Originally Posted by Ike Bana (Post 264015)

As far as I've been able to determine there has not been a peep outta the usual suspects around here about the recent elections in Israel. Reckon what that's all about?



Why? Because they know that, American aid notwithstanding, they're in this on their own. Nobody's gonna send any flesh and blood to fight by their side. Kuwait...yep. Afghanistan...sure. Iraq...of course. Israel...fuck no. Not much of anybody outside of the international community of Jews gives a shit in Yasser Arafat's hat if Israel were over-run tomorrow by a million sacrificial Iranians in one of their insane suicide charges. And it's pretty goddamn stupid as Israel is the only democracy for thousands of miles in the region...and the only country where we won't be seeing some sick Islamic religious fanatic funding suicide squads to sneak over here and blow a few more thousand of us to shreds.

So it appears that Israelis have decided that the rest of their world can take their Zionism=racism and their disapproval of Benjamin Netanyahu and stuff it. Well done.

Originally Posted by Boreas (Post 264026)

I'd suggest the reason that there hasn't been a discussion of the Israeli election is that you, Ike, have totally stifled any discussion on the subject and you did it with posts like the above. Your position, in advance of any discussion, is that anyone who adopts a position at odds with your own is an anti-Zionist, anti-Semitic terrorist lover. What the fuck is the point of trying to have a discussion that has been preempted by that kind of horse shit?

So, go fuck yourself

Originally Posted by bobabode (Post 264038)

Yawn. :rolleyes: http://www.politicalchat.org/showthr...?t=8829&page=3

Originally Posted by Ike Bana (Post 264040)

C'mon bob...I don't give a shit about Netanyahu. He's another politician, George Bush, Barack Obama, Ted Cruz, Benjamin Netanyahu. The meat of my post is about the Israeli people. Israelis don't feel safe where they live. Would you? Israelis went for the guy who they feel gives them their best chance at survival. There are other issues in Israel, but when it comes down to it this is what every Israeli is thinking when they go into the voting booth. They've decided that Netanyahu give them the best odds for surviving. Good for them.

Originally Posted by Ike Bana (Post 264040)

C'mon bob...I don't give a shit about Netanyahu. He's another politician, George Bush, Barack Obama, Ted Cruz, Benjamin Netanyahu. The meat of my post is about the Israeli people. Israelis don't feel safe where they live. Would you? Israelis went for the guy who they feel gives them their best chance at survival. There are other issues in Israel, but when it comes down to it this is what every Israeli is thinking when they go into the voting booth. They've decided that Netanyahu give them the best odds for surviving. Good for them.

Originally Posted by Boreas (Post 264041)

Yet Netanyahu invited the Jews of Europe to emigrate to Israel so they'd be safe.

Also, the rhetoric that Netanyahu used on the eve of the election, no two state solution, more illegal settlements and race baiting the Israeli Arabs, is virtually guaranteed to further entrench attitudes and polarize the two sides. The net result, of course, is to make Israel less safe, not safer.

Originally Posted by Ike Bana (Post 264040)

...The meat of my post is about the Israeli people. Israelis don't feel safe where they live. Would you? Israelis went for the guy who they feel gives them their best chance at survival. There are other issues in Israel, but when it comes down to it this is what every Israeli is thinking when they go into the voting booth. They've decided that Netanyahu give them the best odds for surviving. Good for them.