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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Sun Sep 7, 2014, 07:15 PM Sep 2014

Death Of Israeli Child Reveals Netanyahu's Hypocrisy

Netanyahu recently told two U.S. congressman that Hamas, Hezbollah and other Islamist groups are defying all international norms. So said the man who has just finished killing some 2,100 people.

Sep. 7, 2014

A few days ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with two members of the U.S. Congress. “We are closely following the events on the Golan Heights,” he told them, adding, “What we see is that the Nusra Front, Hamas, Hezbollah – backed by Iran, Al-Qaida, and these other terrorists groups – are basically defying all international norms.”

So said the man who had just finished killing some 2,100 people, most of them civilians, breaching every norm of international conduct.

“And I think the United Nations would do itself a great favor if, instead of the automatic Israel-bashing, they actually turned their attention and their investigative committees against these terrorists who trample every norm on which the UN was founded,” the prime minister also added.

So said the man whose air force only a few days before had wiped out whole residential neighborhoods, sometimes together with their inhabitants, trampling quite a few values and norms upon which the UN was founded.

After that conversation, Netanyahu went home. The next day he “expropriated” another 4,000 dunams (almost 1,000 acres) of occupied land to build more settlements, and transfer to them thousands more of his country’s citizens.

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Death Of Israeli Child Reveals Netanyahu's Hypocrisy (Original Post) Purveyor Sep 2014 OP
Well, an Israeli life is worth infinitely more than a Palestinian life, enough Sep 2014 #1

enough

(13,255 posts)
1. Well, an Israeli life is worth infinitely more than a Palestinian life,
Sun Sep 7, 2014, 07:23 PM
Sep 2014

just as an American life is worth infinitely more than an Iraqi life, an Afghan life, a Guatemalan life.......

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