What he's reacting to is the utter willingness to believe any allegation against Israel, the unwillingness to believe anything Israel says and the expectation of impossible standards.
You can't make peace with a puppet, only with the puppetmaster. And I don't see Iran at the negotiating table.
We stopped? Then what was under those Israeli strikes that people are saying were nuclear stuff? Sites that supposedly didn't exist under the original deal that did absolutely nothing if Iran denied a site was nuclear.
Iran was playing us for fools. It's the big problem with the Democrats--so easy to lead down the path of useless diplomacy.
Obama was a sucker. Nothing meaningful happened.
How about your continual demand that Israel find better ways of protecting civilians despite there being no indication that there is any better answer? They're already the world's best and you act as if they are atrocious.
It should be obvious he meant "no stated reason". People consistently have a problem with Israel for invalid reasons. That means either they are actually simply opposed to Israel (and the antisemite label fits) or they are duped by the propaganda and are unknowing antisemites.
"without reason". No, an order to destroy a particular house would come about because the occupants refused to show that it wasn't booby-trapped. Thus by far the likely conclusion is that it is booby-trapped. Israel doesn't have the resources to deal with all the booby-traps, they simply destroy anything that's booby-trapped.
Obama's plan came to nothing because it was sabotaged by the Teaparty obstructionists in Congress. Then Trump promised and delivered the coup de gras.
What is an "unknowing antisemite"? Someone who hates the Jews but doesn't know he hates them?
I wouldn't even say Hamas is accurately reported. The propaganda version goes out first, rarely is their any retraction as it becomes apparent that the original was false. The news (all news) is highly biased towards showing bad things happened, anywhere and everywhere. When the story is big enough there may be some discussion of it being wrong, but most such cases are never retracted. The problem is particularly bad in Gaza where there is both a huge amount of disinformation and the fact that news organizations have a considerable tendency to choose to report propaganda over not having any access to report.
There's nothing unusual in it. It's just the biases are more in your face.
Yup, more examples of the antisemitism at work. They have told us often enough what they want but people continue to blame Israel for supposedly causing the problem.
Every Arab Spring uprising went to shit because the fundies were poised to take over. It says nothing about the people, but rather the size of the effort to "restore" Islamic power. Just look at some of the conservative voters on here--we see the same thing, supporting The Felon while pretending all the bad things aren't going to happen.
It's the standard problem that the liberals think the world is a good place and everything can be resolved by enough jaw jaw. Not that the conservatives are any better, they act as if everything can be resolved by enough pew pew. Way too polarized, neither one gets it right.
It cuts both ways. Your demand that Israel not defend itself is a de-facto condoning of Hamas killing Israeli children. You get to pretend nothing bad will happen but history shows otherwise. The "better" Israel behaves the more of it's people die. I would prefer nobody dies, but if it comes down to it I would prefer the deaths to be amongst the attackers rather than the defenders.
No. We are expecting Israel to behave in the best fashion it reasonably can--we aren't blaming Israel because we recognize they are meeting this standard.
It comes down to the overall outcome. Which path kills fewer innocents?
And here's where you completely go off the rails: "that could have been spared with greater care and restraint". You have no evidence of this, it's just the liberal faith that there must be a good answer and a failure to find it is the fault of the side with the most perceived power.
This is a demand to deny unpleasant reality. It's not that we are ok with killing children, but that we recognize there are nothing but terrible choices.
Life sometimes demands brutal choices.
This will not bring an end to the conflict--Iran is still out there. All Israel can hope for is more time until the next 10/7, or that Iran will fall.
Sticking your head in the sand about what he's saying doesn't make it go away. He's not looking at a single incident, but a pattern. You can quibble about any given case but that doesn't change the situation.
Al Jazeera has been under their control for a long time now.
Here I disagree. Russia is simply an ally of convenience, not truly just part of one big conflict. Russia certainly doesn't want an Islamist win, but they benefit from the conflict and are acting to increase it as a distraction for the west.
That's a quite short way of saying don't bother me with the facts.
He's not a monster, he's blinded by faith. Faith that there is a good answer. The faithful tend to have a huge problem with comprehending blasphemous arguments.
Yes, we gave Iran a very good reason to believe they need a nuclear deterrent. Specifically, the Afghanistan war. Bin Laden pulled off too big an attack for us to brush it off, we took him out along with the government that was shielding them. Iran doesn't want to be taken out when they pull off 9/11++.
Iran proudly proclaims to be an Axis power. Bush II didn't make it so.
Someone who blindly believes all the anti-Jewish propaganda and thinks they have a legitimate gripe with Israel's actions.
It was long before that.
