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2015-06-25 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Obama, Netanyahu, human rights and Barbie

The war of words between US President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is nothing new. But in the past several weeks it has reached new heights. In President Obama's televised address to Israelis, he framed the dispute as one over values, doubting Netanyahu's sincerity in creating a Palestinian state. He expressed his concern for the Palestinian child in Ramallah whose rights are denied by the lack of such a state. In arguing for the hearts of minds of Israelis and American Jews, President Obama positions himself as the defender of values. Given the supreme importance that the Jewish experience accords to human rights, American Jews seem inclined to agree with this position, and wonder why Israelis would support a prime minister who seems opposed to human rights.
Of course some of us know that Obama is a liar, a thief, a destroyer of civil liberties, and a mass murderer: both directly & undirectly.
A look into my house on a recent Tuesday night (May 26) might explain why so many of us support Netanyahu's government. We live in Beersheba, a city of 180,000 about 50 km from the Gaza fence. At 9 p.m., I saw the news that rockets had fallen in Gan Yavne, a smaller city about 40 km northwest.

"The Barbies need to go," I told my 10-year-old daughter.

"Why?" she understandably asked.

She'd done her homework, why couldn't she play Barbie? My two daughters' bedroom is our house's "safe room," a 12 square meter addition at the back of the house made out of reinforced concrete on pillars reaching bedrock. The safe room is designed to withstand rocket attacks, even if the rest of the house collapses.

"Because we may all need to sleep in here tonight and we can't sleep on top of the Barbies," I explained.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-06-25 05:21|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ] Top

#1 Links don't seem to work. So.
(1)link 1
(2)link 2

Links in this comment fixed at 12:00 ET

-- trailing wife

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-06-25 05:42|| 2015-06-25 05:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Bibi should consider hiring a few cooperative guys to fly Confederate flags over Gaza. Whole different optic.

Posted by Matt 2015-06-25 08:26|| 2015-06-25 08:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Gracias, TW

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-06-25 15:51|| 2015-06-25 15:51|| Front Page Top

#4 De nada, g(r)omgoru. Incidentally, I just fixed the link in your in-line as well. Somehow you'd put in the search instead of the actual URL. I just pasted in what you'd given as link 1 in your comment, above.

Posted by trailing wife 2015-06-25 17:23|| 2015-06-25 17:23|| Front Page Top

#5 He expressed his concern for the Palestinian child in Ramallah whose rights are denied by the lack of such a state.

Many moons ago, some old Jewish lady said something to the effect that there will be peace when the Paleos care more for their children than killing Juices.

How much money has been shoveled into Paleostine over the last half century? A small per-capita fortune? The place should be a friggin' paradise by now. Just seems crazy to expect the Israelis to care more about Paleo kids than the Paleos do.

Posted by SteveS 2015-06-25 21:50|| 2015-06-25 21:50|| Front Page Top

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