By Ted Belman
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Everyone will be happier.
The Washington Pundit:
@Honey Trump fixed it through negotiations as NPR grudgingly acknowledges but as I pointed out, The US has gone to war with Mexico repeatedly in the past so its rather Emersonian of us to get all huffy and sanctimonious about anybody else. How’s that joke go? I’m a free spirit, you’re a philanderer, she’s a slut.
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/13/740009105/how-mexico-beefs-up-immigration-enforcement-to-meet-trumps-terms
@Honeybee
I can honestly compare the Six Day War to the invasion of Ukraine because Israel is not the only country which is entitled to act preemptively when faced with a true threat to its existence and, unlike you, I apply the same logic to the same situations.
To you, however, Israel is good, therefore, it has the right to defend itself but Russia is bad and, therefore, it has no such right.
The enemies of Israel apply the same logic to Israel such as you are applying to Russia.
I never thought I’d ever have anything nice to say about her, assuming it was her idea and it wasn’t an oversight.
Sabastian, Darlin, too many questions. I am a busy woman But what about the depredation on the Texas border at this time. If the Nation of Texas was as foolish as Russia, we would be bombing La Ciudad de Mexico.
Sabastian: I agree that stupid woman Harris cannot be trusted to say hello. I am not proud of the USA action in Hawaii
@ Reader: How can you honestly compare t 6 Day War to the invasion of the Ukraine
@ Sabastian, The cause of the invasion of Mexican? Pancho Villa’s raid on Columbus, NM.
— https://www.brighteon.com/66883b3a-ecf8-4786-ac73-086c37c7ac83
@Honey. Gosh, I’d forgotten this, so big at the tme.
@ Honey It’s seemingly endless.
https://www.ksbe.edu/assets/pdfs/The_Overthrow_of_the_Hawaiian_Monarchy_PDF.pdf
@ Sebastian Re. Harris . OY:
@ Honey
https://www.ksbe.edu/article/the-truth-behind-the-illegal-overthrow-of-the-hawaiian-kingdom/
https://www.ksbe.edu/assets/pdfs/The_Overthrow_of_the_Hawaiian_Monarchy_PDF.pdf
@Honey Vice-President Kamala Harris on the causes of the war in 15 seconds or less.
https://youtu.be/1u6pIxbS5dc
@Ketzal @Dinastar and, of course,
from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
https://youtu.be/qSUQNv78VQA
@Ketzel @Dinastar I am reminded of this hilarious Monty Python skit from the movie, “The Meaning of Life” in which Death comes for American and British tourists in the French countryside who have died. Death is French and hates them.
https://youtu.be/YoBTsMJ4jNk
By the way, I love this stilted, anachronistic language of political outrage. I thought we just had Felix for that.
Greetings and felicitations.
@Honey
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis
@Honeybee
Honeybee: Israel is not the victim !!!!! The Arab world is !!!!!!! [1967 The Six Day War – by your logic]
@Honey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenada%E2%80%93Soviet_Union_relations
Russia has a Monroe Doctrine of its own.
Reader: Russian is not the victim !!!!! Urakaine is !!!!!!!
@ Sebastian: You are a comedian.
@Honeybee
How do you imagine a military operation without destruction?
Would the US sit quietly if it were surrounded by foreign military bases capable of striking it with nuclear missiles?
If your answer is “No”, why would you demand the same from Russia?
For Russia, a nuclear NATO-aligned Ukraine is the same as a nuclear Russian-aligned Alaska would be for the US.
Why is it so hard to accept?
Is it because of the conviction that the US is entitled to rule the whole world including “Eurasia” and have the whole world forget their own languages and culture and switch to THE language (English) – it will be better for the Untermenschen anyway, they are just too stupid to understand it?
Honeybee
Russia made it clear that if Georgia and Ukraine became NATO powers that would be an existentialist issue just as Cuba was for JF Kennedy (Oct 16, 1962 – Oct 28, 1962) I recommend any video by John Meirsheimer who is recognised as an authority.
Ted: How can you support the destruction that Russia has visited on Ukraine. I can think of a cause that would require such an overaction.
Together with a Russian journalist, who has been living in Israel for many decades, I am writing an article in which we recommend a relationship between Russia and Europe.
It is a follow up to this article we wrote in 2016.
Contemplating, a US-Russia Alliance
Any suggestions or thoughts would be appreciated.
@Felix
No, they don’t. The post Soviet era has been a chaotic road of regime change, from Europe to the Middle East and back again to Europe. There is no reason to suspect this is not still the agenda of the day.
@Honeybee
Having read the other side, you are entitled to your opinion.
Ted: I read your comments carefully. I don’t agree with your assessment I regard the Russians as aggressors.
Peloni
The Russians are serious in using their term and since I so much respect them I respect them in this too. So I will stick by them.
What is far more important is that the American alliance does not want a settlement…as I said
They are being very much pushing risk and that worries greatly
@Honeybee.
You have bought into all the propaganda put out by the west. At a minimum you should know that there are two sides to every story. From what I have read I side with the Russians. The West has accused Russia of every known war crimes; genocide, rape, use of chemical weapons, intentionally killing of civilians.
I for one don’t believe it. The West has yet to offer enough evidence to substantiate their claims.
The last time you came to the side of the Ukrainians I and others offered you proof and facts to convince you that you were wrong. You obviously didn’t read our comments.
@Felix
Felix, it is ridiculous to suggest Russia’s “special operation” is not a war. Regardless of all other commentary, this rose by any other name is still a war. His tanks are in Ukraine, his army is in Ukraine, he is bombing Ukraine and he is demanding a political settlement. This is silly posturing that defies all reason and any reasonable explanation. But if you earnestly disagree, please explain…perhaps without ad hominem, if you find it possible.
It’s not a war. I think Russia called it a military action for s reason. They have zero interest in conquering Ukraine. They would like to be both on friendly terms. Above all for the Russian loving people in the East Ukraine not to be killed by the Fascist Azov (who link back to Stepan Bandera in the Holocaust) Putin is essentially a moderniser but he has run into deadly Russia hatred at the centre of Washington and the EU too it seems. Russia will not have nukes placed on its border. Looks like the West thinks that has to be done. Out of that situation which Russia definitely did not seek…we risk all life through nuclear war.
This rape issue what’s the source and what’s the evidence?
Felix, do you approve of the Russian troops raping Ukrainian women and girls? What in Heaven’s name does that have to do with avenging the Holocaust?
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=4990836891024201&set=a.115392028568736
The Holocaust has nothing to do with Putin’s war of aggression and greed.
@ Felix: Don’t be lumping the IDF in with the Russians. The IDF defends the Jewish people against Islamic aggression. The Russians are thugs who bomb and kill defenseless Ukrainians.
If you find material on Ukrainians killing Jews or Romany in the Holocaust please publish it
https://jewishjournal.org/2022/04/01/a-ukrainian-directors-documentary-about-babyn-yar-massacre-of-jews-lands-in-an-unanticipated-context/
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-704326
@Edgar @Edgar I’ll have to look up “The Maggie.” Paul Douglas is one of my favoriite actors. Unfortunately, he died shortly after making this film in his late 50s. Billly Wilder had just offered him the role that went to Fred McMurray in “The Apartment” starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley Maclaine.
“Holliday was born Judith Tuvim (she took her stage name from yom tovim, which is Hebrew for “holidays”) in New York City, the only child of Abe and Helen (née Gollomb) Tuvim. Her father was executive director of the foundation for the Jewish National Fund of America (1951–1958),[2][3] and a socialist activist who ran unsuccessfully six times between 1919 and 1938 as the Socialist Party candidate for the New York state Legislature.[4] Her mother taught piano. Both were of Russian-Jewish descent.[5][6] Judith grew up in Sunnyside, Queens, New York, and graduated from Julia Richman High School in Manhattan. Her first job was as an assistant switchboard operator at the Mercury Theatre, which was administered by Orson Welles and John Houseman.[7][8]” – Wikipedia
I subbed in an orchestra that rehearsed and performed at Julie Richmond High School. It’s on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
I believe that the Holocaust is at the centre of the war. About 80 years ago and that is just one lifetime. But it is greatly significant that there is total blackout silence. Why? It puzzles me a little.
Hmmm. I am reminded of: ”
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — ‘Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.’ — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
Who was Leon Trotsky?Jewish Biography as History Dr. Henry Abramson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5DZDbSzr-Q
This answers a few questions, like how Jews came to be identified with communism, Red Army’s protection of Jews, etc.
@SEBASTIEN-
Posting on here has become something like “The Phantom Of The Opera”, or even “Trilby” both books that I actually have. The Du Maurier book is a 1st Edition.
I’m saying this, because the post in which I asked why Jews would be wearing turbans etc (answering your actually interesting post, even if you now say you exaggerated-it was a very good read)…
Well that post of mine is MISSING, has vanished, disappeared, vamoosed, scarpered, scrammed.. It’s gone….! It may be there but I couldn’t find it.
As Florian Slappy would say. “It has suddenlyb become “went”….!!
@Edgar I was exaggerating. I went to an ashram in Brooklyn once filled with jews wearing turbans like the actual Indian, Sikh, really, yogis. I guess because they don’t cut their hair. Lot of turbaned Sikh cab drivers who recognized my mantras, ha ha.. Anyway, most of us didn’t do anything special clothing wise other than wearing loose fitting clothing when doing yoga, like now. They have yoga and meditation at many Jewish Community Centers, though I didn’t and don’t belong to one. One of the classes I took was in the basement of a local Methodist Church. I did cub scouts there, too. Never set foot in their chapel. Very ecumenical. They hosted a synagogue that was under construction and now they are hosting an art movie house that was torn down elsewhere. That being said, I don’t know if I’ve made this observation here, but I have noticed that so many of the world’s religions have men cover their heads in such a way as to conveniently cover a bald spot. I could use such an excuse, myself, ha ha. I did take singing lessons from a cantor in a Conservative synagogue here that has since closed and been replaced with a Young Israel, which is Modern Orthodox.
@SEBASTIEN-
The fist time I’ve heard this. VERY humourous, and, could at times be accurate. Sounds like something Jackie Mason would say. And this is a great compliment.
Rudi Giuliani tells Eric Mataxas about conspiracy of the Bidens, Obama, Soros, et al; smoking gun on Laptop from Hell
https://rumble.com/v10np9r-mayor-rudy-giuliani-on-his-mayoral-success-and-role-in-the-trump-administra.html
@Edgar “The Orthodox say, “Hashem,” The Conservative say, “Adonai,” The Reform say, “Our lord who art in heaven,” and the Reconstructionists say, “To Whom it May Concern.” ‘
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“At an Orthodox wedding, the bride’s mother is pregnant. At a Conservative wedding, the bride is pregnant. At a Reform wedding, the rabbi is pregnant. At a Reconstructionist wedding, the rabbi and her wife are both pregnant.”
VERY bad news in Shanghai:
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2022/04/08/did-china-just-invade-shanghai-n1587965
@SEBASTIEN-
I’v e just read your link, and to me it’s all twaddle. Lots of ifs, thens. and maybes. .Personally Bennett has shown that he is thoroughly untrustworthy. a schemer and plotter.,
In my opinion, although nothing in politics is permanent, which shows what a stinking fish it is, this article reminded me most forcibly of the political career of Shaul Mofaz, whom you may recall. He swore that he was a permanent LIKUD supporter, and THE VERY NEXT DAY, jumped to Kadima, which was wiped out in the next election, whereupon he retired from politics.
In my references to him during that period I used to refer to him as the grasshopper.