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2. Well, who could have seen that coming?

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Thu Dec 7, 2017, 09:50 AM

Dec 2017

Now Netanyahu can overreact - he always does - and start piling up the bodies. He will then look the United States to back his play, and why shouldn't he? The U.S. has stopped posing as a neutral broker and is 100% on the side of Israel, no matter what the Israelis do. With the pose of neutrality (and occasional hard words toward Israeli hard-liners) demolished, Netanyahu's government will feel no constraint on its treatment of Palestinians, and expect the U.S. to support them.

Sheldon Adelson and the slavering end-timers will be gleeful; the rest of us get to watch in horror as the carnage escalates.

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This will be bad: Clashes break out in West Bank over Trump Jerusalem speech [View all] spanone Dec 2017 OP

and it looks like the worse is yet to come. Someone save us. SummerSnow Dec 2017 #1

Well, who could have seen that coming? gratuitous Dec 2017 #2

Thanks religious right! Initech Dec 2017 #3

That's the whole point of doing this. To make the Arabs into terrorists. sinkingfeeling Dec 2017 #4