HuffPost's Sam Stein appeared Monday on MSNBC's 'Hardball' to discuss President Obama's proposal for a two-state solution in the Israel.
Chris Matthews brought up recent Republican criticism of Obama's proposal. Stein explained, "what we have here is a routine of Republicans trying to make Israel a wedge for Obama ... for the Evangelicals, for wealthy Jewish Republican donors possibly. I went back, I looked at the '08 speech that McCain gave at AIPAC. It was very similar in terms of its denunciation of Obama. Only in that case it was about Obama saying he wanted to talk to his enemies without preconditions. So this is a routine."
Stein stated that "the border issue is like the easiest conceptual issue to argue about, it's lines on a map." He discussed how there are other much more complex issues to resolve, and he reiterated that Republicans are using the border issue "as a wedge to get at Obama and to drive support towards their camps."
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Thank you President Obama for killing Osama bin Laden, now fix Israel.
WALLACE: Where do you stand on the right of return?
CAIN: The right of return? (Pause) The right of return? (Pause)
WALLACE: The right of return.
CAIN: The right of return? (Pause)
WALLACE: The Palestinian right of return.
CAIN: That is something that should be negotiated. That is something that should be negotiated
Most americans do not understand macroeconomics either, and that is quite apparent from reading many posts....however, they DO expect their potential leaders to understand it, or at least not to be so easily stumped in explaining basic concepts.
I can't read a cover 2 defense or even describe it correctly, but I fully expect my football team's quarterback to read it and defeat it.
What was your point anyway?
This is a very annoying habit that he has !
Report: Activists 'should portray Israel as undemocratic'
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?ID=221926&R=R1
NGO Monitor accuses human rights groups of undermining Israel’s justice system; Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch cited.
A new NGO Monitor report published on Sunday accuses pro-Palestinian organizations of seeking to undermine the legitimacy of Israeli courts and investigatory bodies in an effort to internationally isolate Israel and paint it as an antidemocratic state.
According to the report, titled “Rule of Law and Due Process: NGO Campaigns to Discredit the Israeli Justice System,” groups such as Al Haq, Palestinian Center for Human Rights, FIDH (France), Badil, and DCI-PS, all of which receive funding from European governments, have been pursuing this strategy at the UN and the International Criminal Court to in hopes of charging Israeli officials of war crimes.
“Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have joined these efforts, with allegations that Israeli investigations, in particular, the Turkel Commission on the May 2010 ‘Free Gaza’ flotilla, lack independence and transparency,” the report said.
Read more at the link.
Stein needs to address this. Immediately. In this thread.
Why would Israel get involved in that process not knowing what kind of governments will be on its borders six months from now? Why then Obama's call for renewed talks? Why speak publicly about such sensitive subjects as borders? Why give this speech a day before Netanyahu's visit?
I don't profess to know the answers. But I do not think anything was done accidentally.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M_CA0orW08