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MariotaTheGawd
MariotaTheGawd Member Posts: 1,441
I'm curious about what the naysayers would consider to be an allowable level of criticism of AIPAC as a lobbying entity specifically and Israel in general as a nation-state. Money talks in the United States Congress, so if it's anti-Semitic to talk about the money that they spend to influence Congress because of historical caricatures about Jews and money, how does one even broach the topic? AIPAC is the largest foreign policy-related donor to congress at $3.5 million in 2018 (UNICEF is next at 744k), and they also pay for members to visit Israel. Is Bernie Sanders an anti-Semite for being critical of the way Israel treats the Palestinians? Does someone need to be Jewish in order to criticize Israel's government?

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  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,560
    So you quoted a guy that admits to being bought for a cool 5k...

    Is that all it takes to buy support these days? If so, I’m in the wrong profession.
  • sarktastic
    sarktastic Member Posts: 9,208
    https://www.citybeat.com/news/news-feature/blog/21020927/he-launched-his-political-career-in-cincinnati-now-hes-fighting-for-health-care-access-while-battling-als

    What I thought. Desperate times, desperate measures. Outlandish claims. You would think that after fighting for healthcare access he would have remembered to sign up.
  • sarktastic
    sarktastic Member Posts: 9,208
    LOL

    Here’s the data on the campaign you worked on - Victoria Wulsin. She raised over $1 million in campaign contributions. A $5,000 campaign contribution from a pro-Israel donor did not make or break her campaign. This thread is a LIE
    (link: https://www.opensecrets.org/races/summary?cycle=2006&id=OH02) opensecrets.org/races/summary?…
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,099 Founders Club
    Can white people criticize Blacks?

    We're trying to play by your rules

    If you support the people who want to slaughter Jews you might be anti semitic

    If you belong to a semitic religion that wants to slaughter Jews you are the issue
  • SFGbob
    SFGbob Member Posts: 33,183

    I'm curious about what the naysayers would consider to be an allowable level of criticism of AIPAC as a lobbying entity specifically and Israel in general as a nation-state. Money talks in the United States Congress, so if it's anti-Semitic to talk about the money that they spend to influence Congress because of historical caricatures about Jews and money, how does one even broach the topic? AIPAC is the largest foreign policy-related donor to congress at $3.5 million in 2018 (UNICEF is next at 744k), and they also pay for members to visit Israel. Is Bernie Sanders an anti-Semite for being critical of the way Israel treats the Palestinians? Does someone need to be Jewish in order to criticize Israel's government?

    You can criticize AIPAC all you like, but when you start claiming people only support Israel because of all the money they get from the Jews you've crossed the line.

    I do find it interesting that the people who have such a problem with AIPAC are usually Muslim sympathizers who have no problem with the money being spent by pro-Pali outfits. Which tends to make me believe they don't really have a problem with PAC money but have a problem with Jewish PAC money.

    And yes, Bernie is an anti-Semite. Bernie's god and religion is the state not Judaism.
  • TurdBomber
    TurdBomber Member Posts: 20,041 Standard Supporter

    I'm curious about what the naysayers would consider to be an allowable level of criticism of AIPAC as a lobbying entity specifically and Israel in general as a nation-state. Money talks in the United States Congress, so if it's anti-Semitic to talk about the money that they spend to influence Congress because of historical caricatures about Jews and money, how does one even broach the topic? AIPAC is the largest foreign policy-related donor to congress at $3.5 million in 2018 (UNICEF is next at 744k), and they also pay for members to visit Israel. Is Bernie Sanders an anti-Semite for being critical of the way Israel treats the Palestinians? Does someone need to be Jewish in order to criticize Israel's government?

    No. But it helps to not be Anti-Semitic while doing so. That appears to be your struggle.
  • PurpleJ
    PurpleJ Member Posts: 37,643 Founders Club
    Didn't read. Kill yourself anyways.
  • HardlyClothed
    HardlyClothed Member Posts: 937
    SFGbob said:

    I'm curious about what the naysayers would consider to be an allowable level of criticism of AIPAC as a lobbying entity specifically and Israel in general as a nation-state. Money talks in the United States Congress, so if it's anti-Semitic to talk about the money that they spend to influence Congress because of historical caricatures about Jews and money, how does one even broach the topic? AIPAC is the largest foreign policy-related donor to congress at $3.5 million in 2018 (UNICEF is next at 744k), and they also pay for members to visit Israel. Is Bernie Sanders an anti-Semite for being critical of the way Israel treats the Palestinians? Does someone need to be Jewish in order to criticize Israel's government?

    You can criticize AIPAC all you like, but when you start claiming people only support Israel because of all the money they get from the Jews you've crossed the line.

    I do find it interesting that the people who have such a problem with AIPAC are usually Muslim sympathizers who have no problem with the money being spent by pro-Pali outfits. Which tends to make me believe they don't really have a problem with PAC money but have a problem with Jewish PAC money.

    And yes, Bernie is an anti-Semite. Bernie's god and religion is the state not Judaism.
    There is no pro-Palestinian lobbying outfit that even comes close to rivaling the money and influence of AIPAC moron
  • HardlyClothed
    HardlyClothed Member Posts: 937

    Can white people criticize Blacks?

    We're trying to play by your rules

    If you support the people who want to slaughter Jews you might be anti semitic

    If you belong to a semitic religion that wants to slaughter Jews you are the issue


    The origin of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is essentially a land dispute but actually every Muslim wants to slaughter Jews because Islam. Just bigoted bullshit from Race who has never even been to Israel.

  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,662
    edited February 2019
    Joobs > palistinian boobs.

    Kick all the Palestinians out and let them squabble with Egypt. Shoot on sight
  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781

    I'm curious about what the naysayers would consider to be an allowable level of criticism of AIPAC as a lobbying entity specifically and Israel in general as a nation-state. Money talks in the United States Congress, so if it's anti-Semitic to talk about the money that they spend to influence Congress because of historical caricatures about Jews and money, how does one even broach the topic? AIPAC is the largest foreign policy-related donor to congress at $3.5 million in 2018 (UNICEF is next at 744k), and they also pay for members to visit Israel. Is Bernie Sanders an anti-Semite for being critical of the way Israel treats the Palestinians? Does someone need to be Jewish in order to criticize Israel's government?

    Who’s the fag in your avatar?
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,099 Founders Club

    Can white people criticize Blacks?

    We're trying to play by your rules

    If you support the people who want to slaughter Jews you might be anti semitic

    If you belong to a semitic religion that wants to slaughter Jews you are the issue


    The origin of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is essentially a land dispute but actually every Muslim wants to slaughter Jews because Islam. Just bigoted bullshit from Race who has never even been to Israel.

    So when the Muslims supported Hitler it was because of Israel?

    Check your timeline

    It is because of Islam going back centuries

    If you can't even admit that then get the fuck out of here
  • HillsboroDuck
    HillsboroDuck Member Posts: 9,186
    I'm an unrelenting Zionist until I die and IDGAF what you guys think about it.


















  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 37,843 Standard Supporter
    Palestinians walked away from their homeland in 1947 because they hated the Jews. HTH
  • HardlyClothed
    HardlyClothed Member Posts: 937

    Can white people criticize Blacks?

    We're trying to play by your rules

    If you support the people who want to slaughter Jews you might be anti semitic

    If you belong to a semitic religion that wants to slaughter Jews you are the issue


    The origin of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is essentially a land dispute but actually every Muslim wants to slaughter Jews because Islam. Just bigoted bullshit from Race who has never even been to Israel.

    So when the Muslims supported Hitler it was because of Israel?

    Check your timeline

    It is because of Islam going back centuries

    If you can't even admit that then get the fuck out of here
    Support for Germany during the war wasn’t because they shared an ideology for wanting to exterminate the jews but because of French and British colonialism in the region following Sykes-Picot and British sponsorship of a Jewish state in Palestine from the Balfour declaration. Gandhi wrote friendly letters to Hitler for the same anti-colonial reasons.

    Going back centuries there were plenty of Jewish communities living peacefully side by side with Muslims throughout the Ottoman Empire.

    Not surprising you believe Bibi’s false narrative about the history of the conflict. He stepped in it by claiming that the Grand Mufti of Palestine gave Hitler the idea for the holocaust. You’re not far from making the same BS claims.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,099 Founders Club
    Sure.gif

    The Muslims are just innocent victims and its the JEWS that are at fault

    Not surprising that you believe the horrible anti Semitic propaganda you can find all over the Middle East to this day

    If the Palis want a state they know how to get it. They are holding out for the one state solution

    NO deal
  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 37,843 Standard Supporter
    edited February 2019

    Can white people criticize Blacks?

    We're trying to play by your rules

    If you support the people who want to slaughter Jews you might be anti semitic

    If you belong to a semitic religion that wants to slaughter Jews you are the issue


    The origin of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is essentially a land dispute but actually every Muslim wants to slaughter Jews because Islam. Just bigoted bullshit from Race who has never even been to Israel.

    So when the Muslims supported Hitler it was because of Israel?

    Check your timeline

    It is because of Islam going back centuries

    If you can't even admit that then get the fuck out of here
    Support for Germany during the war wasn’t because they shared an ideology for wanting to exterminate the jews but because of French and British colonialism in the region following Sykes-Picot and British sponsorship of a Jewish state in Palestine from the Balfour declaration. Gandhi wrote friendly letters to Hitler for the same anti-colonial reasons.

    Going back centuries there were plenty of Jewish communities living peacefully side by side with Muslims throughout the Ottoman Empire.

    Not surprising you believe Bibi’s false narrative about the history of the conflict. He stepped in it by claiming that the Grand Mufti of Palestine gave Hitler the idea for the holocaust. You’re not far from making the same BS claims.
    Maybe you can explain why the majority of the Muslim world wants to exterminate the Jews then? And have actually tried several times?
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    Sledog said:

    Can white people criticize Blacks?

    We're trying to play by your rules

    If you support the people who want to slaughter Jews you might be anti semitic

    If you belong to a semitic religion that wants to slaughter Jews you are the issue


    The origin of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is essentially a land dispute but actually every Muslim wants to slaughter Jews because Islam. Just bigoted bullshit from Race who has never even been to Israel.

    So when the Muslims supported Hitler it was because of Israel?

    Check your timeline

    It is because of Islam going back centuries

    If you can't even admit that then get the fuck out of here
    Support for Germany during the war wasn’t because they shared an ideology for wanting to exterminate the jews but because of French and British colonialism in the region following Sykes-Picot and British sponsorship of a Jewish state in Palestine from the Balfour declaration. Gandhi wrote friendly letters to Hitler for the same anti-colonial reasons.

    Going back centuries there were plenty of Jewish communities living peacefully side by side with Muslims throughout the Ottoman Empire.

    Not surprising you believe Bibi’s false narrative about the history of the conflict. He stepped in it by claiming that the Grand Mufti of Palestine gave Hitler the idea for the holocaust. You’re not far from making the same BS claims.
    Maybe you can explain why the majority of the Muslim world wants to exterminate the Jews then? And have actually tried several times?
    You have said multiple times you want to exterminate Muslims. How are you any better?
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,099 Founders Club
  • HardlyClothed
    HardlyClothed Member Posts: 937
    Because there are now hundreds of thousands of Jewish settlers in the West Bank there is no coherent state that the Palestinians could create. The one state solution where Palestinians enjoy equal rights in a democratic Israel is the best possible outcome.

    But that would mean Palestinian self-determination and only the Israelis are allowed to have that.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,099 Founders Club
    I guess they should have taken the deal decades ago

    Tough shit

    Palis have rights in Israel today. Try again. They also have jobs and aren't strapping TNT to their children

    Amazing what a difference that makes
  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 37,843 Standard Supporter
    2001400ex said:

    Sledog said:

    Can white people criticize Blacks?

    We're trying to play by your rules

    If you support the people who want to slaughter Jews you might be anti semitic

    If you belong to a semitic religion that wants to slaughter Jews you are the issue


    The origin of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is essentially a land dispute but actually every Muslim wants to slaughter Jews because Islam. Just bigoted bullshit from Race who has never even been to Israel.

    So when the Muslims supported Hitler it was because of Israel?

    Check your timeline

    It is because of Islam going back centuries

    If you can't even admit that then get the fuck out of here
    Support for Germany during the war wasn’t because they shared an ideology for wanting to exterminate the jews but because of French and British colonialism in the region following Sykes-Picot and British sponsorship of a Jewish state in Palestine from the Balfour declaration. Gandhi wrote friendly letters to Hitler for the same anti-colonial reasons.

    Going back centuries there were plenty of Jewish communities living peacefully side by side with Muslims throughout the Ottoman Empire.

    Not surprising you believe Bibi’s false narrative about the history of the conflict. He stepped in it by claiming that the Grand Mufti of Palestine gave Hitler the idea for the holocaust. You’re not far from making the same BS claims.
    Maybe you can explain why the majority of the Muslim world wants to exterminate the Jews then? And have actually tried several times?
    You have said multiple times you want to exterminate Muslims. How are you any better?
    Maybe you have missed all the "death to America" Mooselimb regimes out there. I don't like people that want everyone dead or converted to their religion. Here we call them enemies. There was a reason for the Crusades. HTH
  • HardlyClothed
    HardlyClothed Member Posts: 937

    I guess they should have taken the deal decades ago

    Tough shit

    Palis have rights in Israel today. Try again. They also have jobs and aren't strapping TNT to their children

    Amazing what a difference that makes

    They are discriminated against in their daily lives. Something you would know if you have actually been there.

    Interfaith marriages are illegal in Israel. The IDF harasses them daily.

    There’s a wave of settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank going on right now. The nation state law passed last summer codifies the superior status of Jews in Israel.

    You have a vision of Israel that is completely at odds with reality but is common with Americans that gorge right-wing media and swallow Likud talking points.
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    Sledog said:

    2001400ex said:

    Sledog said:

    Can white people criticize Blacks?

    We're trying to play by your rules

    If you support the people who want to slaughter Jews you might be anti semitic

    If you belong to a semitic religion that wants to slaughter Jews you are the issue


    The origin of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is essentially a land dispute but actually every Muslim wants to slaughter Jews because Islam. Just bigoted bullshit from Race who has never even been to Israel.

    So when the Muslims supported Hitler it was because of Israel?

    Check your timeline

    It is because of Islam going back centuries

    If you can't even admit that then get the fuck out of here
    Support for Germany during the war wasn’t because they shared an ideology for wanting to exterminate the jews but because of French and British colonialism in the region following Sykes-Picot and British sponsorship of a Jewish state in Palestine from the Balfour declaration. Gandhi wrote friendly letters to Hitler for the same anti-colonial reasons.

    Going back centuries there were plenty of Jewish communities living peacefully side by side with Muslims throughout the Ottoman Empire.

    Not surprising you believe Bibi’s false narrative about the history of the conflict. He stepped in it by claiming that the Grand Mufti of Palestine gave Hitler the idea for the holocaust. You’re not far from making the same BS claims.
    Maybe you can explain why the majority of the Muslim world wants to exterminate the Jews then? And have actually tried several times?
    You have said multiple times you want to exterminate Muslims. How are you any better?
    Maybe you have missed all the "death to America" Mooselimb regimes out there. I don't like people that want everyone dead or converted to their religion. Here we call them enemies. There was a reason for the Crusades. HTH
    That's not what actual Muslims believe. Idiot.
  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 37,843 Standard Supporter
    2001400ex said:

    Sledog said:

    2001400ex said:

    Sledog said:

    Can white people criticize Blacks?

    We're trying to play by your rules

    If you support the people who want to slaughter Jews you might be anti semitic

    If you belong to a semitic religion that wants to slaughter Jews you are the issue


    The origin of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is essentially a land dispute but actually every Muslim wants to slaughter Jews because Islam. Just bigoted bullshit from Race who has never even been to Israel.

    So when the Muslims supported Hitler it was because of Israel?

    Check your timeline

    It is because of Islam going back centuries

    If you can't even admit that then get the fuck out of here
    Support for Germany during the war wasn’t because they shared an ideology for wanting to exterminate the jews but because of French and British colonialism in the region following Sykes-Picot and British sponsorship of a Jewish state in Palestine from the Balfour declaration. Gandhi wrote friendly letters to Hitler for the same anti-colonial reasons.

    Going back centuries there were plenty of Jewish communities living peacefully side by side with Muslims throughout the Ottoman Empire.

    Not surprising you believe Bibi’s false narrative about the history of the conflict. He stepped in it by claiming that the Grand Mufti of Palestine gave Hitler the idea for the holocaust. You’re not far from making the same BS claims.
    Maybe you can explain why the majority of the Muslim world wants to exterminate the Jews then? And have actually tried several times?
    You have said multiple times you want to exterminate Muslims. How are you any better?
    Maybe you have missed all the "death to America" Mooselimb regimes out there. I don't like people that want everyone dead or converted to their religion. Here we call them enemies. There was a reason for the Crusades. HTH
    That's not what actual Muslims believe. Idiot.
    Read the Koran moron.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,099 Founders Club
    So they deserve it? Nice

    The Arab and Persian world have used the Palis far worse than Israel could dream of. Iran openly calls for the destruction of Israel and America because they don't want a solution. Instead of building a nation that Palis allowed themselves to be pawn thinking they would get it all

    My "vision" of Israel is that I'd live there 100 times before I lived in a Muslim shit hole

    Of course its racism, JFC
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,099 Founders Club
    Arab citizens of Israel,[3] or Arab Israelis, are Israeli citizens who are Arab. Many Arab citizens of Israel self-identify as Palestinian and commonly self-designate themselves as Palestinian citizens of Israel or Israeli Palestinians,[4][5] According to a 2017 survey, only 16% of the Arab population prefers the term "Israeli Arab", while the largest and fastest growing proportion prefers "Palestinian in Israel". A notable percentage prefers Palestinian Arab, rejecting entirely the identity of "Israeli".[6] The traditional vernacular of most Arab citizens, irrespective of religion, is Levantine Arabic, including Lebanese Arabic in the North of Israel, Palestinian dialect of Arabic in Central Israel and Bedouin dialects across the Negev desert; having absorbed much Hebrew loanwords and phrases, the modern dialect of Arab citizens of Israel is defined by some as the Israeli Arabic dialect.[7] Most Arab citizens of Israel are functionally bilingual, their second language being Modern Hebrew. By religious affiliation, most are Muslim, particularly of the Sunni branch of Islam. There is a significant Arab Christian minority from various denominations as well as the Druze, among other religious communities.[8]

    According to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics, the Arab population in 2013 was estimated at 1,658,000, representing 21% of the country's population.[2] The majority of these identify themselves as Arab or Palestinian by nationality and Israeli by citizenship.[9][10][11] Arab citizens of Israel mostly live in Arab-majority towns and cities; with eight of Israel's ten poorest cities being Arab. The vast majority attend separate schools to Jewish Israelis, and Arab political parties have never joined a government coalition.[12][13] Many have family ties to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as well as to Palestinian refugees in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.[14] Galilee Bedouins, Negev Bedouins and the Druze tend to identify more as Israelis than other Arab citizens of Israel.[15][16][17][18]

    The Arabs living in East Jerusalem and the Druze in the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel in the Six-Day War of 1967 and later annexed, were offered Israeli citizenship, but most have refused, not wanting to recognize Israel's claim to sovereignty. They became permanent residents instead.[19] They have the right to apply for citizenship, are entitled to municipal services and have municipal voting rights.[20]
  • TurdBomber
    TurdBomber Member Posts: 20,041 Standard Supporter

    I guess they should have taken the deal decades ago

    Tough shit

    Palis have rights in Israel today. Try again. They also have jobs and aren't strapping TNT to their children

    Amazing what a difference that makes

    They are discriminated against in their daily lives. Something you would know if you have actually been there.

    Interfaith marriages are illegal in Israel. The IDF harasses them daily.

    There’s a wave of settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank going on right now. The nation state law passed last summer codifies the superior status of Jews in Israel.

    You have a vision of Israel that is completely at odds with reality but is common with Americans that gorge right-wing media and swallow Likud talking points.
    So it's Israel that constantly provokes violent reactions from the peace-loving Palestinians, not the other way around.

    Brainwashing complete.