The endless and deliberate blurring of religious 'anti semitism' predjudices and secular Zionism in the western world is both deeply offensive and confusing. A major obstruction to diplomacy.
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@man_vs_life_@TheDefiantGhost@TheoVon Israel as a state was voted for by the UN after GB ended the LoN Palestine mandate post WWII.
You're probably thinking the 1917 Balfour letter to Rothschild was a legal document. It wasn't
@CNBC "We must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend."
~ Margaret Thatcher 1985
Why is CNBC using airtime for this crook to twist and lie, almost certainly without any journalistic pushback or discussion?
It’s all talk. Just withhold foreign aid to Israel for a month and they’ll stop bombing their neighbors - instant peace, the Strait of Hormuz can be opened, and gas drops $2 a gallon. Israel has been, and continues to be, the biggest welfare recipient from American tax payers.
Let's decode what actually happened here.
Axios reported that Trump exploded at Netanyahu. Called him "fucking crazy." Said "you'd be in prison if it weren't for me." Said "everybody hates you now."
The journalist is Barak Ravid again, we talked about it. Israeli. Based in Washington. Covers the Netanyahu-US relationship for Axios, and every latest deals to calm the markets.
This is the same journalist who wrote the exact same type of story about Biden. There is literally a book chapter about this pattern. It is called "Fuming Biden." The same reporter. The same format. The same function. Different president.
Now watch the response.
Mark Levin, a close ally of both Trump and Netanyahu, did not deny the story. He demanded an FBI investigation into who leaked it. When your defense is "this should never have leaked" instead of "this never happened," you have confirmed the call happened.
But here is the part that matters.
Why would Levin, a friend to BOTH men, confirm the most explosive account of their relationship ever published?
Because it serves both.
Trump gets to look tough. Not Netanyahu's puppet. Willing to put Israel in its place. His base loves it.
Netanyahu gets cover. He "paused" the Beirut strike, but not because Iran threatened him. Because his "friend" asked him to. His base loves it too.
And look at what actually changed on the ground. Nothing.
Israel cancelled the Beirut strike. But the ground invasion of Lebanon continues. The IDF is still miles deep. A soldier died today from a Hezbollah drone. Netanyahu's office said: "position unchanged."
The performance was perfect. Trump gets the headline. Netanyahu gets the cover. The deal gets another 48 hours of "progress." Markets get a reason to breathe.
And the war continues exactly as planned.
This is the same playbook. Every time public opinion turns against the war, a story appears showing the US president is "furious" with Israel. It creates the illusion of restraint while changing nothing.
Biden was "furious" for 14 months. The war never stopped.
Trump is "furious" now. The ground invasion is expanding.
The visible game is: Trump controls Netanyahu.
The real game is: both men are performing for their audiences while the machine moves forward.
Nothing has been signed. Nothing has stopped. The war is not winding down. It is being managed.
Neither one controls the other. They walk arm in arm. Know that.
Big oil and our overlords will be taxing you for 'carbon capture' - capturing the gas, transporting it, and storing it deep underground - in the future.
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@pharbron@Juggusheadus2@secondtierpod End of season fade, same as happened at #ccfc. Lots of speculation back then about his fall out with Adi Viveash couple of seasons ago, after which things went pear shaped.
@TedUrchin@justdavenow89 The 'shot' was not visible in the video.
No shortage of violent people baiting and insulting each other out there sadly.
Not something to celebrate.
@Ofir_Akunis * Think about what is fueling dislike of Likud's Israeli political actions by the rest of the world. Stop using emotional language and buzzwords.