The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    Obama was right on the UN

    By Flavius on Wed, 12/28/2016 - 2:23am |

     resolution condemning the planned next stage in Israel's settlement policy.

    The  choices :

    (A) support the resolution,i.e. tell Israel  the US want's it to

    stop expanding settlements

    (B)veto  the resolution i.e tell Israel  expanding settlements is OK

    (C )abstain. 

    With respect to these choices:(a) is too broad. It starts down a path which leads to the conclusion that

    there shouldn't be an Israel. We tried that in 1930. Remember?  Didn t  work.

    (b) It isn't

    (c) A safe haven.At least compared to A and B.

    Comments

    The settlements are only a part of the issue. Netanyahu is backing away from the two-state solution and has Trump's support.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/26/donald-trump-backs-away-from-...


    by rmrd0000 on Wed, 12/28/2016 - 10:10am

    Yes ,it's an endless issue .  . And at whatever point you attempt to talk about it you'll be told, reasonably        enough , you can't discuss , say, Rabin's assassination or  Sharon's facilitation of the Lebanese Christians'  attack on  Shatilla  without also discussing  the "Seven days war"or  the bombing of the King David Hotel or the "Final Solution" , or the Dreyfuss case or The Merchant of Venice or "The Children's Crusade" or  Emperor Constantine. Including  at every stage those who were honorable or dishonorable . Or , frequently, both.

    So I limited myself to last week's abstention,  

     

     

     

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    by Flavius on Wed, 12/28/2016 - 9:27pm

    Flavius... Geez . . .

    Don't overlook god's promises to Abraham and Moses.

    ~OGD~

     


    by oldenGoldenDecoy on Wed, 12/28/2016 - 7:23pm

    God said to Abraham "give me a son"/Abe said "God, you must be putting me on"?


    by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 12/28/2016 - 9:11pm

    Hmmm???

    December 28, 2016

    Jerusalem (CNN) Israel stepped back from approving hundreds of new homes in East Jerusalem on Wednesday, ahead of a speech by US Secretary of State John Kerry on the Obama administration's vision for Middle East peace.
    The city council in Jerusalem canceled a vote to approve the construction of 492 units -- such as homes, synagogues and other public buildings -- in areas of East Jerusalem annexed by Israel.

    Council member Hanan Rubin, a member of the city's zoning committee, said the decision followed a request from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

    --snip--

    The reason behind Netanyahu's call for the city council's vote to be canceled remains unclear, and the vote could still come before the city council's zoning committee in the future.

    CNN Link

    ~OGD~


    by oldenGoldenDecoy on Wed, 12/28/2016 - 7:18pm

    So, if they aren't planning on doing what the UN resolution prohibited, why is Bibi making his usual stink?  Just because he likes to be an ungrateful asshole, or because he knows he will get carte blanche from dt?  I cant think of a third possibility, can you?

    edited to correct spelling


    by CVille Dem on Wed, 12/28/2016 - 11:20pm