I guess they decided to vote for survival.
"In the Obama Age, everything is about Obama, even the elections in Israel.Steven Kruiser at PJMedia comments:
The last few days were absolutely polluted with stories about Netanyahu’s imminent political demise, with the most popular version of the tale being that he ruined his chances by angering great and powerful thin-skinned consumer of canines currently occupying the Oval Office.
One does not hurt Barack Obama’s feelings without some backlash.
Now that Obama has once again been revealed impotent in helping candidates not named Barack Obama to victory, his media petting zoo is out of sorts. They will be expending a lot of effort to explain exactly why this victory wasn’t really a victory."
One does not hurt Barack Obama’s feelings without some backlash.
Now that Obama has once again been revealed impotent in helping candidates not named Barack Obama to victory, his media petting zoo is out of sorts. They will be expending a lot of effort to explain exactly why this victory wasn’t really a victory."
Indeed they will, but as in so much the Left does, it will fail. There will be an Israel when Obama leaves office, and then hopefully our new government can repair relations with theirs.
I just wish there was a way to get back the 350,000 dollars of public money the administration wasted trying to defeat Netanyahu. If I had my way, I'd dock Obama's vacation budget until the taxpayers were square with the administration. Hurt him where it counts!
Oh, we need to cut off more than Obama's vacation budget...
ReplyDeleteHow about the Golf Budget, that's some SERIOUS change.
ReplyDeleteSo sad to see to many so called "patriots" put the interests of an alien culture on the other side of the world before the interests of their own nation. Israel could disappear tomorrow and it would not harm the US in any way, shape or form.
ReplyDeleteWe would save billions a year in welfare that we would no longer be shipping to Tel Aviv. Israel is not our friend or our ally. They have never been our ally. They have murdered our sailors, spied on us, sold our secrets to both the USSR and China.
It is time we started putting America first and let Israel sleep in the bed it has made.
First of all, thanks, Chris, for consistently bringing the opposite view to the comments. I believe that both sides opinions should be considered, and yours is very welcome here.
DeleteI see Israel as having a Western liberal ( in the formerly understood, positive meaning) government which is mainly based on the same principles we believe in. There is naturally conflict with our interests at times, but in general, I see them as an ally (mostly) and in many ways a proxy for us in that part of the world. They do many things that we cannot to serve both our interests, which relieves us of the burden. An couple of examples are the elimination of Saddam's Osirak nuclear program, and the same more recently with Syria's.
I'm sure they get some money from our government, but so does everyone else. The PLO and Hamas are examples. We either cut everyone everywhere off ( which I'm inclined to support) or we recognize our role as the world's policeman and invest resources in ways that should benefits us.
We spy on all our allies, and they spy on us. That's reality and simply each nation looking out for it's own interests.
Again, thanks for letting us know how you see the situation. We'll agree to disagree on this one.
Of course we spy on Israel.
DeleteRemember when Merkel got all bent out of shape when it went public we were listening in on her conversations? Yeah, like she didn't know what we were saying, especially since Hillary's emails were out there for everyone with even rudimentary hacking skills to see.
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