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In reply to the discussion: Am I the only one who thinks Bibi stole the election? [View all]donna123
(182 posts)Not everyone of course but I was not surprised he won, I expected him to. I am actually glad things turned out this way as the status quo was not getting anyone anywhere. I am glad Bibi stated straight out that there will not be Palestine because at least now there is no more prevarication. I hope now that US stops providing Israel cover, stops sending money. There were some idiots on TV going crazy, I think they were accusing Obama of not loving Israel. Why the F does he need to love Israel? The only country he and I need to love is the US. It is simply mindblowing that these nutcases, these repubs, seem to think we should put Israel ahead of the US, that Israel's interests come first, that somehow Israel is indispensable to the US. If anything, Israel has been nothing but a PITA and has harmed the US more than helped. By trying to play peacebroker, all the US gets is grief and hate from both Israel and Palestinians and other Arabs, so I welcome this development and hope this will help extricate us from this situation, we can join other countries and act in concert with them, particularly our European partners who I think are more of our ally and who we share values with. We've stuck our neck out long enough on this issue. I am not necessarily on the side of Palestinians either as Hamas are a bunch of extreme lunatics too. Israel is going to do whatever they want, we need to stop supporting them and sacrificing ourselves on their behalf.