Meanwhile back in Israel

Halifax2TheMax

And we give them $3B a year in aid because why?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/04/world/middleeast/netanyahu-israel-corruption-submarines.html?&moduleDetail=section-news-2&action=click&contentCollection=Middle East&region=Footer&module=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article

PJ_Soul

Halifax2TheMax said:

Thanks Jared, dear boy, for the beautiful peace making effort. Now fetch me my waders and wellies, will you dear boy?

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/29/middleeast/israel-demolishes-palestinian-schools/index.html

This is so fucked. And the US government and allies continue to support Israel. It's outrageous.

JC29856

aren't there a bunch of Canadiens on here?
what's the story?

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/canadian-teacher-wins-against-israel-lobby-effort-have-her-fired

PJ_Soul

I don't think there are any Canadiens who post, but Canadians, yes.

Good she "won", bad it ever happened. Disgusting, actually.

mickeyrat

how neighborly......
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/09/drowning-waste-israeli-settlers-170916120027885.html


Salfit, occupied West Bank - Jamal Hammad remembers when the al-Matwa spring in Salfit city was a popular destination for locals. Several decades ago, the area would often be crowded with Palestinians hiking in the valley and families picnicking alongside the clear, flowing stream.

Now, however, the sewage flowing through the spring, the rancid smell that engulfs the valley, and the mosquitoes swarming the area have left the valley largely deserted.

"All of this waste is coming from Israel's settlements; mostly from the Ariel settlement," Hammad told Al Jazeera on his modest farm adjacent to the spring. "We are very worried about what long-term effects this pollution will have on our future."
Al-Matwa spring is polluted by Israel's surrounding settlements [Jaclynn Ashly/Al Jazeera]

The issue of waste management has been ongoing for decades in the occupied West Bank. Last year, some 83 million cubic metres of wastewater flowed throughout the occupied West Bank, of which approximately 19 million cubic meters originated from Israeli settlements built on Palestinian territory in violation of international law, according to the Knesset Research Institute.

article continues......

mickeyrat

democracy in action......

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/israel-turns-west-bank-garbage-dump-171205052610633.html

Halifax2TheMax

mickeyrat said:

democracy in action......

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/israel-turns-west-bank-garbage-dump-171205052610633.html

What do you expect from an apartheid state? But this is sure to make everything much much better.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/05/politics/trump-abbas-us-embassy-jerusalem/index.html

Gern Blansten

Our ambassador is going to be a huge target....scary shit

JC29856

mickeyrat said:

democracy in action......

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/israel-turns-west-bank-garbage-dump-171205052610633.html

Mickeyrat...good job keeping this alive. 
Netnyahoo!
where the other guy been?

josevolution

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/12/05/world/middleeast/american-embassy-israel-trump-move.amp.html
This is insane .. 

gimmesometruth27

day of rage Friday. get your popcorn.

seriously. if we move our embassy, this will start a war. 

josevolution

gimmesometruth27 said:

day of rage Friday. get your popcorn.

seriously. if we move our embassy, this will start a war. 

Yep several world leaders were telling him not too man what a train wreck this bafoon really wants to start a war ..

gimmesometruth27

josevolution said:

gimmesometruth27 said:

day of rage Friday. get your popcorn.

seriously. if we move our embassy, this will start a war. 

Yep several world leaders were telling him not too man what a train wreck this bafoon really wants to start a war ..

guy is a fucking maniac.

we will have 2 nuclear powers in the region, plus US and Russia. nothing good can come out of that.

the state department is telling him no. he has his own ideas. would he really try to bring the world down to keep from being impeached?

josevolution

gimmesometruth27 said:

josevolution said:

gimmesometruth27 said:

day of rage Friday. get your popcorn.

seriously. if we move our embassy, this will start a war. 

Yep several world leaders were telling him not too man what a train wreck this bafoon really wants to start a war ..

guy is a fucking maniac.

we will have 2 nuclear powers in the region, plus US and Russia. nothing good can come out of that.

the state department is telling him no. he has his own ideas. would he really try to bring the world down to keep from being impeached?

I believe he def does ..

mickeyrat

it will be years before its built and functional.
so on the one hand its hollow, easily recinded by next admin.

on the other , it inflames the region and further isolates US  from our allies.

selfserving .

mickeyrat

good read

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/12/trump-jerusalem/547568/?utm_source=atlfb

JC29856

https://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/flynn-indictment-exposes-collusion-israel

Seven months later, after three indictments that did little, if anything, to confirm the grand collusion narrative, Mueller had former National Security Council advisor Michael Flynn dragged before a federal court for lying to the FBI. The Russia probe had finally netted a big fish.

As the details of the Flynn indictment seeped out into the press, however, the bombshell was revealed as another dud. To the dismay of many Trump opponents, nothing in Flynn’s rap sheet demonstrated collusion with Russia. Instead, the indictment undermined the Russiagate narrative while implicating another, much more inconvenient foreign power in a plot to meddle in American politics.

According to plea agreement Flynn signed with Mueller, Flynn admitted to lying to the FBI about a phone call he placed to the Russian ambassador to the US, Sergei Kislyak, during the transition period between the election and inauguration — not during the campaign. Flynn's first order of business with the Russian diplomat was to beseech him not to retaliate for sanctions imposed by Obama on Russia for still-unproven allegations that Russian intelligence agencies hacked the Democratic National Committee. In other words, Flynn was caught trying to influence Russia, not the other way around.

The only area where Flynn proposed any form of coordination with Russia was in defeating ISIS and Al Qaeda in Syria. The Trump administration’s attempts to collaborate with its Russian counterparts in Syria have been the target of relentless sabotage from an opportunistic media and Obama era national security officials who considered the catastrophic semi-covert operation to arm Syrian insurgents a part of their legacy. Thanks to stifling Cold War atmosphere these elements have cultivated in Washington, the US has been reduced to an impotent bystander while Russia, Iran, and Turkey have joined together to impose an end to the proxy war that has ravaged Syria for the past five years.

To be sure, Flynn indictment did contain a stunning revelation of collusion between Team Trump and a foreign state. But it was not the country that the national media has obsessed over for the past year.

Flynn was found by the FBI to have lobbied Kislyak to exercise Russia’s veto against the passage of a United Nations security council resolution condemning the growth of Israel’s illegal settlements. 

Halifax2TheMax

JC29856 said:

https://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/flynn-indictment-exposes-collusion-israel

Seven months later, after three indictments that did little, if anything, to confirm the grand collusion narrative, Mueller had former National Security Council advisor Michael Flynn dragged before a federal court for lying to the FBI. The Russia probe had finally netted a big fish.

As the details of the Flynn indictment seeped out into the press, however, the bombshell was revealed as another dud. To the dismay of many Trump opponents, nothing in Flynn’s rap sheet demonstrated collusion with Russia. Instead, the indictment undermined the Russiagate narrative while implicating another, much more inconvenient foreign power in a plot to meddle in American politics.

According to plea agreement Flynn signed with Mueller, Flynn admitted to lying to the FBI about a phone call he placed to the Russian ambassador to the US, Sergei Kislyak, during the transition period between the election and inauguration — not during the campaign. Flynn's first order of business with the Russian diplomat was to beseech him not to retaliate for sanctions imposed by Obama on Russia for still-unproven allegations that Russian intelligence agencies hacked the Democratic National Committee. In other words, Flynn was caught trying to influence Russia, not the other way around.

The only area where Flynn proposed any form of coordination with Russia was in defeating ISIS and Al Qaeda in Syria. The Trump administration’s attempts to collaborate with its Russian counterparts in Syria have been the target of relentless sabotage from an opportunistic media and Obama era national security officials who considered the catastrophic semi-covert operation to arm Syrian insurgents a part of their legacy. Thanks to stifling Cold War atmosphere these elements have cultivated in Washington, the US has been reduced to an impotent bystander while Russia, Iran, and Turkey have joined together to impose an end to the proxy war that has ravaged Syria for the past five years.

To be sure, Flynn indictment did contain a stunning revelation of collusion between Team Trump and a foreign state. But it was not the country that the national media has obsessed over for the past year.

Flynn was found by the FBI to have lobbied Kislyak to exercise Russia’s veto against the passage of a United Nations security council resolution condemning the growth of Israel’s illegal settlements. 

Who’s dismayed?

JC29856

josevolution said:

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/12/05/world/middleeast/american-embassy-israel-trump-move.amp.html
This is insane .. 

what do Cardin and Schumer have to say?

josevolution

JC29856 said:

josevolution said:

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/12/05/world/middleeast/american-embassy-israel-trump-move.amp.html
This is insane .. 

what do Cardin and Schumer have to say?

I don’t give a fuck what they have to say or think this president is the one playing the game of world chess and doesn’t care what you or I think , what do you believe if an all out war stars you will be safe from harm the man is completely incompetent , unless you believe anybody but Clinton would of been better like I’ve said before if your boy Bernie would of got the nod I would of voted for him cause for me it’s anybody but orange bafoon..