Netanyahu 'Scores Points' In Israel For Standing Up To Obama

washingtonpost.com:

JERUSALEM, Aug. 18 -- For five months, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been fending off U.S. pressure to halt the expansion of West Bank settlements. Now he is reaping dividends for his defiance.

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Comments

[Justtellthetruth]

Time for Obama to do the right thing: Cut off every cent to Israel until they freeze all settlement activity. The American people do not support the settlers, and they do not support Netanyahu or his settler thug Lieberman.

[Academic]

Isn't that synonymous to someone with similar subjective views saying or writing that Adolf Hitler scored points with the German voters and his other supporters in Europe at the time for killing Jews and others they despised?

It's a useless debating issue with a predictable outcome. Did you have a slow day or something to write such an inane piece or seed it?

Professor Dr. Stanley Collymore.

[DeniseA]

I don't agree. I think murdering European Jews and Gypsies and standing up to Obama about settling land are two very different issues.

[Samlas]

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if Israel just acted normal and stopped its consperacies and aggression and stealing land from innocent people.

[DeniseA]

I think that if Israel didn't exist there would still be plenty of violence and problems. Arab nations/lands have a history of wars with each other (Iran vs Iraq, Iraq vs Kuwait, Hamas vs Fatah, PLO vs Jordan) and then you have plenty of problems such as Georgia, Chechnya, North Korea, etc. Also, Israel was not a nation when WW1 and WW2 were fought.

[romavictor]

If USA Cut all ties with Israel and they will no friends in the whole wide world.
Don't forget that Israel.

[romavictor]

Racist "we are the apple of God's eye" ungrateful right wing religious fools! Hmmm wonder why the are so hated?

[vippy]

I bet the majority of people don't get a say! People want a roof over their house and tend to their business without any threats. But peace does not bring money. Just follow the money who supports Netanyahu and you shall know the truth! Same goes for the attacks in Baghdad, see who is working behind the curtains to keep this mess alive and bringing in money!

[newyorkid]

Let's get rid of that country and return it back to the PaIestinians. PaIestine beIongs to the PaIestinian

[rudolph]

It is hard to see how American principles or interests are served by lavish support for an utterly intransigent regime.

[seal62]

Cut aid now

[Layman23]

Israel needs to think 60 years back and see what happened. What happens when a particular sect of society decides to claim everything as theirs. Just think about it, or you can watch Schindllers list if your memory proves elusive.

Live and let others live.

[fbr79]

Yeah, Israel fighting for its right to exist and Germany attempting to overtake the world is the same fellas...s­imple analogies for simple minded people.

I guess we should demand that Israel and the rest of the world should live and let others live just like we, Americans, live and let live, right?

[Layman23]

When did expanding settlements become a fight for survival?

[ChelseaC]

Well said.

[bermanator]

Going down that road is only going to offend people and honestly demonstrates your ignorance of the situation, keep it up and you'll contribute nothing.

If you want to talk about claiming "everything", I think you should look at the expansion of the Spanish and British Empires, Ottoman Empire, USSR, and China before you start picking on Israel, a country 1/300th the size of the Arab world.

[Layman23]

I see. So we have no business in taiwan then, since china wants it for themselves. Right?

[globalcitizenlinda]

How will "scoring points on Obama" promote the long-term security and assure the survival of the state of Isreal if by all neutral indications, the future of the Jewish State may be a casuality of demographics

[Henry DA 08]

Be brave Natanyau! Cut the deal and you will be a lasting hero to the world! Maybe even get the nobel peace price too!

[akababs]

As long as the U.S. is giving them billions of dollars each year, who really cares what they think? When they are giving us billions of dollars, then I'll give a damn what they think.

[ObamAtomic]

Netan is a show man,projecting,they are dismantling the settlements quietly .

[GrumpyinAZ]

cut of all aid