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Mosby

(16,306 posts)
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 03:18 PM Jun 2014

Anti-Israel Activists Thrilled by Abduction of Israeli Teens



Shaped largely by its co-founder and “Executive Director” Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada (EI) is described on its own website as an award-winning and widely recognized “news publication and educational resource focusing on Palestine.” While the site caters mainly to anti-Israel activists like proponents of BDS campaigns calling for boycotts against Israel, it is sometimes cited by well-placed journalists like Robert Mackey of the New York Times.

Supposedly, the content offered by EI reflects “the commitment of its cofounders and editors to universal principles of human rights, international law, anti-racism and equal justice.” However, the EI does not hide that when it comes to Israel and its Jewish citizens as well as supporters of the Jewish state, these laudable principles are replaced by a truly Orwellian definition of antisemitism that reflects Abunimah’s preposterous view that “Zionism is one of the worst forms of anti-Semitism in existence today” and that support for Zionism “is not atonement for the Holocaust, but its continuation in spirit.”

Given these views, it is hardly surprising that Abunimah sometimes finds it difficult to conceal his enthusiasm for the kind of murderous “resistance” practiced by terrorist groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad. It is equally unsurprising that Abunimah would now refer to the three recently kidnapped Jewish teenagers as “settlers” and to the security forces searching for them as “occupation gangs” – which, in the context of Abunimah’s ideology, implies that the three yeshiva students were legitimate targets of the “resistance” that Abunimah supports.

http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/06/15/supporting-terrorism-and-bigotry-at-the-electronic-intifada/
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Anti-Israel Activists Thrilled by Abduction of Israeli Teens (Original Post) Mosby Jun 2014 OP
And? n/t Scootaloo Jun 2014 #1
And the replies are worse. Check em out. R. Daneel Olivaw Jun 2014 #2
It's a good selection of Liberal Zionist quotes from a moderate pro-Israel source! Scootaloo Jun 2014 #3
so Leah is upset that Obama has not denounced the kidnapping of an American citizen but strangely azurnoir Jun 2014 #6
And it's pretty revealing King_David Jun 2014 #5
And? Scootaloo Jun 2014 #7
And, this is yet more evidence leading BDS anti-zios support terror vs Israelis. shira Jun 2014 #9
I'm not surprised King_David Jun 2014 #4
I hope not Scootaloo Jun 2014 #8
 

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)
2. And the replies are worse. Check em out.
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 08:44 PM
Jun 2014
"No more prisoner releases! No more concessions! No more “peace” negotiations!

Now, it is time for Israel to do Genghis Khan.

Turn off their electricity. Turn off their water. Stop providing (free) medical services for the Palestinians. And if necessary, flatten Palestinian villages, entire villages, one by one, until these kids are safely home.

To Hell with worrying about “collateral damage”. To Hell with worrying about what the US, the EU, the UN, or anyone else will say. – Set an example to deter kidnapping and terrorism. Enough is enough !!! Time to make “Am Yisrael Chai” more than just a slogan."
 

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
3. It's a good selection of Liberal Zionist quotes from a moderate pro-Israel source!
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 09:02 PM
Jun 2014

Beatrix
June 15, 2014
9:33 pm

If Rana has never been out of Gaza longer than a month, how did she get a degree from a London University? And if she can read the newspapers, why doesn’t she know Gaza was freed in 2005? Why are all these propagandist sluts so pretty?



mika.
June 15, 2014
5:08 pm

The Vatican/CIA sponsored Israel gov mafia supplies the Jihadistanis with telephone, internet, electricity, gas, water, health care, etc.

Israeli citizens need to recognize and understand that “their” government is not their government so long as it keeps providing the Jihadistani enemy with the means and the ground to sustain itself.

This idiotic theater could and should have long been terminated.


And of course who can forget some other recent hits from this stalwart bastion of Zionist liberalism?

Obama Fiddles While the World Burns
June 16, 2014 2:35 pm 13 comments
Author:
avatar Shmuley Boteach

Depiction of President Obama delivering his 2014 State of the Union address. Photo: White House.

Under President Obama, the world is becoming unstuck. Iraq is being overrun by Islamist terrorists and the United States is now evacuating its Baghdad embassy. The Arab Spring has led to either civil war and mass slaughter, like Syria, or new Arab dictators, like Egypt. Libya is degenerating into a den of terrorists who have already murdered the American Ambassador. Putin is sending tanks into Ukraine and the thuggish Russian strongman bestrides the world like a colossus, unchecked by American will.

These facts are undeniable. The only question is whether President Obama is responsible.
http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/06/16/obama-fiddles-while-the-world-burns-2/


With such thoughtful, well-reasoned commentary from intelligent examples of the liberal Zionist community, such as

art
June 16, 2014
7:40 pm

Obama is more sophisticated than fiddling He has consistently refused to back, protect or support our allies or friends. Obama has backed muslim extremists in libya tunisia, egypt syria and lebanon, Obama has been the champion of islamists He has recognized thr MB and will recognize hamas and hezzbouleh. Maliki has been a con man for years and we shold dump him


and

Leah
June 16, 2014
7:33 pm

Barak is inccompetent and a puppet. news to no one. He has not even denounced the kidnapping of an American citizen in Israel. Who are his controllers? who writes an autobiography at the age he did? Bizarre and evil beyond belief, but I will not be the one to state the obvious stuff. He, who knows, knows, and the rest are brain dead. not salvagable. Thank god that i am, at my age, closer to the end, than the beginning.
The DHS and all govt divisions have purchased , over the last couple of years, an ungodly number of billions of hoolow core shell. the worst kind, the kind that explode within the body. For training purposes, a defense contractor acquaintance tells me. Bull shit. billions and billions of hollow core purchased for multiple govt offices, soc security, just about everyone. For training, give me a f n break here……. And many of the brain dead liberal intellectual Jewish voters who voted for this Moslem president, have not yet, realized their error. Atavistic Jewish liberalism. Appropriate and loving once, idiotic and dangerous now. but they, the rabbis at BJ, for example, just for example, do not yet “get it”. Halevai, that they will never need to “get it” and that I am a nutjob. Halevai!!!!!


Charming. What's there not to admire?!

azurnoir

(45,850 posts)
6. so Leah is upset that Obama has not denounced the kidnapping of an American citizen but strangely
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 02:12 PM
Jun 2014

neglects to mention that Obama has not denounced this either this 2 American children murdered by their Israeli father while visiting in Israel, happened the day before the kidnapping and has been all but wiped from media

The bodies of two children who were murdered by their father last Wednesday in the central Israeli village of Yashresh were flown to the US early Tuesday for burial.

The children’s funeral is expected to take place Wednesday in Columbus, Ohio, and will be facilitated by the Torat Emet congregation, of which the children’s mother is a member.

The son and daughter, 14 and 10, were stabbed to death Wednesday evening shortly after arriving in Israel for a visit with their father.

The father admitted to police he killed the kids, reportedly to torment his ex-wife.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/bodies-of-2-children-murdered-by-father-flown-to-us/

 

shira

(30,109 posts)
9. And, this is yet more evidence leading BDS anti-zios support terror vs Israelis.
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 07:54 AM
Jun 2014

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In related news, Gilad Atzmon recently praised the KKK's David Duke.
http://soupyone.wordpress.com/2014/06/15/gilad-atzmon-praises-ex-kkker-david-duke/

The same Atzmon whose latest book was endorsed by John Mearsheimer and Richard Falk.

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