HockeyDad
13 years ago
What an odd democracy....


Israeli defense officials consult with Rabbi Ovadia Yosef over Iran strike

"Some want the spiritual leader of Haredi party Shas to support a strike, others to oppose it. At least one visit, in which the rabbi was briefed on Iran's nuclear program, came at Netanyahu's behest.

Senior defense officials have recently been visiting the ultra-Orthodox Shas party's spiritual leader, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, to discuss a possible Israeli attack on Iran."



I wonder if GWB explained yellow cake to the Southern Baptists?
HockeyDad
13 years ago
How to spoil all the upcoming fun...


Leading Iranian cleric calls on regime to avoid war with Israel

Ayatollah Yousef Sanei, vocal opponent of Ahmedinejad, warns regime not to provoke Israel by 'acting as warmongers;' two former ministers call on Supreme Leader to set up new ruling council.

Ayatollah Yousef Sanei, one of the leading Iranian clerics and a vocal opponent of the regime, called on the Islamic Republic's leadership not to encourage an Israeli attack by stirring provocations or "acting as warmongers."
teedubbya
13 years ago
All this makes me want to skinny dip in the holy land
HockeyDad
13 years ago


I don't buy your comparison at all, HD. Palestinians have it tough getting through checkpoints etc, there is profiling I am sure, boo hoo, they do blow up busses and markets etc. But they and other Arabs can become citizens, go to schools, get elected, vote, work, and live in Israel. I believe they can and do serve in the military too.

frankj1 wrote:




You're confusing Palestinians living in Israel with Palestinians living in the West Bank or the Gaza concentration camp.

Palestinians in the West Bank have it tough getting through checkpoints.

Palestinians in Gaza are walled in and cannot leave.

Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza cannot become citizens, go to schools, get elected, vote, work, and live in Israel. Palestinians in Israel can do those things.

Palestinians in the West Bank live under military occupation. Palestinians in Gaza live in a giant prison.

When is the last time a bus or market in Israel got blown up?

Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza could become citizens, go to schools, get elected, vote, work, and live in Israel if Israel would simply annex those lands. One-state solution anyone? Where are CW's crickets.
frankj1
13 years ago

Good observation, but remember, nothing happens in a vacuum.
WHO was President in 1973? -Richard M. Nixon
WHAT else was going on? -Nixon was bringing the Vietnam War to an end by forcing the N. Vietnamese back to the bargaining table by bombing Hanoi and mining Haiphong Harbor.
Yes, Ford the bumbler was next and then the joke that was Carter, but the Russians had no idea of that in 1973, of course they wouldn't have "bet the farm" on trying to escalate in the Middle East.

CWFoster wrote:


Thanks for the credit, but Nixon had his mind on Watergate by this time, he really had little to do with the Yom Kippur war ending, Kissinger blew past Russia virtually without Tricky ******.
frankj1
13 years ago

You're confusing Palestinians living in Israel with Palestinians living in the West Bank or the Gaza concentration camp.

HockeyDad wrote:


no I'm not.
HockeyDad
13 years ago

no I'm not.

frankj1 wrote:




Yes, you are. 🇨🇮
HockeyDad
13 years ago
How about that one-state solution to solve everything?!
frankj1
13 years ago

How about that one-state solution to solve everything?!

HockeyDad wrote:


was that the plan, known in previous threads that covered the same ground, as The Wheelright Solution?
HockeyDad
13 years ago
I think the Wheelrite solution involved breast implants for everyone there so the men would be so distracted that they would lose interest in fighting..
frankj1
13 years ago

I think the Wheelrite solution involved breast implants for everyone there so the men would be so distracted that they would lose interest in fighting..

HockeyDad wrote:


I gotta be honest with ya, I'm losing interest in fighting!
HockeyDad
13 years ago
I'm a lover, not a fighter.
HockeyDad
13 years ago

I gotta be honest with ya, I'm losing interest in fighting!

frankj1 wrote:




Hopefully that will keep you and your loved ones out of Syria and Iran in the near future!
HockeyDad
13 years ago
Daily dose of fun...




Far-right group warns Arabs not to flirt with Jews

A week after attempted lynch, anti-assimilation group hands out fliers in J'lem warning Arab men not to hit on Jewish girls.

A far-right group that works against what it calls “assimilation” and mixing between Jews and Arabs has entered the spotlight the last couple days, as it has come out in support of the savage beating of two Arab youths by a teenage Jewish mob in Jerusalem last Thursday that left one of the boys on the brink of death.

This week “Lahava” (an acronym for “preventing assimilation in the holy land”) began circulating flyers in Jerusalem that warn Arab men against flirting with or talking to Jewish girls, saying "we don’t want you to get hurt, respect our girls honor because they are dear to our hearts."

The fliers, which some Lahava activists have been handing out at Damascus Gate in east Jerusalem and elsewhere in the city, also say “our girls are dear to us, just like you don't want a Jew to date your sister, we also aren't willing to accept an Arab dating one of our women. Just like you would do anything in order to stop a Jew from dating your sister, so would we!”

The flier warns Arab men not to come to west Jerusalem’s malls or public areas to meet a girl, advising them “to walk around in your village and find a girlfriend there not here!”

The flier mentions the beating of 17-year-old Jamal Julani in Zion Square in downtown Jerusalem last Thursday, saying “last week, an Arab who was thought he'd come here and find a Jewish girlfriend was hurt, we don't want you to get hurt, respect the honor of our girls because they are dear to us!”

The chairman of Lehavah, Bentzi Gupstein, who also sits on the local council of the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba outside Hebron, offered praise for Julani’s attackers on Tuesday saying "these youth picked the honor of the Jewish people up off the floor and did what the police should have."

The organization "Ir Amim" on Wednesday filed a police complaint for incitement to terror against Lehavah, following Gupstein's remarks and the issuing of the flier.
HockeyDad
13 years ago
Daily dose of outrage....


S. Africa won't label territories' goods as Israeli

Pretoria approves plan requiring special labels for Israeli products "emanating from IOTs (Israel Occupied Territories)."

The South African cabinet on Wednesday approved a plan to require special labels on products coming from the settlements so that they do not read "Made in Israel."

The government's approval comes some three months after the plan was first made public, and despite a flood of protest from South African Jews and other pro-Israel supporters in the country.

The cabinet issued a statement saying it "approved that a notice in terms of the Consumer Protection Act, 2008 be issued by the Minister of Trade and Industry requiring the labeling of goods or products emanating from IOTs (Israel Occupied Territories) to prevent consumers being led to believe that such goods come from Israel. This is in line with South Africa’s stance that recognizes the 1948 borders delineated by the United Nations and does not recognize occupied territories beyond these borders as being part of the state of Israel."

The decision came at a cabinet meeting where the cabinet also noted the "importance" of South Africa's participation in the upcoming Non-Aligned Movement meeting in Tehran.

The UN never delineated borders in 1948, so it is not clear whether the South African government is referring to the 1947 UN Partition Plan or perhaps the 1949 Armistice Lines.

Avrom Krengel, the chairman of the South African Zionist Federation and South African Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein, issued a statement saying the South African Jewish community was "outraged" over the cabinet’s decision.
frankj1
13 years ago

Hopefully that will keep you and your loved ones out of Syria and Iran in the near future!

HockeyDad wrote:


Non issue. Syria and Iran will keep me out of Syria and Iran. Send them my best.
HockeyDad
13 years ago

Non issue. Syria and Iran will keep me out of Syria and Iran. Send them my best.

frankj1 wrote:




They won't be keeping you out when you're wearing a US Army or Marine uniform.
wheelrite
13 years ago
HD are you Pro Israel now ?
HockeyDad
13 years ago

HD are you Pro Israel now ?

wheelrite wrote:




My current stance is to build a wall around the entire Middle East, borrow money from China to purchase huge water pumps, use the pumps to drain the Mediterranean to fill up the entire walled region, and conduct archeology in the drained out sea.
wheelrite
13 years ago

My current stance is to build a wall around the entire Middle East, borrow money from China to purchase huge water pumps, use the pumps to drain the Mediterranean to fill up the entire walled region, and conduct archeology in the drained out sea.

HockeyDad wrote:



So you're off the Palestinian Band Wagon ?
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