Netanyahu Reportedly Rejects NYT Op-Ed Invite While Adviser Slams Paper for Anti-Israel Pieces
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected an invitation to pen an op-ed for The New York Times, according to The Jerusalem Post, which reports he’s “fed up with the influential newspaper’s editorial policy on Israel.”
The Post on Thursday obtained a letter Netanyahu’s senior adviser Ron Dermer wrote to the paper’s editorial board saying the prime minister would “respectfully decline.” The Post writes:
Dermer made clear that this had much to do with the fact that 19 of the paper’s 20 op-ed pieces on Israel since September were negative.
Ironically, the one positive piece was written by Richard Goldstone – chairman of the UN’s Goldstone Commission Report – defending Israel against charges of apartheid.
“We wouldn’t want to be seen as ‘Bibiwashing’ the op-ed page of The New York Times,” Dermer said, in reference to a piece called “Israel and Pinkwashing” from November. In that piece, a City University of New York humanities professor lambasted Israel for, as Dermer wrote, “having the temerity to champion its record on gay rights.”
That piece, he wrote, “set a new bar that will be hard for you to lower in the future.”
Strengthening the prime minister’s case, on Thursday, New York Times columnist Tom Friedman wrote that when Netanyahu received a standing ovation in Congress earlier this year, it “was not for his politics. That ovation was bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.”
Dermer blamed the Times for distorting the positions of the Netanyahu government while ignoring steps it’s taken to advance the peace process:
Dermer also took the paper to task for running an op-ed piece by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in May that asserted that shortly after the UN voted for the partition of Palestine in November 1947, “Zionist forces expelled Palestinian Arabs to ensure a decisive Jewish majority in the future state of Israel, and Arab armies intervened. War and further expulsions ensued.”
Those lines, Dermer wrote, “effectively turn on its head an event within living memory in which the Palestinians rejected the UN partition plan accepted by the Jews, and then joined five Arab states in launching a war to annihilate the embryonic Jewish state. It should not have made it past the most rudimentary fact-checking.”
Dermer criticized not only the information the paper chooses to include in its pages but what it omits. He wrote that in September, the Times turned down an op-ed co-written by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Virginia) and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland) expressing bipartisan support for direct peace negotiations and opposition for the Palestinian application at the UN for statehood.
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RIGHT_CHRIST
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 2:12pmWhy is it, if you don‘t perform ******** on Israel at the drop of a hat you’re labeled a racist? If you disagree with any part of their policies as a nation you hate all Jews? Boo Hoo Hoo Netanyahu, fat cry baby!
Report Post »RIGHT_CHRIST
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 2:15pmSorry, they censored the proper term for BJ in my previous post. Why is it if you question ANYTHING Israel does that makes you a racist and hate all Jews? Why is it because of this America and our military does what Israel wants because they don’t want to do it themselves (Iraq)?
Report Post »Gma Neal
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 1:17pmMake sure you get right with GOD. The book of Revelation outlines this perfectly. Crystal clear.
Report Post »2 Chronicles 7-14
noczars
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 4:58pm@ smack = at first I thought you were just a plant for the left. Now I see you are a “white supremist” Soros follower. Maybe even a OWS resident.
Report Post »Joe Schmuck
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 12:01am@NOCZARS
Lefties, such as the ‘Drive By Media’, love to make allegations without facts. Conservatives speak the truth and use facts.
Which one are you?
Please have the courtesy to backup your allegations by citing one of my postings that show I’m a ‘lefty’ and give me the opportunity to defend myself, make corrections and/or apologize.
Since I am VERY conservative … here are my facts;
YOUR WORDS Posted on December 11, 2011 at 4:47pm
@NOCZARS
Report Post »I have notice the blaze is full of lefties trying to sway us. DO NOT Respond to them. Like = soileddove; dissentnow; joe schmuck; jamesr; detroit paperboy; watchyer6; mr. oshawott; lather; behindblueeyes; baddoggy and the last two are the worst=yoursensei and conservakilla. If you ignore them, they will go away. My personal view is ANYONE but Obama. I have my favorites (3) but would vote Republican no matter who the candidate is.
Anamah
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 1:55amNYT is a commie paper, an anti anti free market so is anti American and anti Israeli. Times is part of this disgraceful Progressive MSM and for that it can not be trust at all. They also work to distort facts in other countries pretending to inform but in the facts subverting reality and promoting anti American ideology. Thanks to this MSM America is wrongly hated all over the world.
Report Post »RIGHT_CHRIST
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 2:23pm“Here are my facts;”
And then you left it blank after that. Good to see you got your facts straight. I can‘t wait for O’Riley tonight! Maybe Hannity will tell someone to ‘Shut up! You lie!‘ when he’s losing an argument, like he always does. Rich people didn’t even have toilets to flush 200 years ago! YOU THINK YOU’RE POOR? You’ve got a microwave and a TV! You can’t possibly be poor! SISSY LIBRULS! Worried about your children’s drinking water 20 years from now, YOUR WORRIES ARE WHAT’S KILLING JOBS! LOL show me your facts, make sure you include that they are ‘job years’ in your presentation of FoxFacts. (Because that’s what they are)
Report Post »noczars
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 4:44pm@ smackdown = That’s a really big # of NYT sales. However, did you know Soros buys those papers to support NYT? They really go into the trash just like Obama threw our flags in the trash after the 911 Services this year. Oh1 by the way Soros is now funding a new ABC show for a billionaire club. Supposedly, it will be journalistic??????????
Report Post »suz
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:06pmi very much like this more outspoken bibi.
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 9:35pmI wouldn’t wipe my rear end with the New York Times, if it were the last piece of paper left on Earth.
Report Post »dogue
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 9:57amYou could use a stone like the Muslims do lol.
Report Post »TalonsPoint
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 6:28pmFriedman is just mad that he can’t muster a standing ovation in an NYT elevator despite being bought and paid for himself.
Report Post »DE OPPRESSO LIBER
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 2:37pmI thought a Mexican owned the NYT!
Report Post »ACLUHater
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:40pmThe NYT has its nose up Zero’s crack.
Report Post »Seagal45
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 1:37pmGood for him, why waste the time on a rag that 3 or 4 people read.
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 2:14pmNew York Times Circulation: 876,638 daily 1,352,358 Sunday. And, this is just the newspaper.
It’s power and influence must be realized through its holdings: http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=4264
Report Post »SteelheadRock
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 1:10pmSo let me understand this. NYT is dismayed that Bebi would not pen Op-Ed after they have savaged him personally and Israel as a country? I knew the Times was arrogant, but this takes arrogance to a new level. Might I suggest to the Jerusalem Post that they extend the very same offer to any Op-Ed writer from the Times to post an editorial explaining their position on Israel. Actually the Times should be happy Prime Minister Netanyahu is declining their offer because they would get exposed for what they are and he obviously would make much more sense than anything the Times puts out there as “news.” Shalom Israel!
Report Post »neoconenemy
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 1:02pmUhmm the New York Times is owned and run by zionist Jews. This is a contrived feud. Almost as comical as Netanyahu’s speech to congress. He was saying they don’t need our help and they can defend themselves, but in the meantime have no problems lobbying for and accepting our $4 billion annual aid. They are also constantly arm twisting us (through AIPAC) to vote their way in the UN security council and trying to get us into Iran. This is nothing but zionist theatre to manipulate simple minds.
Report Post »Stephen
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 5:38pmUmmmm Arthur Sulzberger is NOT a zionist Jew in fact he is a self hating Jew just like his father. You, Mr NeoNazi, are ignorant of the facts. Go read a book and learn something.
Report Post »neoconenemy
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 11:23pmYeah any Jew that mildly disagrees with Israel is ‘self hating’. Call me whatever you want fact is you can‘t discredit anything I’m saying.
Report Post »noczars
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 4:47pm@ steven = Soros also is a self hating jew just lke his father. That is why Soros gets along with Obama.
Report Post »RIGHT_CHRIST
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 2:33pmIsrael and AIPAC I predict are going to make a HUGE push for America invading Iran after new years. I mean it worked with Iraq and we did their bidding like good little America., pet of Israel. The largest spy ring ever busted in the US was 200+ Israelis. But the media sure reported that one, didn’t they? Gingrinch or Bachmann would be perfect for the Israelis. They would really love Bachmann because while she thinks she‘s jump starting the rapture we’re just doing Israel’s bidding, again… But Gingrinch will fall in line, ousting any ‘activist judge’ that disagrees with the mighty Newt or disrespects Israel (not doing everything they demand).
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 12:45pmthe NYT is a communist rag that wants obama in as fuhrer and global pansy and to see Israel destroyed. no doubts here after it has served obama’s purpose NYT will be destroyed too.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:07amThe New York Times, the is a mouthpiece for the International Left, the “Hate America/ Israel” Crowd. That rag has been promoting the British Labour Party’s attempt to dislodge the conservative Cameron government/ Murdoch’s media control since last July. Think the New York Times has replaced the old USSR’s Pravda in publishing its Far Lefty opinions as “news” stories and thus enabling its largely anti-American commenters to post their propaganda pieces. News leaks of classified information and Lefty propaganda is now the speciality of the old Grey ( Red ) Lady !
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:31amThe New York Times published false information for Israel. The New York Times published false information leading America to go to war with Iraq, for Israel. Americans died for Israel interests. American wealth was squandered for Israel. Americas credibility has been wasted on Israel.
Report Post »Ben__Franklin
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 11:40amOoops Smack, your Anti-Semitism slip is showing under your dress…
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 11:57amA bird cage deserves better than the New York Times.
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 12:27pmI call it pro-American. You call it antisemitism. Fact is, like William Randolph Hearst, the New York Times led America to war with false information. Al Qaeda did 9/11. Al Qaeda was in Afghanistan, not Iraq.
Report Post »Paul Wolfowitz, a Zionist whose sister lives in Israel was the first to push for a war with Iraq: page 336 of the 9/11 Commission Report.
His long time friend and fellow Zionist, who has been in and out of the U.S. government for decades and carrying the water for Israel, Richard Perle, wrote about removing Saddam Hussein for Israel in 1996. He wrote how to get American support for this action. He even brought up the excuse of WMD’s to be used.
Mgindi26
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 11:17pm@smackdwn?
Report Post »When the US went to was in gulf war one, how exactly were they going for israels interests? As I recall they went for Kuwaits interests. As a matter of fact we wouldn’t even let Israel defens herself against scud missile attacks from Saddam Hussein. Instead we told Israel to absorb the missles raining down on her civilians and Israel being the good ally complied and absorbed the attacks without retaliating. NO OTHER COUNTRY WOULD EVER DO THAT FOR THE US. If we went to war for Israels interest we would have taken out Sadaam then and there but we left himin power.
Another fact you ignore is that in ALL of Israels defensive wars NOT ONE US soldier ever put boots on the ground to help Israel. Not ONE US soldier ever acted to defend Israel. No Israel fought those wars by herself.
Next Israel in the 80‘s did the world and the US a big favor by knocking out BY THEMSELVES Saddams nuclear capabilities if they didn’y by now the world would have already experienced nuclear terrorism.
Next the United States spends billions around the world with army bases protecting allies in places like Germany, S. Korea, Japan, and many more places. In the middle east tiny Israel represents and defends US interests and is a defensive line without the risk of one US soldier.
After 9/11 Pres. Bush said there was an axis of evil Including Iraq, Iran, and N.Korea. We declared a war on terror and went after a sponsor of terror in Iraq, not for Israel But for the USA. Being pro Israel is P
00gabooga
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 9:43amIt would have been the most intelligent piece ever printed in the New York Times, but I’m glad he stuck to his principles.
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:24amNetanyahu principles:
-take Palestinian homes, bulldoze those homes.
Report Post »-take Palestinian land.
-occupy Palestinian land.
-take Palestinian businesses.
-place Palestinians in ghettos.
-wall in those ghettos.
-mandate Palestinians to carry identification.
-compel Palestinians to pass through security checkpoints.
-ethnically pure state.
Stephen
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 5:55pm@SMACK go to Isreal and speak from first hand knowledge. Palestine was NEVER a country even the arabs that surrounded your fabeled “Palestine” before Isreal was formed in 1947, acknowledged no Palestinian homeland. Isreal NEVER walled any Palestinians in any “ghettos”. In fact Isreal has bent over backwards to help the palestinian people more so the ANY OTHER country on Earth. but people like you, sad to say are becoming the majority and Isreal is backed into a corner. They will come out fighting and most of us will die in a “holy muslim war” all because of people like you. You my friend will take part in OUR end.
Marry Christmas anyway!
Report Post »lynnissmart
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 9:37amSock it to the NYT, sock it to them, sock it to them!!! Ha, ha!
Report Post »GdHUs
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 11:08pmLYNN, easy girl. Take a deep breath. That’s right, in through your nose. Hold it, hold it. OK, out through your mouth, slowly. Go ahead. Go make yourself a nice hot cup of herbal tea.
Report Post »Honey, I know sometimes entities like the NYT want to make you shoot blood out of your eyes, but they just aren’t worth it. Just be the best person you could be and trust God with the rest. If you don’t know Him yet time is getting short. Seek Him with all your mind, soul, and strength and you will find Him. It’s a promise. Not from me, but from God.
Jenny Lind
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 9:09amI think he politely tore them up. They are going to have new general manager at the Times-they aren’t doing so well. Perhaps it’s because they have become a tabloid, instead of an honest newespaper. They want to say their stock is down because of this type of newes-brand new world. I think it’s because they lost touch with truth. I remember when I was high school, because they threw away their integrity. Only one semi-good newespaper left-the Wall St Journal. I remember in High school (grad in 1963) my journalism teacher saying at that time only two honest newewspapers in this country, one was the Wall St Journal, can’t remember the other one, but it must have disappeared, she called it iffy. She had been in jounalism her whole life, and saw the creep of dishonesty. Israel has taken a stand, good for them, hope they write here.
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 8:59amIt’s a charade. The Jewish owned New York Times is pro-Israel when it needs to be. The New York Times led America into the war with Iraq by printing false information. The war with Iraq was a war for Israel, just like the war with Iran that the Zionists are trying to instigate. Once the war had commenced, then it apologized for its lies.
Report Post »They create plausible deniability.
lukerw
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 9:05amOh, and video of SH saying… he had the Mother of all Weapons, and the World should fear Iraq… was fabricated?
Report Post »Steelhead
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 9:10amand besides that who gives a palin what Netanyahu thinks anyway.
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 9:12amLuke, the facts say, yes, they were all fabricated. The New York Times apologized. They admitted that they lied. Anyone who does more than listen to soundbites knows that they were all lies.
And, the world knows who the culprits were: http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/white-man-s-burden-1.14110
expatinontariocanada
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 9:15amHey Smack (yourself in the head), with “friends” like the NYTimes, Israel needs no other enemies. But alas, there’s you. What flavor “kool-aid” you been drinkin’?
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 9:23amWith friends like the New York Times, Israel got America to go to war with Iraq, for Israel’s benefit. American lives and wealth squandered, for a two-bit nation the size of New Jersey.
Report Post »fasteddiedj
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 9:35amWhat’s it like in the delusional conspiratorial world of nonsense that you live in?
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 9:46amI present an argument. You present sophomoric name calling. Name calling is a cognitive bias and a technique to promote propaganda.
http://www.amazon.com/Israel-Lobby-U-S-Foreign-Policy/dp/0374177724
Report Post »tzion
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:27amYou don’t present an argument, you express a conspiracy theory in which you provide actions taken and ascribe your own ideas as to why those actions were taken. Your no different than 9/11 truthers. They take pictures of the events and out-of-context quotes and create their own story without actually looking to see if there’s another explanation. As far a Iraq goes, for instance, it is known that Hussein had chemical weapons at one point because he used them against people in his own country and it is also known that he had made attempts to develop nukes prior to the Gulf War. It’s more than possible someone made an error of judgement based upon this history.
Report Post »Like all conspiracy theories though, facts exist that clearly disprove it. As already stated, the NYT has demonstrated a vehemently anti-Israel perspective. When Jews in the US are being compared to Nazis on a daily basis, a paper that echoes those words only makes the situation worse.
I find it incredible that if there are Jews in a particular industry that alone is evidence of a Jewish conspiracy. In the Climatgate scandal they at least had email records but apparently Jews can be guilty until proven innocent.
smackdown33
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:42amReasonable analysis is always referred to as conspiracy theory by those exercising propaganda. I’ve given to you sources.
Ari Shavit is an Israeli Jew, writing for a well respected Israeli media outlet, Haaretz.
John J. Mearsheimer is an American professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. Stephen Martin Walt is a professor of international affairs at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Then you excuse lies. There were no WMD’s. Iraq posed no threat to America. We had decimated his military in the first Gulf War. We had continuous overflys since the first Gulf War. This is fact, not conspiracy.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 11:11am@smack
Report Post »You just demonstrated my point. For you, the fact that Jews hold certain high positions is evidence of a conspiracy. Where are the letters/emails between those involved? Where are the records in which they have stated their goals? Just because your explanation fits known facts doesn’t make it correct. Without reliable, verifiable, evidence that a conspiracy exists you can point out all the Jews you want but it won’t change a thing. You hold Jews guilty until proven innocent beyond the shadow of a doubt. You once asked why Jews were kicked out of so many countries? The answer is none of those countries believed in “innocent until proven guilty”. A Jew could be accused of ritual murder and an entire village would be slaughtered before a trial could even be arranged.
smackdown33
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 11:24amTz, conspiracy was the word that you chose. Now you base your argument on that being true. Create the straw man, then argue that straw men are conspiring to scare birds.
Ari Shavit, John Mearsheimer, and Stephen Walt, all wrote what they wrote based on facts, interviews, and/or research. I present them and their conclusions. This is not a conspiracy. This is how ideas are debated, and truth revealed. You present opinion and call it fact, just like your conspiracy claim.
Report Post »expatinontariocanada
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 11:30amHey Smack (your mother for having you)…http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2011/09/john-mearsheimer-comes-out-of-closet.html. One of the authors of the book you cited, Mearsheimer, has come out of the closet as being an anti-semite JUST LIKE YOU ARE. Now go smack yourself for being so damn STUPID!!!!
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 12:30pmAnti-Semite is an invention used to excuse a position that you can not defend with substance.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 1:09pm@smack
Report Post »Once again you have taken the meaning of my words the wrong way. If Jews did control the media for the purpose of pushing an agenda that would be a conspiracy. I was not calling those who accuse the Jews of controlling the media as conspirators who seek to smear Jews, I simply said that they believe a conspiracy exists. I never said there was a conspiracy, I simply gave a title to the accusations you made. By accusing Jews of using the NYT to fight wars for Israel you accused them of conspiring. This isn‘t the first time you’ve twisted or misread my words. Occasionally my own wording is unclear but this isn’t one of those times.
smackdown33
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 2:01pmTz, once again conspiracy is your word, not mine. Unless you can prove that I’m entered into, or believe in, any conspiracy, it’s your fictitious straw man invention. The idea that your title is appropriate, and that it must be true because you say it is true, should come across as preposterous to any reasonable person.
My argument that the New York Times published false information, and led America to war against Iraq, is based on fact, not conspiracy. It is also no conspiracy to point out that the New York Times is Jewish owned, controlled. It is another point of fact.
My conclusion that this Jewish owned outlet, that published false information to go to war with Iraq for the sake of the Jewish state of Israel is based on history… it’s been done before. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_of_the_Spanish_American_War
Israel benefited from that war, not America.
Report Post »Mgindi26
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 11:34pm@ Smack
Report Post »Every paper published that Iraq had WMD’s Colin Powell (not Jewish) went to the UN and did an entire powerpoint presentation including satelite photos of Sadaams WMD’s. The Times didn’y do any investigative journalism that led the US to go to war. The various worldwide intelligence agencies did the investigation. However as the US was building it’s case for war against Iraq and amassing the neccesary troop infrustructure in the region, Iraq who’s WMD labs were mobile because they learned thier lesson when Israel knocked out their nukes just took the WMD program and moved it over the border. If you recall at the time Sadaam was not cooperating with UN inspectors and actually kicked them out of the country. So he made it seem very likely that he had the WMD’s. Iraq was a neutered enemy for Israel because they didn’t share a common border and thanks to gulf war 1 (which was fought to liberate Kuwait which last I checked is part of the Arab League which does not recognize Israel) anyway since gulf 1 there were 2 no fly zones enforced by the US and UK over Iraq so Iraq was NOT A THREAT TO ISRAEL. So there really was no benefit to Israel for the US to attack Iraq.
Now right after 9/11 Pres Bush decalred a war on terror and said there was “an axis of evil” of which Iraq was a part of. So like it or not the US went to war against Iraq for US interests not for Israel.
pbhiller
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 8:57amMr Netanyahu is an incredibly brave and smart leader. As we remember this is not his first stint as PM. He has always been a true friend and ally to our country and the liberal left wackos which includes Barrack Hussein Obama have alienated our only true friend in the middle east. I only hope we select a good man, a strong conservative, and a friend to Israel to replace this wacko we have as our President. Mr Netanyahu runs circles around this guy. Stay Strong Israel you have alot of friends and we will make changes in 2012…
Report Post »scuba13
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 8:55am“Influential newspaper”. The only thing the New York Times influences is when I use it and then flush my toilet.
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 9:02amHow little you know:
http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=4264
Report Post »sndrman
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 9:37amask any rino for his/her importance to read nyt to get their leftist marching orders. most of the media has now become irrelevent, most liberal biased news outlets are on the ropes and onlt b. HUSSAIN o. gives these socialists publications any hope.
Report Post »expatinontariocanada
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 9:40amHey Smack (yourself in the face), how little you think. You can be excused, but no longer, because you suffer from “cognitive confirmation bias”. http://psy2.ucsd.edu/~mckenzie/nickersonConfirmationBias.pdf It’s the “seeking or interpreting of evidence in ways that are partial to existing beliefs, expectations, a hypothesis in hand.” It means you are close-minded and refuse to explore or even consider other points of view or facts. Do you believe it’s possible that Saddam moved his WMD capabilities to Syria? http://pjmedia.com/blog/satellite-photos-support-testimony-that-iraqi-wmd-went-to-syria/ Or how about the Saddam, himself, was a WMD. Just ask the Iraqi Kurds. Seek the truth for it has no agenda.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 9:41amYEP! The New York times, America‘s answer to the Stalin regeime’s “Newspaper” Pravda has replaced corncobs in outhouses across the nation. It is also useful when starting fires in your fireplace. If used with several layers thick, it can be used as a “Barf” bag on airlind flights.
Good job Bibi, tell the NYT to take their anti Isreal bias and shove it!
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:48amCanuk, you can make up any fairytale that your mind can conjure up. Fact is, there were no WMD’s in Iraq. It was a lie.
Report Post »“Saddam Hussein, himself, a WMD”… you are what you accuse me of being. Did you really mean to write that?
expatinontariocanada
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 11:44amHey Smack (me for continuing to try to get through your numb skull), can we at least agree chemical weapons are weapons of mass destruction of human life? Ok, stick with me here if you can. Can we agree Saddam used chemical weapons on the Iraqi Kurds? Please just google “Saddam chemical weapons Kurds”. Too much proof to cite. And because he used WMD (chemical weapons) against his own people, didn’t we have a “responsibility to protect”, as your ilk like to profess? So for you to claim that Iraq’s WMDs were a lie is in fact a lie! You cite anti-semites as proof Israel is evil and lie about a lie. Your credibility here is SHOT. Now beat it kid, you’re bothering me…
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 12:41pmCanuk, I did exactly what you told me to do, and guess what?
Report Post »Saddam used chemical weapons in 1987. The First Gulf War was in 1990. In that war we decimated his military. He was left with nothing. We continued fly-overs through March 2003, at which time we invaded a country that did not, and could not, threaten us. We did this at the request of Zionists in the Bush administration, Zionists who had been writing about the removal of Saddam Hussein for Israel as far back as 1996.
I know that’s a lot of numbers for you to follow, but if you write down a number line the chronology will make sense to you.
smackdown33
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 2:09pmThe Jewish Sandy Berger, who betrayed America, is all that you can find. Again, I’ll say it to the deep freeze canuk. Fact is, there were no WMD’s in Iraq.
If you would begin your stories with, “Once upon a time,” they would be more entertaining and legitimate.
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Posted on December 16, 2011 at 2:19pmSorry canuk. I forgot to spoon-feed you the information:
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expatinontariocanada
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 2:33pmSmack, are you going to start citing the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion next? Go ahead and stand against Israel. As soon as you can show me anyone who’s done that and survived/thrived and I‘ll say you’re a delusional anti-Semite. Why so much hate? I saw you’re a Beck fan. I would think his stand for and with Israel would be a deal-breaker for you. Guess not but I could never support someone who violates something I felt that strongly about. That would be like me saying Hitler, he was awesome at uniting Germany after WW I. BTW, an ex-pat in Ontario, Canada means I’m an American who happens to live here. So while I’m no Canuk, I do love one of them with all my heart and them as a people almost as much. Canada is more conservative than the US right now. Sad but true. I’ll pray for your soul. God bless.
Report Post »Mgindi26
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 11:58pm@ Shmuck I mean @ smack…. No wait i was right the first time.
Report Post »I am now going to use some of your own words plus some geography to show you just how much of an idiot you are.
First the geography lesson Iraq and Israel share NO COMMON BORDERS at all none whatsover so any ground attack from Iraq would require either going through Syria which wouldn’t work because Israel has the Golan which makes an attack from Syria a suicide mission. Or through Jordan which is seperated fromIsrael by the Jordan River. But that notwithstanding any troop movement throught Jordan would take Days Giving Israel plenty of time to thwart an attack from Saddam easily.
Now for your own words. the following are quotes from your own posts.
1.”The First Gulf War was in 1990. In that war we decimated his military” meaning he had according to YOU no military to threaten Israel with. BTW we fought that war for Kuwait not Israel
2. He was left with nothing.” A Saddam with nothing no threat to Israel so once again no Israeli interest.
3. “We continued fly-overs through March 2003″ Well if there was a no fly zone over Iraq I guess then he couldn’t attack Israel by air either so we ruled out a ground attack with geographic facts, and your words ruled out an air attack.
I know that’s a lot of facts for you to follow but based on your own statements Saddam was already neutralized and posed NO THREAT to Israel. Unless he were to export terrorism which means he would be a threat to us as well.
progressiveslayer
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 8:54amWhy would he want to write an op ed for the slimes? The liberal rag is only good for cleaning up after a taking a dump.
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 8:54amLove the Guy – Wish our leadership was as smart and principled.
Report Post »Be safe my friend with all your countrymen!
auntmoxie.com
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 8:52amSee if he’ll pen one for The Blaze. Imagine the publicity….
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 8:52amGood for him to make a stand on principles.
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