Comments on: UPDATE IV: Netanyahu: ‘This Was No Love Boat’

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:38:07 +0000

Memo to Erudites:

And now, for something completely different… some Jewish people with a great sense of humor. This would probably resonate with some younger people far more quickly and effectively than Mr. Netanyahu’s masterful speech. A parody of “We Are The World” entitled “We Con The World.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOGG_osOoVg

If my comment doesn’t appear Ilana, I’ll assume it didn’t tickle your funnybone quite like it did mine!

Can’t WAIT ’til your new book comes out! Do a book signing in California somewhere… I’ll get there one way or the other.

Keep up the great work dear…

By: MonkeyBoy

MonkeyBoy — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:56:25 +0000

Israel is losing this PR campaign in a big way. The world does not like what it is seeing.

By: Martin Berrow

Martin Berrow — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:09:33 +0000

For someone to question Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to stop the Flotilla and suggest that Israel was usurping their power against peaceful protesters, they first would be a flaming fool. Second, they would be obviously anti semetic. Its just that simple.Martin Berrow

By: Martin Berrow

Martin Berrow — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:45:16 +0000

I have for years deeply admired Benjamin Netanyahu. To try to compare him to anyone else is wrong. He is in a class by himself.He truly is the sovereignly appointed leader of Israel.Yes,God knew what he was doing with him. I have always recognized that Bibi was a very special man. Compared to Israel’s leadership, the USA with this administration, is as helpless as the fish in the Gulf of Mexico.Martin Berrow

By: Barbara Grant

Barbara Grant — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:48:39 +0000

No matter what Biden or Clinton may say to U. S. media, official U. S. policy condemned the raid, as evidenced by U. S. support of the U. N. Security Council resolution http://www.rferl.org/content/UN_Security_Council_Condemns_Deaths_In_Israeli_Flotilla_Assault/2058376.html

The U. S. had several choices in this matter: It could have exercised its veto, abstained, or voted for. It chose the latter.

If a U. S. vote in the U. N. Security Council does not indicate official policy (folks like Biden appear to want it both ways) then what is the point of participating in that body?

By: james huggins

james huggins — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:38:39 +0000

Obama certainly pales to impotent irrelevance when compared to Netanyahu.

By: George Pal

George Pal — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:25:34 +0000

Those whom Evil would destroy, it first designates as ‘evil’.
It is no small triumph of the Left that it has staked out both the vocabulary and the attendant high dudgeon in characterizing such as national self-interest (our borders) and defense of the nation (Israel’s peaceful survival) as evil.

In the flotilla affair there is of course a need to respond in defense of Israel’s actions; VP Biden, bless his little heart, managed to the best of his capabilities but much more is required. It’s no longer enough to come to the defense of Israel. Every reaction condemning Israel, knee-jerk or premeditated, no matter the source, must itself come under scathing attack, decisively, unequivocally, and without compunction. Call them out, repeatedly, for what they hate, would appease, and assist in – Jews, murderous hatred of Jews, the annihilation of Jews.

By: Dmitri

Dmitri — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:52:36 +0000

What a great leader. If only we had one like him here in South Africa. Well done sir. It is great to see you stand for what you believe in and not play the puppet to the international community.

By: Nora Brinker

Nora Brinker — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:59:56 +0000

Sorry to need a second comment, but this is too interesting to be missed: The MSM totally ignored the incident at Starbucks and largely the rally, but I found a report in English (without the Starbucks incident) at the Demotix "citizen journalism" website. It pays to go to the report from the same rally at Cologne and have a close look at the photos -- and the Hamas flags.

By: Nora Brinker

Nora Brinker — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:40:21 +0000

As I can read and understand Afrikaans, maybe the Afrikaans speakers among your readers can read this. Peaceful anti-Israel ralliers molested the guests of a Starbucks café in Bonn (the former West German capital). When one of the guests (recognisable by his American accented English as an American) asked them to stop, he was attacked and beaten unconscious. The personnel of the Starbucks refused to intervene, to help the man, to restrain the attacker (because it was partially the victim's "own fault") or to call the police. The victim was taken to a hospital where the doctor thought that he had been "very lucky". Interviewed by the blog later, the victim commemnted that "No American or Israeli should feel safe at any Starbucks."