The Monday call comes after Republicans in Washington and Israeli officials expressed outrage over Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer sharply criticizing Netanyahu’s handling of the war in Gaza and calling for Israel to hold new elections.
Netanyahu told Fox News Channel that Israel never would have called for a new U.S. election after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and he denounced Schumer’s comments as inappropriate.
You know what pisses me off the most about this? AIPAC is absolutely shameless about trying to give the axe to any American politician that tries to mess with Israel. They interfere in our democracy all the time, and it’s public and open on all sides that that’s a big part of Israel’s weirdly revered status in American foreign policy. It is not in a way that’s technically illegal, but it’s definitely in a way that makes it the height of hypocrisy for them to complain if we’re turning around and influencing “yo we gotta get rid of this guy from your government, he threatened our interests” back at them, for the first time that I know of.
Edit: Actually, forget what I said elsewhere about funding the Palestinians with Israel’s aid package. My new favorite idea is to start an organization called IAPAC which gives millions or billions of dollars to run their campaign to any Israeli politician who wants to run against Netanyahu.
Somewhere there is a parallel world where left-wing activists mobbed Washington the way Roger Stone mobbed Miami-Dade, Al Gore fought his way to the presidency, we took strong action on climate change 24 years ago, 9/11 quietly never happened because he took the intelligence warnings seriously, no Iraq War, no Abu Ghraib or Guantanemo Bay, no Afghanistan, no 2008 theft of everyone’s pensions by the bankers, we’re all driving electric cars and eating locally sourced vegetables right now instead of wondering if our kids will ever buy a house or our grandkids will live to adulthood.
Or all of that but instead of electric cars the US massively invested in matching China, Germany, and Japan in high speed rail technology and we’re zipping around on trains that have a cruising speed of 300+ mph.
Netanyahu told Fox News Channel that Israel never would have called for a new U.S. election after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and he denounced Schumer’s comments as inappropriate.
Ngl I didn’t read the rest of your comment but, wow, what a weak argument. I bet the majority of the American public now wishes they would have, dummy!
You know what pisses me off the most about this? AIPAC is absolutely shameless about trying to give the axe to any American politician that tries to mess with Israel. They interfere in our democracy all the time, and it’s public and open on all sides that that’s a big part of Israel’s weirdly revered status in American foreign policy. It is not in a way that’s technically illegal, but it’s definitely in a way that makes it the height of hypocrisy for them to complain if we’re turning around and influencing “yo we gotta get rid of this guy from your government, he threatened our interests” back at them, for the first time that I know of.
Edit: Actually, forget what I said elsewhere about funding the Palestinians with Israel’s aid package. My new favorite idea is to start an organization called IAPAC which gives millions or billions of dollars to run their campaign to any Israeli politician who wants to run against Netanyahu.
On the other hand, I was calling for a new vote before the 9/11 attacks, because GWB didn’t win that election.
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Somewhere there is a parallel world where left-wing activists mobbed Washington the way Roger Stone mobbed Miami-Dade, Al Gore fought his way to the presidency, we took strong action on climate change 24 years ago, 9/11 quietly never happened because he took the intelligence warnings seriously, no Iraq War, no Abu Ghraib or Guantanemo Bay, no Afghanistan, no 2008 theft of everyone’s pensions by the bankers, we’re all driving electric cars and eating locally sourced vegetables right now instead of wondering if our kids will ever buy a house or our grandkids will live to adulthood.
Or all of that but instead of electric cars the US massively invested in matching China, Germany, and Japan in high speed rail technology and we’re zipping around on trains that have a cruising speed of 300+ mph.
Ngl I didn’t read the rest of your comment but, wow, what a weak argument. I bet the majority of the American public now wishes they would have, dummy!