Holy shit, I wasn't even sure this guy spoke English (because I knew nothing about him) and then caught footage of him testifying before Congress to standing ovation.

I have never seen the PM of another country come into our legislative chambers and be greeted with standing ovation as though he were one of our own.

This is very good for Israel.

5/24/2011 10:26:04 PM

I’ve never fully grasped our Israel fetish.

5/24/2011 10:29:10 PM

Yeah, not a good day for the Admin.

It took balls for him to do that, and it was a great speech. Good to see a leader make a speech with some actual facts instead of platitudes. He never once said they wanted to "win the future".

5/24/2011 10:32:46 PM

fuckers in congress love israel more than america. They also boo our president and worship net@yahoo.com

5/24/2011 11:08:27 PM

he probably opposes the SF circum. ban

5/24/2011 11:16:56 PM

Complain about debt.
Cheer when largest recipient of US foreign aid per capita comes by.

5/24/2011 11:23:41 PM

He's a war criminal, right?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/15/israel-shells-un-headquar_n_158078.html

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"Israeli artillery shells struck the U.N. headquarters in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, setting a food warehouse ablaze and drawing a sharp rebuke from the visiting U.N. chief who called it an 'outrage.'... The U.N. compound, made up of workshops and warehouses as well as offices, was struck about a half-dozen times over a roughly two-hour period while more than 700 civilians were sheltering there, said John Ging, head of Gaza operations for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency."

[Edited on May 25, 2011 at 12:52 AM. Reason : ]

5/25/2011 12:52:03 AM

Yeah but he's our pet war criminal.

[Edited on May 25, 2011 at 1:16 AM. Reason : Okay, maybe we have a zoo.]

5/25/2011 1:05:04 AM

1) Motherfucker speaks English just fine.
2) We've had foreign PM's speak before congress before. Tony Blair spoke in front of a joint session, I know, and he was well-received.
3) With any luck Israel is against the ropes. I've said for a while now that some POTUS needs to remind them where the purse strings are held, and that their continued prosperity is contingent on our good will. I hope Barack pulls those strings tight until Netanyahu (or whoever) shuts up and plays nice.

5/25/2011 1:52:30 AM

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"This is very good for Israel. Very bad for the Palestinians world."

America loves war criminals, always has, [hopefully not] always will. Needless to say, only those war criminals which further America's 3 foremost agendas, i.e., oil, Israel's security at all costs, and anti-Communism/socialism. Remember Ariel Sharon? He was a bonafide war criminal, who basically ordered the massacre of 1,200 civilians inside a refugee camp.

5/25/2011 5:56:22 AM

He's as much of a war criminal as Obama is

5/25/2011 9:21:04 AM

I tried watching Netanyahu's speech, but I couldn't get through the whole thing. It was just sickening to see congress suck so much jew-dong.

If Obama stands his ground, I will have vastly more respect for him.

[Edited on May 25, 2011 at 9:43 AM. Reason : .]

5/25/2011 9:22:23 AM

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"He's as much of a war criminal as Obama is"

No, Ariel Sharon actually killed civilians, like with a gun, looking right at them and everything. He orchestrated raids against civilian villages to force them out of their homes back before Israel was created, and continued that behavior afterwords.

5/25/2011 9:47:02 AM

And yet, he is 10x more preferrable to Netanyahu.

5/25/2011 10:39:58 AM

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"He orchestrated raids against civilian villages to force them out of their homes back before Israel was created, and continued that behavior afterwords."

Haha, the US displaced 4 million Iraqis by 2007. Documented civilian deaths around 100k, undocumented deaths estimated to be around 650k.

5/25/2011 10:46:06 AM

It's not surprising that you blame the United States, and not the beheaders and suicide bombers who demanded Iraq remain a warzone long after it needed to be.

5/25/2011 11:06:33 AM

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"fuckers in congress love israel more than america"

Seriously. When we borrow money to give other countries "aid," and the people here are struggling, there's something very wrong.

5/25/2011 11:14:04 AM

^^
How many people do you think terrorists kill per year? According to the DoD, it's only in the hundreds. (don't you work for the DoD?)

Quote :

" Year Acts Killed Wounded 2003 208 625 3646 2002 199 725 2013 2001 346 3547 1080 2000 423 405 791 1999 392 233 706 1998 273 741 5952 1997 304 221 693 1996 296 311 2652 1995 440 165 6291 "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterns_of_Global_Terrorism

The US has killed hundreds in single attacks.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1212-01.htm

[Edited on May 25, 2011 at 11:26 AM. Reason : .]

5/25/2011 11:19:32 AM

Hey, sometimes you have to break a few eggs kill a few innocent people to make an omelette protect economic/religiously-motivated interests.

5/25/2011 11:23:45 AM

^^ so you are saying that heavy-handed US (and Israeli) counter-terrorism measures have been very effective in foiling terrorist plots and protecting people from attacks?

I agree.

5/25/2011 11:48:42 AM

^
No. It's done the opposite, and even if it did reduce terrorist attacks, it would be completely unjust, because the amount of people the US has (or caused to be) killed or displaced has been far, far more than anything the terrorists are capable of.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battles_and_other_violent_events_by_death_toll#Terrorist_attacks

Sort by year.

5/25/2011 12:06:31 PM

how is this relevant

if you want to talk about iraq or whatever, do it in your own thread.

5/25/2011 12:28:58 PM

I'm responding to points made in this thread. Sorry if you feel it has gone off topic. Feel free to ignore and continue with the main discussion.

5/25/2011 12:31:49 PM

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"I'm responding to points made in this thread."

I'm not sure if it was really you responding, it could be someone else, it could even be a robot. I am completely certain that it would be possible to make a robot that responds with off topic points like the ones made. So prove to me that you couldn't make a robot that responds to a thread with irrelevant posts.

see how irrelevant that is, yet it was a legitimate response to what you've posted.

5/25/2011 1:25:40 PM

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"Feel free to ignore and continue with the main discussion."

5/25/2011 1:27:17 PM

What an irrelevant response. I was referring to the sectarian thugs and foreign jihadis that insisted on keeping Iraq a war zone rather than the democratic and pluralistic society the US and its allies were trying to incubate. If you want to blame someone for the vast majority of civilian deaths and displacements, blame them, if you have a tincture of moral seriousness in you.

5/25/2011 4:31:04 PM

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"If you want to blame someone for the vast majority of civilian deaths and displacements, blame them, if you have a tincture of moral seriousness in you."

Nah, I'm going to keep blaming the people who are actually killing them.

5/25/2011 4:35:10 PM

Pupils DiL8t, your post was from back when Ehud Olmert was still leading Israel, and Netanyahu led the opposition.

5/25/2011 4:54:26 PM

^
You're right.

Thanks for the correction.

5/26/2011 3:43:44 PM

some of you are so retarded its hard to believe you are (or will become) college graduates.

5/26/2011 4:04:30 PM

^^^
Do you know off-hand what Netanyahu's position on the gaza war was at the time?


Mustafa Barghouti on the speech:
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/5/25/netanyahus_speech_to_congress_dashes_palestinian

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"What is most shameful... was the response of the Congress to what Mr. Netanyahu said... the fact that he got 29 standing ovations and so many applause by the Congress people reflects an act of irresponsibility by the Congress, because by supporting such extremists, like Netanyahu, in this manner, by supporting such extreme positions by this Israeli government, which is nothing but a government of settlers that is falsifying history and reality, by doing so, they are practically supporting an act that is aiming at killing any possibility of peace..."

5/28/2011 8:38:47 PM

Israeli extremists, thugs, terrorists, and war criminals are good, mmmkay?

5/29/2011 10:53:36 AM