Israel to World: "Suck It."

Sort of? Abbas FTW!

It's super rad.

damn he totally went there

awesome

Some might say that this is big talk coming from someone still occupying the PA presidency ages after his term of office expired. But yeah, it's not really for Iranians to tell Palestinians whether or not they should enter into negotiations.

I can't help LOL'ing every time someone uses the words "peace process" and I've never been proven wrong.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11199709 <- settlements freeze won't be extended, Avigdor Lieberman says

Lieberman doesn't want to extend the settlement freeze? Shocking!

yeah liebermans playing games

i hope

I don't know if he's playing or not, and he's right that he has the power to dissolve the coalition if he decides he wants to. But this isn't some tiny issue that Netanyahu can compromise on and just a few leftists will be upset. It's a hugely divisive issue that has been poisoning Israeli politics and culture for years, and that the majority of Israelis and Palestinians want a resolution too. Not to mention the severe consequences of no action (primarily the eventual dissolution of the Israeli state as a Jewish state because of demographic issues). Basically if Netanyahu does nothing, it's hard to see this coalition surviving into the distant future, and without Yisroel Beitanu, a new Likud party would have to work with Kadima. And if Lieberman won't compromise on this, Livni certainly will, which basically means that he can fuck shit up but he'd be a moron too. (And he has plenty of reason to want to compromise. Yes, his party represents very right-wing parties politically, but he's also very left-wing politically and his voters benefit a lot by having him in power. It might be worth giving up the ideology for the practical consequences -- something that never happens in the US, but is less knee-jerk in Israeli politics in my experience.)

too = to, way toooooo early in the morning for me

Ugh, that last bit in the parenthetical I totally fucked up. The people he represents are right-wing politically (esp on the issue of land) but left-wing economically and get a lot of benefit from government social programs, etc.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/09/22/israel.flotilla.report/

"The United Nations' Human Rights Council concluded Wednesday that Israeli forces committed serious violations of international law when they conducted a mid-sea interception of a humanitarian aid flotilla in an incident that left nine people dead."

"The report published today is as biased and as one-sided as the body that has produced it," the Israeli government said.

I'm gonna issue a report as biased and one-sided as the body that produced it...right in your fuckin' eye, Israeli government!

I'm sorry...that doesn't even mean anything.

so tired of the UN HRC's biased and one-sided persecutions of human rights violators

xp: Shooting something in their eye? That's antisemenitic :-(

idgi

The UN HRC actually is kind of biased against Israel, or at least overly focused on Israel.

so glad china's here to protect human rights around the world

and saudi arabia

oh and friends-of-the-Roma France

or at least overly focused on Israel.

hmmm I wonder why that is

Anti-semitism, of course.

still don't get stanm's post

what's not to understand? the first one is a link to an article. the second one is a joke in response to kgvz's "right in your fuckin' eye" remark about how anything critical of Israel is immediately branded as anti-semitic by the Israeli gov't.

oh right!

ha, ha that's hilarious, well done stanm

also a double entendre FYI

on the one hand, extend the building freeze ffs

on the other... owned much?

oh and friends-of-the-Roma France

I am always very persuaded by the "Israel may be oppressive, but other countries are much more oppressive" argument.

I am always very persuaded by the "Israel is worse than every other country in the world" argument.

ooh ooh can we have a poll you guys?

the cyber-attack thing is pretty genius, gotta say I prefer this method of warfare to Israel's other erm military tactics

I am always very persuaded by the "Israel is worse than every other country in the world" argument.

even North Korea?

erm - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/29/un-factfinding-mission-sa_n_743873.html

countdown to Israel calling video footage anti-semitic and biased 10, 9, 8...

7... 6... 5...

“Formerly an anti-Semite was somebody who hated Jews because they were Jews and had a Jewish soul. But nowadays an anti-Semite is somebody who is hated by Jews.”

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/politics/auschwitz-survivor-israel-acts-like-nazis-1.1000918

oh great, another 'anti-semitism doesn't exist' post from stanm

Yes, that is exactly what that article says and why I linked to it. Well done.

this guy's MO seems dubious, but what he says in that quote above has been true for a while.

stanm you made another lame crack about accusations of anti-semitism not long ago. im just wondering why you clipped that part of the article, which seems to me the least defensible. it's a battle of strawmen: sure, some people say any criticism of israel is always anti-semitic. but to say 'nowadays an anti-Semite is somebody who is hated by Jews' is bullshit. there are plenty of people who are called anti-semites who are actually anti-semites.

Could we leave the antisemitism out of it and just get back to Israel telling the world to suck it?

inspired by "What are some great charities to donate to out of spite?; i've given the zionist federation of great britain and ireland some cash on stanm's behalf. israel thanks you, stanm!

loool

What a relief! I'm so glad to find out that anti-Semitism is just another Jewish invention, like the Protocols and the Theory of Relativity. I was worried that an anti-Semite was just another racist dickwad, but it turns out that whatever it is, it's the Jews' fault and clearly isn't anyone else's problem. Thanks for the lesson, Dr. Meyer and StanM!!

That's not what was said at all.

hate stanm so much, let's all pile on.

yeah! Who does he think he is? I know where he lives and I just peed into his mail box! Take that, god hater!

Oh wait. Damn.

pimp c bitch I got a zoo up in my closet