When Israelis degrade Israel by humiliating Joe Biden

azurnoir

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Wed Mar-10-10 12:12 AM
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When Israelis degrade Israel by humiliating Joe Biden

Why would Israeli officials degrade Israel by humiliating the vice-president of the United States?

What could officials here gain from what is, in effect, an Israeli version of the incitement the government so keenly - and correctly -decries in its Palestinian incarnations?

It the same edge that Knesset Deputy Speaker Danny Danon of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud stood to gain by telling the Washington Post, "While we welcome Vice President Biden, a longtime friend and supporter of Israel, we see it as nothing short of an insult that President Obama himself is not coming."

It is the base sentiment that Avigdor Lieberman's Foreign Ministry has courted in trying to make Israel appear to loom large by treating dignitaries from overseas to petty indignities and frank disrespect.

The profit, for the hard right, is political. It mines an emotional vein along a relatively small but potent segment of the Israeli electorate, which holds that to insult Israel's indispensible ally is to assert the Jewish state's independence.

In their drive to expunge any trace of hitrapsut - groveling to the colonial master - there are those among the ostensible super-patriots of the right who revel in shots across the bow of the American ship of state.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1155257.html

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peacebird

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Wed Mar-10-10 12:29 AM
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1. can I now say F***K Israel ? Treating dignitaries to "petty indignities and frank disrespect"?

Is this supposed to show leadership, or strength?
:eyes:

I am SO over Israel.

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Ken Burch

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Wed Mar-10-10 12:43 AM
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2. Alright....

But what, exactly, does "F***k" spell?

I've never heard of a "five letter f word".

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peacebird

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Wed Mar-10-10 12:45 AM
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3. foook - for when you are REALLY peeved!

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Ken Burch

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Wed Mar-10-10 12:50 AM
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4. Or from the Labour-voting areas of Britain

n/t.

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gateley

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Wed Mar-10-10 12:52 AM
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5. It wasn't just Joe -- it was this administration. Joe's "condemnation" was

released through the WH. I was so surprised because, regardless of one's feelings about the US relationship w/Israel, the US has always been a "good friend" -- on the world stage you don't piss off your allies.

I wonder if Joe got really pissed -- because Netanyahu is kind of falling all over himself apologizing

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1155460.html

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