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The Obama Team Labels Israel an Outlaw Nation
John Grant
Hallelujah!
As President Obama is about to fade from the White House forever to make way for the Twitter King’s juggernaut of furniture wreckers, his abstaining vote on a United Nations Security Counsel resolution to condemn Benjamin Netanyahu’s settlement policies in the West Bank and Jerusalem as “illegal” has rocked the leadership of that tiny nation. Naturally, Netanyahu and others in the Likudist pro-settlement camp went ballistic, since they’ve written Obama off as a loser and know what a coup the condemnation resolution is. To be so condemned as an outlaw faction will encourage further opposition to Likudist Israel in Europe as it will put an international stain on products made in West Bank settlements. Many of those products are being exported illegally, something that will now be in the public eye.
President Obama, John Kerry, UN Ambassador Samantha Power and an angry Benjamin Netanyahu
One of the brightest spots in all this is in the last three yards of his run President Obama assumed some backbone vis-à-vis Netanyahu, a leader who dis’ed and humiliated him publicly on several occasions. Then there’s Secretary of State John Kerry, whose 70 minute speech at the State Department Wednesday showed glimmers of the young Vietnam veteran John Kerry who publicly wondered, “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake? … [W]e have been used in the worst fashion by the administration of this country.”
To Netanyahu’s remark that “Friends do not take friends to the Security Counsel,” Kerry replied with the equivalent of the well-known public service line: “Friends don’t let friends drive drunk.” The runaway arrogance of the Israeli right can easily be seen as akin to being drunk at the wheel on one’s own exceptionalism and entitlement.
John Kerry has been a longtime insider in the very same American government that “used him in the worst fashion” as a young man. So for me, his remarks come not from a “friend” of Israel, but from the equivalent of a parent who birthed Israel in 1948 under President Harry Truman. That moment in history, of course, was rich with profound international decisions that Americans were forced to live with in the years that followed. Some of those decisions went completely off the rails. This has a compelling poignancy for me, since as a “baby boomer” born in 1947, my life spans the same years. Some might say I've gone off the rails. I presume Kerry must feel some of this, too; he was born in 1943. In 1947, Truman and Congress established the National Security State; the CIA was officially born out of the OSS that year. President Truman and “the buck stops here” was ground zero. For the Vietnam War, 1945 was the fateful year. It’s when Truman decided to betray our WWII ally, the Viet Minh, and support the French desire to re-colonize Vietnam, a decision that led to 30 years of grotesque, unnecessary war on the people of Vietnam.
So, Mr. Kerry, welcome home, brother! If you follow the lead of your better-late-than-never, straight-talk censure of the Israel Likudists and don’t slip back into shameless, toad-eating political expediency I’m going to consider you, again, part of the Peace Movement, a movement that has been slandered and marginalized for the entire 20th century and into this century. (Among reluctant Republicans in Washington, we’re told that toad is the gourmet meal-de-jour as the city prepares for the gala arrival of the Twitter King.)
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Very soon the Palestinians according to the bible will loose all of their , excuse me , Israel’s land all the way to the Mediterranean sea ! So this Obama nut move will soon prove fatal to him as GOD takes matters into HIS own hands . Dumbass !!!
jdp…NO THE OUTLAW IS OBAMA and his administration, ITS not Obama’s right to tell other nation rulers they not fit to rule who does he think he is? he is not the worlds law and justice man by no means, he is not even a leader of his own country because he is not leading he is acting like a 5 year old with a temper SOMEONE SHOULD TELL HIM TO SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP because he had 8 years and blew it rushing things now won’t do.
jdp…the US MIL must not follow Obama ‘s order to drop/shoot nukes anywhere directed, but if told to do it, make a quick arrest of the commander in chief as delusional and mentally incompetent. Who wants war on US soil?
Dear John…your one sad puppy.. Was it really that much fun tearing off butterfly wings when you were a kid?
Israel better start shutting it’s filthy mouth for if were not for America, Israel would have been wiped out a long time ago. Nobody likes the Jews. You don’t talk shit the guy keeping you safe. Self entitled scumbags.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwQBubJnoe0