Op-ed: US secretary of state keeps saying Israeli-Palestinian issue cannot remain unchanged. What about the situation in Syria, Iraq, Russia, China and Turkey?
Like a regular mantra, US Secretary of State John Kerry has a habit of saying that the Israeli-Palestinian issue cannot remain unchanged.
Strangely enough, he isn’t saying that about the conflict in Syria, where the death toll has already crossed the 200,000 mark with people being slaughtered, beheaded and dying in different ways, on its way to the 250,000 mark; he isn’t saying that about four million refugees from Syria and 10 million displaced people; he isn’t saying that about the Islamic State, which is beheading people and butchering minorities; he isn’t saying that about Iraq, which has been torn into pieces, or about Baghdad’s airport which is about to fall into the hands of jihadist terror.
He isn’t saying that about Libya either, a country controlled by a coalition of insane jihad organizations, on the verge of Europe. He isn’t saying that about Yemen, which has died and is controlled by wild tribes navigated from behind the scenes by the “smiling” Iran; he isn’t saying that about the intolerable uranium enrichment in Tehran, which has him and the West wrapped around its little finger.
He isn’t saying that about Russia either, which not only conquered eastern Ukraine, but also annexed the huge Crimea region. It isn’t an “occupation,” after all; that only exists in Israel.
He isn’t saying that about Turkey, which brutally conquered one-third of the island of Cyprus, and still controls the area; he isn’t saying that about China either, which is slowly turning Tibet into a region inhabited by Chinese; he isn’t saying that about Hezbollah, which is piling up tens of thousands of missiles on Israel’s border; he isn’t saying that about his Qatari friends, who are cunningly funding the terror that the United States is fighting against; he isn’t saying that about Hamas either, which proudly announced that it is rebuilding its network of terror tunnels targeting Israeli territory.
He is only saying that about Israel – the only safe, stable, democratic place one can rely on in the Middle East. Only in Israel, the situation cannot remain unchanged.
I would just like to mention that it was John Kerry who was Syrian President Bashar Assad’s personal friend and sat down with him many times for intimate meetings. It was John Kerry, in his former position as chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, who worked to return the American ambassador to Damascus and pressure Israel, with the price being the Golan Heights of course. Then too, the situation could not remain unchanged, and aren’t we lucky that it did remain unchanged.
The question is why is he always singling out Israel of all the nations in the world? Could it be that it pains him to see Israel secure and thriving, and that’s why he has such an urge to weaken it? To sell it to a Palestinian gang whose only goal is to weaken Israel, and then resume the fighting against it after it crumbles?
Can’t he hear the leader of this gang, Mahmoud Abbas, referring to the Jews as “impure,” as they are defiling the Temple Mount when they visit it? Can’t he see the law sentencing a Palestinian to death for daring to sell a house to a Jew? Abbas even added that he would step up the punishment for selling homes to Jews, but how can a death sentence be stepped up?
The situation cannot remain unchanged. Perhaps the foreign minister of the United States would care to explain to us why he only uses this expression here. Why is he singling Israel and the Jews out of all the nations?
yamit82 Said:
dweller Said:
Actually we ALL do know that as sure as we know that the confident lunatic professing to be Napoleon is more likely to be Napoleon than the psychobabbler is likely to be right….it’s a matter of track record
Here is what we do know without a shred of doubt:
I have to frame this statement for posterity as it is now appearing to be a timeless principle, at least until he can make a single demonstration of being right. 😛 Imagine that, in all the thousands of posts he has made he has NEVER, not one time, been able to demonstrate that he is right. I would have thought it almost impossible to have such a consistent record of failure. That is a track record which appears to point in the direction, dare I say it, that perhaps he is ALWAYS wrong wrt psychological and emotional makeup. I daresay,that with such a track record folks might be a bit reticent in accepting his “theories” or “insights”.
However, he does offer this “explanation” for never being right:
“an insight in analytical form”? Is this the new fig leaf offered to disguise ludicrous statements which have not one shred of support? Even an idea is usually offered with some logical argument of support if it pretends to serious consideration.
dweller Said:
LOL, that’s what Napoleon said at Bellevue, that’s what Jim Jones said at the Kool Aid forum…..that awareness, the special code that gives him a knowledge that cannot EVER be demonstrated(conveniently) to be right. I agree it is something quite different: its called delusional in accepted Psychological circles nic Psychobabbling.
dweller Said:
HMMMMMM? I do smell something suspicious, perhaps its that odor of NEVER being right in psychological and emotional matters?
Luckily for him this forum allows for the unlimited and uncensored dissemination of anyones most ludicrous “insights” even if they can never be shown to be right. I fully support that approach.
dweller Said:
I love you dweller, you are my little puppy dog, every time I though you a bone you chase it. But Sweetie that you are, you can never catch it.
@ honeybee:
point made thanks.
yamit82 Said:
I will take you both on,,,, in the main plaza of Dimona, hand to hand combat Krav Maga, not holds bared. Put you dukes up, boys.
dweller Said:
It’s 10am am not sloshed or yet on any pain killers and my offer stands.
I’m sure such a clever wordy micron like you can figure out a way of keeping his identity secret. I don’t want to know that’s for sure. I just want to grind your face into mush and I am so confident I’ll pay for your wife to come too and watch. She would probably cheer me on.
Ticket will only be good for the next flight out. You ain’t getting no holiday from me. I don’t want your stink to pollute our soil for longer than that.. They will supply you with free peanuts on the flight. How apropos!!!! 🙂
@ yamit82:
No, as a matter of fact, language skills are NOT my primary weapon. Hard as that may be for you to conceive, they really don’t sit very high in my toolbelt at all. Other skills or faculties are FAR closer to hand, and are more frequently in play. (I could teach them to you, but I’m not so sure you could be trusted with them.)
Now, that’s an interesting turn-of-phrase, fresh from off the wall. Was it once (or twice, or more times…) directed at you?
What makes you think you would recognize substance if you were looking right at it?
“Vindictive” — against whom? and for what, precisely? (Specifics pls.)
“Cruel” — as in, deriving pleasure from the infliction of suffering? — If so, evidence? (archived posts would be helpful).
Well, I’m due for another trip to Israel sometime soon — and my skin is tough, bones hard. So I must say the offer is tempting — but your proposition would oblige me to give up my online anonymity, and that would be problematic in a multiplicity of ways.
I think that right now (viz., when you wrote that, 3:40 am) you’re seriously sloshed. Better you should think about making such offers in the light of day and when you’re cold sober.
@ yamit82:
Well, of course. No one else that you know (around here or anywhere else) has that level of insight or penetration — or if they do, they haven’t the MOXIE to “attempt such a feat” as expressing it in the presence (intellectual OR physical) of an unregenerate bully like you. So?
No more than it’s your own f**king business WHAT my f**king business does or doesn’t consist of. (Frankly, judging from the way it’s been affecting your judgment, I think your little online affair here has been turning your grey matter into sawdust; the signs are unmistakable.)
Well, I know a lot more about YOU every time you try to intimidate me — so don’t stop now…
You, just for starters (otherwise you wouldn’t be trying to silence me).
But you CAN know for sure when something doesn’t smell right. You can know when to be suspicious of the person (or of the person’s understanding). And anybody can learn to cultivate that kind of awareness. I’ve told you that before, but you keep ignoring it or sneering at it.
You don’t know that for yourself. All you DO know is that I sound very confident, very sure of myself. That COULD mean various things.And until you have the kind of awareness I just described, you WON’T know whether what I’ve said is ‘psychobabble’ & ‘arrogance,’ or something quite different.
For one thing, I made no ‘analysis.’ I may express an insight in analytical FORM — for the sake of communicating it to somebody else (a practical matter)
— but that does not mean I myself arrived at that conclusion via an analytical process.
For another thing, that being what a ‘sane’ person would or wouldn’t do: are you really sure, within yourself, that you know what SANITY consists of???
‘Tisn’t I that’s doing the descending, pancho. But you’ve got a nasty case of the bends, and it’s affecting your perception.
@ yamit82:
Yes, previous comments in which I had reminded her that her OWN previous comments (to me) had claimed that SHE didn’t use profanity — right after she did.
I reject the characterization. I would know very little about her parents if she hadn’t alluded to them on many, many occasions. Most of what I know about them comes directly from her own, freely offered remarks — and often as not, addressed explicitly to me — and there was rarely anything ‘off-hand’ ABOUT them when she offered them.
Nor is there anything wrong w/ extrapolation when your vision is clear & you know what you’re talking about. If you truly can’t see that I do (or if you can’t admit to seeing it), I can’t help that — but there’s no frivolousness in my observations
— certainly nothing on the order of the fanciful & openly malicious, wingnut extrapolations which PresentCompany HIMSELF routinely offers about YoursTruly, and on FAR flimsier evidence.
@ dweller:
She said tongue in cheek “feces” in deference to your previous comments.
You injecting her parents is your sick way of psychobbaling your way into personal areas you have no business injecting yourself into. Extrapolating from an offhand personal remark into a whole psychoanalysis of HB or anyone’s family interrelations and drawing concrete and specific conclusions from them is most and unseemly presumptuousness on your part. No-one that I know would dare attempt such a fete except some weird sicko such as yourself and so far on this forum you are the only one who fits that description
It’s none of your fucking business what her mother grandmother father dog horse or pig for that matter thought.
What you don’t know or perceive is what you don’t know, which is a mountain more than you do know…. even if by chance you are correct or partially correct who gives a shit besides you? All of us post from time to time references about our past in some of our comments. what we say me be completely true false or partly true. You can’t know for sure which, rendering your arrogance and presumptuous psychobabble just that, you can be at least 50% correct or 50% wrong and anything in between. No sane person would make such a definitive presumption and analysis based of the information available and with the possibility that there is too much missing or that what was related was not indeed fully factual….
The very fact that you try is telling and goes to the heart of what makes you tick…. It’s not a pretty image of a shitheads decent into absolute madness…. Yes language is a tool it is also a weapon and you use language skills as your primary weapon because that covers your personal hell. You are a mind sucker your all about opinion with no substance to back those opinions up. You are vindictive and cruel.
I would give a lot to have you in front of me so I could beat you to a pulp. I will even pay your way here for the satisfaction. I am serious and you can have a round trip ticket waiting for you whenever you agree. How you return I leave to your most vivid imagination to conjure. If you think you can beat me take me up on my offer.
@ honeybee:
This is an excellent analogy with Israel.
In a few words but that is exactly what Israel should be doing. Not to care about blame and do whatever Israel wants. WE do not need followers. We need the independent Israelis to do what it needs to be done and forget about what anyone says.
@ honeybee:
Heard both explanations before — and both are too simplistic.
By your father’s explanation, I should have no language skills at all. Go ahead & believe that if you like. . . . He probably had in mind those who use cuss words for punctuation & emphasis — without even thinking about that fact that they are even using them — the way some people use “you know,” and “basically,” and “like”
— as well as those who, like your grandmother, use vulgarities as a non-physical outlet for the enormous violence that lies buried in most people.
And by your mother’s reading, I’d be anything BUT vulgar, inasmuch as profanities actually constitute an objectively minuscule proportion of my linguistic repertoire.
What’s more, by the same token, every other category & form of language I use (and each of them with much greater frequency than cuss words) should then LIKEWISE personally typify me as well: lIterary, mechanical, historical, metaphysical, scientific, musical, ethereal, experimental, etc, etc — even if I’m personally NONE of those things.
And as for what you ‘see in me’: If I ride a horse, does that MAKE me a horse? If I drive an XKE, does that MAKE me an XKE? Language is a tool, nothing more; and persons are individuals who use those tools. To characterize them according to their choice of phraseology is superficial & myopic.
As far as I’m concerned, ALL language has its place or the specific ‘taboo’ words wouldn’t exist in the first place, and I’ll be damned if I’ll be dictated to — overtly or implicitly — as to what phraseology I will or won’t use. Nor will I let other people — or groups of people — create new definitions for words I use & then insist (either explicitly or thru subtle societal pressure) that I henceforth use those words by their definitions.
They are Thought Police
— screw them, and screw the pig they rode up on.
@ dweller:
The only time my Grand-mother used the word skit was when she made a mistake sewing. My mother believed vulgar words, vulgar mind [which I see in you] . my Father vulgarities were a lack of language skills.
@ honeybee:
So then, she DIDN’T have a problem with vulgarities? (Thought you said she DID.)
dweller Said:
In deference to my Mother I would have said skita, [ Swedish for s–t]. Stay with me dweller and yawl will something new every day.
@ bernard ross:
That’s the big one of course but there is much more like murder, spending millions in the coverup like sealing all of his college and university records and using a forged or real social security card of a deceased American…. There is so much dirt something will eventually bring the house down. Look America is screwed either way.
yamit82 Said:
It may be this, the original issue…..Perhaps they all agreed to cover up the scandal to avoid getting biden as pres and avoid every other issue connected. The issue looks real and serious to me but I dont see how they can expose it without a massive mess.
dweller Said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbzaDt0IbF4&feature=related
@ honeybee:
No, you said “feces” in deference to your mother.
Why not? — everybody else does.
Like all of them, he’s been conned into thinking he’s the one
That can do what’s never been done,
That can win what’s never been won
Meanwhile. . . .
honeybee Said:
I have mud on my boots, not in my ears.
@ honeybee:
Copeland wrote several ballets for de Mille this was one of them.
I used to love to watch the orchestra strings when they played this. They literally flew and of course in unison.
I think Copeland much underrated.
Too American for highbrow critics
@ yamit82:
My aerobic instructor and I use to dance that to the entertainment of the class. She had been a student of Martha Graham. I think Agnes de Mille was one of the USA greatest choreographers.
the phoenix Said:
I have mud on my boots, not in my ears.
honeybee Said:
The Music , the Picture or the Gate? >>>
@ honeybee:
Thank you hb, I loved it!
the phoenix Said:
” THE GREAT GATE OF KIEV” ?? rather pompous.
the phoenix Said:
No just yamit82 😉
@ yamit82:
Once again, Ecclesiastes 3…
🙂
Believe it or not, mussorgsky’s ‘pictures at an exhibit’ is also one of my favorites, and for a few years, it was my ring tone..
@ honeybee:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsReWx9XdNs
@ the phoenix:
One of my all time favorites:
I love Aaron Copeland!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDEaEJXMKuA
@ honeybee:
Always had two blankets one for the damp ground and the other ?
You know!!!!
@ honeybee:
In my saddle bags always. 🙂
Here is one for all seasons and you can dance it at the flea market as well!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq65ufWquRE
yamit82 Said:
oy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Did you carry a blanket on your Vespa???? >>>
@ the phoenix:
This is one my favorites: which I enjoy with out the hard wet ground and a blanket.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbox4oi6HjA
@ the phoenix:
No not a matter of taste just the right thing at the right time and the right mood.
I used to take dates to Tanglewood in the summers and would take a bottle of good vino sec and some blankets and lie under the stars listening to Vivaldi and others with the Boston symphony . Cool eve, good atmosphere and lying on nice lawns and trees under the stars with a bright moon…. That’s how I like Vivaldi.
There is music for every time place and mood, wrong music for place, time and mood don’t do it for me.
@ honeybee:
@ yamit82:
🙂
@ yamit82:
Computer went down, front coming in, Loki II is always slow in the morning as it is. The song is meant for all those who love freedom !!!! and lynard Skynard
@ honeybee:
Was this intended for me?
the phoenix Said:
yamit82 Said:
HOW CAN ANY OF THE ABOVE BE BETTER THEN THIS ANTHUM TO FREEDOM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMHjjvLjtAM
@ the phoenix:
Vivaldi is OK but this is better. 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFyFDjnz43Y
@ the phoenix:
Canadian/Israeli from Montreal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1lDXeFdmLU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKEn_Sx2cNk
@ yamit82:
Great !
Then, blue and white it is!!!!!!!!
http://youtu.be/fwTPpxeUW9Y
@ bernard ross:
Now we don’t know what yet do we??? 🙂
@ the phoenix:
Sorry phoenix but I prefer Lynyrd Skynyrd. or Elvis Costello before he dumped on Israel now I invoke my private BDS against those shits.
Vivaldi????? I don’t know not music to be productive with, makes me want to close my eyes and if I do that I’m likely to fall asleep and then I won’t hear the music anyway.
@ yamit82:
Try Vivaldi…
Or better yet, the songs of Rachel (the poetess)
🙂
yamit82 Said:
Grump old men, I gave TX the 8 second rule!!!! He can only rave about politics for 8 secs.>>>
@ yamit82:
come through with what, is there something new that hasn’t already been squashed?
I still believe somebody will come through….. Too many enemies and disgruntled castoffs.
Fox has veered too far left.
Saudi money.
I now listen to Limbaugh/Hannity/Levin while I work.
When that becomes overwhelming, I listen to Lynyrd Skynyrd.
yamit82 Said:
Keep in mind all those who would go down with him…start with the sec of the dem party who signed the affidavit that he met the constitutional criteria to run. Keep in mind that Carter fall brought in reagan who would have been unlikely without a major backlash against Carter…. I wonder who the GOP will run?
obama may have been put forward as a lightning rod to absorb all the fallout of the crashes they knew were coming and to get the 20% of the population at the bottom to get on board with the hard times…..perhaps that is why there was a black pres.
yamit82 Said:
there have already been a number of corruption scandals which areknown by many but kept as rumor from mainstreet who read the MSM
yamit82 Said:
there have been credible whistleblowers already and the house was not brought down. republican lawamkers instead of bringing it to a head kept everything under wraps and even discredited whictle blowers themselves.
E.G. I followed the birther scandal which in my opinion was worthy of investigation. Not one court case considered the merits of the case but killed it on technicalities. The complicity of the media was to kill the case and his background. Most important was to realize that the judges are political and bought
as a result of following the obama scenario I have come to the conclusion that it is highly unllikely that anyone who is not already corrupt, bribable or extortable will achieve authority even at the mid level. The system is geared to the weaning and growing of malleable “stars”.
It is astounding that the media that brought out watergate kept the wraps on Obama which had so much more meat and is so serious.
What are you referring to that has not already come out at some level and been squashed or ignored by the media and if it gets through them by the gov or the courts?
Obama has been a protected puppet from the beginning
His chicago bath house capers got the same treatments as Oprahs proclivities.
Hillary is another one who is mired in sewage.
Being corrupt is considered being a “team player”. As you rise up you are recognized, funded and supported by the already like minded team in place. they all know each other as BS artists and appreciate the best BS artist. they all recognize that they are actors on a stage.