AOC's Attack on Yang's Meaningless Israel Statement Shows Her Role: Protect Dem Leaders
greenwald.substack.com
Real power over U.S. policy toward Israel and Gaza rests with Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Schumer, Blinken -- not Yang. But AOC's function is to shield them from leftist anger.
Cut the crap. There is no such a thing as a Palestinian. They’re all Arabs. Terrorists, murderers, thieves and crooks. Fatah and Hamas get hundreds of millions in funding from the Arab oil cartel, The EU, and the US. Lines the pickets of the thieving so called leadership. Arab murder of Jews goes way back before there ever was an Israel. Their favorite slogan “ichbad al yahood “ ( slaughter the Jews) has been chanted since forever. Haj Amin al Husseiny the Mufty of Jerusalem went to Hitler to make a deal when Hitler conquers Egypt and British mandated Palestine he should ship all the Jews to the death camps. Before you go ape shit on the Jews living and defending themselves in the ancient land of Israel with Jerusalem as its capital for over 3000 yrs. it would behoove you Glen to learn some history (ancient annd modern) so that you could put you love of the Arabs and hatred of the Jews living the modern land of Israel intoroper context. Let me start you off; The land of Israel for the people of Israel.
Too many threads to pull on this sweater, ultimately spiritually discerned. In nutshell, I’m sad to see Glenn taken in by the Palestinian PR machine. It is a truly amazing juggernaut of half-truth, misinformation, and outright falsehood, but still, with Glenn’s skills. Start with Sarah and Hagar.
As it turns out, Israel is not only an asset to the United States, it is an asset whose value is becoming more apparent to its neighboring Arab countries. All the fear mongering about war breaking out if the US moved its embassy proved to be wrong, as did the prophecies of doom should the US recognize Israeli annexation of the Golan. So maybe the premise of the anti-Israel voices is mistaken altogether. It is at least a possibility worth examining.
As to what is happening at the moment in Israel, what we see is an intra-Palestinian power play (by canceling elections whose outcome he could no longer control, Abbas deprived Hamas of its chance to take over the PA - something that it will not allow without a fight). The background to all this is, of course, Israel and the well-worn slogans about who best protects Palestinian rights.
Even the housing dispute that supposedly lies at the bottom of this outbreak of violence is an excuse. Back in 1982, the tenants agreed that their leases (granted under Jordanian law) required the payment of rent to the identified landlords. An agreement the tenants promptly ignored. It tells you something of the Israeli legal system that nearly four decades later is the case approaching a resolution. When our own rent moratorium ends, try using the same arguments these tenants have and see how long it takes before a US court grants an order of eviction.
Even here, the legal background is revealing on how Israel operates. After Jordan expelled all Jews from the lands of the former Mandate for Palestine that it conquered in 1948-49, it passed a law that allowed it to take possession of all Jewish properties. Some it took by eminent domain and retained control, others it gave ownership to third parties and still others it leased only. When Israel took control in 1967, it stepped into Jordan’s shoes by keeping the eminent domain seizures for public purposes intact (meaning it did not return those properties to their original Jewish owners). Israel also recognized the legal validity of the transfers of ownership (in the face of the evidently discriminatory Jordanian law that specifically prohibited Jewish - not simply Israeli - ownership). Only as to the leased properties did Israel relinquish the right it acquired from Jordan and reverted ownership to the original Jewish owners.
For those wondering why Israel does not afford displaced Palestinians the same rights to recover their properties lost in 1948, the reason is pretty straightforward. Not only are they non-citizens but their rights were essentially forfeited by having taken up arms or supported those Arab armies that sought to destroy Israel. In a sense, they find themselves in the same situation as do the descendants of those ethnic Germans who fled the advancing Allied armies or were expelled after WWII from anywhere between the Sudetenland to the former Soviet Union.
As to AOC in particular, Greenwald is correct that she aims her ire carefully. But there is a reason. She has learned from experience. When she went after Pelosi after the election, she somehow failed to get the committee postings she most wanted. Funny that.
Why do you believe anything the Palestinian "Ministry of Health" reports? They lie about civilian deaths in order to inflame. Further, why should we care if Palestinians die after they attack Israeli cities? THEY don't care if they kill Israeli children. Sheesh.
First of all her name is SANDY. Do you really think when she was tending bar she was called AOC. She doesn’t have enough intellect to market herself. Someone latched on to her and slid her up the slope. Second didn’t Israel win a war to gain its sovereignty and territory.
The Palestinians have chanted death to Israel no matter what like most terror groups in the Middle East. You could cave to all their demands and they would still want to club you to death
AOC is a Barack Obama clone. Tell voters what they want to hear, do as your party funders demand, send Wall Street billionaires your time sheet, take their payola and retire from elected office a millionaire after enjoying the benefits your constituents paid for and were denied to them. Zip your wallets folks. The two party system is a scam.
Right. Let's blame Israel for attacks against it by Hamas, Hezbollah, and the rest of the islamist terrorists since 1949. Every single mohammedan country expelled all Jews and confiscated their property. Israel must now return the favor. You seem not to have noticed that five nations recently established full relations with Israel under Trump. Many more were set to follow, including the Saudis. But Xoe Bi-Den has put a stop to that by immediately surrendering to Iran and Turkey. He restored funding for Hamas and hezbollah. They know weakness when they see it. Do you seriously think these successive disasters, including Putin's attack on our energy infrastructure, are a coincidence? Yesterday the Bi-Den regime called the Russian cyber attack a "private sector" matter. Wake up.
Glenn, if you approach the propaganda coming from Hamas and the Palestinian Authority with the same skepticism you have for everything else you cover, perhaps you will change your mind. The real story, which others have written about, is that the return to the Obama foreign policy of supporting Iran financially and politically has destabilized the entire Middle East and precipitated the violence we have now. The story is not that US sends military aid to Israel which, by the way, must use it to purchase equipment from US companies. The story is that the US is supporting Iran and the Palestinian Authority, while Iran is supporting Hamas and Hezbollah with US and Chinese money. The Democrats talk about their love for Israel, but look at their actions, which undermines and destabilizes Israel at every turn. Why, why, why are you not skeptical about the lies they spin in the case of Israel? And at who really benefits?
There are a few issues to unravel in this piece. The first is that there is a cabal of LEFT liberal interventionist warmongers and RIGHT militarist warmongers. Trump, by the way, was not either of those. He wanted us out of wars and stood by those principles, oddly, among all the other strange things he did. Liz Cheney's group and the leftwing warmongers from the Hillary/Biden group all hate Trump for opposing their constant drumbeat for more blood. The INTEL Community also hates Trump for the same reason.
I think you could also be more brave and call out this powerful cabal.
Last thing, I read on Twitter that you proclaim that Israel is the aggressor into Palestinian territory. You do realize that Palestinians have no territory, and no country. The reason I mention this is when you use Israel's incursion into Palestinian territory as justification that Israel is the aggressor and that the terrorists firing rockets into civilian areas of Israel are defending themselves against occupiers, you are on very shaking legal and moral ground. What you are saying in similar to saying that CHOP was being occupied by the police. There is a need to speak accurately and truthfully. And the Palestinian's, while seeking statehood, do not have it. They are in essence in protest against the existing governments of Israel and Egypt who have traditionally controlled that territory. Taken from that viewpoint, clearly, Israel being under siege from rocket fire has the right to defend itself. If CHOP started firing rockets at surrounding neighborhoods, I would want the police in there in 20 minutes breaking that up.
I know a person who immigrated here from Iran when the theocracy took over. He is from mixed religion parents and would have been put to death if he stayed. He sympathized with the Palestinian people and did not take sides against Israel as the Baha’i temple is located in Israel, and they freely worship as do Muslims. Muslims can own land and hold political office in Israel. I doubt that the inverse is true in the Hamas-held Palestinian territories.
Cut the crap. There is no such a thing as a Palestinian. They’re all Arabs. Terrorists, murderers, thieves and crooks. Fatah and Hamas get hundreds of millions in funding from the Arab oil cartel, The EU, and the US. Lines the pickets of the thieving so called leadership. Arab murder of Jews goes way back before there ever was an Israel. Their favorite slogan “ichbad al yahood “ ( slaughter the Jews) has been chanted since forever. Haj Amin al Husseiny the Mufty of Jerusalem went to Hitler to make a deal when Hitler conquers Egypt and British mandated Palestine he should ship all the Jews to the death camps. Before you go ape shit on the Jews living and defending themselves in the ancient land of Israel with Jerusalem as its capital for over 3000 yrs. it would behoove you Glen to learn some history (ancient annd modern) so that you could put you love of the Arabs and hatred of the Jews living the modern land of Israel intoroper context. Let me start you off; The land of Israel for the people of Israel.
Yup. Nothing AOC fears more than not being allowed to sit with the cool kids. Yang was low hanging fruit.
Too many threads to pull on this sweater, ultimately spiritually discerned. In nutshell, I’m sad to see Glenn taken in by the Palestinian PR machine. It is a truly amazing juggernaut of half-truth, misinformation, and outright falsehood, but still, with Glenn’s skills. Start with Sarah and Hagar.
As it turns out, Israel is not only an asset to the United States, it is an asset whose value is becoming more apparent to its neighboring Arab countries. All the fear mongering about war breaking out if the US moved its embassy proved to be wrong, as did the prophecies of doom should the US recognize Israeli annexation of the Golan. So maybe the premise of the anti-Israel voices is mistaken altogether. It is at least a possibility worth examining.
As to what is happening at the moment in Israel, what we see is an intra-Palestinian power play (by canceling elections whose outcome he could no longer control, Abbas deprived Hamas of its chance to take over the PA - something that it will not allow without a fight). The background to all this is, of course, Israel and the well-worn slogans about who best protects Palestinian rights.
Even the housing dispute that supposedly lies at the bottom of this outbreak of violence is an excuse. Back in 1982, the tenants agreed that their leases (granted under Jordanian law) required the payment of rent to the identified landlords. An agreement the tenants promptly ignored. It tells you something of the Israeli legal system that nearly four decades later is the case approaching a resolution. When our own rent moratorium ends, try using the same arguments these tenants have and see how long it takes before a US court grants an order of eviction.
Even here, the legal background is revealing on how Israel operates. After Jordan expelled all Jews from the lands of the former Mandate for Palestine that it conquered in 1948-49, it passed a law that allowed it to take possession of all Jewish properties. Some it took by eminent domain and retained control, others it gave ownership to third parties and still others it leased only. When Israel took control in 1967, it stepped into Jordan’s shoes by keeping the eminent domain seizures for public purposes intact (meaning it did not return those properties to their original Jewish owners). Israel also recognized the legal validity of the transfers of ownership (in the face of the evidently discriminatory Jordanian law that specifically prohibited Jewish - not simply Israeli - ownership). Only as to the leased properties did Israel relinquish the right it acquired from Jordan and reverted ownership to the original Jewish owners.
For those wondering why Israel does not afford displaced Palestinians the same rights to recover their properties lost in 1948, the reason is pretty straightforward. Not only are they non-citizens but their rights were essentially forfeited by having taken up arms or supported those Arab armies that sought to destroy Israel. In a sense, they find themselves in the same situation as do the descendants of those ethnic Germans who fled the advancing Allied armies or were expelled after WWII from anywhere between the Sudetenland to the former Soviet Union.
As to AOC in particular, Greenwald is correct that she aims her ire carefully. But there is a reason. She has learned from experience. When she went after Pelosi after the election, she somehow failed to get the committee postings she most wanted. Funny that.
Why do you believe anything the Palestinian "Ministry of Health" reports? They lie about civilian deaths in order to inflame. Further, why should we care if Palestinians die after they attack Israeli cities? THEY don't care if they kill Israeli children. Sheesh.
Republicans have been crazy for about 40 years. Democrats have become repugnant over 30 years. I don’t know who’s worse.
First of all her name is SANDY. Do you really think when she was tending bar she was called AOC. She doesn’t have enough intellect to market herself. Someone latched on to her and slid her up the slope. Second didn’t Israel win a war to gain its sovereignty and territory.
The Palestinians have chanted death to Israel no matter what like most terror groups in the Middle East. You could cave to all their demands and they would still want to club you to death
Glenn, your hard-on for Israel and blind defense of everything Palestinian is something I try to ignore in the spirit of trying to keep and open mind.
Do you have anything to say about this piece by Elliot Abrams in NRO today?
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/05/israel-erupts-cutting-through-the-misinformation-surrounding-part-of-this-conflict/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=featured-content-trending&utm_term=first
AOC is a Barack Obama clone. Tell voters what they want to hear, do as your party funders demand, send Wall Street billionaires your time sheet, take their payola and retire from elected office a millionaire after enjoying the benefits your constituents paid for and were denied to them. Zip your wallets folks. The two party system is a scam.
AOC has become everything she said she was against. lol
Right. Let's blame Israel for attacks against it by Hamas, Hezbollah, and the rest of the islamist terrorists since 1949. Every single mohammedan country expelled all Jews and confiscated their property. Israel must now return the favor. You seem not to have noticed that five nations recently established full relations with Israel under Trump. Many more were set to follow, including the Saudis. But Xoe Bi-Den has put a stop to that by immediately surrendering to Iran and Turkey. He restored funding for Hamas and hezbollah. They know weakness when they see it. Do you seriously think these successive disasters, including Putin's attack on our energy infrastructure, are a coincidence? Yesterday the Bi-Den regime called the Russian cyber attack a "private sector" matter. Wake up.
Glenn, if you approach the propaganda coming from Hamas and the Palestinian Authority with the same skepticism you have for everything else you cover, perhaps you will change your mind. The real story, which others have written about, is that the return to the Obama foreign policy of supporting Iran financially and politically has destabilized the entire Middle East and precipitated the violence we have now. The story is not that US sends military aid to Israel which, by the way, must use it to purchase equipment from US companies. The story is that the US is supporting Iran and the Palestinian Authority, while Iran is supporting Hamas and Hezbollah with US and Chinese money. The Democrats talk about their love for Israel, but look at their actions, which undermines and destabilizes Israel at every turn. Why, why, why are you not skeptical about the lies they spin in the case of Israel? And at who really benefits?
There are a few issues to unravel in this piece. The first is that there is a cabal of LEFT liberal interventionist warmongers and RIGHT militarist warmongers. Trump, by the way, was not either of those. He wanted us out of wars and stood by those principles, oddly, among all the other strange things he did. Liz Cheney's group and the leftwing warmongers from the Hillary/Biden group all hate Trump for opposing their constant drumbeat for more blood. The INTEL Community also hates Trump for the same reason.
I think you could also be more brave and call out this powerful cabal.
Last thing, I read on Twitter that you proclaim that Israel is the aggressor into Palestinian territory. You do realize that Palestinians have no territory, and no country. The reason I mention this is when you use Israel's incursion into Palestinian territory as justification that Israel is the aggressor and that the terrorists firing rockets into civilian areas of Israel are defending themselves against occupiers, you are on very shaking legal and moral ground. What you are saying in similar to saying that CHOP was being occupied by the police. There is a need to speak accurately and truthfully. And the Palestinian's, while seeking statehood, do not have it. They are in essence in protest against the existing governments of Israel and Egypt who have traditionally controlled that territory. Taken from that viewpoint, clearly, Israel being under siege from rocket fire has the right to defend itself. If CHOP started firing rockets at surrounding neighborhoods, I would want the police in there in 20 minutes breaking that up.
I know a person who immigrated here from Iran when the theocracy took over. He is from mixed religion parents and would have been put to death if he stayed. He sympathized with the Palestinian people and did not take sides against Israel as the Baha’i temple is located in Israel, and they freely worship as do Muslims. Muslims can own land and hold political office in Israel. I doubt that the inverse is true in the Hamas-held Palestinian territories.
Firing rockets into Israel is an act of terrorism. There is no justification for terrorism. Terrorists don’t get to have their motives understood.
“Politicians are not born; they are excreted.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero