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Purveyor

(29,876 posts) Sun Mar 10, 2013, 04:57 PM Mar 2013

Stop A Senate ‘Blank Check’ To Israel

By Dennis Lamb
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Ali Gharib is a national security reporter for ThinkProgress.org covering U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, particularly Iran.

Gharib’s Feb. 28 post in “The Daily Beast,” titled “Senators press resolution to green-light Israeli attack on Iran,” states that Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., and Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., plan to introduce a joint resolution declaring U.S. support for an Israeli military strike against Iran’s nuclear program.

In essence, the resolution would pledge full U.S. support of Israel to attack Iran whenever it feels compelled to do so to defend itself — not unlike the unconditional pledge of support German Kaiser Wilhelm II gave to Austro-Hungary for whatever action it deemed necessary to deal with Serbia in 1914. Germany’s pledge to Austro-Hungary became known in history as the “blank check.” The result was World War I.

With the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, sending thousands of lobbyists to Washington, D.C., last week for AIPAC’s annual conference and to to press for passage of the legislation and the public largely unaware of it, it appears likely to be passed into law.

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Stop A Senate ‘Blank Check’ To Israel (Original Post) Purveyor Mar 2013 OP

Peace texshelters Mar 2013 #1

Awesome! Thanks so sharing that (n/t) CrawlingChaos Mar 2013 #4

Always amazes me how some DUers go out of their way to find something question everything Mar 2013 #2

Ain't it something? PCIntern Mar 2013 #3

That is bullshit propaganda. DUers have NO PROBLEM with the Israeli people. Netanyahu loudsue Mar 2013 #5

+ 1,000,000,000... What You Said !!! - K & R !!! WillyT Mar 2013 #6

Many DUers most certainly have a problem with Jewish Israelis Mosby Mar 2013 #12

Yes, many DUers have problems with racists, no matter what country they're from. Comrade Grumpy Mar 2013 #13

This is why I stay away from the I/P forum. I am too old for question everything Mar 2013 #16

The U.S. Congress John2 Mar 2013 #7

+1 EOM Purveyor Mar 2013 #8

+100 roxy1234 Mar 2013 #11

It's not. You need to look up more often. Heywood J Mar 2013 #9

Thank you for the research. Also note that I had posted at least one article in every category Purveyor Mar 2013 #10

Israel is the one trying to lead us into a war with Iran. Comrade Grumpy Mar 2013 #14

Yikes. midnight Mar 2013 #15

texshelters

(1,979 posts)

1. Peace

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Sun Mar 10, 2013, 05:39 PM

Mar 2013

http://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/

PTxS

CrawlingChaos

(1,893 posts)

4. Awesome! Thanks so sharing that (n/t)

Reply to texshelters (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 10, 2013, 06:06 PM

Mar 2013

question everything

(47,481 posts)

2. Always amazes me how some DUers go out of their way to find something

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Sun Mar 10, 2013, 05:47 PM

Mar 2013

to bash Israel.

With all the atrocities in the world: Egypt, Congo, Syria, Iran and so many others with no free press to report and to complain, why is Israel the one that causes DUers to lose sleep?

As for "blank check" - have you looked at Egypt lately, where the "Arab Spring" is more like the Iranian Autumn from 1979?

Israel does not need nor seeks the approval of DUers who are so consumed with hatred of Israel that they ignore what is happening in the rest of the world.

PCIntern

(25,550 posts)

3. Ain't it something?

Reply to question everything (Reply #2)

Sun Mar 10, 2013, 05:51 PM

Mar 2013

I don't want to get "started". It'll just start a useless War with all kinds of censored posts...

But you're right...

loudsue

(14,087 posts)

5. That is bullshit propaganda. DUers have NO PROBLEM with the Israeli people. Netanyahu

Reply to question everything (Reply #2)

Sun Mar 10, 2013, 07:04 PM

Mar 2013

is a war criminal, a war monger, and Israel's version of the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld government. I DON'T TRUST THEM to do one thing right. Not one.

WillyT

(72,631 posts)

6. + 1,000,000,000... What You Said !!! - K & R !!!

Reply to loudsue (Reply #5)

Sun Mar 10, 2013, 07:24 PM

Mar 2013

Just what we need... another fucking war in the middle-east!

Mosby

(16,315 posts)

12. Many DUers most certainly have a problem with Jewish Israelis

Reply to loudsue (Reply #5)

Mon Mar 11, 2013, 12:27 PM

Mar 2013

If you spent any time in IP you would know that. The group is filled with "anti-Zionists" who think that Jewish Israelis are filled with hate, racist against anyone who is darker than they are and are colonialists who are occupying muslim lands.

Just one example from yesterday:

"No, I don't believe they are isolated, random events. I believe that anti-Arab racism is epidemic in Israel, and this is the sort of fruit it bears...."

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)

13. Yes, many DUers have problems with racists, no matter what country they're from.

Reply to Mosby (Reply #12)

Mon Mar 11, 2013, 12:42 PM

Mar 2013

And there seems to be some evidence of racism against Arabs there. So, yeah.

question everything

(47,481 posts)

16. This is why I stay away from the I/P forum. I am too old for

Reply to Mosby (Reply #12)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 01:30 PM

Mar 2013

daily spouting of hatred that are not based on facts. Of the reality that most of the sources are from Israel with its free press and nothing from the rest of the region.

But, hey, some are so consumed with their daily fix that they try to post at least one anti-Israel story on other forums.

John2

(2,730 posts)

7. The U.S. Congress

Reply to question everything (Reply #2)

Sun Mar 10, 2013, 08:10 PM

Mar 2013

does need the support of the American people when you start talking about War measures. You also suggest Israel or the United States does not care about International Law. These representatives of the U.S. Congress also suggest Iran does not have the right to self defense when attacked because Israel feels threatened by their nuclear program. What about Israel's nuclear program? No sir, some people just will not submit to such hypocrasy. Some of us are not sheep or pawns that can be played. Just who does this Government answer to?

Purveyor

(29,876 posts)

8. +1 EOM

Reply to John2 (Reply #7)

Sun Mar 10, 2013, 10:17 PM

Mar 2013

roxy1234

(117 posts)

11. +100

Reply to John2 (Reply #7)

Mon Mar 11, 2013, 12:05 PM

Mar 2013

Its the hypocrisy, double standards and the blind eye to Israeli crimes that people object to

Heywood J

(2,515 posts)

9. It's not. You need to look up more often.

Reply to question everything (Reply #2)

Mon Mar 11, 2013, 08:27 AM

Mar 2013

Purveyor

(29,876 posts)

10. Thank you for the research. Also note that I had posted at least one article in every category

Reply to Heywood J (Reply #9)

Mon Mar 11, 2013, 11:49 AM

Mar 2013

you researched with the exception of the Congo.

Thanks again.

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)

14. Israel is the one trying to lead us into a war with Iran.

Reply to question everything (Reply #2)

Mon Mar 11, 2013, 12:44 PM

Mar 2013

But nice attempted deflection.

midnight

(26,624 posts)

15. Yikes.

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Mon Mar 11, 2013, 12:57 PM

Mar 2013

In essence, the resolution would pledge full U.S. support of Israel to attack Iran whenever it feels compelled to do so to defend itself — not unlike the unconditional pledge of support German Kaiser Wilhelm II gave to Austro-Hungary for whatever action it deemed necessary to deal with Serbia in 1914. Germany’s pledge to Austro-Hungary became known in history as the “blank check.” The result was World War I.

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