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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe uncle of Amal Clooney is arms dealer Ziad Takieddine, major supplier of weapons to Hamas and Hezbollah.
She is Lebanese and a human rights lawyer. I wondered why there hasn't been any comment from her since the war started two months ago. I'm not sure what to make of it, if anything.
https://www.clooneysopenhouse.com/t6250-ziad-takieddine-uncle-of-amal-alamuddin
It may mean nothing. He wasn't at their wedding. But I thought it was interesting.
Ocelot II
(120,001 posts)milestogo
(17,309 posts)MorbidButterflyTat
(2,612 posts)Maybe she'd rather stay away from the toxic environment.
Takket
(22,425 posts)TexasDem69
(2,317 posts)Has a criminal son
Scrivener7
(52,360 posts)TexasDem69
(2,317 posts)Really? On edit, not clear what you are saying. Joe Biden is not a criminal, his son is.
Deuxcents
(19,301 posts)TexasDem69
(2,317 posts)Theres no mystery here. This isnt DB Cooper or Jack the Ripper. Hunter Biden did it and is a criminal.
Scrivener7
(52,360 posts)I know he got way behind on his taxes and then paid them.
TexasDem69
(2,317 posts)You arent really arguing for innocence are you?
On edit, here you go. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/12/08/politics/hunter-biden-charges-what-matters/index.html
Scrivener7
(52,360 posts)The rest is accusations from the republiQans.
Talk to me after a trial or a deal about his guilt or innocence. Or does the most fundamental basis of the American legal system not work for you?
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Scrivener7
(52,360 posts)Pisces
(5,784 posts)Scrivener7
(52,360 posts)hlthe2b
(105,866 posts)has written/been interviewed about him repeatedly. The Uncle can not explain how-- being the descendants of Holocaust survivors --his sister could have produced such a monster.
So... it happens.
msongs
(69,928 posts)My father was a right wing christo-fascist orange blobfather supporter. So?
choie
(4,396 posts)Does that make her a de facto antisemite?
marble falls
(61,755 posts)... nothing, right? Guilt by association. Really hate to see that stuff on a place called "DemocraticUnderground", let alone the work and resources the Clooneys have given for Democratic causes in this country.
I'm sure this wasn't your intent.
marmar
(77,962 posts)UTUSN
(72,214 posts)TheKentuckian
(25,781 posts)being related to him it seems unsettling to throw such out there.
It feels like it can only act as guilt by association.
There is plenty of room for unrelenting fury at Hamas, Hezbollah, their supporters and funders without adding witch hunts to it.
Robespierre and Joe McCarthy can stay where they are.