Whatayahoo gives Obama the finger
Expanding the colony, one house at a time
After feigning interest in the ‘peace talks’ with the Palestinians, Israeli’s PM Whatayahoo gives Obama the finger and lets the West Bank colony expansion ban lapse on the eve of talks.
Hey Barack – the whole purpose of having a client state is to advance your agenda, not theirs! Give Whatayahoo a call and have a very different discussion with him, remind him why he needs to renew the ban.
Bring it, IDF!
In other Israel-related news, do you figure Israel will shoot anybody on this aid ship?
*Update 9/28/10* Intercepted, nobody shot.
*Update 4:10P* What Juan Cole said.
Tags: aid ship, israel, Netanyahu, Palestinians, Peace Talks, President Barack Obama, settlement expansion ban
September 28th, 2010 at 5:26 am
Peace talk mode lasted … oh … fifteen minutes.
Obama: Charlie Brown
U.S. Presidency: Lucy with Football
October 3rd, 2010 at 3:41 pm
From Mondoweiss
Anyone who has had the good fortune to meet Yonatan Shapira will be particularly sickened at the reports that he was tasered in the heart and left screaming after he and the others on the Jewish boat to Gaza were stopped illegally. In person, Yonatan is friendly, likeable, and genuinely considerate of the opinions of others who do not agree with him.
Yonatan Shapira is also a moral giant. He is the Israeli pilot who condemned his own air force for violating human rights and who refused to fly any more missions. In 2003, he bravely confronted the air force commander, Lt. General Dan Halutz, about what are euphemistically called “targeted assassinations” — Israeli warplanes fired missiles at Hamas leaders in Gaza, also killing innocent bystanders, some of them children.