StashAugustine posted:

i mean before i remembered what thread this was i thought it was the us

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After Natalie Portman pulled out of an award ceremony in Israel, right-wing activist Rabbi Shmuley Boteach bought a full-page New York Times ad to attack the actress. Journalist Max Blumenthal details how billionaire Sheldon Adelson bankrolls Shmuley's World Values Network and conservative activism.

Willie Tomg posted:

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is a /pol troll persona. that's not your name. nobody's named that. dont give me that fakeass name "Shmuley Boteach" whats your real name you antisemetic fucker

Main Paineframe posted:

not only is he real, he was Michael Jackson's close friend and spiritual advisor

he ran for Congress in 2012, and has written at least four books about kosher sex

Main Paineframe posted:

not only is he real, he was Michael Jackson's close friend and spiritual advisor

he ran for Congress in 2012, and has written at least four books about kosher sex

Percelus posted:

goddamn those street interviews finkelstein wasn't kidding when he said israel is mean country

Darkman Fanpage posted:

israelis are some of the shittiest people on earth. absolute assholes.

Darkman Fanpage posted:

israelis are some of the shittiest people on earth. absolute assholes.

paul_soccer10 posted:

The territory is 41 kilometers (25 mi) long, and from 6 to 12 kilometers (3.7 to 7.5 mi) wide, with a total area of 365 square kilometers (141 sq mi).[15]

Lord of Pie posted:

This but with Israelis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxEweP2TiMk

Reicere posted:

I wonder if this accounts for the isreali buffer inside gaza... iirc thats like 1/3 of gaza's total area.

Willie Tomg posted:

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is a /pol troll persona. that's not your name. nobody's named that. dont give me that fakeass name "Shmuley Boteach" whats your real name you antisemetic fucker

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

Percelus posted:

paul_soccer10 you are a scholar and a gentleman i'm sorry your gbs thread isn't going so well because of the neoliberals

Main Paineframe posted:

also, on what I'm sure is a completely unrelated note, Likud's popularity has abruptly skyrocketed to its highest point in a decade, and there's already calls for the corruption case against Netanyahu to be suspended so that brave Bibi isn't distracted by spurious allegations in this time of security crisis

Main Paineframe posted:

Likud's popularity has abruptly skyrocketed to its highest point in a decade, and there's already calls for the corruption case against Netanyahu to be suspended so that brave Bibi isn't distracted by spurious allegations in this time of security crisis

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Israel has confirmed that the recent capture of a scientist from Hamas is part of a larger trend of the group’s effort to establish its presence in other regions including the Philippines.

According to Ned Bashard, the deputy head of the counterterrorism department of the strategic affairs division of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hamas has been trying to get better warheads and improve its weapons development capability to harm Israel even more.

“It’s a trend. We’ve heard from the news that a scientist from Hamas was killed in Malaysia. Hamas has been constantly trying to get better warheads for more distance to harm Israel even more,” Bashard said during an interview with a handful of reporters in Manila.

Philstar.com is still verifying this information with local authorities.

Hamas, which according to Bashard currently has over 10,000 rockets and threatens half of Israel’s population, is designated by the US and the Jewish state as a terrorist organization.

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/PhilstarNews/status/994575338804920322?s=19

paul_soccer10 posted:

just. like. isis.

Byolante posted:

Could this be a end run to say hamas is working with jamah islamiyah who worked with al qaeda, making hamas actually al qaeda and therefore a legal target via the AUMF?

paul_soccer10 posted:

just. like. isis.

Byolante posted:

Could this be a end run to say hamas is working with jamah islamiyah who worked with al qaeda, making hamas actually al qaeda and therefore a legal target via the AUMF?

Main Paineframe posted:

probably not. Israel doesn't need US help to bomb Gaza

i'd imagine it involves drawing attention away from the Gaza massacres by pointing at TERROR SCIENTISTS halfway across the globe, reinforcing Israel-Phillippines relations, encouraging the Phillippines to buy more Israeli missiles, and pushing other countries to crack down on their pro-Palestine movements because of HAMAS INFILTRATORS

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David Friedman, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, was president of a non-profit that donated money to a far-right Jewish group designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department.

American Friends of Bet El Yeshiva Center donated 48,000 shekels — about $12,000 — to Qomemiyut in 2013, when Friedman was president of the non-profit, according to a report by the Democratic Bloc, an Israeli NGO that tracks funding for right-wing groups.

The State Department has since 1997 designated Kach as a terrorist group. The most recent State Department list, for 2016, includes “Qomemiyut Movement”, the group’s current name, as an alias for Kahane Chai, an offshoot of Kach. It was similarly listed in 2013, when Friedman’s group made the donation, and a State Department list as early as 1999 includes Qomemiyut..

Qomemiyut in its current iteration was established in 2006, a year after Israel’s government evacuated settlements from the Gaza Strip, to prevent any further evacuations of settlements. Its current CEO, Mussa Cohen, on Friday told JTA that the group is the same group that in the 1990s was affiliated with the Kach movement, founded by the extremist rabbi, Meir Kahane.

The Canadian government in 2016 listed Qomemiyut Movement as a terrorist entity. Mussa Cohen last year told Arutz Sheva, an Israeli news outlet, that he would seek the movement’s removal from the list.

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Qomemiyut translates as “sovereignty,” but also shares a root in Hebrew with the word “uprising.” Its officers are a who’s who of Israel’s hard right, including Knesset member Betzalel Smotrich, a member of the extreme faction of the Jewish Home Party, and Dov Lior, the former rabbi of Kiryat Arba who has repeatedly been accused of incitement. In 2014, Lior said Jewish law allows for the destruction of the Gaza Strip.

On its Facebook page, Qomemiyut describes its mission as the “strengthening and instilling of the values of the righteousness of the Jewish renewal and preventing the expulsion of the Jews from Judea, Samaria and the Golan Heights.” It has protested on behalf of Israeli Jews accused of incitement and has called on Jewish landlords not to rent to Arabs.

The Democratic Bloc was established recently as part of a counteroffensive by liberal and left-wing NGOs in Israel. There have long been NGOs in Israel that track and report funding sources for left-wing groups.

In 1994, using regulations that previously had been used only against Palestinians, the Israeli government banned the Kach and Kahane Chai political parties for their fiercely anti-Arab rhetoric. Both owed their ideology to the U.S.-born Kahane, who was assassinated in New York in 1990.

Atlantic posted:

TEL AVIV—While predictions of doom in Israeli-Palestinian relations tend to come easy, the worst doesn’t always come to pass. But thanks to a pair of major upcoming anniversaries, the vagaries of the Jewish and Muslim calendars, and the whimsy of President Donald Trump, the coming week could be different. The confluence of numerous events set to take place over a few days in May has felt, as it approaches, like a perfect storm gathering.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Israelis are a bunch of rubes.