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Today, Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu made a powerful speech at the United Nations. He told those who gathered to hear him that he hadn’t planned to come to the U.N. this year, but there were so many lies being told about Israel and the war in Gaza that he believed he had to set the record straight. This is a partial list of points he chose to make:
- That Israel was fighting a seven-front war, if you included all the Iran proxies;
- That since October 7, Hezbollah had set off 8,000 rockets toward Israel;
- That 23 of 24 Hamas battalions had been decimated, and their power had been devastated;
- That Israel was not committing genocide but Hamas was.
- That Hamas was stealing from the delivery of 700,000 pounds of food that were being delivered to the Palestinians, keeping some of the deliveries and selling the rest back to the Palestinians at exorbitant prices.
- That he would not stop fighting until all the hostages were returned.
He made this last point a few times throughout his speech. Many people have speculated that he would abandon the rescue of the hostages, or even recommended that he should, but he insisted that the war in Gaza wouldn’t be over until all the hostages were recovered, dead or alive.
But the statement he made that got my attention was that he called the body he was speaking to, the U.N. General Assembly, an anti-Semitic organization; he reminded those who attended that in the last ten years, Israel had been slapped with twice as many resolutions against it as all of the other countries in the U.N. combined.
I think that all of us can no longer mince words when we talk about Jews and Israel, against protestors and terrorists. It’s all about anti-Semitism, about hatred of the Jews that we have tolerated for centuries.
We can only hope that the time will come when the other Arab countries in the Middle East recognize that there is strength in numbers, and if they unite with Israel against Iran, they have a chance to maintain their sovereignty and maybe achieve peace.
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First Zionists needed to have a nation of their own so Jewish people could be safe. (Supposedly "a land without a people for a people without a land.")
Then the Israelis avoided a two state solution as otherwise they would not feel safe.
In order to do this, AIPAC came about in the late 1960's so that there would be a staunch monetary control over American political processes.
By the mid 1980's, Sen Charles Percy, a Republican, gave up on running for re-election, as he knew he could not win against AIPAC and other internal-US-Jewish-forces.
In 1992, George Herbert Walker Bush ran for re-election. It was well known that he was going to pursue a two state solution if re-elected.
AIPAC threw their support to Bill Clinton, and guess who won?
Now we are told the war must expand from Gaza to Lebanon, and then onto Iran!
Currently all three people who have had their hats in the ring to run for the Oval Office are allied with AIPAC and Israel. (RFK Jr, Harris, and Trump.) This is the logical result of decades of AIPAC pressures.
Yes the Biden administration has verbally spanked Netanyahu, several times. This stance occurred as the Administration needs to appeal to its young voters, who happen to be their base. But several weeks later, and without much fanfare the Biden/Kamala Forces hand out exactly what they were asked to hand out. I have lost track of how much of the war there has come from our pockets but it might be over 100 billion bucks.
In order to keep a lid on all this, there will be a loss of free speech here in the USA. The international standard for "anti-semitic" speech makes it impossible to recount various historic occurrences, such as when Christians recite the fact that the Jews killed Christ. It would also be impossible to critique any aspect of on going US policies that favor Israel, or Israeli policies themselves.
It might end up that we will no longer be able to say "America First" without adding "And Israel First too!"
I very much doubt that Netanyahu touched any of these truths in his UN speech.
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I haven't watched the address yet. Did he cover the fact that the UNRWA is utterly compromised by Hamas?
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BREAKING: Israel Takes Out Hezbollah Headquarters (townhall.com)
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The civil authorities of the time killed Jesus and that was the Romans. It is also true that as Christians we believe that Jesus died and was resurrected to take away our sins. So the death was necessary. As such, let's stop with the canard that the Jews killed Jesus. It is a vicious lie that has led to thousands of years of persecution of the Jewish people.
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Oh Carol, I'm not prepared to list all the untruths, exaggerations and remarkable conspiracy theories that you list. It's pretty much the same stuff you usually share.
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