Syrai signs the CWC; giess who doesn't?

Israel is a modern democracy and America's and Europe's ally in the Middle East. All Israeli citizens - Christians, Muslims and Jews - have freedom of religion and the right to vote. Ten Arabs and 16 women are in Israel's parliament, and both men and women have access to education, modern health care and good jobs. Israel, like the U.S. and European Union, is a true democracy based on freedom and equality.

Israeli schools, books and teachers teach peace, tolerance and respect. In a region where there is so much hate and violence, Israelis want the next generation to have hope and a better future.

America's and Europe's ally, Israel, is a democracy in the Middle East. All Israeli citizens - Christians, Muslims and Jews , men and women - have freedom of speech, religion and the right to vote. Today, Israel is reaching out its hand in peace -with a bold initiative that will give Palestinians the entire Gaza territory -and a hopeful future. Israel, a true democracy, is looking for peace.

And the Christians....let's not forget the Christians who dominated those anti-Islam campaigns. Haters gonna hate.

"And the Christians....let's not forget the Christians who dominated those anti-Islam campaigns."

Zero Christians is not exactly dominating.

All of the anti-Islam Orgs are headed Jewish hate mongers.

From organizations headed by Pam Geller, to those run Daniel Pipes, David Horowitz, and those Rabbi aholes in Boston who tried to stop the Roxbury Mosque

The US has threatened to withdraw from all cooperation with the Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) if the UN resolution doesn’t include a Chapter VII authorization for military action if Syria is ever seen as “not complying.”

In practice that’s a blanket authorization for military force, since chemical weapons disarmament is a long, complicated process and deadlines are certain to be missed by the very nature of the process. The US, for instance, has been trying to disarm for nearly 50 years, and is still nowhere near done, and expects Syria to finish the entire process in just a matter of months.

Russia and China have repeatedly blocked Syria resolutions seeking to authorize military action, and the US had seemingly given up on the idea until Syria’s ratification of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) opened up the prospect of a UN Security Council resolution affirming Syria’s intent to disarm and offering international assistance.

Instead of standing on its own, the resolution is being cynically turned into a catch-all authorization for war by US officials, and may ultimately leave Syria disarming without any direct UN support.

Klondike5 wrote:

Zero Christians is not exactly dominating.

All of the anti-Islam Orgs are headed Jewish hate mongers.

From organizations headed by Pam Geller, to those run Daniel Pipes, David Horowitz, and those Rabbi aholes in Boston who tried to stop the Roxbury Mosque

Ha ha...no.

As we reported this weekend, Israel and its supporters are flipping out over the apparent thaw between the United States and Iran, precipitated by Obama’s climbdown on Syria. Here is an angry piece by Bill Kristol at the Weekly Standard, calling Obama an appeaser, Rouhani Hitler, Assad Mussolini, and saying that only Israel can lead. It seems the piece is written in desperation: Kristol marshaling what forces he still has at his disposal to head off any understanding between the US and Iran.

There is so much hysteria here that I need to quote a lot of Kristol’s argument to give full measure to his world view. How many Americans share this understanding? Notice Kristol’s extended and repeated Hitler analogies, the characterization of Obama as an appeaser who will leave the U.S. to be eaten by locusts, the overblown tone employing Shakespeare and Churchill references, and the heroic description of Israel as “for now the leader of the West” because it will act against Iran.

"Act Two opens at the United Nations. There, we’ll see a charm offensive worthy of Richard III by the new Iranian president and veteran deceiver of the West, Hassan Rouhani. In response, the Obama administration will move on from punting in Syria to appeasing Iran….

Smaller retreats lead to larger ones. The West’s failure to resist Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia in 1935—and his troops’ use of poison gas—was merely a foretaste of the failure to resist Hitler when he took the Rhineland in March 1936. In his essay in the volume Present Dangers, the historian Donald Kagan tells the story. Hitler had expected Britain to slap down Mussolini…. Hitler drew the lesson. The occupation of the Rhineland followed shortly.

There will be no Rhineland this time. Iran isn’t 1930s Germany, and the United States is more formidable than Britain. For now, Iran will have to achieve its goals by stealth and diplomacy, while Hitler achieved his by bravado and force. But the accommodation of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons lies ahead as surely as the accommodation of Nazi Germany’s expansionist dreams. Moreover, Rouhani knows what he is doing. He was Iran’s top nuclear negotiator for two critical years a decade ago and proved then his skill at duplicity in the furtherance of his regime’s nuclear ambitions.

And the Obama administration, too, will play its role, echoing the Baldwin government, which Winston Churchill in 1936 characterized as “decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.” Churchill continued, “So we go on preparing more months and years—precious, perhaps vital to the greatness of Britain—for the locusts to eat.”

As Iran moves closer to nuclear weapons, undeterred by the West’s leading power, a 21st-century tragedy threatens to unfold. Unless. Unless a dramatis persona who didn’t exist in 1936 intervenes: Israel. Ariel Sharon once famously said that Israel would not play the role of Czechoslovakia in the 1930s. Nor will it play the role of Poland. Despite imprecations from the Obama administration, Israel will act. One prays it will not be too late.

It is a strange course of events, heavy with historical irony, that has made the prime minister of Israel for now the leader of the West."

Once again this demonstrates the significance of MJ Rosenberg holding the line on the use of the term Israel Firster. Kristol is surely an Israel Firster. But only when people are allowed to talk about this allegiance freely will there actually be a public understanding: that not all Jews are Zi%nist, that Zi%nism calls on tribal and paranoid elements inside the Jewish community, and it has helped to build a militarist and discriminatory regime that is more and more isolated from positive world opinion.

From Phil Weiss:

A week ago today I visited E1, a mountainous patch of land east of Jerusalem that is famous because the Israelis have designated it for more settlements that will further fragment the West Bank and limit Palestinians’ movements, as the State Department has repeatedly stated.

In E1, I witnessed the results of the recent Israeli bulldozing of a Bedouin village in which 47 people lost their homes. You can see Mohamed Odeh S’eedi in the video above, showing me through portions of the devastated village, Az Za’ayyem.

Scores of Israeli soldiers arrived in the village with three bulldozers at 8 AM on Sept. 11. Then Israeli civilian officials in plain clothes went through the homes, removing personal belongings. After that the bulldozers and soldiers moved in, smashing one home and animal shelter after another, 18 in all, folding and warping roofs of corrugated steel. Thirty-two children lost their beds.

In March President Obama went to Ramallah and was asked specifically about E1. He was emphatic:

You mentioned E1, in particular. I think that is an example of at least a public statement by the Israeli government that would be very difficult to square with a two-state solution. And I’ve said that to Prime Minister Netanyahu. I don’t think that’s a secret.

But Obama and the State Department have had nothing to say about this demolition — nor about Israel’s demolition of Mak-hul, a Bedouin village in the Jordan Valley that European diplomats sought to relieve last week.

The State Department is keeping its head in the sand in the face of provocations. Spokesperson Marie Harf’s briefing last week:

QUESTION: Are you aware of the new Israeli settlement activities that are taking place, in fact, today near Hebron?

MS. HARF: I haven’t seen those reports, no.

QUESTION: Do you have any comments on – the Israelis are taking some agricultural land that has been for hundreds of years and so on.

MS. HARF: I’m happy to look into it, and if we – obviously, our position on settlements hasn’t changed. But I’m happy to look into it, and if we have additional comment, to get it to you.

H. Res. 61

In the House of Representatives, U.S.,

February 11, 2003.

Whereas the United States and Israel are close allies whose people share a deep and abiding friendship based on a shared commitment to democratic values;

Whereas since its establishment in 1948, Israel has fulfilled the dreams of its founders who envisioned a vigorous, open, and stable democracy;

Whereas an essential feature of Israeli democracy is its sys- tem of competitive, free, and open elections;

Whereas on January 28, 2003, the people of Israel elected Israel’s 16th Knesset, or Parliament, which in turn will choose the Prime Minister of Israel; and

Whereas the election on January 28, 2003, is the most recent example of the commitment of Israel to the democratic ideals of freedom and pluralism, ideals that Israel shares with the United States: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved, That the House of Representatives—

(1) commends the people of Israel for reaffirming their dedication to democratic ideals as expressed in the

election on January 28, 2003;

(2) expresses both its respect for the freely ex-

pressed will of the people of Israel, and its intention to engage in constructive relations with the new Govern-

ment of Israel, and urges the international community to do so as well;

(3) reaffirms the close bonds of friendship that have bound the people of the United States and the people of Israel together through turbulent times for more than half a century;

(4) urges the Palestinian leadership to abide by its commitments made to the United States and to Israel and urges the Palestinian people to act on President Bush’s call of June 24, 2002, to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure, end incitement to violence in official media, elect new leaders not compromised by terror, and embrace democracy; and

(5) restates the commitment of the United States to a secure peace for Israel.

President Shimon Peres

Copyright: Webcast

President Shimon Peres conveyed a letter of condolence to the Persident of the Republic of Kenya, Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta. He wrote:

There is no justification for the murder of innocent civilians and Israel stands shoulder to shoulder with the Kenyan government and people at this difficult time. We in Israel know the pain of terror and will do whatever we can to support the people of Kenya.

"I wish to extend my deepest condolences to the people of Kenya on the horrific terror attack in Nairobi. From the Holy Land we pray for the release of the hostages, the full recovery of the injured and comfort for the families of the victims.

Terrorism is a global threat and those who perpetrate it make no distinction between yount and old, men and women. There is no justification for the murder of innocent civilians and Israel stands shoulder to shoulder with the Kenyan government and people at this difficult time. We in Israel know the pain of terror and will do whatever we can to support the people of Kenya."

Thanks for an example of the power of the Israel Lobby.

You would never see the House sign anything like this for any other country.

AIPAC is constantly forcing their puppets in Congress to sign crap like this. They are constantly cracking the whip

Israel could not care less about the people of Kenya.

Just another chance for Israel to push it's Muslim terrorists propaganda.

"We in Israel know the pain of terror"

Along with another opportunity to wallow in their imagined victimhood.

They would never, of course, express any feelings for the victims of their terrorism in Gaza, the W Bank, Lebanon

Everything they do is about themselves.

Source???

Source?????

Sept 22, 2013 - St.-Sgt. Maj. Gal (Gabriel) Kobi, 20, of Tirat Carmel, was killed when he was shot in the neck at a checkpoint near Hebron's Cave of Patriarchs.

Gal Kobi of the Givat Brigade was shot and killed by a sniper at a checkpoint near the Cave of Patriarchs in the city of Hebron. The shooting occurred in the midst of violent Palestinian riots in which Palestinians targeted Jews who were gathered to celebrate the holiday of Sukkot at the holy site. The soldiers had been stationed in Hebron during the Sukkot holiday to protect them. Shot in the neck, Kobi was evacuated to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, where doctors tried to revive him. He was pronounced dead soon after arrival. He was promoted to Staff-Sergeant Major upon his death.

A neighbor described him as smart and witty. His high school principal, Irit Zelig, said that Gal was a lovely boy, well-liked by all, who achieved high grades. In becoming a combat soldier, he served as an example to his fellow classmates. "He brought honor to the school and to the town," she said.

St.-Sgt. Maj. Gal (Gabriel) Kobi was buried in the Haifa military cemetery. He is survived by his parents, Ovad and Smadar, and two younger brothers.

that's some serious propaganda there buddy. no mention of war crimes or possible crimes against humanity? nice. this "israel is the only democracy in the middle east" business, that tune is played out and not so many people are buying it anymore. from my experiences and those of my friends, the place is teeming with racists actually. it's gotten worse

A Jew, living in any country in the world has the RIGHT to travel to Israel and the RIGHT to take over as his home in perpetuity - the land and property of a Palestinian resident whose ancestors lived and farmed that land for centuries.

I have seen on television, the more radical of the Jewish settlers openly advocate they do the same to the Palestinians, that Hitler did to the Jews - and they still have to nerve to keep banging on about the ‘holocaust.’

California Senator Dianne Feinstein (D Tel Aviv) has proposed an amendment to the Media Shield Law that would ignore the protection afforded by the First Amendment and would limit the law’s protection only to “real reporters,” not bloggers and other upstart alternative media types.

Free speech is out in an Israelified America

$20 says that Butchie and K(l)ondike are the same guy - obsessed and weirdly needy for this thread to stay alive.