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Swiss Political Party Ad Features Jewish Doll With an Arrow in Its Head

Swiss Political Party Ad Features Jewish Doll With an Arrow in Its Head

The Jewish community in Switzerland is outraged after an ad for a Swiss national independence day party featured a bizarre image: A doll of a man who is wearing a yarmulke. The man, which is overtly Jewish, also has the Israeli flag painted on him and…an arrow pierced threw his head.

The image of what appears to be a dead Jew has sparked quite a bit of anger. Swiss reports claim that the GNC, a local anti-Semitic and anti-Israel group is behind the creation and dissemination of the ad. YNetNews.com has more:

“This is a call for the murder of Jews,” said Jonah Gurfinkel. Sabine Simkhovitch-Dreyfus, deputy director of the Jewish community federation said: “A red line has been crossed.

GNC member claimed the ad was directed against the Israeli government, but Dreyfus rejected his claims saying, “Sadly the arrow on the forehead does not leave a shadow of a doubt.” Jewish groups are now considering a lawsuit against the GNC.

In response, Jewish groups may consider a lawsuit.

Comments (265)

  • HanginOn
    Posted on July 1, 2011 at 6:27pm

    I stand with the Jewish people. We will kick your @ss!

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  • welovetheUSA
    Posted on July 1, 2011 at 6:25pm

    This is a sick example of hate in some who cannot be anything other than…plain stupid, or just evil.

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  • JJW
    Posted on July 1, 2011 at 6:24pm

    The nazi’s are at it again

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  • kapnkd
    Posted on July 1, 2011 at 6:24pm

    I stand with Israel….am throwing out my Swiss knife and will NEVER buy anything Swiss – not even watches or chocolates anymore!

    May God have mercy on THEIR souls going forward – they will need it down the road!

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  • Jeff Bassett
    Posted on July 1, 2011 at 6:24pm

    I am just continually shocked by all the anti-semantic acts both here in the US and through Europe. Its like a large percentage of the world has totally forgotten what in the 1940′s and history period. More over, the amount of so many people that are burying their heads and allowing such vocal outcries be accepted. Christian denominations taking such stands here in the states, the Democratic party is doing it’s best to eliminate GOD and religion from the public and in the same time note they are the party of faith and tolerance.

    Its sad that history repeats itself, especially when it comes to such calls for ethnic cleansing. I truly worry for those that are targeted through out the world by parties of such hatred. Such acts should be so clear to see but so many are blinded by distraction and apathy.

    “You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. For this people’s hearts have become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts’

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  • mrsmileyface
    Posted on July 1, 2011 at 6:21pm

    Does nobody know thier history any longer. What did the Swiss Government do for the Nazi’s durring WW2? Second what did the Swiss bankers do for the Nazi looters who took Jewish gold and valuables from European Jews. It disgusts me how easily the human animal forgets such HUGE events in human history. I stand with Israel to the death.

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    • saviorammo
      Posted on July 2, 2011 at 2:20am

      the Anvil gold no less and it was torn out of the Jews teeth after their murders. I too, stand with Israel to the death. And for the one I love and her jewish sons. They have no idea what is on the horizon for our left Nazi schools forgot to teach them that lesson.

      Prepare to be destroyed commies. You have no idea what is coming your way.

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  • Marylou7
    Posted on July 1, 2011 at 6:15pm

    My family stands with Israel, now and forever.

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  • BlackCrow
    Posted on July 1, 2011 at 6:14pm

    This “tolerance” PC BS has gone to far!!! No racism is not OK but at the same time society cannot tolerate provocations against one religion over any other. And there are “religions” that place themselves above all others, Islam and Atheism in particular. We must all adhere to their.peculiar beliefs? One will sue you to death the other will separate you from your head with a dull knife and post the video on the Internet.

    Tolerance is a two way street and I am tired of being held to account for the sins of my ancestors.

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    • saneromeo
      Posted on July 1, 2011 at 7:35pm

      Those who know tolerance, practice it.
      Those who do not, demand it.

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  • beckwill
    Posted on July 1, 2011 at 6:11pm

    My God tells me those who bless Israel will be blessed, those curse Israel will be cursed. I take God at his word. i stand with Israel. Where is the conviction on people’s hearts? Have people seared the conscience so much that they don’t even hear the Holy Spirit?

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    • Favored93
      Posted on July 2, 2011 at 1:38am

      Sadly you know people do not hear the Holy Spirit that is why the world looks the way it does. :(

      I will always stand with God and Israel!

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  • mossbrain
    Posted on July 1, 2011 at 6:11pm

    Nuke Switzerland, the hell with their cheese, we can do without it.

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    • Bulldog43
      Posted on July 1, 2011 at 7:44pm

      Wow….a truly disgusting thing to say, wanting to nuke an entire nation and its people just because you didnt agree with an ad from 1 Swiss political group.

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  • adanaC
    Posted on July 1, 2011 at 6:10pm

    This truly saddens me. Unbelievable that they can legally get away with this kind of hate speech. They are promoting another holocaust.
    When I think of Switzerland I think of the story of dear Heidi, cows and sheep in mountain meadows, or a mountain climber yodeling on mountain tops to repeat his echo for miles and miles. I think of mountain villages with Christian churches. Clean mountain creeks … I would never think of racists full of hate.
    I pray for Israel to be safe.

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on July 1, 2011 at 10:38pm

      You want to ban hate speech?Hypocrite- pots calling the kettle black.The only hate speech you want to ban is any oppostion to Israeli illigal occupation of palestinians and any narrative of the creation of israel that exposes the false narrative of their“ just noble history and cause” with the accurate narrative of ethnic cleansing and a racist land grab facilitated back when the UN was a colonial white mans clubs serving western interests.Once the israeli state exists it is unfair and again hypocritical to denouce crriticism or opposition to that state-even if in crass vulgar terrms as this depiction is-as more anti-semitism.a state opens itself up to critisim and one that illigally occupies others and fllauts its mandate to return to legal 67 borders as it ethnicaly cleanses non Jews who are native to that land to maake way for Jews from elsewhere-is racist and deserves to be condemned As its nazi like policy of collective punishment and mass murder of civilians to keep ccontrol of their illigally occupiued land..Thin skinned hypocrites who have nothing but vile things to say and depict about countries and indeed whole peoples[muslims] that you don’t like.

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    • Hula Calhoun
      Posted on July 1, 2011 at 10:39pm

      Mass murder? You’ve been drinking WAY too much kool-aide!

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    • KnowingTheFuture
      Posted on July 2, 2011 at 12:28am

      That was the longest and most nonsensical non-sentence I have ever read. Congrats!

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    • GiGi80
      Posted on July 2, 2011 at 8:17am

      @adanac
      “This truly saddens me. Unbelievable that they can legally get away with this kind of hate speech.”
      This saddens me, too — much like the hate speech directed at Muslims, Jews, blacks, gays, and our constitutionally and democratically elected president and his family saddens me.
      It also saddens me that many of those who post here and have posted anti-Semitic remarks in the past are now “standing for Israel” because some huckster is telling them to. You all realize that most Israelis are Jewish, right?
      Oh, and preemptively: I have taught Holocaust studies for many, many years and I have ALWAYS “stood with Israel” — long before some rodeo clown framed it as “patriotic”.

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  • majoralanr
    Posted on July 1, 2011 at 6:07pm

    The Swiss Are NOT tolerant. They have a long history of anti-Semitism. During WWII the Swiss collaborated with the Hitler’s German Nazi Reich. They laundered money for the Nazi’s, converted gold bullion to various currencies in order to fund Hitler’s war effort. After the Nazi regime was defeated, Jewish survivors of the holocaust and their heirs were unable to retrieve their money from their Swiss bank accounts due to a concerted effort by Swiss bank and Government officials. It was thru the efforts of Senate Finance Committee Chairman Alfonse D’Amato in the 1980′s-1990′s that the Jewish survivors of the holocaust and their heirs received some justice.

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    • C. Schwehr
      Posted on July 1, 2011 at 6:21pm

      You are correct. ALL OF EUROPE is to one degree or another anti-jewish!! Why do you think the european jews looked to their traditional homeland as a sanctuary instead of going back to their “homes” in France, and Germany, and Belgium and Holland, and Norway, and Italy??? THEY WERE HATED WHEREVER THEY WENT IN EUROPE!!

      I only hope that one day when space travel is much more advanced then it is now, the few remaining jews can find a place of their own where NOBODY will be able to find them and attack them again!

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    • UlyssesP
      Posted on July 1, 2011 at 6:47pm

      What, you want them to leave the planet!?!?! I tell you what, I go with them and you can stay behind with the mooozzies.

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    • KnowingTheFuture
      Posted on July 2, 2011 at 12:22am

      They won’t have to find another planet. Jesus is soon to return and reign the nations with justice and peace. The Jews are God’s chosen people (not for their sake, but for God’s name sake). He has revealed His truths through them to mankind and has redeemed mankind through Jesus Christ who was born through the Jew. All of human history ends in Jerusalem. They will never be uprooted again! The universe and Earth will pass away but God’s words will never pass away!

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    • Pigpen
      Posted on July 2, 2011 at 1:07am

      KNOWINGTHEFUTURE wrote: “The Jews are God’s chosen people (not for their sake, but for God’s name sake). He has revealed His truths through them to mankind and has redeemed mankind through Jesus Christ who was born through the Jew.”

      Well then, I hope for “God’s name sake” that the Jews who enjoy his benevolence don’t do anything that might embarass their almighty sponsor like encourage the rest of “mankind” to do things like engage promiscuous sexual behavior, or in homosexual behavior, or to make pornography more accessible, or work to change divorce laws in other countries to make divorce easier, or encourage abortions, or …hey wait a second! Doesn’t sound like the Jews are doing a very good job of “revealing His truths” among “mankind” today. Go ahead, deny what I am saying. Then you will confirm to us all that you are either a liar or a fool.

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    • Favored93
      Posted on July 2, 2011 at 3:09am

      @Pigpen
      To be a Jew is not a religion it is a blood line a race. Are there “Jews” who do not practice their ansestrial (forgive spelling) religion? Obviously just look at Soros. The premise of your post is terribly faulted.

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  • JimboX
    Posted on July 1, 2011 at 6:05pm

    Sorry to be the grammar police, but it should be “through his head”, not “threw his head”.

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    • ZOMBIE JESUS LOVES ME
      Posted on July 1, 2011 at 6:46pm

      Such amazing journalism this website has.

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    • Mainer311
      Posted on July 1, 2011 at 7:38pm

      I‘m glad I’m not the only one who noticed that.

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    • Sharlene
      Posted on July 1, 2011 at 8:46pm

      I wonder what Harvard graduate wrote this. It‘s not a typo it’s dummo,

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    • GhostNtheMachine
      Posted on July 2, 2011 at 5:06am

      They kinda through me with that won two. Sometimes Eye wonder if people just think its a waist of they’re time too proof these daze. I understand mistakes happen, butt as a hole (couldn’t help it) this is getting absurd.

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    • green_manalishi
      Posted on July 2, 2011 at 7:41am

      dedant dedant dedant dedant, dedant dedant dedant dedant, dedantdedantdedantdedant, HiHo Silver and away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • QuiteContrary
      Posted on July 2, 2011 at 7:04pm

      yes, someone needs to edit this. the last sentence is a repeat of what is said directly above it as well.

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  • rienheart
    Posted on July 1, 2011 at 6:04pm

    Standing with Israel.

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  • Celexa
    Posted on July 1, 2011 at 6:03pm

    Updated: This American/Italian/Hispanic/Christian/Republican, stands with ISRAEL!!!!!

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  • Celexa
    Posted on July 1, 2011 at 6:01pm

    This American/Italian/Hispanic/Christian, stands with ISRAEL!!!

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on July 1, 2011 at 5:57pm

    PRAYING ON, AMERICA.

    GOD, we stand with YOU, with ISRAEL and with the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA as she can be… better than she was because she will be in YOUR arms once again.

    The Swiss apparently have lost their souls, as well.

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    • Grandmadar
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 12:26am

      This political party may not represent all of Switzerland just as the Israel haters in America do not represent many Americans. But a sad ad…kinda like the one with Grandma being pushed over a cliff in her wheelchair.

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  • Baikonur
    Posted on July 1, 2011 at 5:57pm

    Switzerland, like most European countries as well as Israel, has many political parties, not just 2, like the US. Just because one party runs a racist ad does not mean that all of Switzerland feels this way.

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    • Exrepublisheep
      Posted on July 1, 2011 at 6:06pm

      Ahhh, sobriety.

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    • Big Book Harry
      Posted on July 1, 2011 at 9:44pm

      AHHH…..Principals before personality :-)

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    • EqualJustice
      Posted on July 1, 2011 at 6:29pm

      Maybe it’s like the Democrat Party here and MOST of the Swiss do not feel this way?

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on July 1, 2011 at 6:52pm

      Once you become a state you can’t hide behind anti-semitism,As a state people are right to criticize and lambast them[as we do all the time other states] israel[the state] brought this on as the result of racist policies and illigal occupation.The fact that a flag was on the person makes it political,not religious.

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    • Baikonur
      Posted on July 1, 2011 at 6:57pm

      Rose-Ellen, are you for real?

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    • vennoye
      Posted on July 1, 2011 at 9:17pm

      Rose-Ellen
      It REALLY is time for you to WAKE up, GROW up and face reality. If you don’t, I’m very afraid you are not going to like your future!

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    • elf1362
      Posted on July 1, 2011 at 11:37pm

      Take you pills, and stop saying stupidities, you just embarrass yourself…

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    • Favored93
      Posted on July 2, 2011 at 2:07am

      I will say it again rose. YOU ARE A FOOL and have no understanding of history or right and wrong for that matter. if you want to see victims the Jews are it. The Arabs SURROUND them. They are a tiny country ind a sea of violent hatred. God gave them that land thousands of years ago they have every right to exist and live as they please.
      I do wish you would educate yourself before you speak I am sickened every time I read your cr’ap.

      I proudly stand With God and Israel!

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    • green_manalishi
      Posted on July 2, 2011 at 7:37am

      What is your point Baiknur, so does all Switzerland feel that way or not, your obfuscation does not detract from the implication. Guilty , burn em.

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    • BLACKDIAMONDSKIER
      Posted on July 2, 2011 at 8:42am

      Yea…..I‘m sure back in Germany during the beginning of Hitler’s attacks on the Jews that not all of Germany felt that way either. In the end….millions of Jews were slaughtered. WE MUST STAND AGAINST EVIL !!!!!!! Hatred consumes everything in it’s path. In the end………it is simply a battle between good and evil. To say nothing in times like these is to say everything about who you are and where you stand. As for me……I STAND WITH ISRAEL !!!!!!!!

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    • sinner60
      Posted on July 2, 2011 at 9:03pm

      That is true, but what this party did is despicable. I don’t see any reason to condem all swiss, because of that.

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    • woodrowsux
      Posted on July 3, 2011 at 12:05am

      Then I guess it’s O.K. to say let‘s kill all muslims because it’s just a small fringe faction of nationalists who believe it. Liberals, communists,islamistsand leftists arethe enemy to freedom and western civilization and should be humanely exterminated.

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    • coot
      Posted on July 3, 2011 at 11:22am

      Ditto that.
      That would be like saying all Americans are arrogant, inarticulate rapists just like our last three presidents.

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    • Tami Bell
      Posted on July 4, 2011 at 5:23am

      America also has more than 2 registered political parties and I guarantee you if one of them, regardless of size or prominence, made an advertisement like this one, they would be taken to the woodshed for it. There is no defense or justification for this ad period.

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  • cheezwhiz
    Posted on July 1, 2011 at 5:57pm

    I’m guessing Helen Thomas wants that doll for the rest of her birthdays :P

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    • Proud American Lady
      Posted on July 1, 2011 at 9:34pm

      Good one Cheezwhiz wish I had thought of that. Maybe she’ll play with it in the bathtub!!!

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  • frustratedwithgovt
    Posted on July 1, 2011 at 5:54pm

    That is just insane. The left is only tolerant when you agree with them. Prepare folks, prepare.

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  • LAM2
    Posted on July 1, 2011 at 5:54pm

    Despicable! Anyone who doesn’t think that anti-Semitism and Jew hatred is on the rise has his/her head in the sand. I stand with Israel.

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    • fastfwd
      Posted on July 1, 2011 at 11:53pm

      I think the vast majority of Americans stand with Israel ! Now if only we didnt have a Terrorist loving Jew hating president !

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    • NewYorkRob
      Posted on July 2, 2011 at 1:51pm

      Screw Israel. I stand with the Swiss for affirming their culture and removing Israeli influence.

       
  • liberalsarealiens
    Posted on July 1, 2011 at 5:53pm

    This is the “Tolerant” Swiss?

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  • Mess23
    Posted on July 1, 2011 at 5:52pm

    Apparently the message the teach their kids is of not concern.

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  • liberalsarealiens
    Posted on July 1, 2011 at 5:51pm

    The “tolerant” Swiss?

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    • pavepaws
      Posted on July 1, 2011 at 6:44pm

      Peace loving…

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    • GiGi80
      Posted on July 2, 2011 at 7:29am

      @ liberalsarealiens
      No — this is the work of a small anti-Semitic party, not the Swiss government or the Swiss people. You know — sort of like the Aryan Brotherhood in the US is not THE “tolerant Americans.”
      Jeez — how about a little logic and independent thought.

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  • liberalsarealiens
    Posted on July 1, 2011 at 5:50pm

    The “tolerant” Swiss? I stand with Isrial!

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    • grandma7
      Posted on July 1, 2011 at 5:57pm

      This is so awful. I, too, stand with Israel!!!

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    • NewYorkRob
      Posted on July 2, 2011 at 1:53pm

      Well why don’t you go stand with Israel over in Israel? And stop standing with them here in Switzerland. We are not Israel. Go. Get out.

       
    • grape jelly
      Posted on July 1, 2011 at 6:04pm

      Amen brother, I’m with you. I to stand with Israel!

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on July 1, 2011 at 6:16pm

      @LiberalsAreAliens:

      Indeed I too stand with both Israel and America for the storm is upon the both of our free nations, and we either stand togeather against it or fall into the night seperatly.

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    • fastfacts
      Posted on July 1, 2011 at 6:29pm

      CAN WE SHIP OBAMA AND HIS COHORTS OUT THERE?

      What are they thinking?

      GET RID OF OBAMA 2012. Santorum came out with a great ad against Obama: http://tiny.cc/soiql

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    • Want our country back
      Posted on July 1, 2011 at 7:33pm

      I stand with Israel and the USA

      it’s starting again all over the world…. this time we can‘t say we didn’t know…. the evil is everywhere

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    • mils
      Posted on July 1, 2011 at 8:02pm

      messed up site, hope it’s only temporary Blaze…i can’t be the only one to feel this way :’(

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    • harryoi
      Posted on July 1, 2011 at 8:32pm

      … yet you can‘t even spell the country’s name!!

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    • flatbroke
      Posted on July 1, 2011 at 8:37pm

      I stand with israel……..Sa!

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    • Big Book Harry
      Posted on July 1, 2011 at 9:49pm

      Yur piont?

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    • John 4157
      Posted on July 1, 2011 at 9:13pm

      The cat is out of the bag!!! The swisse Claimed that they were neutral yet they held and stored cash and relics during WW2. Just a coinidence that a lot of Nazi murderers slipped out right through their country!!!! And recently decendants of holocost victims tried to have Swirzerland return their possessions. Not a chance!!!! SUE SUE SUE!!!

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    • unsalvageable.org
      Posted on July 1, 2011 at 9:17pm

      I too stand with Israel. The time is coming soon that we will have to choose right and wrong…where will you stand? http://www.unsalvageable.org

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    • jrmhrpr78
      Posted on July 2, 2011 at 12:09am

      Just don’t be dumb and fall into the thinking that this is all Swiss people. The media is too good at leaving out the facts. Its just like when that one douche burned a Quran. People in Muslim country’s were quick to lump all Americans into that group. Do not be mislead by the media.

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    • ISRAELISOURFRIEND
      Posted on July 2, 2011 at 1:11am

      Tolerance for the intolerance of Jews, Christians and America.

      Coming to the USA. The 1st seal is opened. The 2nd Seal is coming next.

      God Bless ISRAEL!

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    • drattastic
      Posted on July 2, 2011 at 1:29am

      How can people who are supposedly as intelligent as the Jewish people(In the USA) continue to support leftist ? Don’t they see the trajectory of the socialist movement in Europe and the US ,The rest of the world is transparently anti-Jew. What part of marching into the furnace do they not understand.This partial Jew ( I know it’s a religion not a race) can easily see the truth.

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    • Beckofile
      Posted on July 2, 2011 at 10:34am

      Trying to have a truthfull thread. Does anyone question that 80% of the jewish vote went to Obama? I think the American Jew has choosen this path in the USA. When a group wants to subject it’s self to Tyrants then I guess I will just get out of the way. My Jewish friends are the most urban cultural elistist folks I can find. They keep repeating history for some reason?

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    • Moseyspeed
      Posted on July 2, 2011 at 9:34pm

      BUT…the Jewish population of the US is only 6M. Of that, less than 50% are of voting age. That would be <3m potential votes if all Jews voted for the nimrod. He won by 10M votes and had 69.5M total votes. The Jews contribution was minimal at best. That leaves a whole lot of idiots left over.

      By the way… total bla ck population is 17%, eligible, 9.2% That still leaves a lot of white folk who fell for his cr ap.

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    • Pujols
      Posted on July 2, 2011 at 10:34am

      THE SWISS ARE & ALWAYS HAVE BEEN NEUTRAL.
      IT SEEMS LIKE THEY HAVE PICK SIDES WHEN IT COMES TO THE JEWS.

      It starting to look alot like the 1930‘s and 40’s. Who is the new Hitler?

      I STAND WITH ALL OF ISRAEL & EVERY JEW.
      EVEN THE ONES WHO HATE THEIR OWN COUNTRY.
      BECAUSE YOU’RE IN LINE TOO, SOROS, STEWART, SEINFELD, ETC.

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    • NewYorkRob
      Posted on July 2, 2011 at 1:49pm

      More like “intolerant Israelis”… be accurate.

       
    • drphil69
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 5:23pm

      So much for “neutrality.“ Does anybody know if the Swiss helped Hitler with his Jewish ”problem?”

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