are thoroughly delusional.
Israelis are cowards.
They rely on others to fight their battles, they are scared of bottle rockets from Gaza.
It’s Israelis that kill babies and take the diapers from old people, defund elderly care, nurseries and mandate the illegal settlers carry arms.
You are an odious group and a far cry from those that lived there before Zionism.
No Jewish person that doesn’t share you’re odious views should be slimed by your actions and weak hasbara defense of them.
Calling Palestinian’s ‘animals’ and worse is like Nazi films calling Jews vermin.
You are losing support every day that you are the bully’s of the world.
Get your own money, fight your own battles and leave the rest of the civilized world alone.
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The migration crisis Netanyahu was mentioning has been provoked to an overwhelming extent by the American led invasion and destruction of Iraq, Libya, and the civil war in Syria fuelled by Western (as well as non Western support), all of these have a lot, sometimes an awful lot as in the case of Iraq, and in the case of the Western support for the violence in Syria, with the so-called “security needs of Israel”. For this migration crisis to have been avoided, Israel should have been tamed a long time ago, to avoid continuous chaos in Syria and a future war in Iran, Israel will have to be tamed. It should a primary goal of the EU to tame, what a former French ambassador to Britain called “a shitty little country”.
What’s Netanyahu really saying here? Kill every one of those f*****g sand n*****s. People in the US protested South African apartheid. But now it’s going to be a felony to non violently protest against Israel apartheid?
Tom.. that was a tough read that GG posted today .
The fact is some bought-politician ( Darbin ?) is still alive to breath , drink , and strut . This ain’t gonna be pretty !!
BTW : I miss Mona ,,, Luv ya Mona . GG , you are a different kinda cat ,, “HARD TO SKIN” .
Heck, why not outlaw any boycott of any kind against any business
Is a Jewish person a Jew ?
What is “JEWISH” ?
You know what mudbone, I’ve never read anything by you, remotely interesting.
Anyone can become a Jew. It’s a religion. It’s the only religion referred to as a nationality and I don’t know why people repeat it. Well, to be fair, Muslims are perceived in the same manner. Hebrews are the people who once populated the region and they didn’t just reside in historical Israel, many populated Africa (Ethiopia).
Right wing, European converts are pretty much the ones causing all the mess. Palestinians are just Hebrews who converted to Islam or Christianity. Right wing, European converts have been successful at creating a rift not only among Palestinians but among themselves. Ethiopians and people who have roots in the region are not treated equally.
I don’t know why Likud and the right wing settler class get away with these Nazi type practices. And, people actually defend them. If it wasn’t for the US constantly giving them cover, this issue would have been resolved decades ago.
I hope the corrupt Wahhabi, Saudi movement (GCC), Neocons in our country, NATO, Likudniks and the settler class all fall. These groups happily contribute to much of the human suffering on this planet.
The answer is a bit more nuanced than that, and it depends on who you ask. It is useful to compare the most racist definitions of Judaism, those of the Nazis and of the Orthodox Jews. Suppose, that Joe’s grandfather on his mother’s side was Jewish, but all his other grandparents were not. According the the 1936 Nürnberg laws, that makes Joe a Jew (Mischung 2er grad). However, according to Orthodox Judaism, Joe is not a Jew because Jewishness is transmitted through the mother’s side. Of the four possibilities involving having one grandparent Jewish, Orthodox Judaism and Nazis are in agreement only in the case where the mother’s mother was a Jew. According to either, it does not matter whether Joe practices the Jewish religion – in fact many European Jews converted to Christianity in hopes of avoiding Nazi persecution, to no avail.
That said, Reform Jews regard anyone who practices the religion as a Jew, especially if they happen to be white.
“especially if they happen to be white.”
Where do you get shit like that? Do you actually think before you post?
You know nothing about Judiaism and your statement that what orthodox Jews believe makes one a Jew is “racist”, is both ignorant and bigoted.
Wrong on all counts. For instance, the few Jews I knew in the south when I was growing up there were every bit as racist as the Christians; and even the New York Times has published articles about the discrimination against black Jews that takes place in Israel.
As to the statement about orthodox Jews, perhaps there are subsects that do not hold that Jewishness comes via the mother; I only know what my Jewish friends have told me.
My view is that whenever someone claims that their particular group is the “master race”, or “chosen people” it means the same thing: that they are setting themselves apart and above all others. If that is not racism, I don’t know what is. And being god’s chosen people is a fundamental tenet of Judaism.
Wrong. The term chosen people refers to being chosen to spread the word of god. It is considered to be a burden. It has nothing to do with superiorty. I never cease to be amazed at the number of people who claim to be anti zionist who eventually drop the mask and let it slip that it is Jews they have a problem with.
Right. I’m all the time having to close my door on those Jewish missionaries just spreading the word of God and leaving tracts.
Oh and this is priceless.
“the few Jews I knew in the south when I was growing up there were every bit as racist as the Christians;”
Too funny you damn a whole people based on a few that you claim to know.
A bigot such as yourself has no business calling out anyone for bigotry.
That’s a very interesting explanation.
Thank you.
As long as they have US aid, they will continue to act brutally, stupidly, and without consequence.
The House approved an increase to the joint US-Israeli missile program by $705mn in the 2018 NDAA. Who is going after Israel with missiles worthy of $705mn?
They need a tarpaulin to bounce back rocks and stones.
Fu*k it .
I thought that after Mr Obama’s $3.8bn, Israel wasn’t to get another dime.
It was a good hot mic moment.
I despise Netanyahu & our officials who support them unconditionally.
I despise cocky authoritarians the most.
To talk about the “Rights” of Zionist Israelis is NOT only “CRAZY”… It is “Morally Reprehensible!”
Zionist Israel are “Crimminal Against Humanity!”
Uncle Truth 2U- why should granting rights to one set of people, mean that the rights of another set of people should be denied? Why shouldn’t we honor the rights of *both* Palestinians _and_ Israelis? #arablivesmatter #jewishlivesmatter
And we gave these A-holes nukes ?
We didn’t. They developed the hydrogen bombs themselves. The reactor is a French design.
I agree with Tony Judt, except on Gaza. We do have to talk about Gaza, it has become a vast prison.
the fact that you don’t put 100% of the blame on egypt proves that you’re a jew hater or just another brainwashed sheep
I choose sheep (brain washed).
The joke about 2 states lasts since 40 or 50 years now. I really hope, no one is enough naive to trust to this thing which is just an excuse to continue colonization..
Israel ( AIPAC) has the US by its Capitalistic Balls . The Planet is up for sale !