‘Escape Path’: Increasing Fear Has Some Israelis Scrambling for EU Passports
- Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:53am by
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TEL AVIV, Israel (The Blaze/AP) — Are Israeli’s looking for an emergency escape path? Despite their country’s turbulent history, Israelis enjoy a fairly secure existence: they have military might, a world-class high tech industry powering a strong economy, and America as a solid ally.
Yet in recent years, tens of thousands have requested and received the citizenship of European countries like Poland and Germany, which were killing fields for Jews just decades ago.
On the surface, the attraction is practical: An EU passport enables free travel and work in the entire union of 27 nations, giving access to high quality and subsidized higher education.
But just beneath lurks some fear for the future.
“Because of our situation, it’s good to have an escape path,” said Moti Alberstein, a 36-year-old doctoral student in biochemistry who just received Polish citizenship. “Life in this country entails so much uncertainty that there is this need to have some security. That’s why people are drawn to this.”
Israelis in general have more access to foreign passports than most, because a majority of them, or their parents, came here from somewhere else, and many retained the right to a passport from their countries of origin.
There is no stampede to actually leave a country that – for all its troubles – actually weathered the global financial crisis better than most.
In 2009, fewer than 16,000 Israelis left and stayed abroad for more than a year, while 11,000 who had lived abroad for more than a year returned, according to data from the Central Bureau of Statistics. Immigration is also slightly on the rise, approaching 17,000 in 2010.
Statistics about second passports are notoriously hard to nail down.
Countries do not always know whether their nationals have taken another citizenship. The American embassy estimates there are between 120,000-200,000 Americans in Israel.
Israel’s government claims it does not know how many of its immigrants retained their previous citizenship.
More than 1 million immigrants arrived from Russia, Ukraine, and other countries of the former Soviet Union since the collapse of communist rule there 20 years ago. The quasi-governmental Jewish Agency, which handles immigration, says a majority of them probably kept their foreign passports.
The new phenomenon is the accession to the EU, between 2004 and 2007, of several countries in eastern Europe where millions of Israelis have roots. The biggest numbers are attached to Poland, where some 3 million Jews lived before the Holocaust, and Romania, with close to a million.
That has made acquiring passports from those countries attractive enough to overcome the painful history.
One incentive, possibly as important as a safety net, is simply practical. It is easier to travel under a European passport than an Israeli one. Many more countries require Israelis to acquire visas, compared to Europeans.
It’s not uncommon on weekday mornings to see a line of eager Israelis stretching out from European embassies in Tel Aviv, seeking visas or passports.
“It’s definitely a phenomenon,” said lawyer Amichai Zilberberg, one of several who have specialized in recent years in the acquisition of Polish passports. “They want a foreign passport just to be on the safe side.”
Poland says it has issued 12,800 passports to Israelis from the Warsaw district alone since 2004, when that country joined the European Union, transforming a Polish passport in effect into a EU one. The Polish embassy says it is now issuing passports at a rate of some 2,000 a year.
The numbers are smaller in Romania, whose Interior Ministry would only say that 162 Israelis received citizenship since January 2009 – but even that has sufficed to stir up agitation on the country’s far right blogosphere, where ultranationalist Ion Coja, a former communist party secretary, called it “an invasion taking place in secret.”
The most complicated case may be that of Germany. It allows Jews who survived the Holocaust, to reclaim citizenship, and more than 25,000 Israelis have done this in the past decade.
If there is a trend toward seeking a safe haven, there would be several possible explanations. To begin, Israel considers Iran to be an existential threat, charging that its nuclear program threatens Israel as its leaders talk about destruction of the Jewish state. Israel dismisses Iran’s denials.
Domestically, many Israelis are concerned about the growing influence of ultra-Orthodox Jews, especially since many of the men in that rapidly expanding community spend their lives studying scripture and surviving from government handouts. They fear the dampening affect they could have on the liberal aspects of Israeli society like nightlife, army service for women and low-key acceptance of gays.
Others are worried about unrest sweeping the Arab world and its potential to threaten Israel, and closer to home, many despair of ever making peace with the Palestinians, facing a long-term existence of attacks, disputes over settlements and international condemnation.
There is internal unrest as well. Tent cities have sprung up all over the country, and hundreds of thousands have demonstrated to protest housing shortages, high prices and poor government services.
Dan Ben-David, a Tel Aviv University professor and executive director of the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies, says Israel will struggle when so many people are not productive: “A third-world economy cannot maintain a first-world military,” he said. “And without a first-world military, we will not be able to survive in this part of the world.”
The nagging sense of possible impermanence remains. The popular TV comedy “Ramzor” (Traffic Light) recently devoted a show to the trend of Israelis seeking EU citizenship.
In the episode, a character suffers a nightmare in which he is the last person remaining in an Israel under nuclear attack – after everyone, including his wife and daughter, have fled with foreign passports.
With uncertainty characterizing the situation, Israelis appear to be preparing for the worst by ensuring that all options are open. Considering the difficult nature of the political situation in the region, these decisions aren’t radically surprising.
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Comments (77)
krisfaction74
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 11:54amI see allot of people who believe “setting Israel free” means leaving them to defend themselves by themselves and want America to take on the role of cheerleader. To those people, I want to ask when do we stop cheerleading and stand with our ally, before or after the ovens are fired up.
Israel can take care of themselves but when they ask for help will we bleed beside them.
I believe in liberty but it comes at the cost of blood, it is a sad reality. The people who want us to return to isolationism don’t understand our enemies hate us partially because of Iraq and Afghanistan but mostly we are hated for our success and freedom. If the battle does not take place on foreign soil then it will take place here. None of the people I know want war but if it is required of them they will go in order to ensure our home is safe.
Above all it is the soldier who prays for peace.
Report Post »rdietz7
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 1:57pmhow do we defend Israel? joining the US military at this time wpuld be a mistake. Israel’s enemies have been training since they were children. I’m down for getting a merchant boat filled with Americans ready to fight for Israel and kill some jihadists. who will fund a citizen military? what if Obama sends his drones after us. we need to do something, but what?
Report Post »Yaeli
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 9:15amNicely said Kris. Something most ‘cut off the funding to Israel’ people don’t know is first of all that every single penny Israel gets from the U.S. is spent in the U.S. for the purchase of military equipment, thus bolstering the U.S. economy (all those jobs making the equipment we buy). Second, that money comes to us in terms of a loan, unlike the money poured into Palestinians and many other places elsewhere, and we pay it back with interest. We also agree to buy additional U.S. equipment with Israeli-taxpayer money rather than purchasing it from other, cheaper sources. We also work on technological advances to be incorporated into U.S. equipment, making your equipment better.
Report Post »pandora
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 11:53am“God only helps those who help themselves” Just learned this saying came from Aesop’s Fables. It is not a quote from the Bible and in no way reflects the unconditional love that God has for his creation. God helps those who cannot help themselves! He alone bestows Grace.
Report Post »blowback
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 12:00pmNever what it appears to be: http://www.eutimes.net/2009/08/israeli-historian-most-european-capitals-are-targets-for-our-air-force/
Report Post »Chr1st14n
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 1:48pmno He doesn’t. God helps those who come to Him in faith. Without faith it is impossible to please God (Hebrews 11:6). If you go around trying to make everything happen for yourself that‘s not faith that’s taking your own life into your own hands and not submitting to His leadership.
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 5:18pmJews do not have any escape path. Obama has surrounded them with enemy Moslem states. Israel will have to use those secret 5th generation nuclear weapons against the Moslem nations, you know the Hydrogen weapons that do not require an atomic bomb to ignite and do not have any radio active fallout. We are looking at an Moslem free Middle East.
Report Post »pandora
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 11:50amPlease conservatives…don’t waste your vote on Ron Paul. Yes, he does have some good ideas but he has too many radical ideas that will render him totally unelectable. Obama will win in a landslide if Paul is the GOP candidate. Remember he is also an older man. It just isn’t going to fly with most people. Let’s get serious around someone who is truly capable of beating Obama.
Report Post »blowback
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 12:19pmWho?
Report Post »UrbanCombatSurvivor
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 2:10pmI wonder if you have been listening to the media rather than the people on this. Look at the polling, and ignore the talking heads.
Report Post »powhatan
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 11:49amI would be afraid too..shoot, I am getting afraid here…with this govt in charge anyway…
Report Post »ejbonk
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 11:30amAny Port in a Storm,Mentality. Survival Mode starts now.
Report Post »southernloyalty
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 11:07amWhy do they have to go to Europe? Europeans don’t want them there. They’re already being invaded by middle easterners and Africans. If the Jews flock to Europe they’ll just be telling the Europeans you better accept and tolerate these third worlders much like they do here in the US. Why don’t they all go to South Africa, I mean they did help Mandela create that nightmare of a place, so they should go there and live in the mess they helped create.
Report Post »They SMEAR what they FEAR
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 11:53amLMAO…you’re an ignorant-idiot
Report Post »Gypsy123
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 11:01amIsaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea, only the remnant will be saved.
Report Post »Not a bad idea for them to get passports
PApeacemaker
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 10:56amI think the Jews should just move to Antarctica. Nobody owns it & nobody will bother them down there. I’m getting kind of sick of all these fighting between the a-rabs & the jews. It getting old very fast & one of them has to go. An we all know who is the problem in the world & it surely isnt the jews. I don’t recall jews forcing religion on anyone & bombing innocent people in the name of there God. They say theres 100,000′s of muslims at Mecca at any one time so theres a good place for a 1st strike.
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:27pmSo, you agree that the intolerant muslims start it always, yet you also say the Jews should move to Antarctica? You seem to be speaking out of both sides of your mouth.
Report Post »elosogrande
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 10:33amInstead of letting every uneducated stumble bum in America come to America illegally, why don’t we give some Israeli citizens visas to come here. We could use another infusion of intelligence, similar to the one we received after WWII. Maybe we could come back from being ranked 27th in education in the world and turn this country around. It’s obvious the we have screwed up our educational system so badly, that we just don’t have the horse to compete, using our own people. That’s the real reason why jobs are going off shore. We don’t have the horses to do it ourselves.
Whether anyone wants to admit it or not, we are going into the sewer because of immigration and the “dumbing down” of our own children. Look at the crap that’s on TV, in magazines, and in films today. Thirty or more years ago, people would not have been the slightest bit interested in the garbage that our people can’t get enough of today. It would have been too stupid to watch. Kim? Paris? Britney? They’re revered today by the dolts in our society, yet they have no talent, no beauty, no nothing. Many of our children are no longer capable of doing a days work. Too lazy. Too stupid. Too interested in texting crap back and forth to each other, while the boss is looking the other way.
Please! Send us twenty thousand Jews and their families to live in America.
Report Post »southernloyalty
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 11:03amHow about no. We don’t need anymore Obama voters given that jews strongly supported and still support Obama.
Report Post »PoliticalJunkieToo
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 11:15amNO!!
For the reasons above.
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 11:55amIf I’m not mistaken, American immigration authorities are limiting the immigration of Israeli’s.
Report Post »Yaeli
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 8:08amIsraelis are far more conservative and to the right than your average American. You wouldn’t be getting any Obama votes from us –only 7% of Israelis think he is not anti-Israel. We essentially no longer have a ‘left’ in our country.
Report Post »blue_sky
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 10:27amTypical for US and EU Jewish socialist-progressives. When it is time of peace, they go to Israel and agitate for love and surrender the land to Arabs. When it is time to defend the state of Israel, they flee back to US or Europe.
Against this sad background it is nice to see that a Jewish former top lawyer of Reagan administration, Bruce Fein, has joined Ron Paul campaign and talks awesomely about how to restore economy in USA.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTLHGDAlsC8
TH30PH1LUS
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 10:10amNothing wrong with having a contingency plan when it comes to survival. I have to wonder though, if the reason IS to find refuge in Europe… will they actually find it there? European demographics show a bleak future within 40 years.
Also: I noted the statment in your article about Orthodox Jews living off of government handouts? Really? How does sucking off the government square with religious teaching? This is total hypocrisy, if it’s true! Tell us more about this, and who is confronting this issue, please.
Report Post »Yaeli
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 8:22amHere’s the deal (and it is only the Ultra Orthodox Jews here in this country –everywhere else they work like normal people). They’ve interpreted the scripture that a man should devote his life to Torah to mean that he should spend his entire life studying Torah but not just in the evenings etc. but full time. Essentially to be in school for life (in a yeshiva) and to spend all day, every day dawn to dusk studying the bible. They have an average of 8 kids but families of as many as 16 kids are not at all uncommon. They do not believe in the State because they think no one can create the state before the Messiah comes.
Report Post »TWO BITS
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 9:57amIt is now reported that Turkey is extremely angry with the United Nations’ conclusion that Israel was justified in attacking that flotilla last year. Further tensions in a volatile Middle East, and Israel is surrounded by enemies.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 9:44amAnd history repeats itself , but this time the
Report Post »Jews have nukes. Nobodys loadin them on trains
this time around ! Not without a BIG BANG…
southernloyalty
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 11:09amGood hopefully the jews and arabs destroy one another completely. Then we won’t have hear about all this garbage anymore and the rest of the world can get on with their lives.
Report Post »PoliticalJunkieToo
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 9:23amVechorik
RON PAUL 2012
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I can only hope for Ron Paul to win.
But for some reason people keep voting for THE SAME crappy presidents. This time the “elites” and the LSM are pushing Rick Perry and Mitt Romney – TWO HUGE RINOS.
Romney believes in FORCED purchase of healthcare – GOVERNMENT CARE
Perry believes in going AROUND Texas who voted DOWN the China Superhighway though Texas by approving it himself. China wants to bring MANUFACTURED products in through CHEAP Mexico ports rather than though USA California ports and then deliver their products in CHEAP Mexican labor trucks throughout the USA instead of USA employed truckers …… BUT to do this China needs a SUPERHIGHWAY from MExico though the USA and INTO CANADA. Thanks – Rick Perry for approving a plan that will POUR thousands of unsafe Mexican trucks, illegals, drugs and God knows what else right though USA heartland and take away what LITTLE MANUFACTURING we have left.
Perry also FORCED parents to give girls that new anti-wart vaccination.
Perry also APPROVED that Texas muslim FORCED school curriculum.
I could list 12 more Perry horrors but this blog frowns on it.
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 9:39amGood gracious, you Paulies are a rude bunch!!!
Did you even check to see what this article is about?
Report Post »Vechorik
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 10:14amQPWILLIE, the article is about Israel. Where does your candidate stand?
Report Post »A GOP-chosen Republican who will keep Israel in chains and not allow it to defend itself?
Or what? Yes, Israel! That Ron Paul want to set free. Just like all Americans should be FREE!
It’s called LIBERTY.
Vickie Dhaene
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 10:24amWho are you leaning toward to from the pick we have to date? Cain/Bachman
Report Post »IntegrityFirst08
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 10:38amThese Ron Paul guys never give up. They just slander and hack away at anyone but RP. If foreign policy was up to RP Isreal wouldnt even be here today. There is a deadly consequence to his view on other nations, that if we just leave them alone they would do the same with us. Thats a death sentence to Isreal. I know you RP guys dont live there so its easy to make the decision like cowards behind the glass. Attack people in mobs, shout people down in mobs, yall make me sick.
Like I have said before I agree with a bit of what RP has to say, hes straight edge with the constitution. But some of the policy that i disagree with are ABSOLUTLY deal breakers for me as a conservative. Fiscally, I dont think there is a better option than RP. Unfortunatly thats not my issue at this time.
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 10:55amVechorik,
I have my favorites but my candidate is whoever can get Obama out of the white house. All the while, you are helping him to get reelected by trashing all his possible opponents.
I truly believe Obama (& company) is behind the Paulie cult movement. He has the most to gain from it and their tactics are the same as those of the leftists. You‘re being used and don’t suspect a thing.
Report Post »PoliticalJunkieToo
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 11:18amQP willie
Report Post »I KNOW what the topic is about. But I choose to respond to a fellow blogger who had RONPAUL2012 under his name. No one forced you to read my comment back to him. Don’t like it – don’t read it.
PoliticalJunkieToo
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 11:26amIntegrityFirst08
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 10:38am
These Ron Paul guys never give up. They just slander and hack away at anyone but RP.
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Actually, I would also vote for Santorum, Cain and possibly Bachman. I am pro-choice and for cutting more than half or more to all the 900 USA military installations around the world we parked our butts on and never left after WWII and Korea and these are not for that.
I am not voting for Rick Perry or Mitt Romney. PERIOD.
If Republicans choose huge RINOs like Perry or Romney in 2012 – it will be Obama for another 4 years.
1992 George H.W. Bush (R), Bill Clinton (D) and Ross Perot (I)
Report Post »2012 Barrack Obama (D), Romne or Perry (R) and whoever the (I) candidate
Vechorik
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 12:10pmJudge Napolitano “In whose hands will you trust your freedom?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cudRxDqQAhk
Judge Napolitano is 100 PERCENT CONSTITUTIONAL, each and every time he speaks.
Freedom Watch Judge Napolitano supports Ron Paul
Ron Paul supports the Tea Party
An in case you didn’t notice, Bachmann fell BEHIND PAUL in the polls.
Report Post »Romney and Paul almost tied and Perry leading the pack. It’s still very early though.
Vechorik
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 12:17pmPoliticalJunkieToo — I’m shaking my head at your ignorance — You really don’t know that Ron Paul is running on the REPUBLICAN ticket? You think he’s Independent?
Report Post »I hope you get educated before you vote. That‘s what’s wrong with America. We’ve been asleep too long while Liberty slips away.
PoliticalJunkieToo
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 9:14amFrance, England, Spain – all of Europe is being muslimized. There is no where to run except to the USA and we don’t need any more huddled masses.
The American Jews voted Obama in (and Israli Jews adored Obama in 2008) and allowed him though his closing down American farms by shutting off water and imposing more and more regulations which sparked a food shortage/high food cost and hunger in the middle east (USA FEEDS the world) AND USA interference in these countries after the spark was lit allowed radical muslims to take over so many middle east countries.
I am not interested in Jews any longer. They made their bed – let them lie in it. Even TODAY – most American Jews will vote for Obama. You can’t help people bent on their destruction.
Report Post »Blight14
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 9:17am@PoliticalJunkieToo, BRAVO! So there is at least one person on here that isn’t totally brainwashed…..No, we do not need nor want them in America, I’m sure Europe would prefer they stay away also…..They do NOT make good neighbors/guests…………….
Report Post »NuffSaid
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 9:30amNext time the Germans want to put the french in servitude and slap the Brits into the north Sea, let ‘em go. No more Lend Lease, no Marshall Plan. Figure it out yourselves next time, Euro freaks.
Report Post »southernloyalty
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 11:11amAmen. Oh and there‘s more than one who isn’t brainwashed.
Report Post »Yaeli
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 8:46amYou’re very wrong. Israeli Jews in 2008 were well aware of the fact that he had radical ties to Muslim extremists and had sat in an anti-semitic church for 20 years. Israel was hoping for McCain. We liked Bush a lot.
Report Post »I-HATE-THE-WORD-DISENFRANCHISE
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 9:07amEvil is on the rise world wide and most can feel it. I know alot of people wanting to flee the USA and I just say this, when the US falls you do not want to be an American in some third world country. If you notice Putin and other leaders already placing the collapse of the world economy upon greedy American’s. It kind of resembles the times just before WWII in Germany and conservetives will be the next Jew.
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 9:14amNOT! Conservative and the principles of the U.S. Constitution reside in the hearts of all mankind (except elitists and tyrants). It can never be defeated no matter what police state the tyrants want to impose. The World would go tribal and the process continue as it had pre-U.S. in poverty and hundreds of wars with unestablished borders. Don‘t think Satan doesn’t know this..
Report Post »I-HATE-THE-WORD-DISENFRANCHISE
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 9:31amI pray the LORD comes quickly. With the decay of morality we have yet to see the extent to which man can fall.
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 9:03amIt may be time to deconstruct mecca, which was erected after muslims STOLE the foundation where Israel’s King David once resided. Islam is a heretic religion that worships a rock that tells them to subjugate their women and behead anyone who does not listen to the almighty rock!
Report Post »Jack of Hearts
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 9:36amWhat are you rambling on about? Try reducing the medication.
Report Post »aesaac
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 9:03amjust for sport lets dismantle the dome of the rock and al askar mosque – crate them and ship them to tehran – but if you wanteed the real strategy it is the fall of every government in the middle east, syria is next with assad, and last is iran – it this has been the u.s. military strategy then within the next two years the middle east war will be over and the 7 countries will be a disjointed, disfunctional mass of innefectual disaparit people – and the middle east war will have brought to brilliant end by obama – and why not – he has played the fool thus far, but the middle east is a house of cards that is falling – blowing over by a wind of non dictitorial change, though a theocratic dictatorship – moves with the speed not of electricity, but by courrier – so the last card to fall will be iran, and after syria- this is the brilliance of obama’s military sublety – play the fool but wuth the cunning of a churchil, or eisenhower – the end will certainly tell – let us hope we are in the end game of a very cunning series of wars by one of america’s greatest military strategists – and all conducted with the secrecy of the Los Alamos Project – Let us play the last hand in Teheran – play the people of the 21st century against those of the 7th -
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 9:09amWell– We did try freeing the muslims, but obama rolled all that back when he apologized to the muslim brotherhood and then loaned then our military that had been standing ground for the people of Iraq. So- obama may have forced the outcome of which you speak. How Alinsky of him!….
Report Post »TEARS FOR AMERICA
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 9:01amTo my Jewish brothers and sisters: Believe God and His Word.
Report Post »PoliticalJunkieToo
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 9:15amJews are STILL VOTING for Obama in 2012.
God only helps those who help themselves.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:55am@FREDD
I know yer all right, but ya gotta put the word ‘Sarcasm’ at the end of yer posts when you are being sarcastic, or people like DARKIE just won’t get it …
Report Post »darkrage000
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 9:11amSad but true CHAZIIE
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:46amGiven the way Obama has abandoned Israel to the wolves, and joined the wolves against them; it is little wonder why so many are seeking a second path to freedom if it becomes needed. They see the facts of history repeating themselves, and so many are making ready while there is still time.
Report Post »http://artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm (cat folk gallery)
kickagrandma
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:43amAre you ready, guys?
HE IS COMING!
Report Post »Jack of Hearts
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 9:40amWell I hope he‘s got an EU passport or he’ll never get in.
Report Post »darkrage000
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:32amI dunno…. sometimes i wonder if maybe we shouldnt hire an israeli to be our president… they always seem to be prepared for problems!
Report Post »Vechorik
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:43am“In freedom, we can find our answers — In peace, we can find our prosperity!”
Report Post »RON PAUL 2012
searching for the Truth
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 11:59amNot unless he supports Israel! And, the reports don’t look favorable.
Report Post »krisfaction74
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:31amWe all know something is coming and our relationship with Israel will be tested. Will we stand for “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” or will they be words in a forgotten past.
I for one will stand.
Report Post »Vechorik
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:51amGood krisfaction74 — Then tell the US to get out of Israel’s business and set Israel free to defend itself as it sees fit!
Report Post »FREDD The WILSON
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:11amSeems like open season on the Jews. Turbelent world we are experiencing. It‘s all George Bush and racist Tea Party people’s fault.
Report Post »darkrage000
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:34amHey Fredd. i will say this simply….
you are a moron
‘its bush’s fault’
‘the tea party is a bunch of racists’
‘its bush’s fault’
‘the tea party is a bunch of racists’
‘its bush’s fault’
‘the tea party is a bunch of racists’
‘its bush’s fault’
‘the tea party is a bunch of racists’
‘its bush’s fault’
‘the tea party is a bunch of racists’
you sound like a mouthpiece for Obama.. Do you write his speeches?
Report Post »The Divided States of America
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:48amHey fred..please give your life to Jesus Christ…the devil walks about like a lion…seeking whom he may devour !!! WAKE THE FRED UP !!!
Report Post »Susie
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:50amDARKRAGEOOO
Report Post »I believe FREDD was being sarcastic.
Of course I would never call you a moron, but ….
how about you look before you leap next time ?
SICKOFPCNESS
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:55amThe communist symbol inside the the Obama logo is a bit of a hint that Fredd enjoys a good sense of humor. Sarcasm is the only relief that we have from the incomprehensible thoughts coming out of the mind, or lack there of, of a liberal/progressive. “Lighten up Francis!”
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